Part 2 the author discusses method in teaching, applied specifically

to reading, spelling, language, arithmetic, geography, history, civics, physiology and hygiene, agriculture, and home economics. In each case he makes use of his four cardinal elements of method and tries to summarize the conclusion from the recent scientific work in learning and teaching in each of the elementary subjects.”—El School J

“In spite of the many excellences of the book, the reader familiar with contemporary critical thought in education finds frequent cause for disappointment. ... Nearly all contemporary books intended as guides to teachers, while indicating orientations of aim and subject matter, fail like that of Dr Betts, to present acceptable indications as to desirable boundaries of the areas of knowledge and skill to be mastered.” D: Snedden

+ — =Educ R= 54:203 S ‘17 1450w

“The title of the book is in part misleading. It is really a rather systematic treatise on the principles of education and general principles of method in teaching together with a statement of method applied specifically to each of the common branches. ... Prof. Betts’s discussion of the teaching of spelling ought to be very helpful. His treatment of reading from the standpoint of the ‘quantitative movement’ is quite inadequate. ... He has not taken advantage of available scientific material in the chapter on the teaching of arithmetic. ... This book will be of definite value to prospective teachers of elementary subjects or teachers who wish to keep abreast of current modes of thinking about school problems.”

+ — =El School= J 17:687 My ‘17 520w

=BEVAN, EDWYN ROBERT.=[2] Land of the two rivers. *$1 (3c) Longmans 935 (Eng ed 18-1520)

A brief historical survey that attempts to answer the question What has Mesopotamia stood for in the past? The author says: “The country which we incorrectly call Mesopotamia and the countries connected with it—Armenia, Asia Minor, Palestine, Persia—have recently become associated with living interests of the hour and immediate questions of practical politics; that may seem a reason for trying to give a fresh rapid survey of what their significance has been in former ages. ... I have tried to seize the main points and leave out all details which did not contribute to making them apprehensible.” There is one folding map.

“This admirable little sketch of Mesopotamia’s place in history is by far the best of its kind that we have seen. Mr Bevan’s very first sentence, protesting against that misleading catchword ‘the unchangeable East,’ stimulates curiosity, and is fully justified in the course of the book.”

+ =Spec= 119:452 O 27 ‘17 210w

“To write a small book on such a subject calls for special qualities in its author, if it is not to degenerate into a mere list of names and dates. Mr Bevan has avoided that pitfall. The reader with no special knowledge of ancient history will here find a book he has long wanted.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p523 N 1 ‘17 900w

=BEVAN, EDWYN ROBERT.= Method in the madness. *$1.50 Longmans 940.91 17-28628

A fresh consideration of the case between Germany and ourselves. Loyal to the cause of the Allies, in no sense a pacifist, the author who is an Englishman sets aside controversy and denunciation and prepares an unimpassioned statement of what appear to him the inexactitudes in prevalent views of Germany; and looks at Germany just as it might be looked at by some one who stood outside the hurly-burly, with a desire, not to score points, but to say what he seems to see. In the quiet atmosphere of reflection he invites the reader to a consideration of truths which forward-looking men of all countries regard as basic, calling attention to these truths as the common ground upon which plans for peace may be made, the questions of territorial possessions and economic prosperity cleared up, and the matter of future warfare settled for all time.

“This English book on the great war has two unusual characteristics: it is written in a style of fine and deliberate quality, and its writer is almost as much as it is humanly possible to be, fair and dispassionate. ... With regard to the attainment of peace, his chapter entitled ‘Differences on the major premise’ is of special worth as showing that after all the difference between the contending parties is not so much a difference of primary principles as of judgment on particular facts.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:252 N ‘17 500w

=Pittsburgh= 22:825 D ‘17 100w

“Perhaps its greatest merit is that Mr Bevan, unlike too many of the patriotic men of letters who ‘do their bit,’ has really taken the trouble to master his material. ... Our only criticism concerning the documentation of the book is that it has been allowed to appear without an index. That is all the more unfortunate because there is a certain lack of consecutiveness and plan. ... His book is valuable for the light it throws on German aims and German methods.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p315 Jl 5 ‘17 1100w

=BIERSTADT, EDWARD HALE.= Dunsany the dramatist. il *$1.50 (4c) Little 822 17-7565

This study of Lord Dunsany consists of four chapters: The man; His work; His philosophy; Letters. The author finds a happy characterization of Dunsany in the exclamation of Thoreau, “Who am I to complain who have not yet ceased to wonder?” He cannot be classified as a realist or romanticist, for he deals not with life but with dreams. The series of letters, taken from a correspondence between Mr Stuart Walker and Lord Dunsany during Mr Walker’s production of the Dunsany plays, is particularly interesting. The illustrations show scenes from the plays.

=A L A Bkl= 13:398 Je ‘17

“The most interesting section of Mr Bierstadt’s book is the chapter which records the recent correspondence between Lord Dunsany and Mr Stuart Walker, the proprietor of the Portmanteau theatre. ... The simple record of this correspondence, in itself, would make the book worth reading. ... Those of us who have seen ‘The gods of the mountain’ do not need to be told that it is a great play. All we really want to learn is a catalogue of further facts concerning the career of a dramatist whose life has been hidden in obscurity. On this account, it is unfortunate that Mr Bierstadt’s book is weakest on the score of information.” Clayton Hamilton

+ =Bookm= 45:192 Ap ‘17 700w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 950w

“While Mr Bierstadt’s comments are entertaining rather than authoritative, the volume will repay perusal.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:544 Ja ‘18 110w

“He has read everything in print on the subject. He has conned all the plays and Dunsany’s other writings. Yet the result leaves one with a sense of undiscovered depths. Least fortunate of all is Mr Bierstadt in the life of Dunsany. ... The appendix, on the contrary, dealing with productions and publication, seems precise and accurate. The sixteen illustrations in half-tone give us a notion of both the man and his plays. Altogether the book will be welcome as the first treatment of a playwright whose vogue has advanced with surprising leaps in the last year or two.”

+ — =Nation= 105:18 Jl 5 ‘17 350w

+ =N Y Times= 22:316 Ag 26 ‘17 700w

“The most discriminating and valuable part of the author’s survey is his treatment of Dunsany’s philosophy. Like Yeats, Dunsany is more interested in ideas than in people. ... But he has revived Wonder for us. His plays release us from an intolerable burden of photography and realism.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Pub W= 91:975 Mr 17 ‘17 550w

=R of Rs= 55:662 Je ‘17 370w

=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17 20w

“His criticisms are highly laudatory, but the points at which he takes issue with Dunsany are points which to the average reader will appear to have little importance.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 480w

=BIGELOW, FRANCIS HILL.= Historic silver of the colonies and its makers. il *$6 Macmillan 739 17-25629

A vast fund of information has been collected in this work which describes and illustrates the various forms of colonial silver of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries made principally by the colonial silversmiths. It seeks its audience among possessors of colonial heirlooms, art lovers, art collectors, and art students. Church silver, beakers, tankards, flagons, mugs, chalices, table silverware, candlesticks, porringers, casters, tea kettles, inkstands, stew pans, bread baskets and many other objects wrought in silver are included with genealogical and historical notes concerning owners, donors and silversmiths. Over three hundred illustrations accompany the text.

“The 325 illustrations of pieces of colonial plate which the author has selected as typical or as particularly beautiful will arouse the wondering admiration of those who think of our forefathers only as simple and rather inartistic frontiersmen.”

+ =Ind= 92:261 N 3 ‘17 100w

“There is a confusing mass of genealogical information and dates which would appeal principally to the collector or student, but there is, too, much that is interesting for the general reader. The anecdotes that enliven these pages are of like variety and interest.”

+ — =Lit D= 55:38 D 8 ‘17 160w

“The art side of our pre-Revolutionary times is seldom brought home to us so graphically as in this well-illustrated book. The author writes as one who loves his subject and is an authority upon it.”

+ =Outlook= 117:349 O 31 ‘17 40w

“The book will prove a joy to lovers of old silver and a competent guide to collectors.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 220w

“He has made a book of much value in its particular place, one which collectors and connoisseurs will be very glad to possess.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 250w

=BIGELOW, JOHN.= Breaches of Anglo-American treaties; a study in history and diplomacy. maps *$1.50 Sturgis & Walton 341.2 17-11357

In quotations from the British press the author shows that the United States has been looked upon as a treaty breaker. His purpose in this book, begun and practically finished before the war, is to examine the record of the two nations in this respect. He says, “The following study is devoted to determining the relative trustworthiness of two great nations as indicated in their conventional intercourse with each other. Beginning with the treaty of peace at the end of our War of independence, it considers all the treaties, conventions, and similar agreements negotiated between Great Britain and the United States that may be regarded as broken by either of the contracting parties, sets forth and discusses the infraction in each case, and ends with a summarising of the records on both sides and a balancing of the accounts.” This summary shows that “the United States has more than a safe balance of good faith to its credit.”

“A perusal of the work indeed fully confirms the accuracy of the statement that it ‘was not written to form or influence public opinion as to any phase or feature of the present world war.’ ... An examination of the disputes arising out of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty occupies nearly two-thirds of the volume. In this way their relative importance is perhaps unduly enhanced.” J. B. Moore

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:194 O ‘17 850w

=A L A Bkl= 14:40 N ‘17

“A curious, interesting, and, in some ways, a futile book. It would seem to reflect the spirit of an enquiring mind, rather than the results of profound research.” P. M. Brown

– + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:577 Ag ‘17 530w

“The limits of this review do not permit of an analysis, or estimate of the evidence which Major Bigelow brings forward in support of his conclusions but it may be doubted whether the case he makes out against Great Britain in some of the instances which he cites is conclusive.” J. W. Garner

=Ann Am Acad= 72:240 Jl ‘17 480w

“Marked by fairness of treatment and broad scholarly effort.”

+ =Cath World= 105:553 Jl ‘17 120w

“We have ventured to sound a note of protest against the tone and temper of this volume, which doubtless contains much valuable matter, but we should equally regret railing accusations on behalf of British claims. One can only hope that a major, even though retired, is finding now more useful scope for his energies than in fanning the flames of wellnigh extinct controversies.” H. E. Egerton

— =Eng Hist R= 32:443 Jl ‘17 900w

“Greatly to be commended for its research and candor. ... After reading the author’s gatherings and conclusions about the treatise named, one lays down the book feeling that he has produced a powerful argument for the world court that seems to be rapidly coming nearer.”

+ =Ind= 90:436 Je 2 ‘17 150w

=R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 25 ‘17 1250w

=BILBRO, MATHILDE.= Middle pasture. il *$1.25 (1½c) Small 17-26262

The middle pasture divided the two Crawford farms. Neglected and unused and overgrown with brambles, it lay between the well-kept acres, dividing the two families as well. For at their father’s death, each brother had claimed it, and the family quarrel that resulted had lasted thru many years. The difference didn’t extend to the children, however, and the pasture that separated their elders became a common meeting ground for them. Billy and Beatrice climbed the stone wall on one side to meet Mary and Carey, who came tumbling over the wall on the other. The pasture was a very paradise for play. Beatrice, a delightful mixture of earnestness and mischief and naughtiness and wisdom, tells the story, bringing into it the grown-up affairs of many of the neighbors in the pleasant little southern community.

“A mildly interesting story by a precocious child of twelve who with her brother manages the affairs of family and friends in a little southern town. ... Of course there is a sentimental interest. A good example of its type.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:314 Ap ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:313 My ‘17 250w

“Another of the type of stories to which ‘Little women’ and ‘Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm’ belong.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 170w

+ =Dial= 62:246 Mr 22 ‘17 180w

“A good story about decent, lovable human beings told with directness and simplicity.”

+ =Ind= 90:84 Ap 7 ‘17 140w

“We are pretty close to village melodrama. But there are characterization and true color and sincere feeling in the book.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 40w

“The telling is simple; but after it is all over you wonder why the book should have been written at all. It is a weak novel of the ‘old South’ type.” C. W.

– + =N Y Call= p13 Ap 22 ‘17 120w

+ =N Y Times= 22:99 Mr 18 ‘17 350w

“The atmosphere of the story is fresh and delightful.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 220w

“Very real folk and a charming setting—a little Alabama farming community—make this a pleasing story.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 40w

=BILLINGS, MARIS WARRINGTON, pseud. (EDITH S. BILLINGS).= Cleomenes. *$1.40 (1½c) Lane 17-13922

“The central figure is Cleomenes, the great sculptor, who is commissioned by the emperor to make a statue symbolizing maidenhood. This piece of art is known in the present as the famous ‘Medici Venus.’ In his search for a beautiful, virtuous maiden to serve as model, Cleomenes chooses a young Greek slave girl, and sets to work in the atmosphere of danger and intrigue of Nero’s court. The story, which involves the sculptor, the model and the emperor as its principal actors, unfolds during the progress of the work on the statue.”—Springf’d Republican

“The characters, many of them historical, follow generally historical tradition. The chief exception is that of Octavia, the young wife of Nero.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 250w

“The author deserves praise for the care with which the background of imperial Rome has been prepared and set forth.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 190w

“The tale is not distinguished either as to style or character drawing, but the author makes telling use of fact and legend to make a narrative of suspense and thrilling incident, the action of which never lags.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 300w

=BINDLOSS, HAROLD.= Brandon of the engineers (Eng title, His one talent). il *$1.35 (1c) Stokes 16-24202

Altho the scene of this story is Central America, its plot is concerned with international affairs. Dick Brandon, who had been dismissed from the Royal engineers after losing valuable papers that were in his possession, is engaged in engineering work in one of the Central American states. Here he unexpectedly meets Clare Kenwardine and her father, who are associated in his mind with his disgrace, for it had been after an evening spent at their house that the loss of the papers was discovered. Kenwardine’s presence in the country is not explained, but it later develops that he is, and has all the time been, a spy. This disclosure however does not permanently affect Brandon’s relations with Clare.

=A L A Bkl= 13:266 Mr ‘17

+ =Ath= p544 N ‘16 60w

“The author’s hand too obviously moves his puppets about; circumstances do not occur as the result of character, but at the very apparent wish of the author.”

=Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 190w

“Interesting but not important.”

=Ind= 90:257 My 5 ‘17 50w

“Like most of Mr Bindloss’s books, this one is neatly manufactured, but Brandon is less likeable than are the majority of his heroes.”

=N Y Times= 22:40 F 4 ‘17 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 N 2 ‘16 130w

“Not better than the author’s other stories, but of a different type.”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 40w

=BINDLOSS, HAROLD.= Carmen’s messenger. il *$1.35 Stokes 17-13719

Carmen is the “belle” of a Canadian lumber town and her messenger is a young Englishman going home to visit the parents of his partner. Just before he leaves a man commits suicide—or is murder committed?—and a safe is robbed. At this time too he learns for the first time that his partner is subject to blackmail owing to wrongdoing in his youth. Carmen’s message is a package to be personally delivered in Great Britain. The outwitting of blackmailers and evil-doers takes place both on the Scottish border and in Canada and local color is added to the interest of events.

=A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17

“A well-written tale of adventure, but the complications are rather too numerous and too subtle.”

+ =Ath= p204 Ap ‘17 15w

“Not a remarkable piece of work in any particular, but it is a capital story of adventure told in a forthright manner, which insures the reader’s attention.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 280w

+ =N Y Times= 22:311 Ag 26 ‘17 500w

=BING, PHIL CARLETON.=[2] Country weekly. *$2 Appleton 070 18-291

A manual for the rural journalist and for students of the country field. “The purpose of this book is to open the whole subject of the problems and possibilities of the country field. It is written to show the journalistic neophyte that there are chances in the country field which are worth while from every point of view. It is written, too, to suggest plans and possibilities to men who are already in the field; to encourage a vigorous effort among country editors to do their utmost to make country journalism a bigger, more vital thing than it has heretofore been.” (Preface) Contents: The country weekly and its problems; Local news; County correspondence; Agricultural news; The editor; The editorial page; Make-up of the country weekly; Copy-reading and headline writing; Circulation problems; Advertising in the country weekly; Cost finding for the country weekly.

“Notwithstanding Professor Bing’s disclaimer that he presents this book as an authoritative, definitive guide, every editor and journalistic neophyte who absorbs the feast of good things provided under its many subjects will be in a fair way to make a success in his profession. In his chapters on the editor and the editorial page Professor Bing devotes several pages to an elaboration of some capital suggestions which might be adopted to their ultimate profit by city editors.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 290w

=BINYON, LAURENCE.= The cause. *$1 Houghton 811 17-9484

A volume of poems on the war, with such titles as: The fourth of August, Ode for September, To women, The bereaved, To the Belgians, Louvain, Orphans of Flanders, To Goethe, At Rheims, Gallipoli, The healers, Edith Cavell, The zeppelin, Men of Verdun, etc.

“Reprints some of the poems which appeared in ‘The winnowing fan.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:439 Jl ‘17

“This spirit of exaltation, of glory in the fact that England has chosen the heroic part, is the strongest emotional utterance throughout the book. It is the book’s strength and its weakness. He approaches the whole subject in the guise of the idealist, and while he admits the presence of pain and death, he counts them little beside the white heights of patriotism. This attitude is apparently instinctive, but it makes evident a certain limitation, for one must recognize the depths of human passion in the sacrifice and consecration of the soldier before that sacrifice and consecration can raise him to the loftiest heights.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 1150w

“Laurence Binyon’s poetry once was somewhat coldly ‘literary’—aloof from common human experience. But the war has given him new vigor and new humanity.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1511 My 19 ‘17 280w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17

“Laurence Binyon’s vigorous war poems have great spiritual strength and imaginative richness. ‘Thunder on the downs’ has scarcely been equaled by any poet save Masefield since 1914, and ‘Fetching the wounded’ fixes a picture every eye-witness of the war must remember. It is quite the best work Mr Binyon has done.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 50w

=BIRD, CHARLES SUMNER, jr.= Town planning for small communities. (National municipal league ser.) il *$2 (2c) Appleton 710 17-11219

A volume prepared by the chairman of the Walpole town planning committee and based on the experience of Walpole, Massachusetts. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 consists of a general discussion of town planning with chapters on The why of town planning, Ways and means, Streets and roads and physical problems, Parks and playgrounds, Outdoor recreation, Public health, etc. Parts 2 and 3 are devoted specifically to Walpole’s experience. Bibliographies are added to the chapters of part 1. Mr Clinton Rogers Woodruff, general editor of the National municipal league series, says that the book affords an admirable complement to John Nolen’s volume on “City planning” published earlier in the series.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:438 Jl ‘17

“The appropriateness, interest and novelty of his experiment justify the book in spite of some deficiencies in execution. These include a lack of proportion—the choice of illustrations—nearly always local and sometimes even personal; and the all pervading discussion of Walpole. These, it must be confessed, are faults natural to that town viewpoint which is the first requisite for a book of this kind.” C: M. Robinson

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:787 N ‘17 260w

“The inclusion of this practical matter renders the book all the more useful as a guide to other communities seeking to rebuild themselves in a scientific and economical manner.”

+ =Dial= 64:75 Ja 17 ‘18 260w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:88 Je ‘17 130w

=Pittsburgh= 22:812 D ‘17 60w

“The illustrations are effective and interesting.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:327 S ‘17 70w

“The spirit animating the book is that of a broad, fraternal liberalism which is entitled to be regarded as progressive in the best sense. ... The foreword is a vigorous protest against the evils of individualism, especially as found in the manufacturing classes and as embodied in the industrial village.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 1100w

=Survey= 39:46 O 13 ‘17 220w

=BIRDSALL, RALPH.= Story of Cooperstown. il $1.50 M. F. Augur, Cooperstown, N.Y. 974.7 17-18707

Mr Birdsall is the rector of Christ church, Cooperstown, where Cooper worshipped and within whose grounds he was buried. A circumstantial account is given of Cooper’s life in the village, and many pages are devoted to the subject of the originals of the most famous characters in his novels. The book also gives the history of Cooperstown and its inhabitants from Indian days to the present time.

“Contains many photographic illustrations.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 1150w

“Books about Cooperstown there have been in some numbers, one of them by Cooper himself, which he called ‘Chronicles,’ but this and others deal with the smaller and less generally interesting facts. Mr Birdsall’s book stands quite apart from any of these. It abounds not so much in the simple annals of an old and somewhat aristocratic community, as in sketches of important men and picturesque events, that give to the book much wider value. ... The style has distinct originality and is notable for its literary quality.”

+ =Lit D= 55:33 Ag 18 ‘17 1300w

“The author has done his work well and has made as human and as interesting a book of that kind as any one could wish.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:279 Jl 29 ‘17 1100w

+ =R of Rs= 57:104 Ja ‘18 30w

=BIZZELL, WILLIAM BENNETT.= Social teachings of the Jewish prophets: a study in Biblical sociology. *$1.25 (2c) Sherman, French & co. 224 16-23121

The author says, “This volume is the outgrowth of studies begun in the University of Chicago several years ago, and since made use of in a series of lectures delivered to college students and instructors. The approach to the study of prophetic literature from the social point of view has aroused a genuine interest, but the fact that I could find no book that exactly met the requirements made the instruction somewhat difficult.” This book, based on the best works of modern scholarship, will doubtless meet the needs of others planning similar courses. The general plan is to present the life and teachings of each of the prophets against his historical background, for it is assumed that “the social message of the Jewish prophet was intended for his own times.” The author is president of the Agricultural and mechanical college of Texas.

“We are almost led to doubt whether the author knows anything about either biblical or sociological science. ... What we have here is an uncritical use of critical tools. On top of the lamentable deficiency in scientific method the book is swamped beneath a host of inexcusable errors in spelling and the like.”

— =Bib World= 49:379 Je ‘17 250w

+ — =Dial= 63:534 N 22 ‘17 100w

=Pittsburgh= 22:436 My ‘17 20w

“For those who wish to revalue the teachings of the Judaic prophets, this book meets a real need.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17 12w

=BLACKMORE, SIMON AUGUSTINE.=[2] Riddles of Hamlet and the newest answers. il *$2 Stratford co. 822.3 18-2484

The only apologia a writer needs for the appearance of a new interpretation of Hamlet is that the interest inherent in the tragedy is perennial. Hamlet is examined in this study not only as a drama, but as an ethical treatise in which the characters and the problems in the play are shown in their relation to Shakespeare’s religious and social affiliations. The first part is preliminary and deals with such questions as the invalidity of Gertrude’s marriage, Hamlet’s right to the crown, his feigned madness, his commonly alleged vacillation and defective power of will, his character, his religion and philosophy. The second part is the commentary proper. It takes up the drama, scene by scene, analyzing the thought and purpose and Shakespeare’s pertinent allusions. An appendix contains a “Note on the doctrine of repentance and justification in relation to the conflict of the king at prayer.”

+ =Cath World= 106:691 F ‘18 250w

=BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON.= Day and night stories. *$1.50 Dutton 17-21793

“These fifteen stories are of varying length, and in each of them is some phase of that form of mysticism which Mr Blackwood has made the basis of all his fiction. Their mystic quality is, however, as variable as their length. ... Now and then they touch the mythology and the religions of bygone ages; now and then they are wholly of the immediate hour.” (Boston Transcript) Contents: The tryst; The touch of Pan; The wings of Horus; Initiation; A desert episode; The other wing; The occupant of the room; Cain’s atonement; An Egyptian hornet; By water; H. S. H.; A bit of wood; A victim of higher space; Transition; The tradition.

“It is probably coincidence that the title of this book has already been used for two volumes of more or less creepy stories by Mr T. R. Sullivan, published in the early nineties. Mr Blackwood’s fancies are to my mind more effective in these brief sketches than in the long-drawn narratives of ‘Julius Le Vallon’ and ‘The wave.’” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:207 O ‘17 310w

“Especially notable in this collection are two stories entitled, ‘The occupant of the room’ and ‘By water.’” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 1750w

“The present volume is not one that can be regarded with very warm hopes for the author’s permanence in literature. Certainly such a tale as ‘The touch of Pan’ is not worthy of a place in any volume.”

– + =Cath World= 106:407 D ‘17 320w

“Mr Blackwood is undeniably a master of style—one not only rich and wonderful in itself, but also admirably adapted to his bizarre stories.”

+ =Dial= 63:532 N 22 ‘17 160w

“The ‘Stories’ have the author’s usual unusualness. No one else could write with the restrained art which always seems about to lift the curtain between man and the unseen, yet always leaves us with a sense of mystery and of Isis faintly guessed at thru many veils.”

+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 50w

“No one of these stories equals the half dozen tales, scattered through different volumes, which represent the high-water mark of Mr Blackwood’s production. ... That reincarnation theory, which forms the cornerstone of so much of Mr Blackwood’s fiction, is the main theme of ‘Cain’s atonement’—a story of the present war. ... Two of the most characteristic stories in the volume are ‘Initiation’ and ‘H. S. H.,’ both tales of the mountain solitudes.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:310 Ag 26 ‘17 1100w

“We have often commented on the imaginative quality of Mr Blackwood’s work. These mystical tales have that quality in a pre-eminent degree. Like his former stories, they possess distinct literary value.”

+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 30w

“The book is seasoned with one humorous tale.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p92 F 22 ‘17 650w

=BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON.= The wave; an Egyptian aftermath. *$1.50 (1c) Dutton 16-24201

From childhood he had been haunted by a wave. It rose behind him, advanced, curled over from the crest, but did not fall. Sometimes it came as a waking obsession, sometimes as a dream. His father, a learned psychologist with inclinations toward Freud, tries to explain it, but the Freudian hypothesis is inadequate. Associated with the wave, is a strange perfume, identified afterwards as Egyptian. The recurring experience follows him into manhood, affecting his life and his relations to men and women. Certain persons are borne to him on the crest of the wave, as it were. These always become of significance in his life. Of them are Lettice Aylmer and his cousin Tony. Later in Egypt, these three act out a drama which seems to be a repetition of something they have experienced before. It is here that Tom Kelverdon’s wave rises to its full height and breaks, but it does not overwhelm him.

“On the whole, Mr Blackwood maintains, though he does not strengthen, our good opinion of his imaginativeness and power of evoking the beautiful.”

+ =Ath= p544 N ‘16 150w

“Mr Blackwood knows how to give these stories of reincarnation an effect beyond mere creepiness. But his method is so leisurely that he is often ‘slow,’ in the sense of dull and long-drawn-out; and his manner is formal and ponderous and unleavened by humour: common frailties of philosophical romance.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 45:207 Ap ‘17 480w

“Never before has Mr Blackwood written a novel that comes so close to the real things of life as ‘The wave,’ It touches persistently upon the supernatural, but its visions are wholly subjective.” E. F. E.

+ + =Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 1400w

+ =Ind= 89:556 Mr 26 ‘17 200w

+ — =Nation= 104:368 Mr 29 ‘17 430w

“One’s strongest impression on closing this book is that of beauty—beauty alike of style and of spirit. The glory of words, the grandeur that was Egypt, the splendor of a brave and loving human soul—these are the very substance of this fascinating volume.”

+ + =N Y Times= 22:47 F 11 ‘17 950w

“A strange and unusual book, full of insight and imagination. It is the work of a very delicate literary craftsman, who is a past master in the art of elusive suggestion.”

+ =Sat R= 123:40 Ja 13 ‘17 500w

“With the characteristic Blackwood mystery to help, the book is rich in excitement and experience.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p488 O 12 ‘16 450w

=BLAISDELL, ALBERT FRANKLIN, and BALL, FRANCIS KINGSLEY.= American history for little folks. il *75c (2c) Little 973 17-25786

This book, adapted for use in the third school grade, is intended as an introduction to “The American history story-book” and other more advanced works by the authors. The aim has been to choose some of the more dramatic and picturesque events and to relate them in a simple and easy style. A partial list of contents follows: Columbus, the sailor; The sea of darkness; The hero of Virginia; Seeking a new home; Captain Miles Standish; Dark days in New England; The Dutch in New York; William Penn, the Quaker; A famous tea party; Polly Daggett saves the flagpole; Peggy White calls on Lord Cornwallis.

Reviewed by J: Walcott

=Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 50w

=BLANCHARD, RALPH HARRUB.= Liability and compensation insurance. il *$2 Appleton 331.82 17-24252

A textbook which presents the results of the workmen’s compensation movement in the United States in terms of legislative and insurance practice, and explains the industrial accident problem and the development of liability and compensation principles as a background for the comprehension of present problems. The book is divided into three parts: Industrial accidents and their prevention; Employers’ liability and workmen’s compensation; Employers’ liability and workmen’s compensation insurance.

“Mr Blanchard covers the entire field in a very fair way, though it is evident that he does so in the professor’s study rather than from the ground of practical experience. The insurance feature is especially well covered.”

+ — =Dial= 63:534 N 22 ‘17 170w

“The author deals with the state compensation acts, and the stock company, mutual and state fund methods of insuring the payment of such compensation. He concludes that, because of insufficient data, a choice among these three methods cannot be made at present. The author misses the determining factor in such a choice. This is, that the most desirable method of taking care of industrial accident losses is that which does most to prevent such losses.”

— =Engin News-Rec= 79:1170 D 20 ‘17 240w

“In the presentation of the insurance problem an important and timely contribution has been made.” E. S. Gray

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:1050 D ‘17 250w

“It should appeal primarily to teachers and students of insurance, but it contains much information of interest to the business man and the intelligent general reader as well.”

+ =Nation= 106:122 Ja 31 ‘18 360w

“The subject is presented both broadly and well. The point is not shirked that the subject in some aspects is controversial. In such cases both sides are presented, as the author’s intention is to give information rather than judgment.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:497 N 25 ‘17 230w

“The author has to be commended for the clearness and conciseness of statement and helpful bibliographic notes. On the other hand it must, like most text-books, be dogmatic, and one fails to get the impression from reading the book how much is still controversial in the field of compensation. ... One is somewhat inclined to question the wisdom of the printing of the New York compensation law as an appendix to the book. The New York act is not as typical as a good many other acts.” I. M. Rubinow

+ — =Survey= 39:149 N 10 ‘17 350w

=BLAND, JOHN OTWAY PERCY.= Li Hung-chang. (Makers of the nineteenth century) il *$2 (2c) Holt (Eng ed 17-26886)

Mr Bland is joint author of Backhouse and Bland’s “China under the Empress Dowager.” The introductory chapter of the present volume reviews the conditions existing in China at the outset of Li Hung-chang’s career. The author then gives a detailed account of Li’s life from childhood to his death in 1901, just after the Boxer rebellion, at the age of seventy-eight. He considers him as a Chinese official, as a diplomat, a naval and military administrator, and a statesman and politician, and concludes that Li’s chief claim to greatness lies in the fact that, at the time of the Taiping rebellion, he “grasped the vital significance of the impact of the West, and the necessity for reorganizing China’s system of government and national defences to meet it.” The biographer’s task, he tells us, has been complicated by the lack of any accurate Chinese account of Li’s career, and the untrustworthiness of Chinese official records. Moreover, the “Memoirs of the Viceroy Li Hung-chang,” published in 1913, were a “literary fraud.” The present work, therefore, is based largely upon the recorded opinions of independent and competent European observers. There is a bibliographical note of two pages, followed by a chronological table of events in Chinese history. The book is indexed.

“Mr Bland makes very clear to us the mingling elements in Li’s nature, showing how sometimes patriotism and sometimes self-interest stirred him most. ... By the time we reach Mr Bland’s final summing up of the character we realize how skilful has been his handling of the material and how vividly he has made us realize his impression of the great premier.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 900w

+ =Lit D= 55:36 N 3 ‘17 950w

“His treatment of his subject recalls a time when familiarity with life at the treaty ports was enough literary capital for the ordinary authority on Chinese affairs and real acquaintance with their history and ideas was left to the missionaries. ... No new material about Li has been unearthed, no advance has been made towards obtaining Chinese estimates of the man, no approach towards any but an Englishman’s point of view is attempted. ... On the other hand, it is fair to add that the book is easily read and that it portrays a rather splendid type of the oriental viceroy.”

– + =Nation= 105:488 N 1 ‘17 1500w

“Excellent biography.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:501 N 25 ‘17 1000w

“The really significant services that Li Hung Chang rendered to his race are clearly set forth in this volume by a writer who has had good opportunities to study China and the Chinese at first hand.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 120w

“If the provision of an adequate ‘setting’ is one of the difficulties to be encountered in limning Li Hung-chang’s career, another is the paucity of record. ... Mr Bland is to be congratulated upon the comprehensive narrative which he has succeeded in compiling.”

* + – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p535 N 8 ‘17 1850w

=BLATHWAYT, RAYMOND.= Through life and round the world; being the story of my life. il *$3.50 Dutton 17-23043

Mr Blathwayt is a British journalist who has traveled widely and has made a specialty of the art of interviewing. Before taking up journalism, he served as a curate in Trinidad, in the East End of London, and in an English village. He believes himself to be the first to adapt the American “interview” to English manners. Among those interviewed by him are William Black, Thomas Hardy, Hall Caine, Grant Allen, William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

“Illustrated from photographs and from drawings by Mortimer Menpes.” E. F. E.

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 8 ‘17 800w

“So many aspects of English life and examples of English character are included in Mr Blathwayt’s book that it forms a reminiscential commentary upon the journalistic and literary world of London during the past thirty years.” E. F. E.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 11 ‘17 900w

“The book is a veritable gold mine for the after-dinner speaker, for it is besprinkled with quotable anecdotes.”

+ =Dial= 64:30 Ja 3 ‘18 250w

“His book abounds in what Mr Leacock calls ‘aristocratic anecdotes,’ platitudinous reflections, and ‘fine writing.’ His naïve confessions as a curate help to explain the spiritual deadness and professionalism of the Church of England; they might well be used as illustrative footnotes to ‘The soul of a bishop.’”

— =Nation= 105:610 N 29 ‘17 190w

“It is very entertaining, as engaging a book of reminiscence as has been put before the public in many a day.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:293 Ag 12 ‘17 1200w

“Mr Blathwayt is a born raconteur. Particularly good are his descriptions of his life as a young curate and as an almost penniless wanderer in Connecticut.”

+ =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 70w

=Sat R= 123:436 My 12 ‘17 820w

“All his admiration of Captain Marryat and of Mrs Radcliffe has not taught him to spell their names right. He misquotes with the utmost facility. ... Here is a writer who has made livelihood and reputation by writing, yet has never mastered the elementary rules of the art. ... His book is frequently, though not constantly entertaining; but it would be much less entertaining than it is without the innocence of its author’s self-revelation.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p198 Ap 26 ‘17 950w

=BLEACKLEY, HORACE WILLIAM.= Life of John Wilkes. il *$5 (3½c) Lane 17-24876

This is a scholarly account, based to a great extent on original documents of the English politician, publicist and political agitator, who, “from 1764 to 1780 was the central figure not only of London but of England.” (Sat R)

“Mr Bleackley has executed his task in a scholarly and interesting manner, and his book forms an acceptable supplement to Lecky. ... The numerous illustrations are a valuable feature of the book.”

+ =Ath= p419 Ag ‘17 160w

“Remarkable as the career of John Wilkes confessedly was, and undeniably interesting as this biography is, in spite of Mr Bleackley’s literary skill its final impression is not good. If, as we are told, none ‘of his contemporaries influenced more powerfully the spirit of the age,’ that spirit must have been grossly immoral to condone his immoral grossness.”

– + =Lit D= 55:44 N 17 ‘17 240w

“Mr Bleackley has found a subject well suited to his talent in this profoundly interesting historical study.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:417 O 21 ‘17 550w

+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 50w

“This is one of the best biographies that have appeared for a long time. Mr Bleackley has read and rifled nearly all the memoirs, manuscripts, diaries, letters, newspapers of the period, and we have not read a more erudite and conscientious treatment of a controversial subject. ... He treats his hero with the benevolent impartiality of the scientific historian.”

* + + =Sat R= 124:sup4 Jl 7 ‘17 1200w

“Mr Bleackley has given us a most interesting book. ... He has put before himself the task of proving that a man who wrought so much for liberty was himself a great man and a lover of the cause for which he fought. We allow that Wilkes had genius of a sort, but doubt whether he really cared two pins about the rights of constituencies, or the illegality of general warrants, or the liberty of the press. He fought for John Wilkes, and in fighting for him achieved results of wide constitutional importance.”

* =Spec= 119:167 Ag 18 ‘17 1500w

“The language is journalistic. ... As a picture of 17th-century England in its most corrupt and licentious phases the book has some historical value, though it is too often written in the language of gossip rather than history. ... The book has its faults—particularly its emphasis upon Wilkes’s mistresses—but the evidence is well documented. ... It is to be regretted that a career so closely connected with American independence should be treated to so great an extent as the subject of a record of private vices. ... There is much biographical and historical matter in it of genuine interest.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 1050w

“Mr Bleackley enumerates a good many of those who have included Wilkes in their historical canvases. ... An essay by Fraser Rae preceded Trevelyan’s description in his rainbow-tinted history of Charles James Fox, and later came a biography in two volumes by Percy Fitzgerald. Praise is reiterated of the excellent monograph by J. M. Rigg in the ‘Dictionary of national biography’; but so far as we see, no mention is made of by far the most judicial and philosophic account of the transactions in which Wilkes was conspicuous in Lecky’s ‘History of England in the eighteenth century.’ ... His style is a little arid, but his ripened power of research, his patience and diligence in sifting material, combine to furnish a truly notable portrait. ... The historical background shows a great advance upon any of his preceding work. ... The volume is very well finished, the references (largely to Mss.) overwhelming, the illustrations well-chosen, the errata scrupulous, the index complete.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p318 Jl 5 ‘17 2050w

=BLUMENTHAL, DANIEL.=[2] Alsace-Lorraine. map *75c (7c) Putnam 943.4

“A study of the relations of the two provinces to France and to Germany and a presentation of the just claims of their people.” The author, an Alsatian by birth, has been deputy from Strasbourg in the Reichstag, senator from Alsace-Lorraine, and mayor of the city of Colmar. The book has an introduction by Douglas Wilson Johnson of Columbia university, who says, “The problem of Alsace-Lorraine is in a very real sense an American problem.”

“There is no more moving recent plea for the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine than this little volume.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 9 ‘18 200w

=BLUNDELL, MARY E. (SWEETMAN) (MRS FRANCIS BLUNDELL) (M. E. FRANCIS, pseud.).= Dark Rosaleen. *$1.35 (1c) Kenedy A17-1416

A story of modern Ireland. In a study of the relationship between two families, the author gives an epitome of the situation that exists in Ireland between Catholics and Protestants. Hector McTavish’s father is a fanatical Scotch Presbyterian, but since he grows up in a Catholic community, Hector makes friends with the children of that church. Patsy Burke is his dearest playmate and Honor Burke is to him a foster mother. Fearing these influences, the father takes the boy away and, when he returns thirteen years later, it is to find Patsy an ordained priest and Patsy’s little sister, Norah, grown into sweet womanhood. The love between Hector and Norah, their marriage and the birth of their child leads to tragedy. But, in the child, the author sees a symbol of hope for the new Ireland.

“The author has not written a thesis novel, but a touching tale of what she feels and loves.”

+ =Cath World= 105:259 My ‘17 130w

“There is nothing intolerant in the spirit of this very thrilling book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 550w

=BODART, GASTON, and KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN.= Losses of life in modern wars; ed. by Harald Westergaard. *$2 Oxford 172.4 16-20885

“It is the function of the Division of economics and history of the Carnegie endowment for international peace, under the direction of Professor J. B. Clark, to promote a thorough and scientific investigation of the causes and results of war. ... The first volume resulting from these studies contains two reports upon investigations carried on in furtherance of this plan. The first, by Mr Gaston Bodart, deals with the ‘Losses of life in modern wars: Austria-Hungary, France.’ The second, by Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, is a preliminary report and discussion of ‘Military selection and race deterioration.’ ... Professor Kellogg marshals his facts to expose the dysgenic effects of war in military selection, which exposes the strongest and sturdiest young men to destruction and for the most part leaves the weaklings to perpetuate the race. He cites statistics to prove an actual measurable, physical deterioration in stature in France due apparently to military selection. ... To these dysgenic aspects of militarism the author adds the appalling racial deterioration resulting from venereal diseases.”—Dial

=Am Hist R= 22:702 Ap ‘17 450w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:196 F ‘17

“The work is a candid and sane discussion of both sides of this very important aspect of militarism.”

+ =Dial= 61:401 N 16 ‘16 390w

“It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of this original and authoritative study into the actual facts of war.”

+ =Educ R= 52:528 D ‘16 70w

=BOGARDUS, EMORY STEPHEN.= Introduction to sociology. $1.50 University of Southern California press, 3474 University av., Los Angeles, Cal. 302 17-21833

The author who is professor of sociology in the University of Southern California offers this textbook as an introduction not only to sociology in its restricted sense but to the entire field of the social sciences. He presents the political and economic factors in social progress not only from a sociological point of view but in such a way that the student will want to continue along political science or economic lines. It is the aim to stimulate and to direct social interest to law, politics and business. He discusses the population basis of social progress, the geographic, biologic and psychologic bases as well; social progress as affected by genetic, hygienic, recreative, economic, political, ethical, esthetic, intellectual, religious, and associative factors. A closing chapter surveys the scientific outlook for social progress.

“The advantage of Professor Bogardus’s method is that it brings to bear in a simple, elementary way a great mass of pertinent facts.”

+ =Dial= 63:596 D 6 ‘17 150w

“The author does not, perhaps, distinguish clearly enough between the sociological and the social points of view.” B. L.

+ — =Survey= 39:202 N 24 ‘17 240w

=BOGEN, BORIS D.= Jewish philanthropy; an exposition of principles and methods of Jewish social service in the United States. *$2 Macmillan 360 17-15182

“The entire field of Jewish social service, both theoretic and practical, is here discussed by a man who has been engaged in it for about twenty-five years as educator, settlement head, relief agent, and now field secretary of the National conference of Jewish charities. ... The author points out that the pre-eminent Jewish contribution to social service in this country is the ‘federation idea.’ By federating their charities, the Jews succeeded in uniting communities, in raising more funds to carry on work more adequately; they have prevented duplication of effort, conserved energies and eliminated waste.” (Survey) The book has an eight-page bibliography.

=A L A Bkl= 14:40 N ‘17

“No one perhaps is better qualified to discuss with authority the subject of Jewish philanthropy than Dr Boris D. Bogen, of Cincinnati. Himself a Russian by birth and early training, he speaks concerning the immigrant with a thoroughness born of intimate and empiric knowledge, supplemented by years of accurate and exhaustive study.” A. A. Benesch

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:785 N ‘17 580w

“Once in a while the author makes a sweeping statement without citing authorities. There are two serious drawbacks to the usefulness of the work. One is the constant use of Hebrew words, which are usually not translated or are mistranslated. Any future work of this character should have a glossary of such Hebrew words as part of its appendix. The other is the chapter on Standards of relief, which ought to have been the most important, received the most scant attention. But all in all, the book is a splendid piece of work.” Eli Mayer

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:303 N ‘17 400w

=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 10w

+ =Ind= 92:109 O 13 ‘17 110w

“The book contains a great mass of information regarding various Jewish philanthropies, although no attempt is made to present statistical matter in a formal way.”

=R of Rs= 56:441 O ‘17 50w

“Dr Bogen’s book is wide in scope and will be found useful as a handbook for non-Jewish as well as for Jewish social workers.” Oscar Leonard

+ =Survey= 38:532 S 15 ‘17 500w

=BOIRAC, ÉMILE.= Our hidden forces (“La psychologie inconnue”); an experimental study of the psychic sciences; tr. and ed., with an introd., by W. de Kerlor. il *$2 (3c) Stokes 130 17-13485

This work, translated from the French, is based on investigations in a field to which scientists of note in the United States, with the exception of William James, have given little attention, that of psychic phenomena. In France, on the other hand, the translator assures us, such investigations, have made such progress as to gain national recognition. The book is based on experimental studies and consists of collected papers that were written during the period from 1893 to 1903. Animal magnetism in the light of new investigations, Mesmerism and suggestion, The provocation of sleep at a distance, The colors of human magnetism, The scientific study of spiritism, etc., are among the subjects.

“Professor Émile Boirac, rector of the Academy of Dijon, France, and author of this book, is an acknowledged leader of thought in matters both psychological and psychic. He has devoted many years to studying the problems pertaining to life and death, and this present book was awarded the prize in a contest to which many of the leading psychologists contributed. ... Though a scientific book, it is not without attraction for the lay reader.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 13 ‘17 320w

=Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 30w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:93 Je ‘17

+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 80w

=BOLIN, JAKOB.= Gymnastic problems; with an introd. by Earl Barnes. il *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 613.7 17-12150

This book by the late Professor Bolin of the University of Utah has been prepared for publication by a group of his associates, who feel that the work is “one of the most important contributions to the subject of gymnastics which has been written in English.” In the first chapter the author discusses the relation of gymnastic exercise to physical training in general. His own position is that the aim of gymnastics is hygienic in a special sense, its object being to counteract the evils of one sided activity. The remaining chapters are devoted to: The principle of gymnastic selection; The principle of gymnastic totality; The principle of gymnastic unity; The composition of the lesson; Progression; General considerations of method.

“Of value to all teachers of physical education and to those interested in healthful efficiency.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:10 O ‘17

=BONNER, GERALDINE (HARD PAN, pseud.).= Treasure and trouble therewith. il *$1.50 (1½c) Appleton 17-21974

“After the opening scene, which pictures a hold-up and robbery of a Wells-Fargo stage coach in the California mountains, the story drops into more conventional lines of romance. The robbery, which is the act of two rough prospectors, is the prelude to the social experiences in San Francisco of a familiar type of cosmopolitan adventurer. He is little better than a tramp when he discovers the robbers’ cache. He makes off with the gold and conceals it near San Francisco. Being well-born and educated, though thoroughly unscrupulous, he finds an easy entrance to San Francisco society.” (Springf’d Republican) The rest of the book gives the story of his life in the city. The California earthquake of 1906 plays an important part in the story.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17

“Geraldine Bonner has a good plot in ‘Treasure and trouble therewith,’ although not an especially attractive one. ... All her pictures of California are vivid and sympathetic, but the character drawing is unskilful.”

+ — =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 13 ‘17 80w

“Miss Bonner has endeavored, with commendable success, to combine realism with the stirring incidents and dramatic situations of the story of plot and action. Especially good are the chapters which deal with the earthquake.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:311 Ag 26 ‘17 770w

“In spite of the complete lack of plausibility, the book affords a certain measure of diversion.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 300w

=BOSANKO, W.= Collecting old lustre ware. (Collectors’ pocket ser.) il *75c (3½c) Doran 738 A17-1002

The editor in his preface says that he believes this to be the first book on old English lustre ware ever published. He adds: “Yet there are many collectors of old lustre ware; it still abounds, there is plenty of it to hunt for, and prices are not yet excessive. By the aid of this informative book and the study of museum examples a beginner may equip himself well, and may take up this hobby hopefully, certain of finding treasures.” There are over forty-five illustrations.

=A L A Bkl= 13:436 Jl ‘17

“Simple, practical handbook.”

+ =Cleveland= p97 Jl ‘17 20w

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:75 My ‘17 20w

+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 50w

=BOSANQUET, BERNARD.= Social and international ideals. *$2.25 Macmillan 304 (Eng ed 17-28213)

“This volume is a collection of essays, reviews, and lectures, all of which, with one exception, were published before the war, and most of which on the face of them reveal that fact. ... Though the contents of the volume seem at first sight to be fortuitously put together, there runs through them unity of spirit, thought, purpose, and manner.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup Jl 12 ‘17) “Most of the pages (14 out of 17 are reprinted from the Charity Organization Review) discuss the principles which should govern our handling of social problems with the view of displaying ‘the organizing power which belongs to a belief in the supreme values—beauty, truth, kindness, for example—and how a conception of life which has them for its good is not unpractical.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup Je 21 ‘17)

“We may single out, as of special importance in this new volume, Mr Bosanquet’s idea of the growth of individuality and his idea of the structure of political society. In the chapter on ‘Optimism’ he points out that the mistake of its opponents is the acceptance of their momentary experience as final. ... Criticism, confined to a few sentences, must obviously be inadequate. ... If there are omissions in Mr Bosanquet’s analysis of fact, his ideal also appears to be too simple.”

+ =Ath= p398 Ag ‘17 950w

“It is a great privilege to listen to a wise man and a real logician, who is at once a wit and a humanitarian. Dr Bosanquet was not for nothing a fellow in moderations. The whole book is full of sound common sense.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 19 ‘18 600w

=Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 60w

“Written in a strain of reasoned optimism.” M. J.

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:291 Ja ‘18 200w

“Here we have the precious kernel of wisdom in the hard nut of paradox. No doubt, justice and kindness, beauty and truth are the things that matter most, and it is no small service to direct our thoughts once again to them. But how to embody and realize them in the maze and tangle of our actual world, that is a problem apparently too great for any single thinker.” R. F. A. H.

+ — =New Repub= 13:353 Ja 19 ‘18 1850w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 Je 21 ‘17 130w

“If we are tempted to say that these pages show his aptitude for making simple things look difficult, they reveal also the meaning of life. They disclose to those living the humblest of lives that they may enter if they will—the door is ever open—to regions the highest and purest. ... If the book contained nothing else than some of the observations in the last chapters as to true pacifism and patriotism, it would make every reader its debtor.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p326 Jl 12 ‘17 1800w

=BOSSCHÈRE, JEAN DE=, il. Christmas tales of Flanders. il *$3 Dodd 398

Popular Christmas tales current in Flanders and Brabant, translated by M. C. O. Morris, and spiritedly illustrated partly in color and partly in black and white by Jean de Bosschère.

“The engaging color-work of Mr de Bosschère is full of brilliancy, and makes of this Christmas book a rich gift from a country now sorely stricken.”

+ =Lit D= 55:53 D 8 ‘17 50w

“A very charming book for young people, and so interestingly illustrated that their elders will find it almost equally attractive. All the pictures have humor, dexterity, force, and appreciation of character.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:514 D 2 ‘17 70w

“This handsome and well-illustrated book is one of the most attractive we have seen this season. ... Some of the drawings seem to us a little scratchy, but they will all be clear to a child. They lack the tortured straining after originality and the purposeful ugliness which modern art has occasionally thrust upon the nursery.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:sup10 D 8 ‘17 280w

=Spec= 119:sup628 D 1 ‘17 330w

“The stories are sometimes abrupt in their inconclusiveness; homely and almost entirely unromantic. Sometimes a disagreeable hint of cynicism obtrudes itself; but this may have been left on our minds by the association with M. de Bosschère’s illustrations. They are completely unsuited to their purpose.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 D 13 ‘17 200w

=BOSTWICK, ARTHUR ELMORE.= American public library. il *$1.75 (2c) Appleton 020 17-17641

This is a new edition, revised and brought up to date, of a book written by the librarian of the St Louis public library and first published seven years ago. “As a matter of mechanical necessity, no doubt, the revisions and additions have limited themselves to such changes as could be made, here and there, without requiring any considerable resetting or recasting of the pages, so that the former pagination is retained, except that two pages have been added to the index. The table of contents of the first edition has also been reprinted without change, though a few of its details do not apply to the new edition, and a few details in the new edition find no place in the reprinted table of contents. Among alterations made necessary by recent developments, several of importance arrest attention in the chapter on ‘The library and the state.’ A useful list of American library periodicals takes the place of the old list of library clubs.” (Dial)

=A L A Bkl= 14:66 N ‘17

“The only comprehensive manual in its special field.”

+ + — =Dial= 63:468 N 8 ‘17 220w

=BOTHWELL-GOSSE, A.= Civilization of the ancient Egyptians. (Through the eye ser.) il *$2 (7c) Stokes 913.32 17-1644

The motto of the series to which this book belongs is “Look and understand.” A publisher’s note has this to say of the purpose of the series: “Its central idea is the treatment of subjects of general interest in a plain manner, relying to a large extent on a profusion of illustration to elucidate the text.” There are over 150 illustrations in the present volume, accompanied by descriptive text, with chapters on: The Egyptians, their temperament and domestic life; Education; Professions and occupations; Amusements; Architecture—pyramids and temples; Sculpture and painting; Science—engineering skill; Medicine; Science—astronomy; Government and laws; Religion; Literature.

“Of value chiefly for its excellent illustrations.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:349 My ‘17

“Special attention is given to ancient home life.”

+ =Pratt= p32 Jl ‘17 10w

=BOTTOME, PHYLLIS.= Derelict. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-14180

“The derelict” is a story that has been running as a serial in the Century Magazine this year. It is a study of the situation that results from the efforts of a well-meaning young woman to rescue a girl from the underworld. Emily Dering, engaged to Geoffrey Amberley, intentionally throws her protégé in his way. It is part of her program for Fanny’s reform, and when the girl suddenly turns about and goes back to her old life, she of course does not understand the nobility of purpose that lay back of the act. The story, which is only a long short story, is followed by seven others, also reprinted from the Century: The liqueur glass; “Mademoiselle l’Anglaise”; An awkward turn; The syren’s isle; “Ironstone”; The pace; Brother Leo.

“Of all the stories in this excellent collection of eight, ‘The liqueur glass’ seems to one reader at least by far the best—not only the best of these, but outstanding among the myriad output of the year.” F. A. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 530w

“The things that pleased us in ‘The dark tower’ were its economy of utterance and its simple relation of a story whose characters made its telling worth while. In this connection the only story that is really worth the reader’s attention—judged by Phyllis Bottome’s own standard of work—is the title piece.”

+ — =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 100w

“Miss Bottome’s manner is of the well-bred school, with a family resemblance to Mrs Wharton’s and Miss Sedgwick’s, her work has the finish and proportion which, in fiction as elsewhere, are the reward of the artist in contrast with the improvisator.”

+ =Nation= 105:370 O 4 ‘17 400w

“A strong and piquant flavor of personality breathes from all her pages and gives to them a unique tang—something that is always a blessed thing to find in fiction of any sort.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:206 My 27 ‘17 720w

“With one or two exceptions they have grim and tragic plot-ideas, but the author has a sense of humor and her art is of the finest. ‘The liqueur glass,’ for instance, might have been written by Edmond de Goncourt.”

+ =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 50w

=BOTTOME, PHYLLIS.= Second fiddle. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-28800

“You know, a secretary is a kind of second fiddle. ... I like being a second fiddle.” So speaks Stella Waring, secretary for seven years to Professor Paulson, the great naturalist, and later to Mr Leslie Travers, expert accountant. Stella’s father was a dreamy antiquarian, and her mother a gentlewoman who “did not manage anything and when she was very unhappy said she was in tune with the infinite.” So the three girls, Eurydice, the “suppressed artist,” Cicely, who studied medicine, and Stella, had to fend for themselves. The story concerns itself mainly with the business life and the love affairs of Stella, more especially her affair with Sir Julian Verny, who is invalided home from the front.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:129 Ja ‘18

“The tale is told with Miss Bottome’s customary fluency and charm: Stella stands out as the living and original characterisation of the book.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:491 D ‘17 190w

“The chief charm of the story is in the telling—the dash, the sparkle, the ready humor, and the quick, fine understanding.” R. T. P.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ‘17 1150w

“It is a pity that Phyllis Bottome should waste her efforts on intellectual cream-puffs. A great deal of the psychology in ‘The second fiddle’ is accurate; but where could such happy endings possibly evolve? And how could one lovely, normal girl be all but surrounded by a set of caricatures.”

— =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 110w

“For the human development of ‘The second fiddle’ is based upon the sound, and often neglected, psychological fact that sympathy is not pity; that out of love and understanding—and out of nothing else in the world—do human beings raise their hurt comrades from pain and defeat to human brotherhood and sanity and triumph once more. That is the theme of ‘The second fiddle.’ And it is that that lifts the book from the conventionality of its incident and the mere pleasantness of its romance to a place among novels that are not only readable but worth reading.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:452 N 4 ‘17 670w

“The great charm of the book—and its charm is not insignificant—lies in the unfolding of Stella’s personality, in delicious bits of humor tucked in like little surprises, and in most human love-making!” Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 92:1374 O 20 ‘17 330w

“The author supplies a certain note of pathos, offset by humor and pointed wit.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 250w

=BOUCHIER, EDMUND SPENSER.= Sardinia in ancient times. *$1.75 (4c) Longmans 937.9 17-23952

Sardinia merits attention, the author says, “alike for the primitive civilization of which the architectural and artistic remains are numerous and varied, for the flourishing Phœnician colonies which fringed the southern and western shores during several centuries, and for the proof here given of the stimulating and consolidating effect of Roman rule even amidst unpromising surroundings.” His account is carried down to the year 600, with chapters devoted to: The prehistoric age; Legendary history; The Carthaginian supremacy; Natural products and commerce; The republican province; Carales; The early empire; The chief cities of Sardinia; The later empire; Architecture and the arts; Religion.

“Mr Bouchier has essayed the difficult task of writing a technical work in a popular style. The scholar will long for more critical apparatus, the layman will be bewildered by scientific details. Still both will find much that is worth while and valuable.” J. J. V.

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:208 O ‘17 400w

=Ath= p419 Ag ‘17 40w

=Cath World= 105:830 S ‘17 100w

“Mr Bouchier admits the insufficiency of materials, so far, for any complete history, but he does succeed in giving a fairly connected idea of the fortunes of the island and its people in rough outline.”

+ — =Nation= 105:267 S 6 ‘17 250w

“Mr Bouchier is doing useful work in writing monographs on the Roman provinces. After dealing with Spain and Syria, he has now summarized all that is known of ancient Sardinia.”

+ =Spec= 118:733 Je 30 ‘17 110w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 My 3 ‘17 500w

=BOULTING, WILLIAM.=[2] Giordano Bruno; his life, thought, and martyrdom. *$3.75 Dutton 17-13237

“It is not an exaggeration to say that in the writings of Giordano Bruno, one of the most amazingly fertile of thinkers, are to be found the germs of all subsequent vital philosophic thought. ... [In this biography] there are chapters that deal with his birth and parentage, with his boyhood, and with his monastic life in the south; there is a satisfactory account of his early reading (in the classics, in the scholastics, in the Neo-Platonists, and in the writings of contemporary thinkers) and of his first wanderings, which were an inevitable consequence of that reading; a chapter is devoted to an analysis of the budding philosophy of his early works; the renewed wanderings are recounted; the seven books printed in London are explained; the further travels are retold: the final books are outlined; and then the trial and death of the restless and daring thinker are described.”—Am Hist R

“Notable is this book, not only because of its subject, but also because unmistakably its preparation and writing have been a work of solicitude of the heart as well as solicitude of the mind. The book is admirable both in its plan and in its execution. The usefulness of the book would have been greatly increased had it been provided with a critical bibliography of the literature relating to Bruno.” E: M. Hulme

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:376 Ja ‘18 900w

“The volume contains a useful analysis of Bruno’s principal writings.”

+ =Ath= p483 O ‘16 100w

=Boston Transcript= p10 O 13 ‘17 880w

“Though we believe that Bruno’s philosophy has never before been so well interpreted, so popularized, in English as by Mr Boulting, it is the excellence of the portrait of the man himself which distinguishes this biography.”

+ — =N Y Times= 23:5 Ja 6 ‘18 950w

=Spec= 117:sup605 N 18 ‘16 1850w

“In our judgment Dr Boulting’s scholarship is scarcely equal to the task he has undertaken. He is laborious, painstaking, widely read in the literature both ancient and modern which is germane to his subject, and he is inspired with a genuine though somewhat wayward enthusiasm for it; but alike in his appreciation of Bruno’s thought and in his presentation of its relations to the thought of other thinkers, both before and after, he seems to us to be wanting in the ‘judicium’ and the restraint of the true scholar.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p484 O 12 ‘16 1700w

=BOURNE, RANDOLPH SILLIMAN.= Education and living. *$1.25 (3c) Century 370.4 17-13424

Brief papers reprinted from the New Republic. Mr Bourne is author of a work on “The Gary schools.” He is also one of those disciples of John Dewey who are engaged in spreading the Dewey ideals of education thruout the land. They view education, not as a preparation for life, but as identical with living. Among the subjects under discussion are: Education and living; The self-conscious school; The wasted years; Puzzle—education; Learning out of school; Education in taste; Universal service and education; The schools from the outside; What is experimental education? Communities for children; Really public schools.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:427 Jl ‘17

=Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 30w

“The fairest, the most impartial, description of the numerous educational experiments now making in America. His marshalling of them is impressive; his review of them, concise, lucid, constructive. One may therefore assert that ‘Education and living’ is the best handbook for teachers that has thus far appeared. The only serious fault to be found with this book is that it is either too comprehensively titled or too exclusive in confining itself almost entirely to the grammar and the high schools. Furthermore, the author is too brief and cursory in his treatment of the colleges.” Bayard Boyesen

+ — =Dial= 63:156 Ag 30 ‘17 1000w

+ =Ind= 91:108 Jl 21 ‘17 100w

=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 40w

“Mr Bourne has made some searching analyses of our imperfect education system. But he has allowed himself to echo many innuendoes neither convincing nor entirely pertinent.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 22 ‘17 800w

=BOUTROUX, ÉMILE.=[2] Contingency of the laws of nature; tr. by Fred Rothwell. *$1.50 Open ct.

“This essay was presented as a thesis for a doctor’s degree to the Sorbonne by its author in 1874. Nearly fifty years have passed, and now it is brought into English with a special preface by the author. The two leading thoughts of the work may be stated in the language of its author. ‘The first is that philosophy should not confine itself to going over and over again the philosophical concepts offered us by the systems of our predecessors with the object of defining and combining them in more or less novel fashion: a thing that happens too frequently in the case of German philosophers.’ Philosophy, he holds, should keep itself in touch with the realities of nature and life; it should be grounded on the sciences. So he has sought to replace a philosophy essentially conceptual by one moulded upon reality. Secondly, to his mind all systems can be divided among three types, materialistic, idealistic and dualistic. He says: ‘These three points of view have this in common: they force us to regard as a chain of necessity, rendering illusory all life and liberty.’”—Boston Transcript

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ‘17 430w

“As long as M. Boutroux criticizes the assumption of an ultimate mechanical explanation of phenomena he is contributing to our understanding of experience. When he substitutes rather arbitrarily another ultimate he makes his argument lose most of its point.” J. R. K.

+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:294 Ja ‘18 310w

“This book abounds in shrewd insights and in keen criticisms of the half-baked monistic philosophy which underlies current popular science.” M. R. C.

+ — =New Repub= 13:191 D 15 ‘17 1200w

=BOWEN, MARJORIE, pseud. (MRS GABRIELLE MARGARET [CAMPBELL] COSTANZO).= William, by the grace of God. 2d ed *$1.50 Dutton 18-83

“A story of the rising of the Netherlands against Philip II of Spain. The siege and relief of Leyden, and the assassination of William of Nassau, are prominent episodes; and there are glimpses of the massacre of St Bartholomew and the death of Coligny.”—Ath

“Tedious and lacking in ‘go.’ The Spanish governor of the Netherlands was Luis de Requesens, not ‘Resquesens.’”

— =Ath= p479 O ‘16 80w

“Whatever her faults of taste, this writer shows a power of projecting character which is rare among her fellow-workmen in this field.”

+ — =Nation= 105:487 N 1 ‘17 300w

“One cannot quite escape the feeling that the brave William, the cunning Philip, have been taken out of archives, dusted off, and dressed up into fiction, the former in white, the latter in black. But aside from this common failing of historical novels, ‘William, by the grace of God’ is a book of more than average veracity and vividness.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 150w

“A picture of the times and an historical narrative rather than a novel.”

=N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 260w

“The narrative is given frankly in the form of a romance, not a history. The author has already treated several historical personages by this method and is unusually successful in recreating the atmosphere of past times.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 50w

“An admirable novel.”

+ =Spec= 117:773 D 16 ‘16 10w

=BOWER, B. M., pseud. (BERTHA MUZZY SINCLAIR) (MRS BERTRAND WILLIAM SINCLAIR).= Lookout man. il *$1.35 (1½c) Little 17-22305

“A worse than foolish escapade in the environs of Los Angeles, and Jack Corey suddenly finds himself in danger of arrest for manslaughter. His flight to Feather River canyon in northern California follows. He secures the position of ‘lookout man’ on the summit of Mount Hough, and here, in the little house of glass, the ‘observatory’ for forest fires ... he starts upon a new life. ... Then fate ... sends Marion Rose to him. Her coming to the Toll house had been almost as sudden, as had been his to the great peak towering above it. Only in her case the haste was legitimate. An unexpected opportunity to share with friends a certain mining claim, which is of course to bring wealth to them all. ... She and Jack become ‘comrades.’ And indeed Marion proves herself a real one, when the ‘lookout man’s’ identity being discovered, a peculiar complication develops.”—Boston Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 14:62 N ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 350w

=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 50w

“A pleasant, entertaining little story.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 350w

=BOWER, B. M., pseud. (BERTHA MUZZY SINCLAIR) (MRS BERTRAND WILLIAM SINCLAIR).= Starr, of the desert. il *$1.35 (2c) Little 17-13075

It was her father who sent Helen May down into the desert to herd goats. He was worried about Helen May’s health and all neglectful of his own. The doctor had ordered a change of climate and out-of-door life for the girl, and the father, buying a relinquished claim in New Mexico, made arrangements to carry out the doctor’s orders. Then he died, and Helen May and her young brother, Vic, feel that his wishes must be complied with. They know nothing of desert life and less of goats, but they find a good friend in Starr. Starr is something of a mystery for a time. He is really a secret service man engaged in heading off a Mexican revolution. Circumstances make it appear to him that Helen May is involved in revolutionary plots, but this mistake, fortunately, is easily explained.

=A L A Bkl= 13:452 Jl ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 460w

“A thrilling tale.”

=Ind= 90:474 Je 9 ‘17 40w

“The machinery of the narrative creaks a bit at times, but the style is so far superior to that of the average performance in this kind that one may willingly consent to be fooled in the matter of plot.”

+ — =Nation= 105:246 S 6 ‘17 350w

+ =N Y Times= 22:190 My 13 ‘17 310w

=BOWERS, EDWIN FREDERICK.= Bathing for health; a simple way to physical fitness. *$1 (4c) Clode, E: J. 613 17-8215

The bath as a preventive and as a curative agent is the subject of this book. Contents: Civilization and the bath; Bathing and morality; Why man needs the bath; The bath tub route to health; Baths as “big medicine”; Cold baths and common sense; Bathing for beauty; Smoothing ragged nerve edges; Sea and surf bathing; Fomentations, cold compresses and wet packs; “Hydrotherapy”; Sunstroke, icy tubs and heat prostration; Turkish and Russian operations, etc.

=St Louis= 15:173 Je ‘17 10w

“Neither faddish nor extreme.”

+ =St Louis= 15:410 N ‘17 40w

=BOWERS, R. S.= Drawing and design for craftsmen. (Handcraft library) il *$2 McKay 740 A17-1322

The chapters of this book are so arranged as to form a series of consecutive lessons, beginning with a treatment of the simple principles of drawing and working up gradually to the application of principles in practical design for woodwork, glazing, stenciling, metalwork, etc. The illustrations, of which there are over 700, “have been prepared and selected with a view not only of elucidating elementary principles, but of providing a storehouse of motifs, suggestions, styles, and treatments of which the craftsman will be glad to avail himself.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17

+ =Ath= p430 S ‘16 70w

“His text abounds with practical hints and suggestions which should prove very helpful to the student.”

+ =Int Studio= 60:53 N ‘16 160w

=Pratt= p30 O ‘17 20w

“The book would be suitable for self instruction, would also offer suggestions to teachers of drawing and design.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 50w

=BOWERS, R. S., and others.= Furniture making. (Handcraft library) il *$2 McKay 684 (Eng ed 16-10852)

This book gives “designs, working drawings, and complete details of 170 pieces of furniture, with practical information on their construction.” It is a book for the advanced workman, as it does not concern itself with the elementary processes of woodworking. These will be treated in a later volume of the series. There are over 1,000 illustrations.

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 50w

=BOWIE, WALTER RUSSELL.= Master of the Hill: a biography of John Meigs. il *$3 (3½c) Dodd 17-28879

The biography of a schoolmaster. John Meigs was for thirty-five years head-master of the Hill school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. His life story is here written by one who was associated with him first as a pupil and later as one of the teachers in the school. Contents: Schoolmaster and man; John Meigs’ ancestry, and his antecedents at the Hill; Boyhood and youth; The beginning of the venture; Lights and shadows; Ideals for the school; The making of men; The life within; Final achievements and a finished life; Victory.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18

=Boston Transcript= p7 N 10 ‘17 380w

“The author has succeeded in making us glad that a man like John Meigs lived among us, and that he lives in this book. Doubtless this is in part due to the fact that Bowie is himself an old Hill boy and former Hill master as well, and brought to his task not only the authority of personal knowledge, but the ability to write well.”

+ =Nation= 105:667 D 13 ‘17 1000w

“It is enough for us to say here that this book, written by one who was first his pupil and afterwards a teacher in his school is pervaded by his spirit of absolute sincerity. It is appreciative, warmly affectionate, even at times eloquently enthusiastic, but it is not indiscriminating.”

+ =Outlook= 118:31 Ja 2 ‘18 140w

=BOWMAN, ISAIAH.= Andes of southern Peru: geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian. il *$3 (3c) Pub. for the Am. geographical soc. of N.Y. by Holt 558 17-1921

This work by the director of the American geographical society, is an outgrowth of the Yale Peruvian expedition of 1911, under the direction of Hiram Bingham. The author’s part in the expedition was the mapping of the country between Abancay and the Pacific, a stretch of two hundred miles. The book is divided into two parts. The first, Human geography, is devoted to native life, economic products, climate, etc.; the second to Physiography of the Peruvian Andes. There are seven topographic maps and many diagrams in addition to the noteworthy illustrations from photographs.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:294 Ap ‘17

“The originality of thought and content, the brilliancy of style, the many original maps and diagrams, the wonderfully beautiful half-tone illustrations, all combine to make this work a noteworthy contribution to geographic science and to our knowledge of Peru.” G. B. Roorbach

+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:233 S ‘17 250w

“Mainly scientific in its plan and purpose, this study of the mid-southern section of Peru makes a considerable appeal to general interests on account of the information it gives regarding the inhabitants of that region.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 330w

“While a physical geographer might be better equipped to make use of the valuable information collected in this book, there are many pages interesting to the casual reader.”

+ =Ind= 90:257 My 5 ‘17 50w

“Mr Bowman has made repeated journeys in South America, of which, unfortunately, no sufficient account is given in the volume before us, though they have deservedly brought him a gold medal from the Geographical society of Paris. His explorations have thrown much new light on the Andes, long known but never so well described as in his book. A series of contoured maps by K. Hendricksen, topographer of the expedition, are cartographic oases in an uncharted desert.”

+ =Nation= 105:203 Ag 23 ‘17 1150w

+ =N Y Times= 22:273 Jl 22 ‘17 110w

=R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 130w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 200w

=BOWMAN, JAMES CLOYD=, ed. Promise of country life. *$1 Heath 808 16-12269

“‘The promise of country life,’ is the attractive title of a book of descriptions and narrations to be used as models in an agricultural course in English. ... The work has been carefully planned. The author says in his preface: ‘The first group of selections has to do with the type of individual who is most at home in the country. The second treats of the pleasures which may be found in solitude; the third shows how various types of men have found enjoyment in a rural environment; the fourth contrasts life in the city with life in the country; still another describes man’s mastery over the crops of the fields and domestic animals.’ ... The selections have been chosen from such well-known writers as John Burroughs, Hamlin Garland, James Lane Allen, Corra Harris, Guy de Maupassant, and Lyoff N. Tolstoi.”—School R

“Good for general reading and for high-school libraries that would not have many of the authors represented.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:255 Mr ‘17

“A book of this sort may well exercise a real influence in opening the eyes of young people to the real opportunities and genuine charm of country life.”

+ =Educ R= 54:208 S ‘17 50w

+ =Ind= 87:232 Ag 14 ‘16 40w

“In his effort to appeal to farm boys, Mr Bowman has happily broadened his appeal to American boys and girls. The selections, without being erudite, are full of the call of the woods and the by-lanes and the out-of-doors.”

+ =School R= 25:68 Ja ‘17 350w

Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman

+ =School R= 25:610 O ‘17 270w

“In schools and on the country book shelf it is worthy of permanent place.” H. W. F.

+ =Survey= 38:175 My 19 ‘17 110w

=BOWSER, THEKLA.= Britain’s civilian volunteers. il *$1.50 Moffat 361 17-14033

“Some eight years ago there was started in England an organization known for short as the V. A. D. Now at the time, members of the Volunteer aid detachments who took seriously their training in hospital work and canteen service were looked on with mild amusement. But when August, 1914, came there was the nucleus of that tremendous body of workers on whom the Red cross and the medical staff have depended and without whom their work could not have been done. ... The book is an unadorned account of the many sorts of work done in France, Belgium and Great Britain by these volunteer workers, men and women.”—Ind

=A L A Bkl= 14:52 N ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 40w

“Some such methods will surely develop here, in making practical the immense and as yet not wholly regulated force of our National league for woman’s service and other civilian organizations. ... The pages have the intense interest that belongs to the story of great endeavor.”

+ =Ind= 90:436 Je 2 ‘17 350w

=Pittsburgh= 22:68 O ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p38 O ‘17 30w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:220 Jl ‘17 50w

=BOYAJIAN, ZABELLE C.=, comp. Armenian legends and poems. il *$8 Dutton (*21s Dent, London) 891.54

“Miss Boyajian has gathered examples of genuine Armenian art and literature, to show the world what contributions the horribly persecuted people of that country have made for its enrichment. Lord Bryce prefaces the work with a brief encomium of their poetry and painting, which he rightly says is less known than it deserves to be. This hint at its value is supplemented by a somewhat extended chapter by Aram Raffi on the epics, folk-songs, and medieval poetry of Armenia. Miss Boyajian, the daughter of an Armenian clergyman formerly British vice consul at Diarbekir and herself an artist of fine abilities, furnishes a dozen illustrations reproduced in soft and exquisite colors.”—Boston Transcript

+ =Ath= p541 N ‘16 100w

“Examples of folk-songs, medieval poems and lyrics by various nineteenth century authors are included, some of them from Alice Stone Blackwell’s versions. ... Most of the translations are made by Miss Boyajian, who dedicates the volume to ‘The undying spirit of Armenia,’ and who devotes all the profits from its sale to the cause of her countrymen. It is a worthy cause and magnificently upheld.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 650w

+ =Int Studio= 61:99 Ap ‘17 280w

+ =Sat R= 122:sup5 D 9 ‘16 530w

=Spec= 117:sup684 D 2 ‘16 210w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p148 My 29 ‘17 1400w

=BOYD, ERNEST AUGUSTUS.= Contemporary drama of Ireland. *$1.25 (2½c) Little 822 17-7566

This is one of the first volumes to be issued in the Contemporary drama series, edited by Richard Burton. The aim of the series is to give in separate volumes an account of the contemporary drama in various countries. In this volume, devoted to Irish drama, the dramatic movement is shown to be related not only to the literary revival in Ireland, but also to the general revival of interest in the theatre which stirred the later nineteenth century. There are chapters on: The Irish literary theatre; Edward Martyn; The beginnings of the Irish national theatre; William Butler Yeats; The impulse to folk drama: J. M. Synge and Padráic Colum; Peasant comedy: Lady Gregory and William Boyle; Later playwrights; The Ulster literary theatre; Summary and conclusion. A bibliography is given in an appendix.

“Of more use to study clubs than to the casual reader. Has a good bibliography with dates, and a full index.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:340 My ‘17

“The only thing that is lacking in this little book is the element of style. To write without eloquence about such masters of the art of eloquence as Lord Dunsany, John M. Synge, and William Butler Yeats is to cheat the reader of the better half of criticism.” Clayton Hamilton

+ — =Bookm= 45:193 Ap ‘17 300w

=Boston Transcript= p9 F 21 ‘17 700w

+ =Dial= 62:484 My 31 ‘17 370w

“In his review of Yeats’s works Mr Boyd is eulogist and apologist rather than critic, but he writes with a keen appreciation of his indisputable poetic gifts. In a kindly but just and searching criticism of Lady Gregory’s plays, Mr Boyd, while fully recognizing the value of her zeal and ability to the cause which she has championed, rightly concludes that the majority of them are not important contributions to literary drama or in harmony with the aims of a national theatre.” J. R. Towse

+ =Nation= 105:546 N 15 ‘17 1000w

“Mr Boyd’s book, for all that, makes a valuable guide to the American or English reader, whose standards and preconceptions are always voiced in the judgments of the author. One cannot help feeling that importance is being given to things really little, and that Mr Boyd planned a definitive handbook and executed it accordingly.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:225 Je 10 ‘17 260w

=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 40w

“It is to be regretted that in dealing with such a fascinating topic he cramped himself by a somewhat dry and commonplace style, but even with this handicap the work is of some value for the information it furnishes regarding a noteworthy dramatic movement. As a popular hand-book it fulfils its function satisfactorily.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 12 ‘17 450w

=BRACQ, JEAN CHARLEMAGNE.= Provocation of France. *$1.25 Oxford 944.08 16-24205

“Professor Bracq, holding the chair of French literature at Vassar college, has undertaken, in this interesting little volume, to tell in simple language the story of the provocation and aggression to which France has been subjected by the German government in the last half century, and to describe the general dignity, calmness, and good faith with which the French republic has met this course on the part of Germany. ... Professor Bracq is himself in close sympathy with the pacifist movement in France, of which the Baron d’Estournelles has been the leader.”—N Y Times

“By the author of ‘France under the republic’ (A L A Catalog 1904-1911). ... From the French point of view, of course, but temperate and supplied with reference to sources.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:393 Je ‘17

“Professor Bracq writes temperately of Germany’s treatment of his country, but nevertheless with tense feeling.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 140w

“There is no doubt of the enthusiasm and patriotism of Dr Bracq, but it is a question whether he might not have served his end better had he observed more reticence of feeling and precision of phrasing.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:696 Ag ‘17 150w

+ =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 40w

+ =Ind= 90:382 My 26 ‘17 50w

“For all the facts he cites he gives careful reference to his sources, and any student can, if he wish, verify the author’s statements. Professor Bracq has given in a couple of hundred pages an excellent summary of the history of the last half century.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:10 Ja 14 ‘17 240w

“Prof. Bracq’s book, though written from the French point of view, may be recommended to those who wish to know historical facts.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 1 ‘17 450w

=BRADFORD, GAMALIEL.= Naturalist of souls; studies in psychography. *$2.50 (4c) Dodd 804 17-24248

Mr Bradford gets the title for his book from Sainte-Beuve’s description of himself: “I am a naturalist of souls.” “He discusses in the first chapter the psychographic method in the writing of biography, endeavors to define what it is and what it is not, considers the material to be used and the manner of using it, and defines psychography briefly as ‘the condensed, essential, artistic presentation of character.’ It differs, he explains, from ordinary biography in that it discards the chronological method of treating its subject’s life and uses the material facts as a means of illuminating the inner life.” (N Y Times) Contents: Psychography; The poetry of Donne; A pessimist poet (Leopardi); Anthony Trollope; An odd sort of popular book (Burton’s “Anatomy of melancholy”); Alexander Dumas; The novel two thousand years ago; A great English portrait-painter (Hyde, earl of Clarendon); Letters of a Roman gentleman (Pliny, the younger); Ovid among the Goths; Portrait of a saint (Francis of Sales). The author states that only the last three portraits “are elaborate specimens of psychography working consciously.”

“Using the same delightful method which made his ‘Portraits of women’ a joy to readers of discriminating taste, Mr Bradford analyzes and reveals further personality.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:85 D ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p7 S 12 ‘17 850w

“Delightful studies with a strong appeal to every thoughtful reader.”

+ =Cath World= 106:540 Ja ‘18 270w

“Mr Bradford writes the sort of essay that is born of enthusiasm and affection. He is a humble and not unsuccessful follower of the great unconscious psychographers, Tacitus, Saint Simon, Sainte-Beuve, and, though he is not mentioned as such, R. L. S.”

+ =Dial= 63:459 N 8 ‘17 350w

“As psychographic studies they are arranged with a sort of crescendo effect. ... Mr Bradford’s exposition of his developed method of writing biographical studies throws light upon and adds interest to the long series of such portraits he has published, first in the Atlantic Monthly and afterward in book form.”

=N Y Times= 22:356 S 23 ‘17 670w

=Pittsburgh= 22:741 N ‘17 60w

=BRADLEE, FRANCIS B. C.= Eastern railroad. il *$2 Essex inst. 385 17-21687

“Much local history that is of more than local interest is to be found in ‘The Eastern railroad: a historical account of early railroading in eastern New England’ by Francis B. C. Bradlee. The author has not merely collected the details of the successive stages of financing and organization through which the Eastern railroad passed between 1836 and 1884, when it was merged with its old rival, the Boston and Maine. He gives these necessary facts both in the text and in several tables in the appendix. But he also is at pains to picture the conditions of early railroading and to show the impression, if one may call it such, that the railroad made upon the community at various periods.”—Springf’d Republican

“The illustrations of the old-time locomotives and tickets add much to the attractiveness of the book.” J. B. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 630w

“This volume makes no pretense at being a formal history, and may perhaps be described as a collection of interesting notes. Many amusing incidents are to be found in Mr Bradlee’s pages, and these throw light on manners of the past quite as much as on railroading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 800w

=BRADLEY, ALICE.= Candy cook book. il *$1 (2½c) Little 641.5 17-13104

A preliminary discussion of candy ingredients and necessary equipment is followed by recipes for home-made candies, arranged in chapters as follows: Uncooked candies; Assorted chocolates; Fudges; Fondant candies; Caramels and nougatines; Pulled candies; Hard candies; Glacés and pulled flowers; Crystallized fruits; Fruit and gelatine candies; Dried fruits and nuts; Meringues and macaroons; Popcorn candies; Decorated candies and cakes; Favors.

“Discusses the food value of candy and gives sources of materials. Well illustrated.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:432 Jl ‘17

+ =Pratt= p24 O ‘17 30w

“The work is compiled with the care of an expert cookery book and appears to be reliable in all respects.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 170w

=BRADLEY, WILLIAM ASPENWALL.=[2] Garlands and wayfarings. *$1.50 Mosher 811 17-25839

“William Aspenwall Bradley has composed extremely artistic verse in ‘Garlands and wayfarings.’ His muse carries him everywhere, from a literary consideration to Jean Moreas and appreciations of nature, to a tribute to Jane Addams and some graphic pictures of sunset on the Connecticut. The various moods mirrored in the verses, however, are all those of a lover of beauty.”—Springf’d Republican

“His is at all times a courteous and gracious muse, vivid, clear and sweet. She deems it by far a more attractive appearance to be dressed in a linen suit with exquisite trimmings than in the sinuous silk of her modern sisters, suggestive and alluring in every movement. No, in ‘Garlands and wayfarings’ are the fruits of a ripe culture, a love of beauty and art for their own sake, an idyllic sensibility to nature and a classic sympathy with the spirit of life.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 1000w

“His work is always that of a poet to whom the English language has revealed its secret of rich, lyrical expressiveness.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 370w

=BRADLEY, WILLIAM ASPENWALL.= Old Christmas, and other Kentucky tales in verse. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-25830

Some four years ago, Mr Bradley, a Connecticut author, contracted “mountain fever” while exploring the Kentucky Cumberlands and other parts of the southern Appalachian system, and remained there nearly six months, getting acquainted with “the life and character of the mountain people.” This volume, containing seventeen poems, is the result. “The stories,” says the author, “which I have attempted to tell are in no sense offered as generally representative of mountain life. ... All I have tried to do is to invest each story with as much as possible of the peculiar color and atmosphere of mountain life.” (Preface)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:119 Ja ‘18

“A reading of these Kentucky tales has made me think of the nearness in his accomplishment of an indigenous Americanism, racy, humorous, pathetic, rich in local color, and characterization, more like Mark Twain than anything we have had in American verse.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 27 ‘17 1700w

“It cannot be pretended that this is a poetry of a high order; but Mr Bradley, in adapting to his use the life of the Kentucky mountain-folk, has hit upon extremely interesting material; he has given us some excellent stories, told in the folk-language, with many quaintnesses of idiom, and, on the whole, with the simplicity and economy that makes for effect.” Conrad Aiken

+ — =Dial= 63:454 N 8 ‘17 180w

“It is an interesting book, a contribution to our knowledge of our fellow citizens as well as a piece of creative writing. Mr Bradley makes his readers know the Cumberlands better than Mr Masters made them know Spoon River—and like them infinitely better.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 N 17 ‘17 700w

“The interest and the value of the book lie, as do that of the Russian ethnographical novel, in its folk aspect.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:24 Ja 20 ‘18 870w

“They are picturesque, and full of color and atmosphere.”

=R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 160w

“For the most part he has tried to duplicate in verse the peculiarities of speech and simile that the Kentucky mountaineers use in conversation. Following this plan, he tells their really poetical stories in a truly native vein.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 2 ‘17 330w

=BRADY, CYRUS TOWNSEND.= “By the world forgot”; a double romance of the East and the West. il *$1.40 (2c) McClurg 17-25243

On the morning of his wedding day, Derrick Beekman is shanghaied onto a vessel bound for the South seas. The man responsible for the deed is his best friend, George Harnash, who also loves Stephanie Maynard and is loved by her in return. But of this Beekman knows nothing when he comes to his senses in the hold of the “Susquehanna,” altho later the words of a dying mate, give him a clue. The steamer is wrecked and Beekman is cast upon an isolated volcanic island, inhabited by the descendants of early Dutch explorers. One of these is Truda, a girl of wondrous beauty who promptly makes him forget the woman he was to have married. An earthquake shatters the island and a tidal wave washes the lovers out to sea, to be rescued by the yacht that the Maynards and the repentant Harnash have sent in search of the missing man.

“As usual Dr Brady’s characters stand out boldly for what they are, some of them strong even in their weakness, his drawing of the two principal women actors being a particularly pleasing series of pen pictures.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 290w

“Dr Brady kept life at a respectful distance when he wrote his latest book. Thus he has given that part of the public who is avid for novels of adventure an exciting volume.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:465 N 11 ‘17 330w

=BRADY, CYRUS TOWNSEND.= When the sun stood still. il *$1.35 Revell 17-12713

“For the period of his new story Dr Brady has chosen the time when the various tribes of Israel, under the leadership of Joshua, were busily at work conquering the lands and cities of the Canaanites. The story begins when its hero, Dodai, son of Ahoah, a prince of the tribe of Benjamin, goes with Salmon of the tribe of Judah as a spy to the city of Jericho. ... The tale concludes with the conquest of Gibeon. The biblical narrative on which Dr Brady’s novel is founded gives abundant opportunity for color and for dramatic effects.”—N Y Times

+ =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 100w

“The historical setting of this new book by Dr Brady is far enough back to take on the appearance of a beautiful picture, brilliant, oriental, and engrossing. ... Dr Brady’s association with moving-pictures has accentuated his tendency to melodrama, but he is always interesting.”

+ — =Lit D= 54:1857 Je 16 ‘17 150w

=N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 200w

=BRAILSFORD, HENRY NOEL.= League of nations. *$1.75 Macmillan 341 17-19730

“The volume discusses calmly and dispassionately pretty nearly all the problems which this war has raised. But it is primarily concerned with the scheme for a League of nations associated with Mr Taft to form a guarantee of the peace of the world. Mr Brailsford as he proceeds in the discussion is led to consider ‘The problems of nationality,’ ‘The roads of the East,’ ‘Sea power,’ ‘Peace and change,’ ‘The future of alliances,’ ‘The economics of peace,’ ‘America and the League of peace’—in short, to examine pretty nearly the entire political horizon. ... At the close of the volume are printed two schemes, ‘The war settlement’ and ‘The League of nations,’ a plan for the organization of peace.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“This volume is well and thoughtfully written, and the author expresses himself with moderation.”

+ =Ath= p95 F ‘17 230w

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 6 ‘17 550w

“Fully to appreciate the wisdom, insight, and dignity of Mr Brailsford’s book one should contrast it with the boiling mess of polemical literature which is still being brewed on both sides of the long fighting line. Mr Brailsford insults no one, impugns no one’s motives, seeks no merely nationalistic interpretation of this war, and does not attempt to assume the rôle of supreme judge between the nations.” W. E. Weyl

+ =Dial= 63:198 S 13 ‘17 850w

“His review of world-politics is masterly. ... His book is certainly an excellent example of sane and persuasive political propaganda. It is more readable than a treatise and less ephemeral than a ‘war book.’ ... Mr Brailsford has shown in this book that the best tradition of English political thinking has not been altogether forgotten in the fog of emotionalism which the war has produced.” C. D. Burns

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:525 Jl ‘17 950w

“It is manifestly impossible to summarize his book or to criticise in detail statements and views beside which stand queries. Time and again, however, the reviewer has found himself wondering how the author could refer to Germany with such mildness and consideration. ... There is a great deal to think of in this volume—it is by no means negligible—when one has once forced oneself to ignore the absence of generous and righteous wrath and of a disposition not to take the hand from the plough till the furrow is done.”

– + =Nation= 105:407 O 11 ‘17 800w

“Mr Brailsford’s book stresses much more than does Mr Harris’s the importance to Europe, even Europe’s great need, of America’s help in the organization of a league of nations. But he does not show a tithe of Mr Harris’s understanding of the difficulties that lie in the way of our entering that league, nor does he show understanding of the procedure by which such a national action would have to be accomplished. His mistake is the same as that which so many publicists in Europe make over and over again—the mistake of thinking that, since the president of the United States has large powers, he must be able to do as he likes without regard to what may be the opinions and wishes of the people. ... But that mishap at the beginning of his work does not in the least lessen the value of his very able discussion of the general subject.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:269 Jl 22 ‘17 470w

=Pittsburgh= 22:701 O ‘17 40w

+ =St Louis= 15:358 O ‘17 50w

“One who writes in form so reasonably earns consideration. He sees the weak points of his scheme and discusses them frankly. ... We are not insensible to the skill and sincerity of Mr Brailsford’s appeal, but we cannot see that there is any such dilemma as that on which he tries to impale us.”

=Spec= 118:271 Mr 3 ‘17 1800w

“Futurity is dark for him, as for most candid inquirers. The value of the book is that it will enlarge the horizon of most readers and will convince them that the formation of a League of nations is not so simple a matter, its consequences are not so clear, as its advocates often assume.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p75 F 15 ‘17 1050w

=BRAINERD, ELEANOR (HOYT) (MRS CHARLES CHISHOLM BRAINERD).= How could you, Jean? il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-28076

Jean Mackaye, when she lost her money, not only could, but did take a position to do general housework, because cooking was the thing about which she knew the most. She went to live with the Bonners, two “elderly infants,” who badly needed a caretaker. Mr Bonner specialized on moths, while Mrs Bonner was oblivious to most things except the fauna, flora and folk lore of the Faroe islands. How Jean mothered the Bonners in the city and went with them to their farm on the Connecticut river, how well-to-do Teddy Burton fell in love with Jean at first sight, and in order to make her acquaintance, answered the Bonner’s advertisement for a man of all work on the farm, and what came of it all is pleasantly told by Mrs Brainerd.

“Light, will be popular.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w

“The tale moves so slowly that it seems rather the material for a short story than for a book of 337 pages. It shows, however, Mrs Brainerd’s known knack for light fiction.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 220w

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 92:1373 O 20 ‘17 550w

=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT=, comp. Anthology of magazine verse for 1916, and year book of American poetry. $1.50 Gomme 811.08

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“A valuable year book for the small library.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:256 Mr ‘17

=Cath World= 104:831 Mr ‘17 550w

“Whether through inability or unwillingness, Mr Braithwaite seems no nearer learning that there can be little excuse for an anthology which does not select. ... This year’s volume, like last year’s, is for the most part filled with the jog-trot of mediocrity. One must wade through pages and pages of mawkishness, dulness, artificiality, and utter emptiness to come upon the simple dignity of Mr Fletcher’s ‘Lincoln’ (marred by a faintly perfumed close), or the subdued, colloquial tenderness of Mr Frost’s ‘Homestretch,’ or the sinister pattern of ‘The hill-wife,’ or Miss Lowell’s delicately imagined ‘City of falling leaves.’ ... There can be no question that had Mr Braithwaite composed his anthology from books, instead of from magazines, it could have been one thousand per cent better. ... It very seriously misrepresents—or, rather, hardly represents at all—the true state of poetry in America to-day.” Conrad Aiken

– + =Dial= 62:179 Mr 8 ‘17 3700w

+ =Ind= 89:362 F 26 ‘17 130w

“For a book of avowedly temporary interest, for which the literary horizon is quite as significant as the zenith, I think of no one who could hold the balance between age and novelty, between tradition and adventure, more impartially than Mr Braithwaite.” O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:596 N 29 ‘17 450w

“This is the fourth collection of American poetry which Mr Braithwaite has given us. In 1913 he found the current of what he calls ‘distinctive’ poetry running most strongly in the Smart Set. In 1914 the Smart Set, Bellman, and Forum marked an equal wave, while in 1915 the tide left all these high and dry and buried Poetry fathoms deep. This year we learn that ‘the radical influence of Poetry ... has waned,’ and it is the Poetry Review of America to which the capricious current turns.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:117 Ap 1 ‘17 550w

“Decidedly the best of the series of his anthologies, or year-books, of American poetry so far published.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:437 Ap ‘17 300w

“The tireless optimism of William Stanley Braithwaite persists as one of the disquieting literary phenomena of the times. It was the dominating note in his ‘Anthology of magazine verse and year-book of American poetry’ last year and the year before; it is even more rampantly dominant in the anthology for 1916. ... Mr Braithwaite is not responsible for the material he has to work with; undoubtedly he is responsible for what he thinks of it. It is therefore not Mr Braithwaite’s fault that his anthology can scarcely compare with such a work as the garnerings of ‘Georgian poetry,’ of which two volumes have appeared in England within the last five years.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 600w

=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT.= Poetic year for 1916; a critical anthology. *$2 Small 821 17-26654

“The substance of the chapters in this book appeared in the columns of the Boston Evening Transcript, in a series of articles called ‘The lutanists of midsummer,’ and in the poetry reviews, which Mr Braithwaite contributed during 1916, to that paper.” (Acknowledgments) The book lacks an index, but the poets considered in each chapter are named in the table of contents.

“It makes a helpful supplement to the year’s ‘Anthology of magazine verse.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17

“For the last five years the largest part of Mr Braithwaite’s work has been criticism. ... A too excessive appreciation has been the charge oftenest brought against his estimate of poets. ... In this book, Mr Braithwaite comes nearer than he ever has before to explaining to the public his ideals for American poetry and his personal attitude toward his work.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ‘17 1200w

“Though we must give credit to Mr Braithwaite for his labors, and even wonder at his industry, it is in the character of a collector and not that of a critic that his real value consists. A man may have sufficient taste—though Mr Braithwaite’s is by no means impeccable—to make a creditable collection of poems, and yet be incompetent to talk well about them; and hence a bare presentation of his favorites is much to be preferred to this latest method, where the poems are drowned in a sea of talk. For it is talk of the most insufferable sort, namely, that of a literary tea-party—emotional, vague, diffuse, grandiloquent, pompously platitudinous.”

— =Cath World= 106:125 O ‘17 880w

“At the very centre of his attitude toward poetry is the express belief that poetry is a sort of supernaturalism. ... In his present book, therefore, Mr Braithwaite puts a clear emotional emphasis on work which is characteristically sentimental. ... Consequently, such poets as are in the main realists, implicitly critical or analytical of life, or at the most neutrally receptive, are somewhat coolly entertained. ... Clearly, such an attitude reveals in Mr Braithwaite a very decided intellectual limitation. Must poetry be all marshmallows and tears?... The trouble with this book is at bottom, that while it has a rather intriguing appearance of being judicial, it is really, under the mask, highly idiosyncratic.” Conrad Aiken

— =Dial= 63:202 S 13 ‘17 1300w

“Mr Braithwaite, through himself or his proxies, says all manner of things, including some very good things. ... We all know that Mr Braithwaite keeps his praise in a ‘tank,’ and his drafts on that reservoir in the present volume are of characteristic liberality. As for standard English, he seems definitely to have severed his relationship with that archaism.” O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:596 N 29 ‘17 400w

“If he had called it an appreciative, not a critical, anthology no one could have quarreled with him. But the idea of separation, of a division between black and white, at least, is implicit in the word ‘criticism,’ and of such separation there is little trace in Mr Braithwaite’s purling periods.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:477 N 18 ‘17 900w

“Among the especially pleasing chapters are ‘The idol-breakers,’ a discussion of free verse; ‘Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos & Co.,’ an appreciation of Edwin Arlington Robinson, and ‘Magic casements,’ which comments upon the poetry of Walter de la Mare, Lizette Woodworth Reese and Bliss Carman.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:217 Ag ‘17 230w

=BRANDES, GEORG MORRIS COHEN.= World at war; tr. by Catherine D. Groth. *$2 (2½c) Macmillan 940.91 17-13334

A collection of essays written before and during the war. The first is Foreboding, written in 1881, just as Bismarck’s state-socialistic ideas were being put into practice. “State-socialism, deprived of the fundamental principles of fraternity and self-government, is by the very nature of things a liberty-sapping doctrine,” wrote Brandes. Other papers written before the war are: The death of Kaiser Friedrich—1888—the death of the real German spirit; England and Germany—1905—the probability of war between them; German patriotism—1913—the glorification of war. Among those written after the outbreak of war are: The fundamental causes of the world war—1914; Different points of view on the war—1914; The great era—1915; Will this be the last war?—1915; The praise of war—1915; Protectors of small nations—1915; Ideals or politics—1916. Mr Brandes writes thruout as a neutral, and his open letter to M. Georges Clemenceau, reprinted in the volume, is a defense of Denmark’s neutrality.

=A L A Bkl= 13:442 Jl ‘17

“This book fails to get anywhere. It reflects the despondency of a brilliant man of the republic of letters who cannot comprehend the meaning of grave questions of the empire of the sword.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ‘17 270w

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 60w

“The book is evidence that the expert had better stick to his province. In the interpretation of literature many of us are anxious to hear what Dr Brandes has to say. As a publicist, he is quite frankly third-rate. His book is a rehash of old material and new comment which has no permanent value of any kind.” H. J. Laski

— =Dial= 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 100w

=Ind= 90:438 Je 2 ‘17 260w

“A more disappointing book on the war has scarcely been written. It preaches a doctrinaire pacifism.”

— =Lit D= 55:39 S 15 ‘17 270w

“In spite of these cosmopolitan ties, or rather because of them, he does not hesitate to deal praise or blame to all of the belligerents with equal vigor, according to his idea of the dictates of justice. He lays down the law like an Old Testament prophet to German militarists as well as to M. Clemenceau and Mr William Archer.”

+ =Nation= 105:374 O 4 ‘17 240w

“The book was completed before the United States had entered upon the contest, but we can infer what judgment would have been passed upon us by the unqualified statement that in 1898 we made war on Spain in order to secure the markets of Cuba. Of the combatant nations in this war, he credits none with any higher motive.”

=N Y Times= 22:207 My 27 ‘17 780w

=R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 80w

“Dr Brandes touches with fearlessness and a burning sense of justice upon the various aspects of the war without allowing himself to be biased by any one side.” B. D.

+ =St Louis= 15:313 S ‘17 30w

“Not all that he says will be acceptable to American readers, but in these days when it is essential for us to understand the war aims of all the belligerents, his book is at least of value in presenting opinion from a fresh point of view. ... Much of Dr Brandes’s reasoning is reversed by the revolution in Russia and the entrance of the United States into the war.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 21 ‘17 800w

“He is not a builder. He analyzes—brilliantly, keenly, cuttingly, yet not unkindly; he does not construct. But it is a relief to read one book on the war which does not propose a final solution of the problem of war. Brandes comes nearest to it when he preaches the gospel of free trade. He persists in looking at the war as a Dane and a Jew naturally looks at the war—detachedly, with a bit of a sob and a bit of a sneer for both sides.” L: S. Gannett

+ =Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 650w

=BRANFORD, BENCHARA.= Janus and Vesta; a study of the world crisis and after. *$2 Stokes 901 (Eng ed 17-17103)

“Mr Branford is well known in the educational world as a divisional inspector of the London county council. ... His zeal for universal vocational training is the expression of no narrow ideal of ‘national efficiency,’ but springs from a profound study of the conditions of development of the human spirit. It is, therefore, in complete harmony with his passionate conviction that a revival of university life (including a renaissance of the ‘wandering scholar’) is one of the most urgent needs of the time. ... In this connection Mr Branford argues with much force that universities have, during the modern epoch, largely forgotten their catholic mission, and have become, in many insidious ways, organs for the cultivation of national separatism and egotism. As a remedy for this state of things he presses the suggestion of a ‘world university,’ neutral, as the papacy is neutral, to be the guardian of the common spiritual interests of mankind, both western and eastern.”—Nature

Reviewed by F. H. Giddings

=Educ R= 56:167 F ‘18 550w

“To one at least it seems a noble book, full of a wise and strong humanity, worthy to be classed with writings to which all men pay homage. Any scientific reader who will start with the chapter on ‘Science and occupation’ and follow whither the clue leads will probably reach much the same opinion. ... Though his ideas are often at first provocative, they are generally seen, on candid consideration, to be widely and solidly based. No one concerned with the problems of our State internal or external, can afford to neglect them.”

+ =Nature= 99:142 Ap 19 ‘17 570w

“An impartial thinker, passionately eager to find a common understanding in every sphere of human life, not by ignoring difficulties, but by honestly attempting to reconcile them and transcend them.”

+ =Sat R= 123:85 Ja 27 ‘17 1300w

“The arrangement of the book baffles patience and even curiosity.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 170w

“It is only fair to the prospective reader to warn him that there are some passages in the book that seem reverberantly empty, and others whose content appears to be of the cloudiest; it will be for the reader himself to decide how far any apparent hiatus of meaning is due to failure of expression on the author’s part, how far to his own lack of intuition. This warning uttered, we commend the book whole-heartedly to the consideration of thoughtful people. Besides frequent nobility of thought, it shows much of the keen practicality that always characterizes the work of the true mystic.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p631 D 28 ‘16 1850w

=BRASSEY, THOMAS BRASSEY, 1st earl.= Work and wages; the reward of labour and the cost of work. *$1.25 Longmans 331 16-9980

“Lord Brassey describes this book on the title-page as ‘a volume of extracts, revised and partly re-written.’ They are taken partly from the original ‘Work and wages,’ which was published in 1872, and partly from other contributions of his to the subject, none of them later than 1879. They belong, therefore, to the past, and do not directly touch the most acute and recent labour questions of the moment.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=Pratt= p11 Ja ‘17

“This little book should be put in our bookcases side by side with Thorold Rogers, for it adds a great many facts to the ‘Six centuries of work and wages.’”

+ =Sat R= 122:43 Jl 8 ‘16 450w

“The facts recorded and opinions expressed have a historical value, and some of them throw light on problems of perennial interest.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Ap 20 ‘16 450w

=BRERETON, FREDERICK SADLIER.= On the road to Bagdad. il 6s Blackie, London

“The hero of this book has accomplishments beyond those of an ordinary subaltern. During his boyhood his guardian had taken him on many adventurous journeys in Mesopotamia, the pair frequently passing as natives, so perfect was their knowledge of the language and customs of the country. When the theatre of the great war was extended to Mesopotamia, the hero, as a member of the Expeditionary force, found himself detailed for all kinds of adventurous missions.”—Ath

“The story gives a graphic picture of the perils and dangers of the Expeditionary force in this land (Mesopotamia) of desert and marsh.”

+ =Ath= p54 Ja ‘17 90w

“Captain Brereton is an old hand at boys’ books, and he has mingled instruction and adventure well in this narrative.”

+ =Sat R= 122:sup6 D 9 ‘16 120w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p606 D 14 ‘16 260w

=BRESHKOVSKY, MME CATHERINE.= Little grandmother of the Russian revolution; reminiscences and letters; ed. by Alice Stone Blackwell. il *$2 (2c) Little 17-31436

One of the first acts of Russia’s provisional government, after the revolution, was to liberate Madame Catherine Breshkovsky who for fifty years was not free from police surveillance and for thirty years was an exile in Siberia. Miss Blackwell has had access to three sources of information: the account of Madame Breshkovsky’s childhood and youth given to Doctor Abraham Cahan while she was in America in 1904; a description of her early prison experiences with an outline of her later life, published in the Outlook; and letters, many of them written to Miss Blackwell during the years since 1904. Miss Blackwell has put this material together chronologically, unfolding one of the most dramatic careers of all time. The work is valuable first as a human document; second, as a survey of the social problems that have sent so many missionaries of revolution among the peasants of Russia.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ‘17 1600w

+ =Lit D= 55:38 D 8 ‘17 150w

“Her viewpoint on the war is especially fine and valuable reading in this day; she is so deeply the lover of peace and of humanity, and so vigorous and clear-thinking an advocate of the carrying on of the war to a successful end for Russia and the Allies.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:584 D 30 ‘17 380w

“The letters deserve to live, not only because of their individual charm and interest, but because taken together they give a beautiful reflection from one of the noblest souls who has lived in our time. They are cheerful, often playful, and they are full of human sympathy and human interest. There is in them not a single note of despair, of personal resentment, and rarely is there any evidence of indignation because of her own hateful and wicked treatment.”

+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 230w

“The skilful editing has plainly been a labor of love. Mme Breshkovsky appears in these intimate communications as a woman of unconquerable spirit, acutely sensitive to the sufferings and wrongs of the people, individually or in the mass, appreciative of the wrongs done to herself but much more concerned in acknowledging the kindnesses bestowed upon her by hosts of friends.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 1650w

=BRIDGES, ROBERT SEYMOUR.= Ibant obscuri; an experiment in the classical hexameter. *$5 Oxford 873 17-14043

“In this beautiful volume, one of the fairest products of the Clarendon press, Mr Bridges reprints his paraphrase in quantitative hexameters of part of Virgil’s sixth book and gives to the world for the first time a similar paraphrase of the scene between Priam and Achilles in the last book of the Iliad. His hexameters occupy the right-hand page, and in smaller type under each line is Virgil’s and Homer’s original, the Greek words being printed from an elegant fount in common use two centuries ago. On the left-hand page appear selections, each under its author’s name and date, framed in a cartouche, from the versions of previous translators, both in prose and verse, fifty-two Virgilian and twenty-eight Homeric, distinguished and undistinguished, curiosities like Gawin Douglas and Chapman, poets like Dryden, Pope, Cowper, and Morris, public men like Derby and Bowen, professional scholars in abundance, Conington, Mackail, Leaf, Simcox. Most important of all is Mr Bridges’s introduction, in which he explains clearly enough to all who can follow it the system upon which he has written these English hexameters.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“An experiment of tranquil days, growing up around a friend’s paper on Virgil’s hexameter, lovingly and rather quaintly printed, has ‘loitered on,’ to appear in these tragic times. One may question whether the thing was worth doing, or worth printing when done; but hostile criticism is disarmed by the author’s frank abandonment of any claim.”

=Nation= 105:147 Ag 9 ‘17 1600w

“For our part, we see no special reason why any more hexameter verse, whether accentual or quantitive, should be written in the English tongue. The measure is, and remains, an exotic. In the accentual kind the most successful are the ‘Evangeline’ of Longfellow and the ‘Bothie’ of Clough; the former an exercise in romance, and the latter an experiment in fiction. One reads and enjoys them, but hardly desires successors.”

=Sat R= 123:sup4 Mr 31 ‘17 1300w

* =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p114 Mr 8 ‘17 2350w

=BRIGHAM, GERTRUDE RICHARDSON.= Study and enjoyment of pictures. il *$1.25 (3c) Sully & Kleinteich 750 17-12954

This work on pictures is divided into four parts: Principles of art criticism; Schools of painting; Pictures to see in America; Pictures to see in Europe. The author says, “About fifty of the most famous names in painting have been chosen for discussion, ranging from the renaissance down to the present day, unfolding the gradual progress of art, and indicating the motives which have influenced artists as great schools have arisen in one country after another. ... The illustrations have been selected from great artists, but of subjects not yet too well known, and hence they offer material for study.” There are sixteen illustrations. A short bibliography is provided at the end and there is an index.

“The ‘Pictures to see in America’ will help as a quick survey of the chief works of art in the leading cities of the country.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:436 Jl ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 60w

+ =Dial= 64:81 Ja 17 ‘18 280w

“Gertrude Richardson Brigham is instructor in the history of art at George Washington university. Her text is sensible but not always free from commonplaces.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 140w

=BRITTAIN, HARRY ERNEST.= To Verdun from the Somme; an Anglo American glimpse of the great advance. *$1 (4c) Lane 940.91 17-12615

The author visited France in company with James M. Beck, who contributes a foreword to the book. They spent some time with the British forces in the valley of the Somme, visited Verdun and were taken along the battle line of the French front, spending some time with the Russian soldiers who are fighting in France. There is no table of contents, but some of the chapter titles picked out at random are: The Somme; Behind the firing line; On the Peronne road; Tommy Atkins; French airmen; Through the Argonne; To the Russian lines; Rheims.

+ =Ath= p106 F ‘17 120w

“Descriptive writers are divided into two classes, those who can paint a picture and those who can take you there. The book under discussion belongs in the first group. ... Mr Brittain leaves out most of the petty happenings. Genial, though his style is, one cannot help the feeling that he has written with his gloves on. The two accounts of his visits to Verdun and to Rheims are exceptions to this lack of generosity on the author’s part.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 420w

+ =Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17

=Pratt= p38 O ‘17 10w

“Mr Brittain treats his subject with a freshness and simplicity which will make a sure appeal to his readers. Possibly one of the most interesting divisions of the book is that which deals with a visit to the Russian lines, and gives a short account of a Russian ‘church parade,’ at which the congregation was representative of anywhere ‘from Korea to the Caucasus.’”

+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 250w

“Mr Brittain adds little to our knowledge of the war save his own sketchy views of the front as he found it, which are perhaps as valuable as those of other casual observers.”

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 23 ‘17 80w

=BRONNER, AUGUSTA FOX.= Psychology of special abilities and disabilities. *$1.75 (2c) Little 371.9 17-11120

The author has made a special study of two classes: (1) those of normal general ability who possess some special disability; (2) those below normal in general capacities who possess some special ability. At present, she says, all persons are divided into two classes: normal and defective. Children are so divided and are taught accordingly. No provision is made for those on the border line who might be better adjusted to society if account were taken of their particular abilities and defects. Contents: The problem; Methods of diagnosis; Differential diagnosis; Some present educational tendencies; Special defects in number work; Special defects in language ability; Special defects in separate mental processes; Defects in mental control; Special abilities with general mental subnormality; General conclusions. The author is assistant director of the Juvenile psychopathic institute of Chicago.

Reviewed by L. S. Hollingworth

+ =Am J Soc= 23:128 Jl ‘17 400w

=A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17

“This brief but scientific account of special abilities and disabilities should be read especially by the practicing teacher and the school officer.” E. B. Woods

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:788 N ‘17 300w

“Apart from its title, which is altogether too general, this work may be unreservedly commended.”

+ =Dial= 63:411 O 25 ‘17 190w

Reviewed by A. T. Poffenberger

+ =Educ= 55:71 Ja ‘18 700w

“Public-school teachers will get something of benefit from the discussions of this book as well as those engaged in the technical work of mental examination.”

=Pittsburgh= 22:833 D ‘17 70w

+ =El School J= 18:70 S ‘17 750w

=Pratt= p11 Jl ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:139 My ‘17 10w

“The book is very carefully worked out; the conscientious accounts of the work by others are more than mere references, and the theoretical discussion and the actual case-records go clearly hand in hand. A careful study of this book gives one the comfort that instead of the usual mass of generalities dealt out in books on education we have at last solid ground for sensible and well directed constructive work.” Adolph Meyer, M.D.

+ =Survey= 38:372 Jl 28 ‘17 270w

=BROOKE, HENRY BRIAN (KORONGO).= Poems; with a foreword by M. P. Willcocks. il *$1.25 Lane 821 17-24096

“Captain Brian Brooke lost his life at Mametz, leading his men with unabated courage in spite of wounds. In British East Africa he had a great name as a hunter ... and readers of the foreword by Miss Willcocks will easily see what a splendid man he was. His life was a poem, but he did not write poetry. His verses are like those of Adam Lindsay Gordon, free-and-easy records of ‘The call of the wild,’ close communings with nature, tales of fine horses, lonely souls, and sinners going right at the end, and downright denunciation of some of the humbugs of civilisation.”—Sat R

“Brian Brooke lived poetry rather than wrote it. ... Judged by the critic’s standards, the verses are not poetry at all. ... The bulk of them first appeared in the Leader of South Africa and similar colonial papers. They are direct, sincere interpretations of pioneer life as he saw it, and they do for East Africa much what those of Robert Service have done for Alaska. Like Service’s they are largely narrative.” R. T. P.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 15 ‘17 760w

+ =Sat R= 123:412 My 5 ‘17 180w

“‘That ride,’ a race for the border between an illicit trader and a German whom he has taken unawares, is an exciting piece of direct narrative that may rival ‘How we beat the favourite’—its obvious source of inspiration. The Masai called Brooke ‘Korongo’ or ‘The Big Man’; his friends called him ‘The Boy’—a more fitting epithet, for it is long since we read any verse that was so full of the glorious vigour and recklessness of youth.”

+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 170w

“In spite of the utter lack of literary craftsmanship—perhaps because of it to some extent—his rough ballads of African life are at times curiously impressive. ‘The song of the bamboos,’ for example, will always be remembered by those who have ever camped by a thicket.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p208 My 3 ‘17 670w

=BROOKS, ALDEN.= Fighting men. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-21875

The author, who has been war correspondent and American ambulance driver, and is now an officer in the French artillery, uses the knowledge he has gained of the national characteristics of the fighting countries as a background for a series of short stories. Full of the horrors of war, the first interest of these tales is yet psychological. Contents: The Parisian; The Belgian; The Odyssey of three Slavs; The man from America; The Prussian; An Englishman. Some of the series were first published in Collier’s in 1916. “The man from America,” which appeared in the Century Magazine for July, 1917, describes that type of American to whom liberty was dearer than neutrality. He allowed no outsider to criticize his government but before April, 1917, he had died fighting with the Foreign legion of France. The intimate touches which the author gives bring these tales home to the reader as tragedy through which he is personally passing.

=A L A Bkl= 14:94 D ‘17

“They are the work of a writer who has felt (not pursued) the continental influence, and whose master is de Maupassant rather than ‘O. Henry.’ But they are the work of an American, and they have the direct and personal effect of honest work done at first hand.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:337 N ‘17 490w

“The red realism of war enters into the six short stories that make up this book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 170w

“To those who have found war too gloriously represented in fiction, to those who would like to know a few of the typical fighting men of the eastern and western fronts, shorn of their civilized demeanor and expressing in action the purely elemental impulses, we recommend ‘The fighting men.’”

+ =Dial= 63:282 S 27 ‘17 140w

+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 140w

“As a piece of writing ‘The fighting men’ is an uneven book. But for the most part it is graphic. And always it is horrible. The three stories, which take up the first half of the volume, are the best. ... ‘The Prussian’ is a terrible tale of war, like the others, but it seems less vivid, less real. As for ‘An Englishman,’ it is a morbid piece of fiction, false, maudlin, unwholesome.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:325 S 2 ‘17 550w

“The tale called ‘The Odyssey of three Slavs’ is one of the most powerful war stories we have seen.”

+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 70w

“Gradually, however, the realization sinks in that they are something more profound and significant than mere printers’-ink pictures of phases of the great war—they are psychological studies executed with amazing dexterity, comprehension and simplicity of means, embodying, for the most part, in a single character the complex personality, the dominant racial spirit of each of the warring nations.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 92:809 S 15 ‘17 900w

=BROOKS, CHARLES STEPHEN.= There’s pippins and cheese to come. il *$2 (5c) Yale univ. press 814 17-29242

“Journeys to Bagdad,” a book of reprinted papers published last year, won a place for the author in the regard of those who still cherish the essay as a form of literary diversion. There are twelve essays in the new volume, that which gives it the inviting title and the following: On buying old books; Any stick will do to beat a dog; Roads of morning; The man of Grub street comes from his garret; Now that spring is here; The friendly genii; Mr Pepys sits in the pit; To an unknown reader; A plague of all cowards; The asperities of the early British reviewers; The pursuit of fire. Some of these have appeared in the New Republic and the Yale Review.

“Whimsical, clever essays with a leisurely atmosphere, reminiscent of Lamb.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:119 Ja ‘18

“One of those books which cannot be recommended at all to many readers, but which can be recommended very highly to some. The worst that can be said of these twelve essays, from any point of view, is that they are a waste of time and energy, and fail to stimulate; they are often as futile as Edward Lear’s nonsense books, but at the same time almost as refreshing.” J. F. S.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 400w

+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 60w

“Rarely does one find a book so loaded with quiet humor, literary charm, ease of expression and delicate fancy.”

+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 80w

“He has nothing whatever that is new to communicate but his own personal gusto; and he even smacks his lips, as he employs the subjunctive mood, with an antique smack.”

+ =Nation= 106:44 Ja 10 ‘18 200w

“By all the known laws of style and thought Mr Brooks ought to have lived 100 years ago. The peculiar appeal of what he has to say comes from the fact that he is essentially archaic. He talks about the most modern things from an 18th or early 19th century point of view. ... Not the least entertaining feature of ‘Pippins and cheese’ is the skill with which Theodore Diedricksen, jr., has illustrated the pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 1300w

=BROOKS, EUGENE CLYDE.= Story of corn and the westward migration. il 75c (1c) Rand 633 16-23150

The author tells the story of corn from an interesting point of view, linking it up with the history of the westward movement of population in our country and the settlement and development of the Mississippi valley. The first chapters of the book are of a more general nature, treating of The struggle for food, Mythical stories of our food-giving plants, Food a factor in civilization, etc. The work is a companion volume to “The story of cotton,” and the two together, the author says, “should make a good course in elementary economic history for the last year of the grammar school or the first year of the high school.” The author is professor of education in Trinity college, Durham, N.C.

=BROWER, HARRIETTE MOORE.= Piano mastery; second series. il *$1.75 (3c) Stokes 786 17-25989

A second series of talks with pianists and teachers, including conferences with Hofmann, Godowsky, Grainger, Powell, Novaes, Hutcheson and others. In all, there are twenty-four interviews, each offering from a different angle, colored by a different personality, some big truth or truths about the development of piano art. The chapters will prove stimulating, inspiring and instructive to students.

“Not less interesting and valuable to the student and music lover than the first series.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:811 D ‘17 50w

=BROWN, ALICE.= Bromley neighborhood. il *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 17-18592

“If a ‘neighborhood’ story can be said to have a heroine the outstanding, central figure of Miss Brown’s new novel is not either one of its young women ... but Mary Neale, middle-aged and mother of the two young men whose loves and ambitions, foibles and missteps furnish much of the skeleton of the story. ... But the Neales are only one of several families that inhabit the country neighborhood of Bromley, in New England, and all the others, the Greenes, the Brocks, the Gleasons, and their neighbors are pictured in the same detailed and graphic style, with little threads of quiet humor running through and the interaction of their individualities upon one another and the reaction of each to the environment form the story.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:25 O ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:95 S ‘17 700w

“It is a story of the spirit rather than of the flesh. ... In a story of New England life we expect to find the sort of New Englanders we meet there. But there are practically none of these in ‘Bromley neighborhood.’ Its people might have existed and their happenings might have come to pass anywhere in the wide world, but least of all in New England.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 1400w

“The book is excellent in character drawing and has the plot material for several good short stories. As a long story, however, its construction breaks down.”

+ — =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 80w

“Perhaps the men and women of Bromley neighborhood are a little too consistent, even for New England, where consistency is said to be so common a jewel as to pass unnoticed; perhaps Miss Brown is a shade unsympathetic toward those characters in whom the spirit of New England has shrunk and crystallized into something different. But on the whole, the people of Bromley neighborhood are real people with reactions that are, on the whole, true—deadly true.”

+ — =Dial= 63:280 S 27 ‘17 550w

“Surely one of the best American novels of the year.”

+ =Ind= 92:561 D 22 ‘17 300w

“Miss Brown burns with a clear flame of indignation against the mood of the American government and the American people during the first year of the war. She respects only those who refused to be bound by official neutrality, who saw where our part lay and tried to do it. And she sees the war as a great purifier and solvent. ... As for the story proper, the tangled love story of Hugh and Ben Neale and Ellen Brock and Grissie Gleason, it is, like all of Miss Brown’s longer narratives, plainly a fiction. The truth is, she cannot paint a full-length portrait of a man. The women of this story are truly characterized.”

+ — =Nation= 105:124 Ag 2 ‘17 520w

“Miss Brown’s virulent pro-ally bias can be excused. She is as much entitled to her opinion as one holding the reverse to his. But the artificiality of the whole plot, the excessive limitations of her characters, are not so excusable.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 26 ‘17 400w

“Miss Brown excels in this rich and glowing interpretation of New England character and temperament. Scarcely does she have her equal among writers of recent years. ... Once in a while she falls short in her interpretation into action, or rather, allows a character so to offend against probability as to rouse the reader to indignant protest. But when she does this it is because of her need of some crucial action in her plot and it usually takes the form of allowing one of her women characters to embark upon some adventure of sex that outrages all human probability. This new novel has just such a flaw in the sudden marriage of Ellen Brock.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:255 Jl 8 ‘17 700w

“No novel by Alice Brown, not even ‘The prisoner,’ is more mature or richer in character depiction than ‘Bromley neighborhood.’ It would indeed be difficult to name any American novel of the year which is more thoroughly well worth reading.”

+ =Outlook= 116:626 Ag 22 ‘17 180w

=Pittsburgh= 22:649 O ‘17 20w

“A very fine novel, a better sermon on the recovery of the lost values of American citizenship.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:333 S ‘17 350w

“The work contains diverse elements—some richly truthful and others sentimentally romantic.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 550w

=BROWN, ALICE.= Road to Castaly, and later poems. *$1.50 Macmillan 811 17-7033

The earliest copyright date of the poems brought together in this book is 1893. It is in part a reprint of a small volume with the same title issued a number of years ago. Later poems have been added. Among these are a short poetic drama, “The immortal witnesses,” and a sonnet sequence, “The book of love.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:340 My ‘17

“The volume shows no lack of craftsmanship in the handling of a variety of poetic forms. ... It is the sincere and sometimes inspired singing of a poet. ... Her shorter poems are without exception her best.” R. T. P.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 21 ‘17 1150w

“The distinction of Miss Alice Brown’s poetry is its originality; Miss Brown is remarkable for her power of finding new themes and of saying new things about old themes.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1999 Je 30 ‘17 700w

“Without classing Miss Brown among great or incisive poets, I can warmly commend ‘The road to Castaly.’ First of all, she has utterance, the plastic mouth. There is a perfect leafage of phrase, a sun-flecked and wind-tossed abundance, over which her fancy plays with what I can best describe as a hovering fondness. Again, her work is notable for the rarity of imperfections—itself a high rarity in current American verse of any grade.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Nation= 105:400 O 11 ‘17 240w

+ =N Y Times= 22:241 Je 24 ‘17 280w

“Originality, daring, delicacy—these are the qualities that mark this book of verse from beginning to end. ... Yet the mastery is not complete; a certain obscurity clouds many of the poems, and the fascinating series of sonnets called ‘The book of love,’ which one feels ought to be the author’s best work, is for this reason unsatisfying.”

+ =No Am= 205:809 My ‘17 320w

“One is accustomed to think of Alice Brown as the author of the prize play, ‘Children of earth,’ and as a successful short-story writer, rather than as a poet, but this book will not fail to convince her readers of her great natural gift for poetic expression. The poems in this collection are diverse of theme, thoughtful, and reverent of mood and strong with a certain dramatic propulsion.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:439 Ap ‘17 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 380w

=BROWN, CHARLES REYNOLDS.= Master’s way; a study in the synoptic gospels. *$1.75 (1c) Pilgrim press 232 17-2209

A series of papers reprinted from the Congregationalist. The author says, “This is not a ‘Life of Christ.’ It contains a series of studies based upon the more significant actions and utterances of the Master as we find them reported in the synoptic gospels.” They are designed especially for those engaged in Sunday school work or leading Bible study classes. “They were not written for the critical scholar.” The author is dean of the School of religion at Yale university.

“Dr Brown has sufficient keenness of insight, freshness of statement, and real power of interpretation to make his collection of ‘lesson helps’ worth preservation in this permanent form. ... This is the work of a teacher.”

+ =Bib World= 50:50 Jl ‘17 300w

“Filled with a sympathy which finds in love’s boundlessness a hope for all mankind, this collection of Doctor Brown’s sermons comforts as well as inspires.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 210w

“Delightful and full of suggestions.”

+ =Ind= 90:299 My 12 ‘17 60w

“To a remarkable degree it correlates the events and the ministry of Christ with present-day problems and needs. ... The best modern scholarship appears throughout the book. The author is very balanced in his judgments and presents both sides of the disputed questions.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 8 ‘17 150w

=BROWN, DEMETRA (VAKA) (MRS KENNETH BROWN).= Heart of the Balkans. *$1.50 (3½c) Houghton 914.97 17-14034

In these papers, some of them reprinted from the Delineator and the Century, the author describes a journey taken thru the Balkans in company with her brother. The date of these travels is not given, but they were probably taken in one of the interims of the first or second Balkan wars. The author was most interested, as she states, in the women of these countries. Contents: Wild Albania; Romantic Albania; Through the lands of the Black-mountaineers; The eagle and the sparrow; Servia, the undaunted; The gypsies of the Balkans; The Prussia of the Balkans; The sons of the Hellenes; Saloniki, the city of histories.

“She gives much information, shows the contrasts between the various peoples and has many original points of view.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:22 O ‘17

“The author is remarkably successful in grasping and presenting the diverse characteristics of these neighbor-peoples.”

+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 50w

“It would make a poor guidebook indeed, but it is something better. Her word pictures of the physical appearance of each land are suggestive and touched with beauty.”

+ =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 190w

+ =Ind= 90:561 Je 23 ‘17 30w

+ =Ind= 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 50w

“The author is a Greek, born in Constantinople, a woman who has studied both the political and racial characteristics of her country and who has also a style charmingly individual, picturesque, and a diction worthy of her native land.”

+ =Lit D= 55:42 O 13 ‘17 290w

+ =Outlook= 116:305 Je 20 ‘17 180w

=Pittsburgh= 22:674 O ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p46 O ‘17 20w

“Particularly valuable in this fascinating book is the presentation of the characteristics of the women of the various countries. If anyone wishes to get a vivid first-hand account of these countries in brief compass that is more engaging than most fiction, this little book to him can be recommended.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 260w

=BROWN, EDNA ADELAIDE.= Spanish chest. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 17-23755

This book for boys and girls, by an author who can always be depended on for a fresh and absorbing story, describes attractively scenes in the island of Jersey. Two English girls, thrown on their own resources, decide to let rooms to tourists and are fortunate in obtaining as their first lodgers a delightful American family. Edith the younger of the two English girls, immediately makes friends with Frances, the American, and Estelle, the older, is at once attracted to Mrs Thayne. The two American boys, Win and Roger, find interests to their liking, Win in historical research and Roger in outdoor adventure and exploration. The party make friends with the residents of an old manor house, associated with the stay of Charles II on the island, and are allowed to investigate its secret passage ways. The finding of the chest, once the possession of Prince Charley, is the culminating incident.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:100 D ‘17

“It is not a love tale; it is not a story of adventure; it is not a story of mystery and ghosts, and yet these features are suggested, giving a distinct charm that makes it readable for older persons, as well as the younger generation.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ‘17 100w

+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 60w

=N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 50w

=Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 20w

“The Channel islands are unfamiliar ground to most American readers, and the peculiarities of Jersey in general, and of St Helier’s in particular, are well brought out by the author, and even the little colloquialisms that she introduces are worth noting.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 160w

=BROWN, GEORGE ROTHWELL.= My country; a story of today. il *$1.35 (2½c) Small 17-23648

This is said to be the first novel to come out of our war with Germany. The plot and the way in which the story is developed recall Phillips Oppenheim. The hero, Wilhelm Hartmann, known as Billy, and his twin brother, Karl, are Prussians by birth, though their father has become a loyal American citizen. After the father’s death, Karl returns to Germany for his education and becomes thoroughly Prussianized, while Billy, through the influence of Prussians who hope to use him later, though he is ignorant of this at the time, is appointed to Annapolis and later promoted to a position of importance in the United States navy. The crucial point in the story comes when Billy, already obliged to pay the penalty of a dual nationality in suffering the distrust of his fellow officers, meets his twin brother, who has returned secretly by submarine as the official representative of the Kaiser and tells Billy that he is the Kaiser’s man, that he owes his appointment as assistant chief-of-staff to the commander-in-chief to Prussian influence and that it is his duty to save Germany by betraying the American navy. How Billy deals with his brother and how he saves and finally wins the girl he loves is ingeniously told.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 480w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

“The story is a thrilling one and offers a serious idea or two besides.”

+ — =Dial= 63:220 S 13 ‘17 120w

+ =N Y Times= 22:243 Je 24 ‘17 330w

=BROWN, HAROLD WARNER.= Electrical equipment; its selection and arrangement, with special reference to factories, shops and industrial plants. il *$2 McGraw 621.3 17-5558

“The book supplements, and does not duplicate, existing recognized texts which describe electrical apparatus or present the principles of design and application or give various performance data. Its aim, in contrast, is to show how to apply principles and data elsewhere accessible.”—Engin News-Rec

=A L A Bkl= 14:44 N ‘17

=Cleveland= p93 Jl ‘17 20w

“Non-electrical men who have problems in the selection and use of electrical equipment put up to them, will welcome Mr Brown’s lectures.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:363 My 17 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

“Unique in that it attacks the subject from the standpoint of the mechanical engineer. To facilitate study, data references are confined mainly to the ‘Standard’ and the ‘American’ handbooks, while Alexander Gray’s ‘Principles and practice of electrical engineering’ is depended upon for theory.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p7 Ap ‘17 120w

“Primarily intended to guide college students in laying out their work and to assist mechanical and electrical engineers in selecting electrical equipment, and in this capacity it should find a wide field of usefulness.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:445 My ‘17 50w

“Helpful book, the first to deal definitely with this subject.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:517 Je ‘17 20w

“The tables given in the chapter on Motor applications are a very important part of the work.”

+ =Power= 45:400 Mr 20 ‘17 440w

=Pratt= p17 Jl ‘17 20w

“Author is connected with the engineering department of Cornell university.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks Ap= ‘17 160w

=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17 10w

=BROWN, IVOR.= Security. *$1.25 (1½c) Doran

The way of dons, the way of men, the way of women, and the way of the world are the four divisions of this novel. John Grant, an Oxford don at the opening of the story, is just beginning to find the peace and security of the life intolerable. His father’s death, which brings him a comfortable fortune, provides a way of escape. He goes to London to plunge into the world of men with a friend who is a champion of labor. But he is not built for the hazards and excitements of such an existence. He leaves it and marries, expecting to find in marriage the peace and security for which he again longs. But his wife also has married for security, and like himself she finds that it palls after a time. She tries a way of escape which, strangely enough, results in drawing the two, husband and wife, together in a mutual understanding.

“So far as the hero himself is concerned, we hope recognition of the fact will grow among readers that, like many well-intentioned capitalists, he is attempting to improve at one end the situation he is helping to create at the other. ... Security is certainly never attained, though if the hero had any real aim in life, perhaps it was that. A better title would have been ‘The slacker’s progress.’”

— =Ath= p126 Mr ‘16 550w

“‘A thoughtful and sincere piece of work.’”

+ =Cleveland= p33 Mr ‘17 60w

+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 360w

“The talk of the labour men is as good as the talk of the dons. ... Our conviction of the author’s knowledge begins to wane in ‘The way of women,’ and it evaporates rapidly in ‘The way of the world.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p70 F 10 ‘16 600w

=BROWN, KATHARINE HOLLAND.= Wages of honor, and other stories. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-24278

The stories in this book are divided into three groups, representing three geographical divisions of our continent. The four stories of the first group: The wages of honor; The master strategist; “Crabbed age and youth”; and Brewster blood have scenes laid in the east. Following these are three stories of the Mississippi country: The ragged edge of forty; Raw prose; Briarley’s real woman. The third group consists of three stories of Mexico: Billy Foster and the snow queen; Millicent, maker of history; On a brief text from Isaiah. With two exceptions the stories are reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine.

“Ten readable short stories. They all have a high moral tone.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:94 D ‘17

“Magazine readers are already well acquainted with the clean and dignified style characteristic of the author. There is nothing to offend and much to interest and provide pleasant reading in these three hundred pages.”

+ =Cath World= 106:413 D ‘17 80w

“Rather subtle and a little too slow for the average novel reader. The three stories of Mexico are interesting, especially the first, in letter form, and they present a new view of the Mexican peon.”

+ — =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 50w

“They are all stories with happy endings, irrespective of the logic of the situation.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 160w

“A man cannot write a story of a sewing society that will convince women and a woman cannot write of violent masculine physical labor, in a way convincing to men. Thus, in ‘The ragged edge of forty,’ Miss Brown, though she has her technical details and a correct background, writes a story that leaves the masculine reader with the unsatisfied sense that she didn’t know what she was writing about. ‘Billy Foster and the snow queen’ has, in many ways, the greatest appeal in the book.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 380w

=BROWN, PHILIP MARSHALL.= International realities. *$1.40 (3c) Scribner 341 17-3489

The author says, “Since the great war began I have been conscious, with many others, of the urgent necessity of a thorough reconstruction of the law of nations in accordance with the big facts of international life. I have set myself the task of endeavoring to ascertain the fundamental values in international relations. The method followed has been to select certain of the large problems of international relations and treat them as separate topics illustrating and elucidating some of the basic principles of international law.” Some of the papers are reprinted from the North American Review. Contents: International realities; Nationalism; The rights of states; The limitations of arbitration; International administration; Ignominious neutrality; The dangers of pacifism; Pan-Americanism; Democracy and diplomacy; The substitution of law for war.

=A L A Bkl= 14:5 O ‘17

“Though unduly obsessed by ‘realities,’—which is to say, existing phenomena—and unnecessarily patronising in tone toward the ‘emotion and sentiment’ of those who seek a more idealistic and visionary solution, it is nevertheless a valuable analysis of the bases of international law.” Nathaniel Pfeffer

+ — =Bookm= 45:198 Ap ‘17 230w

“His book will serve to clear up some misunderstood points, but his personal predilections are apparent and his ‘common sense’ reduces all considerations to a somewhat materialistic basis. Much of this was written for magazines, and a part of it has a slight political-campaign flavor.”

+ — =Cleveland= p53 Ap ‘17 70w

“It is no dispassionate study as proved by such headings as Ignominious neutrality and Dangers of pacificism, but in pointing out the tasks immediately practical, especially in relation to South America, it is suggestive and inspiring.”

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 50w

“Professor Brown of Princeton, in writing of international relations and the ‘law’ that more or less guides and governs them, has the advantage of adding considerable experience in diplomacy to his professional study. He served as secretary of legation and as chargé in the Near East, especially at Constantinople, and as minister to Honduras.”

=N Y Times= 22:87 Mr 11 ‘17 700w

=St Louis= 15:133 My ‘17 10w

=BROWN, WILLIAM ADAMS.= Is Christianity practicable? lectures delivered in Japan. *$1.25 (4c) Scribner 261 16-23974

Dr Brown is Union seminary lecturer on Christianity in the Far East and the lectures that make up this book were delivered in Japan. The question that serves as title is considered with reference to the present war. The author’s answer is that Christianity has never been tried. It has been tried as an individual religion, but has never been applied to national or international problems. The responsibility for the war is laid to the fact that the leaders of all the so-called Christian nations have assumed the impracticability of Christianity. In this they have been sustained by public sentiment. The five chapters of the book are: The world crisis as challenge and as opportunity; The Christian interpretation of history; The Christian programme for humanity; The duty for to-morrow; What the church can do.

“A courageous, candid, and constructive book—courageous, because it consists of lectures in the Orient upon the most embarrassing question of Christian apologetics; candid and constructive, because without artificial or question-begging theological premises, and working only with real facts and ideals, the author has produced a clear and simple apologetic adapted to build up genuine Christian conviction.” E. W. Lyman

+ =Am J Theol= 21:467 Jl ‘17 860w

“These lectures were delivered in Japan, and ought to have a wholesome influence in counteracting the baleful effects of jingoism both in Japan and in America.”

+ =Bib World= 49:186 Mr ‘17 450w

=N Y Times= 22:436 O 28 ‘17 60w

+ =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 200w

“The volume is a distinct contribution to the literature of social Christianity.” Graham Taylor

+ =Survey= 38:574 S 29 ‘17 360w

=BROWN, WILLIAM ALDEN.= Portland cement industry; with notes on physical testing. il *$3 Van Nostrand 666 (Eng ed 17-17970)

“A practical treatise on the building, equipping, and economical running of a Portland cement plant.” (Sub-title) A short introductory chapter and a historical sketch of the industry are followed by discussions of: Manufacture—raw materials; Design and construction of a modern Portland cement plant; The rotary kiln; Power plants; Costs and statistics, etc. The author is a member of the South Wales institute of engineers, and the book has been written to encourage the development of the Portland cement industry in Great Britain to meet the competition of Germany and the United States after the war.

“The book itself is a very good categorical description of the manufacture of portland cement, with special detailed reference to the individual parts making up the cement mill. More attention is paid to the factory itself and to raw materials than to chemical investigations, although there are six chapters on the technique of testing.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:325 Ag 16 ‘17 130w

“The book before us is eminently practical, and deserves serious consideration because the author has had important American experience, and is now managing a large modern cement works in South Wales. Some notes on physical testing constitute a valuable feature.” J. A. A.

+ =Nature= 98:368 Ja 11 ‘17 260w

=BROWNE, BELMORE.= White blanket. il *$1.25 (2c) Putnam 17-31026

A sequel to “The quest of the golden valley.” George Draper and Fred Morgan, the two boys of that story, spend a winter in Alaska with George’s uncle, who is prospecting for gold. In addition to helping establish a valuable mining claim, the two boys have many adventures and brave great dangers. The author, who is an arctic explorer, is utilizing his experiences in the north in this series of books for boys. His familiarity with the country is further shown in the drawings he has made to illustrate the story.

“A first-class book with a background of reality.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 110w

=BROWNE, JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR.= Recollections; literary and political. *10s 6d Constable & co., London

Mr Browne, a Scottish lawyer, author of “Forty years at the bar” and of many other volumes, is a brother of Sir James Crichton-Browne. He shows a strong bent towards philosophy and was for several years a reviewer of philosophical books for the magazines. His “Recollections” abound in anecdotes, many of them not new.

“His thumb-nail appreciations of politicians and others are sometimes acute, occasionally amusing, and in certain instances likely to be dissented from by many readers. ... Does not appear to have much sympathy with efforts at social reforms. ... On pp. 113-14 there are some references to the United States which it would have been better, we think, to delete. On p. 203 ‘Aubernon,’ in a copy of a letter from Lord Bramwell, should be Auberon.”

– + =Ath= p417 Ag ‘17 390w

“He has no doubt about his likes and dislikes, and expresses them with a frankness that leaves little to be desired, and deals some shrewd knocks at the idols of the present generation. ... These recollections give us a vivid picture of a shrewd, able, alert, and highly critical mind, keenly interested in many subjects outside the law.”

+ =Spec= 118:88 Jl 28 ‘17 1600w

“These recollections are such as might have been published by that busy, canny old gentleman Polonius, but for the hasty action of Hamlet. ... They are not legal, but political and literary—a record of unimportant elections lost; of writings that have been forgotten by the writer himself; and of sentiments that have nothing novel or striking to commend them.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p353 Jl 26 ‘17 900w

=BROWNE, PORTER EMERSON.= Someone and somebody. il *$1.35 (2½c) Bobbs 17-14136

“The collision of a Long Island railroad train with an automobile in which his two tight-fisted uncles are riding raises the hero from the status of book agent to millionaire. Notwithstanding that he is a college man, he is singularly ignorant of the usages of good society. But he is physically attractive and soon learns the ways of the world into which fortune pitches him. Coincidentally with his leap from poverty to affluence, the heroine’s position is reversed. ... One day, however, she discovers that the hero’s uncles had mulcted her father of his fortune. She marches directly to the young man and demands her money back. ... He consents. But before he is able to carry out his good intention, the news is brought to him that his confidential agent has ... absconded [with his fortune].” (Springf’d Republican) Both young people, however, contrive to outwit ill fortune, and the book ends happily.

“There is a keenness even under the froth in a story of the type of this present one, and we have the impression that under it all he is rather laughing at those who read it. ... He deliberately puts aside the serious mood, unless it be true that his very burlesquing is serious. He gives us every kind of a fictional misfortune and then ends his story by arbitrarily bringing all right again.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 350w

“Perhaps Mr Browne’s experience as a playwright is responsible for the manner in which the situation develops. ... His pointed humor is very diverting, and although the romance does not always move voluntarily, there is no lack of lively interest throughout.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 320w

=BROWNELL, WILLIAM CRARY.= Standards. *$1 (4½c) Scribner 801 17-13754

The author discusses standards in art and literature. The tendency of the present day is to discard standards of all kinds, and to point out the dangers of such a course is part of Mr Brownell’s aim in this little book. There are seven chapters, dealing with: Measures of value; The public; Taste; The individual; The inner life; “Modern art”; The cause of art and letters.

=A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17

“A brief monograph, admirable in its technique and apparently intended to supplement his concentrated little essay on criticism.”

+ =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 80w

“A thin volume of masterly essays with a rich and widely varied vocabulary that well serves to project intellectual and art pyrotechnics.”

+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 70w

“There can never be too much of the refined and much-experienced criticism such as Mr W. C. Brownell’s essay on ‘Standards,’ which we all read in Scribner’s Magazine and are glad to have now as a book.”

+ =Nation= 105:152 Ag 9 ‘17 100w

“His pages sparkle with wit and wisdom in happy combination. The reader feels the sway of a loyal, candid, deeply self-respecting nature and of a mind disciplined by the study not only of what literature discloses of life, but of that still richer revelation which actual living brings to the soul that can receive it.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 800w

=Pratt= p33 O ‘17 20w

=BRUBAKER, HOWARD.= Ranny, otherwise Randolph Harrington Dukes. il *$1.40 (2c) Harper 17-20177

“A tale of those activities which made him an important figure in his town, in his family—and in other families.” (Sub-title) The sixteen chapters about the doings of this representative American small boy, during the year when he was “eight-going-on-nine” are written from the adult point of view. They appeared originally in Harper’s Magazine.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:25 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 30w

“Howard Brubaker has been a real boy, but more to the point, he has the faculty of making his readers boys again. ‘Ranny’ is excellent reading.”

+ =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 40w

+ — =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 370w

=BRUCE, EDWIN MORRIS.= Detection of the common food adulterants. 3d ed rev and enl *$1.25 Van Nostrand 614.3 17-31161

This third edition of a little volume published in 1907 “has been revised so that it contains the latest and best tests for the common food adulterants.” (Preface) Contents: Dairy products; Meat and eggs; Cereal products; Leavening materials; Canned and bottled vegetables; Fruits and fruit products; Flavoring extracts; Saccharine products; Spices; Vinegar; Fats and oils; Beverages. In addition to the general index, there is an index to authors and tests.

=BRUCE, HENRY ADDINGTON BAYLEY.= Handicaps of childhood. *$1.50 (3c) Dodd 136.7 17-29498

The author states that he has written this book “to amplify and supplement his ‘Psychology and parenthood.’” “Its general aim, accordingly, is to present additional evidence in support of the doctrine, that, in view of the discoveries of modern psychology with regard to individual development, the mental and moral training of children by their parents ought to be begun earlier, and be carried on more intensively, than is the rule at present. But whereas in ‘Psychology and parenthood’ the emphasis was chiefly on the importance of early mental training, the chief concern of the present book is to demonstrate the importance of early training in the moral sphere.” (Preface) Much of the material here presented has already appeared in the Century, Good Housekeeping, McClure’s, Harper’s Bazar, Every Week, and the Mother’s Magazine. The book includes chapters on Stammering, The only child, and Fairy tales that handicap. This latter points out the danger to many children of fairy tales that reek of brutality and gore.

“A work of manufacture rather than of literature, but none the less rather interesting reading for an hour or two and, if liberally seasoned with the salt of skepticism, perhaps not unprofitable reading for parents. The salt is needed for the author’s naïve acceptance of Freudian ‘discoveries’; apart from this prepossession, his suggestions are not lacking in sanity.”

+ — =Nation= 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 100w

“Simple in expression and eminently readable, this discussion of child psychology is based on full knowledge and sound thinking.”

+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 60w

=BRUCE, WILLIAM CABELL.= Benjamin Franklin, self-revealed. 2v *$6 (3c) Putnam 17-29818

A biographical and critical study of Franklin based largely on his own writings. All of the aids of modern scholarship have been employed to make the work accurate and exhaustive. It is the many-sided Franklin who stands revealed in these pages. The first volume inquires into Franklin’s moral standing and system, his religious beliefs, family relations, American, British and French friends, and estimates Franklin, the philanthropist and citizen; the second volume portrays his personal characteristics, looks at Franklin, the man of business, statesman, man of science and writer.

“The volumes throughout are distinguished by keen critical insight and by a deep understanding of human nature, added to which are a fine sense of proportion and a literary manner which renders the work eminently readable.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 730w

“Here are two volumes which, with literary finish, careful accuracy, and critical insight, consider every side of this remarkable man. They abound in citations from Franklin’s writings, especially his private letters, and thus reveal his personality as no mere biographical pages could.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 D 15 ‘17 340w

“It is detached, impersonal, detailed, and it discusses Franklin’s foibles and flaws on every side, in all their manifestations and in all their relations to his family, friends, and period.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:5 Ja 6 ‘18 650w

“An admirable piece of work—every page sparkling with the interest that attaches to a unique character.”

+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 100w

+ =R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 110w

+ — =Spec= 120:61 Ja 19 ‘18 2050w

“The author belongs to that school of American writers on biography and history who have never taken to heart the maxim that the half is greater than the whole.”

– + =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p16 Ja 10 ‘18 1000w

=BRUNNER, EDMUND DE SCHWEINITZ.= New country church building. (Library of Christian progress) il 75c Missionary education movement 17-17093

“Edmund de S. Brunner, who has been successful in community leadership and who knows churches from every angle, including that of the pulpit, ... has packed into these 140 pages a comprehensive survey of architectural and spiritual needs. Eleven plans are submitted for country churches, incorporating in varying degree, from simple to elaborate, suggestive arrangements for Sunday-school rooms, boys’ and girls’ club rooms, gymnasium, etc.; and several other plans deal with parish houses or community buildings.” (Springf’d Republican) The Federal council’s commission on church and country life has indorsed Dr Brunner’s volume.

+ =Ind= 91:345 S 1 ‘17 40w

“While the volume is meant for country churches, it has much of value for town and city parishes.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 8 ‘17 350w

“It is not a technical book, but it should be valuable to the architect, though it is written for the country minister, the country layman and the rural social worker. The sketches and plans by James Grunert are most suggestive. Particularly interesting is the section by Mrs Brunner upon the kitchen.” S.

+ =Survey= 38:574 S 29 ‘17 200w

=BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS.= Heart to heart appeals. il *$1 Revell 308 17-12620

“These selections from the Bryan speeches and writings are varied and all-embracing. The topics include Government, Imperialism, Equal suffrage, The liquor question, Peace, Ideals, Labor, Trusts, and many more.”—Boston Transcript

“As one glances through the pages of this book it is bound to embody merely the fond and lingering memories of a man whose talents and political efforts have largely spelled failure.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 450w

Reviewed by H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 63:445 N 3 ‘17 580w

“They afford many glimpses of history, with side-lights revealing a personality widely recognized as dominant and picturesque.”

+ =Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:88 Je ‘17 6w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 100w

=BRYANT, MRS LORINDA (MUNSON).= American pictures and their painters. il *$3 (4c) Lane 759.1 17-16076

This work “is designed to provide a working basis for the appreciation of American art. To accomplish this I have attempted especially to trace the careers of the leaders in their respective eras—artists who even now are modern old masters. ... Naturally it is too early as yet to judge the younger artists correctly, consequently only a limited number are here represented; those are included who indicate the trend of thought in art to-day.” (Introd.) Beginning with a chapter on West, Copley, Peale and Trumbull, the author traces American painting down to the present day, closing with a chapter on Ultra-modern art. The book is illustrated with over 200 reproductions of paintings.

=A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17

“The author has been responsible for a series of quite a half-dozen books embodying various phases of this subject, all of which have found readers. ... The work is broad and comprehensive, and the many illustrations are equally so, and add greatly to the interest of the work.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 420w

“The author’s appreciations are characterized by both fairness and interest. The 230 illustrations are chosen with discrimination.”

+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w

“The illustrations afford only a fair idea of the pictures, for it must be confest that they are somewhat flat and leave much to the imagination.”

+ — =Lit D= 55:43 D 1 ‘17 300w

+ =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 40w

“The text is delightfully written, with just enough chattiness to lift it out of the ruts of guide-books. One welcomes the chapter on ultra-modern art, inasmuch as upon the spirit of unrest manifest in it largely depends our artistic progress.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:219 Ag ‘17 100w

“One studies the volume rather hopelessly in the search of the key to the sequence of names. The pictures are so good that they might stand as the raison d’etre of the volume with the letterpress added as commentary.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 13 ‘17 350w

=BRYCE, MRS CHARLES.= Long spoon. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-23341

The title of this book is taken from the old proverb, “He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.” The scene is laid in Wales. The heroine, Thirza, has married Sir Hugo Averill as a means of support, only to discover that he is a brute with a partially unbalanced brain. Two men fall in love with Lady Averill: George Blount, who has rented Sir Hugo’s fishing, and Oswald Gerrard, Sir Hugo’s land agent. The story goes on to tell how Lady Averill resorts to necromancy to solve her difficulties, and what comes of it all in the end.

“Terse and full of action and sustained interest. ... To introduce necromancy in a novel is daring and difficult, for if the subject is not treated with great tact it so easily distorts and cheapens. Mrs Bryce has done her work cleverly.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 160w

=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount.= Some historical reflections on war, past and present. *1s Oxford 172.4

These essays are portions of two presidential addresses delivered to the British academy, June, 1915 and July, 1916. “Among the topics considered are the vast range and extent of the war, its immense influence upon neutral nations, the changes in the methods of war, the cost, the moral issues raised, the effect in each nation upon the whole body of the people, ... the shock given to the rules of international law, the chief causes of war in the past, the question whether international machinery can be contrived ‘calculated to reduce the strength of the forces that make for war and to strengthen those that make for peace.’ He indicates some of the difficulties to be surmounted, but believes that there is much to be hoped from the creation of ... an international mind, and of an international public opinion.” (Ath)

=Ath= p33 Ja ‘17 280w

“Lord Bryce’s two presidential addresses are deliberately written in a spirit of detachment. ... The second address contains some acute criticisms upon plans for a federation, or league of nations.” M. J.

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:538 Jl ‘17 110w

=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount.= Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman empire, 1915-1916; documents presented to Viscount Grey. *$1 Putnam 956 17-2893

“The collection is made from a great variety of reliable sources including American consuls and missionaries, German travelers and missionaries, Danish Red cross workers, Swiss visitors, native teachers, pastors and other religious leaders. It is a terrible mass of conclusive evidence pointing to the perpetration of the foulest crime ever committed against a defenseless people.”—Ind

=A L A Bkl= 13:393 Je ‘17

=Ind= 90:437 Je 2 ‘17 200w

“If the reader is sickened by the dreadful reiteration of horrors, of torture and murder and mutilation, of outrage and burning, of the sufferings of starving women forced to march on under a blazing sun when the pains of labour were on them, let him not fail to read Mr Toynbee’s admirable historical retrospect of Armenia and his review of the antecedents and procedure of the deportation policy.”

=Spec= 118:105 Ja 27 ‘17 2100w

=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount, and others.= Proposals for the prevention of future wars. *1s Allen & Unwin, London 341.1 (Eng ed 17-22062)

“This is a draft scheme for an international alliance to keep the peace. It differs from the League of nations society’s programme in not asking the Allies to enforce an arbitrator’s award, and from the programme of the American League to enforce peace in requiring the Allies to deal with aggression by a non-Ally as well as by one of their number.”—Spec

=Ath= p303 Je ‘17 90w

=Int J Ethics= 28:288 Ja ‘18 110w

=Spec= 118:705 Je 23 ‘17 60w

“The proposals are reasonably modest and admittedly deal only with a part of the problem. They are concerned only with international disputes and with the means of preventing international wars. ... They are sound enough so far as they go, but the motor will not move without its petrol; and it is the spirit which is difficult to obtain.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p313 Jl 5 ‘17 2300w

=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount, and others.= War of democracy. *$2 (2c) Doubleday 940.91 17-8205

A collection of papers on the war from the standpoint of the Allies. Lord Bryce in his introduction says: “The present war differs from all that have gone before it not only in its vast scale and in the volume of misery it has brought upon the world, but also in the fact that it is a war of principles, and a war in which the permanent interests, not merely of the belligerent powers but of all nations, are involved as such interests were never involved before. ... This war of principles is a war not only for the vindication of international right, for the faith of treaties, for the protection of the innocent, but also for liberty.” Among those who contribute to the book are: Lord Haldane, Gilbert Murray, Arthur J. Balfour, G. M. Trevelyan, Viscount Grey of Falloden (Sir Edward Grey), and M. Maurice Barrès.

“Mr Balfour’s discussion of naval questions comes no nearer to our time than the summer of 1915, and this fact suggests the most obvious comment upon this whole volume. It is not keyed to the present moment. It meets no present vital need. The volume entitled ‘The war and democracy,’ which Messrs Seton-Watson, Wilson, Zimmern, and Greenwood published in 1915, is incomparably superior to this one.” C. H. Levermore

– + =Am Hist R= 23:170 O ‘17 470w

“A notable collection of articles, addresses, interviews, and documents.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:348 My ‘17

“Mr Fisher’s discussion of the value of small states is an historical analysis of permanent importance. ... The temper of the book is admirable in its moderation and its calm common sense. It is greatly to be hoped that this collection is only the first of a series which will winnow from the immense mass of pamphlets some, at any rate, of those which have more than a momentary importance.” H. J. Laski

+ =Dial= 62:473 My 31 ‘17 170w

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 70w

“‘The war of democracy’ was written for American consumption and was put together with the avowed purpose of influencing American opinion. As America made up its mind definitively at the very hour of the book’s publication, many of the articles, addresses, and interviews so carefully selected by the editor are rather belated. A few of the articles, however, are of permanent value.”

+ — =Nation= 105:227 Ag 30 ‘17 300w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17

“Perhaps the article which most needs to be read by Americans is the one on ‘Economic Germany,’ in which Henri Hauser discusses German industry as a factor making for war. For he lays bare developments, conditions, purposes that are as much a menace to the harmony and well-being of the world as is Prussian militarism.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:45 F 11 ‘17 650w

“Includes some of the great speeches of the war period.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:114 My ‘17 30w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:427 My ‘17 60w

+ =Pratt= p43 O ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 70w

=St Louis= 15:106 Ap ‘17

=BUBNOFF, I. V.= Co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance, and character. il $1.25 M. Fainberg, 309 Broadway, N.Y. (Co-operative printing society, Manchester, England) 334 17-30589

The author shows that cooperation has gained a firm footing among the Russian peasantry, and that the European war has given a prodigious stimulus to the movement. He begins with a sketch of agriculture from the abolition of serfdom in 1861, and tells of the help furnished the peasants by the zemstvos and by agricultural societies, whose work is mainly instructional while economic functions are discharged by the artels for production, consumers’ societies for distribution, and credit banks for finance. Consumers’ societies, we are told, between 1905 and 1917 have multiplied from 1,000 to 20,000 and credit and loan associations from 1,434 to 16,057.

“The book evidently contains authentic matter prepared by one thoroughly familiar with the subject at first hand.” Herman Kobbe

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 180w

=Spec= 118:64 Jl 21 ‘17 70w

“Mr Bubnoff says nothing about the political or industrial side, but his account of the cooperative movement reveals so much capacity for organization, self-help, and practical action among the peasantry and industrial classes of Russia that current events become much more intelligible in the light of it. ... His book is a compact statement of facts with sufficient explanatory comment to make clear the character of cooperation in Russia and its various ramifications. It is a valuable addition to the library of cooperative literature.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p291 Je 21 ‘17 950w

=BUCHAN, JOHN.= Battle of the Somme. il *$1.50 (2c) Doran (1s Nelson, London) 940.91 17-14221

The main purpose of the allied forces at the Somme, says the author, was “to exercise a steady and continued pressure on a certain section of the enemy’s front.” Subsidiary aims were to ease the pressure on Verdun and to prevent the transference of large bodies of German troops from the western to the eastern front. He gives a somewhat detailed account of the entire campaign, dividing it into four stages. The book is illustrated and well supplied with maps.

“Contains two appendixes: 1, Sir Douglas Haig’s second dispatch; 2, General Sixt von Armin’s report.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:442 Jl ‘17

“A most lucid and instructive account with not a few fine touches; it is also marked by the admirable balance that places Mr Buchan above most war historians and chroniclers of these days.”

+ =Ath= p600 D ‘16 33w

“Mr Buchan’s book is a recital of the field moves of an army all told in a calm, clear way and without passion. Then at intervals it gathers up its momentum of dispassion, its inertia of facts, and in some supreme and succinct statement of fact carries the reader to a conclusion that creates emotion. It is his reticence that gives one additional confidence in the sequence of his facts.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 550w

“His style is simple narrative with the accent of true English restraint.”

+ =New Repub= 13:224 D 22 ‘17 270w

+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 220w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w

+ =R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 90w

“Written with the fervour and simple straight patriotism we expect from Mr Buchan. ... Here is the right blend of emotion and of sturdy common sense.”

+ + =Sat R= 122:556 D 9 ‘16 100w

“Its main concern is to give a semitechnical account, which he succeeds admirably in doing, thanks in great measure to the ample number of maps with which the book is supplied, and which appear at sufficiently frequent intervals to make the text entirely comprehensible. ... Mr Buchan’s qualifications for his task are attested by his recent appointment as director of publicity in Great Britain.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 450w

“This is a timely narrative, very well illustrated.”

+ + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p562 N 23 ‘16 20w

=BUCHAN, JOHN.= Greenmantle. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-20424

Richard Hannay, hero of the author’s first novel, “The thirty-nine steps,” is made the central figure in this war story. Hannay, who has been made a major in England’s new army, is summoned to the foreign office and entrusted with an important mission. He is to investigate the sources of a “jehad” (holy war) said to be organizing in the East. With three companions he gets into Germany, and out again. He then goes to Constantinople, and there finds what he is seeking, the woman who is the chief agent in fomenting rebellion in India.

“An absorbing adventure story, not a series of ‘movie’ thrills but clean cut, sustained excitement.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:314 Ap ‘17

“Mr Buchan has given us another novel, not only of vivid interest, but one which visualizes certain phases of the world war as only a book of its kind can.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 F 24 ‘17 300w

“Although (or perhaps because) it is not a realistic war story, the book is a great favorite with convalescent readers at the base hospitals, and the fact that the author wrote it while in active service accounts for the vividness of some of its details.”

+ =Cleveland= p63 My ‘17 90w

“There is no instruction in the book. ... You will just be thrilled—as Cooper thrilled you with his Mohicans and Dumas with his Musketeers. You will arise refreshed from the contemplation of great exploits greatly performed. And next day’s business will seem the brighter because for one short evening you have held commune with the impossible.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 11:60 My 12 ‘17 950w

“A story full of spirit and swing and high heroism. It is very much better than either of its author’s two previous novels, successful and interesting as were both those books.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:75 Mr 4 ‘17 450w

“This is the longest of the sensational romances that Mr Buchan has given us since the outbreak of the war. It is also the most exciting and in our opinion the best.”

+ =Spec= 117:555 N 4 ‘16 850w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p512 O 26 ‘16 500w

=BUCHAN, JOHN.=[2] Nelson’s history of the war; with preface by the Earl of Rosebery. v 14-17 maps ea *60c Nelson 940.91 (War15-86)

Volumes 1 to 13 were published in 1916. In volume 14 Mr Buchan “begins with General Townshend’s surrender, writes of the war in the Levant, of the Russian front, of the battle of Jutland, of Italy’s part, and ends on the second battle of Verdun.” (N Y Times) Volume 15 deals with Brussilov’s offensive and the intervention of Rumania. “The sixteenth volume is devoted entirely to the battle of the Somme. That great achievement is described in five chapters, the first of which is concerned with preliminaries. The appendixes contain Sir Douglas Haig’s second dispatch, and General Sixt von Armin’s report describing experiences of the 4th German corps during July, 1916.” (Ath) “The two main episodes of the seventeenth instalment are the brilliant opening and the disastrous sequel of Roumania’s campaign, and the heroic advance of the French at Verdun.” (Ath)

“Mr Buchan’s account of the great sea-fight is a masterpiece of clear and sober narrative.”

+ =Ath= p551 N ‘16 200w (Review of v 14)

+ =Ath= p316 Je ‘17 70w (Review of v 16)

“Lieut.-Col. Buchan continues, with the same mastery of detail and incisive style, to convert yesterday’s news into intelligible history. It would facilitate reference if the year, as well as the month and day, of the event recorded were printed oftener in the margin.”

+ — =Ath= p531 O ‘17 180w (Review of v 17)

“He handles the intricacies of the Balkans with the same quiet clearness that marks his treatment of the attacks on Verdun.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:18 Ja 21 ‘17 90w (Review of v 14)

“The most striking portion of the work is the lucid account of the battle of Jutland, which is described with an exemplary grasp of essentials. There are several diagrams.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 23 ‘17 (Review of v 14)

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p419 Ag 30 ‘17 100w (Review of v 17)

=BUCHAN, JOHN.= Salute to adventurers. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-26974

Altho the story opens in Scotland, its scene changes shortly to Virginia. Young Andrew Garvald goes out to the colonies to engage in trade. His business takes him far away from Jamestown and the tidewater, back into the interior of the country, where he learns more of true conditions than the governor or the young gallants of his train will believe. The sudden outbreak of the Indians does not come to him without warning, and because of this he is able to rescue Elspeth Blair and win the reward of which he had dreamed ever since his first meeting with the girl in Scotland years before.

“Good of its type, but not as good as ‘Greenmantle.’”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18

“It is a colorful tale, this, with plenty of action and ingenuity and interest, but it does not rank for a moment with ‘Greenmantle,’ either in its characters, its setting, or its plot.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 550w

“With its strong Scotch flavor and its tang of hazardous events, the book smacks strongly of Stevenson. ... Unfortunately, Mr Buchan is open to the criticism of which most prolific writers are deserving. His historical facts and background are not accurate. ... But, after all, the story’s the thing, and inaccuracies of this sort are unimportant in so gripping and adventurous a yarn.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 600w

=BUCHANAN, FLORENCE.= Home crafts of today and yesterday. (Harper’s home economics) il *$1 (2½c) Harper 640 17-16903

The author is instructor in handwork in the School of household science and arts, Pratt institute, Brooklyn. “The woman who longs to try something new but feels a bit vague about beginning will find [here] the what, the where, and the how for a variety of crafts. Emphasis is placed on the start rather than on detailing the technical processes, but enough of the latter is always given along with explanatory diagrams to guide a beginner through the piece of work.” (Preface) Linen, chair-caning, basket-planning, dyeing materials for and making rugs, weaving, painting and batik dyeing are among the subjects considered.

=A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17

“Practical book for the home keeper who wishes suggestions for many kinds of handiwork.”

+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 30w

=N Y Times= 22:521 D 2 ‘17 50w

=Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:365 O ‘17 10w

=BUCHANAN, JOHN YOUNG.= Comptes rendus of observation and reasoning. il *$2.25 Putnam 504 (Eng ed 17-18064)

A collection of scientific papers. The author says, “As the title of this volume indicates, the book consists of ‘accounts rendered’ of work done at different times, in different places and on different subjects.” Among the subjects with dates of first publication are: Recent Antarctic exploration (1906); On ice and brines (1887); On steam and brines (1899); The size of the ice-grains in glaciers (1901); Ice and its natural history (1909); On the use of the globe in the study of crystallography (1895); Solar radiation (1901). Some of these are republished from the Proceedings of the Royal society, others from magazines and newspapers.

“Mr Buchanan is a believer in original research in the full significance of the words, including originality in methods and point of view, as well as in the subject dealt with. Unlike his former volume of collected oceanographical papers, this collection consists of a selection on many subjects, scientific and popular, several reproduced from the pages of Nature. ... The memoirs themselves form solid and informing reading for students; but they are rendered entertaining by the extraordinarily copious analytical table of contents, which occupies thirty pages.” H. R. M.

+ =Nature= 99:142 Ap 19 ‘17 800w

“A prospective reader who opens this book at the beginning will find a rather dull account of Antarctic exploration as it stood in 1905, with a reprint of chemical and physical notes for the use of explorers, which, however important for their particular purpose, are likely to bore the layman. If he then turns impatiently to the end, he will find some elementary remarks on such fundamental topics as the ‘power of Great Britain’ or the ‘House of commons,’ and he may then lay the book aside. But if he has the good luck to open it in the middle, he will probably turn over a good many pages with pleasure and profit; for Mr Buchanan has some interesting and important things to say on a fascinating topic, which makes it the more aggravating that they are presented in so unnecessarily unattractive a guise.”

+ — =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p173 Ap 12 ‘17 900w

=BUCK, ALBERT HENRY.= Growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800. il *$5 Yale univ. press 610.9 17-5568

“As Dr Buck has chronicled them, there are nine periods in the history of medicine. They are: Primitive medicine to be reckoned by thousands of years; the medicine of the East by which we possess only a fragmentary knowledge; the medicine of the classical period of antiquity; that of the Hippocratic writings which in Greece was the most flourishing period; the period during which the greatest intellectual activity was at Alexandria, Egypt; the medicine of Galen whose searching profoundly influenced the thought and practice of one whole civilized world of medicine up to our seventeenth century; the medicine of the middle ages; the medicine of the renaissance which brought adoption of dissection, the only effective method of studying anatomy; and modern medicine, in two periods, the first to about 1775. The second Dr Buck does not attempt to cover.” (Boston Transcript) “The author is consulting aural surgeon of the New York eye and ear infirmary.” (St Louis)

“Especially interesting are the chapters on Oriental medicine, The Arab renaissance, and The advance of surgery during medieval times.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:432 Jl ‘17 (Reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association 68:1650 Je ‘17)

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 1500w

“The book is not intended for the student of medical history, but for the physician who wishes to become acquainted with the essential phases of that earlier medicine upon which his own theory and practice had been built.”

+ =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 220w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:72 My ‘17

“Not overburdened with detail, but presents the important facts in an attractive manner.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:817 D ‘17 10w

=St Louis= 15:142 My ‘17 10w

“Throughout the volume the reader is impressed by the clearness of Prof. Buck’s expression and by the overwhelming mass of facts that have been interestingly assembled.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 1550w

“An interesting and thought-provoking volume is this, when the material might easily have been treated as technical and specialized. The history has a social message and this not for the doctor only, but for every one who watches with interest all progress of matters medical.” G. S.

+ =Survey= 39:327 D 15 ‘17 450w

“Dr Buck claims nothing which is not his own, and credit to authorities is honestly and fairly rendered, wherever due, without the encumbrance of footnotes. The book is printed in beautiful style.” F. H. Garrison

+ =Yale R= n s 7:205 O ‘17 1050w

=BUCKROSE, J. E., pseud. (MRS ANNIE EDITH [FOSTER] JAMESON=). Matchmakers. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 16-21706

Peggy, daughter of the rector of Little Pendleton, is the heroine of this story of English village life. Little Pendleton doesn’t always approve of Peggy, but it has her best interests at heart and wants above all to see her make a good match. All the village stands back of the squire in his wooing, but Peggy takes the matter into her own hands, and altho the village is flouted in its aims it isn’t crestfallen. It turns squarely about and takes credit to itself for the success of Peggy’s marriage with young Charley Tremaine. Peggy’s father, the impractical rector, is made a very lovable figure, and the whole story is told with quiet humor.

=A L A Bkl= 13:266 Mr ‘17

+ =Ath= p479 O ‘16 60w

“Our greatest quarrel with the story lies in the arbitrary way in which the author has surmounted her difficulties in the end. It quite offends our sense of good story telling that with a good situation, instead of finding a way out of it, she should so arbitrarily go around it.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 450w

+ =N Y Times= 22:47 F 11 ‘17 300w

+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 30w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 250w

“A genial, placid portrayal of village life which never excites, but equally never bores and never offends.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p466 S 28 ‘16 70w

=BULLARD, ARTHUR.= Mobilising America. *50c (2½c) Macmillan 355.7 17-10363

The author, having spent much time in France and England during the war, had begun to collect data for a book on “How democracies mobilise.” Some of the main points on the subject are summarised in this small book. He says, “I am not considering the ethics of war, nor the advisability of our participation in the present struggle. I accept the fact that we have decided to fight and I try to show how the experiences of other democracies can teach us the way to do it efficiently.” (Preface) Contents: America goes to war; Democracies as fighting machines; The mobilisation of public opinion; The mobilisation of industry; The mobilisation of men; A programme.

“His book has the endorsement of a long list of prominent editors and authors, and of the conference committee of national preparedness.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:427 Jl ‘17

“This is a tiny volume, but it is worth the intelligent perusal of every American citizen. It is sane, thoughtful and constructive. It would be of particular value in any course in government given at our American colleges.” D. F. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 370w

+ =Cleveland= p77 Je ‘17 50w

+ =Ind= 90:185 Ap 21 ‘17 30w

“One can only hope that the sanity and helpfulness of Mr Bullard’s fertile suggestions will not be lost in the maze of Washington officialdom.” H. S.

+ =New Repub= 11:166 Je 9 ‘17 950w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:90 Je ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:130 Ap 8 ‘17 830w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 10 ‘17 500w

“Offers many of the practical suggestions which have since come from the visiting French and English commissions as how best to mobilize and conduct the war.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:182 Je ‘17 50w

=BULLITT, MRS ERNESTA DRINKER.= Uncensored diary; from the central empires. *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 940.91 17-10878

A diary written, the author says, for her great grandchildren, not for publication. She was in Germany with her husband, a newspaper correspondent, in the summer of 1916. A short trip to Belgium and one into Austria-Hungary are recorded in the diary, but it is concerned for the most part with her experiences in Germany. It forms one of the very small number of books which tell us anything of what is going on within the German empire. Informal interviews and conversations with important officials, among them Von Bissing and Zimmermann, are reported, but of no less interest are the accounts of what German women are doing. The book also throws some light on the methods by which Germany is attempting to conserve her child life during war.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:394 Je ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 680w

+ =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 70w

“The book is markedly good on two counts: It is written with freshness, with cleverness and wholesomeness and real personal charm; and it has things of actual interest and importance to say.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:159 Ap 22 ‘17 350w

=Outlook= 116:75 My 9 ‘17 190w

=Pittsburgh= 22:528 Je ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 80w

=BULLOCK, EDNA DEAN=, comp. Selected articles on single tax; 2d ed., rev. and enl. by Julia E. Johnsen. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 336.2 18-397

“Since the first publication of the Single tax handbook a fairly large bibliography on the subject has become available, references to which are included in this revised edition. The handbook is brought down to date by the inclusion of late reprints in the concluding pages, and by a revision and enlargement of the bibliography and brief.” (Explanatory note) The first edition, compiled by Edna D. Bullock, was published in 1914. The second edition has been prepared by Julia E. Johnsen.

=BÜLOW, BERNHARD HEINRICH MARTIN KARL, fürst von.= Imperial Germany; tr. by Marie A. Lewenz. new and rev ed il *$2 (2c) Dodd 943 (17-5549)

This book was first published in Germany as a section in an important general work compiled to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of the Emperor William II. A revised edition was separately published in Germany in 1916. The first edition in English was reviewed in the Digest for 1914. “More than one-half of the letterpress of the original volume has been re-written, ... and the new passages are indicated by brackets. The introduction by Prince Bülow is entirely new, and so are the two chapters on Militarism and the chapter on the Social Democrats, and the latter part of the Conclusion.” (Publishers’ note) An illuminating foreword of twenty-eight pages is by J. W. Headlam, who speaks of the book as “largely a defence and apology of von Bülow’s own action during the years he had held office (1897-1909), and an exposition of the principles by which he had been guided.”

“One dollar cheaper than the first edition (Booklist 10:384 Je ‘14).”

=A L A Bkl= 13:456 Jl ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 700w

“It is admirably translated. ... Written as it is by one who, with the single exception of the German emperor, is more responsible than any other man for the present catastrophe, it is little less than a public duty for everyone who wishes adequately to understand the present situation to read it. ... Prince Bülow’s whole conception of international relations is based upon the terrible chimera of the balance of power, and he obviously considers concerted European action of any kind a fantastic dream. ... Such was the attitude of Prince Bülow in 1913. The tragedy of this new edition is the fact that not even the terrible experience of the last three years has led him to modify a single conclusion.” H. J. Laski

+ =Dial= 63:16 Je 28 ‘17 1050w

=New Repub= 12:83 Ag 18 ‘17 160w

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Yale R= n s 6:892 Jl ‘17 200w

=BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER.= Poems of H. C. Bunner. new ed il *$2 Scribner 811 17-24881

H. C. Bunner, former editor of Puck, died in 1896. Lately there has arisen a steady demand for his writings, which resulted in the publication, about a year ago, of a new edition of his stories, now followed by his collected poems. “In the present volume are included the contents of the two books of verse he published during his lifetime, ‘Airs from Arcady’ in 1884, and ‘Rowen’ in 1892, and also a selection from the ‘Ballads of the town’ (which he had been contributing to Puck for half-a-dozen years), together with a few of his later lyrics and the ... lines read before the Army of the Potomac at New London in 1895.” (Introd.)

“‘It is perhaps as a poet,’ writes Brander Matthews in his introduction to this edition, ‘that the author of “Airs from Arcady” is likely longest to be remembered; it is as a poet that he would have chosen to be cherished in men’s memories.’ And his verse met with the same good fortune that befell his fiction; it pleased both the critical and the uncritical. ... Bunner’s name stands for the light, delicate and whimsical. His work in prose and verse is alike beloved for its charm. ... Among the more serious poems is one, ‘Bismarck soliloquizes,’ which is a most fitting expression of men’s thoughts today; indeed, nothing more vigorous and condemning has been written by any contemporary poet on the iniquitous system of German autocracy than this poem of Bunner’s—written a quarter of a century ago.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 13 ‘17 1450w

“Great metrical accomplishment is in these poems. There is such variety in the themes as would be expected of the poet who is also a journalist. Invention often flies on humor’s wing. ... It is a happy sign that the present hour is willing to turn back for inspiration and fine and perfect examples of the lighter lyrical art to the day before yesterday.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 18 ‘17 650w

=BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER.= Stories. 2v il ea *$1.35 (2c) Scribner

v 1 17-13500 v 2 A17-392

Two volumes of the stories of H. C. Bunner were published last year. The addition of two more volumes makes complete a collection of his stories in four books of uniform make-up. The first of the new volumes contains “Short sixes” and The suburban sage; the second, More “Short sixes” and The runaway Browns.

“Good paper and binding, and wide margins.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:361 My ‘17

+ =Nation= 104:346 Mr 22 ‘17 330w

“All these gently satirical tales and the purely humorous ones are more worth while, incidentally, as mirrors of the past, but first and foremost as good short stories.” Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 91:584 F 17 ‘17 500w

=BURBANK, EMILY.= Woman as decoration. il *$2.50 (6½c) Dodd 391 17-29164

A book on costume, illustrated with thirty-three plates. The foreword says that the book is intended as a sequel to “The art of interior decoration,” by Grace Wood and Emily Burbank. “Having assisted in setting the stage for woman, the next logical step is the consideration of woman herself, as an important factor in the decorative scheme of any setting,—the vital spark to animate all interior decoration, private or public. ... Contemporary woman’s costume is considered, not as fashion, but as decorative line and colour.” (Foreword) The book has been planned also to meet the demand for a handbook on costuming for fancy dress balls, etc. The scope of the illustrations ranges from studies of Greek vases to portraits of Mrs Vernon Castle.

“It expounds no philosophy of clothes—it is technical rather than philosophic—and it has no claim to being regarded as ‘literature’; and yet one feels that it should be recommended. It teaches the art of using an old weapon in a new cause.”

+ — =Dial= 63:530 N 22 ‘17 190w

=Nation= 105:612 N 29 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:182 D ‘17 90w

=BURGESS, GELETT.= Mrs Hope’s husband. il *$1 (4c) Century 17-23049

When Mrs Hope became a well-known novelist and was sought out by many clever people, her husband, an able lawyer, ceased to interest her. He regained her love and his own self-respect by courting her a second time, through letters, under an assumed name. The story is being dramatized by a well-known playwright.

=A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

“A delightfully humorous comedy of manners and character.”

+ =Dial= 63:282 S 27 ‘17 100w

“High-class comedy, graceful, skillful, entertaining, and always clever. Its skillfulness is especially manifest in the artful legerdemain with which the author probes into the deeps of the human soul without seeming to be doing more than skimming over its surface.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 550w

“Mr Burgess’s humor and satire are delightfully keen; but apart from this he tells a dramatic little tale that provokes a lively sympathy and interest throughout.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 250w

=BURKE, EDWARD.= My wife. *$1.50 Dutton 17-23980

This book is the “autobiography of a middle-aged man. Although outsiders show a full appreciation of his wife’s looks and good qualities, he imagines that he cherishes a romantic passion for a flame of his boyhood, till the lady in question reappears on the scene after twenty years, and he finds himself disillusioned concerning her.”—Ath

“Clever and amusing.”

+ =Ath= p479 O ‘16 80w

“Mr Burke’s feeling for character is almost, if not wholly, as noteworthy as is his quality of humor in the handling of it.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1200w

=Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 60w

“Mr Burke has turned out a humorous little story that makes excellent reading. Despite its war atmosphere, it is done in the spirit that ‘while the big things crash around us, the lives of those of us who are out of it go on much the same.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:372 S 30 ‘17 250w

=BURKE, THOMAS.= Limehouse nights. *$1.50 (3c) McBride 17-22292

“Limehouse, that district down by the West and East India docks, is not a pleasant part of London, and there is nothing pleasant about any one of the fourteen stories in this volume, each of which has its scene laid in that region. Most of them are grim tales, tales of cruelty, bestiality, horror, and fear.” (N Y Times) Contents: The Chink and the child; The father of Yoto; Gracie Goodnight; The paw; The cue; Beryl, the Croucher and the rest of England; The sign of the lamp; Tai Fu and Pansy Greers; The bird; Gina of the Chinatown; The knight-errant; The gorilla and the girl; Ding-Dong-Dell; Old Joe.

“One of the most frankly and brutally realistic books that has appeared in our tongue in a long time. ... But such a description does not convey the whole truth. The fact is that Burke has cast a glamour over his pages that prevents his stories from being merely studies in the sordid and the morbid. He has seen things with sharp vision and he has etched them just as clearly. But somehow also he makes you feel that he has viewed life with pity and tenderness and loving comprehension.” Milton Bronner

+ =Bookm= 46:15 S ‘17 1750w

“Not pour les jeunes, these heart-rending stories of London’s Chinatown; but for the stalwart reader they are full of cleansing and noble pity and terror. ... Amid erotomaniacs, satyrs and sadists—and if the full meaning of those ghastly terms escapes you, be thankful—he seizes scraps of splendid courage, beauty and pathos. The poor little gifts of those eastern pavements are the undying memory of his book. ... If you dare to face the human heart as it really is, do not miss ‘Limehouse nights.’” C. D. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 1150w

“Mr Burke’s passing repute comes from the tales of terror which the libraries were compelled to bar from their shelves; but to those who have some respect for the English tongue and for whom Walter Pater has not lived in vain, Mr Burke will always possess an attraction because he has written well his slight sketches of London life. ... These ‘Limehouse nights’ appeared in three of the most interesting periodicals of England: the English Review, Colour, and the New Witness.” G. V. Seldes

* + =Dial= 63:65 Jl 19 ‘17 2500w

“He has made a new sensation in war-time England, avid of spicy diversions. Mr Bennett has praised his book, Mr Wells has lauded its ‘romantic force and beauty.’ ... There is no fresh note of inspiration here; at best, there is a fresh trick.”

– + =Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 280w

“The stories are well told, and have their full share of that curious fascination which so often goes hand in hand with horror. And here and there comes a touch of beauty, a glimpse of real love, like a flower growing from a cranny in the rocks. ... ‘The paw’ [is] an intensely painful tale of a tortured child—almost too painful to read. ... Perhaps the best of all the tales in the volume, however, is ‘The bird,’ a powerful imaginative story, as grim and as brutal and as hideous as its fellows, but with a certain artistic quality which lifts it above them.”

=N Y Times= 22:303 Ag 19 ‘17 500w

“Taken as a whole, it is one of the books that would better not have been written.”

– + =Outlook= 117:64 S 12 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:748 N ‘17 60w

“The material was so unique that we quarrel with Mr Burke’s misuse of it. In place of the steady, equalized light which he should have thrown on that pestiferous spot off the West India Dock-road, he has been content for the most part with flashes of limelight and fireworks. ... ‘The paw’ is not a story, but a piece of brutal, horrifying, useless writing.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p464 S 28 ‘16 750w

=BURLEIGH, LOUISE.= Community theatre in theory and practice. il *$1.50 (4½c) Little 792 17-25292

A valuable book for students of modern drama which breathes the spirit of the new democracy. The writer in her first chapter quotes a statement of J. R. Seeley’s, “Three ties by which states are held together are community of race, community of religion, and community of interest.” In the course of a thoughtful examination she shows that in America today we have no community of either race or religion. She concludes that “for a unifying force we must find a living expression of a great common ideal: we must depend upon a community of interest: we must find an institution in which great and small can find expression.” The eleven chapters that follow enlarge upon the fitness of the community theatre to perform the desired service and the practical success so far achieved. Mr Percy MacKaye contributes a prefatory letter.

=A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17

“‘The community theatre’ treats the drama earnestly and endearingly, though somewhat scrappily, from the point of view of its social qualities and the emotional needs of the community.” Algernon Tassin

+ — =Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 130w

=Pittsburgh= 22:806 D ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 130w

“Miss Burleigh has produced a rather dull work about an intrinsically keen subject. She fails to recognize the necessary spontaneity of the movement. But her earnestness and enthusiasm cannot fail to win the reader’s own sympathy.”

+ – =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 25 ‘17 1100w

=BURNET, JOHN.= Higher education and the war. *$1.50 Macmillan 378 (Eng ed 17-18365)

“In his ‘Higher education and the war’ Prof. John Burnet, now dean of the faculty of arts in the University of St Andrews, deals primarily with the conditions of education in Scotland, but his observations bear none the less on his own university, Oxford, and indeed on our American institutions, to which he makes frequent reference.” (Nation) “He states that most of his criticisms were published in 1913 and ‘are not, therefore, unduly influenced by the war.’ That they have been somewhat influenced thereby is thus admitted; this is the chief way the war comes in, for the work is mainly an appreciative account of the German system of higher education. As such it will be useful if only to show those people who are ignorant of the fact ... that this system is more completely based on the ‘humanities’ than that of any other country.” (Nature)

“The work of a master in small compass. Written with a delightful limpidity, in a spirit at once shrewd and idealistic, it is full of real knowledge and wise comment as to the working of higher education, not only in England and Scotland, but in Germany, in France, and in the United States.”

+ =Ath= p296 Je ‘17 1000w

“An important work for educators. ... The first chapter, on German kultur, should be interesting to many who are not concerned with higher education.”

+ =Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 40w

“This is a most thorough, sane, and scientific piece of work. ... This is the best work on education we have seen for a long time.” P. J.

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:289 Ja ‘18 100w

“Not the least valuable part of the treatise is the lucid description of the actual scheme of studies in the German higher schools and universities, and the impartial analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the system, with reference to the systems prevailing in Scotland and England. ... His arguments for the humanities, while neither narrow nor exaggerated, are extremely cogent.”

+ =Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 240w

“Like most other humanists, Prof. Burnet holds that an education based upon the acquisition of knowledge which is of no value in after life is more useful than one based on knowledge which is of permanent value. ... Prof. Burnet’s contentions are not without such discrepancies as are inseparable from the pursuit of a weak line of argument.” E. A. Schäfer

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“He shows a much more intimate knowledge of the details of the German system than do most writers. ... Perhaps the most valuable part of the book is to be found in the pages in which Professor Burnet shows that, however in appearance the Prussian gymnasium and other schools still continue on the old lines, the action of the Prussian state has really completely changed and warped the whole spirit.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p207 My 3 ‘17 2050w

=BURNETT, FRANCES (HODGSON) (MRS STEPHEN TOWNESEND).= White people. il *$1.20 (6c) Harper 17-5128

A little story that touches delicately on the supernatural and evidence of life after death. The heroine, who spends a lonely but happy childhood, in an old feudal castle in Scotland, has a gift of seeing things denied to others. She is grown up when she first learns that her “white people” are not visible to other eyes. To her, thru this power or gift, the dead are not dead, and because of this she is able to bring comfort to others. The story was published in Harper’s Magazine, December, 1916—January, 1917.

“Appeared in Harper’s Magazine.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17

“Mrs Burnett has not hitherto done anything with so sustained a note of simplicity and sincerity; moreover, she has here employed the brevity that is the test as well as the achievement of art. By this means she has accomplished that rare result, genuine pathos. The delicate, touching beauty of the one love scene, and of the closing chapter, is not paralleled in any of her former writings and is not surpassed by anything in recent fiction.”

+ =Cath World= 105:405 Je ‘17 250w

“Mrs Burnett’s transcendentalism will probably appeal more to ‘new thinkers’ and the like than to those whose fancies range less freely. In any case one may enjoy its consistent setting, in the purple Scotch Highlands, and the manner of the author’s narration.”

+ =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 140w

+ =Ind= 90:299 My 12 ‘17 40w

+ =Lit D= 54:1087 Ap 14 ‘17 170w

“Mrs Burnett is always a sentimentalist, but in this instance develops a difficult theme with a fair measure of restraint.”

+ =Nation= 104:369 Mr 29 ‘17 200w

“A story, so simple, so natural, so humanly normal and sweet, that it must hold the reader by its sheer lovely closeness to the realities of ordinary life. Its background is exquisitely beautiful. Its theme is mystical. ... This challenge to the fear of death is a simple story of life.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:53 F 18 ‘17 500w

+ =R of Rs= 55:554 My ‘17 140w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 220w

=BURNS, CECIL DELISLE.= Greek ideals; a study of social life. *$2 Macmillan (*5s G. Bell & sons, London) 938

“This book is mainly an attempt at an analysis of some Athenian ideals in the fifth century B. C. It is a brief, but lucid survey of Greek social life; of the Athenian religion; of the great festivals, such as the Anthesteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia, and Eleusinia; of the political ideals of Athens; of Greek moral standards; and of the ideals of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.”—Ath

=Ath= p313 Je ‘17 80w

“The chapter on Athenian religion is an illuminating piece of analysis. ... Mr Burns succeeds in making Greece live again, and this because he is alive himself. ... He is at his best in his criticism of Greek political thought.”

+ + — =Ath= p397 Ag ‘17 2000w

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:293 Ja ‘18 130w

“To one who is fairly familiar with Greek literature, and has read Mahaffy on Greek life and Frazer on ancient religions, the first part of the book offers nothing new. It has, indeed, the defect of being rather too diffuse for scholars while demanding a little too much from the reader unversed in Greek. ... With the eighth chapter the discussion acquires a keener interest and a surer appeal; for here a certain psychological acumen with which the author is rather unusually gifted comes strongly into play. The analysis of the Athenian thinker of ‘the old school’ is both just and humorously acute. ... In the main an excellent description and a somewhat penetrating analysis of Greek moral ideas, the book is occasionally marred by a certain looseness of statement.”

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“A discussion of Greek ideals, designed primarily for ordinary readers. It presupposes some acquaintance with Greek history and literature, but not necessarily a knowledge of the language. ... Mr Burns gives a lame excuse for his silence about the supreme artistic instinct of the Greeks. ... It is also a pity that he had not more space to deal with their religious contribution to the world’s inheritance. ... Further, he shows little sympathy with or understanding of Christian ideals, and is ready calmly to beg the most colossal questions. ... Then there are definite errors. ... Passages suggest that Mr Burns is not primarily a scholar, but a student of politics and morals in other fields who has interested himself in Greece. But they should not blind us to the merits of his book. He has covered much ground in a small compass. He is thoroughly alive himself, and treats Greece like the living force which it is. Most of what he says is indisputably true.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p292 Je 21 ‘17 1600w

=BURNS, ROBERT.= Sylvander and Clarinda; the love letters of Robert Burns and Agnes M’Lehose; ed. by Amelia J. Burr. il *$1.50 Doran 17-29797

A woman, shorn of illusions by a worthless husband, her brilliancy grown hard in the process, looks around for a lover “who will offer his passionate devotions at her shrine in the decent name of friendship which shall offend none of her benevolent friends. ... She wants a guest who will accommodate himself to the cramped quarters of her heart and warm them with Promethean fire.” Burns is the man she chooses and this volume brings together their letters extending over many years. The curious satisfaction which many readers find in the bared intimacies of literary folk shrivels before the larger privilege offered here of getting at Burns’s daily life, of seeing at work the quality of genius that gave the world some of its most human poetry.

“To read these letters is to be in the midst of a highly entertaining literary achievement as well as to be witness to a lively exhibition of the greatest of human passions. It is a deep and moving affair while it lasts, but little insight is necessary to discern its transitoriness. ... It must not be imagined that Cupid is their sole hero. In fact, they plunge more than once deeply into the labyrinths of philosophy and religion.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ‘17 1700w

=Nation= 105:642 D 6 ‘17 40w

“The publishers deserve hearty thanks. The book is edited with care, knowledge, and sympathy, and furnished with an introduction that is an admirable biographical essay in itself.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:448 N 4 ‘17 800w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 500w

=BURR, AGNES RUSH.= Russell H. Conwell and his work; one man’s interpretation of life. auth ed il *$1.35 (1½c) Winston 17-5422

The subject of this biography is widely known as preacher, lecturer and teacher. His is one of those romantic, and essentially American stories of success won against odds. He began life on a rocky New England farm, worked his way thru college, served in the Civil war, prepared himself for the ministry and entered on a life of service that has brought a large measure of success. Dr Conwell’s famous lecture, “Acres of diamonds” is reprinted in an appendix.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:351 My ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 650w

“No other man in America, perhaps, has touched individually and helpfully so many lives as has Russell H. Conwell.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1710 Je 2 ‘17 170w

“The story will inspire many a seeker after education and opportunity, inspire many a servant of humanity and stir the flagging spirits of those who faint by the way. It is a mine of material for illustration, anecdote and quotation.” L. A. Walker

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 270w

+ =N Y Times= 22:533 D 2 ‘17 90w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17 10w

“As he is a sort of national institution, by virtue of his ubiquity on the lecture platform, the general public will be glad to know that an authorized biography has appeared.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 13 ‘17 520w

=BURROUGHS, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Fight for the future; with a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury. *1s Nisbet, London

“This is a collection of seven papers of diverse origin and for the most part spoken to audiences of various character. They do not, therefore, present a logical sequence of thought, and there are repetitions of ideas or phrases. But they have a unity of purpose, and it is rather helped than hindered by the emphasis of repetition. The purpose is partly to give some help towards understanding the religious significance of the war, and partly to urge the practical claims of a movement, influentially supported by the leaders of different religious bodies, called ‘The league of spiritual warfare.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

Reviewed by Bishop Frodsham

+ =Sat R= 122:sup3 O 14 ‘16 600w

“An Oxford churchman and scholar has in such a crisis as the present a very definite task before him; and Mr Burroughs is one of those who have done most to show the world what that task is.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 23 ‘16 1000w

=BURROUGHS, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Valley of decision. *$1.60 Longmans 940.91 17-15980

“The Rev. E. A. Burroughs, a thoroughgoing British patriot, presents what he calls ‘a plea for wholeness in thought and life.’ The author says the British people have been convicted through the lessons of the war of fragmentary and haphazard living, and stand in need of a philosophy of life. This philosophy he sees in the religion the British ‘have long professed and never yet practiced.’ His view is that the war has not disturbed the claims of Christ on the world, but has illustrated and reinforced them; all that remains to be done, he argues, is to acknowledge these claims and act accordingly.” N Y Times

=N Y Times= 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 100w

+ =Spec= 118:46 Ja 13 ‘17 1250w

“This is a man who has devoted the enthusiasm of a well-stored mind and an evangelistic spirit to the task of helping and keeping in touch with men and officers—especially undergraduate officers—during their great ordeal at the front. ... Mr Burroughs has a message based on independent observation, and this gives him an ample right to be heard.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p572 N 30 ‘16 470w

=BURTON, RICHARD EUGENE.= Poems of earth’s meaning. *$1.25 Holt 811 17-18038

“A midsummer memory,” the elegy in memory of Arthur Upson, published by Edmund D. Brooks in 1910, is reprinted as the first number in this volume. It is perhaps Dr Burton’s most distinguished piece of work. Other poems, many reprinted from Harper’s Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Bellman, and other magazines complete the book. Among them are a number that justify the title given to the volume. Such are: The earth mother, Song of the open land, Spring fantasies, Aspects of autumn, etc.

“There is none of the pulsing unrest of the present in these poems, nor the disquieting struggle toward complete revelation which is found so often in the poetry of today. It brings us back quietly but unerringly to a realization of the strength and beauty of that which underlies the present and is the enduring link between the present and past and future. ... This collection of verse contains the best of Mr Burton’s poetic work during the last few years.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 1250w

=Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 140w

“Professor Burton holds his old course thru his latest volume. He is untouched by recent fantasies of verse form, neither is there here any poem born of the war. Sincere work there is with no straining for emotional or linguistic effect.”

+ =Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 60w

“There is no appeal for popularity in ‘Poems of earth’s meaning,’ and no high poetic gifts, but a richness of thought foreign to most modern verse.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 20 ‘17 250w

=BURY, HERBERT.= Here and there in the war area. il *$1.40 (2c) Young ch. 940.91 17-18817

A collection of papers by the Bishop for North and Central Europe. The title is well chosen, as his duties have taken the author to many parts of the war zone. Contents: Our naval division in Holland; With the wounded; “Somewhere in France”; In the trenches and firing line; Has there been a spiritual revival? Prisoners of war; “Manfully”; How the permanent chaplains “carry on”; The way to Russia through Norway and Sweden; Russia’s two capitals; With the bishops, clergy, and people of Russia; “Our gallant Russian ally.”

“During his experiences as chaplain on and near the fighting lines in Holland and in France Bishop Bury found the good for which he sought. ... Without asserting it directly, the good bishop impresses the reader as believing that there has really been a great spiritual revival on the war front. ... On the German side, also, the spirit has been working, fostered by the German Student Christian federation.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 220w

=Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 60w

“He writes very pleasantly, and, if we may judge from this book, has carried everywhere a saving common-sense, unbounded energy, and a cheerful disposition.”

+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 110w

“His general report on the treatment of prisoners on either side, which partakes of the spirit of optimism to which we have alluded, will repay study.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 N 9 ‘16 200w

=BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.= Dominie Dean. il *$1.35 (2c) Revell 17-18164

“Ellis Parker Butler sympathetically recounts the large difficulties and small triumphs of Rev. David Dean in his lifelong service to a Presbyterian parish in a small Mississippi river town. It is the young minister’s first and only charge. ... Occasional dissensions within the church threaten his dismissal or enforced resignation, but he invariably triumphs in these contests. On one occasion he foregoes a call to a wider and more lucrative field in order to complete the self-imposed task of saving a young man addicted to drink. The story begins before the Civil war days, extends over several decades, and leaves the minister an old man, poor and neglected, but still possessing his childlike optimism and faith.”—Springf’d Republican

“Appeared in the Ladies Home Journal.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:25 O ‘17

“There is more than a touch of Mark Twain in its composition, without the spark that vitalizes Twain’s narrative.”

+ — =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 70w

+ =Ind= 91:108 Jl 21 ‘17 500w

“We feel the power of ‘Our Davy’ at home and in the church, and we resent the neglect and the lack of appreciation which he received, but the characters and events which go to make up the story have no vividness; they are neither real nor logically convincing.”

+ — =Lit D= 55:42 O 27 ‘17 200w

“Though Mr Butler’s people are by no means badly drawn, they are not sufficiently well drawn to carry a book of this type, a book which depends altogether upon characterization. Even David Dean himself, carefully as he has been studied, does not win as much as he should of the reader’s affection and sympathy.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 300w

“The author makes Dean a lovable, appealing personality, and effectively brings out the injustice of leaving pastors to want in their old age after a lifetime of unselfish service to their congregations. It is a well-told and very interesting story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 350w

=BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY.= World in ferment. *$1.25 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-21930

These seventeen “interpretations of the war for a new world” were delivered by the president of Columbia university between September 23, 1914 and June 6, 1917. They, therefore, follow the development of his thought during the years of the great war. In his introduction Dr Butler states: that this “is a war for a new international world and a war for a new intranational world. It is to be hoped that the new world will come to an understanding with itself about peace. ... Peace is not an ideal at all; it is a state attendant upon the achievement of an ideal. The ideal itself is human liberty, justice, and the honorable conduct of an orderly and humane society. Given this, a durable peace follows naturally as a matter of course.” Among the addresses are: Higher preparedness; Nationality and beyond; Is America drifting? The Russian revolution; The call to service; The international mind: how to develop it; A world in ferment. The book is indexed.

=A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 30w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 430w

“He takes refuge in general statements, for the more general your statements the more noble they may be made to seem. His volume, therefore, is interesting not for any interpretation of our time so much as for its revelation of an anachronism—the florid oratorical mind still at work in the years 1914-17.”

— =Dial= 64:30 Ja 3 ‘18 210w

=Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 100w

“It is a tribute to President Butler’s essential statesmanship that these papers, delivered under such varying conditions, sustain as well as they do the test of reprinting. Few collections covering a like period contain so much that has proved true and wise, or, being still in the future, is still likely to justify the author.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 O 13 ‘17 220w

“The president of Columbia has much skill in phrasing sententious platitudes, especially regarding the moral aspects of business or politics. We commend this volume of addresses to all who feel that they ought to take the world seriously, but who at the same time cannot bring themselves to think very deeply about it.”

— =Nation= 106:69 Ja 17 ‘18 570w

“President Butler seems enamored of this utopianism of language, by means of which the specific difficulties of a problem are resolved in an elaborate statement of the good effects which will inevitably flow from its perfect solution. In reading President Butler one aches for a specific, quantitative recommendation as one aches at a Debussy opera for a whole tone.”

— =New Repub= 12:251 S 29 ‘17 500w

“We have gone over these essays carefully, and, though we regret to return empty handed, we must sorrowfully admit that there does not seem to be anything very original or striking in any of them, though perhaps they may be regarded as good, sound, practical common sense, as that rather indefinable quantity is regarded today.” Joshua Wanhope

— =NY Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 460w

“His presentation and argument are very interesting. And his repeated warning to the American people that as they move forward in this new direction they must keep in mind their old ideals, is of the highest consequence. There are many suggestions and brief discussions of the means by which the movement of the nations toward closer and more harmonious co-operation can be encouraged and facilitated, so many, indeed, that this idea becomes, especially with reference to America’s part in that movement, the dominating note of the book.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:301 Ag 19 ‘17 800w

“Without any shrinking from grim facts and without any flamboyance of emotional or self-laudatory patriotism, the author makes one see a better future for the world as something real and tangible and within reasonable expectation, and he sets forth the part that this country is to play in helping on the coming of a new and better order, with a clearness and sanity that makes national duty seem near and feasible and attractive.”

+ =No Am= 206:799 N ‘17 320w

+ =Spec= 119:329 S 29 ‘17 760w

“In these days when history is being made and remade in so short spaces of time, a book such as this soon loses whatever initial starting-point it may have adopted, simply for the reason that the events with which it deals are soon left in the background, displaced by newer developments.”

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=BUTLER, SAMUEL.= Notebooks, new ed *$2 Dutton 824

The book “gives the tang of Butler’s personality, and presents in fairly compact form his comment upon man, morality, memory and design, mind and matter, pictures, books, music, cash, religion, travel, truth, translation, etc. ... He recorded his observations; he tried their effect in conversation; he rewrote them; he drew upon his store for his published books; he collected and indexed them. After his death, his friend Henry Festing Jones sorted and rearranged and expurgated them, and brought them out in 1912. Dutton republishes the volume with a brief appreciative introduction by Francis Hackett.”—Nation

=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18

“It used to be a boyhood stunt to stand on your hands and see the world upside down. Butler knew the trick well and did a deal of walking on his hands through our world of conventions. His books are integrated visions of the world thus viewed—‘The way of all flesh,’ of marriage and the family; ‘Erewhon,’ of the daily life of the English-speaking world; ‘Life and habit’ and ‘Evolution, old and new,’ of Darwinism; ‘The fair haven,’ of Christianity. ... The ‘Note-books,’ is a museum of thoughts caught on the wing. ... To thinking men and women, providing they are not too old in spirit, Butler speaks with vital directness. Not that he formulates a philosophy or solves problems or teems with information. Exactly not that. One does not accumulate: one expands. One does not become a little Butler but a larger self.” M. C. Otto

+ =Dial= 63:106 Ag 16 ‘17 3100w

+ + — =Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 400w

=Pittsburgh= 22:746 N ‘17 70w

=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 230w

“Butler was the precursor of the critical and ironical reasoning to which religious and moral conceptions are subjected nowadays by writers of the type of Messrs Shaw and Wells. ... As an expression of personality, and pungent, individual thinking the ‘Notebooks’ continue to be worth reading, though the criticism of society, and in particular of the church, is much less effective than in ‘The way of all flesh.’”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 330w

=BYNE, ARTHUR, and STAPLEY, MILDRED.= Spanish architecture of the sixteenth century; general view of the Plateresque and Herrera styles. (Hispanic soc. of Am. Pub. no. 109) il *$7.50 (11c) Putnam 724 17-11801

Spanish renaissance or Plateresque architecture which forms the subject of this book is, the authors say, a distinct product from that “picturesque, semi-Moorish stucco architecture” of Andalusia which was introduced into Spanish America and which is now usually accepted as typically Spanish. The Plateresque style flourished chiefly in Castile and the purpose of this book is “to increase the appreciation of what was done in Castile, to point out its charm, and to give the student some idea of what awaits him in Spain.” The book is illustrated with eighty plates and one hundred and forty other pictures in the text.

“This book is stated to be the first to appear on renaissance architecture in Spain. The change from the Plateresque to a more frigid style under the chilling influence of Philip II is well described in chaps. 13 and 14, the latter including an interesting account and an impressive view of the vast and gloomy Escorial.”

+ =Ath= p360 Jl ‘17 150w

“The book is illustrated with eighty full-page plates and 140 text-illustrations and these, without the accompanying inscriptions, give an intimate notion of the richness of the churches, palaces, and houses of Spain. ... A good many Spanish terms are used but they are all explained and the book is filled with thrilling bits of history. It is a rare addition to the literature of architecture.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 370w

“The book must take an honored place in every architectural library with any pretense to completeness. Not only does the volume contain more than two hundred illustrations, but many of these are carefully measured drawings, the value of which, to an architect, is greater than any photograph, however good. The text is historical as regards the style, biographical as regards its most famous practitioners, and critical in the discussion of the more famous buildings.” Claude Bragdon

+ =Dial= 63:17 Je 28 ‘17 1200w

“The discussion is not at all popular, indeed it is almost severely technical. The unprofessional reader requires at hand a dictionary of architectural terms to gain an adequate comprehension of the volume. ... The publishers have given us a volume worthy of their reputation, substantially bound in buckram. To own it is a pleasure; to comprehend it, a full recompense for the effort expended.”

+ =Lit D= 54:2006 Je 30 ‘17 270w

“Their work is a welcome addition to the literature of architecture in a sadly neglected field. The architect who has Prentice’s invaluable folio volume of plates and this excellent history to go with it, possesses the material for acquiring an intelligent appreciation of a most interesting phase of the history of the renaissance in western Europe.”

+ =Nation= 105:70 Jl 19 ‘17 900w

“Its pages are refreshing in their clear revelation of personal contact with the country and race, and of the intimate connection between these and the architecture.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:390 O 7 ‘17 500w

“A rich find for students of architecture.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:218 Ag ‘17 130w

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p295 Je 21 ‘17 1400w

=BYNNER, WITTER.= Grenstone poems; a sequence. *$1.35 Stokes 811 17-25234

“Many a glimpse in Mr Bynner’s poems localizes the habitation of Grenstone up under the shadow of Mt. Monadnock, but the name symbolizes more than a place in the poet’s singing; it is the deification of experience finding love, losing its earthly presence, and gaining above all the indestructible sustenance and faith of realities beyond the world. This is the golden thread upon which all these lyrics are hung.”—Boston Transcript

“His love and joy and grief and faith are expressed with much delicacy and spirituality.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:85 D ‘17

“The mistake has been made that poets almost universally make, of putting in much that is ephemeral and irrelevant to the real soul of the book, thus obscuring that precious and intrinsic quality—personality. It is in an epigrammatic lyric, of a peculiar pith and pungency, and often informed with a whimsical humour, that Mr Bynner seems to me to be most wholly himself.” J. B. Rittenhouse

+ — =Bookm= 46:440 D ‘17 930w

“There is the suggestion here of a new Dante and a new Beatrice, in the poet’s relation to Celia. ... Nearly two hundred lyrics, touching upon an infinite variety of moods and subjects, more subtle and simply wrought, more instinct with genuine flashes of lyric beauty, subjective in the best traditional manner of English verse, than any collection produced since the present revival of poetry came into being.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 6 ‘17 780w

“Charming and delicate as the poems are, full of whim and fancy and loveliness, they are imbued above all with Bynner’s ordered passion for simplicity. It seems to me that he is sometimes almost mathematical in the development of his simplicity. He loves to strike poetic balances and make poetic classifications—almost to replace poetry by a lengthened epigram. My only wish is that he would content himself with being a very good and growing poet, instead of tending to preoccupy himself with a theory. His gift is sufficient, if he will permit it, to stand above theories.” Swinburne Hale

+ — =Dial= 64:23 Ja 3 ‘18 1450w

=Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 50w

“A volume overflowing with lyric beauty. Pure and strong passion, a keen sense of melody, epigrammatic deftness of phrase—these are among Mr Bynner’s gifts.”

+ =Lit D= 55:32 N 3 ‘17 360w

“One of the most effective things in the arrangement is the way it builds up to the final ‘Behold the man’:

Behold the man alive in me, Behold the man in you! If there is God—am I not he?— Shall I myself undo?

I have been awaiting long enough Impossible gods, goodby! I wait no more ... The way is rough— But the god who climbs is I.

This last line is humanity’s motto today; and its author is one of the leading interpreters of the climbing.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 530w

“Though he has failed in his main purpose, however, it is to be remarked that scattered here and there throughout the book are many charming lyrics quite in his usual satisfying manner. Of these, ‘Mercy,’ ‘An old elegy,’ and ‘The heart of gold’ are particularly fine.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:436 O 28 ‘17 550w

“He has not, to be sure, the depth of background of Edwin Arlington Robinson and some others. But he now proves himself a genuine poet of beauty”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 400w

=BYRNE, LAWRENCE, pseud.= American ambassador. *$1.35 (1½c) Scribner 17-13818

The publishers say that the author of this novel is an American diplomatist who prefers to write under a pseudonym. The story is told in the first person by a young man who has just been engaged as private secretary to a newly appointed ambassador to one of the European courts. He begins his duties by falling promptly in love with the ambassador’s daughter. Kate Colborne, like her father, is wholesomely frank and American, but Mrs Colborne, her step-mother, is one of those Americans who crave social prestige and bow down before a title. An important cablegram from the State department at Washington is stolen from the ambassador’s desk. To save her father from possible ruin, Kate engages herself to Comte de Stanlau, the man who seems to hold his fate in his hands. The mystery of the lost cablegram is explained; the ambassador wins a triumph for himself and his country, and Kate’s affairs are settled happily for the young man who is telling the story. The background of the story is necessarily indefinite, as the European country concerned is not named.

=A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17

“There is a love story running through the book which increases the excitement of its episodes and helps round out the plot. It is well written, and the fine picture it presents of an American diplomat should come at an opportune moment.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 950w

=Cath World= 105:842 S ‘17 70w

“‘You rarely see an American man who looks as if he had ancestors. We usually appear to have been made in a hurry.’ Thus Mr Lawrence Byrne sums up, unconsciously, the fault of his novel.”

— =Dial= 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 80w

“Comes down to a Zenda story with realistic touches. ... The American ambassador is the plain, blunt hustler from ‘back home,’ who drags at each remove a lengthening chain of ignorances and complacencies.”

=Nation= 105:16 Jl 5 ‘17 150w

“We venture to assert that the writer who signs himself ‘Lawrence Byrne’ is personally familiar with the ways of embassies. ‘The American ambassador’ is written with a seemingly unconsidered mastery of small detail that gives the book background, charmingly.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:194 My 20 ‘17 480w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 350w

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=CABELL, JAMES BRANCH.= Cream of the jest; a comedy of evasions. *$1.35 (3c) McBride 17-24970

Mr Cabell’s story will provide a new sensation for the satiated novel reader. The reader, however, must not be the matter-of-fact sort who has lost faith in human dreams. The pendulum of the story swings leisurely between the two existences of Felix Kennaston. In one, as Kennaston, with two motors and money in four banks, he lives a life that “his body is shuffling thru aimlessly.” While in this atmosphere of action and the commonplace, he bores himself and others, including a rather worldly minded, otherwise estimable wife. But as Horvendile, the hero of his own book, the dreamer, “he lives among such gallant circumstances as he had always hoped his real life might provide to-morrow.” As a part of his mental diversions, he abandons himself to “delicious and perilous frolics” with Etarre, the heroine of his book, who symbolizes the ageless, deathless ideal of woman. The delicacy of touch and the classic atmosphere of the dream episodes give charm and distinction to the tale.

“People who have a great respect for gas and none at all for moonshine, for whom half-shades are non-existent and dreams mere nonsense, will do well to pass it by.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 400w

“Both for its originality and literary value the book is notable.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 380w

=CABLE, BOYD, pseud.= Grapes of wrath. il *$1.50 (3c) Dutton 17-13446

Altho Mr Cable’s story is based on the battle of the Somme, he warns the reader that it is not to be taken as an authentic historical account. He says, “My ambition was the much lesser one of describing as well as I could what a Big Push is like from the point of view of an ordinary average infantry private. ... I have tried to put into words merely the sort of story that might and could be told by thousands of our men to-day.” Four men, fellow soldiers and close friends, are the heroes of the tale. Three of them are Englishmen, drawn from different social ranks. One is an American.

=A L A Bkl= 13:448 Jl ‘17

+ =Ath= p204 Ap ‘17 80w

“The story is told in a vigorous, straightforward way without false sentiment or pretentious effort. That no one who starts it will be likely to set it down unfinished is sufficient comment on its worth.” R. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 430w

“As big as its theme and as moving.”

+ =Cath World= 105:551 Jl ‘17 250w

=Dial= 63:219 S 13 ‘17 340w

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 80w

“So does the great American hymn give title and summing up to this picture of the army of one of our allies, a picture etched with steel in lines of fire and blood and heroism unsurpassed. ‘Grapes of wrath’ is indeed a memorable book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:158 Ap 22 ‘17 700w

=Pittsburgh= 22:528 Je ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 20w

+ =R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 60w

+ =Spec= 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 700w

“One who wishes to learn about war as it is fought will do well to read it, for no other among the host of war books explains this phase of it so well or even seeks to.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 5 ‘17 300w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p107 Mr 1 ‘17 120w

=CADE, COULSON T.= Dandelions. *$1.50 (1½c) Knopf 17-19507

“‘Dandelions’ is a first novel. A story of heredity, its thesis seems to be that education, no matter how excellent or how careful, is of little influence when opposed to the force of inherited qualities. The two principal characters in the book are a father and son; the father, Sir Harold Carne, makes idle love to the pretty daughter of the village innkeeper. Later he marries and has a legitimate son, whom we leave as, at about eighteen, he is taking his first step along the road trodden by his father.”—N Y Times

“It is a very singular story, with no trace of the characteristics of contemporary fiction. It might have been written in the days of Fielding, although fortunately it is of a reasonable length. The average reader of ‘best sellers’ and ‘glad’ books may turn from ‘Dandelions’ with signs of ennui. But its publisher as well as its author are to be sincerely congratulated. It has distinguished literary merit.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 400w

“There is charm and to spare in the pictures of English country life that are presented in dissolving succession. But the machinery of Mr Cade’s narrative rumbles and groans too audibly at too frequent intervals; the plot is superficial, even flimsy, and the characterization shallow.”

– + =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 180w

“A story of odd and vaguely reminiscent flavor—Peacockian, if we were to give it a name. Its quaint style, its sly humor, recall the author of ‘Headlong hall’ and ‘Gryll grange.’ It is all mildly amusing, and a trifle wicked, ending on a note of what on the whole deserves to be called malice rather than irony.”

=Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 140w

“The descriptions of the English countryside are very much the best part of the book—far better than the dialogue, which is often ‘bookish’ rather than natural, or the story, which is not particularly interesting. This new writer is not without gifts, but he should learn to restrain his tendency to verbiage.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 400w

“The one thing lacking in Mr Cade’s novel is a point of view. ... We are offered neither a moral idea nor a wholly consistent tale. Otherwise this is a well-written and amusing book. ... Mr Cade’s work will be worth watching. He can put colour into it without letting it get loud; he likes a dash of oddity, but keeps his people human.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 600w

=CADY, MRS BERTHA LOUISE (CHAPMAN), and CADY, VERNON MOSHER.= Way life begins. (Serial pub. no. 85) il $1 Am. social hygiene assn. 570 17-4856

This introduction to sex education, intended for parents and teachers, regards nature study as the logical means of approach to the subject. Dr William Freeman Snow in his foreword, says that the book has been prepared to meet the demand for “a simple, scientifically accurate book on the subject of the way plant, animal, and human life begins, written in an interesting, non-technical way, and with adequate illustration.” The arrangement of material is shown by the table of contents: The deeper meaning of nature study; The lily; The moth; The fish; The frog; The chick; The rabbit; The child; Nature study and the personal problems of life. The book is illustrated with nine plates and other figures in the text.

“The last chapter on ‘Nature study and the personal problems of life’ is a sane summing up of the attitude the parent or teacher ought to take toward this important subject.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:335 My ‘17

+ =Ind= 89:559 Mr 26 ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p19 O ‘17 30w

“The tone is sweet and constructive—spiritual, in the finest sense of the word. One is pretty well justified in saying that while it is not the only useful and commendable book in its field, it is beyond any question the best.” J: P. Gavit

+ =Survey= 38:423 Ag 11 ‘17 500w

=CAFFIN, CHARLES HENRY.= How to study architecture. il *$3.50 (2½c) Dodd 720.9 17-24868

This book is an attempt, by an art critic, “to trace the evolution of architecture as the product and expression of successive phases of civilisation.” (Sub-title) Each chapter, or group of chapters, on the architecture of a period, is preceded by a chapter on the civilization of which it was a product. Book 1 is introductory; the remaining six books deal respectively with the pre-classic, classic, post-classic, Gothic, renaissance, and post-renaissance periods of architecture. There is a two-page bibliography, which follows the glossary and index. The book is illustrated with numerous plates.

“Each type is well illustrated.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17

“A good handbook is a valuable and welcome addition to the understanding of a given art, and Mr Caffin’s work in this case is well done and has the virtue of being readable and not a bore. He is, from long practice, an essayist on this and similar themes who knows how to write and so spares us the ennui which is immemorially associated with works of reference. In his statement as to what has been done and is doing of late years in the United States, it would seem as if the treatment were a little sketchy, because it is centered in New York city.” R: Burton

+ — =Bookm= 46:479 D ‘17 450w

=Dial= 63:527 N 22 ‘17 500w

“The field covered is so wide ... that a certain congestion of statement was, perhaps, inevitable. ... By its inclusiveness and the abundance of its modern material it fills an empty place in the literature of its subject.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:368 S 30 ‘17 190w

“To teachers and students the cohesion shown between art principles and their historical manifestations has particular value, and to readers generally the subject and its treatment provides the appeal of romance as well as instruction and an opportunity to develop critical appreciation.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:274 F ‘18 310w

=CAHAN, ABRAHAM.= Rise of David Levinsky. *$1.60 (1c) Harper 17-23760

In this novel, a Russian Jew who came to America in 1885, at the age of twenty, tells his own story. About eighty pages deal with ghetto life in Russia, the rest of the action passes in America. Though he has been educated in a Talmudic seminary, David tries first to earn a living in New York as a peddler. Failing in this, he becomes an operator in a clothing factory, with the idea of earning enough money to put himself through the City college. An accident changes his dream and he starts out as a manufacturer in the business he has now learned. He steals designs, cheats the union and indulges in other dishonest business practices; but he makes his pile. The story of his relations with various women is given, and especially with the three he loved: Matilda, his first love; Dora, the wife of his friend, Max Margolis, and Anna Tevkin, socialist daughter of a Hebrew poet. David does not marry, and we leave him at the end of the story sensitive, sensual, desperately lonely, finding business “good sport,” but confessing that there is one thing which he craves and “which money cannot buy—happiness.” The story is marred by occasional vulgarities. The author is the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Daily Forward and is the author of “Yekl, a tale of the New York ghetto” and other works.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 100w

“As he approaches sixty, Mr Cahan gives us this solid, mature novel, into which are compacted the reflections of a lifetime. The vanity of great riches was never set forth with more searching sincerity. ... As a matter of biography, he is a child of Russian literature. And that is why his novel, written in faultless English, is a singular and solitary performance in American fiction.” J: Macy

+ =Dial= 63:521 N 22 ‘17 1750w

=Nation= 105:432 O 18 ‘17 500w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 150w

“One of the most impressive novels produced in America in many a day.” R. B.

+ =New Repub= 14:31 F 2 ‘18 650w

“The tale of Levinsky is, incidentally, the tale of the cloak industry in this country; of the methods by which a dominating personality achieves his financial success. But its revelations in this regard are as far from mere muckraking as are Cahan’s pictures of the cloak makers from mere propaganda. ... It is written with a clarity that is French, a chaste realism that is Russo-Yiddish, and a deep human insight that render it universal.” Isaac Goldberg

+ =N Y Call= p15 S 23 ‘17 700w

“No phase of modern life betrays the cheapness and shams of capitalistic culture more strikingly than does the literature of today. Happily, however, there are some few exceptions, and Cahan is one of these. His ‘Rise of David Levinsky’ is not a commodity, but a piece of art, full of life’s unvarnished truths.”

+ =N Y Call= p15 O 7 ‘17 1500w

“‘The rise of David Levinsky’ is not a pleasant book, nor is David himself an especially likeable or appealing individual. His very soul is stripped bare before us; we know him intimately, but it cannot be said that to know him is to love him. Yet he often excites our pity. ... The dominant quality in this novel is the effect it gives of being altogether real. Whether the scene be laid in the Russian ghetto or the big expensive hotel in the Catskills where rich Jews congregated, whether it is in the Division street factory or David’s fine place on Fifth avenue, this sense of reality is always present. ... In this story of ‘The rise’ of one individual is pictured the development of an entire class, as well as of what has become one of the great industries of the country.”

=N Y Times= 22:341 S 16 ‘17 1200w

“As a story for the story’s sake the novel is much less important than as a study of a people whose qualities and experiences are to be increasingly important in American life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 550w

“Had the book been published anonymously, we might have taken it for a cruel caricature of a hated race by some anti-Semite. It will be taken by an already critical outer world as a picture of Jewish life in general. It really is not.” K. H. Claghorn

– + =Survey= 39:260 D 1 ‘17 350w

=CALHOUN, ARTHUR WALLACE.= Social history of the American family from colonial times to the present. 3v v 1 $5 Clark, A. H. 392.3 17-23329

“The first volume of ‘A social history of the American family’ devotes a chapter to sexual codes and customs in the European countries which furnished colonists to the new world and then traces their modification and development in the thirteen English colonies down to revolutionary times.” (Ind) “Three volumes are contemplated, the second bringing the history through the Civil war period; the third focussing its attention on the present generation.” (Cath World)

“In addition to the value of this material as social history, all of it makes the most interesting reading, and some of it is unsurpassed as the richest kind of humor.” F. W. C.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p11 N 28 ‘17 750w

“Dr Calhoun, despite his avowed intention not to exaggerate in this direction, does, we think, lay too much stress at times on the ‘economic interpretation’ of life. ... But on the whole, Dr Calhoun is clear-sighted and open-minded. He has, for instance, the courage to show what dire fruits the reformation and the loose moral teaching of Luther have borne to the world.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:263 N ‘17 350w

“The volume shows evidence of great research and contains a full bibliography.”

+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 60w

“The publishers have given an excellent page on attractive and substantial paper in a serviceable cover.”

+ =Lit D= 55:43 N 17 ‘17 500w

“American history is being rewritten by the scientific historians, and this volume is a valuable addition to the rich contributions that have been made in recent years.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 11 ‘17 1100w

=CALHOUN, DOROTHY DONNELL.= Princess of Let’s Pretend. il *$1.50 Dutton 16-25148

“The first story is called ‘The story of the enchanted leg’; it tells how a fairy came to Gert van Vent and took charge of his wooden leg, thus bringing happiness to his daughter. ‘Damon and Pythias’ relates the old legend in terms of childhood. ‘The merry monarch’ makes a cobbler king for the day to the great amusement of the court. ... ‘The princess of Let’s Pretend’ contains several other stories, touching on a variety of subjects. Even a baseball story adorns the volume.”—N Y Times

“The illustrations are novel, being photographs chosen from moving picture films; but their realism will disappoint the childish imagination, which can far more aptly picture its own fairy world.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:556 Jl ‘17 60w

“A delightful collection of stories. They are simply told and sure of entertaining the little folk.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:224 Je 10 ‘17 170w

“Obviously intended for children from eight to ten or twelve.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 150w

=CALKINS, GARY NATHAN.= Biology. 2d ed rev and enl il $1.80 Holt 570 17-25304

“In the present edition, although there is no change in the method by which the subject of biology is developed, there are many changes in the text, some parts being condensed, others elaborated, in the interest of clearness. Apart from verbal improvements throughout the book, the most important alterations and additions have been made in connection with the subjects of fermentation and enzyme activities; the significance of conjugation; plants, the food of animals; photosynthesis; circulation in the earthworm; and immunity. Three figures in the first edition (numbers 6, 21, and 39) have been replaced by more instructive illustrations, and in all cases where necessary, the legends have been amplified. The glossary, which was introduced with the second printing of the first edition, is considerably enlarged, and a bibliography added.” (Preface to the second edition)

+ =Educ R= 55:79 Ja ‘18 30w

=CALVERT, MRS AMELIA CATHERINE (SMITH), and CALVERT, PHILIP POWELL.= Year of Costa Rican natural history. il *$3 Macmillan 508.728 17-6345

“The primary concern of the authors in visiting Costa Rica was a study of dragon flies with reference to their seasonal distribution. The book has little to say on that subject, however, because their investigations along that line are not completed. It is devoted mainly to the little republic itself. Describing the daily life in town and country, the authors always have a quick eye for its trees, plants, and animal and insect life.”—N Y Times

“It is abundantly illustrated and will interest tourists and students of general and commercial conditions. Bibliography (30p.).”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:381 Je ‘17

“Here lies the drawback of the book; although so full of information, there are but few chapters to be enjoyed by the general reader, who, taking the detail, much of which is unavoidably technical, for granted, would relish some more comprehensive generalised descriptions as characteristic of the country.”

+ — =Nature= 100:323 D 27 ‘17 650w

=N Y Br Lib= News 4:59 Ap ‘17

“The result of their observations is set forth with a skill and all-embracing perception only possible to writers who are able to catalogue definitely in their minds what has come under their notice. It is all told in an impressive volume of 577 pages.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 190w

=Pittsburgh= 22:655 O ‘17 30w

“The style in which this almost inexhaustible store of material has been presented renders the book readable throughout.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:216 Ag ‘17 330w

=St Louis= 15:140 My ‘17

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 2 ‘17 250w

Cambridge history of American literature. 3v v 1 *$3.50 (3c) Putnam 810.9 (17-30257)

=v 1= Colonial and revolutionary literature; Early national literature: Part 1.

The Cambridge history of American literature, edited by William Peterfield Trent, of Columbia, John Erskine, of Columbia, Stuart P. Sherman, of the University of Illinois, and Carl Van Doren, headmaster of the Brearley school, will be complete in three volumes. Volume 1 covers Colonial and revolutionary literature and Early national literature, part 1, ending with a study of Emerson. The distinctive features of the work as a whole are enumerated by the editors: “(1) It is on a larger scale than any of its predecessors ...; (2) It is the first history of American literature composed with the collaboration of a numerous body of scholars from every section of the United States and from Canada; (3) It will provide for the first time an extensive bibliography for all periods and subjects treated; (4) It will be a survey of the life of the American people as expressed in their writings rather than a history of belles-lettres alone.” (Preface) As in the “Cambridge history of English literature,” the bibliographies, arranged at the close, are extensive.

=Boston Transcript= p8 N 17 ‘17 1200w

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 8 ‘17 730w

“A chapter on transcendentalism by Professor Goddard, of Swarthmore college, is one of the best pieces of work in the volume. ... Now that the foundations of the history are laid, perhaps the superstructure will exhibit a lighter and more attractive aspect. One would welcome a smaller measure of compilation and a larger manifestation of the critical and the appreciatory.”

+ — =Dial= 63:646 D 20 ‘17 340w

“Tho the chapters on Franklin and Emerson are very well done, perhaps the most delightful chapter in the whole volume is that on Washington Irving, by Major George Haven Putnam.”

+ =Lit D= 56:34 Ja 12 ‘18 380w

“A valuable, comprehensive, and from beginning to end a most interesting book. Emphasis must be laid upon the care and detail which the authors and editors have devoted to the early literature of our land. ‘The Cambridge History of American literature’ is a book of the utmost importance.”

+ + — =N Y Times= 22:497 N 25 ‘17 1500w

+ =Outlook= 117:653 D 19 ‘17 90w

+ =R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 170w

“The editors have plainly worked in harmony, and, what is more, they have plainly tried to harmonize the work of their contributors. In one or two of the chapters there is excessive individualism in the interpretation; and even a few foolish statements can be found. But, in the main, the contributors have worked upon a basis of facts and have sought to study the relations between facts. It is to be regretted where so much space is devoted to bibliographies, that they are less exhaustive than cooperative scholarship might make them.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 1600w

Cambridge history of English literature; ed. by A. W: Ward and A. R. Waller. 14v v 13-14 ea *$2.75 (1½c) Putnam 820.9 (7-40854)

=v 13-14= Nineteenth century.

The thirteenth volume continues the history of the nineteenth century, begun in volume 12. Among the studies contributed to the volume are: Carlyle, by J. G. Robertson; The Tennysons, by Herbert J. C. Grierson; Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by Sir Henry Jones; The prosody of the nineteenth century, by George Saintsbury; Nineteenth-century drama, by Harold Child; Thackeray, by A. Hamilton Thompson; Dickens, by George Saintsbury; The Brontës, by A. A. Jack.