part 3. The four chapters making up this part are revised from a

series of articles published in the American Machinist in September, 1915.”—Engin News-Rec

“Some question may be raised as to the wisdom of attempting to teach or explain the theory of double entry bookkeeping in the small amount of space allotted to this subject by the author in part one. The book is a notable addition to a library on cost accounting, and to the student who is well grounded in the basic principles of accounting it will prove of considerable value in treating of cost accounts.” A. T. Cameron

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:294 N ‘17 390w

=Cleveland= p96 Jl ‘17 20w

“It is sufficiently elementary in treatment to be recommended as a general textbook on accounting and cost keeping for the use of engineers needing instruction in those subjects.” R. R. Potter

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:150 Ap 19 ‘17 450w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17

“Mature minds ... will find in it suggestion, explanation, and direction obtainable so far as the reviewer knows, nowhere else.” C: B. Going

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:447 My ‘17 80w (Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers p369 Ap ‘17)

=Pratt= p24 Jl ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17

=CHURCHILL, MRS MATILDA (FAULKNER).= Letters from my home in India; ed. and arranged by Grace M. Rogers. il *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 16-22790

The author has spent a lifetime in India. She went to that country as a missionary in 1873 immediately after her marriage. The letters cover the period from that time to the present. In the last letter, written from Nova Scotia, the author’s native home, she expresses her deep joy at the prospect of returning to her labors in the mission field.

“The appeal of sincerity is universal. Hence, however divergent, anent foreign missions, may be the views of the readers of Mrs Churchill’s letters, they will be unanimous in respect to the writer’s unselfish and heroic service.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 18 ‘16 250w

+ =Dial= 61:542 D 14 ‘16 120w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:14 Ja ‘17

=CHURCHILL, WINSTON.= Dwelling-place of light. il *$1.60 (1c) Macmillan 17-25746

Mr Churchill’s latest novel deals with, but makes no attempt to solve, the industrial problem. “The Massachusetts mill city of Hampton ... appears to be Holyoke to a hair, until an industrial crisis involving the I.W.W. and a dynamite plot on the part of the manufacturers convinces us that we are in Lawrence, with its neighboring Andover.” (Nation) The central figure in the story is Janet Bumpus, whose father, “a racial failure who worships the Bumpus genealogy,” is gate-keeper in the Chippering mill. Janet becomes stenographer and confidential secretary to Claude Ditmar, the manager of the mill, but later joins his enemies, the I.W.W. workers who are handling the strike. Janet’s personal relations with Ditmar, with Rolfe, the I.W.W. leader, and with Brooks Insall, the humanitarian author, are recounted with much detail. Lise, Janet’s sister, who has the temperament of a courtesan, and is “all for easy street,” forms a strong contrast to Janet.

“Though we did not close the book satisfied that we had learnt how and where the mind might be sure of being environed by wisdom, we felt that some of the ways and means of approach had been indicated.”

+ — =Ath= p679 D ‘17 90w

“Somewhat oddly, perhaps, our author is a good deal more chary of laying down the law about industrialism than he was about religion. It almost seems indeed that, three-quarters through his narrative, he gradually withdraws from the problem he has so thoroughly stated, and takes refuge in the personal human story of the girl Janet.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:339 N ‘17 360w

“With ‘The dwelling-place of light’ Mr Churchill begins what appears to be his third epoch as a novelist. It contains something of each of his earlier manners, but it also involves an archaic tale of unrequited love such as hitherto he has never attempted to tell. He combines this with an ultra-modern portrayal of the sordid conditions of life among the poor, and a tedious account of a strike whose details are very obviously drawn from the activities of a notorious labor organization in a New England manufacturing city a few years ago. ... Doubtless the novelist has written it in a mood of conviction and sincerity, but it does not convey that impression.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1450w

“Frankly, we believe that this novel merits severe condemnation. Any man who, at this stage of our national life, with a war on our hands and many internal dangers and problems to cope with, will publish such a defence of the propaganda of syndicalism and mob-rule, deserves a reprimand.”

— =Cath World= 106:694 F ‘18 330w

“He is apparently trying to show Theodore Dreiser the high honor of imitation. He has not Dreiser’s savage equipment, and lacks the ponderous sledge-hammer stroke that makes its effect by heavy iteration of details. He lacks, too, the evident sincerity of Dreiser, who, however unpleasant he may be, is always unmistakably in earnest. Mr Churchill is a sheep in wolf’s clothing, and the costume suits him not at all.”

— =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 280w

“To the reader of Mr Churchill’s new novel, bewildered and curious at such long-continued philosophizing and analyzing of apparently ordinary characters, will suddenly come a conviction that, under an apparent sameness, there is something entirely new, something intensely vital.”

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 480w

“Mr Churchill has rendered with extraordinary breadth and sympathy the New England manufacturing city, with its enterprise and its squalor, its huge industrial ‘plants’ driving always remorselessly for increased dividends, its polyglot hordes kept within bounds, for the most part, by the slender but steely filaments of necessity. Claude Ditmar, manager of the Chippering mill, is a striking portrait of the successful American. ... One closes the record with the impression that, as Mr Churchill has solved Janet’s knot by cutting it, he is fain to dispose of the industrial problem by retiring from it, as Janet has done, to some kindlier, mellower atmosphere.”

=Nation= 105:403 O 11 ‘17 650w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ — =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 200w

“Mr Churchill will never escape from gentility. He has achieved his position as its favorite interpreter. But the vitality shown in the ‘Dwelling-place of light’ proves how persistent is his faith in its tenets. He can make a place for the I.W.W. in his tradition rather than give up an American mill or an American girl.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 12:306 O 13 ‘17 1750w

“The picturing part of the book is an excellent performance, but the preachment of the after effects of freedom in love, and against socialistic and syndicalistic ideas, smacks of that mid-McKinleyan conservatism and prudery out of whose somber shadows America has stepped, for once and for all.” Clement Wood

+ — =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 800w

“He has never hitherto depicted a woman character with quite so much insight, skill, and surety as he portrays Janet Bumpus. ... It is a pleasure to bear witness to the finer, truer taste with which Mr Churchill now writes. Scarcely anywhere in the book does one find any of those occasional lapses which offended so much in his earlier work. But this does not hold true of the ending of the story. Not since the deathbed of Little Eva has there been anything more banal than the last pages of this novel.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:393 O 14 ‘17 1250w

“Mr Churchill is not afraid to present life as it is, and that with unsparing frankness, but also with a spirit of idealism and desire for future national and social advance.”

+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 170w

“One feels that the straight and logical working out of the plot has been distorted in order to furnish the author with vehicle for some of his own social theories. This, however, does not rob the final tragedy of its poignancy, nor detract from the merit of the masterly analysis of a certain type of feminine temperament embodied in Janet.” F: T. Cooper

+ — =Pub W= 92:1371 O 20 ‘17 1050w

“Mr Winston Churchill has been moved to picture the rapidly changing conditions of American social and industrial life in a story of great earnestness and power.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:556 N ‘17 400w

“It is with thanksgiving that the serious English reader hails the work of those American authors—a select few—whose mental standpoint differs little from his own. Of these writers, sprung from the old American stock, our near relations, Mr Winston Churchill is perhaps the nearest to us. His point of view is indistinguishable from that of a well-educated and large-minded Englishman, and his language is, with a few comprehensible variants, our own. In the course of the story we get a wonderfully clear impression of the heterogeneous mob of workers in an American manufacturing town; and of the dismay with which the old American regards these hordes of foreigners.”

+ =Sat R= 124:374 N 10 ‘17 580w

“In his plot Mr Churchill is less successful than usual. He has evidently taken great pains with Janet’s complex personality; but though every woman, and every man too, may be a bundle of inconsistencies, a heroine, to be credible and sympathetic, must have a more definite character than she seems to possess.”

+ — =Spec= 119:497 N 3 ‘17 560w

“Recently we had the melancholy spectacle of the gifted Mr Galsworthy floundering in the miasma of sex, and now comes Winston Churchill with a story which treads dangerously near the distressing phases of the same theme. There is doubt whether Mr Churchill is marking time, or entering a new epoch in his literary life. For his own well-being, it is to be hoped that the former is the case, for, notwithstanding abundant evidences of his graceful narrative style and ability at vivid portraiture of character, the story adds little, if anything to his achievements.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 900w

“It is a long book and closely thought out; but it is always interesting to read, because Mr Winston Churchill writes with a discernment which is based on knowledge.”

+ =The Times [London]= Lit Sup p540 N 8 ‘17 570w

=CLADEL, JUDITH=, comp. Rodin: the man and his art; with leaves from his notebook; tr. by S. K. Star; with introd. by J. Huneker. il *$5 Century 17-29347

“Mr Huneker opens the book with an introduction in which he says practically all that need be said of Rodin. He tells us in a few paragraphs what is significant in his career; that he mastered the technique of his art by the sweat of his brow, working for other sculptors as an anonym, that he worked for the Sevres porcelain works, [etc]. ... In the biographical chapters the events of Rodin’s life are elaborated and a reasonable perspective is kept, bringing into relief the important moments [of his career]. ... The pages devoted to Rodin’s own notes cover a wide field of comment. Throughout he raises a hymn to work. ... Besides these comments, written from the intense interest of the artist in the reasons and sources of what he observes, there are other notes that are casual or lyric as the spirit prompts.” (N Y Times) “The text is illustrated by about forty beautiful photographs of Rodin’s work.” (A L A Bkl)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:83 D ‘17

Reviewed by Kenyon Cox

* =Nation= 105:574 N 22 ‘17 2200w

“Much of the text is touched by the generous but blighting spirit of special pleading and resentment against criticism of Rodin, but biographical information is given of the kind that alone is important in the case of an artist; and the quotations from the note-books have the great value of original and direct expressions upon a subject thoroughly known and deeply felt.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:557 D 16 ‘17 1600w

=CLAPHAM, CHARLES BLANCHARD.= Arithmetic for engineers. (Directly-useful technical ser.) il *$3 Dutton 620.8 17-14150

“This is a comprehensive, practical treatment of the most elementary arts of mathematics, including simple algebra, mensuration, logarithms, graphs and the slide rule. It is written for students of most limited training; in fact, in the endeavor to make all points perfectly clear to this class of readers the explanations and practical examples are given with most comprehensive care.”—Engin Rec

=Engin N= 77:436 Mr 15 ‘17 100w

“The most important feature of the text is the use of at least one practical example to illustrate every principle or procedure described. This results in a fully illustrated volume, filled with stimulating exercises using engineering subjects, presented in a satisfactory form typographically. It should be emphasized, however, that the text is written for elementary students and is in no sense a handbook for reference.”

+ =Engin Rec= 75:475 Mr 24 ‘17 130w

“The clear detail of the work should commend it wherever a text or home study is desired.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:447 My ‘17 60w (Reprinted from Scientific American p364 Ap 7 ‘17)

“Author is lecturer in engineering and elementary mathematics, University of London.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 50w

=CLARK, ALEXANDER GRAHAM.= Text book on motor car engineering. 2v v 2 il *$3 Van Nostrand 629.2

=v 2= Design.