chapter 1. There are numerous pictures and plans. The by-laws of the

association and various tables are given in an appendix, with the index following. “The story of the Octavia Hill association of Philadelphia is almost a history of the housing movement in that city, and shows the excellent work of women in this field.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:152 F ‘18

“Live and interesting, with practical, frank detail on both the business and the human side, which will make the book of value to other workers.” E. W. Dinwiddie

+ =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 430w

=WALKER, HENRY FRANCIS BELL.= Doctor’s diary in Damaraland. il *$2.10 (4c) Longmans 940.91 (Eng ed 17-28629)

“The author of this book volunteered as a medical officer in General Botha’s force which, by its dashing strategy and its great physical endurance, conquered German South-west Africa between March and July, 1915. He does not give a formal history of the campaign, but describes his own experiences in the rear of the army, with an occasional illuminating note on the course of the fighting.”—Spec

=Dial= 64:81 Ja 17 ‘18 250w

“All who wish to know the realities of war should read his very readable book. ... He has a good word for the Germans wherever it is deserved; and, generally, he extenuates nothing, makes no complaint, and sets down naught in malice. He deals only with what came under his own view, the grand tour of his own ambulance, not attempting to describe military movements or battles. His narrative is relieved by excellent descriptive touches, which make the God-forsaken country very real.”

+ =Nation= 105:348 S 27 ‘17 770w

+ =N Y Times= 22:357 S 23 ‘17 430w

=Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 60w

“Dr Walker is eminently observant and has a keen eye for military tactics as well as natural history and geology. He has provided a detailed map of one attack, but a larger one covering the range of country he went over would have been a useful addition to his book. ... The book is well printed and has a few good illustrations, but it ought to have had an index as well.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:110 Ag 11 ‘17 900w

=Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 180w

“He is coldly fair to the Germans, giving instances of their cruelty, but allowing them whatever credit may be their due for establishing well-planned and well-organized towns in places where no one would want to live.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p207 My 3 ‘17 950w

=WALKER, STUART.= Portmanteau plays. il *$1.50 Stewart & Kidd 812 17-13266

Stuart Walker has been actor, stage manager and general director for Belasco. In 1914, he conceived the idea of the Portmanteau theater which has a small stage, simple scenery, and unique lighting effects. The present volume includes four of the plays given at this theater: The trimplet; Nevertheless; The medicine show; The six who pass while the lentils boil. There is a forty page introduction by Edward Hale Bierstadt, and an appendix giving “The repertory of the Portmanteau theater in the order of production.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17

“The little plays lack the beauty in strangeness of Lord Dunsany’s contributions to the Portmanteau répertoire but they are of distinct interest as a new art form based on a naïve convention.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 80w

“This book is more than a collection of highly diverting little plays. It is the record of an astonishing experiment in the American theatre.” H. K. M.

+ =New Repub= 13:222 D 22 ‘17 1000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17

“Of the four plays, ‘Six who pass while the lentils boil’ is undoubtedly the most successful from both a literary and a dramatic point of view.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 300w

“Mr Walker’s plays make very pleasant reading, but they do not portend any romantic renaissance. ... The novel settings that Mr Walker has devised for his charming playlets have probably much more to do with his success than any real desire on the part of the public for poetry and fantasy on the stage.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 460w

=WALLACE, DAVID DUNCAN.= Government of England; national, local, and imperial. *$2 (2½c) Putnam 342.4 17-25776

The author is professor of history and economics in Wofford college. He states that his book is intended for the general reader desiring “a brief, untechnical account of the British government” and for college classes where the time “is too limited for an extended treatment of so large a subject.” Prof. Wallace has attempted “to describe the English government as it is without distracting the reader with a long account of how it came to be what it is.” (Preface) Book 1 deals with The central government; book 2 with The local government; book 3 with The empire and colonies; book 4 with Social and political characteristics. The author has constantly “kept in mind the resemblances and contrasts between the government of England and that of our own country.” (Preface) “In the chapter on ‘Lessons England can teach us,’ the author dwells upon the greater flexibility of the English constitutional system. ... Other lessons concern the budget system, popular regard for law, and a civil service test in character and ability in addition to the applicant’s ‘immediate preparation.’” (Bookm) There is a reading-list of two pages and a table (tipped in before the index) to aid in understanding the court system.

“The chapter on ‘Aristocracy and democracy’ clarifies a subject rather indistinct to Americans who have not observed English society at close range. ... In the hands of instructors capable of supplementing it with an additional fund of historical illustration, this capitally written treatise should serve as an attractive text for college and university classes.” L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:270 N ‘17 370w

“He certainly does not misinterpret our history, when he declares that the highest intellectual effort in the United States has been consumed, not in proving that measures are good or bad, but that they are constitutional or unconstitutional. He makes a strong argument for a closer coöperation of the legislative and executive departments.” F. B. N.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 670w

=WALLACE, DILLON.= Arctic stowaways. il *$1.25 (2c) McClurg 17-29730

Alfred Knowles and his friend Harry Metford were in danger of arrest for running a man down while speeding their automobile. Alfred had at first insisted that they turn about and take their medicine, but had weakly yielded to Harry’s desire for escape. So it was that they happened to take temporary refuge on board a schooner, to be carried out to sea. The vessel is a whaler, one of the last of her line, and the boys’ pleading and threats and offers of payment are of no avail. The boat is bound for the Arctic, and they must go with her, working their passage. Their experiences are not unlike those of Harvey Cheyne, of “Captains courageous,” and they learn the same lesson. The biggest of their adventures comes when they are cast adrift on the ice, to fend for themselves along a barren coast.

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 150w

=WALLACE, EDGAR.= Kate plus 10. il *$1.35 (3½c) Small 17-23650

The author of “The clue of the twisted candle” has here given us another detective story. It moves around the great strokes planned by Kate Westhanger, the brains of the criminal gang in Amberscombe Gardens—a locality known to the London police as “Crime street”—and the efforts made by Michael Pretherston, the Scotland Yard detective, to outwit her. Kate had inherited power of strategy and also a tendency to crime. She had been trained by her uncle to be a thief on a great scale. Michael, who had great ability and a very pretty wit of his own, was filling the years in which he awaited his succession to the peerage in ways in which he could use his natural talents. Both were in the game for the excitement of it. How Kate used her wit, charm, and beauty and how Michael faced her at every turn; what the great coup was and how it ended; with other matters which pertain to life in English society furnish two hours of entertaining reading.

=A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17

“An unusual combination of light humour and thrilling mystery.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 10w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 60w

=WALLACE, EDNA KINGSLEY.= Feelings and things; verses of childhood. *$1 Dutton 811 16-24229

“One feels in reading these poems that Miss Wallace is writing from within out; she is not portraying childhood as she sees or remembers it, but interpreting it as she still feels it. In her choice of subjects and language, she is always well within the mood and psychology of her subject. In this slender book are to be found the vaguely defined imaginings, the sudden sharp impressions, the bubbling excitement and joyousness of childhood. Even the rhythm of the lines has the hop-skip-and-jump gaiety, the pause of perplexed wonder, and the sudden, ecstatic crescendo of discovery.”—Dial

“They are slightly reminiscent of Stevenson and will be even more appreciated by grownups than by the children themselves.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:408 Je ‘17

“These verses are distinctive and individual, and because of their authenticity and lyrical quality must take a high place in the literature of childhood.”

+ =Dial= 62:110 F 8 ‘17 150w

+ — =NY Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 90w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 120w

=WALLACE, WILLIAM KAY.= Greater Italy [1858-1916]. *$2.50 (3c) Scribner 945 17-13590

“I would attempt to trace in this volume the rise of the kingdom of Italy among nations, with more particular emphasis on the part played by the people of Italy in the affairs of the world during the past three decades. ... I have sought to lay particular stress on the relations of Italy with the Central powers, to trace the course of Italian policy in its dealings with Vienna and Berlin, and to show how the ‘mariage forcé’ of Rome and Vienna, brought about by the arbitrariness of Berlin, could not fail to end in disaster.” (Preface) Contents: The achievement of unity; Formative forces; The Triple alliance; The period of retrenchment; The dictatorship of Giolitti; The Libyan war; Economic development; The Vatican and the Quirinal; Italy and Germany; The problem of the Adriatic; The days of neutrality; Italy at war. The author writes of the war from personal observation. The book is provided with three maps.

=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17

=Ath= p475 S ‘17 130w

“A businesslike and straightforward book, which is not, strictly speaking, a history, but a series of studies on the rise of a united Italy and on an important aspect of Balkan diplomacy. The title of the book hardly describes its contents. The narration of the peaceful penetration of Italy by Germany is most remarkable reading, and it differs from some other recent descriptions of the process in general by its restraint and balance. The story is perhaps more impressive on that account.”

+ — =Ath= p511 O ‘17 650w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 250w

“Mr Wallace portrays the Italy of politics, of diplomacy, of war, of realism. His task has been attempted before, with much success by King and Okey and by Underwood. But the developments of the past two years afford excellent opportunity to paint the picture afresh and on a larger canvas. Mr Wallace has spent some time with the troops on the various Italian fronts, and he describes in lucid and restrained manner the difficulties and triumphs of the operations against the Austrians. His book is well written, although there is an occasional inexact statement.”

+ — =Dial= 63:30 Ja 28 ‘17 430w

“The book contains a map of what the author conceives to be Italy’s projected sphere of influence in Asia Minor and in Austria.”

+ =Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 80w

+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 280w

=Outlook= 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 140w

“The pages that deal with the great problem which is Italy’s problem alone, the quarrel between the Vatican and the Quirinal, are full of valuable information. And none of the recent books on the present war gives a more useful description of the counter-currents of Italy’s growing national aspirations, Austria’s imperialistic inclinations, and the Pan-Slav movement, which combined to keep the Balkan region at a fever-heat of tension for many years and culminated in the present catastrophe.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Pub W= 91:1324 Ap 21 ‘17 730w

“It is not a profound work; it adds nothing to the equipment of the advanced student. But it tells simply and clearly the story of Italy’s rise through immense difficulties to real independence, and shows how she has come within sight of realizing the greatest of her ambitions—the rescue of millions of her people in the Trentino and the Adriatic provinces from the Austrian oppressor. Mr Wallace is an American who loves Italy.”

+ =Spec= 119:245 S 8 ‘17 1500w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 550w

“Mr Wallace has thrown together a certain number of documents and has eked them out with impressions rapidly gleaned and facts carelessly ascertained. He has made a volume of some 300 pages, but he has not written a book. His work lacks perspective and cohesion, and is sometimes positively misleading. He lacks the sense of style that distinguishes many American war correspondents, to say nothing of the best American writers. It is only in dealing with the present aspects of Italian policy and Italy’s war aims that Mr Wallace’s work becomes tolerably accurate. His last three chapters are fair journalism.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p350 Jl 26 ‘17 1200w

=WALLER, EDITH.= English-Italian phrase book for social workers. pa 75c Edith Waller, Morristown, N.J. 458 16-14779

“This book is intended to help the American social worker, teacher, physician or nurse, who in daily work find need for a small store of colloquial Italian.”—Educ R

“The book is exceedingly well done and may be highly commended to those who are at work in these fields.”

+ =Educ R= 53:199 F ‘17 70w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:152 O ‘16

“Designed to furnish a small store of colloquial Italian, it contains phrases on buying and preparing food, caring for the sick and infants, registering pupils and conducting a class. Includes a vocabulary and the essentials of the Italian grammar.”

=Pittsburgh= 22:536 Je ‘17 40w

=WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH.= Russia’s message: the people against the czar. il *$1.50 (3c) Knopf 947 17-13587

This work, first published by Doubleday, Page & Co., in 1908 and listed in the Digest at that time, is now brought out in a new and cheaper edition by Alfred A. Knopf. To the new edition Mr Walling has added an introduction, written at some time during the progress of the present war but before the recent revolution. In this introduction Mr Walling discusses the attitude of England, France, and Germany toward Russian autocracy.

“Of interest now as showing the foundation of the great democratic movement.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:143 Ja ‘18

“Reissued with some unaccountable omissions and the complete disappearance of the index, as well as of a number of illustrations. But in any form, Mr Walling’s book commands attention.” L: S. Friedland

+ =Dial= 62:429 My 17 ‘17 820w

+ =Ind= 91:30 Jl 7 ‘17 110w

“There are a permanent value and a timeliness in Mr Walling’s book that make its republication in the climax of the events he foreshadowed worth noting. The student of recent events in Russia will find the news dispatches strikingly illuminated by Mr Walling’s descriptions.”

+ =Lit D= 55:40 O 13 ‘17 280w

“Of particular interest is Mr Walling’s account of the progress of the waking up of the peasant population a few years ago, and its progress in enlightenment.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:159 Ap 22 ‘17 570w

“It is in part because Mr Walling so thoroughly and convincingly analyzes the policy and motives of czardom that his book is not only informing, but as timely as possible. ... Accurately and in detail, Mr Walling lays bare an economic system that, but for the clearness and appositeness of the evidence he submits, would seem incredible. ... His book is thorough and authoritative—a study of more than transitory value—but also a book of the hour admirably adapted to enlighten and influence American opinion.”

+ =No Am= 205:951 Je ‘17 900w

“Written ten years ago after the author had passed the greater part of two years in close contact with Russian government officials, as well as with the leaders of revolutionary organizations after the temporary failure of their uprising in 1905.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 15 ‘17 420w

=WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH, and LAIDLER, HARRY WELLINGTON=, eds. State socialism pro and con. *$2 (1c) Holt 335.6 17-17731

This book on state socialism or collectivism, which its editors, both members of the Intercollegiate Socialist society, define as “the policy of extending the economic functions of the state,” is in no sense a brief for state socialism, but “primarily a source book of authoritative selections either written by experts or selected by experts from official reports.” The editors have not tried to give arguments, except in the introduction, but simply to provide the reader with the most important data on which to base a conclusion. The introduction takes up the relation of state socialism to war socialism, to the military state, to related government policies, to democracy, socialism, and nationalism. The excerpts are arranged under the headings: Finance; Agriculture and the conservation of natural resources; Transportation and communication; Commerce, industry and mining; Collectivism and the individual (as citizen, consumer, producer and taxpayer). A good deal of space, though not the larger part, is given to the United States. Chapter twenty-nine, on “Municipal ownership,” is by Evans Clark.

“An interesting exhibit of the world-wide tendency toward broadening the functions of government.” V: E. Helleberg

+ =Am J Soc= 23:550 Ja ‘18 250w

=A L A Bkl= 14:8 O ‘17

“The con side does not seem to have received quite as much publicity as the pro side. ... For the man who deplores, no less than for the man who welcomes, this trend [toward state socialism] the volume will be found extremely serviceable. In fact, no other book, no other half dozen books, contain as much information concerning the economic or collectivistic functions of modern states.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:536 Ja ‘18 550w

“Within the self-imposed limits of their work the editors have succeeded in presenting a unique and adequate record of the world-advance of collectivism. A chapter on ‘Municipal ownership’ surveys that field briefly, effectively, and with consistent impersonality. ‘State socialism pro and con’ is not recommended for hammock hours. But as a handy reference volume for the serious-minded it will save many days of searching through technical libraries for data on collectivism.” D. R. Richberg

+ =Dial= 63:111 Ag 16 ‘17 600w

“An authoritative work of reference.”

+ =Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 100w

“One great value of the present survey by Walling and Laidler is that it fixes definitely accomplishments up to the period of the war, and will thus retain its place as an authoritative and important handbook. Its arrangement is excellent, and no book could be easier for quick consultation. The chapter on Municipal socialism by Evans Clark is an unusually capable piece of work.” Frank Macdonald

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 19 ‘17 600w

“The book is a storehouse of material which in itself supplies the argument which the editors refrain from making. They are entitled to make their own selections, and it is no grievance that they are rather pro than con. Nevertheless, they have done their work so well that it would be reassuring to have the other side presented with equal efficiency.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:263 Jl 15 ‘17 530w

=Outlook= 116:305 Je 20 ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 170w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 16 ‘17 850w

=WALPOLE, HUGH.= Green mirror; a quiet story. *$1.50 Doran 17-30042

The second volume of the trilogy of which “The Duchess of Wrexe” was the first. The novel is also related to “The dark forest,” since Henry Trenchard, the Englishman of that story, appears here, twelve years earlier, as a boy. “In the members of the Trenchard family Mr Walpole has embodied all of those distinctively British characteristics that have always exasperated the rest of the world. ... Mrs Trenchard is a personified British matron, inflexible, dominant, a bit stupid, fiercely maternal, and, altogether, a rather terrible sort of person. ... But the British matron meets with her Waterloo in this new novel in which she makes a ruthless, carefully worked out, determined effort to force submission to her purpose on the part of all her family. The breath of another dawn has already begun to blow. ... Then into the circle comes Philip Mark, a young Englishman who has lived for some years in Russia, whose embryonic imagination has been developed in that country, who has ideas and feelings and sentiments that are disconcertingly un-English, that disturbingly suggest a region where Trenchards are not known. He is resented, considered with disapproval and dislike. But he and the eldest daughter of the family fall in love with each other and the drama of the tale grows out of the determination of Mrs Trenchard that he shall not become one of them.” (N Y Times)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:134 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:598 Ja ‘18 950w

“What Mr Walpole does in ‘The green mirror,’ as a novelist he does well. That is, he tells a good story so that its scenes, its action and its people seem actually to exist. But what he does in ‘The green mirror’ as a propagandist, he does not well at all, for his presentation of the case against family solidarity seems merely to be the typical argument of the social revolutionist.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 1200w

“What Mr Walpole has so fully and sensitively absorbed in a case that is perfect of its kind remains essentially undisturbed by storm and wreck on the surface. The character, the exigencies, of the great compromise of the family are too permanent to be called unfashionable because of the war. ... It is a fine novel, grappling bravely with the great ironies of motherlove.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 13:154 D 8 ‘17 1650w

“Without any doubt, when Mr Walpole wrote this novel in those dead years before the war he was engaged, quite consciously to himself, in the task of flaying, gently and tenderly and lovingly, it is true, but still flaying with satire the heart and soul of his native land. And he has done the task with such neatness and dexterity and completeness, and also with such tenderness, that the work itself fills the reader with interest and its artistic performance with satisfaction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:474 N 18 ‘17 1350w

“Distinctly it belongs to the class of major English fiction; it is a story built, as one may say, to last, not to be read and easily forgotten.”

+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 210w

=WALSH, JOHN.= Mass and vestments of the Catholic church; liturgical, doctrinal, historical and archeological. il *$1.75 Benziger 265

“Arranged catechetically, this volume is intended to be a help to the busy clergy, laity, and converts to the Catholic church. The author has given a clear explanation of the different parts of the mass, the language, usage, and elements used in its celebration, and the eastern and western rites. A full description of the altar, linens, sacred vessels, vestments, and number and kind of lights used at the various services is also given.”—Boston Transcript

“The laity will find much useful information in very simple and brief form.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 27 ‘16 130w

“Must be regarded as the best among popular works of reference on the mass.”

+ =Cath World= 104:695 F ‘17 180w

=Pittsburgh= 22:438 My ‘17

“Told in simple English.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 100w

=WALTERS, HENRY BEAUCHAMP=, ed. Classical dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, biography, geography, and mythology. il *$6.50 Putnam 913.3 17-4478

“Mr Walters has executed a ‘tour de force’ in compressing within the limits of a handy volume a summary of the information usually sought in four dictionaries of two volumes each.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The merit of Mr Walters’s compendium is that it combines with Lemprière’s work on proper names the information contained in Dr Smith’s ‘Dictionary of antiquities.’ ... The book uses material derived from the ‘Companions to Greek and Latin studies,’ and has profited by the researches of many predecessors, including those indefatigable Germans who make no account of time or labour when they sit down to exhaust a subject.” (Sat R)

“It does not of course compete with fuller works of reference, and will not satisfy anyone who desires full information on any of its subjects. And yet it will admirably serve the purpose which it proposes to serve, and will help the student over the ordinary antiquarian difficulties which constantly present themselves in the reading of any Greek or Latin author. The volume is of a convenient size for frequent and familiar use, is on excellent paper, is well printed and illustrated.” F. J. Miller

+ =Class J= 63:610 Je ‘17 300w

“Fairly up to date, with the antiquities, biography, geography, and mythology all in one handy volume. In view of the wide scope of the work, covering, as it does, the same field as the colossal Pauly-Wissowa or the combined five volumes of Sir William Smith’s time-honored dictionaries, it is necessarily brief. But the concise articles are, in the main, packed with information upon the essential facts needed by the young student. And the serviceability of the book is greatly enhanced by the wealth of illustrative material selected with the judgment and taste that we might expect from the editor, who is also assistant-keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities in the British museum.” Walter Miller

+ + — =Class Philol= 12:311 Jl ‘17 250w

“Quantities are marked in various words, and the book is clearly not for the professed scholar. It is for ‘the upper forms of public schools,’ also for classical students at the universities. The latter, we should have thought, would mostly be beyond it. ... With its sensible single alphabet in the Latin order and its ample indexes, the book is over 1,100 pages and a weighty affair, which it would have been unwise to increase.”

+ =Sat R= 122:sup6 O 14 ‘16 650w

“It is very much more discreet, as well as more scholarly, than Lemprière, dear to our fathers and grandfathers; it contains a great deal more information than Dr Smith’s familiar work which we used to read at school.”

+ =Spec= 117:556 N 4 ‘16 110w

“These criticisms are offered in the hope that when the book reaches, as no doubt it will, a second edition, some necessary revision may take place. Of its general usefulness there can be no question.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p520 N 2 ‘16 700w

=WALTHER, ANNA HILDA LOUISE.= Pilgrimage with a milliner’s needle. il *$1.50 (3½c) Stokes 17-25140

This book is the personal diary of a young Danish girl, “from childhood up to fairly mature age, beginning in Copenhagen and ending in New York city.” (Boston Transcript) She was apprenticed to the millinery business, and as soon as she had learned her trade, started out to ply it in different countries, wandering thru Europe, South Africa and the United States. Her diary tells of more than one love affair and of her conversion to Christian science. There is a glowing introduction by Richard Le Gallienne.

“Her narrative is personal and naively frank in giving emotional details of her own life. It is more readable as autobiography than as travel.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18

“The interest aroused by Richard Le Gallienne’s highly appreciating foreword flags in places as the narrative proceeds. ... The finale is startingly tame and commonplace.”

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 280w

+ =Dial= 63:466 N 8 ‘17 50w

+ =Ind= 93:241 F 9 ‘18 40w

“A series of vivid pictures of places and people. Underlying it all is a charming personal narrative.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 70w

War and the spirit of youth. $1 Atlantic monthly 940.91 17-24228

“Three papers of mystical tendency which recently appeared in the Atlantic Monthly have been published in one volume entitled ‘The war and the spirit of youth,’ by Maurice Barrès, Anne C. E. Allinson and Sir Francis Younghusband. The papers are by a Frenchman, an Englishman and an American, and reveal in all three cases a spiritual temperament. In the first one, ‘Young soldiers of France,’ M. Barrès gives excerpts from letters written by certain young French soldiers at the front. ... The two other papers are philosophical discussions of the spiritual motives behind the present war.”—Springf’d Republican

=A L A Bkl= 14:51 N ‘17

“M. Barrès tactfully allows the letters of young French soldiers to reveal of themselves the permanent spiritual values which, so it seemed to these boys, made their sacrifices just. ... It is only on reading the conventional and weak deistic apologia of Sir Francis Younghusband that the question of the value of such waste of human happiness for mechanical political ends rises again with unescapable directness.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 150w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 O 12 ‘17 150w

=WARD, SIR ADOLPHUS WILLIAM.= Germany, 1815-1890. (Cambridge historical ser.) 3v v 1 *$3 Putnam 943.07 (16-17397)

=v 1= 1815-1852.

“Dr Ward has long been known as foremost among English scholars in the study of modern German history, and he reckons among the chief pleasures of life ‘the promotion of a better understanding between two nations now estranged from each other for many a long day.’ ... He is dealing with the Germany that emerged from the rough handling of Napoleon, after the Holy Roman empire had finally passed off the stage, and the German confederation had begun its uneasy existence. ... This period was, as Dr Ward says, a half-century of struggle and humiliation, and the first reflection that follows on the study of action that failed, and reaction that failed equally, is that Bismarck must have been a very great man to build up out of this chaos the powerful nation we know to our cost to-day.” (Sat R) Volume 1, covering the period from 1815 to 1852, will be followed by a second volume carrying the history to 1890.

“No one would question Dr Ward’s high qualifications, for few living English writers have given evidence of more versatile and exact scholarship than the Master of Peterhouse. This volume on Germany from 1815 to 1852 is, however, a grievous disappointment. It is one of the most jejune handbooks ever produced by English writers, who furnish no mean competition in such compilations. The style is prolix and involved, loaded with details and unimportant names, broken by parentheses and totally unrelieved by emphasis. Inclusion by mere enumeration replaces discrimination and selection. ... The bibliography will be useful but it is not above criticism.” G. S. Ford

– + =Am Hist R= 22:706 Ap ‘17 400w

“Does not replace other histories but is authoritative, suggestive, and impartial.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:262 Mr ‘17

“The author has an exceptional command of foreign sources, as his bibliography shows, and studies with care the thought and policy and the various movements which influenced the making of modern Germany.”

+ =Ath= p291 Je ‘16 50w

+ =Dial= 62:317 Ap 5 ‘17 150w

“Sir Adolphus Ward’s knowledge of his subject is enormous and his equity and discrimination are no less remarkable than his knowledge. All personages of all parties receive a full measure of indulgence. ... In the fullness of his own knowledge of German affairs the author has perhaps forgotten how meagre is the knowledge of most educated Englishmen.” F. C. M.

+ =Eng Hist R= 21:672 O ‘16 350w

“Few English writers are so well qualified to speak on German political affairs as the author of the present volume, and the immediate result is a book which displays profound learning and a thorough mastery of the subject. ... But it is a book for students only and primarily, even for students a book of reference. ... The book concludes with an excellent bibliography, a good index, and a map of the German confederation.”

+ =Nation= 104:165 F 8 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:129 F ‘17

“This book is at least a clear proof that the English academic mind can remain calm and impartial in the midst of war. ... His book is of very great value as a compressed and exact record; it repays careful study, and a second reading gives greater pleasure than the first.”

+ =Sat R= 123:112 F 3 ‘17 900w

“No such compact mass of information about the German states between 1815 and 1852 as is contained in this book has previously appeared in English. The book is not for the most part easy reading. But as a book for consultation and reference as to facts we know of no other like this. ... Sir Adolphus Ward writes on this question [Denmark]—which we take only as an illustration—as on others, in what may be called a pre-war spirit. That is no defect in an historian, for we might have been more inclined to suspect the accuracy of his presentment of facts if he ever showed a trace of passion or partisanship. But in this volume there is absolutely none.”

+ =Spec= 117:46 Jl 8 ‘16 1550w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p263 Je 1 ‘16 40w

“We rise from reading the book with the impression that the author has been somewhat overwhelmed by the very wealth of his learning. To tell truth, this book would have gained in force and actuality, even if a certain impartiality had been sacrificed, had it been written frankly from an English point of view as an honest criticism from outside of the tendencies underlying the development of the German idea.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p302 Je 29 ‘16 1850w

=WARD, CHARLES HENSHAW.= What is English? *$1 Scott 808 17-4013

The author calls this “a book of strategy for English teachers.” As a teacher of English in a boys’ preparatory school, he is concerned with the problems of secondary education, and he takes the stand that the first demand on English teachers is that they teach the essentials of good English, putting accuracy in detail before attempts at literary grace. He commends the methods described in Brown’s “How the French boy learns to write.” Among the chapters are: What English is; Intensive spelling; What grammar is all about; Teaching grammar; What is a comma? Present usage in pointing; Themes; Reading.

“To punctuation he gives almost as much space as to the other two subjects combined. Surely this is disproportionate. The book represents a reaction, in the main wholesome, against the notion that the whole duty of a high-school English teacher is to cultivate ‘insight into beauty’ or to teach his pupils to write clever short stories. But the reaction (in theory, at least) may easily go too far.”

+ — =Nation= 106:122 Ja 31 ‘18 300w

=Pratt= p18 O ‘17 10w

“In style and method Mr Ward’s book is itself an excellent object-lesson in effective composition.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:109 Jl ‘17 150w

=WARD, GILBERT OAKLEY.= Practical use of books and libraries; an elementary manual. (Useful reference ser.) 3d ed rev and enl il $1.25 Boston bk. 020 17-178

“A carefully revised, enlarged, reset, and in part rewritten edition. Some of the more important changes from the second edition are as follows: the magazine list has been revised and rearranged; certain sections on debate work, well covered elsewhere, have been replaced by detailed directions for making a working bibliography; the chapter on book buying has been prefaced by a description of the principal sources of information about books, especially reviews.”—A L A Bkl

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:366 My ‘17

=St Louis= 15:167 Je ‘17

“A book which all high-school students should be familiar with.”

+ =School R= 25:304 Ap ‘17 10w

=WARD, HARRY FREDERICK.= Labor movement from the standpoint of religious values. *$1.25 (3c) Sturgis & Walton 331.8 17-17728

The author is professor of social service at the Boston university school of theology. The lectures were originally given to students in the university; they were repeated in Ford Hall, Boston, in 1915, as noonday lectures to “men of all classes and creeds, of all ranks, standards and opinions. ... The text is from a verbatim stenographic report, with no changes whatever.” (Preface) The questions and answers of the forum period following each lecture are included. “Contents: Trade unions; Socialism; Syndicalism; The demand for leisure; The demand for income; Violence and its causes; Labor and the law; Democracy and industry.” (N Y Br Lib News)

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:104 Jl ‘17

“An unusual feature of the book is the reproduction of a testimonial adopted in the form of a resolution by the I.W.W. propaganda league of Boston in appreciation of the sympathetic expositions of the cause of labor by Professor Ward. ... A wide knowledge of the various phases of the working class movement is exhibited throughout the lectures.” Alexander Trachtenberg

+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 24 ‘17 950w

=WARD, HERBERT.= Mr Poilu; notes and sketches with the fighting French. il *$2.50 (10c) Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-26483)

Mr Ward, author of “My life with Stanley’s rear-guard,” is an English sculptor who, after living in New Zealand and Australia, being in turn sailor, miner, gymnast in a traveling circus and stock-rider, saw five years of active service in Africa, part of the time as a member of Stanley’s expedition to relieve Emin Pasha in the Sudan. In 1900, Mr Ward settled in Paris, but returned to England in 1914 and attached himself as lieutenant to the famous No. 3 convoy of the British ambulance committee, operating under the French army. The book is a series of notes, rather than a connected narrative, giving first-hand impressions of the French common soldier at the front, and of the French army system—a system that is, says the author, “peculiarly adapted to the French temperament; it is in harmony with their intelligence, their love of liberty, and their high state of civilization.” One chapter is devoted to “The women of France.” The forty-eight illustrations in color and black and white are from the author’s drawings of the “poilu” as seen at the front under all sorts of conditions.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:446 Jl ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p82 Je ‘17 80w

“During the last year or two Mr Ward has become well known to Americans by his lectures in this country, from ocean to ocean, in aid of French soldiers and their families. ... Although written with the greatest modesty and with a certain effect of casualness, the book presents a brilliant analysis of spiritual qualities, of temperament, of racial endowment.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w

+ =Outlook= 116:489 Jl 25 ‘17 150w

+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 170w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 250w

“Certainly claims attention for the artistic merit of its illustrations.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p599 D 14 ‘16 130w

=WARD, LESTER FRANK.=[2] Glimpses of the cosmos. 8v v 5 *$2.50 Putnam 301

In a series of eight volumes, of which this is the fifth, the publishers are bringing out the minor writings of Lester Ward, with biographical and historical notes. The material is arranged chronologically, so that the mental development of the author may be followed. The present volume covers the years 1893-1897.

“The work is interesting, not only as reproducing numerous papers upon important subjects, but also as a record of the author’s mental evolution.”

+ =Ath= p461 S ‘17 50w

=R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 40w

“The value of all these minor writings of Prof. Ward is by no means established by their publication, but the principal objection to this collection of his entire works is that they are not arranged according to subjects. As a ‘mental autobiography’ the volumes will be of interest to very few.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 170w

=WARD, MARY AUGUSTA (ARNOLD) (MRS HUMPHRY WARD).= ‘Missing.’ il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-28797

A war novel not concerned with the soldier at the front except as seen thru the tears and anguish of the woman at home. The central figure is Nelly Sarratt, a war bride, thru whose brief honeymoon the reader comes to know her as a very beautiful, childlike, appealing little soul who has given every ounce of her love to her adored soldier husband. He goes back to the front. Later comes the message that he has been reported wounded and missing. Weeks of illness leave the wife limp and unresisting in the hands of capable friends. A sister who counts everything about war a nuisance, and who cannot forgive Nelly for marrying a poor man, watches with silent approval the solicitous thoughtfulness of a young baronet for Nelly’s welfare. When the moment comes for the sister to hasten to a French hospital to identify a man who had lost his memory but who might be George Sarratt she denies the identity believing that it will spoil Nelly’s prospects. Memory returns; the man asks for his wife; Nelly hastens to his bedside and comforts him in his last moments. Her sorrow turns her frailties to strength. She becomes a nurse, “uplifted strengthened—to endure and serve.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18

“It is a pedestrian performance, by no means on the level of ‘Marcella’ and ‘Helbeck of Bannisdale.’”

— =Ath= p597 N ‘17 100w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:337 N ‘17 140w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:599 Ja ‘18 550w

“If the war must enter fiction, it can scarcely enter it more wisely and more significantly than in Mrs Ward’s latest novel.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 3 ‘17 1550w

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 60w

“‘Missing’ might be a contribution to the contemporary literature about woman, as vital in its way as ‘A woman of genius,’ but, like most of Mrs Ward’s work, it lacks reality. It is a cleverly staged, well-managed drama of the Pinero type.”

– + =Dial= 64:117 Ja 31 ‘18 150w

=Nation= 106:95 Ja 24 ‘18 300w

“The most interesting parts of the book are the occasional glimpses it gives of England and the English at war, glimpses few and very brief. We wish there were more of them, and could easily have dispensed with some of the very numerous descriptions of Lake-country scenery, graceful though many of them are, for the sake of seeing more of the war conditions.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:433 O 28 ‘17 1000w

“In construction the story has little subtlety. The only approach to a plot arises from the extraordinary treachery of Nelly’s sister, an original but not very lifelike figure. The characterisation generally is not on Mrs Ward’s usual level. The civilian representative of Major Dobbin has more airs and graces than our dear old friend, but he takes no hold on our affections. The soldiers are all good men and true—there are no George Osbornes among them—but our view of them is wholly superficial. The aristocratic V.A.D. is more in the author’s earlier manner, and sufficiently convincing as regards her insolence and frivolity, and even her occasional lapses into efficiency; but we are altogether sceptical concerning her underlying goodness of heart.”

— =Sat R= 124:290 O 13 ‘17 450w

=Spec= 119:528 N 10 ‘17 60w

“It is a poignant little tragedy, portrayed with fidelity, restraint and verisimilitude.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 10 ‘18 350w

“A novelist so well equipped and so experienced as Mrs Humphry Ward could not produce an uninteresting or manifestly faulty tale; but throughout our reading of this new book we felt that this was not a story which Mrs Humphry Ward wanted to tell for its own sake. It has all the sterling qualities of her fiction, but less of the breadth of life, less of the obvious personal interest in the characters and the subject, than some of her novels. ... It is all reasonable, true, and just; a sound story well composed and logically, if lengthily, worked out.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 4 ‘17 500w

=WARD, MARY AUGUSTA (ARNOLD) (MRS HUMPHRY WARD).= Towards the goal. *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 940.91 17-21840

Mrs Ward’s art as a novelist has been put to the great service of telling to the world how the British are steadily pushing towards the goal of that just, necessary and final victory which shall make the sacrifice of the best and highest in the empire not in vain. In a series of letters addressed to Theodore Roosevelt, written between March 24 and June 1, 1917, she tells what needed to be made graphic of the work of the navy and of the army in France. Mr Roosevelt contributes a preface in which he says “Mrs Ward’s volume is of high value as a study of contemporary history. It is of at least as high value as an inspiration to constructive patriotism.” The prophecy in her first letter that “the logic of facts will sweep the American and British nations together in some sort of intimate union” is fulfilled before the close of the book which is, in some sense, a sequel to “England’s effort.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17

“Gives a valuable first-hand account of certain organized German atrocities, such as the brutal treatment of Senlis, about which too little is generally known.”

+ =Ath= p476 S ‘17 100w

“As in the case of its predecessor, ‘Towards the goal’ represents a very happy combination. It is authoritative. Mrs Ward has seen the operations in France and she has talked with those who know most of the situation both in England and in France. Moreover, she possesses the imagination and the art which make her readers see with her—an element which gives the book the worth which could never have been gained by the facts in the hands of one less skilled. All through the latter part of the book the strong joy of England is made clear over the entry of America into the war.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 1300w

“Distinguished for intensity of feeling, and an appreciation of the meaning of the war to all the Allies.”

+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 40w

“As a work of contemporary history, Mrs Ward’s book must win a lasting reputation.”

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 150w

“From one who knows the German mind as Mrs Ward has known it, the stinging condemnation of its materialism, its ruthless ambition, and its deliberate inhumanity in war, which she more than once voices, comes with exceptional force; and her repeated insistence that nothing less than ‘restitution, reparation, and guarantees’ will insure a lasting peace is clearly no literary repetition of a political formula, but a conviction from which her personal observations offer her no escape.”

+ =Nation= 105:542 N 15 ‘17 800w

“Mrs Ward is interested always in the achievements and the influence of personality, and this gives color and life to her pages. ... It is a wonderful story, tragic, inspiring, deeply moving, and Mrs Ward tells it well, though with the utmost brevity.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:301 Ag 19 ‘17 1000w

=Pittsburgh= 22:684 O ‘17 30w

“Mrs Ward tells us that the letters are written not for Englishmen but as ‘a general account for Americans.’ From this point of view the volume deserves nothing but praise.”

+ =Sat R= 124:132 Ag 18 ‘17 400w

“As in the case of ‘England’s effort,’ she was given every facility by the authorities for obtaining the material for her book.”

+ =Spec= 119:358 O 6 ‘17 730w

“The letters are, in the first place, descriptive of certain phases of the war as Mrs Ward has observed them. The second purpose of Mrs Ward’s book seems to be political. She writes to urge upon Americans the desirability of making the demand for ‘reparation, restitution, guarantees’ the guiding purpose of their representatives in the peace negotiations. While the letters contain but a small amount of fresh information, they are pleasantly, even persuasively written. Mrs Ward is to be specially thanked for her commendation of Lord Haldane.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 700w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p363 Ag 2 ‘17 1000w

=WARE, MARY S.= Old world through old eyes. il *$2 (1½c) Putnam 915 17-15435

Mrs Ware, “seventy years young,” started off alone in 1912 for a three years’ tour of the Orient. She visited “Japan and the Philippines, China, Burmah and Siam, Cambodia, India, and the East Indian islands,” was a guest at four native courts and had interviews with various other native rulers. She tells us that she has “given little space to descriptions of natural scenery or of national monuments,” because what most interested her in her travels “were the results obtained in colonization and in the government of backward peoples by the Americans, English, French and Dutch.” (Preface) A few pages towards the end of the book give a brief chronicle of Mrs Ware’s life in Paris in 1915. These letters of travel, written to her family, have been collected and printed for her grandchildren. Any money realized by her from the book will be sent, while the war lasts, to French hospitals, and after the war, to French soldiers blinded in the war.

“Its interest is indeed compelling.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 13 ‘17 1050w

“She is evidently a woman of strong character and trained intellect as well as large heart, and her book has more of character and individuality than would be found in most collections of family letters from abroad.”

+ =Dial= 63:595 D 6 ‘17 250w

“The author says: ‘I have not followed the usual course of travel narrative.’ ... It is this departure from ‘the usual course,’ this fresh curiosity, this sight of a developing world as a wide-eyed old lady sees it, that is largely responsible for the marked charm and interest of the book. ... Mrs Ware’s little investigation of American rule in the Philippines is most interesting reading. ‘The Americans,’ she says, ‘have a clean government over here.’ It was there that she met General Pershing and had many good talks with him about the islands.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 800w

=WARREN, MRS CONSTANCE M. (WILLIAMS).= Phœnix. il *$1.40 (2c) Houghton 17-8464

Boston society, with its strict traditions giving way to the encroachments of newer manners and customs, forms the background of this story. Janet, the heroine, is a young girl, sweet and unspoiled in spite of great wealth. She has given her heart to Donald Craig, a boyish sweetheart, and she is waiting in simple happiness for the declaration of his love. But Donald is poor and he goes away to make his fortune leaving the words unsaid. Hurt and rebuffed, Janet marries Osborne Slade, a man older than herself, but a most desirable person by all Boston standards. The story has to do with her marriage. It is a tepid success for a time, but a crisis arises and at this time Janet meets Donald again. The story closes with the European war in progress and Janet serving as a nurse in France.

“Fidelity to the varied aspects of the present-day life in Boston is to be found in ‘The phœnix.’ Sometimes, however, mere truth palls, and there are pages of the book where the author quite fails to hold our interest, through her very evident desire to make her picture a faithful one. ... What the author has done supremely well is to create the atmosphere of over-organized hustle and underlying boredom in which so many well-to-do women exist.” D. L. M.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 17 ‘17 450w

“With the possible exception of one or two of the minor characters, the people in the book are not well drawn, and the novel as a whole is somewhat dull.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 250w

“The final chapters have a bit of the cinema about them. But ‘The phoenix’ is sincere and alive, while the characters, with the possible exception of Donald Craig, are drawn with faithfulness. It is a good specimen of new Boston fiction.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 470w

=WASHBURN, MARGARET FLOY.= Movement and mental imagery; outlines of a motor theory of the complexer mental processes. il *$1.75 Houghton 150 16-15871

This work by a professor of psychology in Vassar college is published as one of the Vassar semi-centennial series. “The author deals with types of association among movements; movement and consciousness; the spontaneous recurrence of movements; the memory after-image and perseveration; the connecting links in movement-systems; associative dispositions; imageless processes; and cognate matters.” (Ath)

=Ath= p33 Ja ‘17 40w

=Boston Transcript= p8 O 4 ‘16 350w

“While the appeal of the book is distinctly to the technical student of psychology, the wider bearings of the conception are well considered.”

+ =Dial= 61:318 O 19 ‘16 300w

=Ind= 90:297 My 12 ‘17 140w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:156 O ‘16

=Pratt= p20 O ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:6 Ja ‘17 9w

=WASHBURN, STANLEY.= Russian advance. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 940.91 17-2489

This is Mr Washburn’s third volume of field notes from the Russian front. It covers the period from June 5 to September 1, 1916, and is a reprint in part of articles that have appeared in the London Times. He has confined his account of Russian operations to that part of the campaign that came under his own observation on the southwestern front. The book closes with a summary of the Russian offensive to the first of September.

=A L A Bkl= 13:309 Ap ‘17

=Cleveland= p45 Mr ‘17 60w

“A strict censorship has made it impossible for the writer to give names and details and explanations that would have added much to the interest of his narrative. But it is full enough for the general reader, and it also has the merit of handling topics not already written to death by dozens of other war-chroniclers.” P. F. Bicknell

+ =Dial= 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 110w

“His book is not long; but he has had the ability to choose for his setting forth those salient things that really present the picture of the army, the country, the strategy, the people, the occurrences great and small of Russia’s part in the war; we have a real glimpse of the Russian advance as a whole, and an actual sense of what, in Russia and in Austria, lies behind it.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:57 F 18 ‘17 300w

“Unlike ‘Victory in defeat,’ wherein the retreat of 1915 is given with considerable technical detail, the present book inclines to the colorful and the descriptive, with particular emphasis on the master-mind that directed the movement.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 150w

“It is a very cheering report.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Ap 5 ‘17 1000w

=WASTE, HENRIE=, pseud. Philosophy; an autobiographical fragment. *$1.25 Longmans 17-5129

“Philosophy, fair maid of ever youthful face and wisely old heart, is the fairy godmother in this unique tale of adventuring minds and hearts. Its scene is laid in Freiburg, where the American girl who tells the story in the first person, is pursuing the study of philosophy mainly with the intent to find out all she can about how we know and why we wish to know and whence come and how are governed the motives that control action and the laws that control thought. ... But she is just as human a girl as if she were not so entranced with this high purpose and so absorbed in the mental occupations that will advance her on the way. She is a true daughter of Eve, who was the mother of all philosophy, and, like Eve, her mind is one large question mark before all the manifestations of life. ... She has not long to wait until the signal becomes insistent and the quest absorbing in the matter of the personality of one of her fellow-students. The story of the quick developing of love between them and their mutual attraction for each other makes an idyllic romance wherein philosophy stands ever at their elbows.”—N Y Times

=Boston Transcript= p7 My 16 ‘17 150w

“There is about this book a quality of freshness and vividness which will hold the general reader’s interest even through the passages of philosophical analysis and research.”

+ =Dial= 62:148 F 22 ‘17 190w

“Rather dull and prosy narrative.”

— =Ind= 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 40w

=Int J Ethics= 27:407 Ap ‘17 100w

“The author evidently knows her philosophical books, and shows no little acumen in weaving the theorems of the schools into the conversations of a philandering young man and a maid. By all odds the best things in the book are the satirical yet kindly sketches of the other students of the seminar who are not so soulful as Taddeo.”

+ =Nation= 105:180 Ag 16 ‘17 200w

“A vivid crescendo of experience, alive with the glamor of personality. You read it again as soon as you can, with the same quickened beating of the heart and far more understanding.” R. B.

+ + =New Repub= 10:384 Ap 28 ‘17 450w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:47 Mr ‘17

“Presumably a first book, it shows the anonymous author to be possessed of unusual powers and of striking promise. Her ability to suffuse all life with the light of abstract thought, made glowing and vital, sets her in a class apart, while her power to express tensity of emotion and make it fine and beautiful is a gift ever welcome among writers of fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:21 Ja 21 ‘17 660w

“A rather skillful book and also rather fascinating. Henrie can react with girlish enthusiasm upon Freiburg with its quaint formal professors, its dumpy landladies, and its uncompromising salespeople who are insulted if you ask for something they do not have: and she can love Taddeo, an olive skinned cosmopolitan.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 230w

=WATSON, FREDERICK.= Story of the Highland regiments. il *$2 Macmillan 355 (Eng ed 16-6535)

“Mr Watson has collected into this volume a story of the campaigns in which the Highland regiments have taken part, and it covers the period from the beginning of the ‘Black Watch’ in 1725, to the spring of 1915. ... The volume is illustrated with full page pictures in colors, and the scenes depicted are the historic and striking incidents in the history of the various regiments. Apt quotations from the poets introduce the chapters and heighten the effect of the stories.”—Boston Transcript

“Every chapter is intensely interesting, those describing the service of the Highlanders in America especially so, for where the accounts deal with the conflict against the United States the story is told with expressions of appreciation of the cause of the American colonists.” J. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 400w

+ =Spec= 116:195 F 5 ‘16 180w

=WATSON, SIR WILLIAM.= Man who saw, and other poems arising out of the war. *$1 Harper 821 17-15992

“The contents of this volume include little that can be described as poems of action. The author desires his book to be considered as an intermittent commentary on the main developments, and some of the collateral phenomena, of the war. ... Nineteen of the poems are sonnets. ... Although many of these poems have already appeared in various publications, ... not a few have since undergone a process for which ‘revision’ would be a feeble word.” (Preface)

“Among the finest of the sonnets are those entitled ‘Tranquil liberty,’ ‘Commemorative,’ and ‘You at the helm.’”

+ =Ath= p310 Je ‘17 200w

“Nothing like this poetry has come from an English poet since Wordsworth lived and Swinburne died.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ‘17 1400w

=Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 50w

=Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w

“I think Sir William Watson has served England by proving that in patriotic and martial vigor the most fastidious of her artists can vie with the most daredevil of her rhymesters.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Nation= 106:91 Ja 24 ‘18 250w

+ =N Y Times= 22:241 Je 24 ‘17 500w

“The energy of these poems will keep them alive long after many more tuneful echoes of the conflict are forgotten.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:217 Ag ‘17 130w

+ =Spec= 118:613 Je 2 ‘17 620w

“The subject matter of the sonnets is rather too pedestrian to justify the use of that metier, and the other poems incline to tickle the intellect rather than to stir the emotions. These verses of Mr Watson seem to exhibit the temper of an Englishman so outraged by contemporary events that he neglects to listen to the muse—a poet so overwhelmed that he forgets to sing.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 230w

“Sir William Watson’s aim is clear, and he has achieved it. His book is, as he desired it to be, ‘an intermittent commentary on the main developments, and some of the collateral phenomena, of the war.’ But future times will turn to it when they want to know what Britain’s case was, what Britain felt and thought in the war, not when they need the consolation and exaltation of great poetry. ‘Crossing the Rubicon,’ ‘The battle of the Bight,’ ‘The charge of the 9th Lancers,’ and other poems that readers may remember to have seen in periodicals (though on most of them Sir William Watson has worked anew since they were first published) fire the blood. The strange Coleridgian poem, ‘Desolation’ is violently exciting.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p354 Jl 26 ‘17 1000w

=WATSON, SIR WILLIAM.= Retrogression, and other poems. *$1.25 Lane 821 17-2699

This book of poems is a companion volume to the author’s prose work “Pencraft.” It is a defense of the stately and beautiful traditions of English literature, and a lament over their passing:

“For few and fewer do they grow, Who know, or ever care to know, The great things greatly said and sung In this heroic English tongue.”

The book is made up of two parts: Poems of the literary life; Poems personal and general. All the poems appear here in print for the first time with the exception of six reprinted from English periodicals.

“Little in this collection touches Mr Watson’s early standard of finished verse compact of serious if not profound thought. The title-poem is the best, but is too short to redeem the book from the charge of mere poetic journalism.”

— =Ath= p594 D ‘16 30w

“Most of the lyrics are brief—some consisting of only a couplet or a quatrain, and there is considerable evidence of temper which would have been better modified in more than one instance. There are also memorable lines and there are flashes of wit. But on the whole it is not a volume that will add greatly to Mr Watson’s reputation.” N. H. D.

– + =Boston Transcript= p7 F 10 ‘17 1000w

“With this poem ‘Nature’s way’ and much else in his book that is sound in thought and brilliant in phrase, Mr Watson will find more sympathizers than he may realize or even desire—for he seems to enjoy thinking of himself as a sort of ‘lonely antagonist of destiny,’ a last survivor of the giants before the flood. It is a pity that this mood of haughty isolation has grown so strong in his work of late. ... The man who has successfully challenged Keats in ‘Ode to autumn’ and Arnold in ‘Wordsworth’s grave’ and Milton himself in ‘Lachrymæ musarum,’ might well afford to let alone all really ignorant or merely spiteful criticism of his work.” Odell Shepard

+ — =Dial= 63:18 Je 28 ‘17 700w

“Of late years, Mr William Watson has been making poetry a criticism of art rather than a criticism of life. Many of the poems in ‘Retrogression’ seem to be versifications of passages in his ‘Pencraft: a plea for the older ways.’ But the versification is deftly done; it glows now and then with the magic of Wordsworth’s grave’ and the ‘Ode in May.’”

+ — =Lit D= 54:633 Mr 10 ‘17 300w

“If our own poet’s judgments are correct, surely he need not excite himself over the faults which give to his own virtues the helpful emphasis of contrast; there are worse fates than insulation—on a pinnacle.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Nation= 105:66 Jl 19 ‘17 330w

+ =R of Rs= 55:438 Ap ‘17 110w

“All lovers of good poetry, and especially of the finely adjusted word and phrase, will be delighted with the greater part of Mr William Watson’s new volume, ‘Retrogression.’ ... The last portion of the volume, entitled ‘Poems personal and general,’ contain some delightful verses written to Mr Watson’s own daughter, and some tributes to his friends. As a whole the volume will attract, in spite of the fact that none of the poems rises to the heights reached by the poet in previous years.”

+ — =Spec= 117:772 D 16 ‘16 1150W

“Not always does he attain the aphoristic character of Pope, and not often the sprightly wit and pungency of Lowell. Moreover, some of the rhymed epigrams seem inspired by ill-nature, with the malice ill-concealed. But, on the whole, the book can be recommended for its bracing effect.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 2 ‘17 550w

“This volume will certainly not add to Mr Watson’s poetic reputation. He has always been an admirable critic, and has shown more than any modern of Ben Jonson’s gift of converting literary criticism into poetry. But he used to have other gifts too. Here there is nothing else which is poetry and unfortunately a great deal which is scarcely even verse. ... But in the critical poems he has something to say and something that needs saying just now.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p570 N 30 ‘16 900w

=WATTS, MARY STANBERY.= Three short plays. *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 812 17-1624

Mrs Watts, well known as a novelist, appears as a dramatist in this new book. The first, “An ancient dance,” is a two-act play in which a phonograph is utilized as an instrument of tragedy. In “Civilization,” the play in one act that follows, the theory that “a man’s a man for a’ that” is turned inside out and shown to be false according to the conventions of modern society. “The wearin’ o’ the green,” the third play, is a farce in two acts in which the appearance of a real plumber and a real burglar at a fancy dress party produces an amusing situation.

=A L A Bkl= 13:304 Ap ‘17

“These three plays, by a well-known American novelist, exhibit versatility and a considerable power of writing good dialogue.”

+ =Ath= p413 Ag ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p37 O ‘17

“The dialogue is well written and the characterization good, but the plays are rather over-weighted with detail.”

+ =Spec= 118:545 My 12 ‘17 30w

“‘The ancient dance’ depends upon unlikely error. ... ‘Civilization’ seems designed to prove the time-honored theory that society girls can fall in love with nothing but brass buttons. ... ‘The wearin’ o’ the green’ is a rather obvious farce depending upon mistaken identity carried far beyond the bounds of probability.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 280w

=WATTS-DUNTON, WALTER THEODORE.= Poetry and the Renascence of wonder. *$1.75 Button 808.1 16-22776

“‘Poetry and the Renascence of wonder,’ the two famous essays by the late Theodore Watts-Dunton, are presented as rewritten by the author. The text is interspersed with ‘riders’ culled from his criticisms on poetry contributed to the Athenæum, printed in closer text than the material of the essays. The essay on poetry appeared in the ninth and subsequent editions of the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica.’ It examines and explains the principles of poetic art as exemplified by the poetry of all great literatures. ‘The Renascence of wonder’ is the return to the primitive, to the ‘childlike wonder of the Iliad and the Odyssey.’” (R of Rs) The second essay appeared first in the Cyclopædia of English literature. The book has an introduction by Thomas Hake.

“Not satisfactory as a finished product though full of suggestions to the earnest student of poetry.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 13:213 F ‘17

“We hoped, when the first volume on our list, ‘Poetry, and the Renascence of wonder,’ was announced, that the large essay or treatise on poetics which Watts-Dunton used to speak of as having been sadly cut down to form the article ‘Poetry’ in the ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’ was going to be published at full length. It now appears that the original essay no longer exists, and that the excised portions were long ago used up, in our columns and elsewhere. ... Unfortunately, it has lost instead of gained by expansion into a book.”

+ — =Ath= p467 O ‘16 1350w

“Includes the two essays by which he is best known as a critic, a body of historical and critical comment which will long have a distinctive value.”

+ =Bookm= 45:292 My ‘17 70w

=Ind= 89:458 Mr 12 ‘17 100w

=Nation= 105:293 S 13 ‘17 120w

+ =R of Rs= 54:676 D ‘16 140w

“As no one is likely to read this book who has not a real interest in literature as a fine art, it will probably irritate all its readers by its formlessness as well as by the inclusion of such poor stuff as the essay on ‘Ethical poetry.’ Yet there will be very few of them whose gratitude will not survive their irritation, especially if they supply for themselves the index which the editor has neglected to supply.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p463 S 28 ‘16 1750w

=WATTS-DUNTON, WALTER THEODORE.= Vesprie Towers. *$1.35 (2c) Lane 17-7458

An unfailing belief in their “Luck” had been the inheritance of all the Vespries of Vesprie Towers. It survived in Violet Vesprie, the last of the line, tho she is impoverished to the point of penury and finally has to face eviction from her home. She goes to London where she spends four years in wretchedness, but her pride and her faith never waver. In London she befriends a young girl in need, finding later that she is a girl from the neighborhood of her old home. And it is thru this act of kindness that good fortune comes to her, making way for a return to Vesprie Towers.

“The value of the novel lies chiefly in its beauty of spirit and in its evocation of beautiful images.”

+ =Ath= p580 D ‘16 750w

“One of those leisurely, well-ripened Victorian novels that convey relaxation and a gentle degree of interest to their readers.”

+ =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 150w

“The story does not approach in any form or manner that other novel, ‘Aylwin,’ which made Watts-Dunton’s name known as an author. It is amateurish by every sign; there is not a character in it that does not smack of the lay figure, the style is faulty, the dialogue stilted and dull. Now and then it seems to get really under way; there will be a passage that stirs you—but immediately the thing falls down again. ... The book is interesting as some queer old print is interesting, simply as a relic of the kind of thing that once existed.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:74 Mr 4 ‘17 950w

+ =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 15w

=WAUGH, FRANK ALBERT.= Agricultural college; a study in organization and management and especially in problems of teaching. *$1.10 (3c) Judd 630.7 16-23153

The author, of the Massachusetts agricultural college, treats the problems of agricultural education from the viewpoint of the teacher. On controversial points, as he frankly states, he has stressed the unorthodox point of view. He says, “Education in general is ruled too much by tradition, and the agricultural colleges, of all academic institutions, should be free to take the radical course wherever tradition is called in question. The agricultural college is from the nature of the case, a radical, not a traditional, institution.” Contents: Purposes and ideals; College organization; Physical and financial problems; Organization of instruction; Specialization in agriculture; Course of study—materials; Course of study—arrangement; Methods of teaching; Extension teaching; The experiment station; Special problems and methods.

“Scholarly yet popular in treatment, and accurate. Interesting and profitable reading, whether or not one agrees with its conclusions.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:299 Ap ‘17

“Suggestive, interestingly written, critical discussion, the first in the field.”

+ =Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 10w

“Clear and radical. ... It is a book for those who attend faculty meetings, for fathers with sons who want this kind of vocational education, and above all for legislators.”

=Ind= 89:557 Mr 26 ‘17 300w

=WAUGH, FRANK ALBERT.= Natural style in landscape gardening. il *$2.50 (9c) Badger, R: G. 710 17-17750

A collection of essays on landscape gardening. In the first essay, What is meant, the author reviews the controversy that used to be waged over the merits of the “formal” and the “natural” styles. Modern practice, he says, has developed an admirable catholicity of taste that accepts the best of both, and uses the one or the other as best suits the artist’s purpose. The remaining essays are: The native landscape; Form and spirit; The landscape motive; Principles of structural composition; The art of grouping; Features and furnishings; The open field. The author, who is head of the department of agriculture at Amherst agricultural college, has recently been appointed consulting landscape architect of the United States forest service. Photographs from his camera illustrate the work.

“The book, as well as the style of landscape design which it so sympathetically explains, should appeal forcefully to the engineer.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 80:371 F 21 ‘18 200w

=WAUGH, FRANK ALBERT.= Outdoor theaters. il *$2.50 (16c) Badger, R: G. 725.8 17-18366

A book on the design, construction and use of open-air auditoriums. While the outdoor theater is a new institution in America, there are thruout the country, as this book will show, a number of notable examples. Among these are “Bankside,” at the University of North Dakota, the Greek theater at the University of California, the outdoor theaters at Vassar and Bryn Mawr, the “Player’s green” in Chicago, the municipal theater in Anoka, Minnesota, and “Brookside” in Mt. Kisco, New York. The subject is treated in three parts: Questions of use; Problems of design; Selected examples. There is a brief foreword by Percy MacKaye. The book is well illustrated and there is a short bibliography.

+ =Engin News-Rec= 80:371 F 21 ‘18 80w

Reviewed by M. H. B. Mussey

=Survey= 39:447 Ja 19 ‘18 180w

=WAWN, F. T.= Joyful years. *$1.50 (1c) Dutton 17-19508

“The joyful years are those when you are finding yourselves, children.” So speaks Shaun James, writer, widower, and one of the leading characters in this rather lengthy novel of English present day life. Other characters are Cynthia Rosemary Bremner, a normal, happy girl; her brother Alan; her young cousin Joyce; her older and more sophisticated cousin Phyllis; Laurence Man, an official of the “Great company,” in love with Cynthia; and Peter Middleton, meant to be an artist and trying to be a business man, also in love with Cynthia. The last eighty pages deal with the characters in wartime, but the story ends happily for Cynthia and her husband.

“Mr Wawn writes well, and his characters are people of flesh and blood in whom one can feel an interest. The scene is laid largely near Tintagel, and the descriptions of that beautiful and romantic country are well done.”

+ =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 100w

“Its endless descriptions are touched with a sort of mild eroticism.” H. W. Boynton

– + =Bookm= 46:96 S ‘17 380w

“In many ways this is an old-fashioned novel—which is another way of saying that it is a romantic, leisurely and delightful one. ... The wholesomeness and sweet reasonableness of the people one meets in the pages of this book are indeed refreshing. ... A word should be said also for the delicacy with which the author has written of love and marriage. The very soul of purity breathes in his pages.”

+ + =Cath World= 105:839 S ‘17 350w

“‘The joyful years’ is best described as a first-rate second-rate novel. It is one of those stories of solid worth which only the English writers seem able to produce. On every page there is evidence of the trained thinker and writer who has observed life. ... A good story well told.”

+ =Dial= 63:117 Ag 16 ‘17 290w

“A mental revel in feminine pulchritude.”

— =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 40w

“A tale rather hopelessly old-fashioned, since it records no more unconventional a sex-adventure than is involved in a runaway marriage. ... The story is ‘well-written’ in a way, but unduly drawn out, and marred by a kind of spinsterly voluptuousness which insists on our habitual assistance at the heroine’s toilet.”

– + =Nation= 105:178 Ag 16 ‘17 380w

“‘The joyful years’ falls short of being a good novel because of the saccharine sweetness of its love affair, because of the tawdry cheapness of its central philosophy, and because the author deliberately chooses the wrong side of great public questions. ... The one character of interest is Phyllis. She is real—she lives; her shallowness and flippancy are exquisitely drawn.” D. P. Berenberg

– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 450w

“The novel contains some interesting pictures of the war, as Peter saw it from the trenches, and as Cynthia saw it from the point of view of the women who had to stay at home and wait.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 550w

“The pictures of the hero in the trenches are well drawn.”

+ =Spec= 118:677 Je 16 ‘17 40w

=WEALE, BERTRAM LENOX PUTNAM, pseud. (BERTRAM LENOX SIMPSON).= Fight for the republic in China. il *$3.50 (4c) Dodd 951 17-31438

This book covers the years 1911 to 1917. A general introduction sketches events leading up to this period. To include everything which the student or the casual reader needs to know about the Chinese question is the author’s aim. He calls attention particularly to the inclusion of certain Chinese and Japanese documents which “afford a sharp contrast between varying types of eastern brains.” The appendixes give “every document of importance for the period covered.”

“It would be difficult to overestimate the service this book must render to the study of the more important aspects of Far Eastern questions. It must have a place in every library furnished with the best available materials for the intelligent consideration of China and Chinese problems in their relation to the social advance of the modern world.” L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:267 N ‘17 250w

“An anti-Japanese bias is often markedly pronounced.”

+ — =Ind= 93:200 F 2 ‘18 600w

“It is not only an important addition to our positive knowledge but a valuable contribution to political literature. It is of unique interest in that the case for the republic developed in the narrative is supported by official and semi-official documentary evidence. His sober analysis of the factor of Japan should be read by every intelligent citizen.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:13 Ja 13 ‘18 500w

“For the reader the work presents all the fascination of the drama, for, rapidly as events have moved of late in the Occident, they have moved even more swiftly in the Orient.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 27 ‘17 720w

=WEAVER, ERASMUS MORGAN.= Notes on military explosives. 4th ed rev and enl il *$3.25 Wiley 662 17-11354

“The book shows the leading developments wrought by the present war—particularly the employment of atmospheric nitrogen and the substitution of wood pulp for cotton. The text opens with some elementary notes on chemistry and descriptions of substances entering explosives. Then the characteristics and requirements of propelling, disrupting and detonating compounds are presented. There are chapters on tests, storage, handling and use for special demolitions. An appendix contains (1) laboratory experiments to illustrate the section on chemistry, (2) a paper by A. S. Cushman on ‘The role of chemistry in war,’ and (3) the Interstate commerce commission regulations governing the transportation of explosives as freight.” (Engin News-Rec) “The author, a major general in the U.S. army, is chief of coast artillery.” (St Louis)

+ =Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 50w

“This book will be interesting to all who desire to serve their country as military engineers at the ‘front’ or to make the explosives that the needs of the front demand.”

+ =Coal Age= 11:888 My 19 ‘17 1000w

“General Weaver’s treatise on military explosives has long been one of the most important books in the engineer’s military library, but the past four years have made the previous edition inadequate in regard to use, so that the present edition is welcome.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:360 My 17 ‘17 150w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p16 Ap ‘17 130w

=St Louis= 15:366 O ‘17 10w

=WEAVER, HENRIETTA.= Flame and the shadow-eater. *$1.40 (2c) Holt 17-14135

A book of short stories in which the author’s aim has been to present certain phases of eastern mysticism in the form of fiction. The stories bear such titles as The seller of dreams, The wonder-bubble of the world, Mirage in the desert, Dust in the wind, and The night-comer, and are written in a manner that is imitative of the oriental story teller.

“Told with all the richness of imagery and measured cadence of the oriental tale.”

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 40w

=Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 150w

“The author frequently succeeds only in being obscure when she endeavors to be mystical. ... Their abundance of color, their intellectual quality, and their departure from the commonplace make the stories quite interesting.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 250w

=WEBB, A. P.=, comp. Bibliography of the works of Thomas Hardy, 1865-1915. *$2.50 Torch press 016.823 17-5721

“Mr Webb has had in mind chiefly the collector of first editions, and has not attempted a complete bibliography, ignoring late editions and American editions, except where the latter rank as first editions. He includes contributions to books, periodicals, and newspapers, and a selection of critical notices, &c. The illustrations comprise a fine photogravure portrait of Mr E. O. Hoppé, and facsimiles of ‘The night of Trafalgar’ from ‘The dynasts,’ and the war poem ‘Song of the soldiers.’” (Ath)

=Ath= p425 S ‘16 70w

“Mr Webb, who is now at the front, carried out his work while under training in camp, which is not the best place for an undertaking the performance of which necessitates close and constant attendance in libraries and a liberal expenditure of time. The errors of date and description in the collations, the want of uniformity in style, and lack of complete reference, of which complaint has been made, can easily be remedied in a second edition. Notwithstanding inconsistencies in typography, the printing has been well done, and the binding of the book is exceptionally tasteful. The index supplies much useful information.” A. L. C.

=Library Association Record= 19:75 F 15 ‘17 400w

+ =Spec= 117:419 D 7 ‘16 140w

=WEBB, MARY.= Golden arrow. *$1.50 (2c) Dutton (Eng ed 17-15288)

This is one of those books that are distinctly novels of place. The Welsh hills that are its setting enter intimately into the story. Deborah Arden, the farmer’s daughter who has given her great love to Stephen Southernwood, is at home in the hills. But to Stephen, town-bred, they are hampering and confining. They become the symbol to him of the freedom he has renounced. His love for Deborah is not strong enough to hold him and he goes. But once on the other side of the world, he finds that it is powerful enough to draw him back. The half dozen characters of the story, all types from rustic life, are set forth with a sure hand.

“The author has borrowed largely and more or less superficially from Hardy, but she knows her country and her characters: she reflects the moods of that physical nature which has produced superstitions and an uplifting awe in its people, and she has created a story that is worth reading even for its own sake.”

+ =Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 130w

+ =Ind= 90:438 Je 2 ‘17 180w

“The novel is at its best in the beginning, for it is one of those books which seem never quite to get anywhere. ... There are some interesting pictures of life in the remote Welsh countryside which is the scene of the entire narrative, quite a number of unusually well-written passages, and altogether the book is a thoughtful one, possessed of many commendable qualities.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:183 My 6 ‘17 250w

+ =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 14w

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p428 S 7 ‘16 1000w

=WEBB, MARY.= Gone to earth. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-18165

Hazel Woodus, only child of a Welsh harper and of a gipsy mother, is a passionate lover of nature, and especially of all weak and hunted things. “Her own close kinship to the little fox which is her great pet is emphasized early in the story.” (N Y Times) She is very beautiful, entirely untaught, and wants to be free. But two men, utterly unlike, love her: Edward Marston, the young minister, who appeals to her spiritual self, and Jack Reddin of Undern, who appeals to her physical self. One becomes her husband, the other her lover, and her life ends in a tragedy.

“There is from the very beginning an almost Æschylean sense of deepening gloom, and oncoming, unavoidable calamity. Nevertheless, there are numerous gleams of light. ... The separate individualities of the principal personages stand out strongly and clearly; and the author can be complimented upon having produced a notable work of fiction.”

+ =Ath= p472 S ‘17 110w

“Mary Webb writes of her corner of the Welsh mountains with a very real understanding of the country folk, and also, alas, with unmistakable sentimentality.”

+ — =Dial= 63:220 S 13 ‘17 90w

“On the whole, the ‘localism’ of this writer is hardly more than a garb for her bitter distrust of human nature and society.”

=Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 270w

“Puritans will be shocked by the plain-spoken frankness with which the author treats questions of sex. ... There is nothing of lewdness even suggested—nor is sex glorified and surrounded with a halo of mysticism. It is dealt with simply, as a phase of life which cannot be ignored. ... Reddin, the brutal squire, is drawn a little too strongly, while Edward Marston, whom Hazel marries, is too much of an idealist to be true to life.” D. P. Berenberg

+ — =NY Call= p15 S 9 ‘17 380w

“Like her earlier novel, ‘The golden arrow,’ Mrs Webb’s new romance is a story of one of the more remote and lonely districts of Wales. ... Hazel’s character is skillfully analyzed, yet she remains always ‘a girl in a book,’ a thing of romance and unreality. Edward, whose very goodness and generosity proved his undoing, and his placid, altogether conventional mother, however, are real people, while the author shows throughout a keen sense of life’s ironies. The plot is well worked out and the final tragedy a clever bit of symbolism. But what one remembers best in closing the book is the beauty of its descriptions of the countryside.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 440w

“The book is notable for the author’s success in conveying to her readers the impression of free open-air life in very wild country.”

+ =Spec= 119:300 S 22 ‘17 50w

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p416 Ag 30 ‘17 400w

=WEBB, SIDNEY.= Restoration of trade union conditions. pa *50c Huebsch 331.87

“A well known result of the war has been the suspension of trade union conditions in the British Isles. ... With the war came a demand for an enormously increased production in British manufacturing plants. In order to increase the output the government appealed to the labor unions to suspend their protective network of usages and customs. The unions, with great patriotism, consented, but only after receiving an explicit promise from the government that the old rules should be restored after the war. The suspension continues. ... Mr Webb’s main contention is that the restoration of the old usages and customs is impossible.”—Springf’d Republican

=Ann Am Acad= 74:297 N ‘17 130w

Reviewed by H. M. Kallen

* =Dial= 63:333 O 11 ‘17 2750w

=Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 140w

“To disagree with Mr Webb fundamentally, it does not follow at all that what he writes is negligible.” J. W.

+ — =NY Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 800w

“A clear-minded and courageous analysis of the situation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 27 ‘17 700w

“This little book of approximately one hundred pages should at the present time demand the serious attention of every trade-unionist, employer, and citizen interested in industrial relations; for in it Sidney Webb discusses one of the serious questions facing the English nation.” B. M. Selekman

+ =Survey= 38:440 Ag 18 ‘17 850w

=WEBB, SIDNEY.=[2] Works manager to-day. *$1 Longmans 658.7 17-31556

An address prepared for a series of private gatherings of works managers in Great Britain. Sidney Webb believes that, whatever form industrial organization may take in the future, whether state control, private control or government by the workers themselves prevail, the function of works manager must continue. “In my own opinion,” he says, “the profession of the manager, under whatever designation, is destined, with the ever-increasing complication of man’s enterprises, to develop a steadily increasing technique and a more and more specialised vocational training of its own; and to secure, like the vocation of the engineer, the architect, or the chemist, universal recognition as a specialized brain-working occupation.” Some of the points touched on are: The function of management; Reducing the cost of production; Appointments and dismissals; The recognition of trade unionism.

“The common-sense remarks as to the functions of works managers and the best way to exercise them may well appeal to those who still adhere to the principle that, business being business, profits are the most important thing to be considered.”

+ =Ath= p673 D ‘17 70w

“Had such statements come from any one less fully recognized as a thorough student of conditions, in all probability they would have been put down as hysterical. The nature of the gathering, the occasion of the address and the position of the orator give them a grim significance.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 80:371 F 21 ‘18 400w

“It would be a good thing if managers of industrial enterprises in America were required to read ‘The works manager to-day,’ by Sidney Webb. Not that it is complete or very profound treatise of the science of management—on the contrary, it is easy fireside reading for a single evening—but it contains a good deal of very sensible talk to which industrial managers might well give heed.” J: A. Fitch

+ =Survey= 39:443 Ja 19 ‘18 1000w

=WEBNER, FRANK ERASTUS.= Factory accounting. il $3.30 LaSalle extension univ. 657 17-4009

“This work is intended by the author to be of use to manufacturers and accountants as well as to students. It endeavors to cover a broader field than cost accounting; and in working out the factory accounting technique it deals quite as much with matters of production control as with accounting. ... Four distinct parts comprise the volume. In the first a brief descriptive survey of the different types of management is given. The second deals with the controlling accounts, the general exhibits and the relation of cost accounts to the general exhibit. It contains also chapters on specific order and process production, and on different methods of concentrating their principal characteristics for effective handling. Some of these schemes deal mainly with the distribution of manufacturing costs over product, others with planning and scheduling. The third part is a short chapter describing the different types of industries, classed according to production methods. The fourth part describes methods of collecting data concerning materials, labor, and expense, and of handling these accounts.”—J Pol Econ

“The present volume is better adapted to its primary use, correspondence instruction, although providing a fairly satisfactory text for classroom use. Mr Webner’s broad experience in the field of practice makes him an authority as to what is needed for preparation for that line of work. ... Mr Webner’s discussion of the human element is very good and calls attention to a subject which needs more attention than it generally receives.” R. B. Kester

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:226 My ‘17 450w

=Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 30w

“The unique position of the book in the range of accounting texts is attained by virtue of the fact that, while attempting to set forth a greater range of matter than comes within the sphere of technical cost accounting, the author deals carefully and in detail with the devices and methods of discovering and recording production facts.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:637 Je ‘17 400w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:349 Ap ‘17 30w

“‘The sixth volume of the La Salle course in higher accountancy. ... The clear definitions and statements of the author, supplemented by charts, graphs and forms, go far toward simplifying a rather complex subject.’”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:469 My ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Scientific American p364 Ap 7 ‘17)

=Pratt= p24 Jl ‘17 10w

“Succeeds in presenting a complex subject with simplicity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 50w

=WEBSTER, HENRY KITCHELL.= Thoroughbred. il *$1.35 (3c) Bobbs 17-3575

Like many other husbands, he kept his business concerns to himself and he told his wife of the impending crisis only when it had ceased to impend. He paid his stenographer, ordered the telephone taken from his office, and then went home to tell his wife that she might now go back to her mother. This was too much for Celia. She was a girl of spirit and she promptly flew into a rage. Was that what he thought of her! Very well, she would show him! And show him she did—in a twelve dollar a month flat (three rooms and bath, unheated, no closets). This is the story of Celia’s adventures in house-furnishing and housekeeping. It is also that rarity, a love story that is simple, honest and unsentimental.

“Slight, good for reading aloud. Appeared in Everybody’s Magazine.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:268 Mr ‘17

“It contains no episode such as defaces Mr Webster’s ‘The real adventure.’ ... ‘The thoroughbred’ is a wholesome bit of domestic romance. ... Mr Webster writes in what may almost be called the magazine dialect of American-English. It is the Saturday Evening Post style, a talky style which conveys an impression of being like real talk, and is very little like it.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 45:207 Ap ‘17 450w

“The ‘Real adventure’ contained rather the promise than the evidence of literary mastership. Mr Webster’s third novel, ‘The thoroughbred,’ contains neither. Considering the work that has preceded it, it is extraordinarily disappointing; considering it by itself, the best that can be said is that it adequately and entertainingly fills a leisure hour or two.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 200w

“The whole thing seems too easy; there is too much of the superman about it.” E: E. Hale

– + =Dial= 62:145 P 22 ‘17 550w

“This trivial prettifaction of the commonplace follows an old formula. ... Mr Webster combines this formula with a style of some distinction and considerable gayety. In ‘The real adventure’ he wrote a novel which was rich in performance. ‘The thoroughbred’ is mere timeserving to the gods of publicity and best-sellerdom.”

— =New Repub= 10:146 Mr 3 ‘17 250w

+ =N Y Times= 22:26 Ja 28 ‘17 550w

“Henry Kitchell Webster certainly understands the ways of women, which is another way of saying that he understands human nature. ... In some ways, despite its much smaller scope, ‘The thoroughbred’ is a better piece of work than ‘The real adventure.’” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 91:204 Ja 20 ‘17 450w

“A diverting tale, not true or important, but the sentiment is pretty.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 200w

=WEBSTER, HUTTON.= Early European history. il $1.60 Heath 940 17-12510

“Prof. Hutton Webster’s ‘Early European history,’ which begins with prehistoric man, covers the rise of European civilization down to the period of the Protestant reformation with which most histories of modern Europe begin, and it may, therefore, be used conveniently in conjunction with any standard modern history.” (Ind) “The work is intended for high schools which do not care to give a whole year to ancient history alone, but which prefer, in accordance with the recent recommendations of some educational bodies, to cover the general field of all history in a two years’ course.” (Nation)

=Ind= 91:266 Ag 18 ‘17 50w

“Mr Webster has kept to the same high level of excellence which he set for himself four years ago in his ‘Ancient history.’ ... He has unusually good chapters on the rise and spread of Islam, on the Mongols and the Turks, on the formation of national languages and literatures, and on early geographical discovery and colonization. ... The only unsatisfactory sections are those on feudalism and Germanic law.”

+ — =Nation= 105:267 S 6 ‘17 580w

“Adds another valuable text to the growing list already in this field. ... As to maps, illustrations, and plates, the book is well supplied. The appendix contains a long table of events and dates, which will be likely to hinder rather than help the inexperienced teacher.” R. M. Tryon

+ — =School R= 25:686 N ‘17 200w

=WEED, CLARENCE MOORES.= Butterflies worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday 595.7 17-13203

The author says, “In this little book an attempt has been made to discuss the more abundant and widely distributed butterflies of eastern North America from the point of view of their life histories and their relations to their surroundings.” Part 1, serving as an introduction, is given up to a discussion of the structure, color, life and habits, etc., of the butterfly. Part 2, the largest section of the book is devoted to descriptions of the true butterflies, superfamily Papilionoidea; part 3 to the skipper butterflies, superfamily Hesperioidea. There are over thirty color plates with additional plates in black and white.

“Brief, interestingly written book for the general reader. There is no key for the identification of species.”

+ — =Cleveland= p94 Jl ‘17 50w

“A volume that will delight and inform.”

=Lit D= 55:48 Ag 4 ‘17 200w

+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 80w

=WEEKLEY, ERNEST.= Surnames. *$2.25 Dutton 929.1 (Eng ed 17-10193)

This book, like an earlier one, “Romance of names,” is, the author says, an “offshoot” of the “Dictionary of English surnames” on which he has been engaged for some years. He says, “The present volume treats much more completely, and hence more ponderously, of certain groups of surnames which I have investigated with some approach to thoroughness. ... Its relation to the ‘Romance of names’ is that of a more or less erudite treatise to a primer, matter which in the former book was dismissed in a paragraph or two being here expanded into a chapter. ... The index contains some six thousand existing surnames, including a certain proportion of French and German names and a sprinkling from other countries.” Among the chapter headings are: The study of surnames; The Teutonic name-system; Some local surnames; The corruption of local surnames; Some occupative surnames; Physical nicknames; Costume nicknames; Vegetable nicknames; Pageant names; The Shakespeare type of surname.

=A L A Bkl= 13:447 Jl ‘17

“A wonderful book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 180w

“This volume and two previous studies by Professor Weekley, ‘The romance of words’ and ‘The romance of names’ should be in every home library.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 100w

“A professor and the head of a modern language department in one of our new universities, Mr Weekley may be supposed to know his business so far as learning goes. The satisfactory thing from the ordinary reader’s point of view is that he wears his learning lightly, and infuses some welcome humour into his research. ... We want good learning popularised, and he has gone the right way to do it.”

+ =Sat R= 122:580 D 16 ‘16 320w

+ =Spec= 118:207 F 17 ‘17 1850w

“This fascinating book has scholarship and humor to recommend it.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 1850w

“We simply cannot help reading him.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p546 N 16 ‘16 1250w

=WEEKS, ARLAND DEYETT.= Psychology of citizenship. (National social science ser.) *50c (2c) McClurg 304 17-10222

The author says, “This book is a study of the psychology of our relations to civic affairs and deals with mental traits affecting the quality of citizenship.” The book is made up of brief chapters on: Civic demands upon intelligence; Social inertia; The limits of attention; Forms of distraction; The effect of machinery upon the mind; The spirit of labor; The control of suggestion; Civic publicity and the voter; The legal mind; Views of property; A sense of humanity. In the last chapter the author makes some observations on the psychology of war. He is professor of education in the North Dakota agricultural college, and a series of articles contributed to the American Journal of Sociology has served as a basis for this book.

=Am Econ R= 7:429 Je ‘17 50w

=A L A Bkl= 14:8 O ‘17

“The student of practical politics will find much to interest him in the book, particularly in the chapter which deals with ‘Civic publicity and the voter.’”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:160 F ‘18 50w

“There is one excellent and practical chapter on civic publicity. A book which will rouse not only thought but discussion.”

+ =Cleveland= p77 Je ‘17 70w

“Words of special emphasis would be reserved to commend this small but unusually able and attractive book. Professor Weeks has succeeded in carrying a message of vital significance, in phrasing it in an effective style, and above all in selecting for emphasis the focal points of interest to the understanding of the mind of the citizen. This is popular psychology directed with skill to problems of daily concern.”

+ =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 220w

=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:169 Je ‘17

“Prof. Weeks’s views, while not all acceptable, should at least stimulate social thinking.”

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 20 ‘17 320w

=WEEKS, RAYMOND.= Ode to France. *50c Oxford 811 17-9132

“This ode was written during August and September, 1914. The poet calls upon the world to rescue France, the ‘land whose deeds of old still burn,’ from the hideous shame forced upon her by the Huns.”—R of Rs

“This admirably wrought poem is now being read from the public platform and it has moved thousands to greater affection for France—affection which has taken practical form in contributions to French relief.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1787 Je 9 ‘17 400w

=R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 30w

=WELD, LOUIS DWIGHT HARVELL.= Marketing of farm products. *$1.50 Macmillan 338 16-1411

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The reviewer regrets saying so much in seeming dispraise of a book he so greatly approves. But the publication of so comprehensive and vigorous a study of this important question should be the occasion for all students of the problem to make frank and searching examination of their ideas upon the subject. Professor Weld has laid some excellent foundations. Later writers will be much in his debt and teachers will find that he has given them an excellent book for class use. If some of us think he is unduly complacent about the existing organization of the trade in farm products we may well remember that a large amount of public sentiment and local prejudice can be depended upon to exert a strong counter-influence.” E. G. Nourse

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:204 F ‘17 1800w

=WELLMAN, MABEL THACHER.= Food study. il *$1 Little 641 17-2354

The author, head of the department of home economics in Indiana university, has planned this work as a text book for high schools. She says, “The work is an attempt to present a manual of definite directions which will aid the student in her adventure into the subject, but it is by no means intended to supersede the teacher or to furnish material which can be taught by one untrained in the subject.” In her arrangement of material the author has not followed conventional lines. For instance, she has placed her lessons on canning and preserving first, because fall, the opening of the school year, is the natural time for such work. References for reading and Questions follow each chapter.

“Includes instruction in table manners and on the etiquette of entertaining. A distinctive feature is a diagram of a table laid for a home dinner.”

+ =Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 40w

=Educ R= 53:430 Ap ‘17 30w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:45 Mr ‘17

“The housewife desirous of retrenching her expenses will find aid and instruction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:73 Ap 29 ‘17 90w

=Pittsburgh= 22:319 Ap ‘17

=St Louis= 15:175 Je ‘17

“This book seems to have covered the ground pretty thoroughly, and to be a source of reliable information gathered from standard works and authorities. The class experiments are clear and definite, the summary questions and references most comprehensive. But in an attempt to put the material together for ‘certain advantages in presentation, as the early introduction of such subjects as meals and serving,’ a most illogical and confusing plan has been followed.” Catherine Creamer

+ — =School R= 25:300 Ap ‘17 280w

“A distinct addition to the available secondary-school texts on foods. The most valuable contribution is in the excellent quality of the subject-matter presented. This material is accurate, well selected, and clearly and simply written. It includes explanations of the principals of physics, chemistry, and bacteriology that are encountered in the preparation of foods as well as general information about food materials. This text material is not only well selected, but it is presented in such a sequence that there is a gradual development of the material adapted to the comprehension and progress of the students.” A. R. Hanna

+ =School R= 25:614 O ‘17 240w

=WELLS, CAROLYN.= Baubles. il *$1.25 Dodd 817 17-24883

This volume contains most of the poems included in “Idle idyls,” published by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1900. Nineteen poems printed in “Idle idyls” have been dropped from and twenty-two new poems included in “Baubles.” While the new volume, like the old, is pictured by Oliver Herford, the thirteen full-page illustrations of “Idle idyls” do not appear in the new collection.

“The sparkle, the whimsicality of her nonsense, has dulled and deadened; the satirical lash has become thready, the vigor and snap gone when it comes into contact with the object.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 280w

=WELLS, CAROLYN.= Faulkner’s folly. *$1.25 (2½c) Doran

Eric Stannard, the wealthy successful portrait painter, was found murdered in his studio. His dying cry was heard by his guest, Mrs Faulkner, as she descended the staircase and at her command the footman entered and turned up the lights in the darkened room. The artist was seen seated, stabbed by an etching needle and at either side of him, fainting with terror and overcome with dread, were his wife and his model. Who committed the crime? Roberts, the detective, tried in vain to solve the mystery but Alan Ford succeeded.

“The latest of Carolyn Wells’s detective stories is especially baffling.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ‘17 320w

“Cleverly contrived and worked out with ingenuity and ample resource.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 500w

=WELLS, CAROLYN.= Mark of Cain. il *$1.35 (1½c) Lippincott 17-7931

This is another Fleming Stone detective story. A millionaire is murdered in Van Cortlandt Park, New York, and circumstances seem to point to his nephew Kane Landon, as the murderer. The fortune of the murdered man is left to his niece Avice Trowbridge on condition that she marry the millionaire’s lawyer and trusted friend, Judge Hoyt. But Avice loves Landon and she only consents to marry Judge Hoyt on condition that he obtains the freedom of Landon whether the latter is innocent or guilty. With the aid of the millionaire’s office boy who had done some private detective work and as a consequence had been kidnapped and imprisoned in the home of the lawyer who is the real murderer, Fleming Stone convicts the lawyer of his guilt, aids thereto being the dirk cane and the shoes worn at the time of the murder which he had left as evidence in his house.

“A crude thriller. It is carelessly written, with no skill in characterization or plot; its ingenuity is not above that inspiring the Sunday ‘feature story’; its humor is of the same quality as the ‘comic’ sheet and where the author would be exciting she is only lurid. It is shoddy.”

— =Dial= 62:484 My 31 ‘17 120w

“Although the solution of the mystery is not very plausible, and the reader who chances to be possessed of any degree of astuteness will have identified the murderer long before Fleming Stone appears upon the scene, the story holds one’s attention fairly well, and is not without ingenuity.”

=N Y Times= 22:74 Mr 4 ‘17 250w

“While the story is conventional of its kind, it is diverting.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 130w

=WELLS, CLIFFORD ALMON.= From Montreal to Vimy Ridge and beyond; ed. by O. C: S. Wallace. il *$1.35 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-29626

A series of letters written by a young Canadian officer to his mother and other members of his family, between November, 1915 and April, 1917. The mother died shortly after receiving news of her son’s death, so this book, edited by the writer’s stepfather, is a memorial to them both. The editor says, “To have used a heavy hand upon those letters, cutting out personal allusions, and the expression of opinion and criticisms which later might have been modified, would have been to rob them of much of their piquancy and human quality. That is why they are published as they were written.”

“There is as little personal animosity toward the enemy as in any of the accounts from the men who are doing the work. War is accepted, but it is recognized for what it is, a not very pleasant or glorious affair. The book is interesting for its revelation of the interests and the daily life of the soldier in action.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 260w

“It has the quality of letters written to some one beloved, a touching and beautiful quality.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:546 D 9 ‘17 220w

=WELLS, FREDERIC DE WITT.= Man in court. *$1.50 (4c) Putnam 347 17-11929

The author is a justice of the municipal court of New York city and in this book he presents a series of sketches showing the actual procedure in a court of law. He explains the origin of many customs, and justifies some of the seeming injustices of court procedure, but, on the other hand, he shows how unsuited many practices are to modern conditions. A complete revision of the system is outlined in the final chapter in the form of a “look backward” from the year 1947.

“The humor is somewhat labored, but the explanations clear.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18

“The author unobtrusively reveals intimate experience with human beings, depth of psychological insight, broad sympathy, healthful humor; a desire for, a belief in, and a capability of bringing nearer, better things to come.” W. S. McNeill

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:592 Ag ‘17 200w

“The present author in knowledge of the subject is well fitted for his task. Unfortunately for so sincere and sane a work, the style lacks grace, and the argument drags at times. That the facts are interesting for all that, is no small tribute to the author.”

+ — =Dial= 63:114 Ag 16 ‘17 230w

+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 1 ‘17 110w

“If the author’s experience as a lawyer and a judge has induced the belief that our judicial system is a farce, it is easy to understand why he has published this volume. Such a system deserves the fate ascribed to it in the closing chapter. A careful study of this chapter, however, will lead most readers to the conclusion that the book is intended as a mere burlesque. Were the serious and sensible parts of the volume separated from the satirical, their publication would serve a useful purpose.”

– + =Nation= 105:229 Ag 30 ‘17 500w

+ =N Y Br Lib News= 4:87 Je ‘17 60w

+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 50w

“It would be well if more men of experience in responsible positions would write as frankly and good-humoredly concerning what they know best as Judge Wells has written about the courts. A book so tolerant and witty as this should have no little effect in promoting that good understanding between all parties that is most favorable to wise reform.”

+ =No Am= 205:807 My ‘17 750w

=Outlook= 115:761 Ap 25 ‘17 30w

“The business man sees great extravagance and waste of time in our courts of justice. Judge Wells admits the force of the criticism. In fact, he makes a better statement of the case than the business man himself could make, because he is in closer touch with the facts. At the same time the practising lawyer’s viewpoint is clearly understood by Judge Wells, and throughout the book he takes pains to present the lawyer’s side intelligently and sympathetically.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 300w

“While the book is intended for the uninitiated, it is mighty useful reading for the average social worker, even those who are familiar with court procedure.” R. N. Baldwin

+ =Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 170w

=WELLS, FREDERIC LYMAN.= Mental adjustments. il *$2.50 Appleton 130 17-16338

“Believing dynamic psychology, describing the conduct of mind from the standpoint of its adjustment to the world we live in, to be ‘the most truly cultural study,’ Frederic Lyman Wells of McLean hospital, Waverley, Mass., presents a large series of observations from normal psychology, psychopathology and anthropology. ... The preliminary discussion of mental adaptation is followed by chapters on use and waste in thought and conduct, symbolic association, the continuity of emotion, types of dissociation, mechanisms in dissociated ideas, experimental approaches and balancing factors. ... Dr Wells’s book is the fourth in the Conduct of mind series edited by Prof. Joseph Jastrow of the University of Wisconsin, who provides an introduction to the present volume.”—Springf’d Republican

“Any added insight into individual behavior clarifies social phenomena. Economic unrest, the rebellion of women against their ‘place,’ divorce, crime, prostitution, and insanity are all more fully comprehensible by reason of this book. On this basis it is permissible to classify the volume among the significant contributions to social psychology.” L. S. Hollingworth

+ =Am J Soc= 23:545 Ja ‘18 450w

“Dr Wells’s scheme is simple, though the details are far from clear. ... To speak of human motives in terms of physical forces has doubtless a pragmatic value; it is one of those devices common in supposedly scientific psychology. ... As applied to obsessions of the neurotic and insane it has a certain plausibility. But ... it is surely too much to ask that all of our views of life be based upon the external observation of minds confused and darkened.”

— =Nation= 105:154 Ag 9 ‘17 470w

“The discussion of ‘Types of dissociation’ is more clearly systematic than most of the rest of the book and is a valuable survey for the student, although perhaps somewhat heavily loaded with varieties and subvarieties for those readers who have but little concrete experience. ... Wells does, however, make it clear that the normal and the abnormal are made of much the same material, and his book, with its softened rendering of Freudian conceptions, will be a stimulus and a help along sane and useful lines.” Adolf Meyer

+ — =Science= n s 46:587 D 14 ‘17 1000w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 26 ‘17 430w

=WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE.= God, the invisible king. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 201 17-13406

The conception of God outlined in this book is essentially Wellsian. Yet Mr Wells writes in the belief that a new religion has already dawned on the world and that its followers are many, and without doubt there will be numbers of men and women outside the orthodox faiths who will find in his analysis much that corresponds to their own half formulated creeds. This new religion has no prophet or founder. It has no theory of the creation of the universe. It is purely empirical. “Modern religion bases its knowledge of God and its account of God entirely upon experience. It has encountered God. ... To find God is but the beginning of wisdom, because then for all our days we have to learn his purpose with us and to live our lives with him.” Mr Wells’s religion bears no relation to Christianity. It seems to be the negation of Christianity. “We of the new faith repudiate the teaching of non-resistance. We are the militant followers of and participators in a militant God. We can appreciate and admire the greatness of Christ, this gentle being upon whose nobility the theologians trade. But submission is the remotest quality of all from our God, and a moribund figure is the completest inversion of his likeness as we know him.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:426 Jl ‘17

=Ath= p303 Je ‘17 100w

“‘God, the invisible king,’ may be poor theology—it is—but it is real religion. Anybody can make fun out of the design of the vase in which this chrism of testimony is conveyed. But it seems to us that there should be joy among the angels of God for this novelist doing reverence to the ultimate reality.”

+ — =Ath= p346 Jl ‘17 230w

“Mr Wells rambles on and on, offering us always something to entertain, but scarcely anything to convince us of the certainties of religion. He blunders now and then, as when he speaks of atheism and agnosticism as synonymous, and he leaves us at the end exactly where we were at the beginning.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 1550w

“When one has finished reading this vague philosophy, one wonders if this feeble attempt of the perplexed, harassed Wells may prove a stepping-stone to true religion.”

— =Cath World= 105:832 S ‘17 250w

“Not only does Wells fail to content me with this report of the thoughts and things of my generation, but he seems to be ignorant of thoughts that were commonplace a generation ago. Oddly enough, he is not in the forefront of thought but is behind the times.” J: Macy

— =Dial= 63:13 Je 28 ‘17 2250w

“So far as Mr Wells confines himself to relating his own religious experience I treat every word he says with the profoundest respect, for I am certain that he is sincere. As a personal confession his book is a religious document of great value. But when the modern religion begins, through its mouthpiece, Mr Wells, to relate things about other religions, we have the right to be on our guard. The modern religion will have to be more correct, as well as more polite, in relating things about other religions, before the world will be willing to give due weight to what it relates about itself. Mr Wells has written a very provocative book about the least provocative of subjects—God. It is a tremendous theme, and the time is ripe for its reception.” L. P. Jacks

+ — =Hibbert J= 15:683 Jl ‘17 4400w

“Surely if the faith of Mr Wells is somewhat too narrow, if it includes too few articles of belief, it is exceptionally clear and profound in regard to what he does hold true.”

+ =Ind= 90:434 Je 2 ‘17 700w

“There is not a grain of humility in this new apostle. Standing in the midst of ‘Mars’ hill,’ he offers us now a copy of ‘God the invisible king,’ saying in effect: ‘Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.’ ... The fine and sound things in this book we have not much emphasized: exhortations to repentance, consecration, self-sacrifice, labor for the kingdom of God on earth. Mr Wells’s impression that they are new is as ‘curious’ as the modernity of Christ. They may be heard in any orthodox pulpit in the course of a month’s sermons—with due credit given for their origination. It is better for Mr Wells to think of them as of his own confection than for him not to think of them at all; but as a matter of fact the chief contributive element in his testament is his peculiarly sanguine and mellifluous, egotism and insolence. Why can he not occasionally acknowledge that an idea may be true and useful even though it has always been recognized as such?”

– + =Nation= 104:710 Je 14 ‘17 1400w

“Mr Wells’ God suffers inevitably from the limitations (manifest and obscure) of its creator. The God invented by him is in reality a sublimated and delicately disembodied, a finely spiritualized Mr Wells.” Sam Schmalhausen

— =N Y Call= p15 S 2 ‘17 1700w

“A sane, thoughtful, reasonable expression of a religion of the future, so different from the religions of the past that in many instances, it is difficult to find the points of contact of the new and the old.” Blanche Watson

+ — =N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 1350w

Reviewed by Sam Schmalhausen

— =N Y Call= p15 S 23 ‘17 800w

“Written with the sincerity and simplicity of utter conviction. ... In precision of idea and clarity of statement, in keenness of insight and closely argued presentation it shows Mr Wells at his best.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:185 My 13 ‘17 2500w

Reviewed by Lawrence Gilman

=No Am= 206:123 Jl ‘17 3100w

“Mr Wells writes too much. He is not always sane in his judgments. He sometimes gives an impression of sensationalism. But he is always frank and, we believe, always sincere. ... The value of his book lies, not in its solution of religious problems, but in its recognition of the reality of religious problems and in its provocation to real and untrammeled religious thinking.”

=Outlook= 116:305 Je 20 ‘17 100w

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott

=Outlook= 116:398 Jl 11 ‘17 2600w

=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 40w

“With much iconoclastic fury he denounces Christianity and all its doctrines, revelling especially in those bitter asperities which have been the unfortunate accompaniment of religious controversy in all ages, but with an added modern vulgarity that is all his own.”

— =Sat R= 123:sup3 My 19 ‘17 1250w

“He has felt obliged to devote the greater part of his space to an attack upon other explorers in the same region; and here defect of knowledge and defect of sympathy have resulted in much unintentional false-witness and many deplorable lapses into bad taste. This we regret, because what Mr Wells has to say about his own religious experience might reach and profit many persons who are prejudiced against the writings of professional divines; but such people instinctively flee from theological hatred. It is specially to be hoped that before the next book comes out, Mr Wells will make himself acquainted with the view of the Old Testament held to-day in the Christian church.”

– + =Spec= 118:674 Je 16 ‘17 1450w

“The book delivers its message through the medium of a violent polemic against the Christian creed. The polemic is so inaccurate in historical statement that it helps rather than demolishes the things it attacks. Although the book is hastily and crudely done, it is not without significance. It is the record of experience, whether real or imaginary, an unfolding of how one who ardently disliked Christianity and all its teachings came, through the mind’s shifting to a deeper level to accept most of its tenets under a different name and in different terms.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 3 ‘17 450w

“The great interest of his book consists in the reality and intensity of his effort to combine his own religious experience with a consistently biological conception of the universe. The effort fails, we think, but in its reality and intensity it reveals truth.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p229 My 17 ‘17 4400W

=WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Italy, France and Britain at war. *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 940.91 17-5137

“One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the tour of the front,” says Mr. Wells. His own taste of the experience came in 1916, after repeated refusals. Mr Wells didn’t want to go, but having gone he writes of the experience with characteristic frankness. He had been seeing the war as “something purposeful and epic.” He came back from the front with a revised view. “If I were to be tied down to one word for my impression of this war, I should say that this war is ‘Queer.’ It is not like anything in a really waking world, but like something in a dream. It hasn’t exactly that clearness of light against darkness or good against ill. But it has the quality of wholesome instinct struggling under a nightmare.” The book consists of three parts: The war in Italy (August, 1916): The western war (September, 1916); How people think about the war.

“Sane, philosophic and practical.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:310 Ap ‘17

Reviewed by F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 45:184 Ap ‘17 500w

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 1000w

“For the rest, Mr Wells exhibits the old passionateness and the old incapacity to understand anybody who holds opinions different from his present ones. Particularly blind is his discussion of the yielding pacifist and the conscientious objector, and particularly unintelligent his discussion of the ‘religious revival.’”

+ — =Dial= 62:445 My 17 ‘17 300w

+ =Ind= 90:35 Ap 2 ‘17 370w

“We find the first half of his story, dealing with actualities on the Italian and French fronts, in its remarkable exhibition of a gift for observation and vivid portrayal much more convincing than his comments on the psychological reactions of the belligerent nations to the war, or his own generalizations from the specific facts of modern combat.”

=Nation= 104:661 My 31 ‘17 350w

“No man, I think, has actually gone to the war, looked it so honestly in the face and brought back so much insight and wide-ranging practical speculation. ... The real genius of this book is that the immensity of what Mr Wells saw on his visit to the front set his mind working instead of striking it dumb. ... There is a phrase in this book which represents a piece of very great perception. Mr Wells speaks of the demilitarization of war. Some of us had already grasped the fact vaguely that there must be industrial back of military preparedness. We visualized it as ‘back of.’ But what the war on the west front seems to show is an irresistible industrialization of army management itself.” W. L.

+ =New Repub= 10:201 Mr 17 ‘17 850w

“Toward the end of the volume Mr Wells discusses the relation of this country to the war with, in some parts of it, keener insight and understanding than one often finds in any utterance from the other side of the Atlantic. But even he only dimly comprehends the purpose and meaning of the American policy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:45 F 11 ‘17 700w

“The author gives us such pictures of the mountain warfare waged by the Italians and of the actual conditions of trench fighting in France, as we have had from no other source.”

+ =No Am= 205:627 Ap ‘17 800w

“We need not agree with all this to be interested by it. We wish we had room to quote the very remarkable analysis of the evolution of methods of attack. ... This analysis comes in the chapter called ‘The grades of war,’ and is the most acute thing we have read on the subject.”

+ =Spec= 118:302 Mr 10 ‘17 1200w

“The most valuable part of the book is probably the third section, ‘How people think about the war.’”

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 17 ‘17 700w

“Stimulating as his views are, they would have carried more weight had there been some more recognizable relation underlying them. ... He carries us with him in many of his generalizations; but we part company with him when he affirms that the military expert is ‘a man trained to think of war as essentially an affair of cavalry, infantry in formation, and field guns,’ the implication being that it is only the civilian who understands modern strategy and its mechanical problems. ... If we understand Mr Wells rightly, the materials we should build with are laymen, democracy, and individual initiative; for his binding material he seems to be looking to mysticism.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p89 F 22 ‘17 1150w

=WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Soul of a bishop. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-24100

We are introduced to the Bishop of Princhester, who has led a happy married life and whose London incumbency has brought nothing to disturb his conventional faith, just as he had settled in the industrial town of Princhester and, for the first time in his life, is “really in doubt about himself, about his way of living, about all his persuasions.” He realizes that the world is “extravagantly out of hand,” and that the church is “a tolerated thing”—a failure. This reacts upon him physically until he develops insomnia. The outbreak of the war steadies him temporarily, but he soon grows worse and goes to Dr Dale, who gives him a drug not in the pharmacopœia, the effect of which is to make him feel braced and uplifted, and to view life differently. Then comes his first vision when he talks with an angel and sees God. A second draught of the tonic brings a second vision, in which the angel shows him “certain signs of the coming of God.” Meantime, after a confirmation service where he speaks of his new faith, which is essentially that developed in “God, the invisible king,” he leaves the church and goes, with his family, into cramped quarters in London. Lady Sunderbund, an impossible American, tries to build him a temple, but he has come to feel that there can be “no specialized ministers of the one true God” and though tempted for a while to take, for the sake of his family, the salary offered by Lady Sunderbund, a third vision shows him that he must put God before his wife and children, and he decides that he cannot be “a professional religious man,” but must “write and talk as he can” of his [to him] new creed: “I believe in God, I believe in the immediate presence of God in every human life, I believe that our lives have to serve the kingdom of God.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:99 D ‘17

“The lucidity of style characteristic of the creator of ‘Mr Britling’ is displayed to the full in the present story.”

+ =Ath= p529 O ‘17 140w

“However ineffectual his bishop may be, however vague and egotistical the Wellsian programme for a reborn world, we cannot doubt the sincere impulse of faith behind it.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 70w

“Mr Wells’s new consciousness of a spiritual force working in and for humanity is touchingly sincere; his belief that it is a new force is touchingly ingenuous. What he does not suspect, probably, is that his latest story is only a modification of all his other stories of protest, that his organised religion is only another convention to be done for; that his Bishop Scrope is merely another amiable little Mr Polly, born anew, this time, in the throes of a spiritual instead of a bodily indigestion; and that his new deity is simply an apotheosis of that eager, searching, dogmatic, well-disposed and unpractical personality, Mr H. G. Wells.” H. W. Boynton

– + =Bookm= 46:353 N ‘17 1150w

“Mr Wells’s descriptions of the bishop’s home and family lure the reader onward over his dreary passages of topsy-turvy Christianity, but he fails entirely when he offers us page after page of conversation in which Lady Sunderbund talks the most arrant nonsense and mangles the English language by omitting the letter r from every word she utters. ... We doubt if ‘The soul of a bishop’ will convince anybody, for it will disappoint both those who seek in it a novel and those who are looking for a sensible outlook into modern religion.” E. F. E.

— =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 1350w

“Mr Wells falls into the special error of his time and his school of thought—he identifies the mental with the spiritual. It is the workings of Scrope’s mind, not his soul, that we follow.”

— =Cath World= 106:695 F ‘18 350w

“Mr Wells has not only delivered a message of high inspiration, but has striven painstakingly to make the value of that message clear to all minds not sealed in with stupidity or intellectual arrogance.”

+ — =Dial= 63:402 O 25 ‘17 700w

“So far as its ideas are concerned, one would date it at about 1889, the year following the publication of ‘Robert Elsmere’; Mr Wells, one would say, is beginning to catch up with his ‘Victorians.’ Taken in connection with its two popular predecessors, however, it has still some contemporary reference.”

— =Nation= 105:401 O 11 ‘17 1300w

“‘The soul of a bishop,’ interesting as an exhibit, is of little account as a novel because it has nothing to do with a bishop or a soul. It merely presents the lively spectacle of a Mr Polly, or a Mr Britling, or a Mr Wells (what’s in a name?) waking to find himself attired in apron and gaiters, and making haste to get rid of them.” H. W. Boynton

— =Nation= 105:599 N 29 ‘17 200w

“The theme is handled by Mr Wells like a virtuoso. ... The bishop is a bleak creature, largely because Mr Wells invented him to fulfil a fictional purpose. Characterized with amazing cleverness, he is still essentially a bobbin on whom the religious thread is wound. The cordiality, the rushing sympathy and kindness and fellowship that religious men in Russian novels express in every relation, have no place in this egoist’s religious escape from neurasthenia.” F. H.

– + =New Repub= 12:223 S 22 ‘17 3150w

“Wells’ invariable craftsmanship is evident here, which gives life to an otherwise heavy theme. His conclusion can only be regarded by followers of the mental catalysis of this novelist as a further reaction.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p15 D 29 ‘17 260w

“It is rather a pity that a man who can tell so good a story as Mr Wells should allow himself to be ridden so hard by an idea. ... The marvel is that Mr Wells, with his ingenuity, skill, and sense of reality, should have used a means so theatric and so suggestive of the burlesque as a hashish trance to free the soul and stiffen the conscience of his hero. ... Equally repugnant to the sense of reality is a certain Lady Sunderbund, a gay and glittering, weird and wonderful piece of stage property. Never before has Mr Wells created anything in the human image quite so theatric, absurd, and impossible. Some one refers to her once as an American, and, judging by the marvelous dialect Mr Wells puts into her mouth, he meant such to be her nativity.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:341 S 16 ‘17 1550w

“In ‘God, the invisible king’ he made a rhapsodic tract out of the essential philosophy of ‘Mr Britling sees it through.’ Now he has dramatized the tract, and in ‘The soul of a bishop,’ offers us ‘God, the invisible king’ in the shape of a fable addressed to the capacities of those who may have found the earlier exposition too unremittingly theological for comfortable digestion.” Lawrence Gilman

– + =No Am= 206:786 N ‘17 3100w

“The character of the bishop is wrought out with the author’s finest skill.”

+ — =Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 180w

“A brief, uncomplicated but very trenchant and stimulating bit of prose fiction—Wells in his newest vein at his best.” F. R.

+ =Pub W= 92:802 S 15 ‘17 500w

“We do not propose to discuss Mr Wells’s thesis; a large part of what he says has been for years a commonplace with educated people of all classes; but we may be allowed to remark on the workmanship of the book. Why did Mr Wells take as a subject the religious experiences of a devout member of the Church of England, a Bishop, too, when he obviously is unable to imagine the way in which the outward observances and daily duties and privileges of its communion mould the inner life and transform the experience of the Christian?”

— =Sat R= 124:228 S 22 ‘17 1150w

“The book has no psychological interest as a study in religious development. There is much more in it about the Bishop’s nerves than about his soul. Mr Wells gives us a very human picture of the home life at the Palace. There is an amusing caricature of the sentimental neophyte, a wealthy American widow. The reactions of this emotional lady on the Bishop’s family form the most natural element in the book.”

– + =Spec= 119:451 O 27 ‘17 1050w

“Mr Wells pretends to analyze the bishop’s soul minutely; but in so doing he does not scruple to resort to the most blatant artificialities. ... His sarcasm is biting; and his indictment of the church’s failure to live up to its opportunities, and, indeed to its fundamental purposes, is in many ways forceful.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 650w

“Right or wrong, profound or shallow, the book is interesting, and in nothing perhaps more interesting than in its showing of the difference that has been made by the war and its implied forecast of the social and religious life that is to follow the war.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p438 S 13 ‘17 870w

=WELLS, WARRE B., and MARLOW, N.= History of the Irish rebellion of 1916. *$2.50 Stokes 941.5 17-707

“‘A history of the Irish rebellion of 1916’ is a practical and prosaic book, the work of men who wrote rather because the historical task appealed to them than because they found in the insurrection an attractive theme. It is stated that their purpose has been, in addition to narrating the events of the rebellion and showing their connection with the European war, to portray without criticism the conflicting ideals in present-day Ireland. ... The events leading up to the rising, the formation of the various patriotic societies and volunteer armies, the three-cornered debates about home rule, the long and complicated negotiations with England, the early experiences of the leaders of the rebellion, these things are stated. ... A valuable feature of the book is the appendix, containing the report of the Royal commission on the rebellion in Ireland, the military dispatches sent by Field Marshal French to the secretary of state for war, and from General Maxwell to Field Marshal French and to the secretary of state for war, and Roger Casement’s speech from the dock.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:91 D ‘17

“Valuable chiefly as a detailed contemporary record of incidents and events.”

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 30w

“It is apparent that the authors are not in sympathy with the ideals and methods of the Irish revolutionary leaders, and this fact causes them now and then to indulge in editorial comments of a somewhat cynical kind, out of harmony with the general nonpartisan historical attitude they assume.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 520w

“An accurate and comprehensive account.”

+ =Pratt= p43 O ‘17 20w

=WELSH, JAMES C.= Songs of a miner. *2s 6d Herbert Jenkins, London 821

“The author of these poems worked for twenty-four years as a miner; his verses were written at odd times during these years.”—N Y Call

=Ath= p362 Jl ‘17 160w

“Those pieces treating of his work are the least effective of the book. ... It is not labor speaking in terms of itself; it is labor speaking in terms of book-poetry. ... The songs are often melodious, but none is of the first rank.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 410w

“‘The crusade of youth,’ which opens the book, is an ambitious poem in heroics, which does indeed show that Mr Welsh has a glow of imagination, a rich vocabulary, and a fine sense of cadence. But it is a literary exercise such as many have attempted before him; and it is sometimes grandiose and tricked out with unnecessary ornament. On the other hand, when he comes closer to earth and touches the realities of his life, as in ‘Labour’ and ‘The miner,’ he is apt to be prosaic and a trifle ‘Hyde-parky.’ ... He is really most successful in such touching little poems as ‘To a dead comrade’ and ‘To my wife,’ or in some of the Scottish dialect pieces.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 Je 21 ‘17 200w

=WEST, ANDREW FLEMING=, ed.[2] Value of the classics. *$1 Princeton univ. press 375 17-28345

“Once in a while, protest is uttered against excessive intellectual modernism. Such a protest is uttered in a collection of addresses and papers entitled ‘Value of the classics.’ It presents the addresses delivered at the Conference on classical studies in liberal education held at Princeton last year, together with an introduction by Andrew F. West, dean of the graduate school of Princeton university, and a series of brief statements upon the subject from lawyers, clergymen, physicians, editors, educators, and men in other walks of life. Among those who delivered the addresses recorded in the volume are President John Grier Hibben of Princeton university, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard law school, and Professor Lewellys F. Barker of Johns Hopkins.”—Boston Transcript

=Boston Transcript= p8 O 20 ‘17 490w

“The conference and this volume have done a great service for our cause. In these times, when classical teachers are so often called upon to give a reason for their existence, it is a fine thing to have ready at hand these manifold arguments and opinions. It is a book which no one of us can afford to be without.” M. N. W.

+ =Class J= 13:302 Ja ‘18 430w

“This volume is one not only to read but to ponder. It administers with artistic skill and completeness a body-blow to much of the crude and noisy theorizing about education that has lately been so much to the fore in this country.”

+ =Educ R= 54:527 D ‘17 330w

=N Y Times= 22:477 N 18 ‘17 460w

=WESTERGAARD, WALDEMAR CHRISTIAN.= Danish West Indies under company rule (1671-1754) with a supplementary chapter, 1755-1917; with an introd. by H. Morse Stephens. il *$3 Macmillan 972.9 17-16559

Dr Westergaard is the son of a Danish family which emigrated to North Dakota and he is at present assistant professor of history at Pomona college, California. “Dr Westergaard tells the story of the settlement and administration of the Danish West Indies from 1671 to 1754, and in a supplementary chapter gives briefly their history from the middle of the eighteenth century to 1917, the date of their purchase by the United States. The historical perspective embraces European colonial expansion in the West Indies, covers the great romance of trade in St John, St Croix and St Thomas, dealings with pirates, the growth of agriculture, and the success of the island plantations in the days when ‘sugar was king.’ There is much about the slave trade and its attendant abuses and accounts of the insurrections of the negroes.” (R of Rs) The book has a ten-page bibliography.

“Among the most valuable chapters are those dealing with the economic life of the colony. The experiments with indigo and cotton, the export of valuable woods, the rise of the sugar-cane industry which, especially when war conditions made the prices for the staple rise, gave the islands their boom periods, all furnish interesting contrasts and parallels for students of the history of other West Indian colonies.” C. L. Jones

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:132 F ‘18 450w

“Dr Westergaard brings every element of knowledge, scientific training and personal sympathy necessary to the task he has set himself. And furthermore, he evidently possesses literary ability sufficient to remove his book from the class of dry reference works for library shelves, and to put it into a class of books that are not only commended, but really read. He has given us a work of serious and lasting value. The bibliography is of unusual value from the comments attached to each source of reference quoted.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Bookm= 46:211 O ‘17 1250w

“A valuable addition to Americana.”

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

“Prof. Westergaard began his work on some letters found in the Bancroft collection of the University of California and then went to Denmark and dug up the original records of the Danish West India and Guinea company, which no previous historian had touched. This fine piece of original investigation is too solidly packed with facts and figures to attract the general reader. But the volume is full of interesting and novel information.”

+ =Ind= 92:192 O 27 ‘17 430w

=Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 260w

“A feature of Dr Westergaard’s book, which should be of high value to the student, is a series of twenty-one appendices, wherein are given statistics, lists of governors and shareholders in the various companies, transcripts of the charters, financial statements, and other rare information derived from the Danish archives and now first made accessible to the general public. ... Two additional volumes are promised.”

* =N Y Times= 22:273 Jl 22 ‘17 1400w

+ =Outlook= 116:592 Ag 15 ‘17 80w

=Pratt= p44 O ‘17

“A brilliant piece of historical writing, particularly significant to students of American history.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 280w

=St Louis= 15:377 O ‘17 20w

“An elaborate and profound (the criticism might be made that there is a little bit too much of it!) historical work based on the Danish royal archives. ... Not the least interesting part of the book is the chapter devoted to the unsuccessful attempts by Prussians to colonize in the West Indies under the auspices of the grand elector of Brandenburg.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 13 ‘17 450w

“It is very fortunate that Professor Westergaard has been able to place in the hands of the public an exhaustive and authoritative history of these islands from the beginning to the day of their transfer. His work is written in a clear and vigorous style, and is a valuable contribution to American historical literature. It is based on rich source material, and bears throughout the character of exact scholarship.” Knut Gjerset

+ =Yale R= n s 7:446 Ja ‘18 1200w

=WESTERVELT, WILLIAM DRAKE=, comp. and tr. Hawaiian legends of volcanoes (mythology). il *$1 (4c) Ellis 398.2 16-24113

The author is doing original research work in collecting and translating Hawaiian folk legends. This is the third volume resulting from his labors in this field. The legends associated with volcanoes which he brings together are excellent examples of primitive attempts to explain and interpret natural phenomena. T. A. Jaggar, jr., of the staff of the Hawaiian volcano observatory, contributes a foreword to the book, and at the close the author adds further information about the geologic history of the islands.

+ =Nature= 99:144 Ap 19 ‘17 200w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:27 F ‘17

“William Drake Westervelt of Honolulu has added another to the valuable books containing those Hawaiian myths and folk tales that he has been so indefatigable in collecting and translating. He has rendered an inestimable service to science, for, largely through his efforts, we are promised a mythology of this part of the Polynesian race equaled in completeness by the known mythology of few primitive peoples.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 1 ‘17 400w

“This very pleasant little volume is illustrated with reproductions from photographs of the volcanoes of many lands; and there is one beautiful reproduction in colour of the hibiscus flower.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p113 Mr 8 ‘17 500w

=WESTON, GEORGE.= Oh, Mary, be careful! il *$1 (4c) Lippincott 17-26265

Aunt Myra knew all about men, the creatures! For she had been jilted by one of them in her youth. She had learned her lesson well, but to make it more impressive to other foolish and trusting women, she had collected every bit of evidence she could find in the newspapers. Her findings filled many large scrap books. These, together with her house, property and her fortune, she passed on to her niece Mary, with the condition that the girl should never marry. Mary, however, had some doubts as to Aunt Myra’s wisdom in the matter of men. She wanted to find out for herself. And as Aunt Myra had provided her with three practical tests, she knew how to go about it. The outcome is the theme of this story.

“The story is light but will be popular. Appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:317 Ap ‘17

“Mr Weston has the faculty of adding just enough charm of style to his ephemeral plot to make the story amusing.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 180w

“It is what the publishers quite appropriately term ‘a sweet story.’”

=Dial= 62:147 F 22 ‘17 110w

“A literary bonbon.”

=Ind= 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 30w

+ =Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 180w

“Another contribution to the already abundant supply of heavily sugared, whipped-cream fiction. ... The author has made a determined effort to write in a light and amusing manner.”

=N Y Times= 22:122 Ap 1 ‘17 150w

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 91:583 F 17 ‘17 400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 250w

=WEYL, WALTER EDWARD.= American world policies. *$2.25 (2½c) Macmillan 327.73 17-6653

The war has destroyed American isolation. A new policy must be adopted. Shall it be nationalistic imperialism or internationalism? As the author sees it this is the choice offered. Part 1, Our idealistic past, is a discussion of the forces that have shaped our policies and ideals in the past. Part 2, The root of imperialism, is a study of industrial competition, the fight for world trade and the economic background of war generally. Part 3, Towards economic internationalism, offers a definition of dynamic pacifism and discusses some of the difficulties that must be faced if the second course is adopted. Today the nation stands in a position to contribute to the political progress of the world, says the author: “Either it can cling hopelessly to the last vestiges of its policy of isolation or can launch out into imperialistic ventures, or finally it can promote, as can no other nation, a policy of internationalism, which will bind together the nations in a union of mutual interest, and will hasten the peaceful progress of the economic and political integration of the world.”

“Of the many valuable books produced by the world-war there is perhaps none so admirably suited to the needs of the American public as this very able and readable volume by Dr Weyl. While the writer finds reason to believe that eventually the world may be organized for peace, his belief is not based on a blind optimism, nor does he seek to evade the gigantic problems of world-statesmanship that must be solved. His presentation of these questions in such a way as to challenge further interest and effort rather than to overcome the reader with dismay, is one of the distinct accomplishments of the book.” A. B. Hall

+ =Am J Soc= 23:256 S ‘17 750w

“A thoughtful and thought provoking presentation so concisely and clearly written as to be popular with readers having an interest in such subjects.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17

“A critical, dispassionate, patriotic study of the fundamental economic, political, and social factors of which American policy must take account and from which it must spring. Mr Weyl’s grasp of the complex elements of the situation is admirable; unlike too many so-called students he studies the United States in the light of international relationships, of European history as understood in Europe, instead of dealing with international complexities on the basis of a history of American diplomacy unconsciously founded upon the fiction of isolation.” R. G. Usher

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:573 Ag ‘17 450w

“The author is primarily an economist. This accounts for both the strength and the weakness of the book. Its weakness consists in the author’s tendency to interpret all international relations in economic terms. ... With this word of caution in mind, Mr Weyl’s book may be read with extreme profit and pleasure. ... He compels the reader to consider and ponder thoughtfully matters which most writers in this field have either ignored or failed to emphasize. ... The strength of this book lies in the overwhelmingly convincing manner with which the author demonstrates the absolute need of an ‘economic internationalism’ as the basis of world-peace.” P. M. Brown

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:242 Jl ‘17 450w

“A book that will make for far-sightedness, for clarity of thought and sanity of judgment in the deciding of many of our problems, and the directing of our course.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 45:185 Ap ‘17 400w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 400w

“The most impressive thing in his book is the analysis of imperialist forces, the sense he conveys of the vast sweep of the great modern populations in their push toward subsistence. He searches honestly for ‘antidotes to imperialism’ and has no smug ‘liberal’ illusions about the beneficence of a ‘liberal’ imperialism. This critical analysis is more valuable than anything he does specifically for American enlightenment.” Randolph Bourne

+ =Dial= 62:388 My 3 ‘17 700w

“Here we think is the weakness of his book. By keeping his eye on the evils that he finds in great individual wealth, he passes too lightly by the ideals of mankind and nations. ... Whatever may be thought the practicality of the international imperialism he favors as a substitute for national imperialism all will agree that Dr Weyl has written one of the most stimulating and enlightening books on our foreign policy that has been published during the war.”

+ — =Ind= 90:551 Je 23 ‘17 1150w

“It is unfortunate that Walter E. Weyl’s ‘American world policies’ was sent to the press before American participation in the war became a probability. His assumption that the United States would remain a neutral throughout the struggle gives to much of the discussion, especially in the final chapter, an almost absurd incongruity with all aspects of the situation as it has ultimately developed. The book, nevertheless, has great compensatory merits.”

+ =Nation= 105:19 Jl 5 ‘17 200w

“It is this quality of self-restraint, combined with his great ability to think and write clearly, interestingly and convincingly, that distinguishes Dr Weyl’s volume. ‘American world policies’ is an exceedingly valuable aid to the intellectual preparedness of American statesmen and laymen alike in this time of international crisis.” R. W. Bruère

+ =New Repub= 10:327 Ap 14 ‘17 1750w

“As a statement of the contradictions and entanglements of present world capitalism, and the relation of the United States to these the work is an important one and will repay careful reading.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p15 My 20 ‘17 900w

“It deserves careful consideration. More than any other writer, he tries to make an intelligible statement of the real causes of the war.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:129 Ap 8 ‘17 1050w

“Chiefly a discourse upon how war may be prevented and how America may help to prevent it. Mr Weyl analyzes keenly and his explanation of causes is better worth reading than most of what has been written on this subject; but he leans rather to the side of economic fatalism and his conclusions are not of the most hopeful sort. ... After finishing Mr Weyl’s exceedingly clear and interesting analysis of world politics, one may feel that the most important conclusion reached is that no ultimately satisfactory adjustment between industrial nations can be reached upon purely economic principles.”

+ =No Am= 205:622 Ap ‘17 1400w

=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 50w

“Deserves a wide reading. Here, for one thing, we have an analysis of the ‘preparedness’ movement from a man who writes with a desire to get beneath appearances. ... Mr Weyl’s remedy for imperialism is both dynamic pacifism and internal reform. Here one may think that the author takes too narrow a view. ... Mr Weyl goes farther than British socialists are willing to do in attributing the present war to economic causes.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 7 ‘17 1100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p251 My 24 ‘17 160w

“Mr Weyl is not always impartial and not always accurate.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p374 Ag 9 ‘17 2150w

=WHARTON, MRS EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES).= Summer. *$1.50 (3c) Appleton 17-17516

Life was dreary as winter in the New England village of North Dormer. Especially was it dreary to Charity Royall, the young girl whom Lawyer Royall and his wife had brought down as a child from “the Mountain,” the desolate settlement where law and order, mind and morals were as nothing and lawlessness and sensuality were everything. Charity thought the Mountain spelled freedom, though the villagers spoke of it with a shudder. Her life was to sit in the village library to which no one ever came, and to share the home of the old lawyer, whom she had cause to mistrust, and who was stern and lonely after his wife’s death. But one day Lucius Harney, the young architect, came and changed the greyness of her life into the brightness of summer. Lucius was of the kind that takes all and gives nothing and after he had gone Charity knew that she was to pay the price. Then the old lawyer, knowing, through the sins of his own past life, how bitter that price would be, went through the ceremony of marriage with her, that the village gossips should have nothing upon which to feed. And Charity and the lawyer both found that goodness is greater than evil.

“In externals this is a simple variety of a common theme. But it is a thoroughly individualized version of the old story, and a small masterpiece of refined and economical art.”

+ =Ath= p597 N ‘17 90w

“Mrs Wharton has often been accused of bitterness; let her critics note that the whole effect of this powerful story hangs upon our recognition of the power of simple human goodness—not ‘virtuousness,’ but faithful, unselfish devotion of one sort or another—to make life worth living.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:93 S ‘17 420w

“Where in New England did Mrs Wharton unearth the scene and the people for her latest novel?... But reputation has its value, and ‘Summer’ will undoubtedly be sought because it is her latest novel. And that there is something in it worth while because it is Mrs Wharton’s cannot be denied.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 1800w

“Mrs Wharton has failed in ‘Summer.’ It is a wonderfully well-written book so far as the marshaling of words and phrases goes. The art of the author is revealed in her remarkable sustaining of the element of suspense; she puts off the catastrophe with consummate skill. And yet, all this is, somehow, mere art: artifice, not life. Was Charity real to Mrs Wharton? She is not to us: there are only one or two vague moments when we feel with her at all.”

– + =Cath World= 106:127 O ‘17 600w

“A dreary and rather cold-blooded study, handled with Mrs Wharton’s usual finesse.”

– + =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w

“The combined power of impartial contemplation and sympathy makes the genius of Thomas Hardy and it makes the genius of Mrs Wharton as it is found in ‘Ethan Frome’ and ‘Summer.’” J: Macy

+ =Dial= 63:161 Ag 30 ‘17 1350w

“‘Summer’ reënters the field in which, with ‘Ethan Frome,’ Mrs Wharton produced her single masterpiece. If she does not here duplicate or rival that amazing feat, it is because the new matter falls short of the old in tragic force and conclusiveness. We believe in Royall, and we believe in Charity. But we do not believe in the young Lothario or in the various tricks of coincidence with which the integrity of the action is vitiated.”

+ — =Nation= 105:124 Ag 2 ‘17 530w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Nation= 1 5:600 N 29 ‘17 80w

“It is not a repellent story, but is essentially an empty one, and suggests too often the failings of a person who is capable of going slumming among souls.” F. H.

– + =New Repub= 11:311 Jl 14 ‘17 1500w

“Never has Mrs Wharton done anything more delicate, more exquisite, than the pen pictures of the New England countryside with which this book abounds. Of the sure and delicate analysis of Charity’s changing and developing emotions, as of the chiseled beauty of the style, it is unnecessary to speak; these are things which in connection with Mrs Wharton’s work may be taken for granted. ‘Summer’ is not in any way a big book; it ranks with its author’s lesser tales, not with ‘Ethan Frome’ or ‘The house of mirth’ and their fellows.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:253 Jl 8 ‘17 1250w

Reviewed by Lawrence Gilman

+ =No Am= 206:304 Ag ‘17 1700w

– + =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 70w

“The characters seem drawn in the flat; they are two-dimensional so far as their emotions go. All the joy and pleasantness and tenderness has been extracted from their lives with a hand so skilled in literary portraiture that the sentences bite like the acids of the etcher.”

– + =R of Rs= 56:333 S ‘17 380w

+ =Sat R= 124:352 N 3 ‘17 100w

“Where Mrs Wharton fails is in preparing us for such an end to the episode. She does not convince us either that the lawyer would have married Charity at that moment or that she would have married him, even in a temporary fit of bewildered despair.”

– + =Spec= 119:389 O 13 ‘17 630w

“The story is brilliantly conceived, with many tense passages and is striking in its portrayal of diverse human passions, but its conception of New England character is that of a ‘literary,’ even a romantic, visitor.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 490w

“Anyone who cares about the way in which a pen is handled should take this book and read, and read again, such pages as those which record the excursion to the country town for the Fourth of July celebration, or the girl’s visit to the insinuating lady-doctor, or the wild night-piece of the funeral on the mountain.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p464 S 27 17 770w

=WHEELER, EVERETT PEPPERRELL.= Sixty years of American life, Taylor to Roosevelt, 1850 to 1910. il *$2.50 Dutton 329 17-3602

“This book is not a volume of personal or social memoirs. It is true that the author has much to say of the great figures in the country’s history during these sixty years. He has, for example, an interesting chapter on ‘Presidents I have known,’ and another on ‘Changes in sixty years.’ And scattered throughout his record are many delightful personal touches, that seem to slip in almost unaware. But the book as a whole is a study of political activity. Mr Wheeler has taken an especially important part in the work of civil service and in tariff reform. He has always been, as well, intimately concerned with the municipal problems of New York city government. And these are the matters that, readably and in valuable detail, are emphasized in his book.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:335 My ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 17 ‘17 700w

“The chapters on the tariff and on municipal reform appeared in the New York Evening Post and the Outlook.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 My ‘17 40w

+ =Ind= 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 50w

“An inspiring book it is in every way, breathing through its five hundred pages an unshaken loyalty to the principles of democratic government, yet demonstrating how much one man can do, through inconspicuous channels, towards making that scheme of government measure up to its ideals.”

+ =Nation= 104:582 My 10 ‘17 280w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:39 Mr ‘17

“Offers a valuable and unusual addition to our knowledge of our country’s internal history.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:49 F 11 ‘17 600w

=Pittsburgh= 22:685 O ‘17 70w

+ =R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 120w

=St Louis= 15:154 My ‘17

“One wishes that Mr Wheeler had injected more of that fervor of impressionistic memory that made the late Justin McCarthy’s ‘Reminiscences,’ for instance, such delightful reading. The reprinting of bits of speeches in themselves lend little color to the relation of the struggle for civil-service reform in which Mr Wheeler was so eminently engaged. ‘Presidents I have known’ is disappointingly most impersonal.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 300w

=WHEELER, WILLIAM REGINALD=, ed. Book of verse of the great war. *$2 Yale univ. press 821.08 17-30693

“During the past two years and a half the compiler of this volume has resided in Europe, America and Asia and has endeavored to choose the most worthy expressions of sentiment concerning the war which have come from these three continents.” (Editor’s preface) He has excluded those poems which seemed inspired by the extreme animosities of the war, holding to this principle in the hope that the book “may contribute in some small measure to a renewal of the fellowship of the universal community of mankind.” Among the poets represented are: Laurence Binyon, Dana Burnet, Emile Cammaerts, Gilbert Frankau, John Galsworthy, W. W. Gibson, Thomas Hardy, W. M. Letts, Josephine Preston Peabody, and Rabindranath Tagore. There is a foreword by Charlton M. Lewis, professor of English literature at Yale.

=A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18

=Cleveland= p5 Ja ‘18 130w

“The principles of selection shown in this collection are judicious, but it is to be regretted that the poems for the most part chosen have appeared in another book which is less expensive, easier to hold and more attractive to the eye.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 130w

=WHERRY, EDITH.= Wanderer on a thousand hills. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-11706

The first part of this story tells the tragedy of little Tung Mei, Winter Almond. An only child, she had been educated by her father in defiance of Chinese custom. But the only fate for a Chinese girl, even one who can read the classics, is marriage, and marriage means slavery under the domination of a mother-in-law. In bearing a girl child, Tung Mei is disgraced. She is held responsible for her husband’s sudden death, her baby is murdered and she is driven out into a storm. The second part of the story begins with her finding of little Carl Osborne, the child of missionary parents. Like herself he is lost in the storm, and Tung Mei in her distraught state looks on him as a gift from heaven to assuage her woe. She brings him up as her own, and it is not till he reaches young manhood that he learns that he is not of Chinese birth. He tries unsuccessfully to adapt himself to foreign ways, and later becomes the fanatic known as the wanderer on a thousand hills.

“A grievous and dismal tale with hardly any relief and with extreme attention paid to the particulars of Chinese superstition and the delusions of Chinese fanaticism.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 100w

+ =Dial= 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 50w

“The book has dramatic quality and atmosphere.”

+ =Ind= 90:295 My 12 ‘17 160w

“It shows, as did ‘Kim,’ that a story, void of the master passion, may yet command a breathless interest. ... As we read, we are conscious of more than intellectual enjoyment; we are tarrying a while at the Interpreter’s house.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:183 My 6 ‘17 500w

“By a Canadian writer—the wife of a Montreal physician.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:121 My ‘17 70w

“A tragic and often painful story.”

=Outlook= 116:74 My 9 ‘17 60w

“Interesting psychological study contrasting the oriental and western ideals.”

+ =Pratt= p32 O ‘17 10w

“The story intimately pictures the human side of the Chinese, and should go far in helping the unprejudiced westerner to a truer understanding of these people. These pictures contain, perhaps, more than a dash of idealism, suggested by the author’s obviously sympathetic attitude.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 500w

=WHETHAM, CATHERINE DURNING (HOLT) (MRS WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER WHETHAM).= Upbringing of daughters. *$1.75 (2c) Longmans 173 17-28870

This book by an Englishwoman has chapters on: The creation of the home; The life of the family; Household duties; Health; Dress; Outdoor life and games; General education; Scholastic instruction; The arts; Holidays and entertainments; Books to read; Money matters; Professions for daughters; Conduct; Religion; The abdication of the parent. The discussions touch on many other subjects than that suggested by the title, altho the author writes always from the viewpoint of a housewife and mother. On matters pertaining to education, professional careers for women, etc., she is conservative.

“Concerning education she would, no doubt, be classed by many as a hopeless reactionary. But Mrs Whetham’s restatements are of the kind that make old things new. ... Though the book is close, earnest reading, it is neither heavy nor pedagogic; it appeals to all who take interest in intelligent defence of the standards by which alone any true progress has been or ever can be made.”

+ =Cath World= 105:833 S ‘17 300w

=WHIPPLE, GEORGE CHANDLER.= State sanitation; a review of the work of the Massachusetts State board of health, 1869-1914. 2v *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 614.09 (17-13246)

Two volumes devoted to this subject have been issued. The first volume “is in two parts. Part 1 first sketches the early history of public health work in Massachusetts to the beginning of the board in 1869. It then outlines the history and the work of the board and its divisions, including the world-famous Lawrence experiment station for the study of water purification and sewage treatment and the engineering work of the board. There is also a chapter of biographical sketches; a chapter on the state department of health, 1914-16, and one on state sanitation in general. Part 2 is an able condensation of the lengthy ‘Report of the Massachusetts sanitary commission of Massachusetts’ which under the leadership of Lemuel Shattuck worked out a detailed plan for a ‘sanitary survey’ of the state—really a scheme for state and local health work.” (Engin News-Rec) “The second volume contains in some cases reprints and in other cases abridgments of the more important articles or studies which have appeared in the publications of the Massachusetts state board of health during the past forty-seven years. Included also are chronological abstracts of the board’s annual reports.” (Am Pol Sci R) “Extracted from the 1878 report of the board is a paper entitled ‘The filtration of potable water,’ written by Prof. Wm. Ripley Nichols. This is one of many classics on water and sewage treatment which are reprinted in full or abstract in this volume.” (Engin News-Rec)

“Professor Whipple’s keen eye for the things that are interesting has enabled him to make his book readable throughout. That it will be of great service to special students of the subject is beyond question.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:791 N ‘17 170w (Review of v 1)

“Many of these writings represent pioneer achievement in the domain of public health administration, and taken as a whole they afford an interesting history of the stages through which that science has developed during the last half century.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:158 F ‘18 90w (Review of v 2)

“An interesting and stimulating record of American progress in state and municipal sanitation and preventive medicine.”

+ =Dial= 63:165 Ag 30 ‘17 230w (Review of v 1)

“Professor Whipple is rendering a notable service. The pleasurable task he is doing so well is one for which he is well qualified through long acquaintance with members of the board and of its staff and through service on the Massachusetts public health council since 1914.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:130 Jl 19 ‘17 300w (Review of v 1)

+ =Engin News-Rec= 80:130 Ja 17 ‘18 450w (Review of v 2)

“A book of general as well as technical interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 15 ‘17 400w (Review of v 1).

=WHITE, ALBERT CLEMENT=, ed. Little book of Irish verse. *60c Dutton 821.08

“The profits from the sale of ‘A little book of Irish verse’ are destined to add to the comfort of Irish troops, wounded or in the field. Tho this collection cannot bear comparison with that in Yeats’s ‘Book of Irish verse,’ it still contains verses by some of the best Irish poets of the day. Irish war poems are in evidence, but not less so lyrics on themes quite unconnected with the present conflict.”—Ind

+ =Ind= 89:196 Ja 29 ‘17 100w

“Mr White, who is editor of the Ulster Guardian, has made careful selection from the verse of some of the best known of the modern Irish poets and in the main, as has been suggested, has chosen poems with a war-time theme.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 30 ‘17 250w

=WHITE, VILLETTE HUTCHINS.=[2] Mental control of the body; or, Health through self-conquest. *$1 (4c) Clode, E: J. 131 17-21698

Aims to show the way to bodily healing thru an intelligent understanding of a few basic facts, a vital faith in the possibility of cure and a disciplined will to realize upon that faith. It differs from Christian science healing in its conscious effort to treat disease as a reality—to be met by bringing all the bodily forces and functions under one’s control thru the will. The writer once establishing the theory of her health scheme proceeds to give a simple practical method of application by which the reader may find health.

=WHITE, WILLIAM ALANSON.=[2] Mechanisms of character formation. *$1.75 (3c) Macmillan 130 16-22292

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“On the whole, Dr White’s book shows wide learning and offers much interesting material, but lacks logical coherence and exactness of terminology and is marred occasionally by slovenly English. In spite of its subtitle, ‘An introduction to psychoanalysis,’ it hardly meets that need as successfully as Hitschmann’s ‘Freud’s theories of the neuroses,’ recently made accessible to English readers, neither does it possess the incisiveness and clarity of Professor Holt’s brilliant little book, ‘The Freudian wish.’ The chief attraction of the book is the note of broad and sympathetic humanism running through it.” J: M. Mecklin

+ — =J Philos= 14:715 D 20 ‘17 750w

“We have apprehended no real ‘message’ in this book, either to the medical student or to the general reader; it seems to us to get nowhere in particular.”

– + =Nation= 104:584 My 10 ‘17 200w

“The criticism which applies to all Freudian psychologists applies to the present author as well. They assume much and interpret much on slender evidence.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 30 ‘17 200w

“Its teaching is rather obscured than clarified by the vague philosophy of life and of the universe which the author, in common with many of the school, delights in spinning about the facts of their practice.” R. S. Woodworth

– + =Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 110w

=WHITEHEAD, HENRY=, bp. of Madras. Village gods of South India. il *85c Oxford 229 17-3158

“This is the first of a series of small volumes dealing with the Religious life of India, under the editorship of Mr J. N. Farquhar, literary secretary, Y. M. C. A. in India. The volume under review is by the Bishop of Madras. ... He shows how the village gods symbolize the facts of village life, and suggests the hypothesis that the form of their worship, viz., animal sacrifice, is a survival of totemism from a time when the people lived a nomadic life. ... The fact that women perform so much of the agricultural work among primitives suggests an explanation for the fact that the majority of the South Indian deities are female.”—Bib World

“Gives a mass of new material for the study of comparative religion.” W. D. S.

+ =Am J Theol= 21:157 Ja ‘17 200w

“The book is deserving of a hearty reception by students of the history of religion.”

+ =Bib World= 49:48 Ja ‘17 200w

“It is a needed volume, handy, straightforward, and not antipathetic.”

+ =Lit D= 54:913 Mr 31 ‘17 140w

“A glossary of Indian terms, a list of gods, male and female, and a geographical index to the ethnological divisions, all provided with diacritical marks, promise well for the series.”

+ =Nation= 103:615 D 28 ‘16 400w

+ =Spec= 117:136 Jl 29 ‘16 140w

“Mr J. N. Farquhar is entirely competent. Successive volumes, some in preparation and others in projection, are to be written by authorities who have every reason and opportunity for full investigation upon the spot.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p412 Ag 31 ‘16 90w

=WHITING, LILIAN.= Adventure beautiful. il *$1 (2c) Little 134 17-25596

The author has taken Charles Frohman’s words: “Death is the most beautiful adventure in life,” for the text of her first essay. The present appalling sacrifice of life leads her to look for spiritual compensations and to contemplate the possibility of immortality and its evidences. The remaining essays of the book are: The reality of the unseen; Twenty years in retrospect; Some psychical experiences; Powers of the ethereal body; The nature of the ethereal world; Creative agencies of the spiritual life; Make room for happiness; Also the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.

“Miss Whiting has made a genuine contribution to the discussion of a theme which must more and more command the world’s attention.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 300w

+ =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 130w

“Miss Whiting has much to say of the sort of spiritualism taught by Professor Hyslop. With this spookery she mingles fragments of mysticism caught from anywhere in the Orient. The effect of the mixture upon one soul at least is not exalting, but there are readers who enjoy Miss Whiting’s rhapsodies more than does this reviewer.”

— =Nation= 105:517 N 8 ‘17 200w

“One can hardly lay down her book without feeling more hopeful of happiness in the world beyond.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:498 N 25 ‘17 400w

=WHITING, LILIAN.= Canada, the spellbinder. il *$2.50 Dutton 917.1 17-22084

“A brief survey of the ‘creative forces’ of Canada, those explorers, missionaries, adventurers, pioneers, traders, scientists and statesmen who from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries have explored and developed her picturesque and fruitful domains, is followed by detailed studies of various localities.” (Boston Transcript) “Beginning with ‘Quebec and the picturesque maritime region,’ Miss Whiting travels slowly westward, describing the chief cities, the summer resorts, visiting Cobalt and the silver mines, and so going on through Winnipeg and Edmonton to the western coast. There is a chapter on ‘Prince Rupert and Alaska,’ and another describing the journey from Prince Rupert by way of Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle to San Francisco, where another section is devoted to Canada in the Panama-Pacific exposition.” (N Y Times) “There is a chapter on the poets of Canada, C. G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, W. H. Drummond, and others.” (Spec) “The book incorporates portions of Miss Whiting’s articles which appeared in the Sunday Springfield Republican in 1916.” (Springf’d Republican)

=A L A Bkl= 14:57 N ‘17

“The interest of this readable volume is increased by numerous fine illustrations in colour and monotone.”

+ =Ath= p315 Je ‘17 40w

“Miss Whiting reviews for us not only the development of those Canadian cities and provinces of which we already have a superficial knowledge, but also such places as Winnipeg and Prince Rupert.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 420w

“She lacks great power of description, but to offset this, falls back upon scores of writers and poets who have written of the scenes she visits.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:546 Ja ‘18 90w

+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 40w

“Lilian Whiting’s enthusiasm of spirit and glow of language are at their usual high level in ‘Canada the spellbinder.’”

+ — =Nation= 105:18 Jl 5 ‘17 180w

+ =N Y Times= 22:236 Je 17 ‘17 250w

=Pittsburgh= 22:677 O ‘17 70w

+ =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 70w

“A very happy specimen of globe-trotting literature taken in serious vein. ... Journalists and readers who are interested in journalism will note with special attention Miss Whiting’s comment on the founder of the Toronto Globe.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 4 ‘17 480w

=WHITMAN, SIDNEY.= Things I remember. *$2.50 (3½c) Stokes 17-8078

The subtitle describes this book as “The recollections of a political writer in the capitals of Europe.” The author was for many years special correspondent for the New York Herald. His recollections go back to the early nineties. Among other things he writes of: Vienna; Salonica and Constantinople; The Spanish-American war; Bismarck’s death; Warsaw in revolt; Berlin during the Algeciras conference; W. T. Stead; James Gordon Bennett.

=A L A Bkl= 13:352 My ‘17

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:406 My ‘17 50w

“Mr Whitman, well known for his travels over Europe and his intercourse with great and formidable people for the benefit of the ‘New York Herald,’ has revived some of his memories in a pleasant and easy narrative. ... We have much to learn concerning Germany, and Mr Whitman is well qualified to teach us.”

+ =Sat R= 122:461 N 11 ‘16 750w

“A most interesting book, and one which deserves the attention of all those who desire to understand the inner working of German policy.”

+ =Spec= 117:554 N 4 ‘16 750w

“One of the best books of memoirs which have recently appeared.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p494 O 19 ‘16 650w

=WHITTON, FREDERICK ERNEST.=[2] History of Poland from the earliest times to the present day. *$3 Scribner 943.8

“Major Whitton traces the record of ‘the most unfortunate and not the least noble of European peoples,’ the rise and fall of their great kingdom. Naturally our interest centres in events since the beginning of the famous partitions, and in the fate of Poland under Russian, Prussian, and Austrian rule. The story of the partitions is told in detail, with significant sketches of the characters of the rulers involved—Catherine the Great of Russia, first Frederick the Great and then Frederick William of Prussia, and first Maria Theresa and then Francis of Austria.” (N Y Times) “In his story of the famous partitions Colonel Whitton follows Lord Eversley fairly closely, but he has been preserved by study of the cold-blooded ‘Cambridge modern history’ from being too pronounced a partisan of the Poles. He is fully alive to the weak points in their national character and to the viciousness of their system of government.” (Spec)

+ =Ath= p531 O ‘17 220w

“His narrative is interesting, readable, and to the point. But the book suffers from two weaknesses—a marked insufficiency of dates and a remissness in dealing with the life of the common people.”

+ — =Ath= p585 N ‘17 570w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 16 ‘18 490w

“‘A history of Poland’ is not only a presentation of valuable and pertinent facts, but is written with a simplicity and vividness that make the book thoroughly interesting.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:2 Ja 6 ‘18 360w

“He would, we are sure, lay no claim to be an original historian; he has not added anything to the sum of knowledge. Nevertheless, we can cordially recommend his book.”

+ =Spec= 119:358 O 6 ‘17 820w

“The author gives a clear but not very well balanced account of the Polish kingdom under its successive monarchs. It must be confessed, that the earlier part of the book is unsatisfactory, especially chapters 1 and 3, and contains actual mistakes. The best part of Major Whitton’s book is certainly its later portion.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 O 25 ‘17 1500w

=WHITTON, FREDERICK ERNEST.= Marne campaign. (Campaigns and their lessons) maps *$4 (5c) Houghton 940.91 17-24849

For years before the outbreak of the European war, Major Whitton points out in his preface, military experts of all countries had been considering the problem of handling the huge armies which a modern war would demand. In the campaigns of the Marne theories were put to a practical test, and it is from this point of view, that of military strategy, that the battle is here studied. “The battle of the Marne furnishes the military student with a signal example of the strategical counter-attack on a great scale.” Eight folding maps are provided at the end and there is a bibliography.

=A L A Bkl= 14:91 D ‘17

“Will be useful to civilian and military readers alike. Eight clear maps illustrate the book.”

+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 140w

“The book contains an excellent map of the alignments of the armies, numbered according to their corps, divisions and brigades upon the most reliable up-to-date information.”

+ =Ind= 91:477 S 22 ‘17 170w

“The present volume tells this story in a particularly masterly manner, and is perhaps the best documented and most circumstantial account of the great battle. None, in fact, that has been issued is comparable to it, except Mr Belloc’s volume of about a year ago.”

+ =Lit D= 55:38 O 13 ‘17 580w

=N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 250w

+ =R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 130w

“He is clear and concise, and his book gives a much better general impression of the battle of the Marne than any other we know.”

+ =Sat R= 123:284 My 24 ‘17 250w

“A very useful and well-written narrative. There have been two rival theories of the Marne. The common view is that General Maunoury’s flank attack on the Ourcq upon General von Kluck, who commanded on the German right was the deciding factor. Major Whitton adopts this theory, and supports it by a good deal of evidence.”

* + =Spec= 119:143 Ag 11 ‘17 1350w

“Considering that Major Whitton’s narrative is built throughout of similar and not more stable material, we are half inclined to mourn over the labour which he has expended upon it. For the author has not done his work ill. He writes good, clear, and vigorous English; and his summary of the military and naval resources of the combatants and of the operations preceding the battle of the Marne is, so far as his information goes, terse and pointed.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Ap 26 ‘17 1450w

=WHYTE, ADAM GOWANS.= World’s wonder stories. il *$1.75 (2½c) Putnam 500 18-2983

A book of rather miscellaneous information about the universe, together with a discussion of ethical problems, designed for young readers. Contents: How was the world made? Where did the plants and animals come from? Nature’s family tree; Who was the first man? Who was the greatest grandfather of creation? Where did all the religions come from? Where did the Bible come from? Where did right and wrong come from? How do things happen? There are many illustrations.

“It is that rare thing, a book written for children without being in some sense written down to them,—and therefore a delight to the reader of any age.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:497 D ‘17 120w

=Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 30w

“The information is correct and modern; and the language is dignified and circumspect. Orthodox teachers and parents whose teaching of morality follows conventional lines would undoubtedly derive benefit from the method of presentation adopted, while no child could read the book without understanding something of the scientific method and what it has accomplished.”

+ =Nature= 98:208 N 16 ‘16 160w

“A vast amount of valuable information is included in the volume.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ‘17 110w

“We began the book with misgiving, as the style seemed to foreshadow that lisping sing-song which is the form of address so often deemed appropriate in modern children’s books. But we proceeded with growing pleasure, and finally devoured all the wonders with relish. It is a delightful book. ... We may add as a parting criticism that we doubt whether it was well advised to include the picture of ‘what our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers looked like in the days when the ape-men were slowly changing into men.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 D 14 ‘16 380w

=WIDDEMER, MARGARET.= Factories. *$1.25 Holt 811 17-23582

This book was first published in 1915 under the title, “Factories, with other lyrics”; and has been for some time out of print. The publisher states that the book has been reset for this new edition, and that the author has made some changes in the original text as well as added a number of new poems. The poems, with the exception of the title poem, are grouped under the headings: Poems of now; The wandering singer; Youth learns; Greek folk songs; Love songs; The border country.

=WIDDEMER, MARGARET.= Winona of Camp Karonya. il *$1.25 (1½c) Lippincott 17-28799

The story opens with the breaking up of camp and the return of the Camp Karonya girls to town. During the winter following they assume responsibility for a family of neglected children and plan a pageant, in addition to carrying on the usual Camp fire activities. The story has two mysteries, one concerning a lost boy, who seems to have strayed over from the war zone, the other connected with a lost baby.

“The main thing is less the plot than the atmosphere of unselfishness and right feeling with which, without sentimental strain, the writer surrounds her story.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 140w

“The author of this book understands the Camp fire girl movement thoroughly. Her one endeavor throughout is to show the effect that Camp fire virtues have on a group of very healthy girls.”

+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 33w

“A nice, long worth-while story.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 120w

=WIDDEMER, MARGARET.= Wishing-ring man. il *$1.35 (2c) Holt 17-25082

Joy Hayenith, nineteen and beautiful, is kept a child by her famous and egoistical grandfather, the poet. She meets a young doctor who finds out that Joy is longing for pleasure and adventure, and tells her that if she keeps on believing things will happen that very belief may bring her what she wants “like a wishing-ring.” In order to get permission to visit Phyllis and Allan Harrington, of “The rose garden husband,” Joy lies to her grandfather, telling him that she is engaged to the Harrington’s friend and neighbor, Dr John Hewitt. Hewitt appears on the scene unexpectedly and accepts the situation. The story goes on to picture the consequences of this word spoken in jest. All misunderstandings are finally cleared up, and the book ends happily.

=A L A Bkl= 14:99 D ‘17

“We enter the land of romance when we read one of these novels of Miss Widdemer’s. Reality is there too, but it is a guest rather than the ruler of the kingdom. The bits of humor help toward this perfect welding of romance and reality.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 27 ‘17 780w

“Margaret Widdemer has given us an impossible book—a naïve book—a book that reminds us, in its simplicity, of the days when we read and enjoyed ‘The five little Peppers,’” D: P. Berenberg

— =N Y Call= p15 N 11 ‘17 460w

“A charming, slight little tale, written with vivacity and with ever-bubbling humor.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:397 O 14 ‘17 320w

“It is the purpose to make ‘The wishing-ring man’ a sequel to ‘The rose garden husband.’ But structural similarity makes this only a weak and frankly artificial echo of the other charming romance.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 200w

=WIER, ALBERT E.= Grand opera with a victrola. *75c Appleton 782.1 16-4756

A book “containing the stories, the most popular music, and the Victor record numbers of Aïda, Faust, Carmen, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Cavalleria rusticana, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, The Bohemian girl, Tales of Hoffman, Hansel and Gretel, Lucia di Lammermoor; arranged for playing, singing and the selection of Victor records.”—N Y Br Lib News

=A L A Bkl= 13:388 Je ‘17

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:73 My ‘17

=St Louis= 15:173 Je ‘17

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:62 F ‘17 70w

=WIERS-JENSSEN, HANS.= Anne Pedersdotter. *$1 Little 839.8 17-24983

The author is a Danish dramatist. The English version of “Anne Pedersdotter” is by John Masefield. The play has been produced both in England and America. The action takes place in Bergen in the year 1574, and concerns a case of witchcraft in which Anne Pedersdotter, wife of Absolon Beyer, palace chaplain, is the central figure. The first three acts are laid in Absolon’s house, the last in the choir of the cathedral.

Reviewed by Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:349 N ‘17 110w

=Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 50w

“It is a drama of great possibilities; but the tragic, unexpected climax will prevent it from ever becoming popular and makes it a play to be read rather than acted.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 210w

“The trial scene for dramatic power must stand with the great scenes of modern drama.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 150w

“Apparently the morbid horror of numerous situations is the only raison d’etre of the piece.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 220w

=WIGMORE, JOHN HENRY=, ed. Science and learning in France; with a survey of opportunities for American students in French universities. il $1.50 Soc. for American fellowships in French universities, J. H. Wigmore, ed., 31 Lake st., Chicago; for sale by McClurg 378 17-26896

This volume of over 400 pages, the work of nearly 100 leading American scholars and members of college and university faculties, takes up some 22 subjects—medicine, engineering, philology, chemistry, geology, archæology, etc. The general editor is John H. Wigmore of Northwestern university, and associated with him as vice chairman of the Author’s committee is Charles H. Grandgent of Harvard university. “As stated in its preface, its purpose is to put before the American public the contributions of France in all fields of scientific knowledge, and to show her status in the forefront of the world’s progress, thus furnishing to American university students an incentive to pursue graduate work in France. Each chapter sets forth briefly for a particular field the notable achievements and eminent leaders of French scholarship during the past century; and the courses of instruction given now or recently at the French universities, especially at the University of Paris, with the facilities available for study and research. There is also an introduction, by President Emeritus Eliot of Harvard, on the intellectual inspiration of Paris and France.” (Cath World) “The first of the three appendices contains an article by James Geddes, Jr., which narrates the history of the intellectual sympathies and university relations between France and America. ... The other two appendices contain much practical information for students intending to take advanced work in France.” (N Y Times)

“No thinking person, however prejudiced, could read this record of scholarly and scientific accomplishment without realizing the sober intellectual power, the strong moral fibre of the French people, and no one who had grasped that fact before the war could have talked glibly, as many did, of France regenerated by the ordeal of battle.” C. H. Van Tyne

+ =Am Hist R= 23:391 Ja ‘18 1300w

“As a handbook for American students who contemplate study abroad the book will be indispensable.” C: A. Ellwood

+ =Am J Soc= 23:412 N ‘17 350w

=A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17

=Am Pol Sci R= 12:155 F ‘18 100w

“The volume, besides being a revelation to most of us, is also a beautiful testimonial to the modesty of the French scholar who made so little effort to claim the applause of the world. The one criticism that can be made is that names occur to one’s mind constantly which might have been included. The chapter on law is too short.” Albert Schinz

+ — =Bookm= 46:445 D ‘17 3050w

“On the whole, the appreciation of Catholic scholars is just. ... There are occasional omissions of names which might be expected, such as Branly, of the Catholic institute of Paris, the discoverer of the principle of the wireless. ... The paper on religion deals almost exclusively with the history of religions, and is written with a carefulness apparently designed to avoid points of controversy. In the list of libraries, that of the Catholic institute of Paris should certainly have been mentioned, and even that of the Seminary of St Sulpice, which has a recognized standing.”

+ =Cath World= 105:840 S ‘17 390w

“There is not a hint of propagandist ardor in ‘Science and learning in France.’ Such ardor would be an insult to France, which needs no commendation beyond the simple record of achievement. Everywhere in this book western culture is recognized as international—a growth to which all the peoples have made important contributions. ... It is a compendious introduction to the intellectual world of France, intended to serve as a guide for students who may be planning to work for a doctorate abroad. But it should serve the broader purpose of acquainting the general public with the brilliant achievements of contemporary France. ... I think there is some need for Americans to read ‘Science and learning in France.’” C. H.

+ =Dial= 63:159 Ag 30 ‘17 1350w

Reviewed by Ferdinand Baldensperger

+ =Nation= 106:37 Ja 10 ‘18 2600w

“Such books as this will be especially useful in bringing Americans to realize the importance of a section of French life and effort of which too many have known little and thought less.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:277 Jl 29 ‘17 1800w

“The publication of this book coincides with the establishment of an American university union in Paris, cementing the bond between American students and French universities.”

+ =Outlook= 117:103 S 19 ‘17 320w

“Although the disparagement of German learning and research may be carried to absurd extremes in these days of war-time passions, this book should prove a valuable aid toward opening the treasure-house of French learning to the American students.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 23 ‘18 280w

=WILBUR, MARY ARONETTA.= Child’s religion. *$1 (4c) Houghton 377 17-9361

A series of papers on the religious training of children, some of them reprinted from the Churchman. The author’s attitude is expressed in a quotation from another religious teacher: “You cannot give your children religion; that is not your province. Your work is to keep the child in position before God.” Contents: A child’s religion; The child and the church; Children and missions; The song and the child; The child and his book; On telling Bible stories; A Sunday-school teacher’s biography; The childlike teacher; The old Bible and the new child.

=A L A Bkl= 13:379 Je ‘17

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:95 Je ‘17

+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 40w

=WILCOX, EARLEY VERNON.= Tropical agriculture. *$2.50 Appleton 630 16-22335

“The author has had in mind the general reader in writing this work, not the farmer of the tropics. ... Climate, soil, agricultural methods, live stock and economic conditions are briefly discussed. The larger part of the volume deals with a description of the nature, source and commercial importance of about 350 tropical products, including sugar cane, nuts, fruits, starchy foods, tobacco, fiber plants, rubber, gum, drugs, tans, dyes, spices, flavorings, perfumes, oils, timber and woods.”—Ann Am Acad

“Good illustrations and a bibliography of books and periodicals. For reference rather than for general reading.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:339 My ‘17

“He is especially clear in discussing economic conditions not to overestimate the opportunities for the small farmer but shows that it is the large owner who reaps his profit from low-priced labor or the middle man who has made great profits. ... The appendix, with reviews of the literature related to the subject, and a full bibliography of the periodicals from all parts of the world, are especially good.” C. W. Larson

+ =Ann Am Acad= 70:319 Mr ‘17 480w

“Dr Wilcox, who is now an administrative assistant in the States relation service of the United States Department of agriculture, was for six years in charge of the Hawaii experiment station. His book is the first real American contribution to cover the whole subject of crops, cultural methods and live stock in the tropics.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 20 ‘17 200w

“The opening chapters on tropical climate, soils, agricultural methods, etc., might with great advantage be carefully revised and reconsidered. ... The reader is disappointed to note a lack of proportion, an utter disregard of uniformity in treatment, and an entire absence of method—qualities essential in a book of reference. The plates serve a pictorial rather than a practical purpose. ... The book, as it stands, cannot become a textbook for either the merchant or the student. It needs drastic revision.”

— =Nature= 99:183 My 3 ‘17 650w

+ =N Y Times= 22:220 Je 3 ‘17 50w

=WILD, LAURA HULDA.= Evolution of the Hebrew people and their influence on civilization. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 220.9 17-24078

The author is professor of biblical history and literature in Mt. Holyoke college, and this book is the result of several years of teaching pupils “who come to college with no adequate conception of what the Bible stands for.” It is a work for beginners and attempts “to relate Bible study to the great fields of knowledge that command a modern student’s attention, to show something of the fascination of Bible study pursued in this way, and to leave a positive conviction of the surpassing value of the great prophetic thoughts handed down to us.” (Preface) The book is divided into five parts: The cultural background of Hebrew life; A sketch of the development of religious ideas; The influence of physical environment upon the development of the Hebrew race; Israel’s economic and social development; The place in world thought of the great Hebrew prophetic teachers. There are two maps, a bibliography and an index.

=A L A Bkl= 14:111 Ja ‘18

“The book ought to serve its purpose well. It does not make too great demands of the beginner. It meets him at least half-way. It ranges about freely through the whole biblical world seeking out the interesting and attractive spots and finding them.”

+ =Bib World= 51:47 Ja ‘18 210w

“There is much interesting and valuable material in the book.”

+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 1 ‘17 380w

=WILDE, PERCIVAL.= Unseen host, and other war plays. *$1.25 Little 812 17-25290

These five one-act plays survey the present war from many angles. The “Unseen host” is based upon the legend of the “Angels of Mons”; “Mothers of men” is an interview between two women whose sons are at the front; “Pawns” is the story of some Russian and Austrian peasants living as neighbors on the frontier and summoned to mobilize, quite ignorant of what mobilization means; “In the ravine” is a conversation between an Italian professor of biology and an Austrian forger, who have been fighting on the heights; and “Valkyrie” is a conversation on the battlefield between two wounded officers, one German and the other British and a common soldier.

“‘Mother of men’ and ‘Pawns’ are both powerful, thoroughly realised achievements. He displays no weakness anywhere, is rich in dramatic device, nervous yet natural in dialogue, frugal in means, strong in concentration.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:349 N ‘17 40w

“His new volume shows growth in Mr Wilde, especially in his understanding of the springs of human emotion. Of the new series the title play, a fine and effective use of the legend of the angels at the battle of the Marne, is the best, but he almost duplicates the success of this difficult piece of work in his German version of a similar theme, ‘Valkyrie.’ Taken together these are the finest dramas the war has inspired in America.” Williams Haynes

+ =Dial= 63:586 D 6 ‘17 560w

“The point of view is cosmopolitan rather than simply patriotic, and the dialogs between enemies who have found out that, after all, they share a common humanity light up the tragedy and absurdity of war with far greater skill than any deliberately purposed pacifistic play could hope to attain.”

+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 60w

+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 100w

=WILKINS, ERNEST HATCH; COLEMAN, ALGERNON, and HUSE, HOWARD RUSSELL.= First lessons in spoken French for men in military service. *50c Univ. of Chicago press 448 17-19499

“The purpose of this book is to help men in American military service (1) to understand what may be said to them in French; (2) to make themselves understood in French; (3) to understand printed French. The facts and words of French are presented consistently in terms of sound. ... For the representation of the French sounds we have used a set of phonetic symbols for which we claim at least the merit of simplicity. It coincides to a considerable degree with the set used in Grandgent’s ‘Short French grammar.’ We have deliberately ignored certain differentiations in sound which are commonly taught, and which should be taught under normal circumstances. ... The words chosen for the word-lists have been selected with reference to the particular needs of men in the service.” (Preface)

“An excellent textbook for oral work. Word lists and order of the lessons are well chosen. Index and table of word lists, no vocabulary.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:10 O ‘37

=Pittsburgh= 22:694 O ‘17

=WILKINSON, ANDREWS.= Boy holidays in the Louisiana wilds. il *$1.50 (2c) Little 17-24284

This book will introduce new types of adventure to northern boy readers. Capturing alligators, hunting the marsh lynx, and fishing in the bayous of lower Louisiana are the pastimes of its three young heroes. Woven in with the recital of their real exploits are the tales told by Uncle Jason, tales of the Uncle Remus variety, with such titles as, The wise coon that got away, How the squirrel-jay war began, How Mr Turkey Buzzard became bald. There are also attractive pictures of home life on a big plantation and descriptions of the country bordering the lower Mississippi.

“Children who love Uncle Remus’s stories will be glad of Andrews Wilkinson’s ‘Boy holidays in the Louisiana wilds’ with its effective pictures.”

+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 30w

“Their adventures are entertaining, and there are good descriptions of southern scenery and life. But this is a book of stories rather than adventure, and the interest centers in Uncle Jason, a second Uncle Remus.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 110w

=WILKINSON, MRS MARGUERITE OGDEN (BIGELOW)=,[2] comp. Golden songs of the Golden state. *$1.50 McClurg 811.08 17-31452

A California anthology. There are included in it poems by California writers and by others who have fallen under California’s charm. The compiler says, “I have felt that in a sense California belongs to us all—not only to the native sons and daughters, but to the many who have been refreshed and strengthened and healed by sojourning there. ... But whenever it has been possible I have given the preference to poems by western poets who have made their reputations in the West or who are now living there and definitely associated with the West.” The book is made up of three parts: Pioneer voices; Voices of the great singers; Living voices.

=WILLCOX, CORNÉLIS DE WITT.= War French. *75c Macmillan 448 17-24091

The author, a colonel in the United States army, is professor of modern languages at the West Point military academy. Contents: Part 1, The French language; part 2, The French army; part 3, Passages for translation into English. About fifty pages of part 1 are devoted to the verb. A few pages of vocabularies and conversations follow. The army information in part 2 is also followed by vocabularies and conversations. Following part 3 are French-English and English-French vocabularies.

+ =Ind= 92:343 N 17 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:835 D ‘17 50w

=WILLIAMS, ALBERT RHYS.= In the claws of the German eagle. il *$1.50 (3c) Dutton 940.91 17-12508

The entertaining quality which this book of war-time adventures undoubtedly has, is due largely to its revelation of the author’s personality. He writes with humor and sympathy, and without prejudice. “To myself,” he writes, “out of these insights into the great calamity, there has come reinforcement to my belief in the essential greatness of the human stuff in all nations. Along with this goes a faith that in the new internationalism mankind will lay low the military Frankenstein that he has created, and realize the triumphant brotherhood of all human souls.” The book consists of four parts: The spy-hunters of Belgium; On foot with the German army; With the war photographers in Belgium; Love among the ruins. The author is the socialist pastor of a church in East Boston who was traveling in Europe when the war broke out. His articles on the war were first contributed to the Outlook.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:446 Jl ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 130w

“The volume before us, however, has some noteworthy differences from the general run. In the first place, the author was not a professional war correspondent when the war began. Hence his narrative possesses a certain freshness of outlook and naiveté of presentation. Secondly, as he tells us, ‘there is no culling out of just those episodes which support a particular theory, such as the total and complete depravity of the German race. ... So I am not to blame whether those episodes damn the Germans or bless them. Some do, and some don’t. What one ran into was largely a matter of luck.’ There is a very human note running through the book.”

+ + — =Cath World= 105:699 Ag ‘17 260w

“A vividly interesting account.”

+ =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 50w

“Accounts of frightfulness might have added to the attractiveness of his story for those who enjoy shuddering, but Mr Williams finds himself unable, as an eye-witness, to record any such atrocities, and so very wisely leaves them for others to write down. Yet it is no flattering picture he paints of German conduct in Belgium.”

+ =Dial= 64:82 Ja 17 ‘18 80w

“His book is worth more than a dozen snap-shot records.”

+ =Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 230w

“The book is gossipy, interesting and good humoured, though by no means flippant in tone, and the writer seems unprejudiced and fair to all around.” Joshua Wanhope

+ =N Y Call= p15 My 13 ‘17 500w

“We need more social passion of the sort that flames through every word that Williams has written. This alone can lead us out of the wilderness in which we wander.” Irwin Granich

+ =N Y Call= p15 My 20 ‘17 2000w

=Pittsburgh= 22:684 O ‘17 30w

“Unlike many historians of the early days of the war, Mr Williams has kept his emotions well under control.”

=R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 50w

“An eminently readable, rather humorous and certainly very human book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 11 ‘17 330w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:220 Jl ‘17 50w

=WILLIAMS, BLANCHE COLTON.= Handbook on story writing. *$1.50 Dodd 808.3 17-31454

Among the many handbooks on short story writing, the author has found none which gives the amateur the guidance he needs in matters of construction. In her experience as teacher of English in Hunter college and in conducting extension classes in story writing at Columbia, she has worked out a series of fundamental principles which have proved to be of definite practical aid to her students. These principles she has incorporated in this book. As the main purpose of the work is to emphasize construction, four of its chapters are devoted to Plot. Others consider The point of view, Characterisation, Dialogue, The emotional element, Local colour and atmosphere, etc. The works of master short story writers, including many present-day writers, are freely drawn on for illustrative material. Each chapter is followed by exercises, suggestions for reading, etc. Bibliographies and index come at the end.

“One of the two best text-books available for the student of short-story writing.” E: J. O’Brien

+ =Bookm= 46:612 Ja ‘18 1250w

+ =Ind= 93:377 Mr 2 ‘18 40w

=WILLIAMS, CHARLES DAVID.= Christian ministry and social problems. *$1 (3c) Macmillan 261 17-18971

The author is the Episcopal bishop of Michigan. He discusses in this book “the demands upon religion and the opportunities of ministers brought about by the new social conscience, the present unjust distribution of wealth, and the attempts on every hand to devise schemes of justice rather than charity.” (Ind) “This book is the fourth in the series, Church principles for lay people, being issued by certain members of the American Episcopal church to present constructive thought on current theological and social questions.” (Springf’d Republican)

+ =Cleveland= p9 Ja ‘18 30w

=Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 90w

“Many a sectarian minister will want to come under the authority of this Episcopal bishop long enough to read this little book, and many more need to.” L: A. Walker

=N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 420w

“Presents clearly and forcibly the principles underlying the Christian minister’s relation to the social problem.”

=Outlook= 116:627 Ag 22 ‘17 120w

“An able summing up of the relations of the church to economic and labor problems. ... The bishop is a disciple of Rauschenbusch and a distinct radical in his social thinking.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 180w

Reviewed by Graham Taylor

=Survey= 38:531 S 15 ‘17 600w

=WILLIAMS, CLEMENT CLARENCE.= Design of railway location. il *$3.50 Wiley 625 17-5561

“A study of the physical and economic conditions that control the location of railways in order that their operation may be at maximum safety and efficiency. Attempts to set forth principles rather than to describe practice. Considers economic features, with some attention to estimates and costs. Deals pretty fully with surveys and with operating conditions as influencing railway location.”—Pittsburgh

“May be read with profit by anybody interested in the problems of railway economics.” T. W. V. M.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:235 S ‘17 190w

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 30w

“There is in the text a praiseworthy lack of inconsequential and irrelevant detail, an efficient segregation and sequence of the subject matter and a careful consideration of its expressed purpose. The book as a whole is an excellent compilation of the essentials governing most modern theories and practices on the subject, as generally adopted by a profession. The personality of the author appears strongly and in a practical manner. The book should serve more than its immediate purpose and may well be in the library of every student of the subject, whether in or out of college.” M. P. Paret

* + =Engin News-Rec= 78:362 My 17 ‘17 720w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

“Based upon notes used in the author’s classes in the University of Kansas. Although ‘the basic idea ... has been to explain and develop underlying principles rather than to describe current practice,’ the work should prove valuable to practicing engineers as well as to students. The appendix covers specifications for the formation of the roadway. Many useful diagrams.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p7 Ap ‘17 140w

=Pittsburgh= 22:523 Je ‘17 30w

=WILLIAMS, CORA LENORE.= Creative involution; with an introd. by Edwin Markham. *$1.50 Knopf 513.8 16-22289

“In this little volume of 200 pages Miss Williams endeavors to show the need and to set forth the outlines of a new system of philosophy—which is to say a new explanation of the processes of life and of their causes. She finds the theory of evolution sufficient up to the present time, when man has made almost complete his conquest of the physical world by the process of development along the lines of differentiation. Now, if he wishes to carry still further that development it is necessary for him to work out and accept a new process, that of integration, which Miss Williams calls involution. And in the inter-relation of these two, evolution and involution, she thinks is to be found ‘a nexus of sufficient strength to bridge not only the chasm between the inorganic and the organic realms, but the far greater chasm between the organic and psychical.’”—N Y Times

“Miss Williams seems to have discovered this entirely by herself and she thinks that her discovery is new. She has been so overwhelmed by it that she has acquired a mystic regard for it. She calls it ‘creative involution’ and opposes it to ‘creative evolution,’ in a language which is involved, obscure, dithyrambic, sacerdotal.”

— =Dial= 62:150 P 22 ‘17 150w

“Such books as this can only do harm, and harm of the worst sort, for they urge us to throw off restraint and they diminish our ability to distinguish between what we can and what we cannot know. For example: Mr Edwin Markham is pleased to write an introduction, and just see what nonsense he turns up when he hoes in these fields of four dimensions. ... Brave words and high praise but nonsense! Mr Markham has not the faintest conception of what is meant in mathematics by hyperspace, and his ‘cosmic currents’ remind one irresistibly of Mr Don Marquis’s ‘Hermione!’”

— =Nation= 104:192 F 15 ‘17 550w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:190 D ‘16

“Miss Williams has been a member of the mathematical faculty of the University of California, and is an authority upon that science.”

=N Y Times= 22:77 Mr 4 ‘17 350w

“One wishes that the author had given her book more definitely the form of a critique rather than that of a series of aphorisms and inspirations; that she had more plainly delimited her thesis and had taken more pains to ‘distinguish away’ false or misleading interpretations of her leading ideas. But the book is stimulating.”

+ — =No Am= 205:144 Ja ‘17 1200w

=WILLIAMS, MRS HATTIE PLUM.= Social study of the Russian German. il pa 75c Univ. of Neb. 325.7 17-27036

This work “embodies the results of a study undertaken under the auspices of the Department of political science and sociology in the University of Nebraska. The 6500 ‘Russians’ of Lincoln, Nebraska, are really Germans, ignorant of the Russian language, whose ancestors, a century and a half ago, settled in two Volga provinces. Thence, after various guaranteed liberties were withdrawn, they proceeded, in the years following 1870, to migrate to America, settling in Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. The main period of their immigration began in 1898. On the basis of a canvass and of local records, Mrs Williams describes the character of their settlement in Lincoln, their families and their vital statistics in two chapters which she expects to extend into a book.”—Am Pol Sci R

Reviewed by R. F. Foerster

+ =Am Econ R= 7:421 Je ‘17 160w

“This is an excellent and exact study of what might be called the double-hyphen immigrant. ... A large amount of well-balanced material has been collected displaying customs, vital and social statistics, and tendencies. ... One cannot help being somewhat disappointed because the study is essentially objective. Familiar as the author is with the people themselves, the reader does not get inside them so as to see their psychological life.” H. A. Miller

+ =Am J Soc= 22:848 My ‘17 210w

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:365 My ‘17 130w

“Both sympathetic and scholarly. ... Mrs Williams has done an extremely useful piece of work; one of the best things of the kind we have seen.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 37:699 Mr 17 ‘17 170w

=WILLIAMS, J. E. HODDER=, ed. One young man. *75c (3c) Doran 940.91 17-14140

“The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the western front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk.” (Sub-title) The book is made up of short chapters telling of the experiences of the one young man in camp, on active service, etc. There are many quotations from his letters.

“The documentary value of this little book lies wholly in the vision of utter devotion to country and cause that made of a mere human cog in a British mercantile house a fearless agent in England’s great war machine.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 320w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ‘17 240w

=Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 40w

“His story is of special interest because it is that of a man not a fighter by nature.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 220w

=Pittsburgh= 22:684 O ‘17

=Pratt= p43 O ‘17 20w

+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 40w

“It was the Y. M. C. A. that introduced him to the sporting side of life. The book is a genuine tribute to a fine organization.”

+ =Sat R= 123:88 Ja 27 ‘17 270w

+ =Spec= 118:274 Mr 3 ‘17 1550w

“Almost a typical transcription of what has been the lot of thousands of other ‘young men.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 140w

=WILLIAMS, LAURENCE FREDERICK RUSHBROOK.= Four lectures on the handling of historical material. (Allahabad univ. Dept. of modern Indian history publications) *$1 Longmans 907 17-31913

“The object of this volume is to make the reader realize the nature of the special training of the modern historical student, and the reasons which make this training necessary. The first two lectures discuss in detail the classification of historical material. The third indicates the pitfalls in the path of the historian. ... The fourth lecture treats the problem of personality in history. ... The author holds the chair of modern Indian history in Allahabad university.”—Cath World

“These lectures were written for audiences consisting partly of Indian students, and partly of the general public. ... It is patent that the author is concerned rather with the impression his special audience was to receive than with the adequacy of his lectures as an examination of the problems of historical method. ... The omission, from his list of non-official sources, of newspapers and of literature, which is essential for the inner, ‘spiritual’ history of a people, is to be regretted. The difficulties of the historian in controlling his bias and in marshalling his evidence ought not to have been expounded without a setting forth of the scientific method of determining particular facts, so well known to students of Langlois and Seignobos. ... The foot-notes lack date and place of publication and usually the full name of the author. Lecture 3 warns against incomplete references and improperly charges German scholars with making them (p. 67).” G. C. Sellery

— =Am Hist R= 23:203 O ‘17 420w

=Cath World= 105:825 S ‘17 190w

“It is impossible in three lectures to range, however superficially, over all history, and the confusion which the method excites is worse confounded by a singularly irrelevant fourth lecture on personality in history.” G.

— =Eng Hist R= 32:627 O ‘17 260w

“Able lectures on modern historical methods.”

=Spec= 118:733 Je 30 ‘17 140w

=WILLIAMS, STANLEY THOMAS.= Richard Cumberland; his life and dramatic works. il *$3 (3c) Yale univ. press 17-25291

Richard Cumberland, poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, whose sensitiveness led Sheridan to caricature him as “Sir Fretful Plagiary,” possessed, according to Dr Williams, “a personality real, vital and unique in the history of English letters.” “Sources for this life have been found in the collections of plays, memoirs, diaries, and letters in the Yale and Harvard university libraries, and in original manuscripts of Cumberland in the British museum. Material has been drawn directly from the ‘Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, written by himself,’ published in 1806, and from Mudford’s ‘Life of Richard Cumberland,’ which appeared in 1812, one year after the death of the dramatist. ... The bibliography of eighteen pages contains a complete record of authorities used but does not attempt a compilation of the innumerable editions of Cumberland’s fifty-eight plays.” (Preface) There are several illustrations, the frontispiece is a portrait of Cumberland from the original painting by Romney in the National portrait gallery.

“A valuable contribution both to the history of the drama and to the personal records of English literature.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 3 ‘17 700w

“This is rather a long book to be all about ‘poor old Cumberland’ will be the first thought of those who take it up; but when it has been read it does not seem so long as was expected. Dr Williams believes ‘that the real interest of his book lies less in the plays than in the personality of their author,’ and he is right.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p19 Ja 10 ‘18 1950w

=WILLOUGHBY, WILLIAM FRANKLIN=, and others. System of financial administration of Great Britain. *$2.75 Appleton 336.42 17-8477

“This report is the result of an investigation made in Great Britain in the summer of 1914 by the authors acting as an unofficial commission, and is now published by the recently established Institute for government research [incorporated March 10, 1916]. It presents a detailed and somewhat technical account of the administrative procedure in the United Kingdom in connection with the preparation of estimates, the action thereon in Parliament, the disbursement of public funds, the treasury control over expenditures, the audit of public accounts and the system of financial reports. This is based on a close study of official documents and reports, especially the report of the Select committee on national expenditure (1902), and the report of the Select committee on estimates (1912).” (Ann Am Acad) The compilers are William F. Willoughby, constitutional adviser to the Chinese republic and professor of jurisprudence and politics at Princeton; Westel W. Willoughby, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins, and Samuel McCune Lindsay, professor of social legislation at Columbia. President Lowell of Harvard writes an introduction. Four appendices give acts, forms, etc.

“It must not, however, be inferred that merely because the book is dry as dust it is not, also, to use a phrase common with reviewers, ‘an indispensable work of reference,’ It brings together, in handy compendium form, a large amount of data not readily accessible elsewhere. The materials are well arranged and easy to find, and the standing of the authors is a guarantee of accuracy.” C. C. Plehn

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:888 D ‘17 2100w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:8 O ‘17

“The movement for the establishment of a budgetary system at Washington has now given Great Britain the fullest and most serviceable treatise on its financial system it as yet possesses. In thus characterizing the Willoughby-Willoughby-Lindsay report it may be said at once that the writer of this note is not overlooking Hilton Young’s admirable monograph on ‘The system of national finance.’ But Young covers much more ground than Willoughby, Willoughby and Lindsay. ... Their book is concerned only with the appropriation of money by parliament, and with the system that the House of commons has devised and perfected since the beginning of the nineteenth century—chiefly in the years from 1834 to 1866—for controlling the expenditure of money that has been voted for the various services of the state.” E: Porritt

* + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:578 Ag ‘17 950w

“This study should be of great value in working out improved budget and finance methods in this country. In the conclusions, the report calls attention to some fundamental factors which have been hitherto almost ignored in most of the writings on these subjects. ... Serviceable as is this report, it is in some respects open to criticism.” J: A. Fairlie

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:243 S ‘17 450w

=Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 290w

+ =Cleveland= p77 Je ‘17 20w

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 30w

“The details relating to estimates, voting of moneys, auditing, etc., are set forth accurately, and conclusions are drawn with more or less reference to our own situation. The volume is an important and timely contribution.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:855 O ‘17 280w

“An admirably lucid volume which sets a high standard for the series it inaugurates. ... One can only say that no better account of the subject exists. It is not, of course, an exciting volume; though it is fully as clear as the subject allows. It is perhaps defective, though the authors admit the presence of this characteristic, in its analysis of the financial system in relation to the House of commons. It does not, as I think, allow sufficiently for the important fact that much of the success of the system is dependent thereon.” H. J. L.

* + =New Repub= 11:251 Je 30 ‘17 1150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:91 Je ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 800w

=Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 70w

+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 140w

=St Louis= 15:340 S ‘17

“Though in some respects slightly less detailed than Colonel Durell’s ‘Principles and practice of the system of control over parliamentary grants’ the American work is perhaps even more valuable to the general reader because it brings to bear an outside light upon our internal problems. ... Its three authors ... have produced a volume which ought to be of real public service on both sides of the Atlantic.”

* + =Spec= 119:220 S 1 ‘17 1100w

“Proclaimed as the first authoritative detailed account of the system of financial administration of Great Britain. ... The plan of the work is admirably simple.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 24 ‘17 320w

“For American students, however, ‘The financial administration of Great Britain’ will be superior to Young’s volume because of its many references to American practice and its conclusions in the way of lessons the United States may learn from Great Britain.” H. A. Millis

+ =Survey= 38:442 Ag 18 ‘17 600w

=WILLSIE, HONORÉ MCCUE (MRS HENRY ELMER WILLSIE).= Benefits forgot. il *75c (7½c) Stokes 17-24971

The publishers state that this “story of Lincoln and mother love” is “true in fact.” The greater part of the book deals with the boyhood of Jason Wilkins, son of a poor Methodist circuit-rider and a mother who loved to read and was willing to sacrifice all she had that her boy might get his medical education. He repaid her devotion by neglect. Finally he entered the Civil war as army surgeon. His mother, hearing nothing from him for months, supposed him dead and wrote to President Lincoln for information. Lincoln had young Wilkins arrested and brought to Washington. The last chapter gives the conversation between the two.

=A L A Bkl= 14:134 Ja ‘18

“With the obvious intention of pointing a moral as well as writing an entertaining short story, Mrs Willsie has succeeded admirably in both endeavors.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 5 ‘18 180w

“Fine, true picture of mother love and sacrifice.”

+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 20w

=WILLSIE, HONORÉ MCCUE (MRS HENRY ELMER WILLSIE).= Lydia of the pines. il *$1.50 (1½c) Stokes 17-7817

Lydia is an appealing little figure when we first meet her. Motherless, she plays the mother to her baby sister. The death of this baby leaves her still more lonely. She has her father, old Lizzie, her boy and girl friends, but there is a sad lack in her life. One of her tragedies, even then, was the matter of clothes! She had no mother to plan pretty things for her. Not till she was a senior in the university and could wear a cap and gown, did Lydia feel that she looked like other girls. All thru her childhood and girlhood, she has one true friend, John Levin, a politician, and it is a heartbreaking experience to learn later that he is a grafter of the worst type, one who has systematically robbed the Indian. This theme of the defrauding of the Indian is worked out thru the whole story. For the scene the author has given the capital city of Wisconsin a northern Minnesota setting.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:357 My ‘17

“An excellent story of a human and lovable girl learning to be a woman. Its style, especially in the dialogue, is uncommonly sincere, the real vernacular, without exaggeration or codification.”

+ =Bookm= 45:208 Ap ‘17 400w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 380w

“A clean, well-told story.”

+ =Cath World= 105:268 My ‘17 80w

“A strong, unsparing portrayal of three or four welcomely human characters, several incidents entirely germane and not too thrilling, and a plot that is not marred, strangely, by a bit of pro-Indian propaganda about which Mrs Willsie seems to have been admirably in earnest.”

+ =Dial= 62:246 Mr 22 ‘17 150w

+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 100w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 90w

“Somehow Mrs Willsie contrives to make an honestly American quality radiate from Lydia. All our embarrassed idealism and puzzled, inarticulate striving seem to find expression in her.”

+ =New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 250w

“The novel might be called, indeed, the story of a personality, so strongly does Lydia dominate it and all the people by whom she is surrounded. Mrs Willsie has done a particularly fine piece of work in the way in which she has realized that personality, made it vital and convincing and, above all, thoroughly interesting for the reader. It marks a long step in advance of her previous books.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:62 F 25 ‘17 750w

“The book is far more real than ‘Still Jim,’ and the style less disjointed. Moreover, there is much greater emotional power and a surer grasp of the whole story. The enormous wonder is how Mrs Willsie has ever managed to write it and edit the Delineator at the same time. It is a powerful story, and more than promising as an indication of the author’s future.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 91:586 F 17 ‘17 300w

“It is a fresh and cheerful tale, and always holds the reader’s interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 320w

“Somewhat overdrawn and unnatural, but interesting. The well drawn setting is Madison, the author’s girlhood home, and the University of Wisconsin.”

+ — =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 80w

=WILLSON, ROBERT NEWTON.= Education of the young in sex hygiene. il *$2 (1c) Stewart & Kidd 612.6

This book was published by the author in 1913. The present edition is a reprint. It is intended as a book of instruction for parents and teachers, those who are responsible for the sex instruction of the young. Two of the chapters, A talk with boys, and A talk with girls, are addresses directly to young people, but are included here as a suggestion of a method of approach. Among the chapters are: Economic relations of the social diseases; The boy—his need; The girl—her need; A brief talk on the heredity of health and disease, and the selfishness of unhygiene; When are the boy and girl to be taught, by whom, and how? The training of the teacher; The eradication of the social diseases in large cities.

“It is thought by the author that boys and girls are taught to better advantage by word of mouth and largely by object demonstration than by the printed page. The book will undoubtedly prove a means of safeguarding hundreds, if not thousands, of boys and girls if parents, teachers and social workers give heed to its warnings.”

+ =Social Service Review= 5:24 Mr ‘17 180w

=WILSON, SIR CHARLES RIVERS.= Chapters from my official life; ed. by Everilda MacAlister. *$3.50 Longmans (Eng ed 17-3144)

“Sir C. Rivers Wilson did good work in many positions of trust, notably as one of the three English commissioners to the Monetary conference held at Brussels in 1892, as the representative of the English bondholders of the Central Pacific railway in 1894, and as president of the Grand trunk railway of Canada from 1895 to 1909; but his name will be best remembered in connection with Egyptian finance. ... His reminiscences do not belong to the same order of writings on Egypt as Lord Cromer’s and Lord Milner’s. ... Writing in a chatty style, he furnishes information on historic incidents by dwelling less on their logical sequence than on the undercurrents in the diplomatic life of the period to which they pertained.”—Nation

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:293 Ap ‘17

+ =Lit D= 54:1075 Ap 14 ‘17 650w

“This frankness, together with the flavor they derive from the anecdotes freely interspersed, constitutes the chief attraction of his memoirs.”

+ =Nation= 104:270 Mr 8 ‘17 750w

+ =Sat R= 122:sup5 N 4 ‘16 950w

“The main portion of his book is naturally devoted to his Egyptian experiences, and though by no means new, supplements in certain particulars the standard works of Lord Cromer, Lord Milner, and Sir Auckland Colvin.”

+ =Spec= 117:808 D 23 ‘16 400w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p484 O 12 ‘16 550w

=WILSON, ERNEST HENRY.= Aristocrats of the garden. il *$5 (7½c) Doubleday 715 17-9126

This book is brought out in an edition limited to 1,200 copies. Among its chapters are: The story of the modern rose, Midseason flowering trees and shrubs, The best of the hardy climbing shrubs, Ornamental fruited trees and shrubs, The best hardy conifers, Broad-leaved evergreens for northern gardens, Japanese cherries and Asiatic crabapples. New herbaceous plants from China. There are eighteen illustrations. The author is a member of the staff of the Arnold arboretum and author of “A naturalist in western China.”

“For many years, Mr Wilson explored the secluded portions of eastern Asia—especially in China and Japan—searching for new plants and trees and shrubs suited to the climate of western gardens. The story of his journey through China in search of the fabled ‘Davidia’ makes one of the most delightful portions of a book of delight. It will send more than one reader to the Arnold Arboretum on a new errand.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 Ap 7 ‘17 700w

“A very beautiful book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 140w

=WILSON, WOODROW.= Why we are at war. *50c (3½c) Harper 353 17-13747

A small volume containing President Wilson’s messages to Congress and to the American people, delivered between January and April, 1917. Contents: A world league for peace; The severance of diplomatic relations with Germany; Request for a grant of power; We must accept war; A state of war; “Speak, act, and serve together.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17

“The title is unfortunate in so far as it does not properly describe the contents of the book. The second inaugural speech, delivered on March 5 last, should, in our opinion, have found a place in the collection.”

+ — =Ath= p466 S ‘17 80w

“The addresses in the great little volume are all instinct with the purpose of leadership.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:193 My 20 ‘17 2600w

=WINDLE, SIR BERTRAM COGHILL ALAN.= Church and science. *$3 Herder 215

The author is a well-known anatomist and archaeologist and is president of University college, Cork. “The book’s message is that the advance of science brings with it constantly increasing testimony to the impossibility of antagonism between the church and any form of truth; that the fancied enmity originated in premature acceptance and proclamation as facts of what were in reality only theories, and that wisdom decrees for the scientist an attitude of humility and patience, and for the Catholic a happy security in the knowledge that any theory that may seem to conflict with Catholic dogma will assuredly, in the course of time, be either proved false and cast aside, or found, when more closely viewed, to be in accordance with the faith.” (Cath World)

“It is a layman’s manual, of intense interest and written with the author’s accustomed force and charm. ... The reader is made acquainted with an imposing array of achievements of the highest order that must be credited to Catholic scientists from the ranks of both the clergy and the laity. ... The book should be upon the shelves of every Catholic library, public and private. ... Above all it should, by every means possible, be circulated among young men, at this time when thousands of every faith and of none are going forth to share the life of camp and trench.”

+ =Cath World= 106:114 O ‘17 900w

=St Louis= 15:318 S ‘17 10w

“His object is not so much to undertake the reconciliation of science and religious belief as to set out the attitude of science on all these problems and to determine how far it actually conflicts with dogmatic religion.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p156 Mr 29 ‘17 270w

=WINSLOW, CARROLL DANA.= With the French flying corps. il *$1.25 Scribner 940.91 17-1909

“The author, a young American who enlisted in the French flying corps soon after the beginning of the war, went through the various exacting grades of flying-school preparation for the French army, and after seven months of training was passed on into regular army aviation work. ... It is specialized without being too technical. Its exposition and narrative of French army aviation training give us fully, simply, and interestingly information on a little-understood phase of the war.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 13:310 Ap ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p46 Mr ‘17 30w

“In terms easily understood by a layman he conveys much interesting information on the art and science of aviation in war. His pictures, especially those from photographs taken at various heights, form a welcome accompaniment to the reading matter.” P. F. Bicknell

+ =Dial= 62:307 Ap 5 ‘17 160w

=Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 50w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:46 Mr ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 160w

=Pratt= p43 O ‘17 30w

“A book which anyone interested in war aviation should read. ... Especially valuable is the account of his seven months’ training in the various branches of military aviation, which should do much to impress upon Americans the important fact that competent military aviators cannot be made in a few weeks, but that it requires a thorough course lasting from six to nine months.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:549 My ‘17 90w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 180w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p530 N 1 ‘17 170w

“Makes thrilling reading for boys.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 30w

=WINSLOW, KENELM.= Prevention of disease. il *$1.75 (2c) Saunders 613 16-23537

This is a popular treatise for the layman. It opens with three chapters on personal hygiene, devoted to habits of right living. These are followed by discussions of special diseases and disorders, germ diseases, cancer, sexual diseases, rheumatism, diseases of children, nervous and mental diseases, etc. Dr Winslow was formerly assistant professor of comparative anatomy in Harvard medical school and is now practicing physician in Seattle, connected with the Seattle city hospital and King county hospital. Dr Charles H. Mayo of St Mary’s hospital, Rochester, Minn., contributes an introduction to the volume.

“Contains chapters on food poisoning, the prevention of some deformities, and a full chapter on sexual diseases and hygiene, which will debar it from the open shelves.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:299 Ap ‘17

“A popular book that might well find a place on the teacher’s desk and in the school library.”

+ =Educ R= 54:208 S ‘17 60w

“The author is fortunate in the method he adopts. He does not attempt to lay a preliminary foundation of anatomical knowledge, an effort that is almost always futile because it seeks to furnish by diagram and description the kind of knowledge that can only be obtained by first-hand acquaintance with the things themselves. He uses the more effective mode of stating fundamental results simply and clearly and in terms comprehensible to any intelligent reader.”

+ =Nation= 105:276 S 6 ‘17 170w

“The volume is clear and interesting in its presentation of many facts of hygiene, germ diseases, mental and nervous diseases, troubles of digestion, etc., facts that should be part of the general knowledge. Its danger is that of the type it belongs to—lest in some particular case the printed page be relied upon in place of personal examination and the verdict of a physician.” G. S.

+ =Survey= 37:586 F 17 ‘17 190w

=WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY. LIBRARY SCHOOL.= Apprentice course for small libraries. il 75c A.L.A. 020.2

These “outlines of lessons, with suggestions for practice work, study and required reading” by the faculty of the Library school of the University of Wisconsin—(Mary Emogene Hazeltine, Helen Turvill, Mary F. Carpenter and Marion Humble)—first appeared in the Wisconsin Library Bulletin, October, 1914 to July, 1915, v. 10-11. “The matter contained in the original series has been revised and is offered herewith in the hope that it may continue to prove useful in this more convenient form. The subject matter is presented for the most part in outline, but it has seemed desirable to vary the style in the different chapters according to the nature of each subject. Methods given are naturally those advocated by the Wisconsin library school, and references to the Wisconsin Library Bulletin are frequent. Amendment and change to suit local practice will be needed. In this revision heed has been taken of the helpful criticisms which have been made upon the series by librarians who have used it.” (Introd.)

=Pittsburgh= 22:772 N ‘17

=WISE, JENNINGS CROPPER.= Call of the Republic. *$1 (4c) Dutton 355.7 17-12273

A plea for universal military service. “It has been attempted to show that such a system is not only highly democratic in conception and in its practical working, but that the cherished volunteer mercenary system is undemocratic both in origin and effect.” (Introd.) Contents: The ancient medieval military systems; Origin and development of the modern national army; Military service in its most democratic form; The English ideal of voluntary service; The inherited American ideal; The American military system; The ideal military institution; The fear of militarism unreasonable. There is a short bibliography at the close.

=A L A Bkl= 14:8 O ‘17

“A clear, well-argued case against the military system that has prevailed for so many years in this country.”

+ =Cath World= 105:836 S ‘17 100w

“There is practically nothing on the Swiss and Australian systems, in which our people are mainly interested.”

=Ind= 91:110 Jl 21 ‘17 50w

“Most Socialists are familiar with the assertion that universal military service means the highest type of democracy. Col. Wise simply enlarges on that and brings his work to a conclusion with a highly poetical, metaphysical, mystical and prophetic peroration. The work, however, is well written, and the author has undoubtedly made a good presentation of his case. The real value of the work, in our opinion, consists, however, in the historical matter given. And its cleverness consists in not pushing property considerations of ancient times into the present.”

=N Y Call= p15 My 13 ‘17 630w

=Pratt= p15 O ‘17 10w

=R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 40w

“A well-thought-out, carefully stated argument for universal compulsory military service and training in the United States. ... But when the author exalts the social and moral advantage of ‘a powerful army’ the reader becomes more and more dubious. To hear that we must cast aside the fatuous doctrines of misguided, over-zealous humanitarians sounds like an echo of Von Bissing. And finally, he strikes the full Prussian note when he asks: ‘Shall we deny the wisdom of God who imposes upon His people the ordeal of battle?’” W. E. K.

– + =Survey= 38:532 S 15 ‘17 530w

=WITHERS, HARTLEY.= Meaning of money. new ed *$1.25 Dutton 332 (Eng ed 17-13479)

“The first edition came from the press in 1909, and now the fourth edition makes its appearance. ... This last edition has been made necessary by the war. The author says in his preface to this edition: ‘It may be added that the chief thesis worked out in the book needs a slight extension in the light of the war’s experience. ... Owing to the great extent of the investments made by the banks, in their patriotic readiness to finance the war by buying government securities, we now have to recognize that investments made by banks have the same effect on their deposits as loans advanced by them.’”—Boston Transcript

“The book has established itself as a standard of its class, and in this latest edition will prove more valuable than ever.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 270w

“Some sections of the book—such as the account of England’s ‘invisible exports’—are so ably written as to be of value to the student as well as to the general reader. The work can be recommended from any relevant point of view.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 25 ‘16 420w

=WITHERS, HARTLEY.= Our money and the state. *$1.25 Button 336 17-31785

This book is based on lectures delivered by the author at the London School of economics in February and March, 1917. “After discussing the limitations of state action, and consequently of state expenditure and taxation, and contrasting the laisser faire with the alternative socialistic school of general interference with our individual activities, the author arrives at a compromise between the two extreme views. The argument is accepted that logically the state is entitled to take all our goods and services in promoting the public good; but Mr Withers observes that the exercise of this right is circumscribed by the ability of the taxpayer to ‘strike.’ ... Mr Withers then proceeds to discuss the two methods by which the government can acquire such goods and services as are needed by it—taxation or loan. The author’s predilection is in favour of the first alternative, taxation pure and simple. ... The keynote of the argument is that ‘posterity never pays.’” (Sat R) “Mr Withers further pleads for direct taxation, and criticizes the schemes of the Fabians and of the Empire resources committee for paying off the war debt by means of state enterprise.” (Ath)

=A L A Bkl= 14:152 F ‘18

“This work is one to make the voter and taxpayer think.”

=Ath= p466 S ‘17 220w

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 23 ‘18 140w

“Written with that lucidity which is characteristic of Mr Withers’ many contributions to economic literature. ... On the subject of taxation generally, Mr Withers confounds ethics with financial policy.”

=Sat R= 124:150 Ag 25 ‘17 950w

“Compactness and lucidity of treatment combined with a vitally important subjectmatter.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p382 Ag 9 ‘17 90w

“It will be useful to the average man. ... The first chapter on ‘The objects of governmental spending,’ is, in view of the overwhelming importance at the moment of the financial needs of the war, of more general interest than the others; for it gives a lucid and terse description of the general principles on which the collection of money from the people by the government is justified. ... Mr Withers is prepared to go some way in company with the enthusiasts who wish to establish a collectivist state; but he does so with great caution and some misgiving.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Ag 16 ‘17 1900w

=WODEHOUSE, PELHAM GRENVILLE.= Piccadilly Jim. il *$1.40 (2c) Dodd 17-6534

Jimmy Crocker was a young American who had worked on a New York newspaper up to the time when his father married a wealthy widow. Then he went to London with his family, and with too much money and too much leisure at his command got into mischief. His escapades, written up at length in the New York press, brought his step-mother’s sister to London with the worthy intention of taking him back to New York and putting him to work. It is Ann Chester, however, who succeeds in saving him from himself. Ann is the niece of the man who is married to his step-mother’s sister. The relationships in the story really are complicated! So is the plot. The step-mother’s sister’s young son plays a part in it. So does a nephew who is inventing a new explosive. So does Jimmy’s baseball-loving father, exiled in London, far from his native diamond.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:317 Ap ‘17

“The complications and characters give occasion for many laughs in particular, Ogden, the spoiled rich boy.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 26 ‘18 160w

“Lightly handled and full of farcical surprises, but not quite up to the mark of ‘Something new.’”

=Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 100w

“The tale is swift-moving, highly ingenious, and very funny—not quite so funny, nor quite so ingenious as ‘Something new,’ perhaps, but very entertaining all the same.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:63 F 25 ‘17 520w

“A breezy farcical tale.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 230w

=WOLFE, ALBERT BENEDICT=, ed. Readings in social problems. (Selections and documents in economics) $2.80 Ginn 304 16-22272

“The social problems discussed in this book of readings are five-fold: immigration, marriage and divorce, the woman problem, the negro problem, and an interrelated group of population problems. The latter includes such subjects as the Malthusian theory of population, the declining birth rate, socialism and population, eugenics, infant mortality, and the ethics of population policies. The editor’s comments introduce the discussion of each problem.”—Ann Am Acad

“Professor Wolfe gives evidence of wide knowledge of the literature and of careful discrimination in his choice of the selections which he has brought together. ... He displays an admirable impartiality in his selections, concealing very successfully any predilections he may have in one direction or another. ... The book will be found to be a valuable reference work for those already somewhat familiar with the topics treated, and undoubtedly an excellent educational medium for the student who approaches the subject for the first time.” H: P. Fairchild

+ =Am Econ R= 7:164 Mr ‘17 450w

“This admirable volume of readings provides abundant materials for the study of certain bio-sociological problems of the greatest importance. It brings together for the first time in convenient form data and balanced discussion by competent and often classic authors bearing upon the great problems of population, sex and race.” E. B. Woods

+ =Am J Soc= 22:840 My ‘17 570w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:335 My ‘17

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:361 My ‘17 150w

“References are given at the close of the discussion of each specific topic. These bibliographical references are well chosen and usable.” J. G. S.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 70:332 Mr ‘17 210w

=Ath= p38 Ja ‘17 100w

“The book is well made, like the rest of the series, and should have a considerable utility for classes in social science.”

+ =Nation= 104:559 My 3 ‘17 200w

“What Manly, Newcomer and Gayley have done for students in English literature, Professor Wolfe has done for his classes in economics and sociology in the University of Texas. ... The book has an evident value in its professed field, but its value extends beyond this specific limit. Many a teacher of English composition, who has grappled with the task of finding a subject which shall stimulate clear thinking and vigorous expression, may turn with relief to some of the important matters suggested in this book.” G. S.

+ =Survey= 38:46 Ap 14 ‘17 230w

=WOLFE, OLIVER HOWARD.= Practical banking. il $2 LaSalle extension univ. 332 17-22550

“The purpose of this book is to explain the fundamental principles which underlie practical banking work in such a manner that they may be helpful to both students and bankers. ... It is possible for a person fortified with such basic knowledge to acquire worth-while experience in the higher branches of banking much faster and to perform his own work better than without such well-organized knowledge. ... No attempt has been made to describe those phases of practical banking which, as a rule, can be mastered only by actual experience.” (Preface) The book has chapters on: Organization and administration; Bank accounting; The receiving teller; The note teller; The transit department; Loans and discounts; Individual ledgers; The general ledger; Audits and examinations, etc. The author is assistant cashier of the Philadelphia national bank.

“The author speaks from actual experience and with authority, on matters of vital importance to those about to enter the banking business or already engaged in it.”

+ =Ind= 92:345 N 17 ‘17 100w

“The value of the treatise lies in Mr Wolfe’s clear explanation of the ordinary functions of banks and the routine of their work.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 12 ‘18 120w

=WOLFF, HENRY WILLIAM.= Co-operative credit for the United States. *$1.50 (1½c) Sturgis & Walton 332.7 17-18066

This volume is by the late president of the International cooperative alliance and the author of “People’s banks”; “Cooperative credit banks”; “Cooperation in agriculture,” etc. The same ground has, up to the dates of publication of the several works, been covered by Mr Wolff in earlier books written specifically for British readers. In this book he tries to “present the same picture in a manner suited to the ideas and habits of an American public.” The opening chapter tells us Why cooperative credit is wanted. The author then discusses the principles of cooperative credit, how they are worked out in various countries, and how they may be adapted to American conditions.

=A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17

“Will be of great value to those who want to learn the practical workings of the system abroad and the adaptability of these plans to American conditions.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:597 Ag ‘17 140w

“A welcome volume by the well-known author of ‘People’s banks.’ ... The conclusion is distinctly optimistic as to the future of co-operative credit in the United States.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:760 Jl ‘17 80w

“Clear and concise.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 12 ‘17 140w

“Along the lines pointed out by Mr Wolff is the hope for the new agriculture, and for securing for small tradesmen and workers that economic emancipation which credit alone can give.” H. F. Grady

=Survey= 38:574 S 29 ‘17 200w

Woman suffrage year book, 1917; ed. by Martha Gause Stapler; articles upon special subjects contributed by Mary Sumner Boyd. pa $1.05 National woman suffrage pub. 324.3 17-7468

“In compiling the ‘Woman suffrage year book’ the aim has been to collect, from different sources, facts chiefly of current and statistical nature, and to arrange them for easy reference under one cover. The first part of the book deals with the progress, extent and results of woman suffrage; the second part deals with the action which various states have taken upon certain questions affecting women and children; the third part deals with miscellaneous information for the general use of suffrage workers and others.” (Preface) It is planned to issue the year book in January of each year with a calendar of events and with statistical information brought up to date.

=A L A Bkl= 13:379 Je ‘17

“Contains excellent tables and bibliographies.”

+ =Cleveland= p78 Je ‘17 50w

=WOOD, CLARENCE ASHTON.= School and college credit for outside Bible study; a survey of a nonsectarian movement to encourage Bible study. $1.50 (2c) World bk. 377 17-13268

Vernon P. Squires, of the University of North Dakota, says in his introduction to the book, “Test after test given to the brightest young people of our country in schools and colleges has shown a most lamentable ignorance of the greatest of English classics, the English Bible, and of the fundamental and historical facts lying back of religious faith.” With a view to remedying this condition, movements for cooperation between church and state in the matter of Bible study, seem to have sprung up simultaneously in many parts of the country. The purpose of the author of this work has been to trace the development of these various movements, and to bring all the facts about their methods and aims together. There is a bibliography at the close and an appendix gives the syllabus adopted for high schools in North Dakota.

=A L A Bkl= 14:152 F ‘18

=Cleveland= p9 Ja ‘18 70w

=Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 80w

“Should be in the hands of all teachers.”

+ =Outlook= 115:669 Ap 11 ‘17 250w

“A body of material of great practical value. Since the author discusses the plan of giving credit for outside Bible study as it is now applied in higher, secondary, and elementary education, his book should be of interest to a rather large audience.”

+ =School R= 25:527 S ‘17 280w

=WOOD, CLEMENT.= Glad of earth. $1 Gomme 811 17-13412

“This first book by Clement Wood contains ‘polyrhythmic poems,’ unrhymed verse of the variety commonly known as vers libre. ... There are three groups: ‘Glad of earth,’ portraits of individuals and types; ‘Comrades,’ ardent love poems, and ‘New roads,’ socialistic poems that protest against conditions that hamper individual development. ... Mr Wood won the prize offered in the 250th anniversary of the city of Newark poetry competition with ‘The smithy of God.’”—R of Rs

“Both Mr Untermeyer and Mr Wood make the mistake of dragging their ethics about with them. Both have their moments of vividness and beauty, but uncertainly, and in conjunction with much that is muddily perceived, scarcely felt, and vaguely phrased.” Conrad Aiken

— =Dial= 62:476 My 31 ‘17 250w

“A distinctly valuable contribution, not only to the literature of revolt, but to literature in itself.” D: P. Berenberg

+ =N Y Call= p13 Ap 22 ‘17 1100w

“As a whole, they are intensely human and inspiring.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:440 Ap ‘17 170w

“Mr Wood has a vigor of expression that holds the attention whatever one may think of the polyrhythmic lines in which it is cast. His fault is the universal shortcoming of the vers librist—a deftness with words that frame an admirable bit of description, but are none the less void of the emotion and fire which is the prerequisite of poetry.”

=Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 150w

=WOOD, ERIC.= Thrilling deeds of British airmen. il *$1.65 (3c) Crowell 940.91 A17-1632

“This little book is not a serious study of aircraft in war, but, as its title indicates, a compilation of thrilling deeds of British airmen chosen from a very large number to illustrate various types and phases of aerial operations. Sometimes the telling has been in the nature of making bricks without straw, because of the absence of details in so many official reports. I trust, however, that in expanding such terse accounts of what obviously were heroic incidents I have not done violence to truth. My aim has been to present what were probably the facts, and I have carefully followed the suggestions contained in the brief originals with that object in view.” (Preface) The book has eight full-page illustrations.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:138 Ja ‘18

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 5 ‘17 180w

“Valor and skill can go no further than in some of the deeds recorded here.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:27 N 3 ‘17 390w

“The stories are straight-forwardly told, with no parade of technicalities, and should appeal to boys.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p382 Ag 9 ‘17 60w

“The writer is handicapped by the parcimony with which our war office, for reasons which we do not presume to criticize, publishes the names of the authors of sensational achievements; but he does his best with such material as is at his disposition, and his best is good.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 D 13 ‘17 100w

=WOOD, ERIC FISHER.=[2] Note-book of an intelligence officer. il *$1.75 Century 940.91 17-30602

“By the author of ‘The notebook of an attaché’ and ‘The handwriting on the wall.’ The book is based on letters written to the author’s mother and contains chapters on: New York to Liverpool; American publicity; The British postal censorship; Lloyd George; Raemaekers; Northcliffe; To France; British insignia, equipment and decorations; Second-lieutenant John Masefield; The will to use the bayonet; The German retreat from the Somme, etc.”

“Holds the same keen interest as ‘The notebook of an attaché.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:125 Ja ‘18

=Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 70w

+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 29 ‘17 400w

“There is no mistaking the inspirer of the book. To Lord Northcliffe, the author is indebted for these favors, and he offers praise ad nauseam.”

– + =Nation= 105:672 D 13 ‘17 290w

“He does not write with any special distinction. But the actual information that he has to give us from the war is interesting and valuable.”

+ — =N Y Times= 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 400w

“These notes are fragmentary and give no real picture of the war.”

– + =Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 40w

+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 80w

=WOOD, HAROLD BACON.= Sanitation practically applied. il *$3 (2c) Wiley 614 17-13582

This work, by the assistant commissioner of the West Virginia state department of health, has chapters devoted to: The need for public health work; Statistics; The control of communicable disease; Child welfare; School hygiene; Pure foods; Clean milk; Water supplies; Sewage disposal; Hygiene of the home and factory; The destruction of insects which transmit disease; The educational movement. “The book is offered as a corollary to the numerous excellent treatises on the theory of hygiene and the laboratory manuals, since the man in the field desires to know how sanitation of the home, of the school, of the factory and of the community can actually be obtained.” (Preface)

“The discussion of even the most technical subjects is made simple and the practical side of every problem receives primary emphasis. In point of clearness and interest the style is much superior to that which readers encounter in most books of its kind.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:792 N ‘17 100w

“The chapter on water-supplies includes a confusing discussion on whether a city should build water-works or sewers first. Under sewage disposal there are a number of statements which are likely to mislead the uninformed. A little revision here and there would clarify and correct these questionable passages in the new edition which a book so good in the main deserves at an early date.”

+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:326 Ag 16 ‘17 240w

“Although intended primarily for health officers and students of public health topics, it forms a very readable general treatise.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:820 D ‘17 20w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 50w

“His audience is primarily the man in the field. But the employer, too, and the employe, business manager and public official will find practical direction in the well printed pages. Here, too, is enlightenment for the student of affairs.” G. S.

+ =Survey= 39:170 N 17 ‘17 250w

=WOOD, MICHAEL.= Mystery of Gabriel. il *$1.40 (4c) Longmans 17-29539

At twenty-nine, Honor Forranner is set free from the responsibilities to which she has devoted her years since girlhood. But her freedom is not of long duration, for she willingly accepts the new responsibility that is offered her in the person of an orphan child found by the roadside. It is this boy, Gabriel, who becomes the central point of interest in this serious and deeply analytical novel. With the years of adolescence, the boy grows away from his adoptive mother. He is subject to strange moods which are the result either of hereditary traits, or of fear of heredity. For, unknown to those interested in his welfare, he has as a child overheard conversations in which the possibility of evil tendencies developing in children of unknown parentage has been discussed. Father Anthony Standish, an Anglican priest, has a strong hold on the boy, and there is a touch of the mystical, even the supernatural, in the scenes in which Gabriel is set free from his obsession.

“Though the greater part of it may seem too mystical for the majority of readers, there is much that should appeal as common sense to all.”

+ — =Ath= p681 D ‘17 40w

“Very interesting and unusual book.”

+ =Cath World= 106:841 Mr ‘18 160w

“This is a story of unusual quality. ... As a psychological study it is both subtle and powerful, though it leaves the reader somewhat disappointed when the heart of the mystery is plucked out. ... Readers of Mr Wood’s former volumes know how thoroughly they are penetrated with the beauty and mysticism of the Catholic element in the Church of England. The same atmosphere pervades the closing chapters of ‘The mystery of Gabriel.’”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:491 N 25 ‘17 470w

“There is for some tastes a little too much of the confessional in this development of the story, and others may feel that such a plot lies too far off the track of ordinary human experience to move them much; but there is a delicacy in the handling that goes some way to compensate these defects, if they are such.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p494 O 11 ‘17 190w

=WOODBERRY, GEORGE EDWARD.= Ideal passion. $1.50 Woodberry soc., c.o. W. B. Symmes, jr., 55 Liberty st., N.Y. 811 17-11925

A sequence of forty-two sonnets “that reconcile the love of sensuous beauty with the high consecration of spirit to the pure love of the ideal.” (R of Rs) “By a curious paradox, these poems are revealing—and uncommunicative. Never did a reality so distinct find embodiment in a frame so impalpable. The reader has a double sense of intimacy and estrangement.” (Nation)

“A few double rhymes and some elisions would relieve the impeccable uniformity of rhythm. Though the love he sings is ideal, there is true passion in his verse, if a passion bloodless and ethereal.”

+ — =Ath= p310 Je ‘17 200w

“It is even at its best, however, a cold and remote sort of beauty; one soon gets tired of so chill a sanctity, and Mr Woodberry is not so perfect an artist but that often, even in the most quiet precincts, the reader suddenly and with a start remembers how long a journey he has come from reality.” Conrad Aiken

– + =Dial= 63:56 Jl 19 ‘17 420w

“These are sonnets of love so sublimated that it retains little of its warm humanity; so detached from the usual personal and racial meanings as to be mystical and austere. Mr Woodberry’s readers will of necessity, be kindred spirits to whom this type of idealism makes an appeal.”

+ — =Ind= 90:553 Je 23 ‘17 100w

“They give—what American verse so rarely gives—a sense of depth and riches in the antecedent experience. Of that report on the universe which we call literature, they are a part. ... Mr Woodberry has his inadvertencies. ... He should not rhyme ‘trance’ with ‘haunts,’ ... nor should he abase himself to the dissolute syntax of the sextet in sonnet thirteen. These are plain blemishes, and my rigor—the rigor of homage—is not to be placated. Pardon is for the mob; to the elect nothing is forgivable.” O. W. Firkins

+ + — =Nation= 105:400 O 11 ‘17 400w

+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 40w

=WOODBRIDGE, ELISABETH (MRS CHARLES GOULD MORRIS).= Days out, and other papers. *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 814 17-30261

Readers of the Contributor’s club of the Atlantic Monthly will be pleased, altho perhaps not surprised, to learn that one of the authors who publish delightful papers anonymously is Elisabeth Woodbridge. Some of these contributions are included among the essays collected in this book. One of these is fittingly entitled The wine of anonymity. Among the other papers are: Days out; A brief for the hat; Cult of the second-best; The embarrassment of finality; Humor and the heroine; Manners and the Puritan.

“Slight, friendly, entertaining essays. Will not be as popular as ‘The Jonathan papers.’”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:158 F ‘18

=Nation= 106:149 F 7 ‘18 400w

“We always feel that we are listening to talk which is cultured but not pretentious, kindly but not forcedly humorous, and, in the fullest sense, human.”

+ =Outlook= 117:575 D 5 ‘17 100w

+ =R of Rs= 57:217 F ‘18 50w

“The essays are all delightful, crisp, original. Each one stops before the reader is ready to let go, and the reading of the next as a solace produces the same desire to keep on.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 220w

=WOODBURY, ROBERT MORSE.= Social insurance; an economic analysis. (Cornell studies in history and political science) *$1.25 Holt 331.25 17-11011

“This book is a critical study submitted in 1915 to the faculty of the graduate school of Cornell university. The author is now a professor of economics in the University of Kansas.” (St Louis) “The book presents an attempt ‘to study the question of the burden of insurance critically.’ ... Not only does the author endeavor to solve this complex problem as to the ‘incidence of social insurance charges,’ but also ‘to reach a reasoned conclusion with respect to the wisdom of a policy of social insurance.’ ... He finds that instead of destroying thrift, social insurance will rather encourage and stimulate it; that compulsory insurance against sickness and accident and superannuation is a definite step towards elimination of poverty.” (Survey)

“The volume will be especially helpful to those whom it is intended to serve; namely, persons who desire in brief form specific information and critical discussion on the problem of social-insurance costs. It presents facts in place of fears, hopes, and assumptions.” J: A. Ryan

+ =Am J Soc= 23:416 N ‘17 420w

=Cleveland= p9 Ja ‘18 30w

=St Louis= 15:169 Je ‘17 30w

“Professor Woodbury’s study may safely be recommended as the first serious effort to analyze the problem of cost.” I. M. Rubinow

+ — =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 450w

=WOODHOUSE, HENRY.= Textbook of naval aeronautics; introd. by Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske. il *$6 Century 623.7 17-18983

The book “is chiefly descriptive and historical. Some of the many photographs are like graphic illustrations of chapters in an early Wells scientific romance. There is all the information necessary for the prospective aeronaut—chapters on aerial photography, radio telegraphy, night flying, instruments for aerial navigation, courses of instruction and required qualifications of personnel for the air service of the United States navy, training, navigation over water, submarine hunting by aircraft, locating submerged mines, etc., etc. No factual aspect of naval aeronautics is omitted.”—New Repub

=A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17

“As a textbook it is cumbered with a vast mass of extremely interesting but rather irrelevant matter. An instructor making use of it would have to skip about from one end to the other of its 274 pages; but it is provided with an elaborate index compiled by Howard L. Goodhart.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 550w

+ =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 80w

“It is clear, truthful as to difficulties, expository in the best sense.” H. S.

+ =New Repub= 11:312 Jl 14 ‘17 1050w

=WOODLEY, OSCAR ISRAEL, and WOODLEY, M. VIRGINIA.= Profession of teaching. *$1.35 (1½c) Houghton 371 17-25134

This book has been written in answer to a challenge, to the effect that teaching is not a profession. In the carrying out of their purpose the authors were first called upon to discover the nature of a profession. This is done in the first chapter. The remainder of the book is a study of the particular requirements demanded of those who wish to be teachers in a truly professional sense. Contents: Profession defined; School ethics; The ultimate aim of education; Happiness as related to education; The social function of the school; The relation of the school to the state; The learning process; Correct concepts necessary for right thinking; The teaching process; The recitation; Subject-matter; Vocational education; Vocational guidance; The child’s ability known and utilized; The fundamental concept. Each chapter is followed by a brief reading list and the book is further made useful as a text by the inclusion of questions and exercises. The joint authors have written other books for school use, among them “Foundation lessons in English.”

+ =El School J= 18:238 N ‘17 110w

=WOODROW, NANCY MANN (WADDEL) (MRS WILSON WOODROW).= Hornet’s nest. il *$1.35 (1½c) Little 17-9252

William Whitefield, politician, financier, and traction magnate finds himself confronted with a skeleton he had thought long buried. For fifteen years before he had destroyed the career of Ashe Colvin, a brilliant young New Yorker, who would have exposed his traction deal, and he had quarreled and parted with his ward, the high-spirited, rich, but, to the millionaire, undesirable Fletcher Hempstead. When his safe is robbed of the Colvin papers and clues lead to a professional cracksman, the “Hornet” who strangely resembles his nephew Fletcher, and when his beautiful niece apparently knows much about the affair that she provokingly conceals, the millionaire fears that the old sins have come to light. It is a thrilling battle of wits, and the love interest is not left out.

“Also a romance quickly springs into being, somewhat invigorating the sordid atmosphere of intrigue environing the story.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 450w

“A mystery story that seizes and holds the attention.”

+ =Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 110w

+ =N Y Times= 22:110 Mr 25 ‘17 200w

“An unusually interesting tale of its type.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 150w

=WOODS, CLINTON EDGAR.= Unified accounting methods for industrials. $5 Ronald 657 17-5973

“During the last few years a new profession has been slowly developing in the industrial world, sometimes called industrial engineering, sometimes efficiency engineering, or again production engineering. ... To trace the development of industrial engineering in detail would mean the writing of several books. Therefore, in the present instance, the primary purpose will be an effort to explain its scope, some of the results obtained by its application to industrials, the necessity that exists for such special service as the industrial engineer has to offer, and in so far as possible to establish certain standards for this new profession.” (Chap. 1) About one third of the book is given up to forms of various kinds.

“Presents a well-thought-out, elaborately developed system of records and methods of record keeping adapted to manufacturing enterprises. Because of his practical purpose, the author does not stop to discuss variations from the standard which may be necessary to fit particular conditions, nor does he indicate that there may be in some cases other equally good ways of doing things. Mr Woods writes from the standpoint of the industrial engineer rather than of the accountant, which is responsible for the short dismissal of some points which could profitably be treated with greater fullness. Some of the topics ably presented are: analyzing an industrial manager’s monthly balance sheet; purchasing and receiving; general stores; preparation for the handling of production; schedules; converting labor, material, and expense into finished product; controlling accounts; taking the inventory, etc.” R. B. Kester

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:230 S ‘17 360w

“The book shows care and thoroughness in preparation. It is a book to be studied and worked with, not to be skimmed through. The fact that one does not always agree with the author does not impair the usefulness of the volume. It merely means that the reader must justify to himself that certain of his own methods, differing from those set down, are better for him than those given by the author.” E. C. Church

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:363 My 17 ‘17 370w

=Pittsburgh= 22:422 My ‘17 40w

=St Louis= 15:332 S ‘17 30w

=WOOFTER, THOMAS JACKSON.= Teaching in rural schools. (Riverside textbooks in education) *$1.40 Houghton 379.17 17-29771

As stated by the author, the aims of this book for rural teachers are: “(1) To bring to attention the needs of rural life, the broadening vision of rural life, and the possible contributions of the rural school to this life; (2) To unfold in a clear and helpful way some introductory guiding principles of education; (3) To start any rural teacher on the road of the best in modern methods in teaching and in managing; (4) To direct such a teacher to the most helpful aids in educational literature in connection with the various phases of theory and practice.” The author is dean of the school of education in the University of Georgia and his book is “an outgrowth of the experience of years spent in teaching in rural schools and of other years given to the preparation of teachers.” Part 1 discusses general problems connected with the rural school. Part 2 is devoted to specific school subjects. Suggestions for reading follow each chapter and at the end there is a list of “Twenty good books for rural-school teachers.”

“A careful reading of the first part raises grave questions as to the wisdom of trying to present in the brief space of one-half of a small textbook the wide scope in which the author is interested. He has been forced to drop into the practice of laying down rule-of-thumb principles and methods of procedure rather than of developing carefully each of the principles. In part 2 the writer again can do no more than rather dogmatically lay out various methods of teaching the individual subjects. The book literature of rural-school administration and teaching is extremely limited. In its present condition Professor Woofter’s book will probably be of distinct help to most rural-school teachers.” H. O. Rugg

+ — =El School J= 18:310 D ‘17 720w

=WOOLF, LEONARD SIDNEY.= Future of Constantinople. *$1 Macmillan 327.4 (Eng ed 17-21780)

“This is a plea for the establishment of an International commission, composed, say, of Americans, Danes, and Swiss, to control Constantinople and the Straits after the war, just as the Danube navigation was controlled by a European commission, of whose work interesting particulars are given. It is a possible solution of a question which cannot be left unsolved.”—Spec

=Ath= p358 Jl ‘17 100w

“The grand defect of his schemes, whether they deal with the government of Constantinople or with the settlement of non-justiciable disputes, is that they will work all right in normal times, but that they provide no security against the emergence of the old Adam at a crisis.”

– + =Ath= p582 N ‘17 950w

“Brief but remarkably cogent argument. ... We believe he offers a valid solution to a four-and-a-half century problem.” S. A.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 O 20 ‘17 600w

“One cannot repress the feeling that the author undervalues the difficulty of carrying out his plan.”

+ — =Dial= 63:591 D 6 ‘17 380w

+ =Spec= 119:16 Jl 7 ‘17 70w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p275 Je 7 ‘17 20w

=WORK, EDGAR WHITAKER.= Bible in English literature. *$1.25 (1½c) Revell 220 17-27636

The purpose of this book is to trace the influence of the Bible on the mode of thought and expression of English literature. The author says, “We shall not be content with showing how the Bible has been quoted by English writers. This is important, and will receive frequent attention. The purpose is broader than this—to show how biblical thought and style have entered into the very mold of English literature.” For his starting point he goes back to the arrival in England of Augustine and his monks, who brought with them the Bible and its teachings. Other early chapters are devoted to Cynewulf, Bede, Alcuin, and King Alfred; another to Religious drama; another to Men of the threshold—Chaucer, Langland and Wyclif. Later chapters are given to Shakespeare and the Bible; The Bible in English prose; The Bible in English poetry, etc.

“Deeply learned, yet admirably simple in construction and expression, Doctor Work’s revelation of the splendor of ‘that light which has never paled from English literature throughout more than a thousand years’ will appeal to all lovers of history, profane as well as biblical.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 370w

“Dr Ward possesses an adequate knowledge of the ramifications of the chosen matter, enabling him to present clear and convincing conclusions.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 29 ‘18 320w

World peril;[2] America’s interest in the war, by members of the faculty of Princeton university. *$1 Princeton univ. press 940.91 17-28843

“What the Princeton professors have undertaken to do is to offer, in the words of President Hibben’s introduction, ‘an especial contribution to the more accurate understanding of the reasons for the entry of the United States into the European war, and to the more vivid appreciation of all that is involved in the outcome of this conflict.’” (Nation) “Contents: American rights imperilled, Henry Van Dyke; Democracy imperilled, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker; International law imperilled, Edward S. Corwin; The world balance of power imperilled, Mason W. Tyler; The world peril and the two Americas, Clifton R. Hall; The world peril and American interests in the Far East, Mason W. Tyler; The world peril and world peace, Philip Marshall Brown.” N Y Br Lib News

“Unless there shall be what Bertrand Russell calls a neutral authority empowered to adjust interests and to institute readjustments peacefully, readjustments by force are inevitable. We should expect that a book written primarily to educate public opinion regarding war issues would squarely face this problem. The authors of ‘The world peril’ have not done so. Their emphasis is upon the past, not the future.” V. T. Thayer

– + =Dial= 64:19 Ja 3 ‘18 1900w

“What they have done, besides phrasing an uninspired arraignment of Germany, is to make a volume whose treatment of certain important aspects of American foreign policy affords a veritable arsenal of weapons for those who still like to sneer at American altruism or the good faith of American democracy, and from which the German government might, if it chose, reprint considerable extracts with satirical satisfaction. If American universities can offer no better support for the cause of democracy than this volume affords, then truly is the outlook dark.”

— =Nation= 106:40 Ja 10 ‘18 2800w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:188 D ‘17 60w

=WORTH, PATIENCE.= Sorry tale; a story of the time of Christ; communicated through Mrs John H. Curran; ed. with a brief introd., by Casper S. Yost. *$1.90 (½c) Holt 17-19505

“‘The sorry tale,’ in the language as used by Patience Worth, is the same as ‘The tale of sorrow.’ ... It is a tale of Bethlehem and Jerusalem and Rome in the days of Jesus Christ, and its theme is the interaction of the love and hate incarnated in the bodies of the Christ and of the thief who died on the cross with Him. ... A great crowd of characters, there must be more than a hundred, carry on the action of the drama, and every one is individualized, full of its own tang of humanity, human and alive. ... ‘Patience’ works her own will with the gospels. She invents new miracles, she retells the old ones, she fills out with incidents the lives of Christ and His disciples; but the touching beauty and simple dignity of the figure of Christ are treated always with reverence and there is nothing in the tale to which the most orthodox could object.”—N Y Times

“But—and this is the main thing—the style as a whole has much of nobility and force—a biblical style with abounding colour added. ... I, for one, own myself converted by this story from a mood of languid curiosity about an odd ‘psychic’ phenomenon, to a state of lively interest in the future published work of the powerful writer who goes by the name of ‘Patience Worth.’” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:350 N ‘17 1000w

Reviewed by Wilfrid Lay

* =Bookm= 46:351 N ‘17 1050w

“If, however, on account of its psychic claims, one approaches the story with unbelief or scoffing, one is instantly rebuffed by its quality. Especially is one impressed with that strongly marked individuality, that touch of a unique personality pervading the book, which we call style.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 1 ‘17 400w

“This tale of the Christ is not in the least impressive. Its sole interest lies in its much advertised and to our mind spurious origin.”

— =Cath World= 106:550 Ja ‘18 140w

“The plot, stripped of verbiage, is consistent and straightforward; many of the incidents are amazingly dramatic or poetic; and the presentation of the life then extant in Palestine is accurate and full.”

+ — =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 300w

“Certainly this book deserves to be weighed not merely as a ‘psychic phenomenon,’ but as a piece of creative fiction.”

+ — =Nation= 105:224 Ag 30 ‘17 870w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 40w

=New Repub= 12:335 O 20 ‘17 800w

“But it is a wonderful book, a more astonishing and sustained work than the earlier Patience Worth volume, and unquestionably the most remarkable product of the so-called spirit world, whether it be a sub-conscious achievement, or due to some unnamed psychic manifestation.” Clement Wood

+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ag 26 ‘17 560w

“The long and intricate tale is constructed with the precision and the accuracy of a master hand. It is a wonderful, a beautiful, and a noble book, but it not easy to read. Its archaic language and its frequently indirect modes of expression make necessary constantly the closest attention. The meaning is often so obscure that only considerable study will make it clear. Whoever would read it through will need to be well supplied with time and patience. But if he appreciate the noble and the beautiful in literature he will be well repaid. And he will marvel more deeply than ever over the mystery of ‘Patience Worth.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:253 Jl 8 ‘17 1250w

“We are sorry that we cannot join in the praise which has been given to these two books by some critics that take them seriously and find that the literary ghost, so to speak, who communicates under the pseudonym of ‘Patience Worth’ is ‘sensitive, witty, keenly metaphysical.’ We will admit that ‘Patience’ has better qualifications as a writer of fiction than most ‘controls,’ but we find her writing feverish, high-flown, and terribly prolix.”

— =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 200w

“Laying aside all questions of the actual authorship, the novel has beauty and extraordinary power.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 130w

=WRAY, W. FITZWATER (KUKLOS, pseud.).= Across France in war time. il *50c Dutton 940.91 17-29470

“In common with many other British journalists at the beginning of the war, W. Fitzwater Wray suddenly found himself with his means of livelihood suspended and indefinite leisure time on his hands. ... He decided to make a tour of France and chose a bicycle as his vehicle. Taking the channel boat at Southampton, and landing at St Malo, ... he journeyed eastward, through Alençon and Chartres, passing to the south of Paris, and with Vitry-le-François as his turning point, skirted the line of battle as far north as Clermont. The rest of his journey was by rail through Paris to Havre, whence he sailed back to England. Once more in London, he went immediately to the offices of the Daily News and began to write the story of his travels for publication in its columns. It is this story, amplified by omitted portions which were excised from his manuscript to save newspaper space, which is made into this recent volume of the Wayfarer’s library.” Boston Transcript

“Full of picturesque little incidents and human touches is Mr Wray’s volume. It gives an unusual picture of the people in the midst of war, and it portrays the difficulties and the occasional danger of travel in the midst of friends who are on the alert to suspect every man’s hand is against them. ... Added interest is given to Mr Wray’s volume by a series of reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 18 ‘17 1050w

+ =Dial= 63:462 N 8 ‘17 180w

“If much of what he relates has been told elsewhere, yet he adds fresh wayside touches to complete the picture of what we already know of France at that period.”

+ =Ind= 91:477 S 22 ‘17 90w

“His story is vivid and interesting.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 5 ‘17 270w

=WRIGHT, MRS AGNES (FOSTER).= Interior decoration for modern needs. il *$2.25 (4½ c) Stokes 747 17-25296

A practical book for women who cannot employ decorators or who, employing them, wish to work understandingly with them. It is the room between the “period room and the packing-case room” that Mrs Wright helps home makers remove from the commonplace. Simplicity, suitability, durability, economy, comfort and good taste are the watch words. The apartment dweller ought to be especially grateful for the chapter on “The city apartment,” in which are discussed colors that increase the sense of space, furniture arrangement and space economy, and the treatment of the small city apartment. Good illustrations accompany the text.

“She does not cater to the slim purse, but, on the other hand, her suggestions are less elaborate than those in De Wolfe’s ‘House in good taste,’ and Parson’s ‘Interior decoration.’ The book contains many practical suggestions for color schemes and arrangement, and is fully and attractively illustrated.”

+ =Cleveland= p136 D ‘17 60w

“The author strikes a cheerful medium between the ideal and the possible, especially in her treatment of kitchens and service quarters.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:436 O 28 ‘17 180w

+ =R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 50w

=WRIGHT, HELEN SAUNDERS (SMITH) (MRS CHARLES HEWITT WRIGHT).= Our United States army; with an introd. by Major-General Leonard Wood. il *$1.50 (2c) Shores 355.09 17-13202

“It is my purpose to present in the following pages a few examples of the manifold activities of the army of the United States, the importance and economic significance of which have been overshadowed by historians in the tragic drama and far-reaching results of our nation’s wars.” (Preface) Contents: Lewis and Clark expedition; Explorations of Pike, Long and Bonneville; Fremont and his adventures; Domestic disturbances; Indian treaties and warfare; Lieutenant Whipple’s surveys and adventures; Gold and the early days of California; Trouble in Kansas and the Mormon problem; Exploration of the Colorado river; Building of the transcontinental railroads; The reconstruction of the South; Alaska; Cuba and the Philippines; Eradication of disease by army medical staff; The Panama canal.

“To recognize properly the service of the army other than military is the errand of this modest volume, and it should be placed in every library beside the history that deals with wars and the military service of the army, to preserve the proper balance. Written in an easy and readable style, the book impresses because so little is claimed; nothing is presented for recognition but the results.” J. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 26 ‘17 500w

“The book should be of much interest to the public, for it is practicably the first history, in popular form, of the United States army. It is perhaps to be regretted that the author has not included more extended historical accounts of the organization of the army.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 11 ‘17 310w

=WRIGHT, HENRY WILKES.= Faith justified by progress. *$1.25 Scribner 204 16-22424

“The Bross lectures for 1916 at Lake Forest college have been published under the title, ‘Faith justified by progress.’ The author takes certain types of social life which have been outstanding stages of social and moral evolution and seeks to discover what part religious faith had in their working and development. The book opens with a discussion of the eclipse of faith due to the rise of naturalism. ... In four chapters Dr Wright reviews ‘Primitive life,’ ‘Natural life,’ ‘Supernatural life,’ ‘The universal life,’ and ends with a postscript on the ‘Future of religion.’”—Springf’d Republican

“It is to be hoped that Professor Wright’s book will be widely read; for it is well calculated to arouse interest and sympathy for a religious movement of great promise.” G. B. Smith

+ =Am J Theol= 21:303 Ap ‘17 1270w

=A L A Bkl= 14:4 O ‘17

“The postscript on the future of religion is a fitting close to a work which is optimistic in an acceptable form. Although the author’s conception of will is very comprehensive, in the reviewer’s opinion there is hardly sufficient recognition of the great fact that will to be efficient must be directed. Reason must at least sit on the right hand of the throne. We heartily commend the book to a wide constituency.”

+ =Bib World= 49:186 Mr ‘17 350w

=Ind= 89:510 Mr 19 ‘17 50w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:13 Ja ‘17

“The author is professor of philosophy in Lake Forest college.”

=St Louis= 15:6 Ja ‘17 10w

“The book is clearly written and is systematic in its presentation of its thesis. It represents real scholarship and incisive reasoning.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 28 ‘17 350w

=WRIGHT, IRENE ALOHA.= Early history of Cuba, 1492-1586; written from original sources. map *$2 (2c) Macmillan 972.91 16-23517

A work based on a study of records in the Archive of the Indies at Seville, Spain. As the introduction states, it is a “history of Cuba from its discovery by Columbus in 1492, through the year 1586, when Sir Francis Drake, in sailing along the north shore of the island after his successful raid on other Spanish settlements of the West Indies, closed the first era of the colony’s history.” Contents: Book 1, 1492-1524, Spain takes possession of Cuba; Book 2, 1524-1550, An era of stagnation; Book 3, 1550-1567, French influence; Book 4, 1567-1586, The menace of the English.

“Gives some new and interesting material and at the same time suffers some omissions from the limitation of its sources.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:22 O ‘17

“When Miss Irene Wright chose such an attractive subject, and took the trouble to study it from the original sources in Spain, it seems a pity that she has produced such a dull book. Miss Wright’s book may contain a good deal of fresh matter, but unfortunately it is unreadable.” H. P. B.

– + =Eng Hist R= 32:620 O ‘17 360w

+ =Ind= 90:36 Ap 2 ‘17 140w

“The best chapters in the book are those dealing with Menendez de Avilés, the first truly great figure to appear in Cuban history. ... In such a book as this a map is not only desirable, but essential; and the same may be said of a list of the writers who have already worked in the field of early Cuban history.”

=Nation= 104:599 My 17 ‘17 1100w

+ =N Y Times= 22:276 Jl 22 ‘17 380w

“Interesting, readable account.”

+ =Pratt= p44 O ‘17 10w

+ =R of Rs= 55:217 F ‘17 130w

“Miss Wright has had the courage to explore the archive of the Indies at Seville, and has written this attractive and interesting book from the documents, which no one before her had studied with care.”

+ =Spec= 119:145 Ag 11 ‘17 150w

“Miss Wright’s book is interesting and readable throughout. ... While it is to be regretted that she did not bring her research down to a later date, the ‘Early history of Cuba’ will have lasting value for the light it throws on the development of the Spanish colonial empire.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 2 ‘17 250w

“Miss Wright is a journalist who has practised her profession in Havana and has by long residence in the island well qualified herself to write such a descriptive work on present-day Cuba as she published a few years ago. But the qualities which served her well in the composition of that work are not all that are needed in a more serious history based on original research among documentary materials. ... Her narrative is lacking in insight and perspective, and in that creative, or at least reconstructive, imagination which is the note of the true historian. Moreover, she handles her materials in no very scholarly fashion.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p98 Mr 1 ‘17 1300w

=WRIGHT, PHILIP QUINCY.= Enforcement of international law through municipal law in the United States. (Studies in the social sciences) pa $1.25 Univ. of Ill 341 16-10801

“Dr Wright ... has confined himself to a study of the measures which this country has adopted to compel its citizens and others found within the confines of its jurisdiction to observe what Dr Wright calls ‘supra-national’ law. ... Throughout the book the sharp dividing line between that which is municipal and that which is international is clearly drawn. Dr Wright aims to present a study of the enforcement by the national legal machinery within the United States of those provisions which may be considered as international law. He points out that the importance of this study results from the necessity in the application of the system of ‘supra-national’ law to take action through national officials. The title of his book makes a sharp division between the rules of international law which are observed by the executive and representative branches of the government and those which are enforced by the legal machinery.”—Nation

“As to the method followed by Doctor Wright, nothing can be said in criticism of the excellent scholarship evinced throughout the monograph. The author is sure of his ground. He has a firm grasp on his law, and is careful to make only such statements as can be amply substantiated. ... It is possible to criticize the mechanical arrangement of his thesis. The scaffolding is too much in evidence. The structure is too gaunt and creaking. Such chapter headings as ‘Obligations of vindication’ and ‘Obligations of reparation’ are awkward and pedantic. But such criticism is of course of minor importance.” P. M. Brown

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:143 P ‘17 1250w

“The style, command of material, method of treatment, and unusual power of accurate classification will give Dr Wright’s work a high place among the numerous studies in his subject which are now appearing. His work is both original and sanely conservative.”

+ =Nation= 104:525 My 3 ‘17 950w

=WRIGHT, RICHARDSON LITTLE.= Russians; an interpretation. *$1.50 (2c) Stokes 914.7 17-13335

Writing shortly before the revolution in Russia the author said, “I have attempted to interpret the why and how of Russian life so that Americans can understand what their present activities presage for the future. ... There is no reason why the people of the greatest republic should not be on friendly terms with the people of the greatest autocracy. Between no two nations are there so many points of contact—what the states possess fitting so snugly into what Russia requires.” Contents: The strength of the adolescent; What is a Russian? A democracy in the making; The things he revolts against; “This is the faith of the fathers”; The moujik’s religion; The Russian as a business man; The Russian as a working man; Defining Dostoevsky and some others; The colors of the Russian palette; When Russia sings; The Russian land of promise; Russia’s manifest destinies; Russia and America.

“It is hardly necessary to add that while expatiating with an air of authority on the remote destinies of Russia, Mr. Wright overlooks the stupendous powers of revolt and reconstruction which were ripening before his very eyes in the vast Slavic cauldron.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

– + =Bookm= 46:482 D ‘17 200w

“Many inaccuracies also arouse the reader’s suspicion. ... Mr Wright makes a valuable comparison between the Russian and the American business man and any person cherishing the plan of engaging in trade with Russia would find it to his advantage to take his sensible and constructive suggestions to heart. ... He gives an excellent idea of the greatness and promise of Siberia and here his own personal experiences are of real value.” N. H. D.

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 550w

+ =Cath World= 105:537 Jl ‘17 330w

“His style is vivid rather than literary, and his viewpoint distinctly American.”

+ — =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 90w

“The work of a man who has a deep affection for the Russian people and a knowledge of the grave problems that Russia will have to face in the near future. Unfortunately, much in Mr Wright’s interesting volume has become ‘antiquated’ in view of the great strides that the country has made in the last four months.” L: S. Friedland

+ — =Dial= 63:199 S 13 ‘17 900w

“The correspondent of the New York World and the London Daily Press covers a broad field, and answers more of the questions Americans are asking than do most books on Russia.”

=Ind= 90:269 My 12 ‘17 40w

“It is a vital fault in Mr Wright’s volume that not only does it fail to make us see a reason for the revolution, but that its spirit and context bear all against the possibility of what has actually come to pass. ... His ideas on the radical revolutionary forces in the country are positively tragic. ... He has given us something that comes very close to being a misinterpretation of the Russian people.”

— =Nation= 104:661 My 31 ‘17 300w

“A clear, sane, and interesting as well as instructive account of a country and its people.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:209 My 27 ‘17 600w

=Pratt= p46 O ‘17 10w

+ =R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 100w

“The aim of the book is to dispel false impressions and it accomplishes its object.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 400w

Reviewed by Walter Pettit

+ =Survey= 38:359 Jl 21 ‘17 300w

=WRIGHT, WILLARD HUNTINGTON.= Creative will. *$1.50 (3c) Lane 701 16-24940

The author calls the four essays of this book “studies in the philosophy and the syntax of æsthetics.” The four essays are entitled Art and life, Problems of æsthetics, Art and the artist, Art and the individual. Mr Wright is author of a book on “Modern painting: its tendency and meaning.” It is the philosophy of the new art that he voices in this book: “The artist is an interpreter of causes, not a depicter of effects”; “The dictum that ‘art should express life’ has retarded the development of æsthetic expression more than any other”; “Art is the mouthpiece of the will of nature, namely, the complete unified intelligence of life. ... An artist’s mind in the act of creating, is only an outlet of that intelligence.”

“A little more science and a little more philosophy would have given us a work of more catholic sympathy without abandoning the general position which Mr Wright so ably constructs.”

+ — =Bellman= 22:161 F 10 ‘17 170w

“The æsthetic of mass, which has been variously developed by Guyau, Hildebrandt, Lipps, and Berenson, receives its most effective literary presentation in this new book. ... Mr Wright’s style has pulse and drive enough to carry along a good deal that is crabbed in vocabulary. He is always honest and clear, and but seldom careless. His robust intellectualism deserves admiration, however much his particular theories may provoke dissent. To read him is to sharpen one’s own thinking. ... I suppose the unsteadiness of the impression Mr Wright’s argument makes, is due to the fact that he has built up upon a flimsy foundation a well-ordered and over elaborate structure. He is at all points very far from life, of which art is after all an expression, and his miraculously poised card house does not look habitable. In building it, however, he has displayed rare ingenuity.” F. J. Mather, jr.

+ =Dial= 62:15 Ja 11 ‘17 1350w

“The book is not without its sound teachings; as, for instance, in parts of Aphorisms 27, 138, 150, and 179; but it also contains a number of misleading statements which point to a lack of historical research on the part of the author. ... No one can fail to discover that Mr Wright is in dead earnest; but, after reading his book carefully, we cannot advise the public to take him too seriously at the present stage of his development.”

– + =Nation= 104:370 Mr 29 ‘17 1100w

“Once Mr Wright wrote a book called ‘What Nietzsche taught,’ but he neglected to learn one of that philosopher’s most pungent lessons, which was, not to attempt a volume of metaphysical epigrams unless you are a genius. ... One demands always the just, always the keen and vivid insight. And in ‘The creative will’ the supply is pitifully inadequate to the demand. It is mostly will, and very little creation.” H. S.

— =New Repub= 10:382 Ap 28 ‘17 1050w

=WRIGHT, WILLARD HUNTINGTON.= Misinforming a nation. *$1.25 (2½c) Huebsch 032 17-13756

A critical examination of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In his first chapter, Colonizing America, the author contends that American thought is shaped by British influence. Cut off from contact with other European nations by unfamiliarity with any language other than English, and unsure of ourselves, we have slavishly imitated England. “We have de-Americanized ourselves to such an extent that there has grown up in us a typical British contempt for our own native achievements.” In particular is the Encyclopædia Britannica held responsible. “Taken as a whole, the Britannica’s divisions on culture are little more than a brief for British art and science,” says the author. Chapters on The novel, The drama, Poetry, British painting, etc., are given up to an examination of the Britannica’s treatment of these subjects. At the close there is a list of Two hundred omissions.

=Cleveland= p116 S ‘17 60w

“Mr Wright’s book, as a pamphlet against a long-established literary institution, gets to be rather wearying and irritating. ... So good a book ought not to produce such an effect. I suggest that it be read in a different spirit from that in which it is written, and that it be made to serve a different purpose. Let it be thoroughly indexed and annotated, and used as a little ‘Encyclopædia moderna’ (if such Latin will pass), concerned altogether with current movements and latter-day personalities.” H: B. Fuller

— =Dial= 62:477 My 31 ‘17 1150w

— =Nation= 104:734 Je 21 ‘17 780w

=New Repub= 11:223 Je 23 ‘17 1550w

“Certainly, a work of the proportions of the encyclopedia in spite of the most earnest efforts of those in charge, would have its defects in omission and commission. But to the ordinary reader it seems a little bit unnecessary to fly into a rage over these errors, and thus mar what would otherwise be a very important critical study.”

– + =N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 580w

“The confusion of thought, the mixed metaphor, the affectation of needless and banal French words, the spiteful and shallow temper shown in the brief citation we have made pervade the book.”

— =NY Times= 22:169 Ap 29 ‘17 650w

=Pittsburgh= 22:702 O ‘17 20w

“Written in the spirit of an attack rather than a judicial examination. The overwhelming merits of the work are largely ignored. ... Mr Wright misrepresents the book which he is examining. For instance, he gives a list of 200 Americans whose biographies do not appear in the Britannica. But he does not state that practically all these Americans are considered under the subjects in which, if at all, they have attained distinction.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 7 ‘17 950w

=WYATT, EDITH FRANKLIN.= Great companions. *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 814 17-7484

Essays reprinted from the North American Review, the Chicago Tribune, the Little Review, Poetry, and other periodicals. Most of them are literary studies. The author of Robinson Crusoe, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Some unpopular parodies, With Walt Whitman in Camden, James Whitcomb Riley, Brontë poems, Shelley in his letters, are some of the titles. Among the remaining essays are a few possessing a wider interest, altho these too have a literary point of departure. “Nonsense about women” is a comment on the Fiona MacLeod-William Sharp problem. “An autobiography of American farm women” is a study of the series of letters from farm women published by the Department of agriculture.

“Shows delightful intimacy and sound critical judgment. The sense of the writer’s personality, while not at all intrusive, adds a flavor to the essays.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:344 My ‘17

“As a ‘tonic,’ ‘Great companions’ can certainly be recommended, for it contains something sufficiently rare: independent and, at the same time, cheerful thought about what we have done in literature and what we are likely to do.”

+ =Dial= 62:315 Ap 5 ‘17 300w

+ =Ind= 90:34 Ap 2 ‘17 140w

“To make a book of such a miscellany of topics requires the sustained application of general ideas or the pervasive cement of personality. In this case there is not enough of either element to produce much impression of coherence. Where temperament appears, however, it is bright, cheery, and gently adventurous. And here and there Miss Wyatt turns up an idea fit for the central thesis of a book.”

+ =Nation= 105:71 Jl 19 ‘17 230w

“Miss Wyatt has read Americans with particular responsiveness, deeply feeling the privilege of America, the chance our democracy has given us so far, and the beauty of the vastness of our plains and forests.” E. B.

+ =New Repub= 12:140 S 1 ‘17 950w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:61 Ap ‘17

“It is interesting throughout, and it is marked by a freshness and briskness which—added to the carefulness of its study—give it a great deal of charm.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:325 S 2 ‘17 310w

“It is with this constant bias toward sensitive and beautiful indication that Miss Wyatt discriminates the human and spiritual values of her subject-matter. ... That is her special and precious contribution. We are aware of no one else in America today who can interpret imaginative creation out of a fuller understanding of those things which are efficacious ‘in making men wiser, better, and happier’: who can speak of them with equal insight, rectitude, and beauty.” Lawrence Gilman

+ + =No Am= 205:462 Mr ‘17 1400w

“She has the faculty of making all her literary friends appear worth a further acquaintance.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 340w

=WYATT, EDITH FRANKLIN.= Wind in the corn, and other poems. *$1 Appleton 811 17-29996

A volume of lyrics, collected from the author’s writings of the past ten or more years. She offers them now as an attempt to express something of the American dream of democracy. They are an expression of “some of the overland ways of the living presence of our country,” the author believing that one of the most important elements in our common background is a “consciousness of movement over a variety of country.” Among the poems in which this “overland” element is prominent are: Wind in the corn; To a river god; Niagara; Winter wheat; On the great plateau; November in the city; An Arizona wind; A city equinoctial.

“There is more romance in these poems than at first appears on the surface, but it is the romance of the spirit rather than place or incident. Simple and direct as is the language of these poems, they are richly suggestive of life with fulness of dream and aspiration. With a peculiar gift of visualization Miss Wyatt makes one see what she does not figuratively put into her verse.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 330w

“Miss Wyatt derives a genuine inspiration from her country both as a nation and a geographical expression. She really has captured something of its thoughts and moods, its variety and manifold poetry. ... In ‘November in the city’ rings a deeper and more vibrant music, with a universality and insight that mark it from her other poems.” M. T.

+ =New Repub= 13:353 Ja 19 ‘18 190w

“A free and buoyant spirit breathes through the swinging lines, a keen joy in what is seen and felt, a realization of what is worth while and permanent.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 290w

=WYMOND, MARK.= Government partnership in railroads. $1.50 (3c) Wymond & Clark 385 17-6654

The author’s purpose is to propose a constructive railroad policy to replace present attempts at regulation and to forestall government ownership. The main points of his plan are: to expand the present Interstate commerce commission by the creation of eight district commissions; to grant the railroads representation on these commissions, and to have the government guarantee interest and dividends. Contents: Our transportation problem; The sins of regulation; Sins of the railroads; A constructive railroad policy; Government ownership of railroads.

“Mr Wymond’s proposal is an interesting one, but does not come with the force that might possibly have marked it if his discussion had been of a broader character. The discriminating reader is left in doubt as to the extent to which he can rely upon the author’s guidance.” E. R. Dewsnup

– + =Am Econ R= 7:856 D ‘17 580w

=Ann Am Acad= 73:235 S ‘17 40w

=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 30w

=Electric Railway Journal= p674 Ap 7 ‘17

“Mr Wymond is a good spokesman for the railroads, assuming, what seems to be true, that he represents them with his solution of the troublesome plan of railway regulation—much in the same unofficial way that he represented them with his earlier book, ‘Railroad valuation and rates.’ Mr Wymond’s candid and quiet statements will gain a wider hearing, in spite of his obvious leanings, than the once familiar broadside loaded with bombast and exaggeration.”

+ =Engin N= 77:437 Mr 15 ‘17 200w

=Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 80w

=Pittsburgh= 22:470 My ‘17 90w

Railway Review p539 Ap 14 ‘17

=R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 160w

“It is not likely that his plan will be accepted by the managers. But it cannot be called visionary, for it merely provides a possible synthesis of forces existing in society and applies principles that are already accepted in theory. One may make this acknowledgment without yielding full assent to this particular plan of Mr Wymond’s, which, however, is worthy of consideration. The question of railway credit and the desirability of doing away with the anomalies of the present system of regulation demand constructive thinking.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 23 ‘17 350w

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=“X.,” pseud.= War poems. *75c Doubleday 821 17-12509

A publisher’s note says that all that is known of “X” is that he is an Englishman who has given two sons to the war. Among the poems are: A song of pride for England; Kitchener; Dying for your country; A chant of affection; To the Kaiser; Joffre; Towards the reckoning; Verdun; Ireland; and If, the last “with apologies to Mr Kipling.”

“Vivid, martial verse, satirical, humorous, tragic. Voices in particular the feelings of the stay-at-home.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17

“‘War poems’ by ‘X’ have stirred England more than any poems since Rupert Brooke’s last sonnets. ... ‘X’ is said to be T. W. H. Crosland, a London journalist of noted gifts, a man who has edited a number of famous literary journals. ... Whoever ‘X’ may be does not matter so much; certainly these poems might honorably have come from any of the greatest hands writing English today. He is equipped with tools of extraordinary edge and temper. The savage and relentless power of the satiric and invective verses is no more remarkable than the noble and mellow beauty of the elegiac sonnets.” C. D. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 2 ‘17 1200w

+ =Lit D= 54:1178 Ap 21 ‘17 330w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17 20w

=Pittsburgh= 22:507 Je ‘17 20w

+ =Spec= 118:76 Ja 20 ‘17 70w

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=YARD, ROBERT STERLING.= Top of the continent. il *75c (2c) Scribner 711 17-25279

In his introduction to this “story of a cheerful journey through our national parks,” Franklin K. Lane speaks of the national parks as “one part of our national system of education.” Only a very few boys and girls can avail themselves of this educational opportunity at first hand, and the next best thing will be to read about these wonderlands in books that will fire the imagination and inspire the ambition to visit them “some day.” Happily Mr Yard has provided just such a book. Margaret and Jack, who travel thru the parks in company with a nice mother, two jolly young uncles and a charming young aunt, are two lively and human youngsters. The story is entertaining and the informative parts of the book are made interesting. The pictures are from photographs and from drawings by Maginel Wright Enright.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:138 Ja ‘18

“Makes one realize our country’s resources. The illustrations are profuse and excellent.”

+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w

“The volume ought to prove both informative and interesting to all who have a particle of curiosity about or pride in their own country. For those who contemplate a trip to any one or all of the places described it will serve as an excellent guide book. For young people there could be no better gift volume.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 430w

“A capital book for young people.”

+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 50w

“Delightful little book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 150w

=YEATS, JOHN BUTLER.= Passages from the letters of John Butler Yeats; selected by Ezra Pound. Cuala press, Churchtown, Dundrum, Ireland 17-23318

“Mr Pound tells us that these passages were chosen from letters written to Mr W. B. Yeats by his father between 1911 and 1916. Mr J. B. Yeats is a painter, but he writes mainly about life and literature, or art in general.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “Mr William Butler Yeats is a silent factor in the book except for his suggestion that his father, living in New York, should write to him in Europe letters of subject continuity with the idea of later publication.” (Boston Transcript) The volume is printed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, daughter of the writer of the letters.

“The typography of this beautiful little book is almost worthy of the Doves press. ... This collection of letters almost amounts to a body of criticism and social theory. So many things are touched on, and so well, that the book was worth an index.”

+ =Ath= p413 Ag ‘17 270w

“Typographically it is all that one might desire for a text entirely concerned with beauty, and Miss Yeats has added one more volume to her list of books in which color, paper, type and spacing unite in fine harmony.” K. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 1350w

“The youthfully venerable Mr Yeats ... bends a kindly but rebuking gaze upon what seems to him the emptiness of our American civilization or the deficiencies of those who are neither Irish nor French; his admonishing finger points straight at the delirious vacuity of our national life. ... How shrewd, how charming, how eloquent, how wise in the intuition of a subtle poet and dreamer is the talk of this Irish patriarch at its best.” Lawrence Gilman

+ — =No Am= 206:472 S ‘17 1700w

“Yet in spite of his personal comment, the letters are kindly-mannered and truly critical. Contrasts between types of character of different nationalities and comparisons between Englishmen of letters and American writers make excellent reading.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:217 F ‘18 330w

“He writes like one whose business is contemplation and who is utterly content with it. He lives intensely still, but has passed beyond the struggle for life; he is personal, but without personal aims or irritations or vanities; his philosophy is his own, but it is completely a philosophy, not a cry of individual pain or pleasure. Sometimes there is a little malice, but it is the delicate malice of the spirit, directed not against people but against tendencies.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Je 7 ‘17 1350w

=YODER, JACOB HERBERT, and WHAREN, GEORGE BURR.= Locomotive valves and valve gears; with a special treatise on valve setting. il *$3 Van Nostrand 621.184 17-21992

“This book has been prepared to meet a general desire among railroad shop men to acquaint themselves thoroughly with the valves and valve gears applied to the modern locomotive and to master the principles of valve motion as a preparation to valve setting. ... The material has been compiled largely from notes used in the instruction of apprentices of the Pennsylvania railroad company, and from knowledge gained by the authors in practical shop experience.” (Preface) Contents: Locomotive valves and valve gears; The Stephenson valve gear; The Walschaert valve gear; Baker locomotive valve gear [and others]; Effects of altering the valve and its events; Locomotive valve setting; Summary. There are 274 illustrations, including figures, diagrams, etc.

“Practical, simply written, and provided with excellent diagrams, this admirable work should find a wide use not only among shopmen, but among enginemen, firemen, draughtsmen, and designing engineers as well.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 O ‘17 80w

=Pittsburgh= 22:757 N ‘17 40w

=YOHANNAN, ABRAHAM.= Death of a nation; or, The ever persecuted Nestorians or Assyrian Christians. il *$2 (9c) Putnam 281 16-23129

“To meet the wishes of my friends, I have consented to give the history of the persecutions of the Nestorian church in general, and to make public some further information on the sufferings and massacres to which, as the result of this terrible war, they are subjected to-day,” says the author. Part 1 of his book is devoted to a historical survey of the Christian church in Assyria from its founding in the first century to the present day. Part 2 describes the sufferings of his people as a result of the present war.

=Bib World= 49:187 Mr ‘17 90w

=Ind= 88:552 D 25 ‘16 60w

=R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 20w

=YOUNG, GEORGE.= Portugal old and young. il *$2.25 Oxford 946.9 (Eng ed 17-24318)

“Mr Young, sometime first secretary at Lisbon, has in seven essays presented an account of Portugal, beginning with Portugal and the war, following with four historical chapters, and concluding with Young Portugal and Portugal and the peace. ... Several translations are reproduced here from his ‘Portugal, an anthology,’ published last year. ... In the frontispiece is reproduced Nuno Gonsalvez’s altar-piece of San Vicente.”—Ath

+ =Ath= p475 S ‘17 130w

“Now and then as we read we are tempted to wish that our author had written as a traveller and not as an historian. At times we find his political history rather dull, and indeed it would be nearly impossible in a short space to render the kaleidoscopic changes of political fortune in modern Portugal other than confusing; but his descriptions of the country, his criticism of its literature, and his translations of its songs are charming.”

+ — =Spec= 119:330 S 29 ‘17 1100w

“A well-proportioned survey of ‘Portugal, old and young,’ compressed into a short space, but without any obvious sense of compression. ... In what will be to many readers the most interesting part of the book, he discusses, under ‘Empire and eclipse,’ how it was that the strength of Portugal was sapped instead of being built up by empire. ... Mr George Young has already done much by his ‘Portugal: an anthology,’ published last year, to interest English readers in that country.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p371 Ag 2 ‘17 220w

“It is not a ‘history’ in the conventional sense, but an essay on the whole development of the life of the Portuguese people, illustrated by copious quotations from their literature and by vivid sketches of the country, of its art and architecture, and of the people themselves. Very interesting, especially, is the comparison of Portugal with Ireland, the basis of the population of the two countries being compounded of the same racial elements, Iberian and Celtic.”

* =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p399 Ag 23 ‘17 2250w

=YOUNG, JEREMIAH SIMEON.= State and government. *50c (1c) McClurg 350 17-8359

“An attempt to clarify the popular understanding of the principles of government, as developed in our own national history. ... This book is presented as one of the volumes of the National social science series, edited by President McVey, of the University of North Dakota.” (R of Rs) “It is to be supplemented at an early date with another on social and economic legislation, which will emphasize the fundamental principles of the state’s police power.” (Author’s preface) There is a one page bibliography.

“On the whole Dr Young has performed his task as capably as an enterprise of this nature could be performed, but the demands of brevity have been so rigorous that in many passages the virtue of clearness has had to be jettisoned.”

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:789 N ‘17 190w

=R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:357 O ‘17 30w

“Commonplace and not new, but likely to afford some food for thought to the uninformed seeker after the principles underlying political institutions.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 20 ‘17 100w

=YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS. INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE.= Balancing country life; ed. by County work dept. $1 (5½c) Assn. press 630 17-17186

A report of a conference held in Chicago in October, 1916, under the auspices of the County work committee of the Y. M. C. A. The general subjects for discussion were: The countryside—its home; The countryside—its school; The countryside—its church; The countryside—its community. In addition the volume contains reports of committees, etc.

=YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS. INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE.= Home of the countryside; ed. by the County work dept. $1 (5c) Assn. press 630 17-16852

A report of the Country life conference held by the Country work department of the Y. M. C. A. in New York city in November, 1916. An address by John R. Mott on An international country life outlook is followed by papers and discussions of: The family in our country life; The spirit and needs of the farm home; The home and community culture; The home and community religion; The home as a factor in the community. There is also a brief report from the Country life conference held in Chicago.

=YOUNGHUSBAND, SIR GEORGE JOHN.= Soldier’s memories in peace and war. il *$5 Dutton 17-23041

“This book begins with recollections of Sandhurst, chiefly of the lighter sort. ... Accounts of campaigning in Egypt, South Africa, India, and elsewhere are to be found in the ‘Memories,’ which embody reminiscences of Lord Roberts, Cecil Rhodes, and others.”—Ath

=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17

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“There is great variety to General Younghusband’s reminiscences. They cover a considerable period and a wide range of territory.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 15 ‘17 400w

“‘Memories,’ from the point of view of interest and of workmanship, is one of the best collections of reminiscences that have recently been brought out. One is envious of the life that has made them possible.”

+ =Dial= 64:72 Ja 17 ‘18 400w

“An interesting book, racy with the individuality of its soldier author, and as full of stirring and unusual adventure as a romance.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:293 Ag 12 ‘17 660w

“Abounds in anecdotes and fun.”

+ =Outlook= 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 30w

“This book is very good company. It is simply the entertaining talk of a soldier who has seen much active service, who has gained a wide knowledge of men and manners, and who knows how to tell his experiences with humor, precision, and occasional emotion.”

+ =Spec= 118:566 My 19 ‘17 1750w

“As an absorbing record of personal adventure and humor the book will find a place beside Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s ‘Indian memories,’ which it somewhat resembles. Both are written in an easy, sketchy and informal style, and both authors are born raconteurs.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 630w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p182 Ap 19 ‘17 1100w

=YOXALL, SIR JAMES HENRY.= Collecting old glass: English and Irish. (Collectors’ pocket ser.) il *75c (3½c) Doran 738.2 (Eng ed 17-18348)

This small book seems to cover an extensive field. Among the chapters are: Old English glassware, Seven general guides and tests, Blown ware, Cut, moulded, and engraved ware, Old coloured glass, Old drinking glasses, The various types of stem, The various shapes of bowl, etc. The author says, “Diffuseness has been avoided, but this, I hope, has enabled me to make the book the more lucid, as well as the more succinct. At any rate it affords hints, general rules, and warnings more numerous and more practical than any published until now.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 100w

“The evident gusto with which he treats each of his subjects proclaims him a born collector. His stream of information (not always very clear) runs wide rather than deep, and generally the matter surpasses the manner. The handbooks are short cuts to successful collecting rather than subtle appreciations of design and craftsmanship.”

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=YOXALL, SIR JAMES HENRY.= Collecting old miniatures. (Collectors’ pocket ser.) il *75c (3½c) Doran 757 (Eng ed 18-18349)

The author says, “I wrote this book with delight, for the sheer pleasure of writing about miniatures.” He has illustrated the book with reproductions from his own collection and has supplied details as to price, etc. Contents: Can it still be done? Where and how collecting miniatures can be done; Counterfeits and their detection; Classes of miniatures; The transition to ivory; Miniatures done on paper; Miniatures done on ivory; French miniatures on ivory; Miniatures done in enamel; Miniatures done on porcelain; Miscellanea and signatures.

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:143 S ‘16

“Much information in little space, yet not unduly condensed. The illustrations add positively to the value.”

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“Unlike most handbooks for collectors, it is a distinct pleasure to read because of the spirited manner in which miniatures are described.”

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“It requires some confidence to bring out a book on miniatures in the midst of such a war as this, when the scant attention that can be spared to the pictorial arts is largely given to powerful poster work—the crashing of savage colours slapped on to canvas by a deft spades-man. It is courageous, it is even refreshing. The illustrations are well chosen, many, and good.”

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=ZAHM, JOHN AUGUSTINE (H. J. MOZANS, pseud.).= Great inspirers. *$1.50 Appleton 920.7 17-5139

“The Reverend J. A. Zahm ... writes most persuasively of the capabilities of women as the friends and advisers of men. He has taken as examples of women who deserved this title the Roman woman Paula and her gifted daughter, the virgin, Eustochium, who were privileged to collaborate with Saint Jerome in his labors in translating the Bible and providing copious commentaries thereon; and also that Beatrice Portinari, whom Dante loved.” (R of Rs) An earlier book by the author treated of “Women in science.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 270w

=Cath World= 105:108 Ap ‘17 300w

=Cleveland= p58 Ap ‘17 50w

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“The author’s remarkable ecclesiastical scholarship and his seemingly thorough acquaintance with classic and mediaeval Latin have enabled him to give us a little book that is balanced in content, fine in spirit and most interesting in manner.” Frank Macdonald

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=R of Rs= 55:557 My ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:185 Je ‘17 50w

=ZAHM, JOHN AUGUSTINE (H. J. MOZANS, pseud.).= Quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest. il *$1.50 (5c) Appleton 918 17-25280

Father Zahm is a South American explorer of note and author of several books on that country. In this volume he goes back to early history to tell the story of some of the expeditions that went in quest “of that extraordinary will-o’-the-wisp, usually known as El Dorado.” His study throws new light on the conquistadores, showing that they were not moved solely by thirst for gold. He says, “So marvelous were their achievements that, were they not attested by the most unquestionable of documents, we should be disposed to place the old chronicles which describe them in the same category as the Arthurian romances.” The chapters were written for the Pan-American Bulletin in 1912, and are reprinted with a few changes and additions. A bibliography gives a list of the principal works cited.

+ =Cath World= 106:546 Ja ‘18 230w

“Scholarly volume.”

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“A most romantic tale, carrying historical values, and touched with all the color and zest of fiction.”

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“Rev. J. A. Zahm has recently collected all possible material regarding this celebrated legend, and the result is a book which is really a fascinating tale of adventure.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 7 ‘18 270w

=ZANGWILL, ISRAEL.= Principle of nationalities. *50c (4c) Macmillan 904 17-14064

This discourse formed the Conway memorial lecture, delivered at South Place institute, London, on March 8, 1917. Mr Zangwill argues that “neither identity of race, nor of language, nor of religion, nor of territory, nor of interests, nor of culture, nor of soul, is indispensable to a nationality,” but that it is “a state of mind corresponding to a political fact.” He then, after classifying the political varieties of nationality as simple, complex, compound and hybrid, goes on to consider “the psychological aspect and genesis of nationality.” He asserts that now that nationalism is closing in upon the world, we should remember that “the real needs of nationalities are not independence, but freedom from oppression,” and that “internationalism, so far from being the antithesis of nationalism, actually requires nations to interrelate.”

“An analysis of nationality that is sane and penetrating.”

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“We do not know how the hearers digested it. A first reading gives us the impression of a pudding so full of fruit that we are amazed it keeps together so well.”

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=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 40w

“There is nothing that can be rightly called a positive conclusion to the work, though it sparkles with epigrams and contains many undoubted sociological truths stated in very concise and striking language.” J. W.

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“The chief merit of Mr Zangwill’s thought is, indeed, just this: that it leaves the way open for the entrance of the idea that man may be intensely and locally patriotic and yet internationally right-minded.”

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=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 500w

=ZIMMER, GEORGE FREDERICK.= Mechanical handling and storing of material. il *$12.50 Van Nostrand 621.86 (Eng ed 16-17167)

“The book is written from the British viewpoint, and while the author has included American practice he has of course not done so with the first-hand knowledge of an American. ... The forty-four chapters of the book are grouped under the heads of ‘Continuous handling of material,’ ‘Continuous handling of material by Pneumatic or hydraulic means,’ ‘Intermittent handling of material,’ ‘Unloading and loading appliances,’ ‘Miscellaneous installations’ and the ‘Automatic weighing of material’. Eighteen chapters under the first two groups cover all kinds of conveyors. Cableways and telphers are included in the third group.”—Engin News-Rec

=Cleveland= p150 D ‘16 30w

“The facts that the field of engineering which this bulky treatise covers has had an enormous development in the past quarter century, and that comparatively little on the subject has been published, are the principal justifications for the purchase of the book by American engineers. ... The illustrations and other mechanical work are hardly up to the standard of the price of the volume.”

=Engin News-Rec= 78:364 My 17 ‘17 300w

“Timely reprints from Cassier’s Engineering Monthly. Well illustrated.”

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=Pittsburgh= 22:125 F ‘17 60w

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Footnote 2:

This book is mentioned for the first time in this volume.

List of Documents and Pamphlets for Use in the Smaller Libraries

Compiled by Miss Edna B. Gearhart, Documents Division, New York Public Library

Under the Direction of

MISS ADELAIDE R. HASSE

=Accidents=

Accidents and accident prevention in machine building. Lucian W. Chaney and Hugh S. Hanna. (U.S. Labor statistics. Bul. no. 216) 117p pa 25c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Accounting=

Accounting records for country creameries. John R. Humphrey. (U.S. Agric. Bul. no. 559) 37p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Accounting, Farm=

Use of a diary for farm accounts. E. H. Thomson. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 782) 19p ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Agricultural extension=

County agricultural agent work in the northern and western states; status and results in 1916. W. R. Lloyd. (U.S. Agric. S.R.S. Doc. 60. Circular 5, Extension N.) 26p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Agriculture=

Bean culture. A. L. Strausz. (Washington. Agric. Experiment station. Popular Bul. no. 111) 4p pa ‘17 Pullman, Wash.

Cabbage and cauliflower culture. C. B. Sprague. (Washington. Agric. Experiment station. Popular Bul. no. 110) 4p pa ‘17 Pullman, Wash.

Celery culture. F. W. Allen. (Washington. Agric. Experiment station. Popular Bul. no. 109) 4p pa ‘17 Pullman, Wash.

Farming on a war basis. O. R. Johnson. (Missouri. Agric. college. Extension service. Circular 31) 20p pa ‘17 Columbia, Mo.

Field bean production. (N.J. Agric. Experiment station. Circular 70) 4p pa ‘17 New Brunswick, N.J.

Field pea production. E. G. Schafer and E. F. Gaines. (Wash. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 140) 16p pa ‘17 Pullman, Wash.

Forcing of strawberries. Florence I. Kinnison. (Colorado. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 222) 8p pa ‘17 Fort Collins, Colo.

Grow beans; beans will be needed for our army and navy; they are now worth $9 a bushel. (Wis. Agric. College extension service. Circular 71) 4p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis.

Lettuce growing in California. Stanley S. Rogers. (California. Agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 160) 16p pa ‘17 Berkeley, Cal.

Soybeans and cowpeas. J: R. Fain and P. O. Vanatter. (Georgia. College of agric. Extension div. Circular 46) 8p pa ‘17 Athens, Ga.

Soybeans and cowpeas in Illinois. W. L. Burlison and O. M. Allyn. (Illinois. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 198) 20p pa ‘17 Urbana, Ill.

Soybeans: their culture and use. (Ohio. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 312) 600p pa ‘17 Wooster, O.

Tomato as a farm crop for the canning factory; prepared under the direction of C. G. Woodbury. H. J. Reed. (Indiana. Agric. Experiment station. Circular 59) 28p pa ‘17 La Fayette, Ind.

_See also_ Corn; Crops; Dairying; Farm equipment; Farms; Feedstuffs; Foods; Gardening; Live stock; Milk; Poultry; Silos; Soils; Soybeans; Vegetables

=Alaska=

Information for prospective settlers in Alaska. C. C. Georgeson. (Alaska. Agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 1, rev.) 30p il pa ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Amusements=

Things I like to do, for boys and girls; a list of books of amusements. Lillian A. Sutherland, Public Library, Kansas City, Mo. 16p pa ea 10c; 100 copies $2 ‘16 Wilson, H. W.

=Apples=

=Packing=

Barrel packing of apples. C. L. Burkholder. (Indiana. Purdue univ. Dept. of agric. Extension Bul. no. 59) 8p pa ‘17 La Fayette, Ind.

Modern methods of packing apples. (Canada. Agric. dept. Fruit branch. Bul. 2) 60p pa ‘17 Ottawa, Canada

Packing of apples in California. Warren P. Tufts. (California. Univ. agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 178) 31p pa ‘17 Berkeley, Cal.

=Arbitration and conciliation=

Railroad labor arbitrations; report of the U.S. Board of mediation and conciliation on the effects of arbitration proceedings upon rates of pay and working conditions of railroad employees; prepared under the direction of the Board, by William Jett Lauck. (U.S. 64th Cong., 1st sess. S. Doc. 493) 608p pa 45c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Railway strikes and lockouts; a study of arbitration and conciliation laws of the principal countries of the world providing machinery for the peaceable adjustment of disputes between railroads and their employees and laws of certain countries for the prevention of strikes. (U.S. Bd. of mediation and conciliation) 367p pa 30c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Art=

National gallery of art. R: Rathbun. (U.S. National museum. Bul. 70) 189p il cl $1 ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Arts and crafts=

Annotated list of books on the arts for the teacher and student; comp. by Mildred H. Lawson; rev. by Royal B. Farnum. (Univ. of the State of N.Y. Bul. 633) 87p pa ‘17 Albany, N.Y.

Art education; an investigation of the training available in New York city for artists and artisans. (Metropolitan museum of art, N.Y.) 46p pa 10c ‘16 New York, N.Y.

Some facts concerning manual arts and homemaking subjects in 156 cities. Joseph C. Park. (U.S. Educ. Bul. no. 36) 25p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

_See also_ Basketry

=Asparagus=

Asparagus. H. C. Thompson. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 829) 20p pa U.S. Agric.

=Babies=

Baby health conferences; what they teach; comp. by Jessie P. Rich. (Texas. University. Bul. no. 1708) 18p pa ‘17 Austin, Tex.

Goatsmilk for infant feeding. W. H. Jordan and G. A. Smith. (N.Y. Agric. Experiment station, Geneva. Bul. 429) 20p pa ‘17 Geneva, N.Y.

What about the babies; an appeal in their behalf. (Mich. State board of health) 8p pa n.d. Lansing, Mich.

What the baby health conferences teach; comp. by Jessie P. Rich. (Texas. Univ. Bul. 1708) 18p pa ‘17 Austin, Tex.

_See also_ Children

=Basketry=

Pine-needle basketry in schools. W: C. A. Hammel. (U.S. Educ. Bul. no. 3) 18p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Bees=

Bees for the farmer. J. Troop and W. A. Price. (Indiana. Agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 61) 20p pa ‘17 La Fayette, Ind.

=Birds=

Canaries, their care and management. Alexander Wetmore. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 770) 20p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

How to attract birds in northeastern United States. W. L. McAtee. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 621) 16p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

How to attract birds in the middle Atlantic states. W. L. McAtee. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 844) 16p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Book publication=

Graphic survey of 1890-1916. Fred E. Woodward. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 14) 26p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Book selection=

Best books of 1915; selected for a small public library. (Univ. of the State of N.Y. Bul. 619, Library Bibliography Bul. 58) 65p ‘16 Albany, N.Y.

List of books for elementary and rural schools; comp. by Mary Royce Crawford. (Idaho. Education board. Bul. vol. 3, no. 3) 82p pa ‘17 Boise, Idaho.

1,000 good books for children, classified and graded list revised, 1914; prepared by National congress of mothers’ literature committee, Alice M. Jordan, chairman. Reprint 1916 (U.S. Educ. Home education circular, no. 1; whole no. 634) 40p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Boys’ and girls’ clubs=

Boys’ and girls’ clubs. (Missouri. Agric. extension service, Project announcement no. 9) 23p pa ‘16 Columbia, Mo. Apply to your senator or congressman or the U.S. Agric.

Boys’ and girls’ corn and cotton clubs. (Louisiana. Agric. and home economics extension work. Bul. no. 25) 28p pa ‘17 Baton Rouge, La.

Boys’ club work in Florida. G. L. Herrington. (Florida. Univ. div. of agric. extension. Cooperative demonstration work in agric. and home economics. Bul. 8) 16p pa ‘17 Gainesville, Fla.

Boys’ pig clubs. James E. Downing. (Georgia. College of agric. Extension div. Circular 44) 8p pa ‘17 Athens, Ga.

=Buttermaking=

Buttermaking on the farm. George H. Barr. (Canada. Agric. Dairy and cold storage branch. Bul. no. 53) 16p pa ‘17 Ottawa, Canada

=Canning=

Canned foods; modern processes of canning in the United States, general system of grading, and description of products available for export. (U.S. For. & dom. comm. Miscellaneous ser. no. 54) 79p pa 20c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Canning by the cold pack method. C. H. Lee and R. M. Atkinson. (Manitoba. Agric. and immigration. Extension Bul. no. 12) 23p pa ‘17 Winnipeg, Canada

Canning for pleasure and profit. Elizabeth B. Kelly. (Wis. Univ. college of agric. Extension service. Circular 68) 16p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis.

Preservation of food: home canning; comp. by Ethel M. Chapman. (Ontario. Dept. of agric. Women’s institutes. Bul. 252) 31p pa ‘17 Toronto, Canada

_See also_ Gardening; Home economics

=Canning clubs=

Marketing of canning club products. Lewis B. Flohr. (U.S. Markets bur. Doc.—Markets 5) 8p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Cats=

Domestic cat, bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means of utilizing and controlling it. Edward Howe Forbush. (Mass. State bd. of agric. Economic biology. Bul. no. 2) 112p pa ‘16 Boston, Mass.

=Cattle=

Breeds of dairy cattle. H. P. Dairs. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 893) 35p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Celery storage=

Celery storage experiments. H. C. Thompson. (U.S. Agric. Bul. no. 579) 26p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Cheese=

Home cheese making. H. F. Judkins and P. A. Downs. (Connecticut. Agric. college. Extension service. Bul. no. 9) 16p pa ‘17 Storrs, Conn.

Methods of making some of the soft cheeses. W. W. Fisk. (New York. Cornell agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 30) 62p pa ‘15 Ithaca, N.Y.

=Cheese factories=

Correct payment for cheese factory milk by the Babcock test. J. L. Sammis. (Wisconsin. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. no. 276) 42p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis.

=Child labor=

Child labor in warring countries; a brief review of foreign reports. Anna Rochester. (U.S. Children’s bur. Pub. no. 27. Industrial ser. no. 4) 75p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

List of references on child labor, compiled under the direction of H. H. B. Meyer, by Laura A. Thompson, librarian, Children’s bureau. (U.S. Children’s Bureau. Industrial ser. no. 3. Bureau pub. no. 18) 161p 20c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Rules and regulations made by the board consisting of the attorney general, the secretary of commerce, and the secretary of labor for carrying out the provisions of an act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes, approved Sept. 1, 1916. (U.S. Labor. Circular no. 1) 10p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Suggestive program for child labor day, January 29, 1917. (Univ. of the State of N.Y. Library ref. section) 12p pa ‘17 Albany, N.Y.

=Child welfare=

Child welfare research station. (Iowa. State univ. Bul. n.s. 107) 18p pa ‘16 Iowa City, Ia.

Summary of child-welfare laws passed in 1916. (U.S. Children’s bur. Miscellaneous ser. no. 7) 74p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Children=

=Foods=

Food for growing children. Jessie P. Rich. (Texas. Univ. Bul. 1707) 20p pa ‘17 Austin, Tex.

Suggestions for infant feeding. Anna E. Richardson. (Texas. Univ. Bul. 1706) 11p pa ‘17 Austin, Tex.

What to feed the children. Dorothy Reed Mendenhall and A. L. Daniels. (Wis. Univ. Agric. College extension service. Circular 69) 10p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis.

=Children’s library=

Child in the library. (Riverside public library. Bul. 146) 10p pa ‘17 Riverside, Cal.

=Citizenship=

Proceedings of the first citizenship convention held at Washington, D.C., July 10-15, 1916. Raymond F. Crist. (U.S. Labor) 86p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Work of the public schools with the Bureau of naturalization in the preparation for citizenship responsibilities of the candidate for naturalization. (U.S. Bur. of naturalization. Extract from report of Comr., 1916) 50p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=City and county consolidation=

Report of the Los Angeles realty board on city and county consolidation. 28p pa ‘17 Los Angeles, Cal.

=City planning=

City planning. Frank G. Bates. (Indiana. Bur. of legislative information. Bul. no. 8) 31p pa Dec. ‘16 Fort Wayne, Ind.

=Coal=

Economical purchase and use of coal for heating homes with special reference to conditions in Illinois; a non-technical manual for the householder and operator of small house-heating plants. (Illinois. Univ. Eng. Extension station. Circular no. 4) 58p pa 10c ‘17 Urbana, Ill.

=Commerce=

Act to regulate commerce (as amended) including text or related sections; rev. to Jan. 1, 1917 (U.S. Interstate commerce comm.) 157p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Concluding chapter of the Federal trade commission report on cooperation in American export trade. (U.S. Federal trade comm.) 14p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Report on cooperation in American export trade. (U.S. Federal trade comm.) 2v pa $1.15 ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Commercial organization, German=

German foreign-trade organization with supplementary statistical material and extracts from official reports on German methods. Chauncey Depew Snow. (U.S. For. & dom. comm. Miscellaneous ser. no. 57) 182p pa 20c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Community and national life=

Lessons in community and national life. (U.S. Educ. Community leaflets)

No. 1. Sec. A. Designed for use in the upper classes of the high school. 32p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

No. 2. Sec. B. Designed for use in the upper grades of elementary schools and the first year of high school. 32p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

No. 3. Sec. C. Designed for use in the intermediate grades. 32p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

These lessons will be issued each month during the school year, 1917-18. They will be edited by Charles H. Judd, director of the school of education of the University of Chicago, and Leon C. Marshall, dean of the school of commerce and administration of the University of Chicago. The lessons will be prepared in three sections, namely, Section A, for the upper classes of high schools; Section B, for the upper grades of elementary schools and the first class of high schools; Section C, for intermediate grades of elementary schools. Each section will contain three or four lessons. Eight numbers of each section will be issued, one number appearing on the first of each calendar month. Copies may be purchased from the U.S. Food administration, Washington, D.C., at the following prices: One copy, 5 cents; each additional copy in same order, 3 cents; 100 copies, $2; 500 copies, $5; 1,000 copies, $9.50; subscriptions for the series of any section, eight times the prices named. Such subscriptions are urged in order to assure prompt and regular delivery.

=Conscription=

Conscription in the Confederate states of America, 1862-1865. R. P. Brooks. (Ga. univ. Bul. vol. 17, no. 4) 442p pa ‘17 Athens, Ga.

=Cooperation=

Business practice and accounts for cooperative stores. J. A. Bexell. (U.S. Agric. Bul. 381) 56p 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Co operate! (Texas. Markets and warehouse commission. Bul. no. 37) 36p pa ‘17 Austin, Tex.

Cooperative associations, organizing. James E. Boyle. (N.D. Agric. Experiment station. Circular 16) 24p pa ‘17 Fargo, N.D.

Cooperative retail delivery; the organization and methods of central delivery systems. Walton S. Bittner. (Indiana. Univ. Extension division. Bul. vol. 3, no. 1) 30p pa ‘17 Bloomington, Ind.

How farmers may improve their personal credit through cooperation. C. W. Thompson. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 654) 16p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Survey of typical cooperative stores in the U.S. J. A. Bexell. (U.S. Agric. Bul. 394) 32p 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Copyright=

Copyright law of the United States of America; being the act of March 4, 1909, (in force July 1, 1909) as amended by the acts of August 24, 1912, March 2, 1913 and March 28, 1914, together with rules for practice and procedure under section 25 by the Supreme Court of the United States. (Copyright office. Bul. no. 14) 66p pa ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Corn=

Corn. (N.J. Agric. Experiment station. Circular 69) 7p pa ‘17 New Brunswick, N.J.

=Corporations=

=Service instruction=

Service instruction of American corporations. Leonhard F. Fuld. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1916, no. 34) 73p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Cost of living=

Food products report of Governor Beeckman’s committee on living costs in Rhode Island, pt. 2 21p pa Jan. 29, ‘17 Providence, R.I.

=Country life=

Country church; an economic and social force. C. J. Galpin. (Wisconsin. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 278) 48p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis.

=Crops=

Preparing for a large corn crop. George A. Crabb. (Georgia. State college of agric. Extension div. Circular 43) 4p pa ‘17 Athens, Ga.

=Dairying=

Feeding and management of dairy calves and young dairy stock. W. K. Brainerd and H. P. Davis. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 777) 20p pa gratis ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Feeds for dairy cows; a comparative test of high silage and low mixed concentrates; low silage and high mixed concentrates; and silage and cotton seed meal rations. Milton P. Jarnagin and O. T. Goodwin. (Georgia. State college of agric. Extension circular 45) 8p pa ‘17 Athens, Ga.

How to keep a record of the dairy herd. C. H. Staples and C. W. Radway. (Louisiana. State univ. Extension division. Circular no. 19) 12p pa ‘17 Baton Rouge, La.

_See also_ Milk

=Danish West Indies=

Danish West Indies; their resources and commercial importance. N. G. Brock, P. S. Smith, and W. A. Tucker. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bur. Special agents ser.) 68p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Defective and delinquent classes=

Mental aspects of delinquency. Truman Lee Kelley. (Texas univ. Bul. no. 1713) 125p pa ‘17 Austin, Tex.

Municipal correction farms; a report from the new city Jail association of Los Angeles. 6p ‘17 Los Angeles, Cal.

=Dependents=

Care of dependents of enlisted men in Canada. S. Herbert Wolfe. (U.S. Children’s Bur. Miscellaneous ser. no. 10) 56p pa 10c Supt. of doc.

=Digitalis=

Activity of wild American digitalis. G: B. Roth. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint no. 391) 6p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Diplomatic service=

Conference on training for foreign service called by the commissioner of education of the United States and held in the city of Washington, December 31, 1915. Glen Levin Swiggett. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 37) 67p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Divorce and desertion=

Survey of the extent, financial and social cost of desertion and artificially broken homes in Kansas City, Missouri, during the year 1915. Eva M. Marquis. (Kansas City. Bd. of public welfare) 51p pa ‘16 Kansas City, Mo.

=Drainage=

Organization, financing, and administration of drainage districts. H. S. Yohe. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 815) 37p pa U.S. Agric.

Tile drainage on the farm. E. R. Jones and O. R. Zeasman. (Wisconsin. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 284) 32p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis.

=Drinking fountains=

Drinking fountains; investigation of fountains at the University of Minnesota. H. A. Whittaker. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint no. 397) 10p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Dyes and dyeing=

Artificial dyestuff used in the United States, quantity and value of foreign imports and of domestic production, fiscal year 1913-14; with bibliography. Thomas H. Norton. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bur. Special agents ser. 121) 254p pa 30c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Education=

Development of arithmetic as a school subject. Walter Scott Monroe. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 10) 170p pa 20c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Digest of state laws relating to public education in force January 1, 1915; comp. by William R. Hood, and others. (U.S. Educ. Bul. no. 47, 1915) 987p pa 60c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Education; publications relating to the above subject for sale by the superintendent of documents, Washington, D.C. 6th ed Price list 31. 51p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Money value of education. A. Caswell Ellis. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 22) 52p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Rural-teacher preparation in county training schools and high schools. H. W. Foght. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 31) 71p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Selected list of books on the education of early childhood. (U.S. Educ. Circular no. 1) 14p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Vocational teachers for secondary schools; what the Land-grant colleges are doing to prepare them. Chester D. Javis. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 38) 85p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Negro=

Study of the private and higher schools of colored people in the United States; prepared in cooperation with the Phelps-Stokes fund under the direction of Thomas Jesse Jones, specialist in the education of racial groups. (U.S. Educ.) 2v: v 1 (Bul. 1916, no. 38) 423p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.; v 2 (Bul. 1916, no. 39) 724p pa $1.25 ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Public service=

University training for public service; a report of the meeting of the association of Urban universities, Nov. 15-17, 1915. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1916, no. 30) 94p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Education, Secondary=

Reorganization of English in secondary schools; report by the National joint committee on English representing the Commission on the reorganization of secondary education of the National education association and the National council of teachers of English; comp; by James Fleming Hosic. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 2) 181p pa 20c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Eggs=

Breeding for egg production: Part I, A study of annual and total production. E. D. Ball, B. Alder, and A. D. Egbert. (Utah. Agric. college. Experiment station. Bul. no. 148) 60p pa ‘16 Logan, Utah

Breeding for egg production: Part II, Seasonal distribution of egg production with especial reference to “winter” egg production. E. D. Ball and Byron Alder. (Utah. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 149) 71p pa ‘17 Logan, Utah

Care of eggs for market. M. C. Kilpatrick. (Ohio. Agric. college. Extension service. Bul. vol. XII, no. 1) 20p pa ‘17 Columbus, O.

Community egg circle. C. E. Bassett and W. H. Kerr. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 656) 8p pa 5c ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Egg production in cities, towns and villages. W. R. Graham. (Ontario. Agric. Circular no. 2) 7p pa ‘17 Toronto, Canada

Feed cost of egg production; results of three years’ experiments at the government poultry farm. Harry M. Lamon and Alfred R. Lee. (U.S. Agric. Bul. no. 561) 42p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Increasing the winter yield of eggs. W. Theodore Wittman. (Pa. Agric. Bul. no. 219) 114p pa ‘17 Harrisburg, Pa.

Marketing eggs by parcel post. Lewis B. Flohr. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 830) 23p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Preserving eggs for the home. Byron Alder. (Utah. Agric. college. Experiment station. Circular no. 25) 8p pa ‘17 Logan, Utah

Winter egg production. Alfred R. Lee. (U.S. Agric. Circular no. 71) 4p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Employment and unemployment=

Proceedings of employment managers’ conference. (U.S. Labor statistics. Bul. no. 196) 82p 10c May ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Proceedings of the American association of public employment offices, annual meetings, 1st, 2d, and 3d of May, 1916. (U.S. Labor statistics. Bul. no. 192) 177p pa 20c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Unemployment in the United States. (U.S. Labor statistics. Bul. no. 195) 115p pa 15c June ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Engineering=

Proper handling of clutches and gears. R. A. Leavell. (Ia. State college. Eng. extension dept. Bul. no. 26) 11p pa ‘17 Ames, Ia.

=Etiquet=

Suggestions for the teaching of good manners in the elementary schools, prepared by the commissioner of elementary schools. (California State Board of educ. Bul. no. 18) 39p ‘16 Sacramento, Cal.

=Fairs=

Community fair. J. Sterling Moran. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 870) 12p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Farm bureaus=

Farm-bureau organization plan; more farm bureaus needed to federate agricultural forces for national defense. L. R. Simons. (U.S. Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics. S.R.S. Doc. 54. Circular 4. Extension N.) 11p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Farm equipment=

Concrete construction on the live-stock farm. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 481) 32p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Equipment for farm sheep raising. V. O. McWhorter. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 810) 27p pa U.S. Agric.

Farm lighting systems. E. W. Lehmann. (Missouri. Agric. college. Extension service. Circular 39) 12p pa ‘17 Columbia, Mo.

Minor articles of farm equipment. H. N. Humphrey and A. P. Yerkes. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 816) 15p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Self-feeder for hogs. F. G. Ashbrook and R. E. Gogwer. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 906) 12p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Self-feeders for fattening swine with directions for constructing a self-feeder. (Missouri. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 144) 22p pa ‘17 Columbia, Mo.

=Farm labor=

Plan for handling the farm-labor problem. (U.S. Agric. F. M. Circular 2) 31p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Farm loans=

Farm loan primer; answers in brief form to questions most frequently asked about the Federal farm loan act. 2d ed. (Federal farm loan board. Circular no. 5) 12p Nov. 21, ‘16 Supt. of doc. Free if application is made to board

How the Federal farm loan act benefits the farmer. C. W. Thompson. (Farmers’ Bul. 792) 12p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

New mortgages for old; a story illustrating the practical application of the Federal farm loan act. (Federal farm loan board. Circular no. 3) 13p Oct. 10, ‘16 Supt. of doc. Free if application is made to board

=Farm papers=

Preparation for editorial work on farm papers. Nelson Antrim Crawford. (Kansas. State agric. college. Bul. v. 1, no. 5; Industrial journalism ser. 3) 35p pa ‘17 Manhattan, Kan.

=Farming=

Successful farm life; a suggestive list of books. (Ohio. Brumback library of Van Wert county) 37p pa ‘17 Van Wert, O.

Suggestions concerning checking and tabulating farm management survey data; a desk manual for investigators. (U.S. Farm management) 40p pa ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Waste land and wasted land on farms. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 745) 18p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Calls attention to various ways through which non-productive land may be reclaimed on the average farm.

=Feeding and feeding stuffs=

Feeding of dairy cows. Helmer Rabild, H. P. Davis, and W. K. Brainerd. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 743) 27p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Feeding stuffs of minor importance. F. W. Woll. (California. Univ. agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 167) 7p pa ‘17 Berkeley, Cal.

Growing crops to reduce the feed bill. W: L. Slate. (Connecticut. Agric. college. Extension circular. 13) 4p pa ‘17 New Haven, Conn.

Inspection of commercial feedstuffs. P. H. Smith. (Mass. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. no. 5) 69p Nov. ‘16 Amherst, Mass.

Utilization of farm wastes in feeding live stock. S. H. Ray. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 873) 12p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Fertilizers=

Manure from the sea. E. H. Jenkins and John Phillips Street. (Conn. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 194) 13p pa ‘17 New Haven, Conn.

=Finance=

Control of corporate finance with proposed new corporation law and a history of “High finance” in Indiana. Louie H. Oberreich. (Indiana Bur. of legislative information. Bul. no. 10) 66p pa Jan. ‘17 Fort Wayne, Ind.

=Flags=

American flag; in prose, poetry and song. 2d ed, rev and enlarged (Michigan State library) 70p pa ‘16 Lansing, Mich.

Municipal flags; prepared under the direction of James A. Kearns. (Chicago municipal reference Bul. 6) 23p pa ‘15 Chicago, Ill.

=Flies=

House fly. L. O. Howard and R. H. Hutchison. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 851) 23p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Food=

Food economics; a series of special bulletins for the housewife. (N.Y. City Bur. of public health educ.) 22p pa ‘17 New York, N.Y.

Food needs for 1918; agricultural program for the period beginning with the autumn of 1917. (U.S. Agric. Circular no. 75) 14p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Human food from an acre of staple farm products. Morton O. Cooper and W. J. Spillman. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 877) 11p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

News notes for public libraries. (U.S. Food administration. Food conservation division. Vol. 1, no. 1) 12p pa ‘17 The Administration, Washington, D.C.

Possibilities of food from fish. (U.S. Fisheries. Economic circular no. 30) 4p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Practical suggestions regarding food values and the proper selection of a nutritious and economical diet. (Maine. Agric. Bul. vol. xvi, no. 1) 36p pa ‘17 Augusta, Me.

Skim milk for human food. (U.S. Animal industry bur. A. I. 31) 2p pa ‘17 U.S. Animal industry bur.

_See also_ United States—Food administration

=Food conservation=

Food conservation number. (R.I. Health dept. Bul. Jl 1917) 61p pa ‘17 Providence, R.I.

Ten lessons on food conservation; lessons 1 to 10. (U.S. Food administration) 64p pa ‘17 The Administration, Washington, D.C.

=Food production=

Essentials in larger food production. Cyril G. Hopkins. (Ill. Agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 197) 4p pa ‘17 Urbana, Ill.

=Food supply=

Food administration. H. C. Hoover. (U.S. Council of national defense) 32p pa ‘17

Food-supply and conservation by the farmers for the farmers and every one who grows food or eats food. (Conn. Agric. college, Hartford county league) 8p pa ‘17 The League

Some fundamental considerations affecting the food supply of the United States; memorandum prepared for the Committee on resources and food supply of the State council of defense. T: Forsythe Hunt. (Cal. Agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 163) 13p pa ‘17 Berkeley, Cal.

=Foods=

Bread and bread-making in the home. Caroline L. Hunt and H. L. Wessling. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 807) 23p pa gratis ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Cottonseed flour as a human food. Anna E. Richardson; recipes by Jennie R. Bear. (Texas univ. Bul. no. 1727) 13p pa ‘17 Austin, Tex.

Economical use of meat in the home. C. F. Langworthy and C. L. Hunt. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 391) 29p gratis ‘16 U.S. Agric.

Eggs and their value as food. C. F. Langworthy. (U.S. Agric Bul. 471) 29p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Food charts; set of 15 charts (24 by 18 in.) outlining the composition and functions of food. (State relations service) rev ed $1 per set Supt. of doc.

Food value and uses of poultry. H. W. Atwater. (U.S. Agric. Bul. 467) 29p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Grayfish, try it. (U.S. Fisheries. Economic circular no. 22) 8p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and other starchy roots as food. C. F. Langworthy. (U.S. Agric. Bul. 468) 29p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Practical suggestions regarding food values and the proper selection of a nutritious and economical diet. A. M. G. Soule. (Maine. Agric. Quarterly Bul. v. 16, no. 1) 36p pa ‘17 Augusta, Me.

Preparation of vegetables for the table. Maria Parloa. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 256) 46p pa 5c ‘06 Supt. of doc.

Principles of nutrition and nutritive value of foods. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 142) 48p pa 5c ‘02 Supt. of doc.

Sablefish, alias black cod; an introduction to one of the best and richest American food fishes, with recipes for cooking it. (U.S. Fisheries. Economic circular 23) 6p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Use of corn, kafir and cowpeas in the home. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 559) 12p pa ‘13 U.S. Agric.

War bread. (Missouri. College of Agric. Circular 23) 4p pa ‘17 Columbia, Mo.

War breads; how the housekeeper may help to save the country’s wheat supply. Ethel M. Chapman. (Ontario. Dept. of agric. Womens’ institutes. Bul. 254) 16p pa ‘17 Toronto, Canada.

The following bulletins are of interest in connection with Farmers’ Bulletin no. 807 available for free distribution by the Department of agriculture.

Cereal breakfast foods. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 249) 36p pa ‘06 U.S. Agric.

Corn meal as a food and ways of using it. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 565) 24p pa ‘14 U.S. Agric.

How to select foods: (1) What the body needs. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 808) 13p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.; (2) Cereal foods. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 818) U.S. Agric.

=Foreigners, Books for=

Books for new Americans. (Public library, Minneapolis, Minnesota) 12p pa ‘17 Minneapolis, Minn.

=Fruits=

Dependable fruits. (Ohio. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 313) 614p pa ‘17 Wooster, O.

=Fuel=

Economical firing of Tennessee and Kentucky coals underpower plant boilers. (Tennessee. University record. Vol. xx, no. 4) 16p pa ‘17 Knoxville, Tenn.

=Fur-bearing animals=

Laws relating to fur-bearing animals, 1917; a summary of laws in the United States and Canada relating to trapping, open seasons, propagation, and bounties. David E. Lantz. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 911) 32p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Furnaces=

Installation, care and operation of the house furnace. (Ia. State college. Eng. extension dept. Tech. service bul. 27) 16p pa ‘16 Ames, Ia.

=Garbage=

Disposal of city garbage by feeding to hogs. F. G. Ashbrook and J. D. Bebout. (U.S. Agric. Circular no. 80) 8p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Gardening=

Educative and economic possibilities of school-directed home gardening in Richmond, Indiana. J. L. Randall. (U.S. Educ. Bul. no. 6) 25p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Flower gardening for school children in the elementary grades. (U.S. Educ. School home-garden. Circular no. 14) 4p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Garden making on vacant lots and the home vegetable garden. W. T. McCoun. (Canada. Dept. of agric. Dom. Exper. farms. Div. of horticulture. Circular no. 13) 16p pa ‘17 Ottawa, Canada

Garden primer; how to plant and care for a vegetable garden. (N.Y. City, Mayor Mitchel’s food supply committee) 8p pa ‘17 New York, N.Y.

Gardening in elementary city schools. 1. Why gardening should be introduced into the schools. 2. How gardening may be introduced into the schools. 3. How gardening may be promoted by the schools. C. D. Jarvis. (U.S. Educ. Bul. no. 40) 74p pa 15c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Have a backyard garden. (Wis. Agric. Extension service. Circular 72) 8p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis.

Helps on gardening and canning; prepared by H. J. Reed and Lella R. Gaddis. (Indiana. Purdue univ. Agric. Extension. Bul. no. 54) 8p pa ‘17 La Fayette, Ind.

Home garden, home garden plan, spray calendar, pruning and spraying, garden tillage tools. W. B. Nissley. (N.Y. State school of Agric. on Long Island. Bul. v 2, no. 1) 12p pa ‘17 Farmingdale, N.Y.

Home vegetable garden. W. R. Beattie. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 255) 47p pa 5c ‘06 Supt. of doc.

Home vegetable gardening. C. E. Durst. (Ill. Univ. Agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 198) 56p pa ‘17 Urbana, Ill.

Hotbeds and cold frames. T. F. Limbocker. (Colorado. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 221) 8p pa ‘17 Fort Collins, Colo.

School garden. L. C. Corbett. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 218) 41p pa 5c ‘05 Supt. of doc.

Small vegetable garden. (Missouri. Agric. v. 15, no. 7) 47p pa ‘17 Columbia, Mo.

Small vegetable garden; suggestions for utilizing limited areas. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 818) 44p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Vegetable garden for every home. S. C. Johnston. (Ontario. Agric. Circular no. 3) 12p pa ‘17 Toronto, Canada

Weeds; how to control them. H. R. Cox. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 660) 29p pa 5c ‘15 Supt. of doc.

_See also_ Fruits; Pruning; Trees and gardening

=Gasoline engines=

Handbook on the care and operation of gasoline engines; prepared under direction of the captain commandant. (U.S. Coast guard) 92p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Glass=

Glass industry; report on the cost of production of glass in the United States. (U.S. For. & dom. comm. Miscellaneous ser. 60) 430p pa 35c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Grapes=

Vinifero grapes in New York. R. D. Anthony under direction of U. P. Hedrick. (N.Y. Agric. Experiment station, Geneva. Bul. 432) 105p pa ‘17 Geneva, N.Y.

Winter injury of grapes. F. E. Gladwin. (N.Y. Agric. Experiment station, Geneva. Bul. 433) 139p pa ‘17 Geneva, N.Y.

=Greenhouses=

Fumigation of ornamental greenhouse plants with hydrocyanic-acid gas. E. R. Sasscer and A. D. Borden. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 880) 20p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Guinea fowl=

Guinea fowl. Andrew S. Weiant. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 858) 15p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Hardware=

Far eastern markets for American hardware; prepared under the supervision of Julean Arnold. (U.S. For. & dom. comm. Miscellaneous ser. no. 50) 145p pa 25c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Health=

Amusement for convalescent children. William B. Forbush. (N.Y. State division of public health education. Circular no. 19) 4p ‘16 Albany, N.Y.

Conduct of an isolation period for communicable disease in a home. (N.Y. State division of public health education. Circular no. 154) 4p ‘16 Albany, N.Y.

Hygiene of the printing trades. Alice Hamilton and Charles H. Verrill. (U.S. Labor statistics. Bul. 209) 118p pa 20c Supt. of doc.

Insects as possible carriers of poliomyelitis infection. C. T. Brues. (New York [city] Dept. of health. Reprint ser. no. 60) 43p pa ‘17 New York, N.Y.

Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health, 1915. (U.S. Public health. Reprint no. 364) 642p 50c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis); information for parents, physicians and health officers. (N. Y. State division of public health education. Circular no. 25) 7p ‘16 Albany, N.Y.

Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis); present knowledge of its cause and manner of spread. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint no. 373) 4p 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Saving mothers. (U.S. Children’s bur.) 3p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Teachers and communicable disease. (N. Y. State division of public health education. Circular no. 13) 12p ‘16 Albany, N.Y.

Trend of legislation for public health. Arthur Connors. (Indiana Bur. of legislative information. Bul. no. 9) 38p pa Dec. ‘16 Fort Wayne, Ind.

Typhoid fever; information for patients, physicians and health officers. (N. Y. State division of publicity and education. Circular no. 16) 8p ‘15 Albany, N.Y.

_See also_ Public health

=History=

Opportunities for history teachers; the lessons of the great war in the classroom. National board of historical service. (U.S. Educ. Teachers’ leaflet no. 1) 22p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Hogs=

Control of hog cholera; with a discussion of the results of field experiments. (U.S. Agric. Bul. 584) 18p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Hog and corn ratios; report of commission appointed by the United States Food administration to investigate the cost of producing hogs. (U.S. Food administration. Meat division) 17p pa ‘17 Chicago, Ill.

Hog cholera; prevention and treatment. M. Dorset and O. B. Hess. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 834) 32p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Prices of hogs; statement by Joseph P. Cotton. (U.S. Food administration. Meat division) 3p pa ‘17 The Administration, Washington, D.C.

Swine feeding; I. Barley vs. rye for fattening pigs, II. Barley vs. barley and meat meal for fattening pigs. A. D. Faville. (Wyoming. Univ. agric. Experiment station. Bul. 114) 8p pa ‘17 Laramie, Wyo.

Swine-judging suggestions for pig-club members. J. D. McVean and F. G. Ashbrook. (U.S. Agric. Circular 83) 14p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Swine management. George M. Rommel and F. G. Ashbrook. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 874) 38p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Holiday programs=

Memorial day; Lincoln, Douglas, Grant; comp. by H. T. Swift. (Illinois. Public instruction dept. circular) 64p pa ‘16 Springfield, Ill.

Patriotic days ... February 12, February 22; comp. by Florence B. Bartlett. (New Mexico. Educ.) 27p pa ‘17 Santa Fé, New Mex.

Twenty-sixth annual program for the observation of Arbor day in the schools of Rhode Island. (R.I. Educational circular. May 11) 32p pa ‘17 Providence, R.I.

=Home economics=

Brief courses in home making for normal schools. (U.S. Educ. Circular Je 27, 1917) 11p pa Supt. of doc.

Corn meal as a food and ways of using it. C. F. Langworthy and Caroline L. Hunt. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 565) 28p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Dandelions as food. Lucile Brewer and Helen Canon. (Cornell reading course for the farm home. Vol. 5. no. 105) 91p pa ‘16 Ithaca, N.Y.

Drying fruits and vegetables. Addie D. Root. (Missouri. Agric. Extension service. Circular 23) 4p pa ‘17 Columbia, Mo.

Drying fruits and vegetables in the home, with recipes for cooking. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 841) 29p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Fats and their economical use in the home. A. D. Holmes and H. L. Lang. (U.S. Agric. Bul. 469) 27p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Handbook in sewing for girls. Agnes A. Hunt. (Arizona. College of agric. Extension service. Circular no. 18) 22p pa 17 Tucson, Ariz.

Hints to house wives on how to buy, how to care for food, etc. (New York city. Mayor Mitchel’s Food supply committee) 111p pa ‘17 New York, N.Y.

Home canning by the one period cold-pack method. O. H. Benson. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 839) 39p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Home canning of fruits and vegetables; as taught to canning club members in the southern states. Mary E. Creswell and Ola Powell. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 853) 41p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Home made fruit butters. C. P. Close. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 900) 7p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Home management. (Iowa. State college of agric. and mechanic arts. Home economic Bul. no. 6) 19p pa ‘17 Ames, Ia.

How to feed the family. Matilda Schroeder Liftman. (N.Y. Public health education. Keep well leaflet no. 2) 32p pa ‘16 New York, N.Y.

How to make cottage cheese on the farm. K. J. Matheson and F. R. Commack. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 850) 15p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

How to select foods:

1. What the body needs. Caroline L. Hunt and H. W. Atwater. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 808) 14p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

2. Cereal foods. Caroline L. Hunt and H. W. Atwater. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 817) 23p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

3. Foods rich in protein. Caroline L. Hunt and H. W. Atwater. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 824) 19p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Jelly making. Alma L. Garvin. (Indiana. Purdue univ. Dept. of agric. Extension leaflet no. 86) 4p pa ‘17 La Fayette, Ind.

Partial substitutes for wheat in breadmaking. Hannah L. Wessling. (U.S. Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics. S.R.S. Doc. 64, Extension S. No. A-91) 11p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Peppers; growing and canning. (U.S. State relation service. Doc. 39; Extension ser. no. A-84) 8p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Pickles and relishes. Carrie L. Pancoast. (Missouri. Agric. college. Extension service. Circular 35) 4p pa ‘17 Columbia, Mo.

Planning and serving meal. (Iowa State college of agriculture and mechanical arts. Home economics bul. no. 1) 32p ‘16 Ames, Ia.

Planning of meals. Lelia McGuire. (Ohio Agric. college. Extension service. Bul. v. 12, no. 3) 16p pa ‘17 Columbus, O.

Planning the costume. (Iowa State college of agriculture and mechanical arts. Home economics bul. no. 9) 35p pa ‘16 Ames, Ia.

Preservation of foods; canning and drying fruits and vegetables. Mrs E. B. Binz. (Pa. Agric. Bul. No. 298) 18p pa ‘17 Harrisburg, Pa.

Preserves, relishes and pickles. Sadie R. Guseman. (W. Va. College of agric. Extension dept. Girls’ club instruction circular 73) 8p pa ‘16 Morgantown, W.Va.

Preserving fish for domestic use. (U.S. Fisheries. Economic circular 28) 2p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Removal of stains from clothing and other textiles. Harold L. Land and Anna H. Whittelsey. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 861) 35p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Serving of meals. Rhoda E. Dick. (Ohio. State univ. Agric. extension service. Bul. vol. 13, no. 2) 16p pa ‘17 Columbus, O.

Sugar-beet sirup. C. O. Townsend and H. C. Gore. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 823) 13p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

A simple process for home use with garden grown beets.

Three short courses in home making. Carrie Alberta Lyford. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 23) 104p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Use of corn, kafir, and cowpeas in the home. C. F. Langworthy and Caroline L. Hunt. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 559) 15p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Using dried beans, peas and other legumes as food. Mary L. Matthews. (Indiana. Purdue univ. Dept. of agric. Extension leaflet no. 85) 6p pa ‘17 La Fayette, Ind.

Ways of using rhubarb. Lucile Brewer. (Cornell reading course for the farm home. Vol. 5. no. 107) 107p pa ‘16 Ithaca, N.Y.

Why and how to use salt and smoked fish; sixty-one ways of cooking them. (U.S. Fisheries. Economic circular no. 29) 8p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

_See also_ Vegetables

=Horses=

How to select a sound horse. H. N. Reese. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 779) 27p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Judging horses as a subject of instruction in secondary schools. (U.S. Agric. Bul. 487) 31p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Immigration=

Immigration laws (Act of February 5, 1917); rules of May 1, 1917. (U.S. Immigration) 97p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Immigrants=

Public facilities for educating the alien; prepared by F. E. Farrington. (U.S. Educ. Bul. no. 18) 49p pa 10c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Education=

Rochester plan of immigrant education; prepared by C: E. Finck; reprint from the twelfth annual report. (N.Y. [state] Dept. of educ.) 26p pa ‘16 Albany, N.Y.

=Industrial relations=

Final report and testimony submitted to Congress by Commission on industrial relations created by act of Aug. 23, 1912. (U.S. 64th Cong., 1st sess. S. Doc. 415) 10v cl ea $1 ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Insects, Injurious=

Aphids injurious to orchard fruits, currant, gooseberry and grape. A. L. Quaintance and A. C. Baker. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 804) 42p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Insects injuring stored food products in Connecticut. W. E. Britton. (Conn. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 195) 21p pa ‘17 New Haven, Conn.

Bulletins of this station are mailed free to citizens of Connecticut who apply for them, and to others as far as the editions permit.

Plant lice injurious to apple orchards; II. Studies on control of newly-hatched aphides. H. P. S. Parrott, H. E. Hodgkiss, and F. H. Lathrop. (N.Y. Agric. Experiment station, Geneva. Bul. 431) 79p pa ‘17 Geneva, N.Y.

Suggestions for the control of injurious insects and plant disease. G. M. Bently. (Tenn. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 117) 123p pa ‘17 Knoxville, Tenn.

=Insurance, Health=

Its relation to the public health. B. S. Warren and Edgar Sydenstriker. (U.S. Public health service. Bul. 76) 76p pa. 10c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Insurance, War risk=

Uncle Sam’s insurance for soldiers and sailors; answers to questions you will ask. (U.S. Treasury. Official bul. no. 4) 7p ‘17 U.S. Treasury

=Irrigation=

Construction and use of farm weirs. Victor M. Cone. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 813) 19p pa U.S. Agric.

=Jewish life=

Bibliography of Jewish life in the fiction of America and England. Rebecca Schneider. (Univ. of the State of N.Y.) ‘16 Albany, N.Y.

=Journalism=

Iowa desk book of newspaper practices. Conger Reynolds. (Iowa. University extension. Bul. no. 27) 60p pa ‘17 Iowa City, Ia.

=Kindergarten=

Kindergarten legislation. Louise Schofield. (U.S. Educ. Bul. no. 45) 30p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Labor=

Industrial unrest in Great Britain. (U.S. Labor statistics. Bul. no. 237) 240p pa 25c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Liberty bonds=

United States government bonds of the Second liberty loan; what they are and how to buy them. (U.S. Publicity. Second liberty loan. 1917) 8p pa ‘17 The Bureau, Washington. D.C.

=Liberty loan=

The Liberty loan; an address of Hon. W. G. McAdoo ... delivered at a meeting of business men and bankers of Iowa in Des Moines, May 21. (U.S. 65th Cong. 1st sess. Senate doc. no. 40) 13p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Libraries=

Plan of organization for small libraries; methods of work, list of supplies and aids. Mrs M. C. Budlong. (N.D. Public library comm.) rev ed 65p pa ‘16 Bismarck, N.D.

_See_ Children’s libraries

=Libraries as community centers=

Where neighbors meet; an account of the use of assembly and club rooms in the St Louis public library. Margery Quigley. 59p pa ‘17 Public library, St Louis, Mo.

=Lightning, Protection=

Modern methods of protection against lightning. Roy N. Covert. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 842) 32p pa U.S. Agric.

=Literature=

Naming of characters in the works of Charles Dickens. Elizabeth H. Gordon. (Univ. of Neb. Studies in language, literature, and criticism, no. 1) 35p pa ‘17 Lincoln, Neb.

=Live stock=

Community live stock breeding. S. T. Simpson. (Missouri. Agric. college. Extension service. Circular 33) 4p pa ‘17 Columbia, Mo.

How to feed live stock successfully. C. A. Willson. (Tennessee. Univ. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 106) 106p pa ‘16 Knoxville, Tenn.

=Louisiana=

Hand-book of Louisiana giving general and agricultural features; together with crops that can be grown and description of each parish, climate, health, education, industries, etc. il 208p ‘17 Louisiana. State board of agriculture and immigration, Baton Rouge. Free; Write Comr. Harry D. Wilson

=Lumber=

Substitution of other materials for wood; studies of the lumber industry, part 11. Rolf Thelen. (U.S. Agric. Report no. 117) 78p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Lumber industry=

Some public and economic aspects of the lumber industry, pt 1. Studies of the lumber industry. W: B. Greeley. (U.S. Agric. Rept. no. 114) 25p pa 25c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Manual training=

Some facts concerning manual arts and homemaking subjects in 156 cities. J. C. Park and C. L. Harian. (U.S. Educ. Bul. no. 32) 25p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Meat=

Meat situation in United States; Part 1. Statistics of live stock meat production and consumption prices and international trade. G. K. Holmes. (U.S. Agric. Report 109) 307p pa 35c July ‘16 Supt. of doc.

—Same; Part 2. Live stock production in 11 far western range states, based on reports from stockmen and country correspondents. William C. Barnes and J. T. Jardine. (U.S. Agric. Report 110) 100p pa 15c July 1, ‘16 Supt. of doc.

—Same; Part 3. Methods and cost of growing beef cattle in corn belt states. J. S. Cotton, and others. (U.S. Agric. Report 111) 64p pa 15c July 1, ‘16 Supt. of doc.

—Same; Part 4. Utilization and efficiency of available American feed stuffs. W. F. Ward and S. H. Ray. (U.S. Agric. Report 112) 27p pa 5c June 8, ‘16 Supt. of doc.

—Same; Part 5, Methods and cost of marketing live stock and meats. L. D. Hall, and others. (U.S. Agric. Report 113) 98p pa 25c Oct. 7, ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Preservation of meat. (North Dakota. Agric. college. Extension Bul. no. 12) 22p pa ‘17 Agricultural college, N.D.

Production of baby beef. S. H. Ray. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 811) 22p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Mexico=

Mexico; a review and a forecast. John Barrett. (Pan-American union) 15p pa ‘17 Washington, D.C.

=Military training=

Military training of youths of school age in foreign countries. W. S. Jesien. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 25) 35p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Universal military training; bibliography and selected arguments, ed. by E. D. Shurter. (Texas. University. Bul. 1916, no. 2) 50p pa ‘16 Austin. Tex.

=Milk=

Commission on milk standards; third report of the commission on milk standards appointed by the New York milk committee. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint no. 386) 28p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Cost of distributing milk in six cities and towns in Massachusetts. Alexander E. Cance and Richard Hay Ferguson. (Mass. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. no. 173) 54p pa ‘17 Amherst, Mass.

Guide for formulating a milk ordinance. (U.S. Agric. Bul. no. 585) 4p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Progress report of the production and distribution of milk. Elwood Mead. (California. Univ. agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 175) 16p pa ‘17 Berkeley, Cal.

Pure milk and how to get it. (Texas. Univ. Bul. 1711) 6p pa ‘17 Austin, Tex.

Report on the more economic distribution and delivery of milk in the city of Chicago. Committee on health, Chicago city council. (Municipal reference library. Bul. no. 8) 15p pa ‘17 Chicago, Ill.

Safe milk an important food problem. Ernest A. Sweet. (U.S. Public Health. Supplement no. 31) 24p pa 5c Supt. of doc.

Some suggestions in connection with the milk problem; the cost of producing milk. (N.Y. Cornell extension. Bul. 12) 457p pa ‘17 Ithaca, N.Y.

Study in the cost of producing milk on four dairy farms, located in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Morton O. Cooper, C. M. Bennett, L. M. Church. (U.S. Agric. Bul. no. 501) 35p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Milling tests=

Practical milling tests. E. F. Ladd. (N.D. Agric. Experiment station. Circular 15) 11p pa ‘17 Fargo, N.D.

=Moles=

Common moles of eastern United States. Theodore H. Scheffer. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 583) 12p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Trapping moles and utilizing their skins; with especial reference to the Pacific coast states. Theodore H. Scheffer. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 832) 14p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Monetary systems=

Monetary systems of the principal countries of the world. (U.S. Mint) 75p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Mortality statistics=

Maternal mortality from all conditions connected with childbirth in the United States and certain other countries. Grace L. Meigs. (U.S. Children’s bur. Misc. ser. no. 6; Bur. Pub. no. 19) 65p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Moths=

Gipsy moth and the brown-tail moth and their control. A. P. Burgess. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 845) 28p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Municipal government=

Ashtabula plan of municipal government; the commission manager form with proportional representation; charter and account of first election, Nov. 2, 1915. 15p gratis n.d. Chamber of commerce, Ashtabula, Ohio (obtainable through National short ballot organization, 381 Fourth av., N. Y.)

City manager plan for Chicago; draft bill for the reorganization of the municipal government with explanatory statement. (Chicago. Bur. public efficiency) 60p pa ‘17 Chicago, Ill.

City manager plan of municipal government; prepared by J. H. Quire. (Cal. Univ. Extension division. Bul. n.s. v. 1, no. 18) 22p pa ‘16 Berkeley, Cal. Bibliography.

Research progress facts; a year of governmental research with certain facts about our city, county and schools, their progress during 1916-17. (Dayton. Bur. of research) 39p pa ‘17 Dayton, O.

What is the city-manager plan? Herman G. James. rev ed (Univ. of Texas. Bul. no. 1702; Municipal research ser. no. 14) 33p pa ‘17 Austin, Tex.

=Municipal markets=

City markets; how to start and operate a city public retail market. Frank T. Stockton. (Indiana univ. Extension division. Bul. vol. 2, no. 11) 16p pa ‘17 Bloomington, Ind.

=Munitions factories=

Industrial efficiency and fatigue in British munition factories. (U.S. Labor. Bul. 230) 203p pa 20c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Mushrooms=

Some common edible and poisonous mushrooms. Flora W. Patterson and Vera K. Charles. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 796) 24p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Muskrat=

Muskrat as a fur bearer with notes on its use as food. David E. Lantz. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 869) 23p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=National defense=

Selected list of books on national defense, military and naval science and law in the public library. (Boston public library. Brief reading list. no. 1) 28p pa ‘17 Boston, Mass.

=National guard—United States.= See United States—Militia.

=Naval training=

Lectures delivered to civilian volunteers; naval training cruise for civilians, 1916 (U.S. Bur. of navigation) 77p pa 10c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Painting=

Rules and regulations pertaining to the painting business. (Massachusetts. Board of labor and industries. Industrial bul. no. 13) 7p pa ‘17 Boston, Mass.

=Panama canal=

Treaties and acts of Congress relating to the Panama canal, 1917. 180, xxxviiip pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Paper=

Report of the Federal trade commission on news-print paper industry. 162p pa 10c Supt. of doc.

Studies on paper pulps. W. H. Smith. (U.S. Stand., Technological paper no. 88) 13p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Parks=

National parks portfolio; a collection of nine separate pamphlets, each describing one of our national parks: “a panorama of our principal national parks set side by side for their study and comparison.” June ‘16 U.S. Interior.

Town common. In Planning and commons. (Mass. Agric. college. Extension service bul. no. 7) 12p June ‘16 Amherst, Mass.

=Pavements=

Report upon pavements recently built. Ira O. Baker. (Chicago Bd. of local improvements) 49p pa ‘16 Urbana, Ill.

=Pensions=

Governmental provisions in the United States and foreign countries for members of the military forces and their dependents. (U.S. Children’s bur. Pub. no. 28, Miscellaneous ser. no. 11) 236p pa 25c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Laws of the United States governing the granting of army and navy pensions together with regulations relating thereto; comp. under the direction of Commissioner of pensions. (U.S. Bur. of pensions) 187p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

State pension systems for public school teachers with bibliography, prepared for Committee on teachers’ salaries, pensions, and tenure of National education association by W. C. Ryan, jr. and Roberta King. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 14) 46p pa 10c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Physical training=

Training; general plan and syllabus for physical training in the elementary and secondary schools of the State of New York. (Univ. of the State of N. Y.) 46p pa 10c ‘16 Supt of doc.

=Pike=

Pikes; their geographical distribution, habits, culture and commercial importance. William Converse Kendall. (U.S. Fisheries. Doc. no. 853) 42p pa 5c Supt. of doc. Bibliography.

=Pilots and pilotage=

Pilotage in the United States; summary of laws, and regulations relating to pilotage in the several states. Grosvenor M. Jones. (U.S. For. & dom. comm. Special agents ser. no. 136) 102p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Poisons=

Industrial poisons used or produced in the manufacture of explosives. Alice Hamilton. (U.S. Labor. Bul. 219) 141p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Poles=

=Preservation=

Butt treatment of wooden poles. (Iowa, State college of agric. and mechanical arts. Tech. service Bul. 28) 19p pa ‘17 Ames, Ia.

=Political science=

Documents and debates relating to initiative, referendum, recall, elections, prohibition, woman suffrage, political parties, District of Columbia. (Price list 54. 4th ed., Dec. 1916) 32p pa ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Ports=

Ports of the United States. Grosvenor M. Jones. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bureau. Miscellaneous ser. no. 33) 431p pa 75c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Potatoes=

Potato grades recommended by the United States Department of agriculture and the United States Food administration. (U.S. Markets bur. Doc.—Markets 7) 4p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Poultry=

Brooding and feeding little chicks. Horace Atwood. (West Virginia. Agric. Experiment station. Circular 26) 15p pa ‘17 Morgantown, W.Va.

Chicken management on the farm. R. M. Sherwood, W. A. Lippincott, and others. (Kansas. Agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 60) 23p pa ‘17 Topeka, Kan.

Crate-feeding poultry for market. F. E. Mussehl. (Wis. Univ. college of agric. Extension service. Circular 66) 8p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis.

Farm poultry; with the results of some experiments in poultry houses and fattening chickens. W. R. Graham and F. N. Marcellus. (Ontario. Agric. college. Bul. 247) 80p pa ‘17 Toronto, Canada.

Feeding and housing winter layers. (U.S. Agric. Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics. S.R.S. Doc. 61. Extension N.) 4p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Feeding for egg production. Horace Atwod. (West Virginia. Agric. Experiment station. Circular 27) 32p pa ‘17 Morgantown, W.Va.

Poultry facts expressed briefly. C. T. Patterson. (Missouri. State poultry. Experiment station) 39p pa ‘17 Mountain Grove, Mo.

Poultry house. (West Virginia. College of agric. Extension dept. Circular 148) 4p pa ‘17 Morgantown, W.Va.

Poultry-keeping in town and country. F. C. Elford. (Canada. Dept. of Agric. Dom. exper. farms. Poultry division. Bul. no. 89) 47p pa ‘17 Ottawa, Canada.

Poultry on the farm. J. E. Dougherty. (California. Univ. agric. Experiment station. Circular no. 186) 4p pa ‘17 Berkeley, Cal.

Raising ducks, geese and turkeys; suggestions for teachers in secondary schools. H. P. Barrows. (U.S. Agric. States relation service. S.R.S. doc. 57) 10p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Rearing of chickens. Milligan C. Kilpatrick. (Ohio. Agric. College. Extension service. Bul. v. 12, no. 6) 24p pa ‘17 Columbus, O.

Some common poultry parasites. C. A. Lueder. (West Virginia. College of agric. Extension dept. Circular 142) 8p pa ‘17 Morgantown, W.Va.

Standard varieties of chickens: the American class. Robert R. Slocum. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 806) 19p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Start a flock; Uncle Sam’s egg basket is low. J. B. Hayes and F. E. Mussehl. (Wis. Univ. Agric. Extension service. Circular 73) 8p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis.

Study of the effect of cottonseed meal vs. beef scrap upon the egg production, fertility and vitality of poultry. (Oklahoma. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 112) 20p pa ‘17 Stillwater, Okla.

Turkey raising. Andrew S. Weiant. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 791) 26p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

War rations for poultry. (Connecticut. Agric. college. Reprint from press Bul. May 7) 1p pa ‘17 New Haven, Conn.

=Poultry houses=

Farmers’ poultry house. J. G. Halpin and L. M. Schindler. (Univ. Wis. Circular 62) 4p pa plans, specifications ‘16 Madison, Wis.

Poultry houses. W. F. Schoppe. (Montana. Agric. college. Experiment station. Circular 72) 69p pa ‘17 Bozeman, Mont.

=Poultry products=

Increase and conserve poultry products. R. E. Jones. (Connecticut. Agric. college. Extension service. Circular 12) 4p pa ‘17 New Haven, Conn.

=Prices=

Wholesale prices, 1890-1915. (U.S. Labor. Bul. 200; Wholesale price ser. 5) 295p pa 25c July ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Wholesale prices of leading articles in United States markets, January, 1914 to December, 1916. (U.S. For. & dom. comm., Miscellaneous ser. no. 52) 14p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Profit sharing=

Profit sharing in the United States. Boris Emmet. (U.S. Labor statistics, whole no. 208) 188p pa 20c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Pruning=

Pruning. L. C. Corbett. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 181) 35p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Pruning fruit trees. W. H. Alderman and E. C. Auchter. (West Virginia. Dept. of horticulture. Bul. 164) 40p pa ‘17 Morgantown, W.Va.

=Public health=

Principles of administrative control of communicable diseases in large cities. John S. Billings. (New York [city] Dept. of health. Reprint ser. no. 46) 7p pa ‘16 New York, N.Y.

State laws and regulations pertaining to public health adopted during the year 1915. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint no. 338) 612p pa 70c. ‘16 Supt. of doc.

_See also_ Sanitation

=Rabbits=

Raising Belgian hares and other rabbits. David E. Lantz. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 496) 16p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Railways=

Address delivered at the annual meeting of the National association of railway commissioners, held at Washington, D. C., on Nov. 14, 1916. Robert R. Prentis. (U.S. 64th Cong., 2d sess. S. Doc. 639) 19p 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Rats=

House rats and mice. David E. Lantz. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 896) 24p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

=Reading courses=

Reading course for the elementary schools of the State of New York; prepared by a committee of the State association of district superintendents; reprint from 12th annual report. (Univ. of the State of N. Y. School libraries division) 14p ‘16 Albany, N.Y.

Suggested readings for history classes, 1916-17; prepared by Avery W. Skinner. (Univ. of the State of N. Y. Examination and inspection division) 16p ‘17 Albany, N.Y.

=Recreation=

List of references on play and grounds. (U.S. Educ.) 8p gratis ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Plays for the rural community. Bernard Sobel. (Indiana. Purdue univ. Dept. of agric. Extension leaflet no. 84) 4p pa ‘17 La Fayette, Ind.

Recreation movement in Iowa schools and communities; plans prepared by Mrs. E. B. Wilson. (Iowa Dept. of public instruction) 58p pa Dec. ‘16 Des Moines, Ia.

=Red cross=

Red cross; a reference list. (Riverside public library. Bul. 147) 23p pa ‘17 Riverside, Cal.

Regulations governing the employment of the American Red cross in time of war. 11p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Roads=

Earth, sand-clay, and gravel roads. Charles H. Moorefield. (U.S. Agric. Bul. no. 463) 68p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Public road mileage and revenues in the central, mountain and Pacific states, 1914. (U.S. Agric. Bul. 389) 56p appendix 75p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Width of wagon tires recommended for loads of varying magnitudes on earth and gravel roads. (U.S. Agric. Circular 72) 6p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Safety-first=

Safety-first train. John L. Cochrane. (U.S. Interior) 46p ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Sanitation=

Public and home sanitation. (Iowa. State college of agric. and mechanic arts. Home economics Bul. no. 5) 24p pa ‘16 Ames, Ia.

=School children=

Mental status of rural school children; report of preliminary sanitary survey made in New Castle County, Delaware, with a description of the tests employed. E. H. Mullan. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint no. 377) 30p ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=School gardens.= See Gardening

=School libraries=

Library and laboratory equipment for classified high schools. W. F. Doughty. (Texas. Dept. of educ. Bul. 55) 82p pa ‘16 Austin, Tex.

=School lunches=

Bibliography of school lunches; comp. by Lucy Condell. (U.S. Agric. Circular) 25p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Cold school lunches. Bab Bell. (Univ. of Mo. Agric. Extension division service. Circular 10) 7p July ‘16 Columbia, Mo.

Suggestions for basket lunch and noon meal at home, with recipes for school lunches, (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 712) 26p pa 5c Supt. of doc.

=Schools=

Current practice in city school administration. W. S. Deffenbaugh. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 8) 98p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Handbook for rural school trustees. J. C. Werner. (Idaho. Education board. Bul. vol. 3, no. 3) 44p pa ‘17 Boise, Idaho.

One-room and consolidated country schools of Illinois, 1917. (Illinois. Public instruction. Circular no. 124) 112p pa ‘17 Springfield, Ill.

Open-air schools. Sherman C. Kingsley and F. B. Dresslar. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1916, no. 23) 283p pa 50c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Practical application of cooking lessons given in the running of a regular cafeteria with report of social work in connection with continuation school work in Kenosha. Laura E. Hahn. (Wisconsin. State board of industrial education. Bul. no. 9) 17p pa ‘14 Madison, Wis.

Reorganization of the public school system. Frank Forest Bunker. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1916, no. 8) 186p pa 20c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

School house plans; one room buildings. (Idaho. Education board. Bul. vol. 3, no. 2) 5 plans ‘17 Boise, Idaho.

Use of activities in the elementary school; a report of the first annual meeting of the National council of primary education, Detroit, Mich., Feb. 22, 1916. (U.S. Educ. Elementary education circular no. 1) 14p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Seeds=

Saving vegetable seeds for the home and market garden. W. W. Tracy, Sr. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 884) 16p pa U.S. Agric.

=Sewage=

Sewage disposal for village and rural homes. C. S. Nichols. (Iowa State college of agriculture and mechanical arts. Official Bul. vol. 15, no. 9; Engineer experiment station Bul. 41) 31p pa Aug. ‘16 Ames, Ia.

Sewage pollution of streams; its relation to public health. Wade H. Frost. (U.S. Public health. Reprint 362) 14p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Sheep=

Farm sheep raising for beginners. F. M. Marshall and R. B. Millin. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 840) 24p pa ‘17 U.S. Agric.

Sheep feeding: VII. Fattening western lambs. (Indiana. Purdue univ. Dept. of agric. Experiment station. Bul. 202, Vol. 20) Popular ed. 7p pa ‘17 La Fayette, Ind.

=Sidewalks=

Concrete sidewalk construction. (Ia. State College. Eng. extension dept. Tech. service. Bul. 21) 23p pa ‘17 Ames, Ia.

=Silos=

How to build the wooden-hoop silo. (Alabama. Polytechnic institute. Extension service. Circular 9) 12p pa ‘17 Auburn, Ala.

Pit silos. T. Pryse Metcalfe and George A. Scott. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 825) 14p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Silos and silage. S. T. Simpson. (Missouri. College of agric. Extension service. Circular 32) 8p pa ‘17 Columbia, Mo.

=Smoke-houses=

Practical small smokehouse for fish; how to construct and operate it. (U.S. Fisheries. Economic circular no. 27) 7p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Social agencies=

Survey of social agencies of Alameda county, California; based on 1915-1916 reports; prepared by Jean Howard McDuffie. (Alameda county. Board of public welfare and Board of supervisors) 56p pa ‘17 Oakland, Cal.

=Social surveys=

Delinquency and density of population. J. Harold Williams. (Cal. Whittier state school. Dept. of research. Bul. no. 4) 18p pa ‘17 Whittier, Cal.

Scale for grading neighborhood conditions. J. Harold Williams. (Cal. Whittier state school. Dept. of research. Bul. no. 5) 17p pa ‘17 Whittier, Cal.

Whittier scale for grading home conditions; a preliminary report, with some tentative results of its use in grading the homes of delinquent and non-delinquent children. J. Harold Williams. (Cal. Whittier state school. Dept. of research. Bul. no. 3) 14p pa ‘16 Whittier, Cal.

=Soils=

Important soils of the United States. 28p gratis Dec. ‘16 Issued to accompany a collection of soils and sub-soils (in 13 boxes) for use in schools and colleges teaching agriculture and physical geography. Bureau of soils.

=Soldiers=

Desirability of vocational education and direction of disabled soldiers. Elizabeth G. Upham. (Wisconsin. Univ. of Wis. Extension Division. Bul. ser. no. 876; Gen. infor. and welfare vocational ser. no. 2) 20p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis.

=Soy beans=

Harvesting soy-beans seed. W. J. Morse. (U.S. Farmers’ Bul. 886) 8p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Tests of soy beans, 1916; note on the plant food in a corn crop. E. H. Jenkins, and others. (Connecticut. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 193) 12p pa ‘17 New Haven, Conn.

=State police=

Report of the special commission on constabulary and state police, January, 1917. (Mass. General assembly. House no. 539) 43p pa ‘17 Wright & Potter Prtg. co. Boston, Mass.

=Street name signs=

Street-name signs. (Ia. Eng. extension dept. Tech. service. Bul. 20) 47p pa ‘16 Ames, Ia.

=Sugar=

Production of sugar in the United States and foreign countries. Perry Elliott. (U.S. Agric. Bul. no. 473) 70p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Sugar Industry=

Cane sugar industry; agricultural, manufacturing, and marketing costs in Hawaii, Porto Rico, Louisiana, and Cuba. (U.S. Commerce. Miscellaneous ser. no. 53) 461p pa 50c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Taxation=

Property exempt from taxation in the forty-eight states. W. E. Hannan. (N.Y. State univ. Bul. 638. Library, Legislation Bul. 42) 239p pa ‘17 Albany, N.Y.

=Teaching=

Bulletin for teachers of German. Carl Schlenker. (Univ. of Minnesota. Current problems no. 8) 41p 25c Aug. ‘16 Minneapolis, Minn.

This is the third of a series of bulletins on high school subjects, each 25c.

Course of study in geography, history and civics for elementary schools with suggestions and directions to teachers. (Indianapolis public schools) 252p Sept. ‘14 Indianapolis, Ind.

=Terminals=

Report on a proposed marine terminal and industrial city on New York Bay at Bayonne, N.J., Nov. 1916. (N.J. State bd. of commerce and navigation) 114p pa ‘16 Bayonne, N.J.

=Thrift=

Teaching of thrift; prepared by H. R. Bonner under the direction of M. P. Shawkey. (West Virginia. Dept. of free schools) il 54p ‘17 Charleston, W.Va.

=Tin cans=

Substitutes for tin cans; how to offset any possible shortage. (U.S. Bur. of foreign and domestic commerce) 4p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Torrens system=

Torrens system of land title registration; containing a definition, a brief history, some comparisons and a plea for the proper safeguarding of the standards of surveying under the proposed Pennsylvania act. (Philadelphia. Dept. of public works) 10p ‘16 Philadelphia, Pa.

=Traffic signs=

Use of traffic signs. (Ia. Eng. extension dept. Tech. service Bul. 17) 12p pa ‘16 Ames, Ia. (Brooklyn public library) 3p pa ‘17 Brooklyn, N.Y.

=Trees=

Red spruce; its growth and management. Louis S. Murphy. (U.S. Agric. Bul. no. 544) 100p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Shade trees and gardening. (Detroit public library) 10p pa ‘17 Detroit, Mich.

A list of books on trees and gardening.

=Trucking=

Manuring of market garden crops with special reference to the use of fertilizers. Frank T. Shutt and B. L. Emslie. (Canada. Dept. of agric. Dom. exper. farms. Bul. no. 32—2d ser.) 36p pa ‘17 Ottawa, Canada

=United States, Interior, Dept. of=

General information regarding the Department of the Interior. (U.S. Interior) 24p pa gratis ‘17 Supt. of doc.

United States. Labor statistics, Bureau of

Monthly review of the United States Bureau of labor statistics. (Vol. 4, no. 3) 496p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Includes articles on: Women in industry in Great Britain during the war; Extension of employment of women in Great Britain in 1916; Employment of women and boys in munition works in Italy; Retail prices in the United States, etc.

=United States=

=Army=

Engineer training manual. ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Pt. 1—Preface, introduction, principles of training. 97p pa 10c

Pt. 8—Intensive training and mobilization for war. 104p pa 15c

Appendix no. 4—Carpentry manual. 60p pa 10c

Appendix no. 5—Masonry manual. 83p pa 10c

Appendix no. 6—Manual for blacksmiths. 30p pa 10c

Pt. 3—Engineer training manual: engineer officers’ reserve corps optional training. 42p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Appendix no. 2—Instruction for the use of company and regimental forms. 224p pa 30c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Appendix no. 3—Instruction for the use of engineer department forms. 78p pa 20c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Engineer training manual; appendix no. 1, Elements of administration. (U.S. Chief of engineers) 77p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Home-reading course for citizen-soldiers. (War information ser. no. 9) 62p pa ‘17 Committee on public information.

Report on mobilization of the organized militia and national guard of the United States, 1916. (U.S. Militia Bur.) 169p pa 15c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Technical equipment of the signal corps; manual no. 3. (U.S. Signal office) 554p cl $1 ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Food administration=

Creation of United States food administration; plans for wheat, flour, and bread control; personnel announcements; food, an international problem. (U.S. Food Administration. Bul. no. 6) 32p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

[Statement of Hon. Herbert Hoover, director of food control, Washington, D.C., before Senate agricultural committee, June 19, 1917.], and other articles on food control. (U.S. Food administration. Bul. 2) 15p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Militia=

Mobilization of the National guard, 1916; its economic and military aspects. (Report of the executive committee of the Mayor’s committee on national defence) 35p pa ‘17 New York, N.Y.

=Navy=

Bluejackets manual; revised November 1916 by Lieutenant Norman R. Van der Veer. (U.S. Navigation bur. (Navy)) 821p cl ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Diving manual, July, 1916. (U.S. Navy) 122p cl 75c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

Handy book for hospital corps, Navy, 1917; revised by J. B. Kaufman. (U.S. Medicine and surgery bur.) 386p cl 50c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Naval militia cruises, 1916; reports by officers of the United States navy. (U.S. Division of naval militia affairs) 170p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Statistics=

Statistical abstract of the United States, 1916. (U.S. Commerce) 773p pa ‘17 50c Supt. of doc.

=Vegetables=

Experiments in keeping asparagus after cutting. F. W. Morse. (Mass. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 172) 307p pa ‘17 Amherst, Mass.

Harvesting and storing vegetables for home use. J. J. Gardner. (Colorado. Experiment station. Bul. 232) 7p pa Fort Collins. Col.

Potato and tomato diseases. N. J. Giddings. (West Virginia. Agric. Experiment station. Bul. 165) 24p pa ‘17 Morgantown, W.Va.

Storage of vegetables; prepared under the direction of C. G. Woodbury, F. C. Gaylord. (Indiana. Purdue univ. Dept. of agric. Extension Bul. no. 58) 8p pa ‘17 La Fayette, Ind.

Storing vegetables. A. L. Dacy. (West Virginia. College of agric. Extension dept. Circular 153) 4p pa ‘17 Morgantown, W.Va.

=Vinegar=

Vinegar from waste fruits. W. V. Cruess. (California. Univ. agric. Experiment station. Bul. 287) 184p pa ‘17 Berkeley, Cal.

=Vital statistics=

Enforcement of registration of births and deaths in metropolitan areas; history, methods, results and checks. William H. Guilfoy. (New York [city] Dept. of health. Reprint ser. no. 61) 7p pa ‘17 New York, N.Y.

=Vocational diseases=

Studies in vocational diseases; the effect of gas heated appliances upon the air of workshops. Charles Weisman. (U.S. Public health. Bul. no. 81) 83p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Vocational education=

Demand for vocational education in the countries at war. Anna Tolman Smith. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, No. 36) 16p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Department-store education; an account of the training methods developed at the Boston school of salesmanship under the direction of Lucinda Wyman Prince. Helen Rich Norton. (U.S. Educ. Bul. 1917, no. 9) 79p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Some exercises in farm handicraft for rural schools. H. O. Sampson. (U.S. Agric. Bul. no. 527) 38p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Vocational education survey of Minneapolis, Minn., made by the National society for the promotion of industrial education. (U.S. Labor statistics, no. 199) 592p pa 65c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Reprints from the report of the Minneapolis survey (see previous entry) for Vocational education. (Minneapolis Bd. of educ., Occupational ser. Bul.) ‘16 Minneapolis, Minn.

=Baking=

Kneading the dough; what vocational education is needed for the baking business? (Bul. no. 7) 347p pa

=Dressmaking and millinery=

Hats, gowns and wraps; what vocational education is needed for dressmaking and millinery? (Bul. no. 10) 434p pa

=Garment trade=

Ready to wear; what vocational education is needed for the garment trade? (Bul. no. 9) 406p pa

=Industry=

In perfect taste; what vocational education is needed in industry? (Bul. no. 13) 560p pa

Relates especially to arts and crafts.

=Knitting mill=

Thousand needles; what vocational education is needed for the knitting mill? (Bul. no. 11) 463p pa

=Laundries=

Modern washtub; what vocational education is needed for the laundries? (Bul. no. 8) 375p pa

=Metal trade=

Men of metal; what vocational education is needed for the metal trades? (Bul. no. 3) 276p pa

=Public evening schools=

Chance for promotion; the public evening school. (Bul. no. 17) 96p pa

=Salesmanship=

Over the counter; what vocational education is needed for salesmanship in the department stores? (Bul. no. 12) 515p pa.

=Vocational guidance=

Vocational guidance bibliography prepared for school and public libraries and arranged especially for youths, teachers and specialists; comp. for the Comm. of industrial and vocational educ. (California State bd. of educ. Bul. no. 12) 24p pa ‘16 Sacramento, Cal.

=War=

Great war; from spectator to participant. Andrew C. McLaughlin. (U.S. Committee on public information) 16p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Aids=

Book helps for munition workers. (Brooklyn public library) 11p pa ‘17 Brooklyn, N.Y.

Doing your bit at home; some library books that will help you. (Brooklyn public library) 23p pa ‘17 Brooklyn, N.Y.

National defense; a select list of books. (Brooklyn public library) 27p pa ‘17 Brooklyn, N.Y.

Ship-builder’s library; books on naval design and construction (to be found in the Brooklyn public library) 3p pa ‘17 Brooklyn, N.Y.

=Cost accounting=

Uniform contracts and cost accounting definitions and methods; recommendations by interdepartmental conference consisting of delegates from the departments of war, navy, and commerce, the Federal trade commission and the Council of national defense. 45p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Education=

Educational program for the war. (Missouri. Kirksville normal school. The rural school messenger, Sept. 1917. Vol. 7, no. 1) 39p pa ‘17 Kirksville, Mo.

=United States=

American loyalty by citizens of German descent. (U.S. Committee on Public information. War information. Ser. no. 6) 24p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Commission on training camp activities. (U.S. War) 29p pa ‘17 The Commission, Room 149, Old Land Office Bldg., Washington, D.C.

First session of the War Congress. Charles Merz. (U.S. Committee on public information. War information. Ser. no. 10) 48p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Nation in arms. Franklin K. Lane and Newton D. Baker. (U.S. Committee on public information) 13p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

United States at war; organisations and literature; comp. under the direction of Herman H. B. Meyer, with cooperation of members of the Library staff. (Library of Congress) 115p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

War message and facts behind it; annotated text of President Wilson’s message, April 2, 1917. (U.S. Committee on public information. War information. Ser. no. 1) 28p pa ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Welfare=

Community music and drama. (Wis. univ. Bul. gen. ser. 638) 27p pa ‘17 Madison, Wis. Bibliography.

Community welfare programs; for women’s clubs and parent-teacher associations. (Indiana univ. Bul. of Extension division, vol. 1, no. 10) 12p June ‘16 Bloomington, Ind.

Hours, fatigue, and health in British munition factories; reprints of the memoranda of the British health of munition workers committee. (U.S. Labor statistics. Bul. no. 221) 147p pa 15c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Industrial efficiency and fatigue in British munition factories; reprints of interim report and memoranda of the British health of munition workers committee. (U.S. Labor statistics. Bul. no. 30) 203p pa 20c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

Welfare work in British munition factories. (U.S. Labor statistics Bur. Bul. 222) 66p pa 10c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-=

Address of the President of the United States delivered at a joint session of the two houses of Congress, Dec. 5, 1916. 7p pa 5c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

President’s address; delivered to the Senate of the United States, January 22, 1917. 8p pa 5c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

=Women in trades=

Dressmaking as a trade for women in Massachusetts. May Allinson. (U.S. Labor statistics. Bul. no. 193) 180p pa 20c ‘16 Supt. of doc.

=Workmen’s compensation=

Workmen’s compensation laws of the United States and foreign countries. (U.S. Labor statistics. Bul. no. 203) 961p pa 75c ‘17 Supt. of doc.

The Senate and House documents and reports are issued in limited editions, and unless otherwise indicated may be obtained only through members of Congress. Librarians should make application to their own representatives in Washington.

The Department of Agriculture’s supply of the current numbers of Farmers’ Bulletins is ordinarily sufficient to make it possible to send them free to all applicants. They are also for sale at 5 cents per copy [by the Superintendent of Documents].

The Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., is authorized to sell at cost of paper and printing any United States public document in his charge, the distribution of which is not otherwise provided for. Publications cannot be supplied free to individuals nor forwarded in advance of payment.

Quarterly List of New Technical and Industrial Books

Chosen and annotated for general libraries by the Applied Science Reference Department, Pratt Institute Free Library, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Nos. 2-5 FEBRUARY, 1918

=Drawing and design for craftsmen.= R. S. Bowers. McKay. 407p. $2.00. (The handcraft series.)

A comprehensive book in which the learner is gradually taken through the elements of drawing to more advanced work, the whole tendency being towards the applications of art to decoration and industrial design.

The book would be suitable for self instruction, would also offer suggestions to teachers of drawing and design.

=Furniture making=; designs, working drawings, and complete details of 170 pieces of furniture, with practical information on their construction. R. S. Bowers, John Bovington, and other designer-craftsmen; with 1,082 illustrations. McKay. 407p. $2.00. (The handicraft series.)

A book for the amateur craftsman who has already mastered the elementary operations of woodworking. Describes and illustrates in detail many pieces of furniture, with drawings, dimensions, and directions for preparing large working drawings. Presupposes a good amateur knowledge of cabinet work.

=Electrical equipment=: its selection and arrangement with special reference to factories, shops and industrial plants. H. W. Brown. McGraw. 220p. $2.00 net.

The general employment of electricity for power and lighting purposes in industrial establishments creates a need for specific data on the characteristics, connections, costs, etc., of electric machinery and appliances, the most suitable systems for particular cases, and other related matters heretofore scattered in books and periodicals and not readily to be found.

In this book the author presents these data which he has worked out or compiled for his classes of non-electrical engineering students who required a short course in electrical engineering rendered necessary by the conditions of modern factory and shop practice.

The book is valuable as a text-book or as a reference for engineers planning or operating electrical equipment in industrial plants, although in some cases collateral references will be necessary for greater detail.

Author is connected with the engineering department of Cornell University.

Another good recent book: Clewell’s “Machine shop electricity,” McGraw, 1916, $3.00 net, treats in much detail of electrical installations in machine shops for lighting, power, communication, heating, etc.

=Home crafts of today and yesterday.= Florence Buchanan. Harper. 170p. $1.00 (Harper’s home economics.)

A book about many of the things which a woman could do at home and would like to know how to do; arrangement of the sewing-room; buying household linens; making, marking and mending linens; macramé; caning chairs; basketry; dyeing; rug making; weaving; decorating with brush and paint, etc.

Author is instructor in handwork, Pratt Institute.

=Practical wireless telegraphy=; a complete text-book for students of radio communication. E. E. Bucher. Wireless Press. 322p. $1.50.

Text-book used in the instruction classes of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America.

Treats generally of the principles of electricity, of electrical generators, motors and storage batteries, and describes the construction and operation of the apparatus employed in wireless telegraphy, the standard Marconi sets being explained and illustrated in detail. The book is fully illustrated with half-tones and diagrams, including many wiring diagrams, and is provided with examination questions.

Author is instructing engineer, Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America.

=Practical motor boat handling, seamanship and piloting=; a handbook containing information which every motor boatman should know; especially prepared for the man who takes pride in handling his own boat and getting the greatest enjoyment out of cruising; adapted for the yachtsman interested in fitting himself to be of service to his government in time of war. C. F. Chapman. Motor Boating. 144p. $1.00.

Useful information about handling and navigating motor boats: laws and regulations, compass errors, nautical instruments, signals, etc. The book is not concerned with motor boat engines or their operation.

Author is editor of _Motor Boating_.

=Treatise on milling and milling machines.= Cincinnati milling machine company. 409p. $1.50 net.

Trade publication, but one of best books on the subject. Describes milling machines and the methods of performing the many operations in which these machine tools are employed, with simple explanations of the mathematics necessary for the various calculations, and many illustrations.

Reference libraries may be able to obtain copies gratis.

=Arithmetic for engineers.= C. B. Clapham. Lond., Chapman, and N. Y., Dutton. 5s 6d net. American price, $3.00 net. (The directly-useful technical series.)

Elementary mathematics for the man with little previous training. Includes arithmetic, algebra, logarithms, mensuration, and use of the slide rule with engineering applications by means of practical problems and illustrations. A good book of the elementary type.

Author is lecturer in engineering and elementary mathematics, University of London.

=Home handy book=; a compendium of useful things to do around the house and how to keep it in order. A. F. Collins. Appleton. 165p. $1.10.

Tells the amateur how to perform odd jobs; repairing locks, electric bell circuits, plumbing, furniture repairing, paper-hanging, etc. Illustrated.

=Inventing for boys.= A. F. Collins. Stokes. $1.35 net.

Tells in a simple manner how to experiment with machinery, electricity, etc., how to make models, how to obtain a patent, and about patent office procedure, things to invent, etc. The technical terms used in the book are explained.

=Interior wiring and systems for electric light and power service=; a manual for electric workers, constructors, architects and schools. A. L. Cook. Wiley. 425p. $2.00 net.

Valuable to electrical workers occupied with installing electric light and power in industrial works, office buildings, or dwellings; to contractors and architects concerned with planning and calculating light and power systems and as a reference for engineering students.