Volume 1 dealing with Construction was published in 1912. The subject

matter of the present volume is based on the author’s lectures to students in the Polytechnic, London, and it is intended “for the use of engineers, designers, draughtsmen, students and others whose work entails a knowledge of design.” The illustrations number over sixty and there are also numerous tables.

“We cannot praise too highly the clearness of diction and simplicity of expression which prevail throughout the work. Were it not for the illustrations, we should have been at some trouble to find any cause for criticism of the work at all. ... A little more discrimination in regard to the scale of the drawings as reproduced, and the preparation of an entirely new set of half-tones from original photographs, would have enhanced the value of the book to a degree which would be out of all proportion to the additional expenditure involved.”

+ — =Nature= 100:102 O 11 ‘17 1200w

=CLARK, BARRETT HARPER.= How to produce amateur plays. *$1.50 Little 792 17-15178

“A practical handbook whose aim is to demonstrate how dramatic pieces can be produced in an inexpensive, artistic and effective manner. Discussions of the choice of play and cast are followed by three chapters on rehearsing, with detailed consideration of the stage, lighting, scenery and costumes. Selective lists of amateur plays are added. The appendices include a statement on the workings of copyright and royalty and a note on make-up embodied in an article by Miss Grace Griswold. Mr Clark is qualified to discuss his subject and does so in a lucid manner that makes his instructions clear and comprehensible.”—Springf’d Republican

“Covers much the same ground as Taylor but is more direct in method, has a chapter on lighting, and is illustrated both with diagrams and photographs.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17

“Such a handbook as Mr Clark’s has often been called for. Its teaching is practical and its doctrine admirable.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 80w

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 50w

+ =Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 40w

+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 120w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:218 Jl ‘17 30w

=CLARK, BARRETT HARPER=, ed. Masterpieces of modern Spanish drama; tr. from the Spanish and Catalan. *$2 Duffield 862 17-8763

The three plays presented in this book are “The great Galeoto,” by José Echegaray; “The duchess of San Quentin,” by Benito Pérez-Galdós; and “Daniela,” by Angel Guimerá. The first and third have appeared in English in earlier translations, the third under the title “La pecadora.” A biographical sketch of the author precedes each play. In his preface Mr Clark says, “As may be seen after a cursory reading of the three plays contained in this collection, the Spanish drama of to-day cannot easily be summed up in a few words; the attempt here made is largely with a view to showing something of the genius of a nation whose dramatic products have as yet scarcely begun to receive the attention they so well deserve.”

“Good translations.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18

“Echegaray’s ‘The great Galeoto’ is already known through previous translations and public readings; ‘The duchess of San Quentin,’ by Galdós, seems a little facile, theatrical, and old-fashioned. ... Guimerá’s ‘Daniela’ alone, translated from the Catalan by John Garrett Underhill, comes to us with all the force of a new sensation, and this by virtue of the profound and tragic poetry of its theme. ... It is of the great order.”

+ — =Dial= 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 250w

+ =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17 30w

“The splendid technique shown in the structure and dialogue of these Spanish dramas is an answer to the slovenly and ill-fitting constructors of plays in other countries. One learns that correctness and certainty of emphasis are not altogether lost arts in the theatre, and one wishes good fortune to the influence of these Spanish playwrights.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:300 Ag 12 ‘17 250w

=Pittsburgh= 22:747 N ‘17 50w

“Should have a hearty welcome from the public. ... By some slight oversight, Mr Barrett Clark, who has edited the plays and written a most agreeable introduction, states that only ‘The great Galeoto’ has been previously given an English translation. An excellent version of ‘Daniela,’ rather freely translated by Wallace Gillpatrick, was included among the publications of the Hispanic society (Putnam) in 1916.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:662 Je ‘17 140w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 5 ‘17 110w

=CLARK, CHARLES EDGAR.= My fifty years in the navy. il *$2.50 (3½c) Little 17-28674

Rear-Admiral Clark was born in Vermont in 1843, graduated from the United States naval academy at Annapolis in 1863, and was retired from the navy in 1905. In this book, he tells the story of his public life up to the time of his retirement. During the Civil war, he served on board the “Ossipee” in the West Gulf blockading squadron for nearly two years, taking an active part in the battle of Mobile bay. In the Spanish-American war, he commanded the “Oregon” on her memorable trip around the Horn to play her part in the battle of Santiago, July 3, 1898. Some thirty pages of chapter twelve are devoted to a log of the “Oregon” as written by an unlettered sailor, who was one of her crew. The addenda include diagrams showing the positions of the American and Spanish ships at the battle of Santiago. There are three portraits of Rear-Admiral Clark and a number of other illustrations.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:93 D ‘17

“The author is a prince of raconteurs. The style is simple and direct. The book is well made up; the illustrations few, but good; its index fairly complete. It should be read by all who seek to comprehend the spirit of our navy during the transition from sail to steam.”

+ =Nation= 105:693 D 20 ‘17 800w

“A straightforward narrative of interest to all who love the American navy.”

+ =Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 30w

Reviewed by F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 92:2027 D 8 ‘17 330w

=CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD.=[2] In the footsteps of St Paul. il *2 (2c) Putnam 915.69

An account of the life and labors of St Paul in the light of a personal journey to the cities visited by him. The author has gone over and identified the Apostle’s routes of travel thru Tarsus, Jerusalem, Damascus, Antioch, Iconium, Ephesus, Salonica, Athens, Corinth, and a score of other cities. In reconstructing, as far as possible, the physical background and the scenery of St Paul’s labors, the writer makes his activities more real and vivid. The book seeks its audience among Bible students, Sunday school teachers—all who study the Bible for public or private use.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 19 ‘17 710w

“This book is a boon to many unlikely to have heard of such a masterpiece as Sir William Ramsay’s ‘Paul the traveller and Roman citizen.’”

+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 110w

=CLARK, JOHN SCOTT.= Study of English and American writers, v 3 $2 Row, Peterson & co. 820 16-16560

=v 3= The books that have preceded this are “A study of English prose writers” and “A study of English and American poets.” In these three volumes the author has developed a “laboratory method” for use in teaching English literature. The preface to this volume says, “The method consists in determining the particular and distinctive features of the writer’s style (using the term style in its widest sense), in sustaining this analysis by a consensus of critical opinion, in illustrating the particular characteristics of each writer by carefully selected extracts from his works, and in then requiring the pupil to find, in the works of the writer, parallel illustrations.” About sixty-five authors are included. Professor Clark died before the book was ready for publication and his work has been completed by John Price Odell, professor of English in Occidental college, Los Angeles, California.

“Teachers who have not become familiar with the methods of these volumes have missed valuable training.” G: Sherburn

+ =School R= 25:63 Ja ‘17 580w

=CLARK, JOHN SPENCER.= Life and letters of John Fiske. 2v il *$7.50 Houghton 17-27754

“This is the long-awaited official life of the most eminent and the most interesting of later American historians, the work of one of John Fiske’s lifelong friends, who was associated with him in his philosophical studies, and as a member of the publishing house of James R. Osgood & Co. Mr Fiske’s career was a crowded one, and Mr Clark was in touch with it at every point. He tells the story of the famous historian’s New England boyhood, his early literary struggles, his close association with the famous Darwin-Huxley-Spencer group, his life as a lecturer on American history, his friendships, and his contributions to philosophy and literature.”—Lit D

“Mr Clark’s two-volume life shows just why such rich quality of thought and variety of knowledge filled to overflowing all that John Fiske wrote and why he was able to present his great stores to his readers with never failing clarity, simplicity, and impressiveness.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:327 N ‘17 450w

“The story of John Fiske’s life is told by Mr Clark by means of numerous letters with connecting links of a narrative which is frequently verbosely labored and repetitious. It succeeds in giving, however, a faithful account of a notable career and remarkable intellectual achievements, although little revelation is made of the personality of the man.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 1350w

“No book of more general interest to a thoughtful reader is likely to appear in a long time; certainly no book presenting a more engaging personality.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 D 8 ‘17 130w

“These two imposing volumes and their subject are mutually worthy of each other. If one is tempted to criticize the amount of space given to the childhood and youth of young Fiske, he soon learns that the subject is worthy of it.”

+ =Lit D= 56:30 Ja 26 ‘18 980w

“A wealth of personal letters and memoranda has been skilfully utilized, and reveals in attractive light the scope of Fiske’s intellectual activities and the warmth of his friendships. Rarely has the home life of a man of letters shown itself possessed of greater simplicity or sincerity than these pages display. In all these respects the work is an addition of permanent value to American biography. As a piece of constructive criticism, on the other hand, Mr Clark’s work is somewhat less satisfactory.”

* + – =Nation= 106:91 Ja 24 ‘18 2100w

“His letters to his family [from England], from which Mr Clark makes liberal quotation, afford some of the most graphic and interesting portraitures of the famous people of that day we have had from any source. ... But, interesting as these portraits are, they should not obscure the story of Fiske’s remarkable career, which Mr Clark has told with full detail and with a richness of background and vividness of color that make it one of the notable books of the year and one of the most notable of American biographies.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:569 D 23 ‘17 2250w

“Mr Clark has produced a faithful, comprehensive account of John Fiske’s life. The reader would gladly spare one or two of the author’s mannerisms. But the book, as a whole, is concrete and readable, and there is no emphasis on questions of philosophy beyond the point to which the average reader will care to go.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 2300w

=CLARK, KEITH.= Spell of Scotland. il *$2.50 Page 914.1 16-23814

“This is one of the interesting ‘Spell’ series. Like its predecessors, it unites description with reminiscences of travel and appreciation of famous sights, antiquities, and landscape beauties of the country it treats.” (Outlook) “The chief attractions of Scotland are agreeably brought to our attention in the eleven chapters of the book, even the Hebrides, but apparently not the Orkney or the Shetland Islands, being included in the author’s tour of the kingdom.” (Dial)

“It is well illustrated, has a good map, and has a four-page bibliography. More expensive than Griffis but in the same ‘popular’ travel-book style.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:263 Mr ‘17

“Though Miss Clark succeeded admirably in ‘The spell of Spain,’ she could hardly have hoped to achieve there what she has in her second book. For she is Scotch of the Scotch herself, and here every page of her writing breathes an instinctive and inherent sympathy and understanding. To ‘see’ Scotland through such eyes is indeed to feel its spell. To the Catholic reader Miss Clark’s book cannot fail to recommend itself with a very special appeal.”

+ =Cath World= 105:828 S ‘17 380w

“Literary allusion and quotation, with a sufficiency of history for popular liking, enrich the descriptions, which are made more vivid still by frequent illustrations from photographs and other sources and eight colored plates of much beauty.”

+ =Dial= 62:150 F 22 ‘17 230w

+ =Outlook= 115:118 Ja 17 ‘17 40w

=CLARK, VICTOR SELDEN.= History of manufactures in the United States, 1607-1860; with an introd. note by H: W. Farnam. il pa $6 Carnegie inst. 330.9 16-15333

“This is the second of the contributions to American economic history which have been written under the auspices of the Carnegie institution of Washington. ... Of the twenty chapters in the present volume that deal with the history of manufactures, nine cover the colonial period, eleven the period between 1790 and 1860. Dr Clark first describes the colonial environment, British policy, and colonial legislation affecting manufactures. ... The spread of the factory system Dr Clark attributes quite as much to the growth of markets in the South as to the invention of new processes and machines. The effects of tariff legislation, of the development of better transportation agencies, and of a more plentiful supply of capital and labor are treated in successive chapters, as are the technical progress, the organization, and the general distribution of manufactures. Some valuable appendices conclude the volume. ... A second volume, covering the period from 1860 to date, is promised.”—Ann Am Acad

“To say that Mr Clark’s book is the best in its field would be faint praise, for there is only one other that covers the field, and that was written nearly sixty years ago. ... Mr Clark’s book is singularly free from bias or prejudice. ... The quantity of facts assembled in this framework is very great, for the writer’s researches have been wide and laborious. But they are not always interpreted, and sometimes several pages of specific facts are given that have little apparent significance. ... It is far from being the ‘final word’ on this subject, but it is the most considerable contribution to it that has ever been made.” T: W. Page

* + =Am Econ R= 7:300 Je ‘17 1350w

“The volume under review may safely be proclaimed one of the most important and valuable contributions to the economic history of the United States which has appeared in recent years. ... The value of the work is in no small degree to be attributed to the broad interpretation and the method of treatment adopted by the author. ... In the main the conclusions of the author, backed up as they are by scholarly method and a broader basis of fact than has heretofore been available, will, it is believed, be accepted. Concerning a few of the more general statements the reviewer, however, would be inclined to raise a question. ... The index is adequate and the bibliography comprehensive.” C. W. Wright

+ =Am Hist R= 22:384 Ja ‘17 1000w

“One is inevitably led to compare this work with that of Bishop, which covers practically the same ground and for so long has been the single authority covering the whole field. Dr Clark’s book is more analytical and endeavors to explain the movements and forces of each period, and not merely to chronicle facts. It moreover takes up phases of the subject not touched upon by Bishop, such as organization. All in all it constitutes an admirable economic history of manufactures.” E. L. Bogart

+ =Ann Am Acad= 70:323 Mr ‘17 350w

“The chief contribution of the work is in details rather than in principles. ... Not all of the generalizations are substantiated. ... The allotment of space and the distribution of emphasis are open to serious criticism. ... The history of the development of industrial organization is inadequate. ... The section on the factory system (pp. 448-55) is incomplete. ... Since the book was apparently written to trace the volume of growth rather than to analyze the causes for the development of new forms of industrial organization, one ends a critical reading of the volume with a feeling of uncertainty as to how much valuable evidence on the latter subject may have been overlooked.” M. T. Copeland

=J Pol Econ= 25:633 Je ‘17 530w

=CLARKE, GEORGE HERBERT=, ed. Treasury of war poetry, 1914-1917. *$1.25 Houghton 821.08 17-25441

The publishers state that this collection of about 130 British and American poems of the world war “contains important poems by important authors which have not been accessible to other anthologies.” They are arranged under the headings: America; England and America; England; France; Belgium; Russia and America; Italy; Australia; Canada; Liège; Verdun; Oxford; Reflections; Incidents and aspects; Poets militant; Auxiliaries; Keeping the seas; The wounded; The fallen; Women and the war. The editor’s policy “has been humanly hospitable, rather than academically critical, especially in the case of some of the verses written by soldiers at the front.” (Introd.) There are indexes of first lines, of titles and of authors; Occasional notes, giving brief biographies of some of the poets; and an introduction by the editor.

=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18

“On the whole Professor Clarke has been remarkably successful in sifting the grain from the chaff.”

+ =Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 70w

“Many of the poems have been inaccessible to other anthologists, and Professor Clarke has provided illuminating notes to the whole collection.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 D 8 ‘17 110w

“Practically all of the best and finest things the war has inspired are included in the collection, and that means at least a little of the finest verse that has been written in English for some years. The indexes are so well contrived that they deserve a word of praise.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:12 Ja 13 ‘18 420w

“While there may be individual differences of opinion regarding the inclusion or omission of particular poems, no one will find fault with Prof. Clarke’s general principle of selection.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 360w

=CLAY, OLIVER.= Heroes of the American revolution. il *$1.25 (2c) Duffield 973.3 16-25270

The title of this book is somewhat misleading. It suggests a book of biographies. What the author has written is a series of chapters bearing on the Revolution and devoted to groups and localities rather than to individuals. Contents: The men of Massachusetts; The royal province of Virginia; The part New York played; The rally of the patriots; The writer of our Declaration of independence; The birth of the American army; Our foreign allies; The shadows of the Revolution; Daughters of liberty; Our revolutionary navy; From Lexington to Yorktown; Our commander-in-chief.

“Would appear to be fitted for use in secondary school instruction. ... It is a good book to put into the hands of American boys, whether in or out of school.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 100w

+ =Ind= 91:228 Ag 11 ‘17 40w

“The author’s method undoubtedly has its advantages in focusing the reader’s attention on the movements of men in the mass rather than on the development of sporadic careers.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:216 F ‘17 70w

“While primarily intended for young persons, grown-ups will also find much of interest in ‘Heroes of the American revolution.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 130w

=CLEGHORN, SARAH NORCLIFFE.= Portraits and protests. *$1.25 Holt 811 17-23579

The poems in this volume are arranged under the four headings: Portraits; Of country places and the simple heart; Of time and immortality; Protests.

=A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17

“She belongs as thoroughly to New England as does Robert Frost himself, but she sees New England in softer, more gentle garb than he sees it. ... Though people do not move her to the biting word and we feel in her portraits a charity of outlook, it would be doing faint justice to Miss Cleghorn not to note the way in which her lines can flay, when she is roused by injustice or cruelty.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 900w

“While the verses have all a distinct, personal accent, they fail adequately to convey emotion. This is partly due to the fact that the author clings to lilting measures, intelligible for ‘Margerita singing ballads,’ but not for ‘Jane Addams,’ that she uses inversion frequently, permits her metrical feet to stumble, and has a rather tiresome fondness for flounces and roundabouts. The lack of intensity is perhaps also due to Miss Cleghorn’s austere passion for New England.”

– + =Dial= 63:525 N 22 ‘17 260w

“Many of her poems of protest, such as ‘Comrade Jesus,’ have been reprinted in all radical periodicals and anthologies. Others, such as ‘Peace hath her Belgiums,’ ‘The incentive’ and ‘One hundred thousand more’ deserve to be as widely known. ... In the earlier sections of the book there are some lovely things. ‘Come, Captain Age,’ ‘Vermont’ and a few others stand out. But too often the verses seem too chiselled, too cautiously contrived, too much a product of reading rather than life, which either make the result unimportant, or incoherent.” Clement Wood

+ — =N Y Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 300w

“The war intrudes itself only momentarily to elicit the ‘protest’ which seems to come instinctively from the ‘intellectual’ in an era of patriotism.’ ... ‘The poltroon’ and ‘Comrade Jesus’ ought to receive the chuckles of delight and the mutterings of wrath that they were doubtless expected to call forth. ... ‘Portraits and protests’ gives the impression that it ought to be an anthology combining the work of George Woodberry, the Masses and Franklin P. Adams.”

=Springf’d Republican= p6 S 18 ‘17 250w

=CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).= Mark Twain’s letters; ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine. 2v *$4 (1½c) Harper 17-30756

Uniform in binding and in number of volumes with Paine’s biography of Mark Twain. A brief sketch of Mr Clemens’s life prefaces the first volume, while thruout both volumes is editorial comment which amplifies references in the letters and keeps the chronology clear. The letters reveal the great American humorist at his best, and as the personalities of the recipients of his letters are so different and the observations and interests of the writer so varied the reader enjoys a wide range of reactions. The first letters were written from New York and Philadelphia in 1853 when Mr Clemens left his home in Hannibal, Mo., and started out to make his fortune. Among the largest number to any one person are the letters to W. D. Howells, which are intimate and lasting testimonials of the great friendship between the two men.

Reviewed by Archibald Henderson

=Bookm= 46:583 Ja ‘18 1350w

“Few writers made their letters so thoroughly a part of themselves as did Mark Twain. They are as characteristic an expression of his individuality, of his manner, of his habit of thought and tricks of speech, as are the pages he wrote for the immediate eye of the public. His letters are an unending pleasure.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 2100w

“It goes without saying that he portrays himself in this work in every mood, and he had them all. One of the most significant features of the collection is the light it throws on the creation of his books.”

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 140w

“The work, as done by Mr Paine, is not only a contribution to Mark Twain literature, but it is, likewise, a notable example of the way in which letters should be compiled so as to reflect the true character of the person who wrote them.”

+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 29 ‘17 2050w

+ =Nation= 106:115 Ja 31 ‘18 2100w

“[Mr Paine’s] running commentary [is] always modest, always unobtrusive, and always confined to the strictly necessary explanations. In other words, he has let Mark Twain, the letter writer, speak for himself. It is difficult to see how this work could have been done more discreetly or more tactfully. These letters are never composed with any thought of publication; they are never labored; they are always easy; they are sometimes even free and easy. They are the spontaneous expression of the man himself as he happened to be at the moment of taking pen in hand. They are highly individual; they abound in whim, in humorous exaggeration, in imagination, and in energy. They are delightful reading, in themselves in the first place, and in the second as revelations of the character and the characteristics of Mr Samuel L. Clemens, who was in some ways a different person from Mr Mark Twain known to all the world.”

+ + =N Y Times= 22:473 N 18 ‘17 2300w

“The letters are well edited, with such historical comment as is needed to make them understandable and no more.”

+ =Outlook= 118:31 Ja 2 ‘18 190w

“His is one of the few figures that the whole nation has learned to love, and one that has become an enduring part of our best traditions. It has been only too often the unfortunate office of intimate letters to shatter similar illusions. So what greater tribute can be paid to the present ones than to say that they serve simply to enhance the richness, the tenderness, the whimsical tolerance of the Mark Twain we have learned to know in his books.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 93:221 Ja 19 ‘18 1050w

“This collection of his letters is a revelation of his growth as a writer and of the main-springs of his conduct.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 170w

“Albert Bigelow Paine is the editor of these volumes and a most loving interpreter of Mark Twain he proves to be. He is a little sweeping in his judgments, but he supplies adequately the information which enables the reader to understand the occasion of any letter. ... The feeling in the book, wherever it crops out, is as unaffected as the humor, and seemingly expressed with the same unconsciousness. The offhand nature of this writing is peculiarly American. The style is undress without being excessively colloquial, vigorous and workmanlike, and, above all, rich with meaning and savor.”

+ + — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 2400w

=CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).= What is man? and other essays. il *$1.75 Harper 814 17-13964

A collection of miscellaneous essays and papers, some of them reprinted from magazines, others appearing in print for the first time. “What is man?” the longest piece in the volume, is Mark Twain’s cold and cutting analysis of the human race. It is in the form of colloquy between an old man and a young man, the elder arguing that man is a machine and nothing more. This is followed by the touching memorial to Jean Clemens, who died shortly before her father. Several of the papers are sketches from the author’s travels abroad. One is an appreciation of William Dean Howells. Other miscellaneous essays are: English as she is taught; A simplified alphabet; Concerning tobacco; The bee; Taming the bicycle; Is Shakespeare dead?

=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18

“Wherever in these pages he is humorous, Mark Twain is at his best; wherever he is serious and in a disputative mood he causes his readers to long for the creator of the Jumping frog, and for the traveller who made his historic journey through Europe in company with a party of merry Innocents.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 2 ‘17 500w

“An aftermath of sixteen papers representing the intellectual byplay of a big restless mind. Nothing human is foreign to this ranging curiosity.”

+ =Nation= 105:489 N 1 ‘17 520w

=CLEMENTS, FREDERIC EDWARD.= Plant succession. pa $5 Carnegie inst. 581.1 16-17349

“For nearly a quarter of a century the author of this large and attractive volume has been investigating numerous problems in the field of phyto-ecology and related subjects as he has found them in the great out-of-door laboratory of western United States. This area is particularly stimulating for such work since so many of the natural life phenomena have been preserved to the present in nearly their original conditions. ... The reader must understand that this work is not in any sense a treatise on general plant ecology. It represents a careful examination of the facts and principles of plant succession, an analysis of the development of vegetation in the past as well as the present, together with a digest of the methods for investigating successional phenomena.” (Science) Professor Clements has recently resigned from the faculty of the University of Minnesota to become a member of the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He is the author, with Mrs Clements, of “Rocky Mountain flowers.”

=Cleveland= p40 Mr ‘17

“This latest work from Clements will attract the attention of botanists and biologists in general throughout the world. ... The bibliography of nearly a thousand titles, the most of which have been abstracted or noted somewhere in the text, is still another valuable part of the book. This is probably the most nearly complete collection of titles on succession and related phenomena available. It may be said, after securing a bird’s-eye view of the book as a whole, that Clements’s monograph presents an invaluable summary of our knowledge of plant succession and that it must become at once the indispensable reference and guide for the student of vegetative cycles in all parts of the world.” R. J. Pool

+ =Science= n s 45:339 Ap 6 ‘17 1650w

=CLENNELL, WALTER JAMES.= Historical development of religion in China. *$2 Dutton 299 (Eng ed 17-17530)

“This book is an expansion of an address delivered on Dec. 8 and 9, 1913, to the students of the Caermarthen Presbyterian college. The relation between religion and history in China, and the attitude of the Chinese towards religious beliefs and practices, are set before the reader, together with accounts of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism in China, and Lamaism, the modern transformation of China, and other matters of interest.”—Ath

=A L A Bkl= 14:110 Ja ‘18

=Ath= p94 F ‘17 70w

“A sane and readable account of Chinese culture by a British consul. ... Mr Clennell succeeds in putting comprehensive statements in a lucid way, and any one who performs the easy task of following them is already equipped with some understanding of the creeds of China.”

+ =Nation= 105:125 Ag 2 ‘17 1000w

“Scholarly, thoughtful, suggestive, reverent, the work before us is one of the very best of its kind.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 39:446 Ja 19 ‘18 200w

=CLIFTON-SHELTON, ALFRED.= On the road from Mons. map and diags. *$1.25 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed A17-707)

“The work in the field of the English A. S. C. (Army service corps) is a branch of the service little known to Americans. Captain Clifton-Shelton, who was with the supply train of the Nineteenth brigade, gives, in ‘On the road from Mons,’ an account of the peril and the obstacles encountered by his immediate command during the historic retreat from Mons and the forward movement to the line of the Aisne.”—Boston Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17

“Graphic, and at times humorous, account.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 290w

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 40w

=COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Fragrant note book; romance and legend of the flower garden and the bye-way. il *$2.50 Putnam 716 17-14230

Mr Coan tells us “how to know the flowers, intimately and lovingly, but not at all scientifically and botanically. ... Poetry, both original and selected, profusely sprinkles the pages. ... Delicately tinted decorations cover the printed text.”—Dial

“To Mr Coan, his garden, through whose gate the Dumb Porter leads us, is a place of delight, of peace and ease of heart. And its freedom is given generously to us.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 280w

“In its content there is, as the author warns us, ‘of horticulture not a word.’ ... The appearance of the volume is handsome, and it will doubtless figure as a gift-book.”

+ =Cath World= 105:685 Ag ‘17 80w

“Delightfully original.”

+ =Dial= 63:167 Ag 30 ‘17 250w

“Precisely the sort of sentimental concoction devoted to ‘Romance and legend of the flower garden and the bye-way’ that is irresistibly alluring to a certain part of the American public.”

– + =Nation= 105:44 Je 12 ‘17 140w

=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= “Speaking of Prussians—” il *50c (4c) Doran 940.91 17-14799

The author was in Europe as a war correspondent early in the war. At that time he was a neutral, representing a neutral nation. He now says, “I am not a neutral any more. I am an American! My country has clashed with a foreign power, and the enemy of my country is my enemy and deserving of no more consideration at my hands than he deserves at the hands of my country. Moreover, I aim to try to show, as we go along, that any consideration of mercy or charity or magnanimity which we might show him would be misinterpreted. Being what he is he would not understand it.” The essay is reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17

“He is brief, uncompromising, but he is also fair-minded. He defends the German soldier from many charges, and thereby makes his arraignment of the German government and military system the more convincing.”

+ =Ind= 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 40w

“He was one of five experienced newspaper men who signed a statement of inability to discover good evidence of German atrocities in Belgium at that time. For such sentiments Mr Cobb was charged with being a German sympathizer when he was merely an open-minded reporter. But if any doubt exists in anybody’s mind as to the real state of the author’s mind, the reading of his little book will rapidly dispose of it.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 17 ‘17 270w

=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= Those times and these. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-16321

Ten of Irvin S. Cobb’s stories are collected in the volume. In several of them he returns to his native Kentucky and to Judge Priest. The first story, “‘Ex-fightin’ Billy,” is a tale of Judge Priest’s youth, of the time at the close of the war, when, refusing to be reconstructed, he had tried to become a citizen of Mexico. One of the later stories relates an episode of the present war. Contents: Ex-fightin’ Billy; And there was light; Mr Felsburg gets even; The garb of men; The cure for lonesomeness; The family tree; Hark! from the tombs; Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom; A kiss for kindness; Life among the abandoned farmers.

=A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 320w

“Every story is well written, and, as Judge Priest would say, ‘is as clean as a hound’s tooth.’”

+ =Cath World= 106:109 O ‘17 190w

=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 40w

“These tales belong more to the surface of things than did certain of the earlier ones; they are less dramatic and less gripping. Nevertheless, they are very well worth reading, even Mr Cobb’s worst being above the best of the great majority of short-story writers. And the volume closes with a bit of satirical foolery which is thoroughly joyous and amusing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 900w

“In many respects these stories do not measure up to those going before. They are reminiscent and genial as of yore, but their insistently reminiscent qualities give them something of a superficial and not infrequently, forced tone.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 500w

=COBBETT, LOUIS.= Causes of tuberculosis; together with some account of the prevalence and distribution of the disease. (Cambridge public health ser.) il *$6.50 Putnam 616.2 (Eng ed SG17-322)

Dr Cobbett is lecturer in pathology at Cambridge university and an authority on the subject whereof he treats. Some of the many important problems discussed by him are: “(1) the causes of the steady decline of consumption, since 1863, in spite of the growth of cities and of industrialism; (2) the fact that most of us, without any memory or reminder of it, have at some time or other been infected; (3) the question how far this infection confers immunity against re-infection; (4) the fact, or strong probability, that the risk of infection depends on the dosage—i.e., that we can deal with small doses of the bacilli, but not with ‘massive’ doses.” (Spec)

“His experience of experimental work and its pitfalls, and his acquaintance with the difficulties that face the practical sanitarian and those who are engaged in the treatment of tuberculous patients, enable him to bring to bear a keen critical faculty on the experience and experiments of other investigators, with the result that the work now before us may be looked upon as a ‘classic,’ and one that for years to come will, probably, remain the reference-book for those interested in tuberculosis.”

+ =Nature= 100:301 D 20 ‘17 1350w

“Dr Cobbett’s is one of the very best books of its kind, alike in its wealth of knowledge, in its clear, quiet style; its orderly marshalling of the legions of references, and the exact drawing of conclusions so inevitable that they seem to come of themselves. ... And it is for everybody to read who has had a grounding in the principles of bacteriology.”

+ =Spec= 119:118 Ag 4 ‘17 1200w

=COBERN, CAMDEN MCCORMACK.= New archeological discoveries. il *$3 Funk 225 17-15313

The author, who holds the chair of English Bible and philosophy of religion at Allegheny college, Pa., tells us that he is the first to attempt “to give a summary of all the discoveries in all lands, so far as these in any important way have cast light upon the New Testament writings or the life of the primitive church”; that the mass of new information utilized by him comes from the recently unearthed Greek and Coptic papyri; that “many of the texts are here translated into English for the first time”; and that his “semi-popular summary of important results” has been written “primarily for Bible teachers and ministers.” Dr Cobern shows that the papyri recently discovered in Egypt “prove conclusively that the Greek in which the New Testament was written was ... the vernacular of the day,” (Lit D) and that this “has led, not only to a rewriting of the New Testament grammars and lexicons but to a general recasting of very many phrases in the gospels and epistles, some of which were formerly obscure.” (Boston Transcript) A list of Scripture texts, illustrated is given on pages 687-8. There is an introduction by Edouard Naville, professor of archeology at the University of Geneva.

“Dr Cobern has produced a monumental work, in which he has brought down even to the opening of the current calendar year the richest and fullest knowledge which sheds light upon hitherto dark places in the Bible story.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 27 ‘17 1150w

“The fact that Dr Naville has written the introduction is sufficient guarantee of the scholarly character of Dr Cobern’s work. The present volume will prove of the greatest utility to the large number of readers who look for just such a ready reference to the scientific discoveries of modern times, and scholars, too, with large libraries at their disposal, will welcome the main facts presented in this condensed form.”

+ =Cath World= 106:244 N ‘17 360w

“While filled with illuminating material that will be prized by scholars and Bible students, it is written in a style so popular as to make a strong appeal to every book-lover. ... The illustrations are exceptionally fine, showing numerous portrait busts, recently excavated temples, and other buildings, frescoes, sarcophagi, etc.”

+ =Lit D= 55:32 Jl 14 ‘17 650w

“Dr Cobern brings the life and the customs of the early Christians before us in astonishing detail.”

+ =Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 230w

+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 90w

=Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 100w

=Pittsburgh= 22:698 O ‘17 50w

“It is manifestly unfair to write what purports to be a scientific study and to twist facts and give far-fetched interpretations of facts to fit a preconceived system of ideas. Camden M. Cobern has written a compendious work in which he is carried much too far by prepossessions. He at times makes astonishing statements and neglects to give the slightest authority or evidence therefor.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 880w

=COCHRAN, MRS EVE OWEN.= Wilderness rose; a play in four acts especially adapted for the use of American historical societies and chapters of the D. A. R. (American dramatists ser.) *$1 Badger, R: G. 812 17-10977

A pageant-play designed for amateur production. It tells a story of colonial New England in the days of the witchcraft delusion. Naomi Dickinson, a young girl, is accused of witchcraft. She flees from her native village and finds shelter with friendly Indians. Repentance on the part of the woman who had cast suspicion upon her and the efforts of her lover to find her result in her return and a happy ending.

=COCKE, SARAH COBB (JOHNSON) (MRS LUCIAN HOWARD COCKE).= Master of the hills; a tale of the Georgia mountains. *$1.50 Dutton 17-17974

“Mrs Cocke [relates] the adventures of two generations of the old Georgian family of Warner, whose lives are curiously interwoven with those of the family of the sturdy mountaineer, ‘Gray Eagle,’ known to his clan as ‘the Master of the hills.’ The story opens just before the outbreak of the Civil war, when, after finishing their education in Europe, the son and nephew of Judge Warner have returned to the little Georgian university town. ... With them comes the young Marquis de Layne, whose advent brings about an undreamed-of complication involving not only the Warners and their friends, but the family of the mountaineer Gray Eagle.”—Boston Transcript

“The changed conditions in the South, after the war, are well indicated. And although they are presented from a southern point of view, they are free from those mannerisms which often make pictures of the kind valueless. The story is agreeably told, sustaining its quiet interest to the end.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 250w

“The book proves, if it proves anything at all, that an author may be fairly truthful in regard to history, geography, and dialect, and yet completely miss the essential characteristics of a people.”

— =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 80w

“To call it unreal is to insult reality. We marvel most at its finding a publisher.” Clement Wood

– — =N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 330w

“The author’s style is poor.”

— =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 250w

“The book shows immature workmanship.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 270w

=COCROFT, SUSANNA.= Growth in silence; the undertone of life. il *$1.50 (5c) Putnam 131 17-25740

A cheerful, demonstrable theory of life underlies these helpful sermonettes. Women who owe Mrs Cocroft a debt of gratitude for demonstrating the way to fuller physical perfection will turn with confidence to what she has to say on the subject of Mental and physical poise, Happiness, Mental atmosphere, Health, Nerve control, Freedom of thought, and kindred themes. The philosophy is a philosophy of optimism which if put into practice develops the harmonies of the soul, and in turn manifest harmony in the body. A book for both men and women.

=COESTER, ALFRED LESTER.= Literary history of Spanish America. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan 860 16-18492

For descriptive note see =Annual for 1916.=

“One pays tribute to the author’s labor, and also to his scholarship. In his printing of Spanish names and quotations, he is singularly accurate, only a negligible number of trifling errors having fallen under the reviewer’s eye. ... It may be that, in the course of his long poring over South American writers, and his epitomes of their books, Dr Coester sometimes loses his sense of proportion; is betrayed into calling a poet great because his admiring fellow-countrymen did so. But as a whole he keeps his head and his poise.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:202 O ‘17 550w

“Mr Coester’s book fills an inestimable place as a guide and counsellor in this otherwise uncharted study.” T: Walsh

+ =Bookm= 45:318 My ‘17 830w

“A closing chapter on the contemporary Modernista movement is especially valuable for its appreciation and criticism of the work of the brilliant Nicaraguan lyric poet, Ruben Darío, who died recently. Used in conjunction with the author’s bibliography of Spanish-American literature, published in the Romanic Review, we have here the best available guide, in English, for the novitiate in this field.”

+ =Ind= 89:457 Mr 12 ‘17 280w

“Devoting some forty pages to what he has called the ‘Colonial period’ of Spanish-American literature, the author exhibits with a wealth of interesting detail the origins of one of the most fascinating of literary epochs. The average reader will here find an unexplored mine of information. He will gain some idea of Spain’s eminence in the field of literature.”

+ =Lit D= 54:2000 Je 30 ‘17 470w

“Dr Coester is a young Harvard man, corresponding member of the Hispanic society of America, and author of a ‘Practical Spanish grammar,’ and kindred text books.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:109 Mr 25 ‘17 770w

“Mr Coester gives a chapter to each country. The average reader is surprised to learn that there is a school of realistic novelists in Mexico, which most Americans cannot think of as a literary nation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 220w

=COHEN, ISRAEL.= Ruhleben prison camp, il *$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 940.91 (Eng ed 17-18379)

Ruhleben is a race course outside Berlin that is now used as a concentration camp for British civilians. The author was interned there for nineteen months, from November 6, 1914 to June 6, 1916. He says, “In the following pages I have endeavoured to set forth as faithfully as my memory would permit the varied vicissitudes through which I passed from the outbreak of the war down to my arrival in London. I have confined myself as much as possible to a record of my own experiences and observations, supplemented only to a small extent by the information I gleaned from trustworthy fellow-prisoners.” He writes of: The act of internment; Rules, regimen, and rumours; The segregation of the Jews; Administration, discipline, and punishment; Communal organization; Social amenities and characters; Intellectual activities, etc.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17

“The experiences related have naturally a good deal in common with those described by Mr Geoffrey Pyke in his book published in February, 1916, but Mr Cohen’s way of meeting troubles and difficulties does not appear to us to have been so commendable.”

=Ath= p258 My ‘17 43w

=Ath= p346 Jl ‘17 330w

+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 80w

“The whole story is told dispassionately and with a charm of manner and power of description that make the recital one of the most vivid and fascinating chapters yet written in the history of the great war.”

+ =Dial= 63:68 Jl 19 ‘17 330w

“It is owing to Mr Cohen’s faculty of conveying these impressions vividly as well as to his graphic descriptions of external conditions that his book has such great human interest.”

+ =Nation= 105:44 N 15 ‘17 210w

+ =N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:761 N ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w

“An accomplished journalist, he has none of the higher gifts of writing which stir and thrill the heart. Rather he has written a sober and comprehensive history which will survive as a permanent document of the war when the brilliant sketches are, perhaps, forgotten. ... The illustrations are well chosen and serve to complete a remarkably full book, so thick with detail that it is somewhat difficult to read.”

+ =Sat R= 123:368 Ap 21 ‘17 1900w

+ =Spec= 118:676 Je 16 ‘17 150w

“Of all the books so far printed about Ruhleben it is the most complete, though it could not, in the nature of the case, tell all that there is to be told. It has, no doubt, the defects of its qualities. ... One must go elsewhere for a study of the effect of too much barbed wire upon the human mind.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p122 Mr 15 ‘17 1050w

=COHEN, JULIUS HENRY.= The law; business or profession? *$2.50 Banks 340 16-23082

“‘The law: business or profession?’ raises and answers the question of the ethics of law practice. Mr Cohen finds the case hopeful. He does not blink the bad reputation which lawyers as a class have gained with the common people, and he does not assert that it is unjustified by facts. But he points out a growing spirit within the bar to cleanse itself of undesirable practitioners, and to keep the law as a profession free from business entanglements and from corruption through financial interests.”—Springf’d Republican

“Mr Cohen writes with earnestness and vigor. His plea for the recognition of the law as a profession and not a business will benefit every lawyer and layman who reads it.”

+ =Nation= 105:127 Ag 2 ‘17 670w

“It is not to be thought that there is anything local about the book. It is even broader than the nation, many leading countries being searched for cases affording a basis for the principles which control the lawyer’s professional ethics everywhere, and in all times.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:14 Ja 14 ‘17 800w

“Sound doctrine for both the profession and the public.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ‘17 270w

=COIT, STANTON.= Is civilization a disease? *$1 (6c) Houghton 302 17-13984

In this essay, presented first at the University of California in the series of Barbara Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade, the author uses the term trade in a broad sense to include our whole system of socialized wealth. Civilization is defined as “the organization of man’s mastery over nature on a basis of self interest,” and modern trade is said to disclose civilization in its acutest form. Civilization, the author points out, is a mushroom growth. It is already beginning to crumble, and will in time be superseded by a new order which is already in process of creation. The title of the little book is suggested by Edward Carpenter’s “Civilization: its cause and cure.”

“These lectures bear the earmarks of shallow thinking, as well as the defacements of fulsome expression.” Archibald Henderson

— =Bookm= 46:275 N ‘17 300w

Reviewed by H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 63:445 N 8 ‘17 580w

=Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 50w

“If the Barbara Weinstock lectures are to be the vehicle for such wild surmisings as those displayed in ‘Is civilization a disease?’ the founder’s money might have been put to much better uses.”

— =Nation= 105:350 S 27 ‘17 230w

=R of Rs= 56:327 S ‘17 250w

“Dr Coit is evidently one of those sociological rhetoricians who preach eugenics in season and out of season. Otherwise he might have been graciously willing to discuss the very interesting subject proposed by the foundation of lectures which he was the first to adorn.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 280w

“Dr Coit, in this essay, provides a stupendous idea in tabloid form.” Bruno Lasker

+ =Survey= 39:201 N 24 ‘17 400w

=COLE, NORMAN BROWN, and ERNST, CLAYTON H.= First aid for boys. il *$1.25 Appleton 614.8 17-14057

“A manual for boy scouts and for others interested in prompt help for the injured and the sick.” (Sub-title) Contents: A handful of signs; What to do; Shock and fainting; A little about the blood and more about bleeding; Sunstroke and heat exhaustion; Concussion, skull fracture, apoplexy, alcoholic intoxication, and epilepsy; Infection and “staphy”; Burns and frostbites; Poisoning; Bandages and carries; Fractures and dislocations; Drowning and artificial respiration; Minor emergencies. There are fifty-one illustrations from drawings by Walt Harris. The book is endorsed by James E. West, chief scout executive of the Boy scouts of America.

“Directions well given and simplified by diagrams.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:64 N ‘17

“Dr Cole and Mr Ernst have been active workers in the scout movement, and have made their book not only sound technically but adapted psychologically to the interest of the boy reader. ... Similarly, the drawings by Walt Harris reinforce the text accurately and ingeniously.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 300w

+ =Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p20 O ‘17

=COLEMAN, ALGERNON, and LA MESLÉE, A. MARIN.= Le soldat américain en France, map *50c Univ. of Chicago press 448 17-22278

A French reader containing “chapters on France, transports, hotels, railroads, manners and customs, food, money, army, etc., with a vocabulary giving the article with all nouns and indicating pronunciation.”—A L A Bkl

“To be used in connection with either of the University of Chicago manuals.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:9 O ‘17

“For the green student, this little book would be wholly useless, unless studied with a teacher. The figured pronunciation, even with the instructions given would be an unsolvable mystery. ... The verb is the back-bone of a language; but not a hint is given as to the inflections. The chapters that follow the elaborate statement of pronunciation are written in idiomatic French and are a mixture of the commonplace and the valuable.”

– + =Boston Transcript= p7 S 22 ‘17 220w

=Pittsburgh= 22:693 O ‘17 20w

=COLEMAN, FREDERIC ABERNETHY.= With cavalry in the great war; the British trooper in the trench line. il *$1.50 Jacobs 940.91 A17-1461

“A phase of the fighting on the western front, of which we have known little, is covered by Mr Coleman in this personal narrative of the exploits of the British cavalry through the second battle of Ypres. Some of our readers may recall Mr Coleman’s earlier book entitled, ‘From Mons to Ypres with General French.’ The present volume takes up the story where its predecessor left it—with the closing days of 1914.”—R of Rs

Reviewed by C. M. Francis

— =Bookm= 46:450 D ‘17 300w

“Mr Coleman’s book is copiously illustrated with excellent photographic views.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 19 ‘17 430w

+ — =Dial= 63:589 D 6 ‘17 150w

=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 150w

=COLERIDGE, STEPHEN.= Evening in my library among the English poets. *$1.25 Lane 821 17-13371

An essay on English poetry, with many quotations. The author says, “I invite the reader to spend an evening in my library, drawing down a volume here and a volume there, following no definite order either of date or subject, guided only by a desire to estimate without prejudice the quality of the verse.” Among the poems selected for quotation are many that are not universally known. Among these are a few of the more exquisite of modern poems. With the radical departures in verse-making, the author has no sympathy.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 5 ‘17 700w

“This book is rather a personal expression of likes and dislikes in the field of poetry than a work of genuine criticism, that will have an abiding value in one’s own library.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:687 Ag ‘17 280w

“The anthology on the whole is fair, and something more than that. It includes poems from little-known authors, which any reader will be glad to have brought to his notice. The book leaves an impression in harmony with its title.”

+ — =Nation= 104:661 My 31 ‘17 300w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:61 Ap ‘17

“A book which definitely assists in the development of literary taste.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 70w

+ =Sat R= 122:438 N 4 ‘16 2200w

“A very unconventional anthology, interspersed with some candid criticism. The modern apostles of ‘force’ like Mr Masefield, and the late Rupert Brooke, and Francis Thompson in his highly rhetorical mood are sternly reproved. ... For our part, we could wish that Mr Coleridge had not included second-rate modern verse like ‘The rosary,’ and that he had hesitated before asserting that Goldsmith’s ‘Deserted village’ was inspired while Gray’s ‘Elegy’ was not.”

– + =Spec= 17:660 N 25 ‘16 110w

“Some of the poems, too, are worthy of rediscovery and deserve a popularizing of their merits. But most of them are less unfamiliar than Mr Coleridge seems to think.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 350w

“What are the principles that guide Mr Coleridge in choosing selections for our improvement and delight? It is not difficult to discover them. The prize always goes to the poet of finish and scholarship, who observes the laws of prosody and elevates and refines the passions, which is Mr Coleridge observes, the ‘true function of the poet.’ And with this for his standard he moves his poets up and down like boys in a class. ... Enough has been said, perhaps, to show that, though we should not allow Mr Coleridge to choose our new poets for us, he is a very vigilant guardian of the old.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p523 N 2 ‘16 850w

=COLLIN, CHRISTEN CHRISTIAN DREYER.= War against war, and the enforcement of peace; introd. by W: Archer. *80c Macmillan 341.1 (Eng ed 17-18476)

“Professor Collin, of Christiania, is one of the most eminent of Norwegian writers. ... In these eleven essays he writes with much force in support of the allied cause, and deals effectively with the utterances on the other side in his own country and in Germany—his view of the future being that ‘universal peace will be secured not by disarmament but by joint armament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“An excellent statement of our cause by a detached observer. ... Perhaps the most interesting chapter in the book is the essay on Kant’s ‘Perpetual peace.’ Prof. Collin fixes on the ironical fact that it was Kant, a German, who first promulgated the idea of the gradual federation of the free nations of the world into a world-republic.”

+ =Ath= p296 Je ‘17 480w

“Prof. Christen Christian Collin, of the University of Christiania, is an acknowledged authority upon Greek, Norwegian, French, and English literature, and an ardent sociologist.”

+ =Ath= p301 Je ‘17 100w

“A very sensible plea for the cause of the Entente Allies.”

+ =Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 90w

=Nation= 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 100w

“Nearly all of the essays take up the idea of a league of nations as an outcome of the present war whose function it would be to lessen the danger of war in the future and perhaps even prevent its recurrence.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:269 Jl 22 ‘17 570w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 50w

+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 120w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 My 5 ‘17 270w

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Home handy book. il *$1.10 Appleton 680 17-14069

“A compendium of useful things to do around the average house and how to keep it in repair.” (Sub-title) The author advises every man to learn how to do his own repair work on two counts: first, he will save money, second, he will take pride and pleasure in doing things for himself. He writes of: Tools everyone should have; Indoor mechanics; Be your own locksmith; Doing electrical jobs; The amateur plumber; The handy glazier; The furniture repairer; The home decorator; Handy helps for the house; Odds and ends.

+ =Pratt= p24 O ‘17 20w

=Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 20w

“Just the thing for the man who likes to ‘putter around,’ or the growing boy who wishes to make himself handy.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 40w

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Magic of science. il *$1.25 Revell 530 17-19383

“In ‘The magic of science,’ A. Frederick Collins has compiled, largely from manuals of his own writing, a book of scientific amusements which can be performed with simple apparatus. Practical glimpses are provided into the mystery of light, heat, sound, magnetism and electricity, and a successful effort is made to set the experiments in an orderly sequence that should make for the positive instruction of the youthful experimenter. Many of the processes are already familiar, but they lose none of their interest from that fact. There are numerous illustrations.”—Springf’d Republican

“It will interest and spur boys’ curiosity in spite of its unattractive make-up.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:136 Ja ‘18

“His latest volume deals with scientific facts, novel and delightful facts many of them, and small boys with average intelligence aged from eleven to fifteen will read it with eagerness.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 100w

“We are sorry for the boy who cannot own a copy of this fascinating book.”

+ =Ind= 91:265 Ag 18 ‘17 30w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 90w

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Money making for boys. il *$1 (2c) Dodd 658 17-31276

Practical money-making schemes for boys in the country, village or city based on the best business ethics. The value to the boy is that the instruction tends to train him to put a value on whatever is sold that is fair to both customer and to himself. The training itself forms the foundation of a business career; it brings into play all of the ingenuity of the boy and helps him direct it into profitable channels. Contents: Why every boy should make money; Ways a boy can make money; How to start an agency business; Running a messenger service; Getting and doing trade jobs; There’s money in refreshments; Raising small live stock; In partnership with the earth; Fishing, hunting and trapping; Making things to sell; Working for other people; What to do with your money.

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.=[2] Boys’ book of submarines. il *$1.35 (3c) Stokes 623.8 17-31264

A book for boys, made up of the following chapters: The first of the submarines; How to make and work a model submarine; How a real submarine is made and works; The heart of the submarine; Making and shooting the torpedo; Making the submarine deadlier; The wonderful eye of the submarine; The marvelous tongue and ears of the submarine; The crew of the submarine; How the submarine attacks; The new submarine chasers; The last word in submarines. There are illustrations from photographs and numerous figures and diagrams.

“A book that is a help to the understanding of war news.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:591 D 23 ‘17 30w

“A splendid book for the boy who is interested in boats and mechanics.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 190w

=COLLINS, CHARLES WALLACE.= National budget system. *$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 351.73 17-20555

“This work is an attempt to show in as brief a compass as possible what the budget system is, why it is said to be needed for the United States, and what adjustments could possibly be made short of a constitutional amendment to secure its adoption. ... The writer has attempted, even at the risk of the loss of scientific technique, to make this exposition readable. The work is not intended to be original or exhaustive. ... In the preparation of this work the author has used portions of an article of his, ‘Constitutional aspects of a national budget system’ in the Yale Law Journal for March, 1916, and another, ‘The coming of the budget system’ in the South Atlantic Quarterly for October, 1916.” (Preface) A short list of authorities is appended.

“The intricacies of national finance are not easily expressed in simple terms but the author of the present volume set out to do this and on the whole he has succeeded. This is not because he has evaded or glossed over the difficulties but because he first explains with sufficient detail just how each of the great countries prepares its financial program for the year and then indicates where our own short-comings are. His criticism of the American system is incisive and to the point, but not overdone.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:791 N ‘17 120w

+ =Cath World= 106:257 N ‘17 450w

“On the whole the argument presented is excellent, but some of the difficulties which would be involved under our present system of federal government are passed over with slight or no consideration.”

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:1058 D ‘17 230w

“Mr Collins’ book is a distinctly valuable contribution. It contains little original material. All the data he uses lay undigested in the forbidding tomes of committee reports, statutes and treatises on political science. But, except for Professor Ford’s ‘Cost of our national government,’ little of this has been predigested for popular consumption. Mr Collins’ book is more up to date, has a wider sweep and contains more definite proposals for change, while it avoids even more successfully the pitfalls of technical lingo and involved exposition.” Evans Clark

+ =N Y Call= p14 O 21 ‘17 1450w

+ =N Y Times= 22:483 N 18 ‘17 1250w

“Public finance is generally a dry subject, but Judge Collins has managed with rare ability to make his volume interesting and comprehensive. It should appeal to the ordinary reader as well as to students. Not the least interesting part of the work is the author’s description of the various budget systems of foreign governments.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 250w

“This compact little book admirably fulfils the purpose of its author. Much stress is properly laid upon the history and budget practice of Great Britain and while all that the author says in praise of the English budget system is true, he has missed the significance of the treasury as a great independent department of administration or business management. He has likewise failed to call attention in his references to authorities and sources for further study of budget systems to the remarkable collection of literature on this subject edited and published by the New York Bureau of municipal research.” S: M. Lindsay

+ — =Survey= 39:266 D 1 ‘17 300w

=COLLINS, FRANCIS ARNOLD.= Air man. il *$1.30 (4c) Century 629.1 17-21113

The conquests of the air man in peace and war are told by the author of “The camera man,” “The wireless man,” etc. The opening chapter on Learning to fly describes and compares the methods of teaching in use in America and in France, and enumerates the requisites for obtaining an American flying license. Other chapters are: The aero-sportsman, Aero-exploration and adventure; Aerial transportation; Embattled air-fleets; Air duels; American airmen under fire; The chivalry of the air. The final chapter, American air forces, tells of what has been accomplished in, and is planned for, aviation in America.

“A book to arouse enthusiasm and confidence in aviation.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:44 N ‘17

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 30w

“With its interesting text and graphic illustrations from over fifty photographs, ‘The air man’ ranks among the extremely few books upon aviation that appeal to the average American who wants the thrill of its story free of the dry-as-dust of equations and diagrams.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 240w

“Of interest to boys and adults.”

+ =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 20w

=Nation= 105:349 S 27 ‘17 540w

“Mr Collins’s book is very opportune, and the fact that it is so well done, gives so comprehensive a view of the general subject of aeronautics and of what has been already accomplished therein and is written with accuracy, although it is not too technical for the ordinary reader, will help to give it the popularity it deserves.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 800w

=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Mogu, the wanderer; or, The desert; a fantastic comedy in three acts. *$1 Little 822 17-8575

Padraic Colum has been closely associated with the Irish dramatic movement, but in this play he leaves his native Ireland to write a drama of the East. The scene is laid in Persia. Mogu the wanderer is a beggar from the desert who at one stroke of fate is elevated to the viziership, made second in power to the king. By an equally sudden chance he is restored to his former lowly position, to return to his desert a beggar.

“Full of authentic oriental color.”

+ =Dial= 62:445 My 17 ‘17 210w

“On the stage, when properly presented in accordance with Mr Colum’s directions, it would make a remarkable picture. There is, unfortunately, in the early act an element of uncertainty as to how far the imagination is to play a part in the development of the plot, as to where the audience is to be serious or not, that somewhat confuses the dramatic action.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 160w

“The play is fascinating and it presents a new phase of Mr Colum’s dramatic invention. The key to this phase is in his volume of poems, ‘Wild earth.’”

+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 210w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 280w

=COLVIN, IAN D.= Unseen hand in English history. *7s 6d National review office, London (Eng ed 17-25264)

“Mr Colvin’s ‘Unseen hand in English history’ is a continuation of his book ‘The Germans in England.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “He reviews the chief events of English history since the Tudors with the object of showing what the traditional English policy is.” (Sat R) “The bulk of the book is a plea on not very novel grounds for a protective system, or, as he ... prefers to call it, ‘national industry.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“The book is not history: it is not even good honest fiction. It is simply a pamphlet decked out with an apparatus of learning. ... It is, however, well worth perusing as a study of Jingo psychology. Mr Colvin, whose incisive style may be recognized in the leading columns of the Morning Post, [draws] his ideas not from Britain, but from Berlin.”

— =Ath= p399 Ag ‘17 570w

“The book is well worth reading. A lively style, adroit selections, an instinct for contemporary sources and authorities, distinguish Mr Colvin from most of our professional historians, who fear they will lose their name for science if they cease to be dull. ... He argues strongly for a tariff, and he chooses the best arguments for his case.”

+ + — =Sat R= 124:50 Jl 21 ‘17 780w

“Mr Colvin is too much in the grip of Germany.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p302 Je 28 ‘17 1050w

=COLVIN, SIR SIDNEY.= John Keats; his life and poetry, his friends, critics, and after-fame. il *$4.50 Scribner 17-30270

“Besides presenting for the first time in full and consecutive detail the history of Keats’s life and poetical activity, the new book discusses with a fullness which has not hitherto been attempted his relations both to his Elizabethan masters and some of his Victorian followers, and relates the slow and gradual growth of his fame after his death. It moreover throws, with the help of various illustrations from prints, pictures, and the antique, new light on some of the sources of his inspiration; and aims at calling up the circle of his friends in their human lineaments about him, as well as at making felt the various and conflicting currents of the critical and poetical atmosphere amid which he lived.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“A scholarly, full and connected account.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18

“Sir Sidney Colvin, in this fine reassortment of the facts of Keats’s life, seems to us to be insufficiently content with Keats’s actual performance. He is eager to introduce an ethical nobleness into the portrait such as certainly is not reflected in Keats’s greatest poetry.”

+ — =Ath= p664 D ‘17 1400w

“This careful, thorough, tactful, and exhaustive work renders obsolete all previous expressions of opinion upon Keats; it deserves, indeed, to be labelled with the final word, ‘definitive.’ If this monumental volume is, in any way, disappointing to the present commentator, it is only because Sir Sidney Colvin—actuated by his trained and careful sense of literary values—has avoided sedulously many manifest temptations to assert and to insist upon the prime importance of his hero. And, to my mind Sir Sidney says, if anything, too little in praise of Keats.” Clayton Hamilton

+ — =Bookm= 46:609 Ja ‘18 1550w

“A biography to which the very name and chronicle of the subject could not help but add its atmosphere of charm; but it is not a ‘life’ of Keats, because the biographer gets too near his subject without getting inside of it. It is always in the negative qualities of Keats, both as a man and poet, that Mr Colvin is best in his biographical and critical treatment.” W. S. B.

– + =Boston Transcript= p7 D 8 ‘17 2050w

“It is a book to read with delight; better still, it is a book that compels one to turn back and reread the poet himself.” W: C. Greene

+ =Dial= 64:64 Ja 17 ‘18 1050w

“Until some chance discovery of fresh material antiquates it, this must remain the standard authority upon Keats, as accurate as patient scholarship can make it, and interesting to all scholarly and unscholarly lovers of poetry.” P. L.

+ =New Repub= 13:219 D 22 ‘17 1500w

“The author’s monograph on Keats in the English men of letters series, published thirty years ago, has heretofore been the chief authority upon his life, character, and achievements, but compared with the full-length portrait, complete, detailed, and authoritative, presented in this volume, the other makes of him hardly more than a sketched vignette. It is a notable and distinguished piece of biographical writing that is worthy to be classed among the great biographies of English literature.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:542 D 9 ‘17 1950w

“Manifestly a labour of love, this admirable work, illuminated throughout with thorough knowledge and fine critical acumen, deserves to take high rank in the select company of kindred classics. But the book is not only of absorbing interest as a masterly presentment of the poet and his work; it also teems with vivid studies of the circle in which he lived.”

+ =Sat R= 124:440 D 1 ‘17 1550w

“A special feature of the book is the remarkably full treatment of the sources of his inspiration in literature. Another strong point is the helpful interpretation of the obscurities of Keats’s symbolism, with the result of enabling the reader to form a truer estimate of ‘Endymion’ than was before possible. And if the book has been a labour of love, it is love which is ‘this side idolatry.’ There is plenty of severe criticism of Keats’s lapses from good taste and clear thinking—his amorous mawkishness, his lax phrasing, and infelicitous coinages. Sir Sidney Colvin is scrupulously fair in his handling of Keats’s critics; if he lets himself go about Byron, the provocation is irresistible.”

+ =Spec= 119:601 N 24 ‘17 2050w

“In a book that is itself a poem, so fine and true is its penetration, so full and sensitive its expression, Sir Sidney Colvin has assembled all the essential, one is tempted to say the quintessential, facts relative to the poet Keats.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 800w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 S 6 ‘17 260w

“The new matter adds light and shade to the already vivid portraits of the poet and his friends, and examines his art more closely, both in itself and in its relation to the development of English poetry as a whole. In its pages the life and character of Keats stand out clear in all their subtle and tragic beauty.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p573 N 29 ‘17 3550w

Complete United States infantry guide; arr. by Major J. K. Parsons. il *$6 Lippincott 356 17-21916

This volume, for officers and noncommissioned officers, is said to include all the War department publications relating to the infantry arm of the service. It is profusely illustrated with charts and diagrams.

“In this very formidable volume is all information required to make the infantry soldier efficient. His convenience will surely be served by this opportunity to learn what must be learned from one work, instead of being compelled to familiarize himself with twenty-five books.”

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 1 ‘17 150w

“This encyclopedic volume should be in every military man’s library.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 80w

“The material is well selected and arranged and the book contains a detailed index. The only difficulty results from the size of the publication with its 2074 pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 9 ‘17 200w

=COMSTOCK, DANIEL FROST, and TROLAND, LEONARD THOMPSON.= Nature of matter and electricity; an outline of modern views. il *$2 Van Nostrand 530.1 17-8751

“This is a book on the modern physics of matter intended for the general reader and written without mathematics. The authors have collaborated by writing different parts of the book. A large number of topics are presented to the reader in semi-popular form. The treatment is descriptive, aided by diagrams and chemical formula groupings, and technical terms have been avoided as far as possible. Part 1 is divided into eleven chapters on the following topics: Introductory, the ultimate realities, atoms and their behavior, the nature of heat and allied phenomena, the electron and its behavior, electrons, chemical action and light, electrons and magnetism, radio-activity, the structure of the atom, recent discoveries concerning atomic structure and radiation. Part 2 deals briefly in turn with fifty-six subjects and in a manner somewhat more advanced than that of part 1.”—Elec World

=Elec World= 70:24 Jl 7 ‘17 170w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

=St Louis= 15:326 S ‘17

=COMSTOCK, MRS HARRIET THERESA.= Man thou gavest. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-11705

The story opens in the southern mountains. Here Conning Truedale has come to regain his health, and here he meets little Nella-Rose. The witch-like, mountain child fascinates him, and the marriage vows they exchange under the open sky are as sacred to him as they are to her. Then he goes away, promising to return. He keeps his promise and is stunned to learn that the girl has married her outlaw lover and gone away over the mountains. This is what he is told, and believing it, he goes back to New York and in time marries. But the mountain people had been mistaken about Nella-Rose. She had been in hiding, waiting for the man she called her husband to return and for her child to be born. This child, “Lil’ Ann,” later comes into the lives of Conning Truedale and his wife, Lynda.

“The fatal weakness in this story is not its artificiality of plot and excess of emotion so much as the hollow elaboration of its characters. We might have enjoyed the romance if the author had not tried to make it a vehicle of realism.” H. W. Boynton

— =Bookm= 46:208 O ‘17 380w

“Southern mountain dialect as it is not spoken is amply illustrated in Miss Comstock’s latest tale of involved heart interest.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 200w

“The primitive life and character of the mountains are forced into the office of pointing up and giving a sort of exotic relish to an essentially and even conventionally ‘modern’ story. Against an action artificially contrived, the figure of Nella-Rose stands out with a good deal of vigor and clarity.”

+ =Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 310w

“As a whole the characters, like the tale, belong to melodrama. Ingenuity is shown in the management of the incidents which separate Truedale and Nella-Rose and some of the descriptions are well done.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 200w

=CONNOLLY, JAMES.= Labour in Ireland; with an introd. by Robert Lynd. *4s Maunsel & co., London (Eng ed 17-25871)

“Although James Connolly acted for many years in connection with the extreme Socialistic party in Scotland, the United States, and Belfast, it was not until the Dublin strikes of 1913 that he attracted much attention from the English public; and even then he was overshadowed in the popular judgment by the more spectacular ‘Jim’ Larkin. When the strikes collapsed he passed again out of general notice except in Dublin, where it was known that the nominal second-in-command of the Irish transport workers’ union was the real contriving head and driving-force of the movement. ... When the Sinn Fein rebellion broke out in Easter week of 1916, he appeared as Commandant-General of the Dublin division.’ ... The present volume is made up of reprints of two of his works, ‘Labour in Irish history’ and ‘The reconquest of Ireland.’ The first and more elaborate of the two is based on the thesis that the key to the secret of Irish history is the exploitation of the poor by the rich. ... The second part of the volume depicts, in the darkest colours, the condition of the working class in Dublin and Belfast at the present day.”—Spec

“Given the point of view, the book is ably and not intemperately written. The author fairly admits difficulties in his theory—such, for example, as the inefficiency of local administration in Dublin, where the machinery of government is controlled by a democratic body democratically elected. His bias appears more in his selection and suppression of facts than in his presentment of them; he thinks he does well to be angry. But if you write history remembering only the severities used to restore law and order, and forgetting or justifying the outrages which provoked them: approving of force when used against the rich, and condemning it when used against the poor; assuming as a matter of course that a man of property always and necessarily acts from the basest of interested motives—you may produce a very vivid picture, but it will not bear much relation to the events and men it professes to portray.”

=Spec= 118:702 Je 23 ‘17 1000w

“‘Labour in Ireland’ cannot be overlooked by any one interested in Irish problems.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p221 My 10 ‘17 800w

=CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN.= Running free. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-24272

This volume includes ten stories of the sea or of seamen ashore, copyrighted 1913-17 by Charles Scribner’s sons, 1912-17 by P. F. Collier & son, 1916 by the Curtis publishing company. “A bale of blankets” is a story of American naval life; “The strategists” and “Breath o’ dawn” are naval romances, with the fleet in the background. Other stories are: The weeping Annie; The bull-fight; Peter stops ashore; The sea-birds; The medicine ship; One wireless night; Dan Magee: white hope.

“Ten live sea stories told with humor and pathos.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17

“In all these brief, sometimes sketchy, but always effective picturings of life, the one sure, detectable Connolly touch is the signet-ring stamp of individuality. And it is an individuality born of the sea and of a deep, passionate, unalterable love of the sea.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 10 ‘17 290w

“The wind whistles vigorously through Mr Connolly’s pages; they drip with brine; and the threatening face of death frequently interrupts the grim humor of the old salts. This good, clean, virile book, like the others that preceded it, will help to keep his fame afloat.”

+ =Cath World= 106:412 D ‘17 120w

“Sensationalism is absent, but there is humor, human appeal and the real salty flavor.”

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w

“The author is unhappy in the choice of the first story to appear in this book. ... But Mr Connolly is at home in the succeeding stories. They are strong, and the sharp tang and clean breath of the sea are beside the reader till the book is finished. Perhaps ‘Seabirds’ contains more real character than the others, but ‘One wireless night’ is the story of the book.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 100w

“‘Running free’ is devoid of sensationalism, free from melodrama. ... You will find a crowd of thoroughly human and humorous, unsentimentalized men of the sea. ... There is heroism as well as humor in these stories, but it is an unassuming, casual sort of heroism.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 600w

“The frequent assertion that romance disappeared from the sea with the advent of steam vessels is abundantly disproved in the ten short stories of ‘Running free.’ In spite of the apparent absence of artificial color, the stories are dramatic and thrilling.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 490w

=CONNOR, RALPH, pseud. (CHARLES WILLIAM GORDON).= The major. il *$1.40 (1c) Doran 17-30122

The motif of Mr Connor’s story is one whose patriotic climax and poignant cadence echo in the souls of millions of men and women the world over today. Canada furnishes the scene and the characters, but the sentiment portrayed belongs to the whole wide world at war. The hero is a fine type of manhood, the best that countries can produce. He passes thru the period of bewilderment and misery, which thousands have gone thru, when the burden of his thought is, “that great people upon whose generous ideals and liberal Christian culture he had grounded a sure hope of permanent peace, had flung to the winds all the wisdom, and all the justice, and all the humanity which the centuries had garnered for them, and following the primal instincts of the brute, had hurled forth upon the world ruthless war.” Then came the succession of events chief among which were the Belgian atrocities, which kindled slowly in the hero’s heart the purpose to have a part in ridding the earth of a system that could produce such horrors. Many a young man will read in these pages his own reactions to the call to the colors.

“The story-teller is successful in welding all his material into the substance of a spirited romance.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:603 Ja ‘18 380w

=Nation= 105:667 D 13 ‘17 410w

“While Mr Connor’s new novel cannot be said to amount to much as a story, the picture of Canada in the early days of the war with which it concludes is quite interesting.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:556 D 16 ‘17 300w

“The story has the directness and ‘punch’ of earlier Ralph Connor books. It has also a sound and deep patriotic spirit.”

+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 50w

“It is almost startlingly ingenuous at times, but as a whole vigorous and life like.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 20 ‘17 140w

=CONRAD, JOSEPH.= Shadow line; a confession. *$1.35 (3½c) Doubleday 17-12955

The shadow line marks the boundary between youth and maturity. Its approach is heralded by extreme boredom, weariness and dissatisfaction. It is a time of rash actions—getting married suddenly or throwing up one’s job without reason. The young seaman who is hero of this tale of the Malay Archipelago leaves his ship on a sudden impulse, intending to take passage for home. While idling about in an eastern seaport, opportunity comes his way and he finds himself captain of a sailing vessel whose master had but recently died. He is in command of this ship for twenty-one fever-ridden and ghost-haunted days, and at the end of his voyage he finds that the boundary line has been crossed. Youth lies behind him.

“Gives somewhat the same sense of the power of the sea and the wonder of human nature as ‘Youth’ and ‘The typhoon.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:402 Je ‘17

“The atmosphere and the portraiture are masterly, but the book seems to us more the elaboration of a short story than an actual novel.”

+ =Ath= p253 My ‘17 90w

“The subtitle, ‘A confession,’ may lead us to surmise that the tale may be bound with special closeness to Mr Conrad’s own experience.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:536 Jl ‘17 480w

“Nothing written by Mr Conrad during his twenty years of fame as a maker of English fiction is more characteristic than ‘The shadow line.’ It is an epitome of his manner and a summary of his method.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 5 ‘17 1450w

“For Conrad, ‘the most unliterary of writers,’ is no more nor no less unliterary than Meredith or Swinburne or Shakespeare. No other writer—I do not except the poets—has a richer variety of verbal resource or uses his power with more careful command.” J: Macy

+ =Dial= 62:442 My 17 ‘17 700w

+ =Ind= 90:437 Je 2 ‘17 130w

+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 290w

“The tale is quite straightforward, with a sort of breathless simplicity and candor. ... It is told by a master.”

+ =Nation= 104:760 Je 28 ‘17 730w

“Indeed, it might fairly be offered as a ‘first degree’ for the novice seeking initiation into the Conradian mysteries. The menace and the glamour of his ocean are here, the humanly strange yet strangely human atoms with which it plays.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 100w

“Mr Conrad has given us two superb pictures of courage.” Q. K.

+ =New Repub= 11:194 Je 16 ‘17 730w

“About ‘The shadow line’ there is an extraordinary atmosphere of beauty. ... It is a beauty deeper than mere words go.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:157 Ap 22 ‘17 1700w

“‘The shadow line’ is as vivid and as haunting as ‘The ancient mariner.’ What is more, it is thoroughly real and profoundly true.”

+ =No Am= 205:949 Je ‘17 700w

+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 70w

“This is a story for the present times, a gospel searching down into the hearts of men to awaken their potentialities in this period of world disaster and send them forth to fight valiantly against their ill-luck, their muddling and mistakes, and to bear with consummate courage the heavy responsibilities thrust upon them.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:663 Je ‘17 250w

“For Mr Conrad the great object of love and enthusiasm is the ship which he came to know so intimately in his twenty years of seamanship. On the title-page [of the English edition] of this book is the sentence, ‘Worthy of my undying regard,’ and underneath stands no human name, but a ship with sails set. Here once more Mr Conrad shows that he loves a ship as a lover does his mistress, and so his latest book is an essential piece of himself, a return to earlier triumphs.”

+ =Sat R= 123:281 Mr 24 ‘17 950w

“Mr Conrad’s new sea story may best be described as a Conradian version of ‘The ancient mariner.’ ... The volume is the first of a new ‘Conrad library,’ including several of his previous novels, but we cannot share the publishers’ satisfaction with the ‘specially attractive binding’ prepared for the series. Messrs Dent have deserved so well of the public in this respect that they must not complain if they are judged by their own high standard.”

+ =Spec= 118:391 Mr 31 ‘17 720w

“It is books of this kind that earn for Conrad the epithet ‘Philosophic adventurer,’ and quicken one’s hope that he may be the chosen artist to achieve the final synthesis of realism and romance, toward which modern fiction has so long and uncertainly evolved.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 400w

“The serene assurance of the imagination which is the outcome of all the finest work of Mr Conrad’s genius is here broken and uncertain. The moral over-balances the story. That deepest meaning which haunts the solemn beauty he has created, simply because, it may be, it has been pursued too consciously or too familiarly, has all but eluded him.”

+ — =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p138 Mr 22 ‘17 1000w

=CONRADI, ALBERT FREDERICK, and THOMAS, WILLIAM ANDREW.= Farm spies; how the boys investigated field crop insects. il *50c Macmillan 632 16-19964

“This is a collection of brightly written, well-illustrated ‘story-articles’ on various common injurious insects of North America, designed to catch the attention and enlist the sympathies of ‘boys and girls and those persons who know nothing about insects and how to fight them.’ Among the pests described are the cotton boll-weevil and root-louse, chinch-bugs, grasshoppers, and the black corn weevil.”—Nature

“For fifth or sixth grade.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:130 D ‘16

“Points in the breeding and feeding habits that bear on farm practice are often cleverly emphasised, and some of our British students might be well occupied in compiling for the home country a somewhat similar work.” G. H. C.

+ =Nature= 99:23 Mr 8 ‘17 250w

=N Y Times= 22:165 Ap 29 ‘17 50w

=CONWAY, AGNES ETHEL.= Ride through the Balkans; on classic ground with a camera; with introd. by Sir Martin Conway. il *$1.75 (3½c) Sturgis & Walton 914.96 (Eng ed 17-10195)

A novel story told in the fashion that best suited a woman traveler, who with another traveler of her own sex, in the months immediately succeeding a bloody war, wandered unescorted thru regions but recently disturbed, and met with kindness and hospitality at the hands of the people. Instead of an exhaustive treatment of objects of interest in the towns visited we find in the short chapters crisp, informing bits of history, description and comment that stand out with the definition of a photograph. The cities which occupy the leisurely tourists are Athens, Corinth, Constantinople, Salonica, Tempe, Thessaly, St Luke of Stiris, Delphi, Mistra and Sparta, Megalopolis, Bassæ, Yanina, Cettigne, Scutari and Dalmatia. The book is beautifully illustrated from photographs.

“An ordinary narrative of travel, with plenty of human interest. Certain of the views leave something to be desired in regard to clearness of detail.”

+ — =Ath= p254 My ‘17 80w

“Miss Conway’s book is very good reading, and all too brief.”

+ =Spec= 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 150w

“The work is lightly written, and archæology, which was the inspiration of the journey, is left in the background, as is explained in an excellent introduction by Sir Martin Conway; but it will appeal to the Antikajis, even amid their martial labours, as well as to the ordinary reader.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p46 Mr 29 ‘17 470w

=CONWELL, RUSSELL HERMAN.=[2] Observation:—every man his own university. il *$1 (3c) Harper 374 17-26979

By the author of “Acres of diamonds” this book is sent out “to induce people to look at their own eyes, to pick up the gold in their laps, to study anatomy under the tutorship of their own hearts.” Observation, the writer believes, is the key to success. This key is viewed in the light of a prized possession and the reader points the way to using it intelligently. Contents: Observation—the key to success; Who the real leaders are; Mastering natural forces; Whom mankind shall love; Need of orators; Woman’s influence; Every man’s university; Animals and “the least things”; The bottom rung; Home reading; Thoughtfulness; Instincts and individuality; Women; Musical culture; Oratory; Self-help; Some advice to young men.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:148 F ‘18

=CONWELL, RUSSELL HERMAN.= What you can do with your will power. *50c (6c) Harper 174 17-9814

The author says, “The message I would like to leave with the young men and women of America is a message I have been trying humbly to deliver from lecture platform and pulpit for more than fifty years. ... The message is this: Your future stands before you like a block of unwrought marble. You can work it into what you will. Neither heredity, nor environment, nor any obstacles superimposed by man can keep you from marching straight through to success, provided you are guided by a firm, driving determination and have normal health and intelligence.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:373 Je ‘17

=Pratt= p5 Jl ‘17 30w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 130w

=CONYNGTON, THOMAS.= Corporate organization and management. $5 Ronald 347.1 17-24990

Mr Conyngton’s two earlier books “Corporate management” and “Corporate organization,” published respectively in 1903 and 1904, have been revised and combined into one volume by Miss Helen Potter of the New York bar. “All duplicated and obsolete material has been deleted, and the volume as a whole has been brought sharply up to date. While this has been done, no necessary material has been omitted, all the valuable features of both volumes being retained.” (Preface) In its present form the work is made up of five parts: The corporate system; Corporate organization; Corporate management; Special corporate topics; Forms and precedents. The volume is indexed.

=St Louis= 15:341 S ‘17 20w

=COOK, ARTHUR LEROY.= Interior wiring and systems for electric light and power service. il *$2 Wiley 621.31 17-7827

“This book is intended as a guide to modern practice in electric lighting and power applications, and in the design and installation of the wiring for such purposes.” (Preface) It has been written particularly for electrical workers but is also adapted for use in schools. The author is head of the department of applied electricity at Pratt institute. The book is made up of three parts: Electric lighting systems; Electric power systems; Interior wiring.

“Valuable to electric workers occupied with only interior wiring, industrial works, office buildings, or dwellings. Covers this subject more fully than Croft.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:115 Ja ‘18

=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 20w

“Examples illustrate each step. Of particular value to the electrical worker are the many diagrams of connections, illustrations of electrical apparatus and fixtures, curves and tables.”

+ =Elec World= 69:1268 Je 30 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:76 My ‘17

“Practical and free from troublesome mathematics. A wealth of clearly expressed and definite information and instruction compressed into a volume of pocket size.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Ap ‘17 120w

“‘Treatment of lighting is especially good. ... Principles of illumination are taken up in a clear and concise manner. The thirty-three pages on calculation of illumination are eminently suited for the busy architect and contractor. ... The characteristics and advantages of various types of motors are given. Control devices are well treated. ... The chapter on selection of motors is good. ... Interior wiring forms the last section. ... A very useful feature is the chapter on examples of actual wiring systems.’”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:448 My ‘17 130w (Reprinted from Electrical Age p56 Ap ‘17)

=Pittsburgh= 22:658 O ‘17

+ =Pratt= p17 Jl ‘17 40w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 130w

=St Louis= 15:364 O ‘17 20w

=COOK, CARROLL BLAINE (DIXIE CARROLL, pseud.).= Lake and stream game fishing; with an introd. by James Keeley, and a foreword by Jack Lait. il $1.75 (3c) Stewart & Kidd 799 17-20655

This book, by the president of the American anglers league, conveys much practical instruction in matters of fresh-water angling. It includes “Stories of big fish as told by their captors”; “One hundred questions and answers on tackle, fish and fishing”; and “Poems of the water trails,” by Albert Jay Cook. There are ten full-page illustrations.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17

“More useful than many recent books on angling in that it gives minute and specific instructions, some of them intended for the mere novice, some valuable to the experienced sportsman. A student of Walton is tempted to the cynical remark that the English is what might be expected of a man who favors self-thumbing and self-spooling reels; but this doubtless betrays a hopelessly old-fashioned taste in both tackle and literary style.”

+ — =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 130w

“Doubtless the novice who wishes to learn how to catch pike or bass in Wisconsin streams and lakes will get more out of Dixie Carroll to that immediate end than he could extract in any available allowance of time from Izaak Walton. But slang is a vehicle of expression all too easily overworked.”

+ — =Nation= 105:229 Ag 30 ‘17 430w

=Pittsburgh= 22:654 O ‘17

“Conceived in the spirit of Izaak Walton but actually written in the modern vernacular of the disciples of the rod and reel. A delightful book to read if you do not fish. The amusing introduction is by Jack Lait.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:333 S ‘17 50w

=COOK, SIR THEODORE ANDREA.= Mark of the beast. il *5s Murray, London 940.91 17-13490

“The author’s object in collecting and arranging the facts marshalled in this book is to drive home the lesson that an inconclusive ‘peace with the German empire will be a disastrous defeat.’ The three main subjects are ‘German kultur,’ ‘German history and diplomacy,’ and ‘German atrocities.’ The prophecies of Bernhardi, the work of Col. Frobenius, and similar pronouncements, are submitted to illuminative criticism; the tortuousness and duplicity of German diplomacy are described at length; together with the appalling events at Louvain, Aerschot, Audenne, Dinant, &c.” (Ath) The illustrations are reproductions from Holbein’s “Dance of death.”

“As a cumulative indictment of German methods this work is impressive and of deep gravity.”

=Ath= p106 F ‘17 100w

+ =Sat R= 123:87 Ja 27 ‘17 870w

“Our chief criticism of this book is that Sir Theodore Cook is not dealing quite fairly with his readers, for a very brief examination is sufficient to show that a considerable portion of it has already been republished in book form. Page after page of this work is identical with a large part of his previous book, ‘Kaiser, Krupp, and kultur,’ including the quotations with which each chapter is headed; and of this fact no warning is given to the reader.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p56 F 1 ‘17 650w

=COOK, SIR THEODORE ANDREA.= Twenty-five great houses of France; the story of the noblest French chateaux; with an introd. by W. H. Ward. (Country life lib.) il *$16 Scribner 728.8

“Sir Theodore Cook is an enthusiast for certain phases of French architecture, and he knows his subject. He is also an assiduous student of the romance of history, and he has given the results of his researches and wanderings in France in this handsome and attractive volume.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The author has described houses ranging in character from the citadel of a royal borough to the country seat of a minister of state, from a great fortified monastic establishment on its wind-swept cliff to a substantial burgher’s residence in the heart of a great city. In date the houses described range over five centuries.” (N Y Times)

“The splendid page, the open type, the broad margins, the host of full page plates and the greater host of cuts of details make this study by T. A. Cook a thoroly delightful and valuable work on the chateaux.”

+ =Ind= 88:411 D 4 ‘16 110w

“To architects and students of architecture and to all who have looked upon the noble buildings that made France lovely, even before the war had revealed her heroic soul, this book has an irresistible appeal. ... The text conveys a clear idea of the characteristic architecture of the buildings to even those readers who lack special knowledge of this subject, and the 380 illustrations are a joy to the eye.”

+ =N Y Times= 21:512 N 26 ‘16 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:39 Ja ‘17 20w

“Sir Theodore Andrea Cook is the best of guides, for he is equally interested in history and in architecture. The letterpress exactly reflects in this respect the fascination of the châteaux.”

+ =Spec= 117:833 D 30 ‘16 1550w

“Sir Theodore Cook is always sympathetic, sensitive to impressions, tolerant, and eminently readable, even if he sometimes loses touch of his critical sense in his full-blooded enthusiasm for all the pageantry of the past. But his chief concern is with people, with those who owned and those who lived in these great houses, rather than with the humble artist who designed them.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p5 Ja 4 ‘17 1600w

=COOKE, JOSEPH BROWN.= Baby, before and after arrival; intimate talks with prospective mothers in plain, non-technical language. il *$1 Lippincott 618.2 16-23365

“This book deals chiefly with the mother, before and after the baby’s arrival, and the title is therefore somewhat misleading. Recent statistics would seem to indicate that child-bearing is still quite hazardous. ... While infant mortality has been reduced almost 50 per cent within the last generation, the death rate of child-bearing mothers has remained stationary. Dr Cooke points out that, while the medical profession is chiefly to blame for this state of affairs, the public is responsible for a good many impediments it has put in the way of the conscientious physician in the scientific performance of his duties. He details the essential facts about pregnancy and childbirth, and indicates the necessity for cooperation between physician and patient.”—N Y Call

“Written in not too technical language, adapted for mothers and nurses. ... It is blunter than Slemons and not so full as Davis.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:294 Ap ‘17

“The entire problem is treated by the author in a practical and sensible fashion.” Medicus

+ =N Y Call= p14 F 18 ‘17 200w

“‘In many ways it is an admirable presentation. ... It is encouraging to find another straightforward, thoroughly scientific popular book on the subject of childbearing.’” D. R. Mendenhall

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:334 Ap ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Journal of Home Economics p144 Mr ‘17)

=COOKE, MARJORIE BENTON.= Cinderella Jane. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-11703

By day Jane Judd cleaned studios in the Washington Square neighborhood. By night she devoted herself to the art of letters. For, unknown to the “Studio colony,” Jane had not only ambition, but ability of a rare order. Jerry Paxton, for whom she had worked for six years, had never taken any notice of Jane. To him she was a quiet, undemonstrative, domestic woman—the ideal wife for a popular society painter, unhappily beset by the women who fell victim to his charm. Unexpectedly Jerry asked Jane to marry him, and she accepted. Interesting developments follow; Jane’s first novel is published, and Jerry, who believes that a woman’s one career should be her husband, finds himself married to a woman who is famous. Their adjustment is the substance of the latter half of the story.

“Will be popular. Appeared in the American Magazine.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:449 Jl ‘17

“The truth is, genius apart, Jane is a rather tiresome and irritating person—to the male observer, at least.” H. W. Boynton

— =Bookm= 45:534 Jl ‘17 500w

“The plot is admirably worked out, with a surprise in every chapter. ... Jane is the super-woman type, a trifle too calm to be human. But she is an excellent girl and teems with lessons. Besides, she finally learns a few for herself.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 280w

“One is not sure about ‘Cinderella Jane.’ The writer is so set upon being modern, so enthusiastic about the current doctrine of marriage as a mutually free state, that she strains the point at the expense of her Jane and her husband.”

=Nation= 104:737 Je 21 ‘17 380w

“The best part of the book consists of the remarks made by Jane and the author regarding women’s careers and economic position, and in these there is nothing which will not prove entirely familiar to any one who has given any attention to these subjects.”

=N Y Times= 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 330w

=Spec= 119:741 D 22 ‘17 30w

“The theme is now a common one, but the qualities that made this author’s ‘Bambi’ so pleasing to many are here in even greater measure.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 350w

“A novel of New York life, with a good deal of the unabashed emotional appeal one expects from so representative an American writer as the author of ‘The girl who lived in the woods.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 D 12 ‘17 130w

=COOLIDGE, ARCHIBALD GARY.= Origins of the Triple alliance. (Univ. of Virginia, Barbour-Page foundation) *$1.25 (3½c) Scribner 940.9 17-20014

This volume is based on three lectures given before the University of Virginia, in 1916, by Professor Coolidge of Harvard university, “pointing out the causes, personal and international, that led to the formation of the alliance. The author disclaims having made any startling discoveries or any new theories; his object is to set out the interplay of political forces, the aims of statesmen, and the aspirations of peoples in Europe after the Franco-Prussian war as an indispensable study for anyone who wishes to understand even in a superficial way the causes that have brought about the present world-conflict.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Two appendices give the terms of the Austro-German alliance and the terms (so far as known) of the Triple alliance.

“Its outstanding merit is lucidity of presentation and in this respect the book, considering its small compass and the involved nature of its subject, is a model of exposition. The ordinary student would have been grateful for a list of authorities other than the few referred to in the sparse footnotes.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:430 Ja ‘18 470w

“Short but adequate and very lucid account of the origins of the Triple alliance.”

+ =Ath= p520 O ‘17 170w

“The book is of general interest just now, when especial need is felt of a readable and accurate account of the political forces at work among the central European powers following the Franco-Prussian war.” L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:272 N ‘17 350w

=Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w

=Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 170w

“Though Professor Coolidge modestly disclaims having made any startling discoveries, his little volume is probably the clearest, sanest, and most objective brief account of the most important permanent results of European diplomacy between 1866 and 1882. Its value lies in the discriminating judgment, based on wide reading and personal acquaintance, with which he handles such elusive questions as the war scare of 1875, the personal relations between the old Kaiser and the Czar, and the devious motives of Bismarck, Gortchakov, and Andrássy. ... Professor Coolidge has also been wise in giving an unusually full analysis of the Russian and Balkan factors in the origins of the Triple alliance. These have ordinarily been much less appreciated than the Italian and French elements.”

+ =Nation= 105:223 Ag 30 ‘17 650w

“It is pleasant to recognize a book in which Bismarck as a statesman is not, if the expression may be used, melodramatized out of all lifelikeness.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:383 O 7 ‘17 500w

=Pittsburgh= 22:678 O ‘17

“One of the best books to help one understand how the present way came about.” P. B.

+ =St Louis= 15:353 O ‘17 30w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Ag 16 ‘17 90w

=COOLIDGE, DANE.= Rimrock Jones. il *$1.35 Watt 17-13184

“‘Rimrock’ is a young Arizona prospector, possessing all the vices and virtues of his kind—the magazine and moving-picture kind. He discovers a fabulously rich copper mine. A young woman stenographer gives him her small savings to assist in establishing his claim, in return for which he gives her a one per cent interest in the property. He interests an eastern capitalist, but past experience has taught him to be wary of surrendering his control. Eventually, a fault develops in his filing and a man jumps one of his claims. Jones kills the man and is jailed. Until he is acquitted the girl watches over his interests, but afterward he becomes infatuated with an eastern woman, follows her to New York and there pursues a round of dissipation and seriously involves himself in disastrous stock speculation. In the meanwhile, the fault in his mining claim once more crops up in Arizona. This the girl uses to advantage in bringing him to his senses.”—Springf’d Republican

“The story is vigorously written, as beseems its subject, and will especially appeal to those acquainted with mining manipulations.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 120w

“It is a breezy story of its kind, and its rapid action creates a high degree of interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 220w

=COOLIDGE, LOUIS ARTHUR.= Ulysses S. Grant. il *$2 (1c) Houghton 17-4331

“No man who ever gained enduring fame was more the sport of chance than Grant,” says his biographer. “No character in history has achieved supreme success in war or the supreme reward of politics who owed less to his own ambition or design. ... He was the child of splendid opportunities which came to him unsought, for which he never seemed to care, and which he met with calm assurance of his own capacity.” It is a well-written work based on trustworthy sources and it treats adequately of what the author calls Grant’s two distinct careers, devoting more space than is usual to Grant’s presidency.

“Mr Coolidge has used the best books relating to the subject, and particularly everything personally relating to Grant, except the material in the Civil war records. He has not, however, familiarized himself with recent monographic literature, or with the economic and social movements of the time, which emphatically influenced Grant’s career, although they left his personality untouched. ... He seems also not to possess a sufficient background of military knowledge to give force to his military criticism. Grant, however, both man and boy, by quotation and incident, stands out more clearly than in any previous account. ... The study of Grant in some respects is apt to prove final.” C. R. Fish

+ =Am Hist R= 22:885 Jl ‘17 1150w

“General King and Mr Edmonds devote but a small portion of their books to Grant’s life after the close of the Civil war. While not an absolutely necessary biography, would be of use as viewing Grant from this angle.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:351 My ‘17

“The more important and distinctive part of Mr Coolidge’s work lies in the last third of it. ... Scant justice is done to the character of Carl Schurz in this review of Grant’s life. ... Mr Coolidge’s book fails to achieve its evident purpose to set Grant among the few great presidents; it was not needed to place him among the country’s greatest soldiers.” H. S. K.

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 900w

“Mr Coolidge presents an informing and, on the whole, judicial account of Grant’s presidency. The student of our history knows that this is no easy task. One of the best features of this excellent biography is the liberal quotation from Grant’s letters and state papers, written in that simple and forceful style which proceeded from his integrity and strength of character.”

+ =Dial= 64:76 Ja 17 ‘18 630w

+ =Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 60w

“If it cannot be said that Mr Coolidge’s biography altogether explains the man Grant and his career, ... he has nevertheless narrated the events of a difficult historical period with a skill which gives to the present generation a rapid and comprehensive account of much with which it should be acquainted, while older persons familiar with the story can read it once more with renewed interest.”

* + =Nation= 104:759 Je 28 ‘17 1350w

“The biography, while it embodies in quotation or paraphrase all that is most significant in Grant’s narrative, has abundant freshness and vitality of its own: it is written with more than a touch of eloquence. Not merely because of its fullness and accuracy, but also through its literary qualities—its virility and incisiveness—it is not unworthy to stand beside the ‘Memoirs’ as a companion piece.”

+ =No Am= 205:803 My ‘17 1150w

“It comes just short of 600 pages, as long as a one volume biography can afford to be, and a study of its proportions reveals good judgment on the part of the author. ... The value of the volume is enhanced by the portraits, seven of Grant alone, one in a group of officers: all but one of these are from the collection of Frederick Hill Meserve of New York and some of them have not hitherto been published. Five of them are of the soldier, one of the president, two of the veteran.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 20 ‘17 430w

=COOMARASWAMY, ANANDA KENTISH.= Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism. il *$3.75 (3½c) Putnam 294 A16-1519

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

=A L A Bkl= 13:240 Mr ‘17

“There is nothing scholarly about this book; as a contribution to scientific knowledge, it is nil. Its accounts of the legendary life of Gautama and his teaching, the discussions of the contemporary religious systems of India and of the later developments of Buddhism, as well as the concluding chapters on Buddhist art, are all a hotch-potch of quotations from modern scholars. ... If one wishes to get a general view of Buddhism, he will do better to turn to any popular manual, say the one by Mrs Rhys Davids in the Home university library, which is far better than the present work, and only costs one-seventh as much. ... The book is confessedly a work of propaganda. As an argument for Buddhism, it is not particularly convincing.”

— =Dial= 62:405 My 3 ‘17 750w

“We have many expositions of Buddhism, but few possess either the charm or the forcefulness of this.”

+ =Lit D= 54:913 Mr 31 ‘17 320w

“This book, dealing, as it does, very largely with metaphysical speculations, is, of course, not very easy reading. But the author’s style is admirably clear. It is illustrated with a number of fine plates, some in color, others in black and white.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:357 S 23 ‘17 500w

=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17

“The author’s previous work and his peculiar fitness to write authoritatively on this subject should go far to recommend this book for serious consideration by all students of the Buddhist religion.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 12 ‘17 300w

=COOPER, CLAYTON SEDGWICK.= Brazilians and their country. il *$3.50 (3c) Stokes 918.1 17-29767

The writer contends that in a period when territorial barriers are being so rapidly dissolved and when national and social conditions are being so deeply stirred by the greatest human conflict of all ages, isolation and localism are no longer possible for any thoughtful person. He offers this contention as an apologia for a North American’s presumption in writing about a South American people. Contents: Mental hospitality; Brazilian traits; Portugal and Brazil; The Brazilian empire; The orientalism of Brazil; Republican government; A leviathan country; Education; Brazilian home life; The triumph of the engineer; Seeing Rio de Janeiro by tramway; Electric energy transforming Brazil; The racial melting pot; In the land of the Paulistas; The awakening of southern Brazil; Trade and transportation; Outdoor sports and lotteries; Rio de Janeiro, city of enchantment; Bahia, old and bizarre; Paranagua; Pernambuco and Central Brazil; Para and the rubber workers of the Amazon; The Brazilian Indian; Languages, libraries and literature; Brazil’s army and navy; The Latin American view of North Americans; The newspaper as an international medium; Brazil’s tomorrow.

“We have as a result a history with science, observation and experience combined in a really valuable volume.” T: Walsh

+ =Bookm= 46:606 Ja ‘18 110w

“The frequent comparisons between North American and South American ways of looking at life and of carrying on the business of living are always interesting and ought to prove useful to all business men, especially young men, who hope to enter into trade relations with South America.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 360w

“Exceptional among serious descriptive works in being readable as well as full of useful information. A business man with South American trade in the back of his mind might well invest in this book. It gives a striking picture of our great southern neighbor and ally.”

+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 50w

+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 60w

=COOPER, ELIZABETH (MRS CLAYTON SEDGWICK COOPER).= Heart of O Sono San. il *$1.75 (3½c) Stokes 17-28073

The heart of O Sono San is not only the heart of every Japanese girl, but the heart of woman the world over. The customs, the ceremonies, the superstitions and traditions that dominate the environment in which O Sono San is reared are those which now stifle, now strangely quicken the development of Japanese women. From babyhood to motherhood we follow her. In her maturity when she gives her boy to her country, while she lives thru the uncertainties and terrors of the struggle for Japan’s life, when her boy falls serving his country, she rallies from the staggering blow with the heroism that is no more Japanese than French, English, German or American. It is the old Spartan heroism of universal womanhood. The illustrations are excellent reproductions in duo tone from photographs.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18

“The author’s ‘The lady of the Chinese court yard’ was an interesting piece of work. It was brilliant, but not so fine as ‘The heart of O Sono San,’ because the latter book possesses rare ethical and spiritual beauty.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 770w

“If the illustrations do not always illustrate the accompanying text, they are in themselves exquisite. The book is worth owning.”

+ =Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 50w

=COOPER, JAMES A.= Cap’n Abe, storekeeper; a story of Cape Cod. il *$1.25 (1½c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-14190

Louise Grayling decides suddenly to spend the summer on Cape Cod with an uncle she has never seen, Cap’n Abram Silt. She finds Cap’n Abe to be a mild and peaceful old gentleman who for many years has entertained his neighbors with tales of the wild adventures of his seafaring brother, Cap’n Amazon. Louise has never heard of this brother and is amazed to learn that she has another uncle. There are others, too, who have begun to express polite doubt as to his existence. So to silence these doubters, Cap’n Abram arranges for the appearance of Cap’n Amazon. His own disappearance is coincident with the arrival of the swarthy-skinned, black-haired, red-turbaned seaman who can be no other than the legendary captain. The village accepts the stranger at his face value but is sorely puzzled to know what has become of the gentle Cap’n Abe. The reader will anticipate Louise in guessing the secret, but the curious villagers are kept in doubt for some time.

+ =A L A Bkl= 11:26 O ‘17

“Mr Cooper is to be credited with some ingenuity of plot and with holding concealed until almost the closing chapter a climax which can fairly claim originality. ... There is a conventional love romance in the book.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 250w

“If your last trip to the Cape has lost any of that delicious odor of clams and seaweed that clung even to your shoelaces, you can get a new whiff of it here, with a great deal of pleasure.”

+ =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 100w

“The sea and the seafolk give the breezy atmosphere which makes it pleasant reading for a summer’s day.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 130w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 220w

=COOPER, LANE=, ed. Concordance to the works of Horace. pa $7 Carnegie inst. 874 16-20920

“With this monumental volume a great labor of love on the part of the professor of the English language and literature in Cornell university has been finished, and a new and advanced position in the progress of classical scholarship has been gained. ... The text on which the ‘Concordance’ is based is that of Vollmer’s ‘Editio maior’ of 1912. Contrary to the usual practice, Mr Cooper has maintained a purely alphabetical sequence in the arrangement of Horatian forms, as, for instance, ‘sum, eram, esse, fui,’ etc., rather than listing all these under the basis of ‘sum’ or ‘esse.’ The advantage of this plan is that the student can at once detect the presence or absence of any given form in Horace. The work is a concordance and not a mere index. Each word is quoted in connection with a whole line (or more if necessary) of its context, which makes it possible, not only instantly to identify the passage, but also to study the word or phrase in question without turning it up in the original text. ... Mr Cooper has issued with the ‘Concordance,’ for the benefit of those engaged in a similar task, a list of instructions for preparing the slips used in the compilation of this great work.”—Class J

“We, who up to date have had no index to Horace except those of the Zangemeister-Bentley type, works ill printed and out of print at that, will have constant cause for gratitude to Mr Lane and to his ‘Maecenas,’ the Carnegie institute of Washington, for his scholarly, handsome, and entirely usable volume. It is a royal octavo, on heavy durable paper, printed with type unusually large and clear for such a work.” F. J. Miller

+ =Class J= 63:609 Je ‘17 530w

“To review a concordance exhaustively one must have thumbed it in long service. I have tested this one only by rapid reading of a hundred pages selected at random. I have observed no misprints and no instances of unintelligent or misleading delimitation of the excerpts. They are always so made as to indicate sufficiently the metrical, the grammatical, and the substantive context. ... An interesting page of the preface describes the method by which the forty-five thousand slips were prepared by eighteen collaborators.” Paul Shorey

+ =Class Philol= 12:311 Jl ‘17 450w

=COOPER, LANE=, ed. Greek genius and its influence. *$3.50 (2½c) Yale univ. press 913.38 17-29847

Select essays and extracts that interpret the life and genius of classic Greece. The work aims to supply “a part of the necessary background for the study of Greek and Latin masterpieces, ... and to stimulate and rectify the comparison of ancient with modern literature.” The characterizations of the Greek race which are assembled here have special interest for students of literature, and the writer hopes, for the geographer and anthropologist. A penetrating study of the traits of the Greek race, at its best, furnishes an introduction to the volume. He finds the Greek the most versatile and evenly developed of any race nature has brought forth; they were religious and intellectual; remarkable was their scientific interest in human conduct. The writer, who is professor of the English language and literature in Cornell university, offers the volume as a stimulus to the study of standard English translations of the classics.

“Certainly the reading is good reading, for the whole two hundred odd pages. Only—and one must ask it—why isn’t it edited?” H. B. Alexander

+ — =Dial= 64:63 Ja 17 ‘18 1250w

“While this book lacks the unity that a single authorship would compel, it is none the less abundant in interest and in wisdom.”

+ =Educ R= 55:78 Ja ‘18 80w

=COOPER, LENNA FRANCES.= How to cut food costs. il 75c Good health pub. 641 17-19175

“In this little book, the director of the Battle Creek sanitarium school of home economics gives a popular explanation of a balanced diet and provides a guide to the selection of low cost foods. It contains a large number of recipes and a list of economical menus for ten days. The seasonal factor in food economy is brought out, and the part played in cost by transportation and selling charges illustrated by telling examples. The emphasis is laid on wise buying rather than waste in the kitchen which, so far as working class households are concerned, is apt to be exaggerated by the critics.”—Survey

=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 40w

+ =Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 70w

“The book closes with a complete bibliography on kindred subjects.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 140w

“Though this book cannot take the place of verbal instruction and practical demonstration in the education of the less educated housewives, it may be recommended as a trustworthy manual for those already interested in the subject.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 39:73 O 20 ‘17 130w

=COPPING, ARTHUR E.= Souls in khaki; with a foreword by General Bramwell Booth. *$1 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-17990

“Mr Copping’s book presents a series of pictures of his personal investigations into spiritual experiences and sources of heroism in the English army. [With the assistance of the War office and the Salvation army] he visited the training camps in England, went to France, tarried in the hospitals, went through the trenches, was under fire, talked with numberless soldiers, whole and wounded, spent much time in the Salvation army huts, and everywhere made it his chief purpose to find out what quality it is in the British soldier that enables him to face calmly and smilingly the horrors and the perils of battle. It is his conclusion that at the front ‘the spirit is supreme and the flesh subordinate,’ and he bears witness to what so many other observers have noted, the reality of religious faith among the soldiers.”—N Y Times

=Ath= p420 Ag ‘17 100w

“In spite of the incessant and aggravating recurrence of adjectives—‘piteous’ seems to appear upon every other page—the writer has achieved a very readable war book and one that ought to find a place in the libraries of our Sunday schools.”

+ — =Bib World= 50:375 D ‘17 380w

“Chatty and interesting but marred by occasional sentimentality.”

+ — =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 40w

“It is a chatty and very readable little book and shows in a graphic way how spirit can rise above material conditions and make them contribute to its own good, no matter how abhorrent they may be. And that is something that ought, just now, when our own men are soon to be in the trenches, to be a consoling message to Americans.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:261 Jl 15 ‘17 330w

“The book is full of stirring anecdotes of heroism and exalted Christian service. It is well put together and is free from any suspicion of special pleading. Mr Copping has done his best to get at the facts. His material is fresh and, in the main, convincing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 1 ‘17 280w

=CORBETT, JULIAN STAFFORD.= England in the Mediterranean [1603-1713]. 2d ed 2v *$5 Longmans 942.06

“‘Once to grasp the Mediterranean point of view is to be dominated by its fascination,’ wrote Julian S. Corbett a dozen years ago in the preface to his admirable work on ‘England in the Mediterranean, 1603-1713.’ He went on to give the first satisfactory account of that important bit of English naval and political history by which England first established her sea-power within the Pillars of Hercules, occupied for a while Tangier, and finally fixed her unshakable hold on the Rock of Gibraltar.”—Nation

“Today the Mediterranean is more than ever the ‘Keyboard of Europe,’ and the history of the seventeenth century strategists who secured it for England must always be of deep historic interest. Some of the episodes discussed in the book are ‘Sir Walter Raleigh,’ ‘England and the Venice conspiracy,’ ‘The navy under James I,’ ‘The Spanish succession,’ ‘Marlborough and the navy,’ and ‘The congress of Utrecht.’”

+ =Cath World= 105:539 Jl ‘17 320w

+ =Ind= 91:187 Ag 4 ‘17 40w

“With unusual success he has kept the complicated politics of the period in close relation to the naval history. With their readable style and their sense of the romance of the sea in its embodiment in English sea-fighters, Mr Corbett’s volumes are again welcome.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1428 My 12 ‘17 280w

“The great war, which has again centered men’s minds on England’s sea-power and her position in the Mediterranean, has called forth a second edition of Professor Corbett’s authoritative story of those small beginnings in the seventeenth century. It is reprinted in smaller format, but otherwise there is no change from the first edition.”

+ =Nation= 104:553 My 3 ‘17 140w

=CORBETT-SMITH, ARTHUR.= Retreat from Mons. il *3s 6d Cassell & co., London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-22253)

“The book deals with Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien’s corps more than with Sir Douglas Haig’s, and even on its own ground does not attempt a connected narrative. It gives us specimen episodes in the fighting; but these are so well chosen that they do in effect convey to us an accurate idea of what the whole strategical issue was.” (Spec) “Much of the book is anecdote: stories of heroism; stories of the irrepressible humor of the British soldier; stories of the capture and summary execution of German spies.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) On p. xi-xvi the roll of honour of the First expeditionary force is given.

“He is particularly skilful in describing individual feats and incidents.”

+ =Ath= p486 O ‘16 40w

“If we were asked how to get the best idea of the early fighting by our small but immortal Expeditionary force, we would say: Read Lord Ernest Hamilton’s book, ‘The first seven divisions,’ for the facts, and Major Corbett-Smith’s book, ‘The retreat from Mons,’ for the spirit.”

+ =Spec= 117:585 N 11 ‘16 1800w

“He gives us one of the most graphic accounts which we have read of the German mass attacks at Mons.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p471 O 5 ‘16 900w

=CORBIN, THOMAS W.= Marvels of scientific invention. (Marvels ser.) il *$1.25 Lippincott 608 17-4604

“Some of the ‘Marvels of scientific invention’ are collected in this interesting account by Thomas W. Corbin. The subjects include guns, torpedoes, the use of high explosives on farms, submarines, protection in mines, smelting, freezing, color photography, and electrical testing. These inventions and their uses are told in a pleasant fashion and their scientific aspects are described accurately in non-technical language.”—Nation

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:336 My ‘17

=Nation= 104:346 Mr 22 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:189 D ‘16

=St Louis= 15:363 O ‘17 30w

“Mr Corbin’s book is briefer than Mr Talbot’s, and covers a smaller range. On the other hand, it has an index, and it goes more fully into the chemistry and science of the subject.”

=Sat R= 122:sup10 D 9 ‘16 150w

“On the whole Mr Thomas W. Corbin achieves considerable success. But he is not entirely free from mistakes in fact.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 D 14 ‘16 120w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 30w

=CORCORAN, TIMOTHY=, comp. State policy in Irish education, A. D. 1536 to 1816; exemplified in documents collected from lectures to postgraduate classes. *$2 Longmans (Eng ed E17-153)

“The professor of education in the National university has printed a series of documents illustrating the chequered history of Irish education, hampered for centuries by racial, linguistic, and religious differences. The first of them is Henry VIII’s admonition to Galway ‘that every inhabitaunt within the saide towne indevor theym selfe to speke Englyshe,’ and it is characteristic. ... Dr Corcoran’s historical introduction, written from the Roman Catholic standpoint, is instructive, but the documents tell their own tale.”—Spec

+ =Educ R= 54:95 Je ‘17 70w

“It has been necessary to point out that Dr Corcoran mutilates or omits important documents—a practice which might be further illustrated from this book. But, notwithstanding this, all students of Irish history will be grateful for what he has given them. To much of it, no doubt, the criticism which has been made does not apply.” E.

* + – =Eng Hist R= 32:309 Ap ‘17 650w

=Spec= 117:sup533 N 4 ‘16 140w

=CORIAT, ISADOR HENRY.= What is psychoanalysis? *75c (5½c) Moffat 131 17-10883

This little book consists of questions and answers on psychoanalysis. Such general questions as, What is psychoanalysis? Where and under what conditions did it originate? Can psychoanalysis be harmful? What is the cause of certain failures in psychoanalysis? are answered together with many more specific questions relating to definite neurotic ills. The author is first assistant visiting physician for diseases of the nervous system, Boston city hospital, and he has written other books on “Abnormal psychology,” “The meaning of dreams,” etc.

“A straightforward clear exposition of the general procedure of psychoanalysis and of the technical terms that have arisen in connection with it.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 470w

+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 40w

“Dr Coriat answers questions that have been in the minds of many persons. All this information is presented in simple terms quite within the understanding of persons of ordinary intelligence.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:432 O 21 ‘17 60w

=CORKERY, DANIEL.= Munster twilight. *$1 (2c) Stokes

A collection of Irish tales possessing all of the qualities we have now come to associate with things Irish, mysticism, pathos, poetry and humor of the sort that is more grim than jovial. Six of the stories are grouped together under the title The cobbler’s den. They are the stories drawn from the reminiscences of a group of cronies who come together nightly in the cobbler’s shop.

=N Y Times= 22:202 My 20 ‘17 270w

“Whether he has been influenced by the study of Gorky and others of this violently depressing school of realists we cannot say. It may be merely an unconscious convergence, but the resemblance is sufficiently striking. ... Mr Corkery has put nearly all his gloom in the van, a method to be deprecated on prudential grounds, for while it may impress the critic who admires strong meat, it is apt to choke off the plain and gentle reader, especially at the present time. But we recommend the reader to persevere, for he will be rewarded.”

+ — =Spec= 118:109 Ja 27 ‘17 1200w

“Not all of these stories are violent or harshly humorous. Some are warm and tender, with a deep, queer insight into the hearts of old and gentle and afflicted people.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p19 Ja 11 ‘17 500w

=CORNELL, ERA.= Above Cayuga’s waters; comp. by the editors of the Class of 1917. il $1 Cornell era, Ithaca, N. Y. 378 16-19647

A selection of articles and poems that have appeared in the Cornell Era since its founding in 1868 to the present day. It has been the policy of the magazine to obtain for publication articles by prominent men on all phases of college life. “As a result,” says the preface, “the bound copies of the Era, covering nearly fifty years, are a storehouse of articles valuable for all who may be interested in that wonderful phenomenon, the American university.” With few exceptions the authors of the selections are either Cornell graduates or members of the Cornell faculty. Among those represented are Andrew D. White, Goldwin Smith, David Starr Jordan, Hugh Black, Arthur Brisbane, Norman Hapgood, Dana Burnet, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Jacob Gould Schurman.

“This little book will have interest not only for all Cornellians, graduate as well as undergraduate, but also for many others who busy their minds much or occasionally with the problems of student life and the relations between that life and the world life.”

+ =N Y Times= 21:576 D 31 ‘16 550w

“The book has little general appeal, but is valuable to students because of its treatment of their problems, and to Cornell men because of the memories it preserves.”

=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 200w

=COSMOS, pseud.= Basis of durable peace. *50c (1c) Scribner 940.91 17-3465

A series of articles written for the New York Times in November and December, 1916. As a starting point the author examines statements at that time recently made by the German chancellor and the British prime minister. Finding the two statements strikingly similar in outward appearance, he discusses the meaning of such expressions as “rights of small nations,” “freedom of the seas,” etc., from both the German and the British points of view. He discusses further the principles of the new international order that may be established after the war and the place of the United States in it. Victory for the Allies is the first essential for a durable peace. The second is the stamping out of the military ideal, not in Prussia alone, but in all the countries of the world. “The spirit and the point of view which manifest themselves in militarism, in the subordination of civil to military authority and policy, and in the setting of right below might, must be driven out of the hearts and minds of men. ... The basis of sound international policy will be found in sound domestic policy, and in sympathy with equally sound domestic policies in other lands.”

“The writer who offers his work under the title of Cosmos, and who is undoubtedly ex-President William H. Taft, has given us probably the sanest discussion of the terms of peace that the nations must agree upon at the close of the war. The articles show sound judgment and as far as the settlement of the war is concerned, great practicability.”

+ =Cath World= 106:111 O ‘17 250w

“Much information clearly and briefly given.”

+ =Ind= 89:362 F 26 ‘17 40w

+ =N Y Times= 22:29 Ja 28 ‘17 800w

=Pratt= p36 Jl ‘17 40w

“One of the ablest expositions of the subject that has appeared in small compass. Much less technical than Lafontaine’s ‘The great solution.’” L. A. Mead

+ =Survey= 38:553 S 22 ‘17 290w

=COULT, MARGARET=, ed. Letters from many pens. (Macmillan’s pocket American and English classics) *25c Macmillan 826 17-7948

“Miss Coult has followed a plan of her own in selecting the letters, and her collection is variously lively, informing and inspiring. It is an admirable book for use in schools. ... There is a group devoted to chat about home matters, another group of letters from young people to their elders and another of letters from grown people to children (including some of Phillips Brooks’s and Lewis Carroll’s), a group of letters addressed to strangers, a long collection of sketches from many lands, a section about tastes and a group of letters expressing emotions. A capital group is that of ‘Other times, other manners,’ which runs from classical times through the 18th century.”—Springf’d Republican

“While the educational use of the work is perhaps most important, many persons will find it profitable and delightful for casual reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 190w

=COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE.= Twilight of the souls; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$1.50 (2½c) Dodd 17-25859

This is the third of a series of four novels, “The book of the small souls.” It carries on the story of the various branches of the Van Lowe family. Ernst becomes temporarily deranged, Gerrit, the “healthy brute” of a soldier, who figures largely in this volume, has a severe illness; suffering and death come also to other of the Van Lowes, and the “family group” that “Mamma” van Lowe has tried so hard to hold together, seems to be breaking up. Constance, who, in the two preceding volumes, has been passing through a period of spiritual evolution, and has reached “the happiness of accepting one’s own smallness ... and of not being angry and bitter because of all the mistakes ... and of being grateful for what is beautiful and clear and true,” has a bitter disappointment when her son, Adriaan, tells her that he cannot carry out his parents’ long cherished plan and enter the diplomatic service, because he has become absolutely convinced that he should be a doctor. But the mother understands, forces down her disappointment and encourages her boy to follow his deepest conviction.

“It is a depressing chapter in the family history, yet not without its glimmer of happier light. Constance sees it as that atom, that ‘grain of absolute truth and reality’ which even small souls may possess, and may impart to others.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:488 D ‘17 600w

“The general tone is pessimistic but it is remarkable in its human sympathy and has touches of fine idealism.”

+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 150w

“In ‘The twilight of the souls’ Mr De Mattos translates with his accustomed skill the third of those linked ‘Books of the small souls’ in which the Dutch realist Couperus has embodied so searching and sympathetic an interpretation of human nature and of modern life.”

+ =Nation= 105:514 N 8 ‘17 350w

“Among the three volumes of the series which have now appeared, this, the third, ranks second in merit, above ‘The later life’ and below the ‘Small souls.’ This because, while very much better in every way than the former, it has less variety than ‘Small souls’ and less of inevitability.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:446 N 4 ‘17 1050w

=COURVILLE, E. H.=, comp. Autograph prices current. *25s E. H. Courville, 25 Rumsey Road, Brixton, London, S. W. 017

“The records in the volume are stated to have been extracted from the catalogues of about sixty-five days’ sales, and to represent a sum of more than £35,000. Among the entries we notice autograph letters of Rossetti, Swinburne, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Johnson, R. L. Stevenson, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Washington, and others. ... Numerous quotations from letters are embodied in the text.” (Ath) The compilation is to be published annually and is “a complete alphabetical and chronological record of all autograph letters, documents, and manuscripts, sold by auction in London, with the date and place of sale, name of purchaser, and price of each lot: together with a comprehensive reference index.” (Sub-title). Sales from August, 1914 to July, 1916, inclusive, are comprised in this first issue.

+ =Ath= p425 S ‘16 140w

“His scholarly catalogue will be welcomed by the student, the collector, and the dealer alike.”

+ =Spec= 117:419 O 7 ‘16 190w

“On every page of this carefully edited volume there is something to arrest the attention, and we can only express the hope that it may become as hardy and as vigorous an annual as ‘Book prices current.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p428 S 7 ‘16 950w

=COUSINS, FRANK, and RILEY, PHIL M.= Wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work. il *$7.50 Little 724.9 16-23955

“‘The wood-carver of Salem’ is a well-deserved tribute to Samuel McIntire, of Salem, whose distinction as an architect and designer, as well as a craftsman, is preserved in many of the stately houses of the third colonial period that still adorn the ancient streets of Salem. ... McIntire passed his whole life and did all his work in Salem, never having had an opportunity to see the productions of Wren and other contemporary English architects. Yet he attained high rank as a designer and, in the opinion of the authors of this book, he was our foremost colonial architect of domestic buildings.”—R of Rs

“To anyone that loves New England and is familiar with its widespread excellence of old architecture such a book as ‘The wood-carver of Salem’ affords pleasant entertainment. ... It is a book to read beside a fireplace such as those fireplaces that it pictures and describes.” W. A. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 27 ‘16 400w

+ =Cleveland= p80 Je ‘17 30w

“A plentiful index and 127 plates give added importance to a work that is replete with vital interest.”

+ =Int Studio= 60:95 Ja ‘17 200w

“It appears as a limited edition, carefully and elaborately prepared.”

+ =Lit D= 54:567 Mr 3 ‘17 200w

=R of Rs= 55:105 Ja ‘17 150w

=COX, KENYON.= Concerning painting; considerations theoretical and historical. il *$1.75 (4c) Scribner 750 17-24869

“This book is the result of such thinking as I have been able to do on my own art of painting. It divides itself into three parts: the first is an inquiry into what painting essentially is and into the nature of its appeal to humanity; the second is an attempted account of what painting was in the golden age, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to nearly the end of the seventeenth; the third deals with some aspects of the painting of the more immediate past. Part first was originally given in the form of lectures at Union college. Parts second and third were delivered at Yale, in the Trowbridge course on the history of art, and at the Metropolitan museum and other institutions. The three chapters on ‘The golden age of painting’ have appeared in Scribner’s Magazine, and the other five in the Art World.” (Preface) There are thirty-two reproductions of typical works from the older and from contemporary artists.

“The suggestions are clear and not too technical in form so that they will interest the intelligent layman as well as the student.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:83 D ‘17

“I find the first division of the book, devoted to a general consideration of what painting is according to Cox, the most arresting part of the discussion: probably because it is most Cox, whereas the historical survey puts him in a vast field where the competitors are numerous.” R: Burton

+ =Bookm= 46:478 D ‘17 550w

“Dr Cox elsewhere has not kept to himself his opinions regarding the vagaries of futurism, cubism and the other extreme manifestations of erratic individualism but he refrains from even recognizing in this book the existence of such a school or even mentioning the name of its votaries. He waxes quite enthusiastic over John La Farge, having evidently fallen under the sway of the personality of that brilliant genius.” N. H D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 750w

+ =Cleveland= p136 D ‘17 10w

“The eight essays are of unequal interest. Mr Cox has done nothing better than the two studies ‘Painting as an art of imitation’ and ‘Painting as an art of relation.’ ... There is a cleanness and trenchancy about this work which is beyond the range of any other American critic of art. Where Mr Cox’s admiration is fully aroused there is also a great sensitiveness. This quality Mr Cox keeps for his favorites. The rest get a rather schoolmasterly report.”

+ — =Nation= 105:545 N 15 ‘17 290w

“If he wrote only of the technical side of his art he would be an absorbingly interesting author; but he is too much of an artist to stop with this. Not only the form but the meaning interests him, and he connects his comments on the detail of the workshop with observations on persons and schools and countries as catholic and sound and sincere as they are learned. ... His arguments have lost the bitterness that once diminished the force of their effect on his readers.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:417 O 21 ‘17 530w

+ =Outlook= 117:514 N 28 ‘17 50w

“In his chapters on the Italian renaissance and the Venetian school, Mr Cox is at his best. His brief, crisp summing up of the four great masters, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Correggio, is luminous with clear, incisive judgments. ... It is in the third division of this work, devoted to certain aspects of 19th century painting, that we find Mr Cox somewhat disappointing. He has tried to crowd too much into inadequate space. ... Perhaps the most disappointing of all the essays is that relating to the mural painters.” F: T. Cooper

+ — =Pub W= 92:817 S 15 ‘17 1000w

“The book is valuable to teachers and students for several excellent reasons: It is accurately informative, intelligently analytical, and stimulating to the cultivation of æsthetic conceptions that are in harmony with our ideals concerning the newer civilization that we hope to see emerge out of the present chaos of thought.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:226 Ja ‘18 300w

=COXON, MURIEL (HINE) (MRS SIDNEY COXON).= Autumn. *$1.40 (lc) Lane 17-9809

After ten years of an unhappy marriage, Deirdre Caradoc thought that the best of life was over for her. She was midway in her thirties, she had no child, and her love for her husband was dead. She decides to separate from him, and takes a house in the country where she hopes for uninterrupted quiet. Here she makes two friends, a father and his young daughter, who become of momentous importance in her life. Between the man and herself a deep and sincere love comes to life, but the course of their future is influenced by the daughter, who, in falling in love with a married man older than herself, seems to be giving them a replica of their own situation.

“This work carries the evidence of some originality. But the action does not progress with the desired celerity.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 220w

“It has to do with several charming people who seem unable, either by sin or by virtue, to solve their problems practically, ethically or sentimentally. Puppets of circumstance are they, whose perfervid loves play havoc with them. One wishes that they were all set to earning their living.”

— =Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 60w

“If the closing chapters of ‘Autumn’ do not quite fulfill the promise of its earlier portion, the novel is, nevertheless, one of unusual merit. ... It has that nameless distinction which, for want of a better word, we term quality.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 600w

=Spec= 119:93 Jl 28 ‘17 20w

“What one complains of chiefly is, first, that the main events of the story do not happen inevitably, but only because the author makes them happen, and that they are, therefore, unconvincing. One’s second ground of complaint is the author’s constant evasion.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p281 Je 14 ‘17 820w

=COXWELL, CHARLES FILLINGHAM.= Through Russia in war-time. il *$3.50 Scribner 914.7 (Eng ed 17-18477)

“It was on May 22, 1915 that the author, an Englishman, sailed from New York for North Cape and Archangel.” (N Y Times) “He describes with full appreciation for the wonders of Russia his journey and the various cities and sections he visited. He entered at Archangel, and travelled from north to south and from east to west of Russia. Much space is given to Petrograd and Moscow. He describes Holy Kiev, Odessa with its busy life, the beauty of the Crimea, the antiquities of Kertch, the Cossack country, the wonderful Georgian military road over the Caucasus, as well as the less-known parts of Russia. At the end he passes through Finland and through the country of the Lapps.”—Boston Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 14:66 N ‘17

“In spite of his limited Russian vocabulary and in spite of war-time restrictions, he nearly always manages to get into actual touch with the natives, and ultimately to persuade them to pose for him. The result is a collection of unconventional photographs which help to impress on the mind a vivid picture of all those who came within Mr Coxwell’s view.”

+ =Ath= p342 Jl ‘17 700w

“An amusing account is given of the author’s difficulties at the outset with the Russian language.”

+ =Ath= p364 Jl ‘17 80w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 250w

“Political Russia is of more vital interest than physical Russia; but at the moment when the fate of that nation seems to center in one city, it is not amiss to remember that Petrograd is one of the least representative cities of the new republic and that behind all its changes and its transitory emotions there lies the great mass of the Russian people, sturdy, industrious, and immovable. To consider them steadies one’s sense of proportion. Mr Coxwell’s book enables one so to consider them.”

+ =Dial= 63:276 S 27 ‘17 230w

“The main impression it conveys is that the war in 1915 had hardly ruffled daily existence in the smaller Russian towns, and was little regarded in such important centres as Petrograd and Moscow.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 480w

“Mr Coxwell is almost a Pickwickian tourist—so simple-minded, so easily pleased, so little subjective in his observations, that he might seem to have just set out from Goswell street. But there the resemblance ends. Adventures crowded on Mr Pickwick at every turn, but not one befell Mr Coxwell. Mr Coxwell is happier, however, with his camera than with his pen.”

– + =Sat R= 124:250 S 29 ‘17 350w

“In the main, of course, the narrative is personal, but personal narratives may be of absorbing interest when the writer is an experienced traveler. Added value is given in the liberal space devoted to details of Russian life and customs and to historic incidents.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 6 ‘17 230w

“No doubt students of Russian life will find nothing interesting in these pages and the book is not for those who wish to estimate political, economic, or military forces, or for those who look to Russia for spiritual guidance or inspiration. But it is for the not-too-serious tourist and those who are like the author in spirit. ... There is a slight misconception, perhaps, in the title of the book. It has little or nothing to do with the war, and does not describe special war conditions.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p268 Je 7 ‘17 1050w

=CRABB, GEORGE.= English synonymes. rev and enl ed *$1.25 Harper 424 17-10873

The first edition of Crabb’s “English synonymes explained” was published one hundred years ago. The preface to this centennial edition says, “It is an exceptional tribute to Crabb’s scholarship that during an entire century his masterful work has continued to hold the regard of the English-speaking world, and that to-day it is consulted with probably more appreciation than ever before.” Of the changes and additions made for the new edition the preface says further, “Nothing has been eliminated from the master’s explanations of his chosen words, and his style of presentation has been followed as closely as intervening conditions would permit. The entire body of the original words and explanations has been supplemented by a large number of words with their applications that have grown into the language within recent years, besides many that came to have a deeper significance than before because of the great European war.” Another important feature of the new edition is a complete system of cross references. The work has an introduction by John H. Finley.

“Revised and brought up to date by unnamed editors whose work, one cannot help feeling, is considerably inferior to that of the original author in natural feeling for words, in comprehension of philological niceties, and in insight into derived meanings.”

=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 31 ‘17 430w

=CRAGIN, LAURA ELLA.= Sunday story hour. il *$1.25 (3c) Doran 372.6 17-13402

The author has written these stories for Sunday telling, either at home or in the Sunday school. They are planned for the younger children and are grouped under the headings: Our Heavenly Father’s care; Our Heavenly Father’s protection; The loving care of Jesus; Prayer; The sabbath; Helpfulness; Kindness; Obedience; Easter; Thanksgiving; Christmas. Many of the stories were written for the Beginner’s leaflets issued by the Presbyterian Boards. Other books by the author are “Kindergarten stories for the Sunday school” and “Kindergarten Bible stories.”

“The way in which the child is led to see how God is in his world makes the book especially fitting for Sunday reading, as it is designed to be.”

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

=CRAIG, AUSTIN=, ed. Former Philippines thru foreign eyes. *$3 (3c) Appleton 919.14 A17-1007

This volume, edited by Professor Craig of the University of the Philippines, consists of a series of reprints of original documents and other out-of-print material bearing on the early history of the Philippines. Contents: Feodor Jagor’s travels in the Philippines; The state of the Philippines in 1810, by Thomas de Comyn; Manila and Sulu in 1842, by Charles Wilkes, U.S.N.; Manila in 1819, by John White, U.S.N.; The peopling of the Philippines, by Rudolf Virchow; People and prospects of the Philippines, by an English merchant, 1778, and a consul, 1878; Filipino merchants of the early 1890s, by F. Karuth. The volume was first published by the Philippine education company of Manila.

“Taken together, these descriptions form an exceedingly valuable lot of material regarding the Philippines. Of them all, the first is the most valuable, because of the intimate touch it gives of conditions and its excellent descriptions. The translation, which was made especially for this work by a young German, one of the victims of the Japanese onslaught on Tsing Tau, is immensely improved over the defective English translation published in London in 1875. By choosing descriptions on the whole favorable to the Filipinos, Professor Craig has presented but one side of his thesis, although it must be confessed material on the other side is easily available to whoever wishes to study the question from other points of view.” J. A. Robertson

+ =Am Hist R= 23:197 O ‘17 900w

“Only where there is special interest.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:442 Jl ‘17

“A republication of valuable and rare documents which is intended to correct the wrong impressions in the minds of students, concerning the Filipino and his islands.” M. C. T.

+ =St Louis= 15:185 Je ‘17 20w

=CRAIG, AUSTIN, and BENITEZ, CONRADO.= Philippine progress prior to 1898. $1.25 Philippine education co., Manila 991.4 17-31047

The purpose of this source book of Philippine history, prepared by two members of the faculty of the University of the Philippines, is “to supply a fairer view of Filipino participation and supplement the defective Spanish accounts.” The book consists of two parts. Part 1, The old Philippines’ industrial development, by Conrado Benitez, has chapters on: Agriculture and land-holding at the time of the discovery and conquest; Industries at the time of discovery and conquest; Trade and commerce at the time of discovery and conquest; Trade and commerce: the period of restriction; The 19th century and economic development. Part 2, The Filipinos’ part in the Philippines’ past, consists of documents and reprints, edited with introduction and notes by Austin Craig.

=CRAM, MILDRED.= Old seaport towns of the South. il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 917.5 17-28900

The rain that falls in the first few chapters of this leisurely narrative dampens not at all the ardor of writer, illustrator and reader as they fare forth together on a journey southward from New York to Baltimore, Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, St Augustine and Galveston. The writer is visiting the South of her parents for the first time—the South that had come to mean “the place of sun, chivalry, romance and Uncle Remus.” With freshness of outlook, therefore, the prominent points of interest are viewed. There is a good deal of history thrown in, some illuminating generalizations about social problems, the whole being interspersed with crisp dialog, clear description and entertaining comment. Good illustrations, the work of the author’s brother, accompany the text.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:91 D ‘17

“She catches the spirit of the cities, Baltimore, Charleston, Norfolk, and others, with remarkable accuracy. ... ‘Old seaport towns of the South’ is a thoroughly delightful book. The publishers have issued it in most attractive form, making a feature of the unusual and striking illustrations.” A. M. Chase

+ =Bookm= 46:335 N ‘17 190w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 3 ‘17 600w

“America is being discovered by its own people. The experiences and discoveries of one pair of explorers—brother and sister—are here related in sprightly detail, and the account is dressed by the publishers in the best product of the printing press. The historical facts woven into the narrative are at times somewhat mixed.”

+ — =Dial= 63:592 D 6 ‘17 280w

+ =Lit D= 55:39 D 8 ‘17 120w

“She has brought together a great variety of bits of history, tradition, reminiscence, and description which make of each place that she visits a very interesting, attractive, and colorful picture.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 100w

=CRAM, RALPH ADAMS.= Substance of Gothic. il *$1.50 (4½c) Jones, Marshall 723.5 17-25630

“I have called these lectures, given during the winter of 1916-17 in the Lowell institute course in Boston, ‘The substance of Gothic,’ because in them an effort is made, though briefly and superficially, to deal with the development of Christian architecture from Charlemagne to Henry VIII, rather in relation to its substance than its accidents; to consider it as a definite and growing organism and as the exact and unescapable exponent of a system of life and thought antipodal to that of the modernism that began its final dissolution at the beginning of August A.D. 1914, rather than in the light of its accidents of form and ornament and details of structural design.” (Preface) The author devotes five pages of his preface to listing and characterizing non-technical, easily available books, written in English, for those who wish to follow the subject further.

=A L A Bkl= 14:83 D ‘17

“It is a truly eloquent book, and regarded as a piece of writing will give pleasure to the layman as a literary performance, quite aside from his interest in the theme or his agreement with the view presented.” R: Burton

+ =Bookm= 46:477 D ‘17 640w

“In Mr Cram’s presentation of structural details we are given at last to realize how incomplete, how downright misleading has been the method which presented the material progress, and left altogether out of account the spiritual forces which made that progress possible. ... The importance of such critical method in this day and age is tremendous. ... He is pointing the way to a new understanding of the middle ages upon much more solid foundations. Beneath him is the support of such exhaustively scholarly works as Henry Osborn Taylor’s ‘The mediaeval mind,’ and of such penetrating analysis as has been made by Mr Henry Adams. ... Mr Cram is, on the other hand much inclined to treat the faults and the blemishes of the modern age as though they were the only things visible in all the recent centuries. In this view is much error.” J. E. K.

+ + — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 1350w

“The volume, though evidently the work of an accomplished and enthusiastic student of architecture, is by no means a dry text-book abounding in technicalities. Its chief appeal may be to the specialist, nevertheless it will be perused with profit and pleasure by every intelligent reader.”

+ =Cath World= 106:389 D ‘17 230w

“Mr Cram writes not alone from the point of view of an ardent Gothicist, but from that of an ardent churchman as well, and this contributes both to the strength and to the weakness of his book—to its strength because he has so keen and constant a realization of the nobility and vitality of the essential spirit of Catholicism; to its weakness because all those who fail or have failed of that realization are to him either heretics, heathen, or pagans, bent on establishing the kingdom of Satan on earth.” Claude Bragdon

+ — =Dial= 63:517 N 22 ‘17 900w

=R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 170w

=CRAM, RALPH ADAMS, and others.= Six lectures on architecture. il *$2 (6c) Univ. of Chicago press 720.4 17-4209

This volume contains the Scammon lectures for 1915, the lectures delivered at the Art institute of Chicago as the eleventh series under the Scammon foundation. Contents: The beginnings of Gothic art, and The culmination of Gothic architecture, by Ralph Adams Cram; Principles of architectural composition and Modern architecture, by Thomas Hastings; Organic architecture and The language of form, by Claude Bragdon. There are forty-five illustrations.

=A L A Bkl= 13:387 Je ‘17

“Mr Bragdon’s first lecture, entitled ‘Organic architecture,’ is an unusually clear statement of the condition of modern architecture. ... His second lecture, on ‘The language of form,’ is a valuable and suggestive exposition of his views as to possible sources of new forms in art and ornament.” P. B. Wight

+ =Architectural Record= 41:370 Ap ‘17 1400w

“Mr Cram’s two lectures, which it is rather hard to judge fairly, as he covers an immense field in a few pages, are admirably written. Mr Hastings’s two have some carelessnesses in style. ... There is a good deal of practical advice and of suggestive information in all six. The volume would have been improved had an index been added.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 1050w

“Stimulating discussion of conflicting ideals in American architecture.”

+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 70w

“Mr Cram summarizes the evolution of the characteristic features of Gothic construction in paragraphs bristling with names, dates, and technical terms. The effect is sufficiently cryptic even on the printed page. Yet the treatment, on the whole, is stimulating and suggestive. No one in the world to-day—certainly not in this country—is, perhaps, better qualified than Mr Cram to interpret the Gothic spirit. It can hardly be said that Mr Hastings presents a very strong brief for his cause.” W: A. Bradley

+ — =Dial= 63:110 Ag 16 ‘17 1050w

“Well worth reading as examples of three wholly different attitudes and methods of approach to the subject. ... The minds of auditors who heard all six lectures must have been left at the end in a somewhat bewildered state, for the book is full of contentious and provocative suggestions. It is hardly milk for babes in architecture, but it is good reading for those who are already somewhat instructed in the subject, and may well set the mature architect to thinking.”

+ =Nation= 104:437 Ap 12 ‘17 420w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17 30w

“The doctors disagree, but it is the disagreement of living thought, and from the series of lectures the public receives a lively thrust toward the act of original thinking which is the desired result in all educational work.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:415 O 21 ‘17 400w

=Pittsburgh= 22:316 Ap ‘17

=Pratt= p29 O ‘17 50w

+ =Spec= 118:732 Je 30 ‘17 140w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 N 9 ‘17 290w

=CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE.= Life and letters, [ed.] by his daughter, Leonora Cranch Scott. il *$3.50 (3c) Houghton 17-8755

Altho Christopher Pearse Cranch was born in Virginia, he was closely associated with the literary life of New England. As a young man he entered the Unitarian ministry, but left it after a time to follow an artist’s career. He devoted himself to landscape painting and wrote poetry for the Atlantic Monthly, the Dial and other papers of the time. He was the friend of Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, George William Curtis and other distinguished Americans and in his travels abroad he formed friendships with men of letters in Europe, among them Thackeray, and the Brownings. In this book his daughter presents a selection from his letters, joined together by extracts from an unpublished autobiography.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:399 Je ‘17

“Christopher Pearse Cranch finds a place in many anthologies, and his books are on the shelves of numerous libraries, public and private, that preserve the relics of bygone literary accomplishment. ... It is regrettable that his daughter, despite the abundant material in her possession and her liberal use of it in this volume of ‘Life and letters,’ has thrown it together so carelessly, and has made no attempt, either in her own words or in the words of others, to tell a well-ordered and coherent story of his life. ... As a miscellany of incidents in the inconspicuous life of an American man of letters and leisure, Mrs Scott’s record of her father is valuable despite its incompleteness. ... As material for a biography, Mrs Scott’s volume will serve. It is also an excellent memorial tribute to a worthy life.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 1450w

“By far the most valuable part of the book is made up of the letters he received from others. Besides early notes from James Freeman Clarke and Emerson, there are several letters in Lowell’s happiest manner, several from the Brownings ... and many from W. W. Story and George William Curtis. A few, like those of Curtis from Berlin, are valuable for themselves; but most are of the sort that reveal the recipient as well as the author.”

+ =Dial= 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 430w

“His personality was well worth studying, but the greatest charm of the book lies in the intimate view we get of such friends as Curtis, James Russell Lowell, Mr and Mrs Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. W. Story, Margaret Fuller, and others famous in art, music, and literature. ... It is a very readable biography.”

+ =Lit D= 54:2007 Je 30 ‘17 180w

“The reader who wishes to find a picture of the pale, reflected, undisturbed, and comfortable condition of American arts and letters of the period will do no better than to turn lightly the pages of this volume. But if he is looking for the impact upon a man of varied culture of the forces that were to shake artists, composers, and writers out of their traditional ease, he will turn away as from a sago pudding.”

+ — =Nation= 105:697 D 20 ‘17 440w

“Mr Cranch was one of the most interesting Americans of the last generation.”

=Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 30w

=Pittsburgh= 22:525 Je ‘17 90w

=Pratt= p47 O ‘17 30w

“His relations with New England transcendentalism and with Emerson form an entertaining chapter of the book.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 50w

“If the material gathered in this volume had been thoroughly sifted and digested into a book of half the size, two objects would have been probably attained: We should have had a sufficiently detailed life of the poet, and his life would be likely to interest more readers. As it is, the volume is formidable because of its size and because of the method of presentation of its subject matter.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 15 ‘17 1600w

=CRANDALL, LEE SAUNDERS.= Pets; their history and care. il *$2 (2½c) Holt 636 17-13515

This book on pets and their care is divided into four sections: Mammals; Birds; Reptiles and batrachians; The aquarium. As this division will indicate, the term pet has been given a rather wide interpretation. The author says, “To give, in a single volume, full and efficient directions for the treatment of so many diverse creatures, means that the space devoted to each must be no greater than necessary. For this reason rare or particularly delicate members of the various groups have been excluded. ... On the other hand, many of the birds, such as the pheasants, cranes and waterfowl, cannot be considered as pets in the sense that they may be fondled, but they are widely kept for ornamental purposes, and their proper treatment is a matter often not well known.” (Preface) Theories of breeding are discussed in an appendix. There are many illustrations from photographs, a bibliography and index.

“It covers about the same number of animals as Comstock and is, therefore, fuller in treatment than Verrill. Has fifteen more illustrations than Comstock and a general bibliography at the end of the book instead of the references for each animal discussed in Comstock.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:44 N ‘17

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 30w

=N Y Times= 22:461 N 11 ‘17 70w

“As an introduction to the practical knowledge of pets, Mr Crandall’s book will well serve. As assistant curator of birds in the New York zoological park he speaks with the weight of an authority behind him. ... There are nearly 100 excellent illustrations.”

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

=CRANE, FRANK.=[2] Christmas and the year round. *$1 (2c) Lane 170.4 17-29490

“Christmas means the supreme fact about life, namely: that it is joyful,” writes Dr Frank Crane in the first of these essays. Others in an equally optimistic vein follow. The art of quietness, Life an adventure, The man who keeps his word, Democracy, The postponement of life, The delusion of safety, are some of the titles.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 9 ‘18 100w

“Dr Crane puts a great deal of common sense philosophy into his essays in a spirited, readable form and this newest product is packed with optimistic humanism and wisdom.”

+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 130w

“He is always brisk, and the ideal of life to which he calls his readers is always democratic, independent, contented, and sturdy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:564 D 16 ‘17 370w

=CRANE, FRANK.= Looking glass. *$1 (2c) Lane 170.4 17-13215

A book of short essays on such subjects as: The secrecy of goodness; The art of being cheerful; The higher probabilities; Keeping young; Amusements; The fear of deciding; The new teacher; The theatre and morals; The immorality of fear; A consumer’s views on salesmanship; Democracy and organization, etc.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17

“Dr Crane’s devoted admirers will receive with joy a new contribution to his list of books. Like his other offerings, this volume is crammed with spicy essays in tabloid form.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 2 ‘17 190w

“Brisk, wholesome, direct, this spicily served advice is all the better for not taking itself too seriously.”

+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 40w

“His short essays express, in terse phrase, the brisk American optimism. It is not mawkish or spineless; on the contrary, it is vigorously upstanding. But it is determined to see ‘good in everything.’ But we cannot all agree in finding cause for happiness in the ‘number of things’ of which the world is full today. And there is something more than irritation—there is something ghastly—in Dr Crane’s exuberant cry of all-inclusive gladness: ‘Thank God for now!’”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 360w

=CRANE, UTLEY EDWIN.= Business law for business men. *$3.50 Winston 347 17-1500

A work on business law, “covering all the states and territories in the Union, with abstracts of commercial law in every state and territory and legal forms for many transactions.” (Title-page) The author, a judge of the municipal court of Philadelphia, says, “Recognizing that the average business man has neither the opportunity nor inclination to pursue a systematic study of business law, this work has been specially prepared to meet the requirements of the busy man of affairs. Omission of any citation of authority and all legal technicalities has been for the purpose of rendering the work interesting as well as instructive.” Contents: Contracts; Partnerships; Corporations; Negotiable instruments; Real estate and conveyancing; Bankruptcy; Insurance; Common carriers; Patents; Trade-marks; Copyrights; Sales; Business crimes; Domestic relations; Building and loan associations; Architects and builders; Money; Executors and administrators; Constitutional law; Banks and banking.

“It is a practical book for practical business. It will also be of ‘handy reference’ value to lawyers. It is easy to read and well arranged, so that the layman will have no difficulty in finding the information which he desires.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ‘17 380w

“One of the commendable features of the work is its national application. ... As an exposition of the legal principles involved in ordinary mercantile transactions, the work can be commended as sufficiently simple and untechnical to meet the requirements of the busy man of affairs.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 130w

=CRANMER-BYNG, LAUNCELOT ALFRED=, tr. Feast of lanterns; rendered with an introd. *80c Dutton 895 (Eng ed 17-6225)

“In ‘The wisdom of the East series,’ edited by L. Cranmer-Byng, and Dr S. A. Kapadia, there is now published a treasure for students of poetry, ‘A feast of lanterns,’ translations from the work of twenty Chinese poets. The introduction explains the tenets of Chinese poetic art, their reverence and love for flowers, symbolism in poetry, and the lore of the dragon, one of the four spiritually endowed creatures of China. There are also interesting comments on the epochs of Chinese poetry, and on the great storehouse of verse that remains untranslated into western tongues.”—R of Rs

=A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17

+ =Ind= 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 60w

“The reader of these graceful relics of the thought of an alien race in by-gone centuries echoes the sentiment of Sir John Davis, quoted on the title-page of this volume, ‘As our gardens have already been indebted to China for a few choice flowers, who knows but our poetry may some day be under a similar obligation?’”

+ =Lit D= 54:1862 Je 16 ‘17 500w

+ =N Y Times= 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 430w

+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 90w

=CRAVATH, PAUL DRENNAN.= Great Britain’s part. *$1 (8c) Appleton 940.91 17-7951

These “observations of an American visitor to the British army in France at the beginning of the third year of the war,” were written first for the New York Times. They are republished in the hope that they may “aid a few Americans to a better appreciation of the greatness of England’s achievements in the European war.” The author says, “The British people and press have so liberally exercised the Englishman’s inalienable right to abuse the government that we in America often hear more of England’s mistakes than of her achievements. As a result, there is, I find, real misapprehension among Americans as to England’s part in the war.”

+ =Cleveland= p82 Je ‘17 50w

+ =Dial= 63:212 S 13 ‘17 170w

“Hardly more than a magazine article, Paul D. Cravath’s little book makes clear methods of organization and the way work is done behind the British lines.”

+ =Ind= 90:297 My 12 ‘17 30w

“A thin book of not two hours’ reading, which is far too sketchy and meagre to justify a defiance of the high cost of paper by adding another pebble to the mountain of war-books. But one conviction strongly and instinctively held by Mr Cravath catches our interest. The conviction is that England will win, that nothing can stop the new army. Since we have ourselves entered the war, we have been glad of any reassurance, however uncritical or dogmatic. Mr Cravath’s conviction is both, yet he has the power to convey his conviction to his readers.”

=New Repub= 10:330 Ap 14 ‘17 230w

=Pittsburgh= 22:528 Je ‘17 40w

“His account of the businesslike methods by which a modern battle is fought makes good reading.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 100w

“Largely a reiteration of what we already know. But it makes an interesting reiteration because it is the result of personal, inexpert observation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 27 ‘17 170w

=CREAGER, WILLIAM PITCHER.= Engineering for masonry dams. il $2.50 Wiley 627 17-17759

“A concise handbook treating first of dams in general, choice of location, preliminary and final investigations, choice of type, and forces acting on dams with tables and equations for computing them; second, of particular types with examples of each and the calculations for their construction. The three final chapters are concerned with the preparation and protection of the foundation, flood flows, details and accessories.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

“The 229 pages of the volume are full of valuable information, made easy of access by the methodical arrangement of the material. The assumptions and recommendations are consistent with good conservative practice. ... If the reader feels any regret it is because he does not find treated one of the difficult problems of engineering of masonry dams—outlet control.” F. Teichman

+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:562 S 20 ‘17 580w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Jl ‘17 60w

=CREELMAN, HARLAN.= Introduction to the Old Testament; with a foreword by Frank K. Sanders. *$2.75 Macmillan 221 17-12733

“After about thirty pages of discussion of questions of general introduction the outline of biblical material is given chronologically, and divided into ten periods. The materials of four of these periods are found in the Hexateuch; and they are the primitive, the patriarchal, the exodus and the conquest of western Palestine periods. Then follow successively the periods of the judges, of the united kingdom, of the divided kingdom, of the exile, of Persian rule and of Grecian rule. All of this mass of material is analyzed, dated and described. Each section, paragraph, verse and part of a verse is carefully marked, so that the student of the English Bible may test for himself the data upon which the modern view of the Old Testament rests.”—Boston Transcript

“Its general point of view, of course, is that of the historical school, and the author’s conclusions, in so far as they are indicated, are of the cautious type represented by such scholars as Driver and the contributors to Hastings’ ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ But the critical literature so abundantly cited, if used by the inquiring reader, will bring him into touch with every shade of opinion.” J. M. P. Smith

+ =Am J Theol= 21:608 O ‘17 430w

“There are three indexes which will prove very helpful to the student. For those who wish to study the Old Testament as an original source this is the best volume that has been published in English.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ‘17 470w

=CREEVEY, CAROLINE ALATHEA (STICKNEY) (MRS JOHN KENNEDY CREEVEY).= Daughter of the Puritans. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-6643

The author of “Recreations in botany,” “Harper’s guide to wild flowers,” and other books, writes here of her girlhood. The years covered are those from her childhood up to her marriage in 1866 at the age of twenty-three. Of particular interest is her account of the religious training of New England children in her day and of its effect on the child mind. She herself, she says, lived two lives “one natural and childlike, the other terrified and unnatural.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:351 My ‘17

“The childish attitude towards religion and God as it existed more than a half century ago could not be better epitomized.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 20 ‘17 1600w

“Mrs Creevey is not only a botanist and a writer on botany, with several handy and useful books to her credit on our native flora and the pleasures of its study, but also an agreeable chronicler of events in the animate world of human beings. ... Her account of her education and her school-teaching is good reading—truthful and richly human, with a spice of humor.”

+ =Dial= 62:316 Ap 5 ‘17 230w

+ =Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 40w

“All except the very young will find in this autobiography their own experiences mirrored.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1088 Ap 14 ‘17 180w

“There are three chapters on Wheaton seminary (now college) at Norton, Mass.”

=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 30w

=CREHORE, ALBERT GUSHING.= Mystery of matter and energy. il *$1 (6c) Van Nostrand 530.1 17-28773

In the first chapter of this little book the author says, “One of the purposes of the following lines will be fully accomplished if we succeed in presenting to those who have given little thought to this subject some conception of what is implied by the words ‘the problem of the structure of matter.’ Among scientists this problem has gradually increased in importance to such an extent that it may now be said to be the problem of problems.” Discoveries of recent years have advanced the problem to a point where its solution becomes a possibility. “The improbability of its solution in the eyes of a former generation has, it may be said, been changed into a probability in the eyes of the present generation.” The problem is stated, recent steps in its development traced, and the field for future effort outlined.

“A fascinating little volume. ... The book is written without algebra, but it contains some beautiful geometrical drawings and atomic-model pictures. The volume is to be recommended to all educated persons possessing some general knowledge of physics who are interested in the most recent investigations within the microcosmic world.”

+ =Elec World= 71:50 Ja 5 ‘18 340w

=CREIGHTON, LOUISE (VON GLEHN) (MRS MANDELL CREIGHTON).=[2] Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin. il *$4.50 Longmans

Thomas Hodgkin, an English banker, historian and antiquary who died in 1913, is allowed to tell his life story largely in his own words, Mrs Creighton having drawn on his extensive correspondence and his private journals and diaries. She says, “My object has been to give a portrait of a man, not an account of the various causes in which he was interested, nor even, in the first place, of the work which he actually achieved.” Thomas Hodgkin was a Quaker and the record of his association with the Society of Friends is given in the words of fellow members of that faith. A bibliography, giving a list of all Dr Hodgkin’s writings is included in the appendix. Mrs Creighton is also author of the “Life and letters of Mandell Creighton.”

“The record of a life such as Dr Hodgkin’s belongs among the notable biographies of men of thought and action.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 9 ‘18 1350w

“The portrait she presents is serene but a trifle monotonous. There are too many birthday letters, written in a tone of affectionate retrospect, and a superabundance of religious discussions with Sir Edward Fry and other intimates.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:485 D 15 ‘17 350w

+ =Spec= 119:679 D 8 ‘17 1800w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 N 15 ‘17 50w

“It is natural that to Mrs Creighton, who so admirably revealed the many-sided powers of the bishop [Bishop Creighton] who ‘tried to write true history,’ should be given the opportunity of preserving for posterity the lovable character of his friend. In this she has succeeded. ... There is no criticism, no endeavour to analyse his purpose, or assign him rank among the great historians.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p565 N 22 ‘17 1400w

Crime, The, by a German: tr. by Alexander Gray.[2] 2v v 1 *$2.50 (1½c) Doran 940.91 17-26980

A book called forth by the criticisms of the author’s earlier book “J’accuse,” with answers to the objections of German critics, among them Dr Karl Helfferich, Dr Theodor Schiemann, Paul Rohrbach, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. The author’s chief aim has been to bring new evidence to bear on the thesis of the first book.

“A far better appreciation of the present work is possible to those who have studied ‘J’accuse’ than to readers imperfectly acquainted with its subject-matter. ‘The crime’ will be widely read, and will deepen the impression made by the author’s previous book.”

+ =Ath= p684 D ‘17 210w

“Had his first chapter been written without epithets, declamation, and self-laudation, the whole work would have gained in dignity and force. It is unnecessary explicitly to damn opponents whom your sober arguments render so ridiculous as this author renders the Teutonic apologists. Apart from this blemish the book is unanswerable.”

+ — =Lit D= 56:32 Ja 26 ‘18 580w

“The author lays no claim to be in possession of any material which is not universally accessible, but in very patient and thoroughly German fashion he has made the most of what is available. It must be admitted that his method becomes at times wearisome. Those chapters which are freshest and will be most read deal with the relations between Lord Grey of Fallodon and Count Lichnowsky, the German ambassador in London, before the actual outbreak of war, and discuss the German claim that Russia, by being in so great a hurry to mobilize, was really the European ‘incendiary.’”

+ — =Spec= 119:sup550 N 17 ‘17 220w

=CROFT, TERRELL WILLIAMS.=[2] Electrical machinery; principles, operation and management. il *$2 McGraw 621.31 17-19176

“Avoiding the use of difficult mathematics, this well known author aims to explain to the ‘average’ man the theoretical principles and the essential operating facts relating to alternating-current and direct-current generators as well as to motors and similar machinery, with consideration of control apparatus. Design is not discussed. There are chapters on troubles, testing, and the determination of motor drive requirements. [There are] clear cut illustrations and practical examples with solutions.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

=A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p7 Jl ‘17 70w

=Pittsburgh= 22:658 O ‘17 10w

+ =Power= 46:238 Ag 14 ‘17 500w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 70w

=CROFT, TERRELL WILLIAMS.= Wiring for light and power. il *$2 McGraw 621.31 17-11353

“The ‘National electric code’ which this book explains and illustrates is a set of rules prepared by the National board of fire underwriters for the purpose of insuring safe electrical installation. The aim of the author of the present book is to make plain just how the work should be performed to meet the requirements of the ‘Code.’ The ‘Code’ itself may be had gratis from the National board of fire underwriters, 76 William st., New York city.”—Quar List New Tech Bks

“Valuable reference manual. Covers outside and theater lighting which Cook does not, is better illustrated and a little less technical.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:115 Ja ‘18

“Exceptionally well illustrated and indexed.”

+ =Bul N Y Public Library= 21:482 Jl ‘17 120w

“Valuable reference manual.”

+ =Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 10w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:105 Jl ‘17

“Mr Croft, who has several other excellent handbooks to his credit, has in this practical and clearly written work supplied the desirable explanations and elaborations.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Ap ‘17 120w

=Pittsburgh= 22:517 Je ‘17

=Pratt= p21 O ‘17 30w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 90w

=CRONAU, RUDOLF.= German achievements in America. il $1 R. Cronau, 340 E. 198th st., N.Y. 325.7 16-16931

“Written as an answer to what the author terms ‘unwarranted insinuations questioning the loyalty of the German-Americans toward the land of their adoption,’ this book brings together brief records of German achievements in America, from the days of the Palatines to the present, and covers achievements in pioneer life, war, politics, industry and commerce, science and engineering, literature and the press, music and drama, philanthropy and women’s work, including also a chapter on the National German-American alliance and its purposes, and The future mission of the German element in America.”—Cleveland

=Cleveland= p159 D ‘16 90w

=Pittsburgh= 22:213 Mr ‘17

=St Louis= 14:386 N ‘16

=CROSS, HÉLÈNE (FODOR) (MRS C: E: CROSS).= Soldiers’ spoken French. *60c Dutton 448 17-22899

This book is a “short-cut to the amount of French which it is necessary that our men who go to France should be able to speak.” It has been “compiled from a real course of spoken lessons as given to New Zealand’s soldiers.” The author states: “The approximate pronunciation of each word will be found, as the sound would be spelt in English, in brackets beside it.” The binding is said to be waterproof and the book will fit the pocket of a uniform.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:9 O ‘17

“It was an oversight, however, on the part of the American publishers not to give the equivalent of the French money in American, as well as in English currency.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:847 S ‘17 120w

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 60w

=R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:361 O ‘17 20w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p347 Jl 19 ‘17 30w

=CROSWELL, JAMES GREENLEAF.= Letters and writings. il *$2 (3c) Houghton 17-13972

James Greenleaf Croswell became in 1887 head-master of the Brearley school for girls in New York city. His letters fill a little more than half of the present volume. “Many are written to relatives; some to literary and other friends; the majority, perhaps, to present and former pupils.” (Nation) These are followed by about one hundred pages of the author’s writings in prose and verse. Then come some seventy pages of “Recollections and appreciations” of Mr Croswell. The book is illustrated with three portraits of the author, a picture of his summer home and a facsimile of a letter to a child.

“Evidently we have to do rather with a somewhat miscellaneous collection than with a book. Yet it contains enough interesting matter to give the reader no little insight into Mr Croswell’s character. Most interesting, naturally, to teachers are the letters exhibiting Croswell’s views on his own profession, as shown by allusions here and there in them—rarely by more elaborate or formal statement.” E. D. Perry

+ =Educ R= 54:419 N ‘17 1450w

“Even to one who had never before heard of Mr Croswell or of the Brearley school, the book would be sure to be interesting, because there is a man in it. ... The more formal ‘Writings’—a couple of addresses, a fable or two, and a few translations and poems—add little to the picture, but do nothing to injure it. In the letters especially, which fill rather more than half the volume, one meets a personality of genuine and most winning humility, of entire unselfishness and a kind of appealing wistfulness, yet not without subtlety; and this conjoined with a mind of extraordinary keenness, flexibility, and refinement. ... It would be impossible to imagine better letters to young girls than many of these.”

+ =Nation= 105:228 Ag 30 ‘17 550w

=Pittsburgh= 22:743 N ‘17 70w

=CROW, MRS MARTHA (FOOTE)=, comp. Christ in the poetry of today: an anthology from American poets. $1 Woman’s press 811.08 17-21868

The compiler of this volume, aroused by Dr Josiah Strong’s allusion to “the return to Christ that is now taking place,” decided to try out the truth of his statement in modern poetry. In fifty volumes of poetry of about 1890, she found few or no poems about Jesus; in 1895, a few; in 1900, many more; while in 1910, times had distinctly changed. In her introduction the compiler says: “Selecting, then, from the super-abundant wealth of poetical material on this theme, written by the poets of the United States of America, since about 1900, and arranging them in the order of the events of his life, we have here a sort of new biography of Jesus, each chapter of which consists of a poem written by a different author, and the whole forming the poetic reaction of our time to the thought of Jesus. ... Jew and Gentile, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Neo-Pagan, Socialist, Emersonian—all sorts and conditions of lovers and admirers of Jesus are represented in this collection.”

“A most useful book for all having to do with programs for church, schools and societies.”

+ =Ind= 91:477 S 22 ‘17 70w

=CROWELL, BERTHA.= Wings of the cardinal. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-25289

Ferol Rankin, a beautiful red-haired, seventeen year old Texas country girl, to get money for her mother, became the mistress of Berry Ward, a rich New Yorker, with tuberculosis, who was seeking a divorce from a cheap actress whom he had married when he was drunk. Ward promised to marry Ferol when he got his divorce, and kept his word. After spending some time in Kansas City, in California and in New York, the Wards settled in San Vincente, New Mexico. Here Ward had an affair with Julia Brace, a married woman, though he was still in love with his wife. Meanwhile James Sanger, a sculptor, fell in love with Ferol and tried to make her go away with him, but although she loved Sanger, she decided that she couldn’t “be a quitter” and elected to stay with her husband. Ward, however, divined the state of the case, told Sanger that he would “play to lose” and that Ferol would be free in six months. He stayed alone in a hunting camp and died of hemorrhage. The “Texas Cardinal” then cabled Sanger, who was in Algiers, that he might return in a few months.

“The novel reads very like a first book, but though it is deficient in artistry and in interest, it has some clever bits, usually descriptions of places and environments. Especially good is the sketch of San Vincente and its health colony, outwardly so light-hearted and careless, really engaged in a plucky fight against the one real enemy, tuberculosis.”

=N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 300w

=CROY, MAE SAVELL.= 1000 hints on flowers and birds. *$1.50 Putnam 716 17-17297

Uniform with “1000 hints on vegetable gardening.” Treats of The art of growing flowers, Essentials in gardening, Special features of the garden, The lawn, Shrubbery and trees, Insects and sprays, Color scheme, List of common and botanical names of flowers mentioned in the text, List of flowers arranged according to the blossoming period, List of perennials, also annuals, arranged according to colors, Flowers for cutting, Flowers requiring little sunlight, Flowers that thrive in damp places, Flowers for the old-fashioned garden, and a List of evergreen shrubs and trees. The last thirty pages are concerned with “A plea for the birds.”

“The indexing of the helpful information is scholarly and invaluable.”

+ =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 130w

“An almost dishonestly misleading title. The impression of coördination that is conveyed is belied when it turns out that the birds receive only thirty-two pages in a volume of 359 pages, or one chapter among twenty-one. This chapter, it should also be said, is of no value to the field student, concerning, as it does, only such matters as bird houses and food. The justification of the book (it does justify itself) is in the highly condensed information on gardening and full index that renders this information quickly accessible. The author’s information, though generally correct and serviceable, is more than once careless.”

+ – — =Nation= 105:610 N 29 ‘17 180w

“An indispensable guide for the amateur gardener and home-builder, equally suited to the needs of those who have a large acreage at their disposal and for the person with the modest backyard or the narrow window-box.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:221 Ag ‘17 70w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 60w

=CROY, MAE SAVELL.= 1000 hints on vegetable gardening. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 635 17-18609

Uniform with “1000 shorter ways around the house,” and “1000 things a mother should know.” There is a chapter whose tabulation is alphabetical which groups under each vegetable the hints for the planting, care, cooking and preservation of that vegetable. There are chapters on: Soil and fertilization; The hotbed and cold-frame; Seed; Planting; Thinning and transplanting; Cultivation; Watering; Weeds; Insects and sprays; Fruit; Small fruits; Nuts; Trees; Miscellaneous hints; List of agricultural experiment stations; Plan for a family garden; Table denoting how much space should be devoted to various vegetables; Convenient lists for gardeners; Index.

=CROY, MAE SAVELL.= 1000 things a mother should know. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 649 17-13344

The suggestions the author has brought together have reference “to tiny babies and growing children; their clothes, their care, their food, their training, and their entertainment.” As in her earlier book, “1000 shorter ways around the house,” she has arranged a large amount of miscellaneous material under convenient subject headings. Contents: Pregnancy; Clothing; The nursery; Health rules and medical care; Hygiene and sick-room suggestions; Food; Habits and training; Amusements; Miscellaneous.

=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 30w

“A large amount of miscellaneous information conveniently arranged.”

+ =Pratt= p25 O ‘17 20w

=CRUMP, IRVING.= Boys’ book of policemen. il *$1.35 (2½c) Dodd 352 17-13226

A companion volume to “The boys’ book of firemen,” by the same author. It will give a new idea of the policeman’s duties and of the wide variety of the opportunities offered by the calling. Contents: The call of adventure; “Pounding the pavement” with the patrolman; The six-foot guards of traffic; In action with the mounted men; Mile-a-minute motor patrol; The four-footed police of the dog patrol; The pirate fighting marine division; The sleuths of the secret service; The riot call and other police signals; Police preparedness; Policemen in the making; Your big brother—the cop.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:453 Jl ‘17

“Besides all the practical information, stories are told of many adventures and thrilling incidents.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 90w

+ =Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 30w

+ =Pratt= p9 O ‘17 20w

=CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON, and others.= School organization and administration. (Educational survey ser.) il $1.50 World bk. co. 371 16-17381

The report of a school survey conducted by Dr Cubberley in Salt Lake City in 1915. “The survey concerned itself especially with the form or organization and administration under which the schools were operated, the system of supervisory control by means of which the superintendent of schools worked, the progress in the fundamental subjects being made by the children in the schools, and the problem of adequate finance. ... The report contained, in addition, a number of features which were quite distinctive. ... Among these should be mentioned the detailed explanation of the tests made and the results obtained, the study of the instruction of retarded pupils, the work in health control, the school building and site problem, and the peculiar financial problem, presented by this city.” (Preface) The first edition published by the Board of education of Salt Lake City was early exhausted and this second edition is now printed with some revisions and additions by the author.

“A great mass of educational literature is accumulating, some of it of dubious value, which may or may not be useful hereafter as material or sources for students in educational administration and practise. A painstaking example of a work of this type is ‘School organization and administration.’”

=Educ R= 53:199 F ‘17 70w

“Will be useful to any school officer or parent who wishes to work out an intelligent view of his own school situation.”

+ =Ind= 89:196 Ja 29 ‘17 70w

Reviewed by B: C. Gruenberg

=N Y Call= p12 F 4 ‘17 430w

=CUMBERLAND, WILLIAM WILSON.= Cooperative marketing. *$1.50 Princeton univ. press 334 17-28662

“In ‘Cooperative marketing: its advantages as exemplified in the California fruit growers exchange’ Prof. W. W. Cumberland has written the history of the exchange since its beginnings in the early nineties, outlined its methods of work, summarized its benefits, and said a few words of its pertinence to cooperative marketing in other fields. ... It consists, essentially, of 8,000 orchardists united into 117 local packing exchanges, each handling fruit on a cost basis; of 17 district selling exchanges, or clearing-houses; and of the central exchange, which, under president and directors, provides market facilities, issues daily bulletins of market information, advertises, owns the ‘Sunkist’ trade-mark, handles litigation, and maintains an organized selling force of 75 offices and 200 salesmen in the principal European, Canadian, and American markets.”—Nation

“Comprehensive, suggestive, candid and rational. This book should give a great stimulus to the one phase of cooperation.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 8 ‘17 150w

“Professor Cumberland tells his story lucidly and comprehensively.”

+ =Nation= 105:571 N 22 ‘17 470w

=CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM.= Progress of capitalism in England. *90c (3c) Putnam 330.9 (Eng ed 17-15935)

This book contains the substance of lectures delivered in the London school of economics and political science in 1915, and is “published in the hope that it may prove a useful appendix to the author’s ‘Growth of English industry and commerce.’” (Preface) The book is divided into three sections: Economic history and empirical economic science; The development of the body economic in England: Lessons from experience. “One-third of it is devoted to the general philosophy of the subject. ... The development of industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is touched upon only by a brief discussion of ‘laisser-faire.’ A contribution to the economic problems of the future is offered in the final chapter on ‘Lessons from experience.’” (Eng Hist R)

“Much material of great interest to students of economic history is presented in brief compass, particularly in the second part of the book which deals with ‘The progress of capitalism in mediaeval cities.’”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:597 Ag ‘17 80w

“The many students of Archdeacon Cunningham’s ‘Growth of English industry and commerce’ will not find anything new in his lectures on ‘The progress of capitalism in England’ but those who desire a very brief summary of his views on this aspect of economic history will find this little book helpful.” G. U.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:316 Ag ‘17 170w

“Besides an instructive summary of our economic development, this little book contains an earnest plea for the study of economic history.”

+ =Spec= 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 80w

=CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, ROBERT BONTINE.=[2] Brought forward; Charity; Faith; Hope; Progress; Success. ea *$1.35 Stokes (Eng ed 17-11795)

“Of the six volumes which are now being brought out in a uniform edition in this country, one, ‘Brought forward,’ is published for the first time. The other books, although they have been appearing one by one in England since the early years of the century, have never before been issued here. The present edition amounts, therefore, to an introduction, for American leaders, to a large part of a well-known British writer’s work. Of the fifteen stories in the new volume, three are Scotch, three English, one a story of the Arabs, one a story of Spain; the others take the reader to scenes past and present in Latin America. ... The name of the volume ‘Charity’ is taken from the initial story of the book, but nearly all the tales have charity, sometimes in an odd form, as motif. ... ‘Faith’ and ‘Hope’ form the keynotes of the volumes of those titles, though sometimes faith and hope show themselves, and play their parts in men’s and women’s lives, in strange and sad ways. ... ‘Progress,’ a long story in the book of that name, is a horrible record of the putting down of a rebellion in Mexico. ... His sympathies are always with the simple people, the oppressed, the misunderstood.”—N Y Times

“Keen as is the sympathy that marks his pictures of simple folk in England and Scotland, his stories of Latin America are really the most interesting in the book, with a few brief sketches of Spaniards and Moors following close behind. Yet the whole book is a series of delightful portraits, both of men and of horses. The earlier volumes show the same understanding that marks ‘Brought forward.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:393 O 14 ‘17 1000w

“He has irony, pity, and wit. He is the master of the telling phrase, and can produce a convincing picture with the utmost economy of words. Our delight in this book is tempered only by the fear that it is to be, according to rumour, Mr Cunninghame Graham’s last.”

+ =Sat R= 122:417 O 28 ‘16 470w (Review of “Brought forward”)

“We need only say that they are as attractive as ever—especially ‘El tango Argentino’—and commend them to his many faithful readers, who will be grieved to learn from the preface that the author will write no more.”

+ =Spec= 117:sup609 N 18 ‘16 70w (Review of “Brought forward”)

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 O 26 ‘16 1200w (Review of “Brought forward”)

=CURLE, RICHARD.= Echo of voices. *$1.50 (2c) Knopf 17-13448

Richard Curle is author of a critical study of Joseph Conrad, and Conrad has stood sponsor for this book of short stories. “I think your taking him up is a good move,” he wrote to the publisher. “He has brains; he has also a writer’s temperament.” The short stories that compose the book are serious studies of life and character. Most of them have a commonplace London setting. One, His kingdom, is a story of South Africa; another, Nineteen, of the South seas. The other titles are: The two dependants; Midnight: The would-be friends; General service; Monsieur Clavel; Deep down.

“The book is, it is easily apparent, not strikingly of the ‘wholesome’ breed. It is not likely to please those who lack a relish for the eccentric and somewhat bitter. But the tales, for all their lack of the conventionalities of structure and content, have a certain power and self-sufficiency.” F. I.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 550w

“There is perhaps more than a suggestion of Mr Conrad’s own method, and more than a trace of the influence of the great Russians, especially Dostoevsky. But what then? These are no bad models for a young writer with a temperament, and Mr Curie has had the strength to put his individual stamp on all but one of these tales.”

+ — =Dial= 63:353 O 11 ‘17 530w

=CURRAN, WILLIAM TEES, and CALKINS, HAROLD A.= In Canada’s wonderful northland. il *$2.50 (2c) Putnam 917.1 17-5856

A book devoted to the northern part of the province of Quebec, a country now being opened to settlement by the construction of a railroad to Hudson bay. It is an account of eight months of travel by canoe, motorboat and dog-team. The authors were continuing studies made earlier by Mr Curran and summed up in “Glimpses of northern Canada, a land of hidden treasure,” a work issued by the Canadian government. The book is well illustrated and supplied with maps.

“An unassuming and interestingly written record of a trip taken by the authors in 1912.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:349 My ‘17

“The book prefigures, in all likelihood, a remarkable expansion northward in the near future.”

+ =Dial= 62:531 Je 14 ‘17 270w

+ =Nation= 105:323 S 20 ‘17 350w

“From the intimate manner in which the narrative is set forth, the reader seems to live in the region through which he passes. The sixty illustrations and maps are illuminating and well chosen.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 170w

“It is not as well written as it might have been; the illustrations are exceptionally good and, on the whole, the book is one of the best volumes of Canadian travel in some time.”

+ — =Ontario Library Review= 1:112 My ‘17 50w

=R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 50w

+ =Spec= 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 80w

“Those who wish a true and vivid picture of the vast region known as northern Canada cannot do better than read ‘In Canada’s wonderful northland.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 29 ‘17 270w

“This being a book for the general reader, Mr Curran does not give details about his technical work. It contains an appendix giving new and valuable information about the harbours discovered.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p398 Ag 23 ‘17 600w

“Covers some of the ground of Leith’s ‘Summer and winter on Hudson bay.’”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:183 Je ‘17 80w

=CURRIE, BARTON WOOD.= Tractor and its influence upon the agricultural implement Industry. il *$1 (2c) Curtis pub. co., Independence square, Philadelphia 631 16-15374

A series of papers on the development and use of farm implements, with particular reference to the tractor, reprinted from the Country Gentleman. Part 1 consists of a miscellaneous collection in which the author deplores the “senseless diversification” of farm machinery and argues for standardization. Part 2 is devoted to the tractor and its place in agriculture.

=R of Rs= 54:459 O ‘16 50w

=CURRIE, JOHN ALLISTER.= Red watch; with the first Canadian division in Flanders. il *$1.50 Button 940.91 (Eng ed A17-370)

“Colonel Currie’s book deals concretely with but one regiment of the many that have gone out from Canada. But in its careful and representative detail it offers us much information about the part played in the war by Canada as a whole.” (N Y Times) “The ‘Red watch’ is the term applied to the 48th Highlanders. After the battle of Langemarck only 212 out of the 1034 members of this regiment responded to the muster call.” (R of Rs)

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:394 Je ‘17

=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 50w

“The men under his command were certainly a band of heroes, and the story of their heroism stirs the blood. The pictorial feature is prominent.” P. F. Bicknell

+ =Dial= 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 130w

“Colonel Currie is particularly emphatic in praising the temperance and careful living of his men, and denying reports that British, French, or Canadian soldiers are given rum or drugs ‘to keep up their courage.’ ... There is much that is thrilling in this clean-cut soldier’s chronicle, much that is inspiriting and fine. It is a soldier’s record, through and through.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:57 F 18 ‘17 330w

=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 40w

=CURTIN, DANIEL THOMAS.= Land of deepening shadow; Germany-at-war. il *$1.50 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-13672

The author is a young American war correspondent who went to Germany late in 1915. His purpose in the book is to give a general picture of conditions in that country under the stress of war. In the early chapters he aims to show how all Germans were “made to think as one man,” in other words, “how the German government creates unity.” It is done by utilizing all the forces that mold public opinion, schools, pulpit, theatre, and press. In the later chapters he describes “the forces tending to disintegrate that wonderful unity.” Among the chapters are: A Land of substitutes; The gagging of Liebknecht; Spies and semi-spies; The iron hand in Alsace-Lorraine; The war slaves of Essen; Germany’s human resources; In the deepening shadow.

“Evidently authentic, it gives many informing and probably unique experiences.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:443 Jl ‘17

“Some books dealing with the internal condition of Germany convey an impression that the colours are too liberally spread upon the palette. The supply of horrifying and sensational facts occasionally forces on the reader the suspicion that the authors have kept the probable demand rather too prominently in view. Mr Curtin’s book is free from that sort of thing.”

+ =Ath= p258 My ‘17 280w

=Ath= p346 Jl ‘17 320w

“Mr Curtin is one of Lord Northcliffe’s young men; and he has his patron’s faculty of making our flesh creep with quite exceptional hideousness. The book he has written will tell any reader what Mr Curtin says he saw inside the German empire; but I think that he will conclude that his author has still to learn the value of historic and psychological light and shade.” H. J. Laski

=Dial= 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 60w

=Ind= 90:470 Je 9 ‘17 280w

=Lit D= 55:42 O 13 ‘17 300w

“A frank, well-informed, and brightly written, though egotistical, book by a Germano-phobe Irish newspaper reporter for the Northcliffe press.”

+ =Nation= 105:204 Ag 23 ‘17 500w

“Under the disguise of a seemingly frank and dispassionate analysis of conditions, the facts are carefully selected and presented with true journalistic cunning in contrast and climax. One hesitates to term this technique dishonest even in a minor sense, for the chances are that it results more from an unconscious bias than from any deliberate attempt to deceive. ... The whole force of Mr Curtin’s book comes from making vivid the truth of the chancellor’s utterance in the Reichstag when he said, apropos of the complete blockade of Great Britain by submarines, ‘We are staking all on this throw.’”

+ — =New Repub= 12:54 Ag 11 ‘17 650w

“It is a depressing or inspiring picture, just as the inclinations of the reader are ‘pro-Ally’ or ‘pro-German.’ But it is well written, and seems to be the work of a trained observer, even if his impartiality be questioned.” J. W.

+ — =N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 750w

“Since thorough knowledge of an enemy is the first essential of efficient warfare, the intimate, first-hand view which he offers ought to have wide reading.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 800w

“The reader will find the information collected and classified; he will find the facts reported in an impartial and historical spirit; and he will find the reports characterized by a degree of reality and authority not always, perhaps not often, to be found in newspaper correspondence. The author reports, not what he was given every facility to see, but what was often carefully hidden from him.”

+ =Outlook= 117:102 S 19 ‘17 340w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w

“Of special interest are his chapters on educational and publicity methods employed by the government.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 120w

“It gives the most complete account at present procurable of the internal conditions of [Germany]. ... The fact that the author’s country was not involved in the conflict enabled him not only to see more than an Englishman would have been allowed to see, but also to take a more objective view of the phenomena which he observed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p134 Mr 22 ‘17 900w

=CURTIS, LIONEL=, ed. Commonwealth of nations. pt 1 *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 325.3 (17-1660)

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The lay-reader, despite the clearness of style, the auxiliary plans, and the handsome appearance of the book will hardly be attracted to the seven hundred pages of solid matter. Nor will the scholar be apt to find it of great use. It is essentially an edition of reports, lengthy but marked by serious omissions, made by industrious and intelligent laymen, and drawn from familiar secondary material. The purpose of the work is warmly to be commended but its value to historical scholars is at least questionable.” C: Seymour

=Am Hist R= 22:644 Ap ‘17 700w

“There is great ability in his statement, and a very wide knowledge is implied in his treatment of imperial history. Given the limitations he has himself imposed, the development of the present situation is truly rendered; and the volume is one which no intelligent British citizen can afford to neglect. ... The fundamental fault of Mr Curtis is provincialism. ... His geography would have to be revised for an American edition of his book; and perhaps even his history is tainted with the same provincialism of outlook. ... The sum of our criticism is this: there is ability in the marshalling of facts and the urging of a political programme, but the moral attitude implied is ingenuously primitive.” C. D. Burns

+ — =Hibbert J= 15:344 Ja ‘17 1650w

“The real significance of the present study is that it is to be regarded as a counterblast to such writers as Jebb and others who believe in Britannic alliance and conceive the future of Britain to be an alliance between the mother-country and the self-governing dominions. ... Indeed, the completeness with which it collates such material and the convenient form in which it presents it make the volume a handy treatise on the failure of contract or treaty to insure permanency of political relationships. At this time, too, the subject is of wider interest than its immediate problem; the volume might be read as a sufficient antidote to a good bit of the literature put forth by the League to enforce peace. On the other hand, the study suffers from a failure to look at the history and evolution of the self-governing dominions. The American colonies, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States are treated, but the history of Canada and Australia is almost completely ignored. ... In the background of these ideas is Treitschke rather than T. H. Green. They go with a temper rather out of style at present—too little in sympathy with the common people.” D. A. MacGibbon

=J Pol Econ= 25:512 My ‘17 1150w

“The chapters on the American revolution (from the British point of view) and the relations between England and Ireland are specially interesting. The book is weighty, and may be recommended to students of history and imperial politics. It is liberally supplied with elaborate maps and diagrams.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 170w

=CUSHMAN, ROBERT EUGENE.= Excess condemnation. *$2 (2½c) Appleton 336.1 17-21830

Mr Cushman, who is instructor in political science in the University of Illinois, treats his subject from the standpoint of the American city, the experience of European cities being introduced merely for illustrative and comparative purposes. He defines excess condemnation as, “‘the policy, on the part of the state or city, of taking by right of eminent domain more property than is actually necessary for the creation of a public improvement, and of subsequently selling or leasing this surplus.’” (Engin News-Rec) He discusses the three main objects of excess condemnation: “(1) to solve the vexing problems of remnants of land; (2) for the protection of improvements against the prejudicial use of adjacent land; (3) to take for the benefit of the city the increase in values of land adjacent to public improvements, due to the improvements themselves, and thus pay or help pay for the cost of the improvements. ... He then takes up ‘gains and risks’ administration, and the constitutionality of excess condemnation. A few bibliographical references and a list of cases cited are given.” (Engin News-Rec) The editor of the National municipal league series, in which this is the third volume, states in his introduction that this is the first work in the English language on the subject.

“It presents ample data on the many perplexing phases of the subject and discusses in a judicial spirit the evidence on both sides of controverted questions. ... The book deserves the careful attention of engineers and other city officials concerned in planning, financing and protecting municipal improvements, broadminded real estate men and all who are interested in helping on the orderly and economical growth of municipal improvements.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:751 O 18 ‘17 500w

+ — =Nation= 106:69 Ja 17 ‘18 210w

“With its historical and illustrative material and general citation of cases the book will prove helpful to all students of the subject. ... The slow movement of our cities towards fundamental improvements is primarily because of the expense involved. The volume will by many be considered lacking in its handling of this.” E: T. Hartman

+ — =Survey= 39:202 N 24 ‘17 400w

=CUTLER, FREDERICK MORSE.= Old First Massachusetts coast artillery in war and peace. il *$1 (2c) Pilgrim press 353.9 17-12948

Lieutenant Cutler gives the history of the “Old First” from its origin in 1784 to January, 1917. There are many pictures showing the changes in uniform and in artillery with the passing generations. The first appendix gives the Genealogy of the coast artillery; the second a bibliography.

“No Massachusetts militia unit has enjoyed a more interesting history, or has been more actively engaged in the country’s defence, than the Old First.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 250w

“It will be news to many to find that in 1784 the general apathy toward military affairs in the United States was so marked that the total regular army was comprized within a single company, now Battery F of the field artillery.”

=Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 100w

“Lieut. Cutler, who, by the way, is pastor of the Congregational church of Wenham, has told his story with a wealth of anecdote and in a style that will commend the volume beyond its particular clientele.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 27 ‘17 200w

=CUTLER, ROBERT.= Louisburg square. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-10857

First of all this novel is a picture of Boston society. Old Boston names, Cabot, Quincy, and Copley, appear in its pages. Secondarily, it is a story. Rosalind Copley, the heroine, is a beautiful and popular young girl who interests herself in charities, acting as a volunteer worker in a settlement house. She has entered into a tentative engagement with Ben Cary, a promising young lawyer, when she meets Eric Rolland. Love between the two springs up quickly, but Rosalind feels that Ben has claims on her. Circumstances solve her problem.

“Mr Cutler knows whereof he writes. But the value of his novel does not rest on a knowledge of Beacon street and Commonwealth avenue. ... ‘Louisburg square’ starts where many of its unsuccessful competitors stop. Its universal elements bring it to the goal they miss.” R. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 770w

“The author makes some attempt at characterization, but the result is not very convincing. The whole with its irritating self-immolation is somewhat too suggestive of an ‘Elsie’ book to be pleasant.”

– + =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 120w

+ — =Ind= 81:188 Ag 4 ‘17 70w

“All the old ingredients are here; there is a certain vigor about the telling, but why waste it on this trivial skeleton of an unreality?” C. W.

– + =N Y Call= p13 Ap 22 ‘17 120w

“A first novel and the product of an author so young that he was graduated from Harvard only last year, ‘Louisburg square’ shows a great deal of promise and a quite commendable present achievement.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:125 Ap 8 ‘17 570w

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w

“There is quite enough in ‘Louisburg square’ of the quiet insight into and keen appreciation of that Boston culture which Mr Cutler understands well to make us hope for his early return from soldiering to writing—for him, evidently a field of promise.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 700w

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=DALE, ROBERT BURDETTE.= Drawing for builders. (Wiley technical ser. for vocational and industrial schools) il *$1.50 Wiley 692 16-20746

“This book is intended to serve as a basis for a problem course in elementary architectural drawing, and to be especially useful to the practical builder and to the ambitious young man who wishes to become an architect’s draftsman. ... Its aim is not only to teach the student to make drawings, but to instruct him to read and use them. It is written for use in home-study instruction, either with or without assistance, and it is hoped that it may find a place in high schools, vocational schools, night schools and industrial classes.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction; Drawing instruments and materials; How to make a drawing; Architectural free-hand lettering; Straight-line projection; The problems. These problems take up about one-half of the book. The author is assistant professor in charge of vocational courses in engineering at Iowa state college.

“The same author’s ‘Arithmetic for carpenters and builders’ is an excellent book for the same type of reader.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 50w

=DALRYMPLE, LEONA.= Kenny. il *$1.35 (2c) Reilly & B. 17-21645

This story is by the author of the $10,000 prize novel, “Diane of the green van.” “Kennicott O’Neill is [the hero’s] full name, and he is a famous painter and as richly endowed with temperament as he is entitled to be by his double birthright of Celt and artist. Nevertheless, every one calls him ‘Kenny,’ even to his 23-year-old son, Brian. ... It all begins because Kenny, being more impecunious than usual, has taken Brian’s shotgun out and sold it, and Brian, being much annoyed, has thrown his paint brush across the studio and smashed a statuette.” (N Y Times) The two quarrel and Brian leaves his father “to tramp off into God’s green world of spring.” Kenny, homesick for the boy, follows him later, and they both find Joan, the girl in gold brocade, and her young brother, Don. Many things happen, and “finally Kenny realizes that the time has come for him to be 44 years old and for Brian, at last, to be 23 years young.” (N Y Times)

“Entertaining, sentimental, and in parts delightfully humorous.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17

“If, not being too particular about facts, one likes occasionally a bit of Irish blarney and a bit of a romance with fairies lurking around the corner, then one should most certainly read about Kenny, artist, lover, and father to his son.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 200w

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 100w

“Leona Dalrymple has written an American E. Temple Thurston novel; and although the comparison between the two may not be wholly in her favor, it is not meant to be derogatory. For nothing is so difficult—for an American writer, so relentlessly difficult—as the expression of charm in personality. Mr Merwin has given us his interpretation of New York’s bohemia; Miss Dalrymple now gives us hers, and, to tell the truth, it pleases us more.”

+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 140w

“A slight, wind-woven, gay story, with a touch of pathos toward the end.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 600w

“Miss Dalrymple tells her very light story with zest, and there are pleasant bits of outdoor description. As a picture of Irish character it is highly conventional.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 250w

=D’ALTON, J. F.= Horace and his age. *$2 (3c) Longmans 874

A study in historical background intended to encourage consideration of the character of the age in which Horace lived and wrote. The writer says, “I have tried to view him in the light of the various movements of his time, to recapture, as it were, the atmosphere in which he moved, to estimate a portion at least of the influences under which many of his thoughts were bodied forth.” Contents: Horace and Roman politics; The Augustan revival; Horace in religion and philosophy; The period of the Epistles; Horace and social problems; Horace and popular beliefs; Literary criticism.

“Prof. D’Alton, with a careful endeavour to steer clear of Procrustean-ism, and from evidence mainly derived from the poet’s writings, has in considerable measure succeeded in placing before us, not indeed a new Horace, but one whose mentality is perhaps a little easier to understand than was previously the case.”

+ =Ath= p594 N ‘17 130w

“It is a particular pleasure to call attention to a genuinely distinguished contribution to the understanding of Horace.”

+ =Educ R= 55:77 Ja ‘18 140w

“To a certain extent he is successful, for he has great knowledge and great love of his subject, he writes admirably, and throws light on many particular points; but the total effect is that he presents the reader rather with an excellent book of reference than with an effective portrait.”

+ — =Spec= 119:647 D 1 ‘17 1650w

“It displays industry, accuracy, and temperate judgment. It does not go wandering after paradoxes like that which ensnared so brilliant a scholar and so keen a critic as Verrall. And by its seriousness it is a good corrective to the superficial view of Horace as an elegant trifler, a preacher of pleasure, one whose ideals of life were low. The defect of these qualities ... is that the book is rather useful than stimulating, and leaves no clear total impression.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p484 O 11 ‘17 2000w

=DALY, JOSEPH FRANCIS.= Life of Augustin Daly. il *$4 (2½c) Macmillan 17-25827

The brother of Augustin Daly has written this intimate biography which is not only a full record of the life and work of America’s greatest theatrical manager but is an important contribution to the history of the American stage. During his early years, Mr Daly was dramatic critic for several of the New York papers. In this field he developed taste and genius not only for theater management but for play writing. In 1869 he entered the theatrical business when he leased the Fifth avenue theater for a term of two years and advertised to produce “whatever is novel, original, entertaining and unobjectionable,” and to revive “whatever is rare and worthy in the legitimate drama.” Mr Daly’s sincere, unflagging devotion to the cause of establishing the theater on a successful basis of high excellence furnishes the theme of the larger part of the work which cannot fail to find a large audience among producers, managers, playwrights, actors and, as well, the general public.

“Augustin Daly did a great service for the American stage, a service made all the more important by the influence of his own sterling character and single-eyed purpose, and this account of it deserves to have a place among the interesting records of American achievements.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:328 N ‘17 270w

“A sympathetic appreciation by a brother. The reader is therefore offered a mass of interesting personalia, in lieu of any profound critical estimate of Augustin Daly’s influence on the American theater.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 N 17 ‘17 350w

“The author has succeeded in rearing a notable monument of fraternal affection. But, though a respected and capable judge, he had little skill in bookmaking. The legal habit of his mind is betrayed in the accumulation of the smallest details, rather than in orderly and discriminating use of them. His relation, especially in some of the earlier chapters, is often exceedingly confused and rambling.” J. R. Towse

+ — =Nation= 106:71 Ja 17 ‘18 1300w

“So broad, indeed, is the book’s scope that it becomes almost a history of the New York stage through the middle and later decades of the nineteenth century. And there are numbers of photographs of the stars of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, pictures which will arouse a flood of recollections in the breasts of middle-aged theatregoers.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:13 Ja 13 ‘18 1150w

“An admirable biography. The author has used his ample material with tact and taste.”

+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:803 D ‘17 90w

“The book singularly and regrettably fails to give the intimate view we expect in biography. ... He has made a ship-shape lucid biography with the personal equation of both brothers left out. To this end he seems to have deliberately foregone the abundant anecdotal charm of theatrical books. But he has made a valuable statistical contribution to the history of the American stage.” Algernon Tassin

+ — =Pub W= 92:1383 O 20 ‘17 720w

=DAMPIERRE, LÉON MICHEL MARIE JACQUES DE, marquis.= German imperialism and international law; based upon German authorities and the archives of the French government. il *$3.50 Scribner 940.91 (Eng ed 17-15316)

“In the first chapters M. de Dampierre devotes himself to an investigation of the theories which have gone to build up the principles of German imperialism, contrasting them with the opposed doctrines which have found their expression in the attempts to build up a system of international law.’ ... He then proceeds to show how all that has happened in this war. ... is the logical and inevitable consequence of the teaching of German writers before the war. ... He has read widely and ... his illustrations from the works of German writers are always supported by full references. ... The two last chapters, ‘The German war and spoliation’ and ‘German terrorism,’ are almost entirely occupied with a discussion of the diaries of German soldiers, which afford irrefutable evidence regarding what took place during the months of August and September, 1914.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=A L A Bkl= 14:52 N ‘17

=Dial= 63:214 S 13 ‘17 330w

+ — =Educ R= 54:422 N ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p13 O ‘17 20w

=R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 100w

“M. de Dampierre proves quite conclusively that the annexation of Belgium was the direct objective of the war.”

+ =Sat R= 123:601 Je 30 ‘17 1000w

“Ably and temperately written book, fortified throughout by the evidence of enemy literature and documents.”

+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 130w

“He writes as one who brings to the study of contemporary history the habits formed in the great school which has grown up round the study of the French archives, and his work is as scientific, as documenté, as that of any German. ... It is much to be regretted that there is no index to the book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p99 Mr 1 ‘17 1250w

=DANA, MARVIN.= Perfect memory. *$1 (7c) Clode. E: J. 154 17-24845

How to have and keep a perfect memory is the thesis of Dr Dana’s hundred forty pages of practical instruction. He believes that whether a memory is good or bad anyone can improve it one thousand per cent, or more, by following the methods set forth in these pages. The scheme of mental control upon which he bases his instruction stresses concentration, visualization, necessity for the concrete, association of ideas and avoidance of the abstract. He points out the best results, and way to secure them, from memorizing lists, dates, names and faces. He says that the right kind of memory “means a mind in the plenitude of its vigor, growing, serene, energized, competent to every task; a mind that compels the respect of others, and, what is of deeper worth, maintains to the full one’s own self-respect, which is the foundation-stone whereon content is builded.”

=DANE, CLEMENCE.= Regiment of women. *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 17-3574

This book by a new writer recalls Hugh Walpole’s early novel “The gods and Mr. Perrin.” It is a study of the unwholesome conditions that may exist in a large school where pupils and teachers are so isolated from the active life of the world that emotional reactions are intensified to a dangerous degree. In this case it is a girls’ school and the teachers are women. Clare Hartill, a brilliant, selfish woman, who attracts girls to her, accepts their devotion for a time and then casts them off, is the central figure. One of the younger teachers, Alwynne Durand, becomes attached to her in much the same way that the sentimental schoolgirls do. The unnatural friendship is fortunately brought to an end by the intrusion of a more healthful outside influence. In an unobtrusive way the story offers an argument for co-education.

“A detailed, well written study. ... Interesting, shows a real danger and suggests a remedy.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:266 Mr ‘17

“The unsound morale of girls’ schools is caught powerfully. The morbid, unhealthy association of women among themselves, the strong affections, the intrigue, the jealousies, and the influence of the mistresses on the immature pupils, are admirably suggested. The atmosphere is heady. The reader longs for a man.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 350w

“The book’s striking merit lies in the extraordinary fidelity of its picture. It does for the English girls’ school much what Mr Walpole’s ‘The gods and Mr Perrin’ did for the English boys’ school. The theme in both instances is the life of the teachers, rather than of the pupils.”

+ =Nation= 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 650w

“In a larger way, the book interprets the ingrowing emotionalism and moral sterility to which any community lacking the leaven of the opposite sex is prone.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w

“Miss Dane does not make manifest to the American reader sufficient reason for the fascination which her Miss Hartill is able to exercise over her associates in the school. Otherwise, it is a noteworthy picture of a scheming, clever, selfish, vain woman who has become, temperately, more or less abnormal. ... The book takes its title, in which ‘regiment’ is used in its old English sense of ‘rule,’ from John Knox’s ‘First blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women.’”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:33 F 4 ‘17 400w

+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w

“It is hard to believe that ‘Regiment of women’ is the first novel that its author, Clemence Dane, has written. ... This power of ‘creating’ and expressing character is usually the reward of nothing but long labour. ... The chief impression is one of wisdom: a shrewd penetration into human minds and the circumstances that mould or fix them, combined with an admirable ‘all-roundness’ of outlook upon human life.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p44 Ja 25 ‘17 550W

=DANILEVSKII, GRIGORII PETROVICH.=[2] Moscow in flames; tr. from the Russian by Dr A. S. Rappoport. *$1.40 Brentano’s 17-31035

“This is not, as the translator states, the first novel by this author to appear in English. Danilevskii (1829-90), already known in English by a novel dealing with Pougachev’s rebellion, called ‘The Princess Tarakanova,’ here presents the French invasion from the Russian point of view. The story covers the period 1812-53, and follows the fortunes of a young nobleman and his betrothed, a society beauty.”—Ath

“It is vivid, full of historical detail, and a good specimen of its class, and is, of course, crammed with historic names.”

+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 90w

“The characters in ‘Moscow in flames’ are drawn with the flatness and remoteness of fresco; its incidents are strikingly unoriginal. But his comments on Russian life and character are not without shrewdness and piquancy.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:570 D 23 ‘17 450w

“Allowing for the difficulties of translation, the author’s style is a little crude, judging by severe standards, and his character sketches weak. On the whole, however, the book is interesting, typifying, as it does, a popular Russian novel.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 160w

=DARBISHIRE, ARTHUR DUKINFIELD.= Introduction to a biology, and other papers. il *$2.50 Funk 17-15695

“The late Mr Darbishire, an accomplished young Oxford biologist, died of illness contracted in camp before he could complete his book. He had written a lively criticism of the materialistic theory of life, and just as he came to face the constructive side of his essay—‘Is the soul a mere aggregate symptom of a mechanism—the body? Or is the body not rather the instrument of the soul?’—he had to lay his pen aside. The scattered papers which have been collected by his sister, with a brief memoir, hint at the answer which he would have given. He was strongly influenced by Samuel Butler and by M. Bergson, but he was an original and fearless thinker and inquirer whom English science could ill spare.”—Spec

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 11 ‘17 550w

“Unhappily the work is but a fragment. ... The essay, however unconvincing, is brightly written, for the author had a style of candid freshness and a gift of investing even trivial things with humorous interest. The charm of his personality is well brought out in the brief biographical sketch by his sister.”

+ — =Nature= 99:304 Je 14 ‘17 320w

+ =Spec= 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 120w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p65 F 8 ‘17 1600w

=DARÍO, RUBÉN.= Eleven poems; tr. by T: Walsh and Salomón de la Selva; introd. by Pedro Henríquez Ureña. (Pub. of Hispanic soc. of Am.) pa *75c Putnam 861 16-22622

Rubén Darío was born near León in the republic of Nicaragua in 1867, and died in that city in 1916. The introduction to this small book of poems says, “With the death of Rubén Darío, the Spanish language loses its greatest poet of to-day,—the greatest because of the æsthetic value and the historical significance of his work.” He visited the United States twice, and in 1915 was awarded the honorary medal of the Hispanic society of America. In this volume of poems the original Spanish text and the English translation are given on alternate pages.

“They have that downpour of imagery, that cascade of beauties, of which the northern temper is slightly distrustful. Eleven poems, however, cannot embrace or test a man, particularly when the reader hesitates between the rush-light of his own imperfect Spanish and the charity of English renderings which are sometimes of real worth, sometimes bad beyond credence or pardon.” O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:176 Ag 16 ‘17 170w

Reviewed by Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 4 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:408 My ‘17

=DARK, SIDNEY.= Afraid. *$1.35 (1½c) Lane 17-2344

“Courage is so common a quality,” says the author in one of the early chapters of this story, “that experience justifies us in believing that every one possesses it.” The story is a study of a boy who seemed born without it. From childhood Jasper Sedley had been afraid. Moral courage and intellectual honesty were his to a high degree, but the thought of physical suffering made him weak and helpless. His life at home and at school was made miserable. He made no friends and at a critical moment lost the woman he loved because he failed to go to her aid. One is made to feel that sympathetic treatment in childhood might have overcome the obsession, but it is left for the war to call out the latent courage in the boy’s soul.

=A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17

“Real as may be his idea, I feel a lack of reality in the way he presents it. His people are too much the characters needed to enforce his idea, too little actual personalities with whom Jasper Sedley chanced to come in contact. ... More important than all this, the final event seems suggested by sentiment rather than a knowledge of what life actually is.” E: E. Hale

=Dial= 62:145 F 22 ‘17 550w

+ =N Y Times= 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 350w

“We doubt if Mr Dark has solved his own problem, for his coward turns out to be no coward. The question really is whether it is a right instinct which leads society to ostracize the coward without considering his character as a whole.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 350w

=DASENT, SIR GEORGE WEBBE.= East o’ the sun and west o’ the moon, and other Norse fairy tales. il *$1.25 (1½c) Putnam 17-11576

Thirty and more Norse fairy tales are brought together in this book. Gnomes and trolls and other figures of northern fancy appear in the tales. Some of them are new, others are variations of the familiar themes, among them the story of Snow-white and Rose-red.

“These quaint tales will prove of interest to older readers as well as to the children for whom they were written. For some of them are reminiscent of ‘fairy stories’ of other lands, and prove again the common origin of the folk-lore of the European nations.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 420w

“Altogether charming.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:233 Je 17 ‘17 220w

“Short, easily memorized fairy tales that will prove treasures to persons who have a knack of telling stories to children.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 180w

“The tales themselves are delightfully old world in flavor and of appealing quaintness. This characteristic is occasionally marred by colloquialisms in which the translator indulges in order to make his meaning clear to young readers. The striking feature of the book consists of the bizarre illustrations by Kay Nielsen, a Danish artist, who, by going back to the original source of the stories, the Norske Folkeeventyr of Asbjornsen and Moe, has been able to get the utmost significance of the original rendering.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ‘17 350w

=DAVIES, GEORGE REGINALD.= Social environment. (National social science ser.) *50c (2c) McClurg 301 17-10388

“How far does the accumulated knowledge and experience of the world modify the individual and give him control over biological factors?” is the question considered by the author of this book. He feels that the biological factor, with its emphasis on struggle and the survival of the fittest, has been too strongly stressed in reading the story of human development. His purpose is to set forth the importance of the spiritual factors, using the term spiritual to cover “the intellectual, artistic, and moral achievements of civilization.” Contents: The biological point of view; The evolution of the theory of evolution; The nature of society; Social environment and eugenics; The outlook for social organization. The author is assistant professor of history and sociology in the University of North Dakota and the book is published in a series of which Frank L. McVey, president of the University, is general editor.

Reviewed by U. G. Weatherly

=Am J Soc= 23:558 Ja ‘18 280w

=A L A Bkl= 14:5 O ‘17

“Professor Davies has hardly been fair to biology, while his emphasis on the ‘spiritual’ forces of society contributes nothing essentially new.” R. T. B.

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:245 S ‘17 130w

“Hitherto there has been a dearth of literature emphasizing environmental forces in society. This little book should be welcome for its contribution to that neglected field.”

+ =Dial= 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 180w

=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 70w

=St Louis= 15:169 Je ‘17

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 20 ‘17 90w

=DAVIES, GERALD STANLEY.=[2] Renascence tombs of Rome. il *$6 Dutton 718

“An unusual field, indeed one never before explored, is covered by this sumptuous volume, written by the master of Charterhouse school and published originally in England [in 1910].” (Boston Transcript) “The volume is divided into two parts, of which the first is given to discussion and criticism of the tombs and the artists who worked on them, with vivid biographical and historical comment, and the second to alphabetical and chronological lists of the churches and tombs; brief histories of the men in whose honor the monuments were designed, and the special and general indexes. The illustrations are half-tone reproductions from photographs, sufficient in number and, of course, indispensable as reference.” (N Y Times)

“The beautiful illustrations add much to the descriptive nature of the text. Mr Davies writes with enthusiasm and with rare critical perception of values in this decidedly unusual field of examination.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 880w

“Mr Davies has broken what is practically new ground with his valuable book, which, in addition to cautiously authenticated information, contains art criticism of the most brilliant and original character.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:357 S 23 ‘17 420w

=R of Rs= 56:219 Ag ‘17 110w

=DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY.= Autobiography of a super-tramp; with a pref. by Bernard Shaw. *$2.50 Knopf 17-13447

“The simple and quiet chronicle of a young man who tramped and begged—and now and then worked for a few weeks at a time—in America and England for many years. ... He tells us how tramps live, how they talk, what their ideals and their habits are. He has pictures of American ‘living conditions’—as the somewhat sententious phrase goes—that are nothing short of astonishing. He has had adventures, to boot. He has much to tell of cattlemen, of berry-pickers, of longshore labor camps on the Mississippi, of tramping and working and begging in city and country and summer resort through most of the eastern half of the United States and on into Canada, of remarkable beggars and expert thieves. Strange characters live in his pages. And his own life story is itself most strange.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 13:399 Je ‘17

“A human document in the best sense of that much abused phrase. Not a phrase of it is overdone, not a word in it is egotistical, not a letter in it but spells the truthful story of a life that the world wants to know about.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 1100w

“A rather colorless narrative of unimpeachable verbal propriety relating the day-by-day experiences of the Welshman, who seems to have been an ordinary tramp until he began at thirty-four to write in really exquisite verse. The preface by Bernard Shaw, while it reveals still further the genial tolerance of that author, is not a particularly illuminating commentary on Mr Davies’ work or psychology.”

=Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 70w

“Mr Davies is now an established poet, who no longer has to hawk his verses from door to door. His reputation, indeed, is considerable, and it may seem unfair to consider his first book of prose quite apart from his poetry. But if ‘The autobiography of a super-tramp’ has special interest, it is precisely because it shows how completely an unfamiliar medium may refract and distort the image of himself which a writer would convey. It is another lesson in sticking to one’s last.” G: B. Donlin

— =Dial= 62:398 My 3 ‘17 1200w

“His account is so casual that you would think he was living a regular, conventional life instead of that of a hobo. The book is unique.”

+ =Lit D= 56:42 Ja 12 ‘18 240w

“He never grew into much of a Socialist; he has too much of the pure poet, yet reading his strong and simple picture of the incredible life of the poor, we become reconfirmed in our faith that the world must be set free, and society made friendly to the life or the tenderest and most innocent temperaments.” Irwin Granich

+ =Masses= 9:29 O ‘17 1650w

“Mr Davies’s simplicity stands out delightfully with Bernard Shaw as sponsor. ... He will be read, and reread, for the sheer charm of his style. Yet, withal, he has so much to say that is of absorbing interest.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:159 Ap 22 ‘17 650w

“His experiences are told realistically, but would be better for judicious condensation.”

+ — =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:670 O ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:153 My ‘17 20w

“‘All I have to say by way of recommendation of this book,’ says Mr Shaw (and his conclusion shall be mine), ‘is that I have read it from beginning to end, and would have read more of it had there been more to read.’” L: Untermeyer

+ =Yale R= n s 7:199 O ‘17 750w

=DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY.= Collected poems. il *$1.25 Knopf 811 16-23556

“This is not a complete edition of the poems of Mr Davies, as many people would gather from its title. It is what is probably a better thing: a book of poems selected by the poet from all the volumes he has published. He tells us in the prefatory note that it contains ‘what I believe to be my best pieces.’ A poet is not always the best judge of what is finest in his own work. But no one can know so well as he what best represents his own mind and mood, what gave him at the time of writing, and gives him still, the greatest pleasure, what is, if not his best, at least his most characteristic, poetry. That is what we get here from Mr Davies.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:256 Mr ‘17

“Mr Davies has learnt much from Herrick, and uses his learning well—not in the least In the sense of plagiarizing, but by his clever choice and treatment of his subjects. The book is well worthy of a place in the library of any lover of poetry.”

+ =Ath= p592 D ‘16 50w

“Mr Davies’s ‘Collected poems’ has the same magical expression as Mr de la Mare’s art, but with a firmer background in experience. ... The best critical opinion admits that the poems of William H. Davies are as likely to live as those of any English poet of his day.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Bookm= 45:436 Je ‘17 190w

“The ‘Collected poems’ of William H. Davies will give pleasure to lovers of the lyric. Mr Davies, who tramped over most of this country and Canada as hungry and thriftless as other tramps, established confidential relations with birds and beasts, with flowers and trees on ‘the open road.’ Perhaps this is why his lyrics celebrate the minute, beautiful things of the ancient out of doors with effervescent joy.”

+ =Ind= 89:556 Mr 26 ‘17 150w

+ =Lit D= 54:134 Ja 20 ‘17 400w

“Some of his little songs catch the charm of Herrick and Lovelace. ... His ‘The sleepers,’ ‘The little ones,’ ‘Whom I know,’ and other poems, show a deep sympathy with suffering humanity; but the intellectual understanding is not here. Davies is a delight; but the stuff is slight and echoey.” Clement Wood

+ — =N Y Call= p12 F 4 ‘17 400w

+ =R of Rs= 55:438 Ap ‘17 250w

“This truly lyrical poet has everywhere a definite utterance. It is rarely complex, but it is always beautiful. ... Mr Davies, by the way, who is not so well known in this country as he deserves to be, will soon have an opportunity to broaden his acquaintance when a contemplated trip to America becomes a reality.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ‘17 300w

“A book of the most companionable poetry that any living man has given us. Mr Davies has not the energy, the eloquence, or the passion of Mr Masefield; he has not the scholarly workmanship which half adorns and half conceals the true imagination of Mr Binyon; he has not that magical charm, as of some singularly gifted and beautiful child, which is the special secret of Mr de la Mare. But none of these, nor anyone else, perhaps, manages to convert so much of ordinary life into poetry as Mr Davies. And that is the essence of poetic companionship.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 4 ‘17 1500W

“Here is one of the most truly lyric voices in the world to-day. Lacking the sudden magic or the individuality of either Walter de la Mare or Ralph Hodgson, he shares with them an unstudied and always singing beauty.” L: Untermeyer

+ =Yale R= n s 7:201 O ‘17 480w

=DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON.= Heart’s kingdom. il *$1.35 (1½c) Reilly & B. 17-25432

Charlotte Powers, a beautiful agnostic with a gift for leadership, returned from a winter in New York to her home in Harpeth Valley to find that a Methodist minister, Rev. Gregory Goodloe, who “resembled one of the big gold-colored lions that lived in the wilds of the Harpeth mountains,” had brought her circle of friends under his spell, so that they had taken to attending prayer meetings instead of dances, and had started to reform her father, for twenty years a drunkard. The book gives the story of her attempted marriage to Nickols Powers, his death, her conversion, and her conquest by the “Harpeth Jaguar” (as she called the Rev. Gregory) with the “jeweled eyes” to whom she “gave back a betrothal kiss that was as complete as a great red flower.”

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 30w

“A doubtful mixture of poor theology and insipid romance.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 190w

“The best thing in the book is the sketch of the youthful Charlotte, the heroine’s ‘name-daughter,’ and her child companions.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:373 S 30 ‘17 260w

Reviewed by Doris Webb

=Pub W= 92:806 S 15 ‘17 250w

=DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON.= Out of a clear sky. il *$1 (3c) Harper 17-13185

With a beautiful Belgian countess lost in the Tennessee forests, a very good looking young Tennessee farmer ready at hand to act as rescuer, and a search party, with authority from the Kaiser, in pursuit, you have the material for a modern romance. Céleste, countess of Berseck and Krymn, had fled to America after the fall of Louvain. The young prince, Louis Augustus, whom she had seemed fated to marry, was not at all a bad sort, but he was a German, and the marriage had been arranged by the hated Kaiser who had robbed her of all she loved. So the Countess fled—with a wicked uncle and other enemies following after. To evade them she drops off the train into an unknown world, which happens to be Tennessee, and there she finds Mr Bob Lawrence, his horse and his dog, all equally willing to serve her.

“A charming little tale, bearing little apparent relation to the everyday affairs of reality, but full of tenderness and romance, and told with a very pretty naïve quality in its careful foreign English.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 230w

“A romantic, improbable, modern fairy tale.”

+ =Pratt= p50 O ‘17 6w

=DAVIS, ARTHUR POWELL.= Irrigation works constructed by the United States government. il *$4.50 Wiley 626.8 17-14071

“Within less than fifteen years after the date of the first enabling legislation, the U.S. reclamation service expended about $100,000,000 on the construction of numerous irrigation systems scattered over our vast western domain. ... Arthur P. Davis, chief engineer of the U.S. reclamation service, has described twenty-one of the twenty-five projects in the volume under consideration. ... Except for a brief introduction and a short final chapter summing up the achievements of the Reclamation service in terms of ultimate aim—‘Settlement and cultivation’—the entire book is devoted to descriptions of the various projects. The plan followed is to give the history and a general description of each project in a few sentences, and then to describe the works in their natural order, from dam and storage reservoir to water delivery to each farm unit. Besides the descriptions of structural works, the volume contains information on a variety of special topics.”—Engin News-Rec

“Besides its value as an account of governmental enterprise in the reclamation of land, the book is a welcome addition to the literature of irrigation, and of dams, canals, pipe lines, and other structures common to hydraulic works.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:939 N 15 ‘17 500w

=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 20w

=DAVIS, CALVIN OLIN.= Public secondary education. $1 Rand 379.774 17-11119

“The correct title of this book is ‘Public secondary education in Michigan.’ After devoting three chapters to the colonial Latin school, the middle period, and the early Northwest, the author begins his discussion with a chapter on early Michigan. Five chapters follow this one, the three most significant being one each on the academy movement, the union schools, and the high schools. It is in these chapters that one finds the explanation of current practices in secondary education in Michigan and to a certain extent in the nation at large.” (School R) “There is no attempt to bring the story down to date, contemporary tendencies being left to another book to be published later.” (El School J)

“The first two chapters contain a short statement largely abstracted from Brown’s ‘The making of our middle schools.’ One is impressed with the fact that, in order to get a background for the detailed story of secondary education in Michigan, Professor Davis has felt obliged to condense an already available and almost classic discussion of the development of our secondary schools. The hurried reader, however, will find in these preliminary chapters a clear, fairly concise, and interestingly written background story which will orient him in his consideration of the problem of secondary education in Michigan.”

+ =El School J= 17:690 My ‘17 400w

+ =School R= 25:462 Je ‘17 200w

=DAVIS, CHARLES BELMONT.= Her own sort, and others. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-7925

Ten stories reprinted from Scribner’s, Collier’s and other magazines. The first is the story of a society girl who, deciding to earn her own living, becomes a moving picture actress. She is quite happy in her work till chance throws her in with her old associates. The old lure of the idle life calls her and she goes back to her own sort. Many of the others are stories of society, or at least of city life. Contents: Her own sort; The octopus; God’s material; The joy of dying; When Johnny came marching home; The professor; The twenty-first reason; Side-tracked; The men who would “die” for her; Her man.

“Mr Davis has the gift of seeing the humorous situations in every day life.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 400w

“The make-up is always there; the puppets never become quite human. In the light of the author’s imagination ‘The octopus’ and ‘The professor’ may seem real, but to the rest of us they are stagy and do not arrive; they merely grimace and gesticulate.’ Exception may be made to ‘The joy of dying.’ It is a pathetic and gruesome little tragedy.”

— =Dial= 62:484 My 31 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:73 My ‘17 30w

“They are human and interesting stories, for all the cynicism in their picture of ‘the pleasure world.’”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 320w

“Short stories worth reading.”

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 4w

=DAVIS, GEORGE BRECKENRIDGE.= Elements of international law with an account of its origin, sources, and historical development. 4th ed *$3 Harper 341 16-16751

The fourth edition of this work has been prepared for publication by Gordon E. Sherman, formerly assistant professor of comparative and international law at Yale. Changes in the text have been slight. New matter added to the book is contained in appendixes. The extradition treaty between the United States and the Dominican republic, and the text of the Declaration of London are among the documents included. A supplementary bibliography is also added.

“Professor Sherman found it necessary to rewrite important parts of the first two chapters. This he has done with discrimination and good judgment. In printing the Declaration of London he has added notes, referring to the bearing of its dispositions on the present war, as wrought out in practice. One could wish that his annotations of this nature had been more numerous, if not more extended.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:128 O ‘17 650w

=A L A Bkl= 13:188 Ja ‘17

“The most valuable additions are those in the appendix.” D. G. M.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:236 My ‘17 200w

+ =Educ R= 52:529 D ‘16 30w

“The treatise of the late judge advocate general of the United States, and its representative abroad upon several occasions, is an authoritative and systematic statement of the best international practice of nations during both war and peace.”

+ =N Y Times= 21:406 O 8 ‘16 300w

=DAVIS, J. MERLE.= Davis, soldier missionary. il *$1.50 (1½c) Pilgrim press 16-24706

Jerome D. Davis, the subject of this biography was a lieutenant-colonel of volunteers in the Civil war and for thirty-nine years a missionary in Japan. This story of his life is written by his son, who is secretary of the International committee of Young men’s Christian associations in Tokio. In Japan Dr Davis was one of the founders of Doshisha university and the book gives a full account of the development and achievements of this institution.

+ =Bib World= 49:187 Mr ‘17 300w

“Mr Davis has succeeded admirably. His father becomes to the reader a living person, the soldier who had the missionary spirit, the missionary who never lacked a soldier’s valor, a true man, of heroic temper shown in great deeds.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 Ap 7 ‘17 480w

“A substantial volume of 350 pages, well illustrated and of compelling interest. ... Incidentally one gets in these chapters a history of the famous Doshisha controversy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 4 ‘17 400w

=DAVIS, JOSEPH STANCLIFFE.= Essays in the earlier history of American corporations. 2v ea *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 338.8 17-12885

“This group of studies is presented as a modest contribution to the economic and social history of the United States before 1800, especially for the last decade or two of the eighteenth century.” (Preface) Volume 1 contains three studies: Corporations in the American colonies; William Duer, entrepreneur, 1747-99; The “S. U. M.”: the first New Jersey business corporation. Volume 2 is devoted to Eighteenth century business corporations in the United States. The author is instructor in economics in Harvard university and the work is published as volume 16 of the Harvard economic studies.

“The work bears evidence of large and minute investigations of original sources. It is not taken for granted that standard authors are always accurate in their statements or conclusions. Errors in the dates assigned in complications of high authority to some important papers are fearlessly corrected.” S. E. Baldwin

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:185 O ‘17 1150w

“In each volume there are appendices of useful illustrative material, and the second volume has an extensive bibliography. The work as a whole represents a comprehensive, if not an exhaustive, treatment of the topics considered; and should form an authoritative source of information.” J. A. F.

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:589 Ag ‘17 420w

“The author has done his work well. These volumes make a distinct and welcome contribution to American economic history.” F. R. J.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:299 N ‘17 150w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 700w

=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 30w

“Mr Davis’s treatment of these subjects is such as to merit the gratitude of students both of economics and of history. Of the four essays of which the work is composed, the second and third, though not the most valuable, are certainly the most interesting. In these two essays we are brought face to face with many of the leading characters of the period. They are as valuable for the sidelights which they cast upon the politics of the day as for the economic information which they impart.”

+ =Nation= 105:511 N 8 ‘17 1550w

“Two very interesting volumes which are based on statute books, letters, financial records, newspapers, reports, etc. The work is, indeed, an important contribution to the industrial and social history of the United States before 1800, and it should have a lasting and well-deserved reputation. ... There is a complete bibliography at the end of the second volume.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 11 ‘17 220w

=DAVIS, KARY CADMUS.= Productive plant husbandry. (Farm life text ser.) il *$1.75 Lippincott 630 17-19170

A text-book for high schools into more than 4,600 of whose curricula have been introduced courses in agriculture. The first six chapters are devoted to plant life and growth, and methods of improving plants; the next four, to soils and their improvement and maintenance; the body of the text deals with the various farm crops including fruits, vegetables, field crops and forestry; then follow three chapters on the enemies of crops—weeds, insects and diseases. In conclusion the writer discusses the business of farming and the rural community.

=Pittsburgh= 22:664 O ‘17 30w

“From the standpoint of its pedagogical merits the book is rather superior. ... The illustrations are numerous and clear and really illustrate the text. Teachers interested in texts in agriculture providing material for a one-year course will do well to examine Professor Davis’ book with some care before they select a text for their course.”

+ =School R= 25:612 O ‘17 220w

=DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING.= Adventures and letters of Richard Harding Davis; ed. by C: B. Davis. il *$2.50 Scribner 17-30256

“Richard Harding Davis was almost a legendary figure from his boyhood, and certainly no American has ever known how to extract so much adventure from life. As newspaper man, war-correspondent, soldier of fortune, and storyteller he had an unfailing knack of being on the spot where the greatest possible interest and excitement were going forward. But few of his readers, perhaps, knew that he was also an inveterate and a capital letter-writer. His brother, Charles Belmont Davis, has now collected his correspondence and woven it about the personal narrative of the author’s life. The book is copiously illustrated with portraits and photographs, many of them taken in various parts of the world by Davis himself.”—Lit D

“They form a very interesting biography.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18

=Boston Transcript= p10 N 28 ‘17 1700w

=Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 130w

“His letters present an array of delightful, amusing, exciting adventures. The book is excellently edited, with a running narrative that is altogether readable and informative, and the photographs are really vivid illustrations of the matter of the book. We know few books more interesting.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:495 N 25 ‘17 1100w

“Unconventional, lively letters.”

+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 110w

“Readers will lay down the book with the feeling that they have become personally acquainted with an interesting man. The explanation of this feeling of intimacy with the subject of the book is that his letters, a large portion of them written to his mother, reveal him as a likable man who loved human companionship, who made friends easily and who possessed many of the attractive and worth-while qualities which have made the heroes of fiction so deservedly popular.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 17 ‘17 1000w

=DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING.= Boy scout, and other stories for boys. il *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 17-24696

Five stories that “go with especial directness to a boy’s heart and sympathies” have been chosen for inclusion in this book. They are: The boy scout; The boy who cried wolf; Gallegher; Blood will tell; and The bar sinister. “Gallegher” is an old favorite. “The bar sinister” has also had a number of years of popularity. The other stories are of later date.

=A L A Bkl= 14:135 Ja ‘18

“They are for readers of any age, boys included.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 140w

“One cannot be too enthusiastic in recommending the story-telling power of Mr Davis. His dog story, ‘The bar sinister,’ is an ideal tale for boys who love a good and spirited account of animal nature.”

+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w

=Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 20w

=DAVISON, THOMAS RAFFLES.= Port Sunlight. il *$2 Scribner 710 17-14401

“Port Sunlight is a model village established in England in 1888. As students of sociology are already familiar with its great practical and economic success, it is the purpose of this book ‘to emphasize the artistic and picturesque qualities of the village.’ To this end the book includes a little descriptive matter and a great many illustrations, photographs, sketches and plans. These show most conclusively the charming old English type of village which has been attained, a pleasure to the eye, an uplift to the spirit, without decreasing, but rather enhancing the practical value of the town.”—Boston Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17

“We are extremely sorry that the author limited himself to a record of the artistic and pictorial aspect of Port Sunlight, a subject so closely associated with the economic aspect of the place as to leave the reader unsatisfied if this also is not described.”

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

+ =Int Studio= 61:145 My ‘17 200w

=DAVRAY, HENRY D.= Lord Kitchener: his work and his prestige; with a prefatory letter by Paul Cambon. 2s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London (Eng ed 17-20979)

“The well-known French littérateur gives us a graphic and effective portrayal of Kitchener’s work—a hastening, in some half dozen pages, over his earlier military career, and getting on page 29 to the outbreak of the European war and appointment of Kitchener to the war office. ... Appendices reproduce speeches by Lord Kitchener, memorial speeches in the House of commons, etc.”—Ontario Library Review

“H. G. Croser’s ‘Lord Kitchener’ contains more biographical facts of his earlier career; Harold Begbie’s ‘Kitchener, organizer of victory,’ is more popular, but, like this, only a sketch.”

+ =Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 60w

+ =Ind= 91:293 Ag 25 ‘17 110w

“M. Davray followed events in England closely and on the spot; he has a keen eye and a gift of making the most of what he sees, and he applies these gifts successfully to Kitchener’s achievement in organizing the British military force.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:115 My ‘17 100w

+ =R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 30w

“It is probable that one object of this life of Kitchener was to reassure the people of France in regard to Britain’s part in the war and Lord Kitchener’s ability and devotion at a time when the war minister was being violently assailed by Lord Northcliffe’s press.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 400w

=DAWSON, ALEC JOHN.=[2] For France (“C’est pour la France”); some English impressions of the French front. il *$2 (6c) Doran 940.91

“No other claim is made for the pictures, drawn and written, which are presented than that they record a few of the entirely independent and unbiased impressions formed by two English officers who were very kindly permitted by the French authorities to see something of the French army in the field.” (Preface) Captain Bairnsfather’s sketches of the “poilu” deal with him “often with a slight touch of caricature and always with humor and tenderness.” (N Y Times) The spirit of the French army is well brought out as is also the spirit of what Capt. Dawson calls “the reserved fighting line that is so finely held by the women of France.” One chapter, “The joyous ones” describes a battalion “recruited entirely as regards its rank and file, from the ranks of convicted criminals.” Some other chapters are: Paul Dupont, grocer; Paris; Dogs of war; One trench and another, and Verdun.

+ =Ind= 91:474 S 22 ‘17 150w

+ =Lit D= 55:48 O 13 ‘17 260w

+ =N Y Times= 22:261 Jl 15 ‘17 170w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:385 N ‘17 30w

“The chapter on the war dogs is capital, as might be expected, since the author is an expert in that line. ... Captain Bairnsfather has made an effort to restrain his gift for comic types of a special English kind, and his best pictures are better, we think, than his English caricatures.”

+ =Sat R= 123:504 Je 2 ‘17 330w

“While in the preface both disclaim any pretension at more than a cursory glimpse of a ‘few aspects of France in war time, as seen through uninformed English eyes,’ yet the reader will feel that much of the real spirit of the land and her people has been caught by these sympathetic visitors.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 26 ‘17 600w

=DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM).= Carry on; letters in war-time; with an introd. and notes by his father, W. J. Dawson. il *$1 (4c) Lane 940.91 17-15170

The author is a graduate of Oxford university who, after one year at Union theological seminary, New York, decided to be novelist rather than a preacher, a decision which resulted in the publication in 1913 of his “Garden without walls.” But in 1916 after the publication of “Slaves of freedom,” he left his home in Taunton, Mass., for the trenches, accepting a commission in the Canadian field artillery. The letters, which are most intimate and personal, were written to his family from dugouts on the Somme battlefront in the intervals of artillery fire. Their general point of view is well expressed by the Canadian slogan “Carry on” which the novelist’s father, W. J. Dawson, has used as the title of the book. “We’ve got to win,” writes Lieutenant Dawson, “so that men may never again be tortured by the ingenious inquisition of modern warfare.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17

+ — =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 140w

“He is particularly effectual in putting himself on paper, and his book affords a clear view into the theological soul. The best part of it is that his letters are so full of incident that unless you are particularly interested, you need not bother with the theological interpretation at all.”

+ — =Dial= 64:31 Ja 3 ‘18 650w

— =New Repub= 11:340 Jl 21 ‘17 600w

“From a literary point of view these intimate letters, written in dugouts by the light of a single candle and without thought of publication, are far and away the best work that Mr Dawson has ever done.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:257 Jl 8 ‘17 500w

“They are characterized by vividness of impression, reality, sympathetic insight, and literary grace, and breathe the spirit of heroism, and are a challenge to heroism in others.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:114 My ‘17 40w

+ =Outlook= 116:376 Jl 4 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w

+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 40w

+ =St Louis= 15:314 S ‘17 30w

“His letters are those of a serious, full-hearted young man, devoted to his own family, and endowed with a natural gift for writing.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p479 O 4 ‘17 90w

=DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM).= Pincher Martin, O. D.; a story of the inner life of the Royal navy. il *$1.50 Houghton (Eng ed 17-22561)

“The cryptic—at least, to an American—letters after Pincher Martin’s name are English navy slang for ordinary seamen, and this book, by the author who prefers to be known as ‘Taffrail,’ is an entertaining account of navy life in peace and war, as experienced by an ordinary bluejacket. The story opens about a year or two before the outbreak of the war, and we meet Martin at the moment when he joins his first ship, the predreadnought battleship Belligerent. He remains on her until she is torpedoed and sunk, then serves on board a torpedo boat destroyer, the Mariner. As one of the Mariner’s crew he takes part in the Jutland fight, but before that occurs he has quite a number of adventures.”—N Y Times

“There is, however, more comedy than tragedy in this tale of Pincher Martin, and some of it is very amusing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 330w

“The book is a welcome tribute to our navy, and bears everywhere the signs of intimate knowledge.”

+ =Sat R= 122:sup6 D 9 ‘16 350w

+ =Spec= 117:809 D 23 ‘16 850w

“Makes good its claim to be ‘a story of the inner life of the Royal navy.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p572 N 30 ‘16 450w

=DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM).= Seventh Christmas. il *50c (8c) Holt 17-29180

This is the story of the seventh birthday of Jesus. His mother Mary tells him the story of his birth, and the golden caskets given him by the Three wise men of the East are opened.

— =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 180w

“Coningsby Dawson’s ‘The seventh Christmas’ is so sweet a little legend that it has a value beyond the celebration of any particular feast.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:563 D 16 ‘17 410w

“The delicate style of Coningsby Dawson, compact of feeling and fancy, would seem to have a congenial field in a legend about the boyhood of Jesus, but ‘The seventh Christmas,’ while it presents a pathetic picture of Joseph’s poverty-stricken home, does not rise to that imaginative ‘saturation’ essential to the undertaking.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 140w

=DAWSON, WILLIAM HARBUTT=, ed. After-war problems. *$2.50 Macmillan 304 17-24513

“The four main sections of this important volume—‘Empire and citizenship,’ ‘National efficiency,’ ‘Social reform,’ and ‘National finance and taxation’—are headed, respectively, by chapters on ‘Imperial federation,’ by the late Lord Cromer; ‘National education,’ by Lord Haldane; ‘The rehabilitation of rural life,’ by the Bishop of Exeter; and ‘National taxation after the war,’ by Prof. Alfred Marshall. The remaining fifteen chapters, which deal with a variety of topics, are by recognized authorities on the several subjects. Thus the two chapters treating of the relations between capital and labour are contributed by Mr G. H. Roberts, who writes from the standpoint of labour, and by Sir Benjamin C. Browne, who states the capitalist’s view; Mrs Fawcett writes on the position of women in economic life, Miss Margaret McMillan on the care of child life, Lord Meath on the cultivation of patriotism, Mr W. Joynson-Hicks on the land question; and so on. The introduction is contributed by the editor.”—Ath

“The general impression left on the mind is that the essayists are satisfied with the ‘status quo ante’ in its main outlines, but seek for improvements in it. There is no deep analysis of the social and industrial system, and no questioning of its fundamentals. The book is, however, much more comprehensive in its scope than any that has previously appeared, and many of its chapters are worth careful reading.”

– + =Ath= p341 Jl ‘17 1400w

“These essays are weighty pronouncements, and the volume in its entirety demands careful study.”

+ =Ath= p355 Jl ‘17 180w

“One receives from the reading of these candid, revelatory documents a feeling of pride in England’s willingness to learn, to adopt new methods, to look to the future with undaunted courage.” S. A.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 500w

“While the book presents a constructive national policy for England, it seems addressed to Englishmen not vitally interested in securing a vision of the needs of the British empire as a whole, or really concerned with international welfare. The spirit is, a world safe for England. But one raises the question, if each nation at the conclusion of war deliberately embarks upon a policy of national efficiency prompted solely by the desire to acquire foreign markets and to attain self-sufficiency at home, what will become of the fruits of the war to end wars, and will such a world be safe for anybody?” V. T. Thayer

– + =Dial= 63:391 O 25 ‘17 1800w

“Of particular interest is the study of imperial federation by the late Earl of Cromer, altho it comes to no particular conclusion.”

+ — =Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 130w

“We can do no more than commend the book to all who would understand the momentous social changes with which England is confronted, and what is being thought and planned regarding them. A survey on similar lines of our own after-the-war problems would be a task well worth undertaking.”

+ =Nation= 106:67 Ja 17 ‘18 750w

“A certain lack of definiteness can be charged against some of the contributors; indeed, the book as a whole does not attain high importance. But changes are coming, and those who will be responsible for these changes will profit by the spirit of some chapters of the book, even if they are not always illuminated by the proposals. ... Among the most valuable chapters in the book because the most concrete is that of Viscount Haldane, whose subject is ‘National education.’”

* + – =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 1550w

“All of them are full of suggestions, most of them directed towards immediate practical ends. Perhaps that is regrettable; for it gives to the program as a whole too conservative a tone. National progress may be sustained for a time by various elements in the nation uniting upon the eradication of old and obvious evils; but a more sweeping flight of the imagination is required, a more prophetic vision of the future, if the magnificent mutual loyalty of the people shown during the war is to be translated into deeds for lasting human betterment. Margaret McMillan, for so many years ridiculed as a dreamer, until she proved by her work that vision and practical achievement go together, alone ‘unveils new horizons.’” Bruno Lasker

+ — =Survey= 39:255 D 1 ‘17 720w

“Of the many publications dealing with after-war problems this volume is the fullest and most comprehensive that has yet appeared. Its scope is, of course, limited. ... The most serious omission is the absence of any reference to the development and utilization of the resources of the Empire. ... In the first group Lord Cromer’s examination of the relations between the United Kingdom and the other component parts of the Empire has the most actual value and interest. No man was better qualified to form a sound judgment on the subject.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p266 Je 7 ‘17 1850w

=DAWSON, WILLIAM JAMES.= Robert Shenstone. *$1.50 (1c) Lane 17-24210

“In the midst of horrors, I have written this tale of joyous and adventurous youth.” The author is the father of Coningsby Dawson, now at the front, who wrote “Carry on.” Robert Shenstone, son of a country school-master, destined by his father for a clergyman, but preferring to be a poet, tells his own story. At sixteen, he is master in a boy’s school on the outskirts of London; later, he becomes secretary to a Mr Heron, an eccentric and a recluse, with a fine taste in literature and art. Shenstone perseveres with his own writing and finally has a play accepted by Henry Irving. Other characters are Robert’s father, who never realizes his own ambitions; his mother, who believes that “the life that gives is so much more than the life that gets”; his widowed aunt, Mrs Tabitha Shanley, to whom “the great thing in life is never to lose the spirit of adventure”; the other masters in the school; Edith Hopper, “lineal descendant of Lilith and Cleopatra,” who tries her wiles on them all; and Lucille Overberg, the beautiful girl, who tempted to renounce life thru fear, because of her mother’s expiation of a crime, finally decides “to accept thankfully the joy of the common day.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:94 D ‘17

“‘Robert Shenstone’ is good. It is good—item one—as the pleasant and leisurely tale of a man’s young life. And it is good—item two—because, in addition to that, it is a mystery story of unusual plot.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:412 O 21 ‘17 1250w

=DAY, HOLMAN FRANCIS.= Where your treasure is; being the personal narrative of Ross Sidney, diver. il *$1.50 (2c) Harper 17-17284

A story of adventure by land and sea. It opens in the small eastern village where Ross Sidney spends his boyhood. He is a poor boy with little prospect in life, and he gives all his youthful adoration to Celene Kingsley, the daughter of the one wealthy man of the community. Circumstances drive him from home and he joins a wrecking crew along the Atlantic coast. When he returns to his home town it is to find Judge Kingsley in a difficulty from which he helps to extricate him. A misunderstanding with Celene, which her father might have explained away, again sends him on his wanderings. This time he goes to the Pacific coast where he ships as a deep sea diver. Here he meets another girl, who proves to be his real treasure, and he sees that his feeling for Celene was only a boyish fancy.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 11 ‘17 380w

+ =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 50w

“The masculine sort of nonsense, the ‘rattling’ sort. As usual, Mr Day makes spirited work with his men, and tame and perfunctory work with his women. It is a long yarn, somewhat too long to rattle freely from start to finish. ... What one has to complain of is that so much of the fantastic tale is set ashore; for Mr Day’s illusion, his glamour at least, is soaked in salt water.”

+ =Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 200w

“It is a full-blooded, hot-headed story, told with all the naïve zest of youth, filled with the slang and the expletives and the picturesque similes of many kinds of hustling life, both honest and dishonest. There are graphic accounts of the diver’s work.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:245 Jl 1 ‘17 570w

“The vigorous language of his sea faring folk is always amusing and in depicting their pursuits, whether ashore or afloat, he is faithfully realistic.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 420w

=DEAN, RUTH.= Livable house—its garden. (Livable house ser.) il *$2.50 Moffat 716 17-16081

“A companion work to Aymar Embury’s ‘Livable house’ is provided by Ruth Dean in ‘The livable house, its garden.’ In sympathy with the spirit of efficiency, the author aims to combat indifference or ignorance in the development of grounds about the home. A secondary purpose is to aid the amateur landscape architect in avoiding the mistakes into which his ignorance of plant life and values are likely to lead him. ... One hundred photogravures effectively illustrate the results for which the author gives the fullest directions. The book is divided into five sections: The garden as a whole; General planting; The flower garden; Times and seasons, and Garden architecture.”—Springf’d Republican

+ =Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 20w

“Miss Dean is a landscape architect of experience, and her suggestions are invariably practical.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:331 S 9 ‘17 270w

=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 500w

=DEANE, RICHARD BURTON.= Mounted police life in Canada. il *$1.50 Funk 971.2 17-1608

“From an experience of thirty-one years in the mounted police service, the author gives an account of pioneer days in the great Canadian Northwest and of the feats of daring which invested the force with the glamor of romance.” (A L A Bkl) “A long account is given of the trial of Louis Riel for treason.” (Ath)

“A vigorous, manly style makes the book very readable.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:394 Je ‘17

+ =Ath= p483 O ‘16 20w

=Pratt= p44 O ‘17 30w

+ =Spec= 117:480 O 21 ‘16 160w

“A document which will be invaluable to the historian that is to come of the Last West. It is full of episodes and thronged with personalities, introduced in a soldier style with an occasional touch of the parade rasp, which would help a modern variant of Francis Parkman to many a stirring, significant passage.”

+ =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p463 S 28 ‘16 600w

=DEEPING, WARWICK.= Martin Valliant. *$1.40 (1½c) McBride 17-10202

A historical romance of the time of Richard III. Martin Valliant is a monk. The son of a notorious old fighter, young and full of life and strong of arm, Martin spends his days in a priory, telling his beads and mortifying the flesh to save the soul. His monkish companions, holy men in name only, have laid a plot to try Martin’s virtue. He puts temptation away from him. Then Mellis Dale comes his way. She is a girl, tho a brave one, and alone and beset by enemies, and in taking her part, Martin comes out of his cell and throws off his monk’s robe to become a man.

“Lovers of realism and of nothing but realism will not be pleased with this story. It is not for them. But to those who have the zest of adventure in their souls, to those who believe in the brave old school of fiction that leads man and woman onward through the old world of imminent dangers, it will make an intimate appeal. It is a story without a problem and with no mission but to entertain. And what better mission could it have?” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 1100w

“With ‘Unrest’ labelled for America ‘Bridge of desire,’ Mr Warwick Deeping recently made a not very happy attempt to pin us down to our own world. There he deliberately threw over the romantic code to which, in his tales of old time, he had dutifully clung. ... He has returned to his machine. ... But the whole thing is a contrivance, rather cynically rigged up by an expert.”

— =Nation= 104:459 Ap 19 ‘17 400w

“Never, unless memory be at fault, has he given us a romance in which, with no abating of swift movement or of the number of thrilling episodes, the characters were at once so human and so likable as are the hero and heroine in this tale.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:94 Mr 18 ‘17 500w

Defenders of democracy; ed. by the Gift book committee of the Militia of mercy.[2] President’s ed il *$2.50 Lane 940.91 17-27863

This anthology of miscellaneous contributions has commendatory forewords by Woodrow Wilson, Lord Northcliffe, Theodore Roosevelt and others. Many countries besides our own are represented in the table of contents, among them Belgium, China, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, and Latin America. Among the American contributors are Charles W. Eliot, Mary Austin, Robert W. Chambers, Louis Untermeyer, Fannie Hurst, Amy Lowell, Myron T. Herrick and Amélie Rives. A frontispiece in color by Childe Hassam is one of the pictorial features. The proceeds from the sale of the book go to the aid of needy families of the men of the naval militia.

“Contains much of valuable information, many a stirring paragraph of description, appreciation, or narrative, and, not least surely, more than one challenge to thought.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:540 D 9 ‘17 950w

“There is something here to entertain every one, even if he opens the book with a prejudice against such collections.”

+ =Outlook= 118:32 Ja 2 ‘18 60w

=DE GROOT, CORNELIA.= When I was a girl in Holland. (Children of other lands books) il *75c (2½c) Lothrop 914.92 17-24724

The author of this book for American boys and girls was born in Deersum, a village in the province of Friesland, and there are a number of photographic illustrations showing scenes from this childhood home. She writes of; Our house; How we dressed; Our village school; Some of our games; Our holidays; Farm life; The kermis; Our canal-boats; On skates, etc. When she was twenty-one the author came to America and she now makes her home in California.

“A matter-of-fact account. It is none the less interesting and will give children about eleven or twelve some idea of actualities beyond picturesque wooden shoes and windmills.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:136 Ja ‘18

“The book bears the mark of genuine experience and faithful observation.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w

“Altogether delightful. The illustrations from photographs are well chosen.”

+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 40w

“Her chapters descriptive of Holland are full of color and information, and her literary style is simple and direct.”

+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 90w

=N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 50w

“What a child saw and heard in Holland makes a particularly interesting narrative, and the book will be read by children and older people alike with pleasure.”

+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 110w

=DEJEANS, ELIZABETH (JANES) (MRS SIDNEY BUDGETT).= Tiger’s coat. il *$1.50 (1½c) Bobbs 17-7810

A Nebraska city gives this story its setting but the woman of mystery who is its central character has a background that includes Mexico, Paris and Belgium in the early days of the war. Driven out of the war-ridden countries she comes to Laclasse, presenting herself to Alexander MacAllister as his kinswoman and showing letters that support her story. But one doesn’t know how much of the story is to be believed, and one doesn’t know whether to like or dislike Marie. This is the interest that holds the story together, but it has other points deserving of notice, one of them its excellent character portrayal, another the author’s fairness in her attitude toward the German-Americans of the Middle West.

“A rather lifeless affair of good promise and of weak fulfilment. ... The story may be described as a series of anticlimaxes.”

— =Dial= 62:403 My 3 ‘17 110w

=N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 180w

“The romance is well built up, and, on the whole, well written, though a trifle feverish in parts.”

+ — =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 50w

“While the plot is of the stuff from which melodramas are made, the generally good character drawing gives the book substantiality.” R. D. Moore

=Pub W= 91:584 F 17 ‘17 400w

“The story, though not without vigor, is more romantic and less restrained than this author’s previous novel.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 400w

=DE KOVEN, ANNA (FARWELL) (MRS REGINALD DE KOVEN).= Counts of Gruyère. il *$2 (6c) Duffield 949.4 17-93

The author has written the history of Gruyère, a town in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. In a prologue the “little castled city” is described. Then come the following chapters: Origin of the people; Influence of the church; Sovereignty of the House of Savoy; Foreign wars; The Burgundian wars (Count François I); The Burgundian wars (Count Louis); Struggle for succession; Religious reform; The fall of the House of Gruyère; Gruyère without its counts. There is a bibliography of three pages. The book is beautifully illustrated, with a frontispiece in color.

“Mrs de Koven has the instinct for historical narrative, together with a comprehension of the human side of the matter. She shows us how character and historical fact inter-act; she helps us to live in the times of which she writes.” R. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 F 10 ‘17 450w

+ =Ind= 89:273 F 12 ‘17 60w

+ =Lit D= 54:770 Mr 17 ‘17 140w

“Mrs de Koven, who, in addition to her other literary work, established herself a few years ago as a biographical authority upon the life of John Paul Jones, gives fresh proof in this charming volume of her marked gifts as a historian.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:6 Ja 7 ‘17 450w

“The story of the long reign of the Counts of Gruyère is most picturesque. In no other way do we get so clear a picture of feudalism in Switzerland or so graphic an interpretation of its spirit.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:217 F ‘17 110w

=DELAFIELD, E. M.= Zella sees herself. *$1.50 (2c) Knopf (Eng ed 17-24709)

Zella de Kervoyou, child of a French father and English mother, educated in a convent school, “from the time she is seven years old ... is constantly shifting her standards to conform to those of the particular environment in which she happens to find herself. The book is practically the story of the lies, the evasions, the hypocrisies, the heartaches which spring from Zella’s desire to be always charming, agreeable, superior.” (N Y Times)

“It has none of that shallow brilliancy, that self-conscious cleverness, that clap-trap humour, which marks in every age the work of the tribe of gentlemen (and ladies) who write with ease. It turns a clear, warm, smiling gaze on life and interprets it to us in the very act of making us, too, smile at it. That was Jane Austen’s white magic.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:489 D ‘17 550w

“It is a comedy of youth, in the sense in which Jane Austen’s stories may be so called. It has a certain analogy to what was probably also Miss Austen’s first effort, ‘Northanger abbey,’ and in its quiet precision of characterization and dialogue as well as in its well-nigh unerring satirical touch, it measurably suggests the great mistress of British fiction.”

+ =Nation= 105:515 N 8 ‘17 360w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w

“This unusual and complex study of character is told with a lightness and mastery of touch and a delightful, pervasive humor not often met in the ordinary run of novels.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 550w

“Miss Delafield has drawn her heroine with sympathetic understanding.”

+ =Sat R= 123:sup4 My 19 ‘17 230w

=DE LA MARE, WALTER JOHN.= Peacock pie. il *$2 Holt 821 (Eng ed 16-21123)

A book of rhymes for children, with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. There are nonsense verses, romantic tales, and lovely lyrics. Up and down, Boys and girls, Three queer tales, Places and people, Beasts, Witches and fairies, Earth and air, and Songs, are the divisions of the book.

=A L A Bkl= 13:439 Jl ‘17

+ =Ath= p54 Ja ‘17 40w

“Yet even in his poems for children he is more than a poet for children. Each year-laden reader who can look through the magic casement of Mr de la Mare’s verses will see among the shadowy figures that flit about the moon-silvered lanes a tiny ghost that was once himself.” M. M. Frank

+ =Bookm= 46:89 S ‘17 950w

“Mr de la Mare is not an innovator, and his scope is not great; but within his scope he has no superior.” Conrad Aiken

+ =Dial= 63:150 Ag 30 ‘17 160w

“Mostly they are nothing more than the pleasing little fancies which Mr de la Mare can so well conjure out of faery, fashioned with that lyric felicity which is not the least notable attribute of all the Georgians whose names are worth recounting and of Mr de la Mare in special.” J. T. W.

+ =New Repub= 12:279 O 6 ‘17 450w

“Peacock pie was once a royal dish; this book is a royal dish.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 24 ‘17 200w

“One might exhaust lists of adjectives and yet fail to bring the reader the flavor, the awe, the delight, the haunting terror of this collection of verse, ‘Peacock pie.’”

+ =R of Rs= 56:217 Ag ‘17 220w

“From cover to cover, the most captious critic may hardly find a poem that is not a joy to meet and to keep.”

+ =Sat R= 123:232 Mr 10 ‘17 950w

“In the years that have passed since Stevenson brought out his ‘Child’s garden of verses’ we have not seen a prettier book of rhymes for children than this. ... The poet, in this new edition, is fortunate in his sympathetic illustrator, Mr W. Heath Robinson, whose charming designs reflect by turns the gaiety and sentiment of the verses.”

+ =Spec= 118:21 Ja 6 ‘17 200w

“The poetry in these two little volumes is, perhaps, the purest poetry for children that has ever been made; Blake and Stevenson not forgotten.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p604 D 14 ‘16 850w

=DELAND, LORIN FULLER.= At the sign of the dollar, and other essays. *$1.25 (3c) Harper 304 17-8762

The title essay, a discussion of advertising and an appeal for more attention to human nature on the part of those engaged in business, is reprinted from Harper’s Magazine for March, 1917. Some of the other papers have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. The complete table of contents reads: At the sign of the dollar; Football at Harvard and at Yale as seen in 1910; Some have greatness thrust upon them; A plea for the theatrical manager; The Lawrence strike; a study; Concerning X107.

=A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17

=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17

“Mr Deland’s study of the Harvard-Yale football situation is one of the most interesting things he has to offer, but it must have been written before Harvard’s string of successes in the last five years. Mr Deland makes it plain that he considers Walter Camp the genius of American football.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 25 ‘17 420w

=DELANO, MRS EDITH (BARNARD).= Tomorrow morning. il *$1.35 (2½c) Houghton 17-25434

This, “a chronicle of the new Eve and the same old Adam,” is the story of the married life of a young couple in the thirties, which, in spite of complications that threaten to make trouble between them, ends happily. Martha, the “new Eve,” devoted both to her children and to social work, discovers that although it is already in the affairs of men and women “tomorrow morning,” “the millennium is a long way off,” and so to keep the love of the “same old Adam,” she models her conduct for a time upon that of the “old Eve.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18

“Martha is an attractive heroine, and little Cecily, whose passion for telling the truth made her a most disconcerting person to have about, a real and amusing child. The life of the little western city in which the action takes place is well portrayed, and the busy life of the modern woman neatly and sanely sketched.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 370w

“A domestic comedy written with charm and humor.”

+ =Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 8w

“Quite aside from the message that it carries, Mrs Delano’s book is interesting for the skill with which she has managed her characters. The study of Bob Ramsey with his blundering, masculine ways, is particularly well done, Martha Ramsey, with her brilliant intellect, her self-control and her uncanny shrewdness, is a little overdrawn.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 340w

=DELL, ETHEL MAY.= Hundredth chance. il *$1.50 (1c) Putnam 17-10669

The hero of Miss Dell’s latest story is a horse trainer and accustomed to work to win even if he sees only the “hundredth chance” of success. This is all that is his when he loves Maud Brian, the beautiful but penniless daughter of Sir Bernard Brian. But the marriage of her mother to a scoundrel and the dependence of her lame brother cause the girl to accept marriage with him on terms of her own choosing. An added obstacle to the trainer’s hopes is the appearance of Lord Saltash, his employer and the former fiancé of his wife. In spite of the heavy odds against him, his patience and devotion at last break down social differences and win him the deep affection of his wife.

“Readers of popular fiction will no doubt revel in the rough-diamond hero and the plausible villain, the atmosphere of the racing stable, etc.; but the whole has been much better done many times already, and if this sort of book did not continue to appear, classics might receive more attention.”

— =Ath= p311 Je ‘17 100w

“Once the major premise of her story is accepted there is nothing forced or unnatural in the situations themselves.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 330w

“Her method proves that Victorianism is by no means played out, may indeed be rendered freshly effective by a slight tincture of modern ‘frankness’ in the treatment of sex. Her present heroine is the chill, snobbish little prude whom our fathers admired—at least in fiction.”

— =Nation= 105:16 Jl 5 ‘17 250w

“The chief criticism of the book lies, not in its conventional situation and artificial character treatment—for neither of these detract seriously from the simple enjoyment of it as an entertaining story—but in the undeniable and glaring fact that none of its people seem to know the most fundamental standards of behavior or of speech. They irritate and alienate where they should hold the novel reader’s sympathy.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:202 My 20 ‘17 280w

“A strong and interesting story, developed with skill and good taste, and is by all odds the best the author has ever written.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 400w

“It is all a wonderfully exciting length of distressing misunderstandings, but we are up-borne throughout by the confident anticipation that Miss Dell will never balk us of a happy ending. ... There is equal certainty, too, that though often dealing with the most delicate and difficult situations Miss Dell will skim over the thin places without ever offending our taste.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p236 My 17 ‘17 400w

=DELL, ETHEL MAY.= Safety curtain, and other stories. il *$1.50 (1½c) Putnam 17-29862

The title story of the five in this volume introduces as the principals a man and woman quite out of the ordinary. He is a major in the Indian army—home on leave. She is an elf-like dancer. The safety-curtain that dropped behind her at a moment when the stage is aflame is symbolized by the act of the man whose rescuing of her marks the beginning of a new sensation—that of protection. How, in India whither she goes as a bride, her odd little nature expands in the warmth of the new influence; how ghosts of the past try to rob her of her happiness; and how the strength of the man overcame them is all told in spirited fashion. The other stories are: The experiment; Those who wait; The eleventh hour; The place of honour.

+ =Ath= p679 D ‘17 80w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p542 N 8 ‘17 150w

=DELLENBAUGH, FREDERICK SAMUEL.= George Armstrong Custer. (True stories of great Americans) il *50c (1c) Macmillan 17-1602

Elizabeth B. Custer, herself the author of one of the best known accounts of her husband’s campaigns, has written a preface to this book, commending it for its accuracy and fairness. The story of General Custer’s boyhood is told briefly and this is followed by a very full account of his services in the Civil war and on the plains.

“Written chiefly for young people by a man who knew the West of Custer’s day and was an early explorer of the Grand Canyon.”

+ =Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 40w

+ =Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 30w

+ =N Y Times= 22:181 My 6 ‘17 60w

+ =R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 140w

“Gen. Custer’s biographer is a man who knew the West in Custer’s day and who had even less sympathy than honest Custer for the abuses of the Indian agencies where Indians and government were alike robbed by the most flagrant of grafters. ... It is a chapter of national dishonor that Mr Dellenbaugh relates. But the picture of Custer is always that of a hero.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 6 ‘17 300w

=DEL MAR, ALGERNON.= Tube milling; a treatise on the practical application of the tube mill to metallurgical problems. il *$2 McGraw 622.7 17-13102

“The author states that in the preparation of ores for concentration, cyanidation, and flotation, intermediate grinding by conical and cylindrical tube mills will eventually supersede the work now largely done by stamps, rolls, and chilian mills. General principles are discussed and the construction and operation of the different types explained. Chapter 5 deals with the adaptability of wrought iron and alloy steels as materials of construction.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 20w

“Mr Del Mar’s book is worth placing in every mill-man’s library, where it will serve as a ready reference for the tube-mill operator.”

+ =Engineering and Mining Journal= 103:1083 Je 16 ‘17 100w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p18 Jl ‘17 70w

=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w

=DENCH, ERNEST ALFRED.= Advertising by motion pictures. *$1.50 Standard pub. co. 659 16-25184

“The use of motion pictures as an advertising medium is not confined to any one business or profession. It is adapted to wholesale as well as to retail business. Moreover, it possesses unique ‘business-pulling’ properties. It has, however, like all methods, limitations. These as well as its far greater number of advantages, Mr Dench sets forth with admirable brevity and candor.”—Boston Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 13:295 Ap ‘17

“Extremely up-to-date book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 250w

“Despite a curious belief in the value of slang as a medium for imparting information and ideas, the subject is comprehensively and authoritatively treated.”

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

Deportation of women and girls from Lille. *50c Doran 940.91 A17-371

A volume containing a translation of “the note addressed by the French government to the governments of neutral powers on the conduct of the German authorities toward the population of the French departments in the occupation of the enemy,” together with “extracts from other documents, annexed to the note, relating to German breaches of international law during 1914, 1915, 1916.” (Title-page) Both French and German documents are presented; also private letters. The title is inexact since the deportations included men and boys as well as women and girls.

=A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17

“The chief value of this collection lies in the fact that it presents original data with little or no comment. Unlike the many books which have been published on this phase of the war, it is not sensational but aims to be a plain statement of fact.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:363 My ‘17 150w

=Cleveland= p58 Ap ‘17 40w

“In the letters it is more than once stated that German officers and soldiers refused to carry out the deportation order and were confined for disobedience within the fortress of Lille.”

=Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 50w

“The entire compilation comprises one of the most striking illustrations of the horrors of war that has yet been published.” J. W.

=N Y Call= p14 Mr 11 ‘17 330w

=DE SÉLINCOURT, HUGH.= Soldier of life. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-2025

Outwardly this is a pathological study of a crippled soldier’s mental state, but, more deeply, it cuts down into human nature to reveal the eternal conflict between the great constructive force, love, and the destructive forces that find their final and supreme expression in war. This revelation comes to James Wood thru Corinna Combe, and it comes only after he has struggled against the menace of depression and threatened insanity, after he has failed to find consolation in a common-sense view of life, which urged marriage with a cheerful, trivial, common-sense sort of girl, or comfort in religion. War has been to him a horror and a desecration, and his sanity is saved only when, thru Corinna, he comes to understand its basic origin.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:402 Je ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 45:96 Mr ‘17 400w

“It can scarcely hope to find a universal appeal, but will undoubtedly be of interest to those who enjoy the abnormal.” R. W.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 300w

+ =Ind= 90:257 My 5 ‘17 70w

“Whatever weakness the book may have as a story, however, it throws raw light, in its picture of the moral and spiritual disintegration which war may bring to the unhappy warrior, upon a common horror which the belligerent world, waving its flags and chorusing its mottoes, chooses to leave in darkness.”

+ — =Nation= 104:369 Mr 29 ‘17 350w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 140w

“It will not be strange if Mr de Sélincourt’s book turns out to have been one of the most significant of all that come out of the war. ... It is the quintessence of war literature. ... It traces the delicate spiritual effects as no other book has yet succeeded in doing. ... You have only to compare it with Mr Britling to get the contrast of its fineness with Wells’s blowsiness of spirit, that utterly pedestrian and easy way in which the re-discoverer of God dresses up again the rumpled soul of middle-class Britain and sets her decently on parade again. ... Mr de Sélincourt, perhaps unconsciously, has done in the novel what Bertrand Russell is saying impersonally.” Randolph Bourne

+ =New Repub= 11:85 My 19 ‘17 1200w

“One cannot read it without being stirred to deeper thought and higher feeling.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:33 F 4 ‘17 500w

“From the very first, its dramatic and analytical power hold the reader’s attention and carry him thru the hero’s struggles with an interest seldom roused by such a subject. It is more plain human than abnormal. ... This is as deeply thoughtful a book as any the war has inspired, and one, besides, of beautiful texture and style.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 91:587 F 17 ‘17 350w

“‘A soldier of life’ is a thoughtful—almost spiritual—study of the effect of war, and affords food for thought.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 460w

“Perhaps its differentia and its most notable merit are its success in expressing high and difficult matters in terms of a mere man and his human affairs, linked by a carefully forged chain of thought and incident to the complete ‘normality’ of the opening chapters.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 560w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:127 Ap ‘17 90w

=DESSON, GEORGES.=[2] Hostage in Germany; auth. tr. by Lee Holt. il *$1.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-84)

“A graphic account, by a distinguished French engineer, of his detention as a hostage in Germany for eleven months, with a number of his compatriots. The hardships and sufferings endured by the party were exceedingly severe. The pretext for the imprisonment was that some German subjects were alleged to have been ill-treated in Morocco. The illustrations show some of the places of confinement.”—Ath

“He records the suffering and misery of his experiences with the relieving brightness and humor that characterized him and his nine companions in their otherwise unendurable imprisonment.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17

+ =Ath= p258 My ‘17 80w

=Outlook= 117:144 S 26 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:761 N ‘17 60w

=DESTRÉE, JULES.= Britain in arms (French title, L’effort britannique). *$1.50 (3c) Lane 940.91 17-25445

“M. Destrée—a Belgian writer who, during a stay of some months in Italy, came to the conclusion that England’s efforts in the war were not sufficiently realized by our Italian allies, and was thus led to lay the facts before them—has written a French version of ‘Cio che hanno fatto gli Inglesi.’ The translation, by Mr J. Lewis May, is now before us. How England, though anxious for peace, found herself involved in the war; her naval, military, financial, and industrial efforts; the union of kingdom and empire; and the reasons why our Allies should have confidence in England, are some of the topics to which M. Destrée addresses himself.” (Ath) The preface is by Georges Clemenceau.

=A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17

+ =Ath= p475 S ‘17 100w

“If an Englishman had written this book we would regard it as a piece of self-satisfied laudation. Coming from a Frenchman, who has given the widespread patrol work of the British fleet and the astonishing development of the British army careful investigation, the book falls short of overpraise, but is singularly just.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 280w

“The book, by the author’s confession, was hurriedly written; it is propagandist; but its laudable object is to fortify international confidence as ‘a preparation for the better days to come’; and it makes inspiring reading.”

+ =Dial= 63:594 D 6 ‘17 420w

=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 30w

“M. Jules Destrée discovered a suspicion in Italy that England was not ‘pulling her weight’ in the war. It is a suspicion at which we have no right to be angry, for very similar suspicions of Italian slackness have sometimes been entertained in ill-informed circles in England; and this suspicion, in both cases, has been due to misapprehensions arising out of an excusable ignorance. ... He could have got a preface from no more appropriate author than M. Clemenceau, who has frequently insisted, in L’Homme Enchainé, that an estimate of our contribution to the war must take cognizance of work done in the factories as well as in the field.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p302 Je 28 ‘17 750w

=DEWEY, JOHN, and others.= Creative intelligence. *$2 (1½c) Holt 104 17-6640

Eight modern thinkers contribute papers to this volume. The subtitle “Essays in the pragmatic attitude,” indicates that the unity of the work is one of attitude rather than of conclusions. The first essay, by John Dewey, on The need for a recovery of philosophy, serves to introduce those that follow. It is a statement of the pragmatic purpose, to emancipate philosophy from its attachment to traditional problems. “What serious-minded men not engaged in the professional business of philosophy most want to know,” Professor Dewey says, “is what modifications and abandonments of intellectual inheritance are required by the newer industrial, political, and scientific movements.” The remaining essays are concerned with some of the specific applications of philosophy to present-day problems. They are: Reformation of logic, by Addison W. Moore; Intelligence and mathematics, by Harold Chapman Brown; Scientific method and individual thinker, by George H. Mead; Consciousness and psychology, by Boyd H. Bode; The phases of the economic interest, by Henry Waldgrave Stuart; The moral life and the construction of values and standards, by James Hayden Tufts; Value and existence in philosophy, art, and religion, by Horace M. Kallen.

“Some of the essays have appeared in the various philosophical journals.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17

“To the general reader, perhaps the papers on ethics, by Professor Tufts, and economics, by Professor Stuart, will make the widest appeal, though all will enjoy the concluding paper by Dr Kallen.” R. C. Lodge

+ — =Bellman= 22:300 Mr 17 ‘17 470w

“The book is specially noteworthy for its importance as a contribution to American philosophic thought.” F. F. Kelly

+ — =Bookm= 45:181 Ap ‘17 580w

— =Cath World= 105:393 Je ‘17 480w

=Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 40w

Reviewed by M. C. Otto

* =Dial= 62:348 Ap 19 ‘17 2450w

Reviewed by R. B. Perry

* =Int J Ethics= 28:115 O ‘17 3400w

=N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 450w

=Pittsburgh= 22:328 Ap ‘17

=Pratt= p6 O ‘17 20w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 3 ‘17 30w

“There is not an abundance of good philosophy or good writing in this volume. The contributions of Profs. Dewey and Moore are not without interest as statements of method.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 200w

“‘Creative intelligence,’ in spite of its attractive title, is not a treatise for beginners in humanistic philosophy. Yet there are some who like to begin, as it were, at the top of the pyramid and work down—who like the intellectual tussle of difficult beginnings. To these, and to anyone familiar with the concepts of humanism, ‘Creative intelligence’ is to be recommended. ... In spite of these appreciative remarks, one cannot help sighing for that exposition at once vivid as lightning and picturesque as romance, which William James was always able to provide for anything he had to say.” J: Collier

+ — =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 600w

=DE WINDT, HARRY.= Russia as I know it. il *$3 Lippincott 914.7 18-1412

“The author was previously employed by the Russian government to investigate (for the benefit of English-speaking people) the Siberian exile system and reported not unfavorably on it. His findings caused controversy in the London press. His book deals mainly with European Russia, although there are separate and interesting chapters on Siberia, Darker Siberia, Frozen Asia, the Crimea, Finland, and last but not least, the Russian army. Mr De Windt also describes the characteristics and life of the Russian people.”—Springf’d Republican

“If Mr De Windt had made the most of his opportunities what splendid material he had ready to his hand! Instead, we are given a superficial account of men and manners, well flavoured with anecdotes of social life and morals, and strongly redolent of the countless excellent restaurants and menus the author was lucky enough to meet with.”

– + =Ath= p342 Jl ‘17 800w

+ =Ath= p364 Jl ‘17 50w

“Interesting as it is, the material shows every evidence of having been collated with less thought of homogeneity than of producing a book that would sell.”

– + =Dial= 63:526 N 22 ‘17 500w

+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 150w

“In telling what he has learned of the Russian character by long-continued observation Mr De Windt helps his readers to a clearer understanding of the problems and perplexities which the new Russia is facing at this moment.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 80w

“His book is no globe-trotter’s journal, but a considered view of the various facets of Russian life.”

+ =Sat R= 124:250 S 29 ‘17 320w

“We could wish that there had been less about Russia as a playground and more about her political, artistic, and intellectual qualities, but only one who knows Russia as a man of the world could have written this book, and it can therefore be safely recommended as valuable of its kind.”

+ — =Spec= 119:12 Jl 7 ‘17 1500w

“Although the author may be congratulated on having produced a readable work, one questions whether it has its permanent historical value.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 230w

“He can tell as readable a story as anybody could wish to read.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p266 Je 7 ‘17 400w

=DIBBLEE, GEORGE BINNEY.= Germany’s economic position and England’s commercial and industrial policy after the war. *1s Heinemann, London

“This is one of the publications of the Central committee for national patriotic organizations. ... His analysis (to which the first four chapters are devoted) in headed paragraphs, of German industrial expansion, of the influence of the German government and character on industry, and the dangers of German aggression, is impartial and instructive. Mr Dibblee deals with our economic policy after the war in a cautious spirit. He foresees a tariff, but a strictly moderate one, and a moderate duty on corn. ... Among ‘internal measures of defence’ he urges the establishment of a foreign trade office and a system of licenses for employment, transfer of land, company promotion, export of raw material, &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“This very shrewd and able little book deserves attention.”

+ =Spec= 118:209 F 17 ‘17 380w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 28 ‘16 160w

=DICK, JOHN HARRISON=, ed. Garden guide; the amateur gardener’s handbook. il 75c; pa 50c De La Mare 710 17-11482

The publishers claim for this book a larger aim than that indicated by the title. They hope “through its medium to win thousands from crowded city homes to the free air of the open country.” Among the contributors are F. F. Rockwell, A. J. Loveless, and Charles Livingston Bull. The subjects taken up include: Planning the home grounds; Lawns and grass plots; Hedges and fences; Trees and shrubs; The rose garden; Among the hardy flowers; Annuals and biennials; Garden furniture; Fruit for the small garden; Vegetable garden; Pruning, etc. There are numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables.

“Its twenty-four chapters deal in a way easily understood with the many perplexing problems which confront the beginner and often the professional as well. A calendar of operations contains much useful information, while the chapters on garden furniture and accessories will be eagerly absorbed by the reader who is mechanically inclined.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 140w

=DICKINSON, ASA DON, and DICKINSON, HELEN WINSLOW=, eds. Children’s book of patriotic stories; the spirit of ‘76. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 17-25380

Among the stories selected for this volume are: Jabez Rockwell’s powderhorn, by Ralph D. Paine; Old Esther Dudley, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The battle of Bunker’s Hill, by Washington Irving; The little fifer, by Helen M. Winslow; Paul Revere’s ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; A venture in 1777, by S. Weir Mitchell; The little minute-man, by H. G. Paine; Washington and the spy, by James Fenimore Cooper. For each story there is a brief introductory note and the table of contents indicates the stories suitable for older and for younger children.

“Good reference material for any children’s library.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:172 F ‘18

“A book confessedly more patriotic than historical, since the seeker of sober truth does not interpret the year ‘76 quite in the spirit of ‘76.” J: Walcott

— =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 60w

“These are good stories for the children of 1917 to read, both because they are good stories and because, later, the spirit of ‘76 and the spirit of ‘17 will have much in common.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w

“The work of selection has been well done, and the book may be recommended for juvenile libraries, public or private.”

+ =Cath World= 106:551 Ja ‘18 100w

=DICKINSON, GOLDSWORTHY LOWES.= Choice before us. *$2 Dodd (*6s Allen & Unwin, London) 172.4 17-29207

“The author’s purpose is to describe briefly the prospect before the world if the armed international anarchy is to continue, and to be extended and exasperated, after the war. The origin of the war, and our participation in it, are not discussed; though the author is of opinion that we could do ‘no other.’ He seeks to analyse and discuss the presuppositions which underlie militarism, and arguing both that international war as it will be conducted in the future implies the ruin of civilisation, and that it is not ‘inevitable,’ he sketches the kind of reorganization that is both possible and essential if war is not to destroy mankind.” (Ath) “Mr Dickinson nurses the belief, not very strongly it seems to us, that wars may be prevented by a system of international leagues and international councils of conciliation. ... He is quite clear that internationalism can effect nothing unless all the great powers are members of the league. He says plainly that if Germany and Austria are to be left out of this league the thing is hopeless, and there is a vista of wars before us. He also argues with much force that if the Entente powers persist in waging an economic war against the Central European powers, then the economic must be followed by a military war.” (Sat R)

=A L A Bkl= 14:111 Ja ‘18

=Ath= p355 Jl ‘17 110w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 150w

+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 60w

“With regard to militarism in England, Mr Lowes Dickinson lays undue stress on an entirely uninfluential and forgotten book by Captain Ross in his attempt to find evidences of militarism in countries other than Germany. The value of the book lies in its appeal to realities; its criticism of unreal standards and ideals.” M. J.

+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:287 Ja ‘18 330w

“On the whole, Mr Dickinson presents a strong case against the militarists. A valuable service performed by the author is his collection of scattered statements made by prominent representatives of the allied nations into a formidable body of militaristic doctrine. It is a dangerous plant in whatever soil it may be rooted.”

+ =Nation= 106:19 Ja 3 ‘18 520w

“All who respect clear thinking, large-hearted zeal, and generous common sense must respect his expression of his views.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 1200w

“Every thinking man and woman should read Mr Dickinson’s book, which is a series of powerful arguments, written by a most accomplished disputant, in favour of a combined endeavour by the civilised world to put an end to war. There is, however, one indispensable condition to the success of Mr Dickinson’s ideas—international leagues must be in the hands of responsible statesmen, and not under the control of the secret societies or led by cosmopolitan anarchists.”

=Sat R= 124:129 Ag 18 ‘17 1050w

“We find these books exceedingly exasperating. ... Their theory of joint responsibility, with Germany as the worst sinner because the most completely militarized, ignores the whole history of Prussia as a predatory Power. ... Books like these should be read—for even in the worst of them there is much good sense—though their tone and the attitude of the writers towards the mass of their countrymen make the reading rather repulsive.”

=Spec= 119:189 Ag 25 ‘17 1200w

“The case against militarism—obvious militarism, and the militarism which stalks under the guise of imperialistic policy—has seldom been thought out with keener analysis and closer logic.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 25 ‘17 1150w

“His purpose is so manifestly good, his temper is so reasonable, he is so desirous to see things as they are that even those who differ from some of his conclusions, and the many others who miss in his volume a sense of true proportion, will listen attentively to his argument and agree with much of it. There are many pages in this volume which express admirably the opinions of calm, clear-thinking men as to the outlook and our duties as a nation. ... But the reader who lays down the volume with the sense that he has learned much from it, and who agrees that ‘there are in all countries traditions, interests, prejudices, and illusions making for war,’ may very likely think that there is a want of perspective in the treatment of the subject, and that certain facts, fit to be noted in season, are pushed into undue prominence.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p303 Je 28 ‘17 1800w

=DICKINSON, THOMAS HERBERT.= Contemporary drama of England. (Contemporary drama ser.) *$1.25 (2c) Little 822 17-7563

Beginning with a chapter on The early Victorian theatre, the author covers the whole field from the beginning of the second quarter of the nineteenth century to the present. The chapters following the first are: The decline of the romantic tradition; Adaptation and experiment; Toward a new English theatre; Dramatists of transition; Henry Arthur Jones; Arthur Wing Pinero; The busy nineties; New organization; George Bernard Shaw; Dramatists of the free theatre; The challenge of the future. There is a bibliographical appendix. The author is professor of English in the University of Wisconsin and author of “The case of American drama.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17

“A book of quite extraordinary merit.” Clayton Hamilton

* + =Bookm= 45:538 Jl ‘17 470w

“In a comprehensive bibliographical appendix is given an index of English plays of the past eighty years, arranged alphabetically by authors, and a list of books and magazine articles on the drama.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 F 17 ‘17 750w

=Pittsburgh= 22:312 Ap ‘17

“The eleventh chapter, on the ‘Free theater,’ and the twelfth, which estimates the dramatic labors of Galsworthy, Hankin, Barrie, Craig, and Barker, will assist both the average theater-patron and the dramatic student in discerning the trend of modern plays and give them a better idea of the aims of modern stage producers.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:662 Je ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:182 Je ‘17

“Its historical information is interestingly presented, and it is much more meaty and detailed than many works of the kind. There are a few surprising mistakes. ... In interpretation and criticism Mr Dickinson, while sometimes shrewd and apt, is less satisfactory. He is frequently too abstract, and finespun in his characterizations. ... This is Mr Dickinson at his vaguest, and it would be unfair to judge the book by such instances of strained and pointless criticism. Yet one fears that these sentences are typical of the instruction which Drama league audiences and literary clubs are getting in this country.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 26 ‘17 400w

=DICKINSON, THOMAS HERBERT.= Insurgent theatre. *$1.25 (2½c) Huebsch 792 17-30696

A concise, comprehensive discussion of the artistic and practical sides of the non-commercial theatre. At the outset the point of agreement taken for granted is the conviction on the part of workers that the things of the old theatre must be destroyed and a new theatre be built up in its stead. Without censure against the older order, the writer confines himself to the struggle for the new theatre,—the purposes of those who have started out in revolt; its problems of financial support including experiments in subsidy; the responsibility of audiences to support a theatre intelligently; early experiments showing that the machinery was not ready to carry out the new enterprises; the little theatre; laws that affect management of theatres, for instance, laws against Sunday performances and child-labor; dramatic laboratories; the children’s theatre; some of the pioneers of the insurgent theatre, and a closing chapter on the “Art and outlook of the insurgent theatre.”

Reviewed by Algernon Tassin

=Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 250w

“It is interesting to compare the attitudes of Professor Dickinson and Cheney. The two volumes make an admirable combination for the theaterlover. ... The question of subsidy, direct and through subscription audiences, is ably handled by Professor Dickinson, as is the relationship of the college to dramatics in the matter of experimentation.” L: Gardy

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ja 12 ‘18 250w

“The book is, perhaps, the most comprehensive exposition that has yet been made of what is generally known as the ‘modern movement.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 160w

+ =R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 110w

“Mr Dickinson is so familiar not only with the subject of the community theater, but also with the ordinary commercial enterprise and the lore and philosophy of the drama, that he has a background for understanding what he is talking about. No wild beliefs in the efficacy of new amateur theaters to build up a new social stratum in America tinge his views.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 6 ‘17 950w

“But this is more than a chronicle of the pioneers and their ventures; it is a clear, balanced and broadminded critique, helpful alike to the play-lover, the actor, the playwright and the producer. The responsibility of the audience is well-defined, the artistic devotion of those who are working out little theaters in town and country is keenly appreciated, and an encouraging outlook for the future is entertained.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ =Survey= 39:447 Ja 19 ‘18 310w

=DICKSON, HARRIS.= Unpopular history of the United States by Uncle Sam himself; as recorded in Uncle Sam’s own words. il *75c (3c) Stokes 355 17-25097

The manuscript of Upton’s “Military policy of the United States,” based on Civil war experience, lay filed and forgotten amongst millions of documents in the archives of the War department for twenty-five years. Then it saw the light. It was published by Mr Dickson. He says, “Every word that I have spoken here you will find in there; it has my official endorsement, printed on my presses, franked thru my mails, and sent free to my people. It’s true gospel, but folks say it doesn’t taste good.” Uncle Sam does the talking and he spares no forcible language to take the brag and bluster out of Americans who complaisantly think our war system is equal to the emergency of today. It is an arraignment of the volunteer service idea underlying military policy and a plea for universal, compulsory military service for both war and peace.

=A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w

“It is poorly written; the writer, making Uncle Sam the speaker, rips out regular gosh-ding stuff. But the facts are interesting. For one who thrills at military victories, and is ashamed of military defeats, this book is a bit of a tonic. But for one whose interest is in the welfare of the people of the nation, rather than their Prussian prowess, this work is but an interesting sidelight into national psychology.” W: M. Feigenbaum

+ — =N Y Call= p14 O 14 ‘17 500w

“The general effect of having these facts known to the people should be wholesome and in every way stimulating to patriotism and efficiency.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:104 Ja ‘18 70w

=DIDEROT, DENIS.= Early philosophical works; tr. and ed. by Margaret Jourdain. (Open court ser. of classics of science and philosophy) il *$1.25 (2½c) Open ct. 194

This little volume includes the “Philosophic thoughts,” the “Letter on the blind,” together with its “Addition,” and the “Letter on the deaf and dumb,” published with notes and an appendix. In the “Philosophic thoughts” Diderot “still figures as a deist.” The “Letter on the blind” treats both of the theory of vision and of the argument from design, while the “Letter on the deaf and dumb” deals largely with esthetics. The introduction of twenty-five pages is by the translator and editor.

“Diderot’s range is extraordinary, as within this small volume he breaks ground in ethics and aesthetics, in the criticism of religion and of art. ... The ‘Letter on the deaf and dumb’ is full of interesting speculations upon aesthetics, which Lessing afterwards turned to account, and the ‘Philosophic thoughts,’ burnt by the Parliament of Paris in 1746, has still its interest as a breviary of philosophic scepticism.”

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:538 Jl ‘17 220w

“The main philosophical point treated in the volume is the relation between mental development and sensuous endowment, a point on which some diversity of opinion is still maintained. His conclusion is that ‘the state of our organs and our senses has a great influence upon our metaphysics and our morality.’ ... To most modern psychologists Diderot’s principle will seem so manifestly true as scarcely to admit of discussion. Nevertheless, the principle has been called into question recently by the new realists, who argue that the human mind is in immediate contact with objective truth. For the confutation of such views Diderot’s acute observations upon a blind man and a deaf-mute of his acquaintance are not without value at the present time.”

=Nature= 99:343 Je 28 ‘17 230w

“This collection of Diderot’s ‘Early works’ is worthy to be studied in connection with Morley’s book on ‘Diderot and the Encyclopedists,’ but it will be found interesting for its religious and esthetic speculations by all readers of intellectual tastes.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 23 ‘17 170w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p136 Mr 22 ‘17 1250w

=DILNOT, FRANK.= Lloyd George: the man and his story. il *$1 (2c) Harper 17-10671

The author has written of the career of the man who now rules England “with an absoluteness granted to no man, king or statesman, since the British became a nation,” as he himself has watched it. Among the chapters are: The village cobbler who helped the British empire; How Lloyd George became famous at twenty-five; Fighting the lone hand; The daredevil statesman; The first great task; How Lloyd George broke the House of lords; At home and in Downing Street; A champion of war; The alliance with Northcliffe; At high pressure; His inconsistencies; How he became prime minister; The future of Lloyd George. Lloyd George’s Lincoln day message is reprinted in an appendix.

=A L A Bkl= 14:23 O ‘17

“The book will well repay perusal.”

+ =Ath= p473 S ‘17 50w

“Mr Dilnot has given us, not a critical estimate of the great English leader, for that is, at a time when men feel rather than think, impossible, but a clear, journalistic, if you will, and sympathetic account of the man as he appears to a newspaper writer who has had an unusual opportunity for following his career and a capacity for its interpretation. He is frankly an enthusiastic believer in the man and his policies.” J. T. Gerould

=Bellman= 22:438 Ap 21 ‘17 700w

“Our thanks are due to Mr Dilnot for the most plausible picture yet given us of the most extraordinary man of the epoch.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Bookm= 45:415 Je ‘17 1900w

“Mr Dilnot has had first-hand acquaintance with British politics and political leaders for two or three decades, and he has written a substantial book on the dramatic contest over the Lloyd George budget of 1909. The present biography is a simple chronicle, highly laudatory, yet hardly more than the subject seems to demand.”

+ =Dial= 62:529 Je 14 ‘17 300w

“The Prime minister of the British empire has had a career so meteoric and possesses a personality so unusual that biographers are likely to swarm about his story for many a day. Mr Dilnot’s, which is one of the best thus far, is brief, less than 200 pages, but graphic, and aims less to give a conventional account of his life than to present a picture of him that will make understandable his character and career.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:140 Ap 15 ‘17 1100w

“Lloyd George will be chiefly known, we believe, as the friend of the poor, and this is the thread which runs through the volume, especially accentuated as to labor influence.”

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 220w

=Pittsburgh= 22:526 Je ‘17 50w

+ =R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17

“He writes as a candid friend, and devotes a whole chapter to Mr Lloyd George’s ‘inconsistencies,’ but for all that he contrives to suggest that the history of England for the last ten years has centred in his hero. The future historian will, we think, take a different view.”

– + =Spec= 119:192 Ag 25 ‘17 120w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 550w

=DITCHFIELD, PETER HAMPSON.= England of Shakespeare. il *$2 Dutton (*6s Methuen & co., London) 822.3 (Eng ed 17-17653)

“Mr Ditchfield has provided here a series of pen-sketches depicting in a popular and readable way the England that was Shakespeare’s, its religion, the court, the capital, the poet’s home, travelling, the great country-houses, the navy and army, agriculture and trade, dress, literature, and the drama, the people’s games and sports, the prevalent roguery, vagabondage, and punishments, and the current superstitions, such as beliefs in necromancy, astrology, and witchcraft. The book includes twelve illustrations.”—Ath

=Ath= p201 Ap ‘17 80w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 7 ‘17 550w

“Every student of Shakespeare, and, indeed, every student of Elizabethan literature, should read this book. It contains much rare and curious information helpful for the interpretation of the literature of the time. We hope that the author, in a second edition, will expurge the offensive expression ‘papists’ which constantly disfigures the pages of his book, and substitute the true appellation ‘Catholic’ instead.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:396 D ‘17 410w

“The kindly country clergyman shows his real quality when he describes what he calls the country of ‘leafy Warwickshire,’ as typical of the rest of rural England in Shakespeare’s time. ‘The England of Shakespeare’ is a book that no lover of Shakespeare can afford not to read.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 550w

“Making all due allowances for the exigencies of war time, we must still consider Mr Ditchfield curiously careless in small details. Any Latin scholar could make obvious emendations in the lines on p. 200, and there are several misquotations of passages and names that should be familiar as household words. His selections from representative views of the period are the strong point of his book.”

+ — =Sat R= 123:257 Mr 17 ‘17 1250w

“All the main facts are well known already. But Mr Ditchfield retells them with such enthusiasm and in a setting of such pleasant anecdote and quotation that they must make an appeal of freshness even to the mind saturated in seventeenth-century history.”

+ =Spec= 118:415 Ap 7 ‘17 1900w

“Especially graphic are the pen pictures which the author gives of the famous queen herself.”

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

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p83 F 15 ‘17 100w

=DIVER, MRS KATHERINE HELEN MAUD (MARSHALL).= Unconquered; a romance. il *$1.50 (1½c) Putnam 17-23756

Mrs Diver has written in “Unconquered” a war novel of conventional type. It tells the story of Sir Mark Forsyth’s infatuation for Bel Alison, a selfish young beauty, his return from the war with an injured spine, the exit of the beauty from the scene and the entrance of Sheila Melrose, the sweet young girl who has always loved Sir Mark and who is his mother’s choice for him.

=A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18

“As a love-story the book, despite its wordiness, should prove of interest to those who like their war literature flavoured with romance. As an indictment of democratic government it has too much the air of being wise after the event.”

– + =Ath= p596 N ‘17 90w

“Mrs Diver has done this part of her story especially well, for it requires skill to make so vivid and yet so restrained a drawing of those early war days.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 16 ‘18 1450w

=Nation= 106:95 Ja 24 ‘18 170w

“The novel is too long, and the latter part of its drags more than a little, but it is written with sincerity.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 500w

“In spite of the thin motif, the book has merits. ... Moreover, in an age overgiven to revolt against anything which makes for a standard or for discipline, it is refreshing to find an advocate of ‘the brave old wisdom of acceptance’ as a philosophy of life.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:311 O 20 ‘17 280w

“As we read the book we live through once again those summer and autumn months of 1914. It is a true picture of the early phases of public opinion in regard to the war, as well as a good love-story.”

+ =Spec= 119:451 O 27 ‘17 750w

“The only touch of individuality anywhere is Bel’s pacifism. The other characters are just puppets trained to make a continual call upon the admiration of the reader. What is still more unfortunate is that Mrs Diver has bespattered her pages with serious discussion in the manner of the most commonplace leading articles of three years ago. ... We are treated by these solemn talkers to all the old truths which have now become truisms, and the old clichés which have become banalities.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p494 O 11 ‘17 250w

=DIXON, ROYAL.= Human side of birds. il *$1.60 (3½c) Stokes 598.2 17-29555

An original study of birds which characterizes them according to their activities. Some are artists, cliff-dwellers and mound-builders, policemen, dancers, athletes and musicians; while others are scavengers and street cleaners, aviators, fishermen, mimics, ventriloquists and actors. The bird court of justice and the bird beauty parlor also come in for a share of novel treatment. Mr Dixon says, “It should be remembered that birds have a life, a point of view, and a destiny of their own, and that our failure to comprehend them in no way justifies us in concluding that they are in every sense below us in the scale of existence. ... There are birds of as many shades of character and disposition as there are types of people. There are the gay, the sad; the sociable, the reserved; the trustful, the shy; the frank, the deceitful; the honest, the dishonest; the gentle, the violent; the peaceful, the quarrelsome; and so on. However, it should be emphasized that the prevailing note of birddom is one of happiness and good cheer.”

“Mr Dixon has a fertile imagination, but he also has a wide knowledge of nature and he is very enthusiastic.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p3 D 15 ‘17 950w

“It contains much curious information, scientific and historic, and some that is neither, in a strict sense, but is none the less readable.”

+ =Dial= 63:537 N 22 ‘17 180w

“Colored plates and many photographs add to the attractiveness of the pleasantly chatty and at times quaintly imaginative papers.”

+ =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 30w

“It is a very interesting book and one which ought to open the eyes and sharpen the perceptions of most people to whom a tree is just a tree. The last chapter, on ‘Trees and civilization,’ is full of facts, eloquently presented, to show how great is the necessity that the human world and the tree world should co-operate for the good of civilization.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:289 Ag 5 ‘17 450w

“The book has a unique interest. The pictures are excellent.”

+ =Outlook= 117:577 D 5 ‘17 50w

+ =Pratt= p19 O ‘17 20w

=DIXON, ROYAL, and FITCH, FRANKLYN EVERETT.= Human side of trees; wonders of the tree world. il *$1.60 (4c) Stokes 582 17-10453

“Man is the highest form of animal life and the trees are the highest form of vegetable life. They have much in common,” say the authors of this book. It is a companion volume to “The human side of plants” and its purpose is “to present the trees as living, lovable personalities—working and playing in a world quite as real and vital as our own; and possessing many habits and attributes which we often imagine are exclusively human.” Among the chapters are: Trees that build cities; Trees with a personality; Tree physiology; Trees that are fashionable; Trees with a college education; Trees and their business methods. There are over thirty illustrations, some of them in color.

“The illustrations are good and facts are authentic, but scientists may take exception to the method of presentation.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:381 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 380w

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:76 My ‘17

+ =Outlook= 115:761 Ap 25 ‘17 30w

+ =R of Rs= 55:665 Je ‘17 230w

“The book is, of course, rather entertaining than scientific, but the devices which it employs are legitimate apart from their object in interesting the student in a further pursuit of the science of dendrology.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 4 ‘17 130w

=DIXON, WILLIAM MACNEILE.= British navy at war. il *75c (3c) Houghton 940.91 18-1524

The professor of English language and literature in the University of Glasgow has given a graphic account of the work of the British navy during the war. He considers The war at sea—New problems—German tactics; tells of The ocean battles—Coronel and the Falkland Isles; of the North sea battles—the Dogger Bank and Jutland; of the work of the Submarines; of Blockade and bombardment; pays a tribute to the Grand fleet and ends with a summary of What the British navy has done for the world. The author acknowledges his indebtedness to the correspondence columns of the Times and to the Cornhill and other magazines for a number of descriptive quotations.

“Before the United States entered the great war we heard now and then that question of unpardonable ignorance: ‘What is the British fleet doing?’ ... The author has with remarkable brevity and brilliancy told the real story of the British navy in the recent war. It thrills the reader, and it is as authentic as it is inspiring.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 700w

“Every word of it makes interesting reading; and not a small part of the pleasure the book imparts, is due to the author’s clear and flowing style.”

+ =Cath World= 106:265 N ‘17 250w

+ =Ind= 92:301 N 10 ‘17 70w

“As a chronology of events it is of considerable value.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 170w

=N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 300w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 20w

=R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 40w

“This is a handy little book for the general reader who finds it hard to keep in mind a connected account of British naval operations simply from reading the papers. But if one is looking for a critical analysis of these operations, one must turn elsewhere. As history it is simply a hymn of praise.” W: O. Stevens

– + =Yale R= n s 7:418 Ja ‘18 950w

=DOBBS, ELLA VICTORIA.= Illustrative handwork for elementary school subjects. il *$1.10 Macmillan 371.3 17-13974

This desk manual discusses “the use of sand tables, pictures, and construction work in developing a clear understanding of history, geography and literature.” (Ind) “There are about twenty selected projects in detail besides lists of projects carried out by fifth, sixth and seventh grades.” (School Arts Magazine)

+ =Ind= 91:294 Ag 25 ‘17 70w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:103 Jl ‘17

“Every classroom teacher should have this manual on her desk.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:44 S ‘17 120w

=DODGE, HENRY IRVING.= Skinner’s baby. *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 17-25433

The Skinners had distinctly “arrived” since the first dress-suit was bought but husband and wife are still dividing “fifty-fifty.” How would it be over the baby? Would he be Skinner’s or Honey’s? He was to be a “regular boy.” So much was agreed. And a “regular boy” must have “a clean mind, a stout heart, and a strong body.” Could they make him one by working together or must each do a separate part? It took some adjusting but in the end it was “fifty-fifty” still. For his mother taught him to pray while his father showed him the way to the old swimming-pool and to the use of the boxing-gloves. And together husband and wife solved the puzzles that will fall to the share of, if not every reader, at least to every reader’s neighbor.

=A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18

“The little tale is amusing, and the account of Skinner’s dreams before the baby came at once funny and pathetic. Baby Skinner himself is no supernaturally virtuous cherub, but a sturdy youngster, energetic, inquisitive, and possessed of that appalling logic which some children wield, to the utter dismay of those who endeavor to cope with them.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 210w

=DODGE, LOUIS.= Children of the desert. *$1.35 (2½c) Scribner 17-7927

This is the story of Harboro and Sylvia. Harboro was forty when he met Sylvia. He had led the adventurous life of a railroad man in the Southwest and in Mexico. He was solid and substantial, a very rock of firmness and integrity. Sylvia was—there is no other word for her—a light woman. Harboro married her, knowing nothing of her past, and the men who did know and the woman who suspected kept silent out of respect for Harboro. Out of such a situation tragedy must inevitably come. The amazing thing about the story is the appealing sweetness of Sylvia. As the author draws her character, it is impossible wholly to condemn her. The action is played out in two towns that face one another across the Rio Grande.

“Mr Dodge makes both the woman and the man wholly plausible, and it is obvious that he seeks to present them as the victims of an inexorable fate.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 21 ‘17 350w

“A work of intense concentration and elimination. ... The author has shown in this latest novel an underlying strength and determination that ought to carry him a long way, and that should also lead him to overcome the looseness of writing that is such a blot upon his careful structure.”

+ — =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 330w

“The author of ‘Bonnie May’ has written another book. And a greater difference can scarcely be imagined than that which exists between Louis Dodge’s first published novel and this second book which has just appeared. ‘Children of the desert’ is a study of character and of a problem which has been studied before and which will probably be studied for many a long year to come; it is set in the crudity and the wildness of Mexican border life; it is profoundly simple; and it is sheer tragedy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:83 Mr 11 ‘17 700w

“While it is remarkably restrained in tone, free from gunfire and all traces of flashiness, some of its vital features belong to melodrama, and its dénouement, tho tragic in Hardy’s second best manner, is brought about by a potently melodramatic device. On the one hand the book inspires serious comparisons; and on the other it makes one wonder whether it is justified beyond the furnishing of an evening’s excitement.” Joseph Mosher

=Pub W= 91:972 Mr 17 ‘17 500w

“Louis Dodge’s purpose in portraying the type of woman whose behavior is the central thread of ‘Children of the desert’ is not clear. Her portrayal proves nothing more valuable than it is possible for a human being to be without moral sense. Mr Dodge handles his theme with considerable skill, but his instinct to drown the novelist in the essayist will not down.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 220w

Domestic service, by an old servant; with a preface by Mrs George Wemyss. il *$1 (4½c) Houghton 647 17-24417

“This is not a manual of domestic service, but recollections, reflections, and advice to young servants by an old servant who has been in nineteen situations—nine in Scotland, and ten in England—covering a period of fifty-two years.” (Ath) “It gives a realistic picture of life as it is lived and thought about by the typical well-behaved, well-treated servant of the old school, rather prosily contented in the lot whereto God has called her, happy to be remembered in the blessings of a considerate master or mistress.” (Springf’d Republican)

“The ‘old servant’s’ account, which is carefully edited, is a pleasing record of good feeling on the side both of employers and employed.”

=Ath= p411 Ag ‘17 60w

“It is a delight to read this simple, moving record. There is emphasis in each chapter on the enduring value of loyalty in every walk of life.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 40w

“With all proper respect for the virtue of contentment there is genuine pathos in the sheeplike quality of the nameless author’s devotion to duty. The editor of the book has shown doubtful wisdom or kindness in leaving the author’s English at its original loose ends.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 160w

=DOMINIAN, LEON.= Frontiers of language and nationality in Europe. il *$3 Holt 940 17-15963

“This book is submitted as a study in applied geography. Its preparation grew out of a desire to trace the connection existing between linguistic areas in Europe and the subdivision of the continent into nations. The endeavor has been made to show that language exerts a strong formative influence on nationality because words express thoughts and ideals. But underlying the currents of national feeling, or of speech, is found the persistent action of the land, or geography. ... Upon these foundations, linguistic frontiers deserve recognition as the symbol of the divide between distinct sets of economic and social conditions.” (Preface) The author is a graduate of Robert college, Constantinople, and he has given particular attention to the Turkish situation because of its importance in the whole European entanglement. The book is an outgrowth of a series of articles written for the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. The several colored maps of the book have been prepared under the direction of the American geographical society, and Dr Madison Grant, its president, has written the introduction.

“Seems qualified to become a standard source of information on the topics in the field it covers.” C. D.

+ =Am Econ R= 7:841 D ‘17 60w

“A full linguistic atlas of Europe is a desideratum, and the author has come so near to supplying it that one regrets he did not go further and include many more of the available but scattered linguistic maps of different sections. In matters touching the character, history, and relationship of languages, there are not a few remarks which savor of uncritical popular philology, some merely naïve in expression, some positively erroneous. But these do not seriously affect the main purpose and value of the book.” C. D. Buck

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:171 O ‘17 900w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17

“When the author leaves the task of analysis to outline the application of what racial and linguistic conditions he considers the proper bases for boundary-making and their application to present-day political problems, his discussion becomes less convincing.” C. L. Jones

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:238 S ‘17 450w

Reviewed by Albert Schinz

+ =Bookm= 46:293 N ‘17 550w

“Excellent maps, showing in colors the distribution of peoples, and also showing-languages having political significance, greatly aid in presenting the results of the author’s study. ... In size, type, illustrations and mechanical work the book is excellent.” H. S. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 450w

+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 30w

“The author is decidedly at his best in treating of the racial situation in Turkey.”

+ =Ind= 91:265 Ag 18 ‘17 120w

“The material here gathered is of great value to the student of history, diplomacy, and language, and this service does not depend upon the author’s theories and solutions.”

+ =Lit D= 55:43 O 13 ‘17 370w

“Mr Dominian is well-fitted to perform his task because of his familiarity with European languages, geography, and politics; and his work is a valuable contribution to that large mass of data, literary and otherwise, which undoubtedly will play an important part in the readjustment of national boundaries in Europe at the termination of the war.”

+ =Nation= 105:637 D 6 ‘17 850w

“Supplies a pressing need. In any circumstances the appearance of this book would have been an event of importance to scholars since it is by far the most competent work on the subject available in English. Just now its practical value is so great that it ought not to become a scholar’s monopoly.” A. J.

+ =New Repub= 11:337 Jl 21 ‘17 1050w

“The author deserves a special word of commendation for the impartial attitude of mind with which he has faced his facts and endeavored to give to each one its full significance.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:256 Jl 8 ‘17 430w

+ =Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:760 N ‘17 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 700w

“Anyone who thinks it will be quite easy to adjust boundaries after this war so as to insure stable equilibrium through any simple formula like ‘respect for the rights of small nationalities’ should read this careful and scholarly study.” K. H. Claghorn

+ =Survey= 38:553 S 22 ‘17 500w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p599 D 6 ‘17 130w

“The book is full of learning interestingly expressed, cleverly arranged, and adequately illustrated with typical photographs and careful maps, in one of which he is at pains to leave uncoloured the uninhabited areas, a lesson in accuracy to be learned by many ethnographical cartographers. East of the Aegean, however, Mr Dominian’s work is more open to criticism than when he deals with Europe.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p611 D 13 ‘17 2000w

=DONHAM, S. AGNES.= Marketing and housework manual. il *$1.50 Little 640 17-31012

Here is offered the benefit of twenty years of study and experiment in scientific household management. The instruction covers the following phases of home activity: General rules for marketing; Marketing charts; Menu making; Menu and order sheets; How to select foods—what the body needs; Food inventory; The cellar and laundry; The kitchen and kitchen pantry; The dining room, pantry and dish washing; The dining room and table service; The living room; The chambers and bed making; The bathroom and storage closets; General cleaning—sweeping, dusting; To open and close a house; House inspections; Small repairs, plumbing troubles; The reading of gas and electric meters; Program of work; Household pests.

=DORLAND, WILLIAM ALEXANDER NEWMAN.=[2] Sum of feminine achievement. *$1.50 Stratford co. 396 17-24822

A critical and analytical study of woman’s contribution to the intellectual progress of the world. This is “the century of the women,” the writer avers, “The course of development of the education of women has been by cycles, and at the present time there appears to have been reached an unusual wave, sweeping on the movement with unusual force and energy.” The chapter headings suggest the scope of the volume: Genius and femininity; A galaxy of talent; The mentality of famous men and women compared; The achievements of women in youth and old age; The sum of feminine achievement; Woman’s contribution to science; The feminine side of art; Woman in literature; The intellectual correlation of the sexes. An alphabetical table is appended of the famous women of modern times.

=Pittsburgh= 22:765 N ‘17 80w

=DORR, MRS RHETA (CHILDE).=[2] Inside the Russian revolution. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 947 17-31172

A clearly written, popular, first hand account of the dramatic happenings in Russia, during the past few months of revolution and upheaval. Liberal, democratic inclinations furnish the writer standards of measurement and criticism. She points out the underlying aims of the Bolsheviki or Maximalists and comments upon their unfitness for leadership. Among the events which she reviews are the July revolution, the striking activities of Mareea Botchkareva, the modern Joan d’Arc who commanded the Battalion of death, the treachery of Rasputin and his tragic death, the part that Anna Virubova played in the revolutionary drama, the passing of the Romanoffs and the leadership of Kerensky. The closing chapters consider Russia’s greatest needs—leadership, education, wholesome popular amusements, soda fountains—and venture a conjecture or two concerning what could happen in Russia next. At the moment when the Bolsheviki are attracting favorable notice many of Mrs Dorr’s statements and prophecies seem obsolete.

“Does not reflect the changed conditions.”

– + =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 240w

“An important book of the Russian situation and events leading to it.”

+ =Ind= 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 30w

“It furnishes most excellent reading for the host of half-baked reformers who imagine that the world can be created anew overnight, and deserves a wide circulation both among these and among readers who take a saner point of view.”

+ =Outlook= 118:68 Ja 9 ‘18 100w

=R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 100w

“Vivid and most instructive narrative. Mrs Dorr’s book is an excellent piece of reporting.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 4 ‘18 730w

=DORSEY, GEORGE AMOS.= Young Low. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-18356

It is for the most part the life of an average young American under average conditions that the author describes. Young Low spends his boyhood and youth in a small town in Ohio. His home is the commonplace, middle-class home, his parents are not without understanding of boy nature, and his childhood is on the whole happy. Yet in two matters, religion and sex, the handicap of his early training remains with him for many years, if not for life. Much of the latter half of the story has to do with the agencies that were helpful in overcoming the effects of his narrow training in religion and his utter lack of training in regard to sex. The person who helped clarify his ideas on this question was Alexandra Lanflere. This woman, who stood in a relation to him that his early standards would have condemned, is represented as the best and finest influence that had come into his life.

“The publishers announce that ‘you have never read a book like this. You have never read so frank a revelation of a young man’s life—a boyhood and youth intensely American, both in ancestry and surroundings.’ This exaggerates matters a little, since we may recall a number of stories of recent years which approach this one in realism of setting and ‘frankness,’ not to say grossness, of detail. Part 1 of this book gives an uncommonly vivid picture of certain aspects of childhood and boyhood in a small Ohio community. We have already had such a picture, frank without grossness, in Mr Howells’s ‘A boy’s town,’ and the two pictures might well be compared as illustrating the difference between protestant and catholic methods of literary art.” H. W. Boynton

— =Bookm= 45:646 Ag ‘17 450w

“There is nothing more remarkable in the story than the way in which the author gets under the mental attitude of Young Low and makes us see its naturalness and its inevitability.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 22 ‘17 850w

“It is unfortunate that the really excellent presentation of matter should be marred by a vast amount of modern Freudian dogma, which has not yet worked down to reasonable proportions.”

+ — =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 200w

“Here, for a recent American example, is the ‘Young Low’ of a ‘new’ writer who essays to be extremely American in the continental manner—or, it is more just to say, in the continental mood. It refreshingly lacks the Russo-Gallic accent which our bold young ‘realists’ so frequently affect. It has an excellent autobiographical style, free from bookishness on the one hand and from the conventionalized vernacular of the magazines on the other.”

– + =Nation= 105:177 Ag 16 ‘17 600w

“The story has the faults that are inherent in its method. ... Nevertheless, it is an interesting tale, written with vigor and sincerity and a wide and varied knowledge of American life. ... The author’s sense of character is stronger than his ability in its portrayal. ... He writes with plainness of language upon the sexual impulses, inhibitions, experiences, and knowledge of the boy, the adolescent, and the young man, but there is in all his pages no taint of the lascivious. ... Artistically the finest feature of the book is the sense of the urge of dynamic forces in American life, in both society in general and in the individual.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 750w

=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Eternal husband, and other stories. (Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, v. 8) *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 17-17080

Three stories newly translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett are included in this volume: The eternal husband; The double; A gentle spirit. In the first story a woman is characterized as “one of those women who are born to be unfaithful wives.” The woman herself is dead at the opening of the story, which thereafter has to do chiefly with a man who had once been her lover and his relations with her husband. The husband is he who is characterized in the title, a man who all his life is a husband and nothing more. He is the complementary type to the woman referred to.

“Confused, occasionally incoherent in style.”

— =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 30w

“All of Dostoevsky’s qualities are in this latest volume, ‘The eternal husband.’ But so concentrated are they that the Dostoevsky novice would better begin with that poignant, but less extravagant, story, ‘The insulted and injured,’ or that epic of frustrated aspiration, ‘The brothers Karamazov.’ ... Such stories as in ‘The eternal husband’, however fantastic the problems of the soul, get deeply into us. We cannot ignore them, we cannot take them irresponsibly. We cannot read them for amusement, or even in detachment, as we can our classics. We forget our categories, our standards, our notions of human nature. All we feel is that we are tracing the current of life itself. ... If we are strong enough to hear him, this is the decisive force we need on our American creative outlook.” Randolph Bourne

+ =Dial= 63:24 Je 28 ‘17 1500w

“‘The eternal husband’ and ‘The double’ are over long, and loosely constructed. They are both excellent studies of the abnormal, as is usual Dostoevsky; but they possess one quality which is not at all usual with him, or indeed with any other Russian novelist—the quality of humor. An ironic and rather sneering humor, to be sure, but still undoubtedly humor.”

+ — =Ind= 93:150 Ja 26 ‘18 150w

+ =R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 150w

“The three long short-stories that make up this volume hardly rank with the best of Dostoevsky’s work—although they belong to the greatest period of his genius—but they are interesting as illustrating his methods. ... ‘The eternal husband’ is a powerful psychological study of a man of unpleasant type. ... The second story in the volume. ‘The double,’ is the least successful, but the last, ‘The gentle spirit,’ which deals with a man’s sensations after his wife’s death, is unforgettable.”

+ =Sat R= 123:343 Ap 14 ‘17 600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 22 ‘17 1750w

“‘The double,’ was published the same year as ‘Poor folk,’ but not even Mrs Garnett and Dostoievski together can make it worth reading. ‘The eternal husband’ is a later work, and the exceedingly powerful close atones for much indifferent matter in the course of the story.” W: L. Phelps

– + =Yale R= n s 7:188 O ‘17 190w

=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Gambler, and other stories; from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$1.50 (lc) Macmillan

The ninth volume of Mrs Garnett’s translation of the works of Dostoevsky. It contains three stories, “The gambler,” “Poor people,” and “The landlady.” The title story follows the fortunes of a poor Russian tutor at a German resort where the roulette table furnished the main diversion—nay more, obsession. The best of him is his love of Polina. Under his eye she debases herself. Disillusionment leaves him easy prey for the fitful caprice of the roulette board. He is drawn into the vortex when the reader leaves him. “Poor people” portrays the struggles of folk of humble life. The story is told in a series of letters between an elderly clerk and a young girl who turns from him to marry a prosperous tradesman. The third tale, “The landlady,” tells the symbolic story of a luckless student who was baffled in liberating the girl he loved from the prison house that bound her.

+ =Ind= 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 220w

“Had Dostoevsky never written anything else these stories would suffice to give him rank among the great writers. They are not ‘pleasant’ tales, they are tales of the kind described by the quotation which heads ‘Poor people,’ tales that ‘unearth all sorts of unpleasant things,’ and therefore the lovers of sugary fiction will do well to avoid them. But those who care for human nature and for the art of writing will find them distinctly fascinating.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:516 D 2 ‘17 1300w

“The first story in particular seems to us to have a sharpness and clearness of outline which is sometimes lacking in the author’s more elaborate works.”

+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 80w

“Mrs Garnett is one of the two best translators from the Russian that live to-day, but even she cannot make ‘The gambler, and other stories’ anything but dull. It is at least pleasant to have in our hands a trustworthy and complete translation of the tales.”

– + =Sat R= 124:311 O 20 ‘17 70w

“‘The gambler’ is evidently based on a French model, and the humor is forced and metallic, as if the author were not really interested in his theme. The best story in the book is Dostoevsky’s first work, ‘Poor people.’”

– + =Spec= 119:359 O 6 ‘17 920w

“‘The gambler’ will throw a good deal of light upon the processes of the mind whose powers seem almost beyond analysis in such works as ‘The idiot’ and ‘The brothers Karamazov.’ If we call it second rate compared with these, we mean chiefly that it impresses us as a sketch flung off at tremendous and almost inarticulate speed by a writer of such abundant power that even into this trifle, this scribbled and dashed-off fragment, the fire of genius has been breathed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p489 O 11 ‘17 1100w

=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Pages from the journal of an author; tr. by S. Koteliansky and J. Middleton Murry. (Modern Russian library) *$1.25 (5c) Luce, J: W. 891.7 (Eng ed 17-20968)

This book contains two selections. Of the first, “The dream of a queer fellow,” Mr Murry in his introduction says, “It is an epitome of the problems which tormented him.” With this dream allegory is included the speech on Pushkin, delivered on June 8, 1880 at the meeting of the Society of lovers of Russian literature, with additional notes.

=Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 70w

“The little story or essay of sombre intensity is a key to Dostoevsky’s works.” Nellie Poorman

=Dial= 62:481 My 31 ‘17 800w

“In the beatific vision described with such felicitous simplicity in ‘The dream of a queer fellow,’ the quintessence of Dostoevsky’s questionings, desolation, strivings and mental sufferings is revealed. One gets the strange feeling that he is telling truths beyond which there are no others.” D: Rosenstein

+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 29 ‘17 2300w

=DOTY, ALVAH HUNT.= Good health; how to get it and how to keep it. il *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 613 17-19827

This book by the former health officer of the port of New York tells the layman, in simple terms, how to get well and how to keep well. “It has been the aim of the author to include in this book the essential and salient points in the construction of the body and function of its various parts; also to discuss public health problems, the maintenance of individual physical well-being, the means by which infectious diseases are transmitted and how they may be prevented, the importance of pure air, good water and nourishing food, as well as other matters connected with the subject of hygiene.” (Preface) The last chapter deals with “Prompt aid to the injured.”

“No better or more authoritative book of this sort has appeared. It is thorough in its treatment of the subject, accurate in its statements and considers with much detail every phase of the question. Dr Doty takes nothing for granted as to how much his readers may know already.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:541 D 9 ‘17 470w

=R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 50w

=DOTY, MADELEINE ZABRISKIE.= Short rations: an American woman in Germany, 1915-1916. il *$1.50 (3c) Century 940.91 17-8352

An account of two visits to the warring countries. “It is the story of what happens at home when men go to war,” says the author. She adds a significant paragraph in explanation of her title: “While the men at the front slaughter one another, at home the mothers and children, the sick, the aged, the prisoners, are starved spiritually, intellectually, and physically. Life becomes a fight for existence, a struggle for one’s self and not for humanity.” The first visit was made at the time of the Woman’s peace conference at The Hague. The second was made in 1916. Of particular interest is the account of the second visit to Germany.

“A popular and moving appeal for a speedy cessation of war.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:345 My ‘17

=Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 200w

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 4 ‘17 550w

“An emotional book, obviously overdrawn, but moving in the extreme.”

=Cleveland= p82 Je ‘17 70w

“By means of a very feminine degree of intuition, a journalistic sense of observation, a telegraphic style, and a purely American sense of humor, Miss Doty has achieved one of the most suggestive reports of conditions inside the German empire that it has been our fortune to see.”

+ =Dial= 62:484 My 31 ‘17 370w

“If Miss Doty had entered Germany less prejudiced against the government and the people and with some knowledge of the German language—she was entirely dependent upon interpreters—her book would have gained much in authority. At the same time her experiences are interesting, often exciting, and they are told with eagerness and zest.”

+ — =Nation= 105:129 Ag 2 ‘17 200w

“In spite of the false vividness and fore-shortening of reality that is at a premium in American newspaper offices, in spite of occasional ‘worked up’ sentimentalism and a rather cheap-jewelry style, in spite of trivialities fused with basic interpretations in a common amalgam, ‘Short rations’ is a moving book. Miss Doty has a real passion for life, the woman’s horror at wasted flesh and broken bodies.”

+ – — =New Repub= 10:sup3 Ap 21 ‘17 400w

“It is, so far as we know, the best account yet written by any woman on the subjects dealt with.” Joshua Wanhope

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 350w

+ =N Y Times= 22:98 Mr 18 ‘17 380w

– + =Spec= 119:390 O 13 ‘17 80w

“Her views are not official. Therein lies their value. But the danger is that, moving largely among the people who have suffered most acutely from the war, she has given a one-sided picture. ... Miss Doty’s treatment of details is so incisive and vivid that the reader seems to share her experiences. Possibly in the long run her tone may strike one as slightly high-pitched.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 27 ‘17 1000w

“The present volume belongs to that category of books whose chief raison d’etre is the reluctance of many educated persons to throw away notes made during travel and copies of letters written home. ... Not knowing the German language well, Miss Doty got a good many false impressions, and hands on some hearsay of doubtful authenticity.” B. L.

— =Survey= 38:174 My 19 ‘17 280w

“She writes vivaciously, and observes shrewdly where minor matters are concerned; but her vision of the larger issues is sadly blurred by sentimental tears.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p308 Je 28 ‘17 670w

=DOUBLEDAY, NELTJE BLANCHAN (DE GRAFF) (MRS FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY) (NELTJE BLANCHAN, pseud.).= Birds worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2½c) Doubleday 598.2 17-13205

The author has made selections from four of her previous books, “Bird neighbors,” “Birds that hunt and are hunted,” “How to attract the birds,” and “Birds every child should know.” Her aim has been to include in this single volume the “birds most worth knowing.” There are forty-eight illustrations in color, provided by the National association of Audubon societies.

“The descriptive tables make the book more useful for bird study than ‘Birds every child should know,’ although, because the birds are grouped under families rather than colors, it has more worth as general interesting information than as an aid to identification. Illustrations are colored but are not as good as those of the other books. Color key and index.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:457 Jl ‘17

+ =Ind= 91:109 Jl 21 ‘17 60w

“There is a very interesting and informing introductory chapter on ‘What birds do for us,’ that tells concisely their many activities in insect destruction and their consequent commercial value to man.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 140w

“Compact, but not skeletonized, condensation of a book that has already won its place.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 8 ‘17 110w

=DOUBLEDAY, NELTJE BLANCHAN (DE GRAFF) (MRS FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY) (NELTJE BLANCHAN, pseud.).= Wild flowers worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2½c) Doubleday 580 17-13204

This volume of the Little nature library has been adapted from the author’s “Nature’s garden” by Asa Don Dickinson. The flowers are arranged in families, the nomenclature and classification of Gray’s “New manual of botany” as revised by Professors Robinson and Fernald, being used. There are over forty illustrations in color.

=A L A Bkl= 13:457 Jl ‘17

“Well printed, well illustrated, and admirably adapted for home and school use.”

+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 30w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 8 ‘17 110w

=DOUBLEDAY, ROMAN.= Green Tree mystery, il *$1.40 Appleton 17-24164

“Upon the body of a man found dead by the roadside is a notebook in which is written a confession that he has killed the deservedly unpopular rich man of the village. The search for an adequate motive opens up so many possibilities that the daughter of the murdered man employs a detective to discover the truth. The solution will come as a surprise to most readers.”—Cleveland

“The interest is well sustained.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:94 D ‘17

“A conventional detective story, following its tangled clues with indifference to anything but the pursuit in hand, and making a very pretty chase of it.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 30w

+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

“Its interest is largely due to the skill with which the author keeps the reader guessing as to the outcome.”

+ =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 30w

“The little tale is entertaining and sufficiently baffling.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 250w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 160w

=DOVER, ALFRED T.= Electric traction; a treatise on the application of electric power to tramways and railways. il *$5.50 Macmillan 621.3 17-19497

“The author of this book is a lecturer on electric traction at the Battersea Polytechnic, London, and the text is about what one would expect to find in a comprehensive course of lectures on electric traction. The style is appropriate to such a lecture course. In preparing the material for a wider audience Mr Dover had in mind that the book would be useful to engineers as well as to advanced students. A considerable number of illustrations of present practice are naturally drawn from that of Great Britain and the Continent, but American railways have by no means been neglected. The fundamental principles are, of course, applicable everywhere. The author has treated the main subject with the following topics as subdivisions: Mechanics of train movement; motors; control; auxiliary apparatus; rolling stock; detailed study of train movement; track and overhead construction, and distributing systems and substations. He has not tried to cover generating stations and transmission lines. ... The book is profusely illustrated with pictures and diagrams, covers direct-current and alternating-current railways, contains a great deal of comment as well as descriptive matter, and should prove a valuable reference work.”—Elec World

“Noteworthy are the line drawings especially those showing the details of electric locomotives.”

=Bul N Y Pub Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p93 Jl ‘17 60w

+ =Elec World= 70:216 Ag 4 ‘17 480w

“We congratulate the author on having succeeded in writing a treatise which engineers and advanced students will find most useful. He is evidently well read in the literature of the subject, most of which is published in the Proceedings of various engineering societies and technical journals, both in this country and abroad, and is therefore inaccessible to many. ... We have satisfactorily checked some of the calculations, and the book is laudably free from misprints. ... The numerous references form a useful feature of the book.” A. Russell

+ =Nature= 99:341 Je 28 ‘17 1200w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:105 Jl ‘17

“Noteworthy are the line drawings, especially those showing the details of electric locomotives.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 Ap ‘17 100w

=Pittsburgh= 22:658 O ‘17 20w

=DOWD, EMMA C.= Polly and the princess. il [2] *$1.35 (1½c) Houghton 17-29865

The June Holiday home is a sort of glorified old ladies’ home. Little Polly is a young philanthropist who, because she is Dr Dudley’s daughter, is a privileged visitor at the home. She interests herself in the group of women, singling out for special attention, Juanita Sterling, a sweet, neurotic woman of forty-one, whose youth and charm were still with her in spite of the loveless loneliness that had tried to rob her of both. Polly must have been born with the reformer’s spirit and more than average tact. She was too young to have developed them. She puts to shame many an institution manager and makes a substantial contribution to desirable constructive methods on the human side of institution management. And what of her Miss Nita? Polly caps the program of happiness which she puts into action in the home by a real romance. She sees a prince overcome the dragon superintendent of the home and carry off the princess. What better ending could her lively imagination picture?

=DOWDEN, EDWARD; GARNETT, RICHARD, and ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL.= Letters about Shelley; interchanged by three friends; ed., with an introd., by R. S. Garnett. *$2 (3c) Doran (Eng ed 17-30909)

“The three friends were brought together by their common interest in Shelley, an interest not merely in his poetry, but in every detail of his life. Mr Rossetti and Professor Dowden both wrote lives of Shelley. Dr Garnett meant to write one, and was always collecting materials for it; but he was too busy in the British museum ever to do so. Still, to the other two he was the great authority on Shelley, always ready to help them with his knowledge.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The letters, the first of which is dated 1869 and the last 1906, have been brought together by the cooperation of Mr W. M. Rossetti, Mrs Dowden, and the editor, the eldest son of third correspondent. The introduction, by R. S. and M. Garnett, gives brief biographies of the three letter-writers.

“Although in recent years we have had many books about Shelley, it is doubtful if we have had any at all comparable to the compilation of letters made from the correspondence of these three Shelley workers and enthusiasts. ... In its way, their book is a revelation of the art of biography making.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 1500w

=Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 70w

“It comprises the greater part of the correspondence of three notable authorities on the poet, and reflects the broad-minded interest of each in literature and life in general. The most important general fact to be elicited from them is that of Dowden’s independence of the poet’s family. These letters show clearly that he followed his own opinion in essentials.”

+ =Dial= 63:645 D 20 ‘17 400w

“The letters interchanged by Dowden, Garnett and Rossetti communicate something that a biography can hardly communicate; they tell something of the spirit in which such work ought to be done; they make the reader collaborate in imagination with the biographer—make him an apprentice to a master.”

+ =No Am= 206:956 D ‘17 670w

“They contain some interesting matter in regard to Shelley, as well as speculations on the meaning of Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnets’ and other literary problems.”

+ =Spec= 119:145 Ag 11 ‘17 90w

“An interest which produces relations so charming must be good in itself; and the record of it puts one in love with human nature, even though it may sometimes set one smiling at the minute labours of the scholar and his mysterious, incorporeal passions.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p331 Jl 12 ‘17 980w

=DOWNER, EARL BISHOP.= Highway of death. il *$1.50 Davis 940.91 16-21959

“When the last battle of the war is fought and the casualties are figured up it is not likely that the doctors, nurses and hospital assistants who have sacrificed their lives will be forgotten. ... Dr Downer gives many enlightening facts about them. Among other things he describes the makeshift accommodations where, with inadequate help, the doctors have been forced to undertake almost impossible tasks. ... Dr Downer had unusual facilities of studying this momentous conflict. During a nine-months’ stay in Belgrade he saw the varied changes of occupation of that embattled city.”—Springf’d Republican

=Cleveland= p159 D ‘16 40w

=St Louis= 15:3 Ja ‘17

“The book, which is unusually interesting as a record of real experiences, is illustrated with many photographs taken by the author himself.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 25 ‘17 200w

=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= His last bow; a reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes. *$1.35 (2c) Doran 17-28603

The inventor of Mr Sherlock Holmes and of Dr Watson has again given us a series of sketches relating their detective experiences. Seven of the eight sketches have, however, as Dr Watson states in his preface, lain long in his portfolio. The incidents narrated date back to 1892. The last adventure, from which the book takes its title, occurred on August 2, 1914. In it Sherlock Holmes has placed his genius at the service of his country for the undoing of the agents of the Kaiser. Contents: The adventure of Wisteria Lodge; The adventure of the cardboard box; The adventure of the red circle; The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans; The adventure of the dying detective; The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; The adventure of the devil’s foot; His last bow.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17

“Every story is told with the author’s admirable mastery of the narrative art; but it cannot be said that all the riddles worked out by the great detective are, intellectually, worthy of his immense reputation.”

+ — =Ath= p680 D ‘17 180w

“‘The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax’ and ‘The adventure of the devil’s foot’ reveal Sir Arthur at his best, although this cannot be said of the opening stories in the collection. But the detective story writer must have his ups and downs, and the creator of Sherlock Holmes can easily stand ahead of any of his rivals or imitators.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 1550w

=Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 30w

+ =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 70w

+ =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 100w

“It is a good curtain for our hero, and we are not sure that Sir Conan would not be wise to leave him ‘at that.’”

+ =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 200w

“These new stories are written with as much vigor and spontaneity as if they had been composed in the first flush of the author’s delight in his creation of that notable character. The formula in accordance with which the tales are written, of course, varies little, but the tales themselves are as interesting, as full of ingenuity and unexpected developments, as were the earliest of the adventures in which Dr Watson assisted Mr Sherlock Holmes.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:433 O 28 ‘17 1050w

“The story of the European war that gives the volume its title is quite the weakest and most obviously forced of the whole lot. ... The sheer horror and yet convincing explanation of the apparently inexplicable in ‘The adventure of the devil’s foot’ has not been matched by Doyle since ‘The adventure of the speckled band.’” Fremont Rider

+ =Pub W= 92:2026 D 8 ‘17 270w

“As for the stories, their impressiveness is somewhat impaired by the frequency with which they end in a confession. The best of them, to our way of thinking, is the tale of the abstraction and recovery of some important documents from the admiralty.”

+ — =Spec= 119:718 D 15 ‘17 600w

“Notwithstanding that the episodes comprising the volume have something of a common atmosphere and a predetermined course of development, the situations are sufficiently diverse to give a keen edge to the reader’s anticipation. The author shows wisdom in not placing the action in the present and giving Holmes a hand in ferreting out war plots.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 260w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p516 O 25 ‘17 500w

=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= History of the great war. v 2 *$2 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-21928

=v 2= The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1915.

“This second volume of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s history of the war relates exclusively to the campaign of 1915. The author roughly divides the three years of war into ‘the year of defence, the year of equilibrium, and the year of attack’; and the events of the second were naturally less dramatic than those which more nearly followed the outbreak of war. Nevertheless the present volume comprises narratives of the engagements at Neuve Chapelle and Hill 60; the second battle of Ypres; the conflicts at Richebourg, Festubert, and in the trenches of Hooge; and the long-drawn-out fighting at Loos. The occasions are described when the Germans first used poison gas and the flame of burning petrol, and there is incidental reference to the torpedoing of the Lusitania. From beginning to end the volume is an unadorned but impressive record of gallantry and ‘grit’ on the part of the troops engaged.”—Ath

=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p420 Ag ‘17 150w

“This is an important book. It bears evidence of much research and has an authoritative tone. So far as is possible at this stage, it is real history. Such a work will be read with more interest in England than in America. The evolutions of the Durham light infantry and the First royal Irish will naturally appeal more to those who know them than to us who do not. But the book as a whole leaves a powerful impression hardly to be obtained from any other work thus far published.”

+ =Dial= 63:592 D 6 ‘17 300w

=Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 150w

“While the events of the year 1915, in view of all that has happened since, seem nowadays rather like ancient history, it is only by the careful reading in cold blood of such painstakingly written accounts of what actually took place that we can arrive at a correct estimate of the great struggle in its earlier stages.”

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 370w

“It is somewhat of a pity that more illuminating maps have not been provided for an otherwise important and notable historical volume.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 180w

+ =R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 50w

“In his first volume the author described the doings of the British Army in France and Flanders during 1914, and he is able to say in the preface to his second volume which is before us that no serious correction has been made of any of the facts in the first volume. That is a proud statement for any writer to be able to make in the circumstances. We can premise that Sir A. Conan Doyle will be able to say the same thing of his second volume, and be able to say it in an even higher degree, because when an author has established his reputation for correctness, and for a safe and just handling of his material, information flows into him. That is his proper reward. We imagine that Sir A. Conan Doyle has been freely given official information, and certainly we have read nothing about the second battle of Ypres and Loos which can compare for completeness with the narratives in the second volume.”

+ =Spec= 118:88 Jl 28 ‘17 1350w

“The narrative reduces itself to a catalogue of the doings of battalions, of the names of the individuals who principally distinguished themselves, and of the casualties of different units. Probably Sir Arthur, knowing the limitations of his material, attempted no more than this; and we may say at once that he has been successful in weaving his scanty matter into a lively and spirited story.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p338 Jl 19 ‘17 1600w

=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.= Handbook of the new thought. *$1.25 (3c) Putnam 131 17-13214

In his exposition of new thought, which forms the first chapter, the author differentiates it from Christian science, the Emmanuel movement, etc. The author says, “The ‘old’ thought against which the ‘new’ reacts is any form of authority, whether medical or ecclesiastical, in so far as physicians and churches keep people in subjection to creeds.” The second chapter gives a historical sketch of the movement. This is followed by chapters on: The silent method; Estimate; The mental theory of disease; Reconstruction; Practical suggestions.

=A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17

“Will, no doubt, be helpful to many readers but it is a baffling attempt to show that theories do not matter, so long as one has the right ‘point of view.’ Its logic is distressingly confusing to one who has been contaminated by materialist science; but there must be something in it, since Mr Dresser’s books—more than a dozen of them—are widely read by all sorts and conditions of men and women.”

– + =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 80w

“Is to be especially commended to those who desire a brief but comprehensive view of the nature, history, and aims of the movement. No one is better qualified than Dr Dresser to present an authoritative account of the new thought, both because of his long association with it and also because of his very reasonable and even empirical way of looking at the whole subject.”

+ =Nation= 105:698 D 20 ‘17 400w

“Does away with misunderstanding.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p432 S 6 ‘17 80w

=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS=, ed. Spirit of the new thought. *$1.25 (2½c) Crowell 131 17-14165

Twenty-two messages from original leaders of new thought. The editor contributes an introduction which traces the movement from its beginning, showing that the term was first used in 1895 as the name of a little periodical issued in Melrose, Mass., and later by the adherents who practiced mental healing. The influence of Quinby upon the movement is traced and the essential difference between new thought and Christian science is pointed out. Some of the essays are: The gospel of healing; Can disease be entirely destroyed? The disease of apprehensiveness; Concentration; Is mental science enough? Criticisms of the new thought; The metaphysical movement; The new thought today; The laws of divine healing.

=Nation= 105:698 D 20 ‘17 230w

“This greatly needed volume should dispel a widely prevalent misunderstanding and neglect of the revival of primitive Christianity now advancing under the banner of new thought.”

+ =Outlook= 117:144 S 26 ‘17 150w

“Nearly all of the essays have a bearing on the life of everyday and are vivified by a spirit of helpfulness and optimism.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 60w

=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.= Victorious faith; moral ideals in war time. *$1 (2c) Harper 172.4 17-24116

A helpful analysis of the modification of duties which the changing order of the things in the world today makes imperative. Some old philosophies must be scrapped according to the Shavian method and created new; while others must be readjusted to meet new conditions. We need a new method of thought to face new conditions with efficient hope. The mind must be alert to seek amidst present confusion new signs of the eternal values. The discussion offers constructive suggestions for meeting the new problems of the day which demand poise as a basis for service and an inner life that will be efficient. Contents: The sources of faith; Tendencies of the age; The psychology of war; The higher resistance; The moral values; The new idea of God; Christianity in war-time; The pathway of faith; Spiritual democracy.

“The author offers a constructive faith which may help the world work its way to a final spiritual democracy.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:73 D ‘17

=Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 20w

“The viewpoints of the essays are finely optimistic. Strength-giving to those whose faith in Christianity needs strengthening. Splendidly vivifying to those Americans who ‘creditably or discreditably’ felt they had no share in the world war, before April, 1917.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 340w

+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 150w

=DROWN, EDWARD STAPLES.= Apostles’ creed to-day. (Church principles for lay people) *$1 (4c) Macmillan 238 17-3743

In his first chapter the author asks the question: Is a creed a restraint on religious liberty? His consideration of the nature of freedom leads him to the conclusion that “Freedom exists in proportion as the community has come to a true realisation of itself, and has expressed itself in true laws. Freedom consists in fight relation to law.” He finds the Apostles’ creed a true expression of man’s relation to God and therefore a guarantee to religious freedom. The five chapters of the book are: Creeds and liberty; The origin and character of the Apostles’ creed; The creed and the Bible; The interpretation of the Apostles’ creed to-day; The value and use of the creed to-day.

“The author summarizes Dr McGiffert’s theory of the origin of the creed; and then seeks to reinterpret its clauses in terms of modern thought.”

=Ind= 90:474 Je 9 ‘17 50w

“The book is an earnest contribution from the Episcopal church to conservative theological thought.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 16 ‘17 520w

=DRUMMOND, HAMILTON.= Greater than the greatest. *$1.50 Dutton A17-1641

“A tale of the thirteenth century struggle between emperor and pope. It is not a story of men and women whose lives merely touched the great events of the time, but of those great events themselves and of the people who actually played the leading parts therein. Across the stage of Mr Drummond’s book go pope and emperor, cardinal and warrior of mediaeval Rome. ... The heroine of the novel is Bianca Pandone, a beautiful girl of the Marches, whose uncle, risen to eminence as a cardinal, forgets her and her poverty until he needs a tool for his ambitious schemes.”—N Y Times

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 Ap 7 ‘17 200w

“A harmless romance. ... It lacks imaginative power, and so makes no deep impression.”

=Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 50w

+ =Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 200w

“The story has the prime characteristic of a good historical novel; it presents an atmosphere. And it has a quality, besides, that is not always found in stories of adventures—its characters are exceedingly well-drawn.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:178 My 6 ‘17 350w

“A workmanlike historical tale.”

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 10w

=DRYDEN, JAMES.= Poultry breeding and management, il *$1.60 (1½c) Judd 636.5 16-23156

The author teaches poultry husbandry in the Oregon agricultural college. The book is planned for the student and for the practical poultry farmer. Contents: Historical aspect; Evolution of modern fowl; Modern development of industry; Classification of breeds; Origin and description of breeds; Principles of poultry breeding; Problem of higher fecundity; Systems of poultry farming; Housing of poultry; Kind of house to build; Fundamentals of feeding; Common poultry foods; Methods of feeding; Methods of hatching chickens; Artificial brooding; Marketing eggs and poultry; Diseases and parasites of fowls. The book is fully illustrated.

“A reliable, popular yet scientific treatment.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:295 Ap ‘17

=DUBNOV, SEMEN MARKOVICH.= History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the earliest times until the present day; tr. from the Russian by I. Friedlaender. 2v v 1 $1.50 (1c) Jewish pub. 296 (16-16352)

=v 1= This is the first of two volumes covering the history of the Jews in Russia and Poland. The Russian work of which it is a translation was prepared, Mr Friedlaender says, especially for the Jewish publication society of America. The author had treated the subject earlier in a general history of the Jewish people in three volumes, and that work has been drawn on in preparing the present work. Volume one carries the history down to the death of Alexander I in 1825 with chapters on: The Jewish Diaspora in eastern Europe; The Jewish colonies in Poland and Lithuania; The autonomous center in Poland at its zenith (1501-1648); The inner life of Polish Jewry at its zenith; The autonomous center in Poland during its decline (1648-1772); The inner life of Polish Jewry during the period of decline; The Russian quarantine against the Jews (till 1772); Polish Jewry during the period of the partitions; The beginnings of the Russian regime; The “enlightened absolutism” of Alexander I; The inner life of Russian Jewry during the period of ‘enlightened absolutism’; The last years of Alexander I.

“It is surprising and disappointing that in a work of this kind there is no attempt made to discuss in an impartial and in an intelligent manner the Jewish problem, which is neither simple nor one-sided. ... Although authorities are not always quoted there is no reason to question the author’s accuracy and honesty and one may accept his statements of fact. The work is valuable so far as it goes; but the reader cannot help wishing that the author had gone deeper and had given something more than mere information. The translator seems to have done his work well, and it is probably not his fault that the book does not read more easily.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 22:626 Ap ‘17 500w

“A full account, by the best authority on the subject, of the political conditions under which the Jews have lived. ... It is much more detailed than Friedlaender’s ‘Jews of Russia and Poland’ and is valuable to anyone interested in the subject.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:329 My ‘17

+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:167 N ‘16

=Pittsburgh= 21:516 N ‘16

+ =R of Rs= 54:458 O ‘16 100w

=DUBOIS, JAMES T., AND MATHEWS, GERTRUDE SINGLETON.= Galusha A. Grow, father of the homestead law. il *$1.75 Houghton 17-11003

“Galusha A. Grow, while never occupying a place in the front rank of American statesmen, was yet a prominent man during the Civil war—he was speaker of the national House of representatives in 1861 and 1862—and the years immediately preceding it. ... Before the passage of Mr Grow’s ‘Homestead act,’ the public lands had been sold by the government to speculators, who disposed of them, sometimes at extortionate profits, to the needy settlers. ... After years of setbacks and disappointments, Mr Grow’s measure finally passed in 1861. Before that time, however, it had become inextricably mixed up with the Kansas-Nebraska and slavery questions. In the opinion of President Lincoln, the ‘Homestead’ act was the most beneficent legislation ever passed by a law-making body.”—Springf’d Republican

“As a life of Grow this book will hardly justify itself, for its basis is too slight; but as a sketch of a portion of the history of the public domain it will have a use.” F: L. Paxson

– + =Am Hist R= 23:221 O ‘17 500w

+ =Lit D= 54:1423 My 12 ‘17 700w

=Pittsburgh= 22:525 Je ‘17 40w

“An important contribution to American biography, and a highly readable book as well. ... Not the least interesting part of this readable volume is that relating to the services of Mr Grow as speaker in Congress during the troublous days of the Civil war.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 21 ‘17 400w

=DUFF, JAMES DUFF=, ed. Russian realities and problems. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 914.7 (Eng ed 17-13746)

“This very able and illuminating little book contains six lectures delivered at the last Cambridge summer meeting by Paul Milyoukov, New Russia’s foreign minister; Peter Struve, the economist; Roman Dmowski, the Polish leader; Lappo-Danilevsky, the historian; and Dr Harold Williams, the Daily Chronicle’s correspondent, whose knowledge of Russian languages and manners is unsurpassed by any native. ... Mr Struve’s parallel between Russia and America as two vast and but partly developed countries in the colonial stage is extremely suggestive.”—Spec

“We have never read anything half so good, on ‘The nationalities of Russia,’ as Dr Williams’s clear and impartial statement of a stupendous problem, of which the Finnish and Polish questions are but fragments. ... Every one who wants to understand Russia should make a point of reading this remarkable book.”

+ =Spec= 118:493 Ap 28 ‘17 320w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p171 Ap 12 ‘17 1000w

=DUFFERIN AND AVA, HARIOT GEORGINA (HAMILTON) HAMILTON-TEMPLE-BLACKWOOD, dowager marchioness of.= My Russian and Turkish journals. il *$3.75 Scribner (*10s 6d Murray, London) 17-2676

“The author’s letters to her mother, written in the years 1879-84, are the material of which this book is composed. The late Lord Dufferin during the period in question was at first ambassador to Russia, and later at Constantinople; but the letters relate only to the social life in the embassies and to the writer’s personal experiences in the countries visited. Germany was one of these; and accounts are given of visits to the Emperor William I and the late Prince Bismarck. Lord and Lady Dufferin were in Petrograd at the time of the assassination of the Emperor Alexander II, whose funeral obsequies are described.”—Ath

“Lady Dufferin would feel either amused or horrified to think that these journals were to be submitted to critical review; or that they were to be estimated for anything other than what they really are: a casual record of the trivial commonplaces of an ambassador’s household. ... We are quite disposed to take this book in the spirit in which it is offered, as a somewhat unusual memento for a war subscription.” C. E. Fryer

=Am Hist R= 22:901 Jl ‘17 330w

“The letters are quite pleasant reading, and many celebrities figure in the volume: among them, Sir Richard Francis (then Mr) Burton, George Augustus Sala, Sir Archibald Alison, Baker Pasha, and Madame Schliemann, wife of the archæologist and explorer.”

+ =Ath= p49 Ja ‘17 220w

“The portions of the journals visualizing Turkish life give a succession of pictures seldom presented; visits to various harems, Turkish dinner parties, weddings, etc. which few foreigners see.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 9 ‘17 800w

“Pleasant accounts of personal experiences and social life.”

+ =Cleveland= p116 S ‘17 40w

“It is difficult to convey an adequate idea of the delicately archaic flavor of these letters from a period presenting such a sharp contrast to the present one in Russia and Turkey. Their chief interest, however, is in the brightly reflected personality of a gracious lady.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:378 O 7 ‘17 570w

“Particularly valuable for its detailed but interesting information concerning the customs and ceremonies of ‘high life’ in these countries.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:670 O ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p46 O ‘17 20w

+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 130w

“Lady Dufferin has deliberately confined herself to the externals of ambassadorial life.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p570 N 30 ‘16 1600w

“Her journals, though entirely without intellectual distinction, are filled with agreeable gossip, and portraits of world-figures; her detailed account of dining with Bismarck is well worth reading.” W: L. Phelps

+ =Yale R= n s 7:187 O ‘17 120w

=DUGARD, HENRY.= Battle of Verdun; tr. by F. Appleby Holt. il *$1.50 (3c) Dodd 940.91 (Eng ed 17-8208)

The time covered in this account of the battle of Verdun is from February 21 to May 7. As an introduction to the battle proper there are two brief chapters on Verdun and its past and Verdun during the war. These are followed by The Crown prince’s battle; The choice of ground; The battlefield; The French positions; The assaulting army; Before the battle; The first shock; etc. The closing chapter, The German attitude, gives a poll of the German press. There is a folding map as frontispiece.

=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17

“A complete and on the whole dispassionate history of the battle.”

+ =Cleveland= p86 Jl ‘17 40w

+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 140w

=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 10w

=St Louis= 15:314 S ‘17 10w

+ =Spec= 118:105 Ja 27 ‘17 50w

=DUNBAR, CHARLES FRANKLIN.=[2] Theory and history of banking *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 332 17-31428

A third edition, revised and enlarged by Oliver M. W. Sprague. It contains three new chapters, those on Foreign exchange, Central banks and The Federal reserve banking system. Two chapters of the former edition have been dropped, the one on Combined reserves and that on the Bank of Amsterdam. The chapter on Daily redemption has been merged with the chapter on Bank-notes. The writer states that emphasis on the interdependence of all the banks of a country in the regular conduct of business of banking is the most fundamental difference between this and the earlier editions.

=DUNCAN, FRANCES (MRS JOHN LEROY MANNING).= Joyous art of gardening. il *$1.75 (3½c) Scribner 716 17-12144

“This little book is designed to serve as first aid to the beginning gardener. It is arranged to be of use especially to the owner of the small place who plans and makes his own garden, and whose means and time are not unlimited. ... Therefore, only those plants which are surest to grow are properly within the compass of this book.” (Preface) Parts of the book are reprinted from the Century Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, Country Life in America, and other periodicals. Among the chapters are: In praise of gardening; Suburban gardening; Fitting the garden to the house; The garden in town; The back-yard fence; The use and abuse of the pergola; Why gardens go wrong; The old-fashioned garden. The author is a member of the council of the Woman’s national farm and garden association.

“It will be particularly useful to the owner of a small place whose means and time are not unlimited.”

+ =Agricultural Digest= 2:505 Je ‘17 200w

“Besides good advice on operation and cultivation, it gives information on pergolas, lattices, and trellises, cold frames, hotbeds and garden seats and their arrangement.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17

“Clear and reliable working directions for the beginning amateur whose ground, means, and time are alike limited.”

+ =Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 50w

+ =Dial= 63:68 Jl 19 ‘17 300w

“The feature of the book is its treatment of details often overlooked or mistreated, and its emphasis on the unpretentious, restful qualities that lie within the compass of any plot, be it small or large.”

+ =Ind= 90:554 Je 23 ‘17 130w

“Frankly a handbook. ... It is practical, it does not presuppose a great amount of knowledge on the part of the gardener; it assumes only the love of plants and the desire for them. It is detailed; it gives actual concrete directions, outlines a garden calendar, takes up the fine points of many a specific inquiry. It is admirably inclusive. ... It is a most excellent book.”

+ + =N Y Times= 22:187 My 13 ‘17 350w

=Pratt= p29 O ‘17 10w

“It has a literary quality that puts it rather outside the class of ordinary gardening manuals or handbooks. Miss Duncan has adopted a certain informality of treatment that makes her book doubly interesting to the amateur for whom it was written.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 130w

=St Louis= 15:176 Je ‘17

“A book of first-aid to the amateur. ... While it is but one of many such volumes it is sure to be one of the most popular.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 250w

=DUNCAN-JONES, ARTHUR STUART.= Ordered liberty; or, An Englishman’s belief in his church. *$1.25 (4c) Longmans 283 A17-1509

Based upon the Hulsean lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1916-1917. It is a forward looking justification of the church and Christianity in which the writer reviews the true character of the Anglican communion. He considers the question under various aspects: as sharing in the Divine foundation and continuous life of the people of God; as part of that great priesthood of humanity which is the Catholic church; as emerging from the Roman government of western Christendom and making a bold national experiment in the way of religion; as adhering to its ideals of faith; and as developing, in the face of difficulties, out of the origins of the past, a permanent stronghold of truth and righteousness for the union and triumph of the people of God. A very modern note is struck in the author’s linking socialism in its broadly spiritual aspect with Christianity as the two great “driving powers which can turn the ideal for which the world longs into faith.”

“A timely little book. It is interesting, clear and thoughtful. The temperate tone and the evident desire to understand differences and contribute a constructive program give it a message that many will read with profit.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 550w

=DUNHAM, MELBOURNE KEITH.= Automobile welding with the oxy-acetylene flame. il $1 (3c) Henley 682 16-22111

“A practical treatise, covering the repairing of automobiles by welding, with a non-technical explanation of the principles to be guided by in the successful welding of the various metals.” (Title-page) The preface says further, “The workman who can successfully weld all automobile parts is capable of welding anything, since in the construction of the automobile practically every commercial metal is used. The principles of automobile welding are applicable to all kinds of welding.” Contents: Apparatus knowledge; Shop equipment and initial procedure; Cast iron; Aluminum; Steel; Malleable iron, copper, brass, bronze; Carbon burning and other uses of oxygen and acetylene; How to figure cost of welding.

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p11 Jl ‘17 50w

“Practical, simply written work, of wider application than to automobile welding.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:321 Ap ‘17 30w

=DUNN, BYRON ARCHIBALD.= Boy scouts of the Shenandoah. (Young Virginians ser.) il *$1.10 McClurg 16-20109

“‘The Boy scouts of the Shenandoah’ is the first of a new series of Civil war stories for boys. ... The volume follows the adventures of Robert Hunter, who represents the Virginian aristocracy and Jim Kidder, a young mountaineer. The two boys are independent scouts with the Union army, and their adventures are many and thrilling.”—Springf’d Republican

“This is the type of book that contains much information, and evidently the author’s desire has been to verify his historical statements, for there are many foot-notes throughout the book.”

+ =Lit D= 53:1561 D 9 ‘16 110w

=R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 20w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 11 ‘17 80w

=DUNN, WALDO HILARY.= English biography. (Channels of English literature) *$1.50 Dutton 920 17-4579

“Prof. Dunn considers his subject both chronologically and analytically. His conclusion regarding ‘true biography’ is that its aims ‘include a record of facts combined with some portrayal of character.’ Biography, he says, ‘may be said to develop in proportion to the degree of accuracy attained in the presentation of mere facts; the measure of its detachment from panegyric, or other didactic intention, and the extent to which it recognizes truth of character portrayal as its first duty.’ ... Prof. Dunn wisely takes a broad view of his subject matter, even if he is somewhat rigid in his definitions. He notes that the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn must be reckoned as biographical, as, of course, must the journals of Wesley, Fox and Scott. Fiction’s debt to biography is considered.”—Springf’d Republican

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:399 Je ‘17

“In general, Professor Dunn’s survey of the entire course of English biography is thorough and unprejudiced.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 630w

“The treatment is not only historical, but includes some valuable definitions of the function and place of biography in letters, and its relation to other subjects, notably fiction and also some excellent critical material on specific biographies. The unattractive make-up and fine print of the book will affect its popularity.”

+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 100w

“It does for English biography what another pioneer work of a few years ago did for autobiography; we mean Mrs Burr’s treatise on that theme. ... In its appended matter and its index the book maintains the scholarly system with which it begins. It is a useful manual.”

+ =Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 200w

“It is no mere chronicle of names, but rather a thoughtful and interesting analysis of the true function of biography as a literary art. ... It is a book which has much matter for reflection both for the critic and for the composer of biography, fiction, and history.”

+ =Nation= 104:554 My 3 ‘17 100w

“Professor Dunn is to be congratulated for his able work, done with no previously written volumes to serve as standards. Indeed, with his skillful scholarship, interesting writing, and careful organization of his material, he may well be said to have established such a standard. ‘English biography’ stands the test of comparison with the best scholarly work yet done by American or foreign writers.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 550w

“Prof. Dunn’s book affords proof of the richness and large extent of English biographical works, and should encourage the public to enlarge its reading in an entertaining and highly profitable department of letters.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 780w

=DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th baron.= Plays of gods and men. *$1.50 Luce, J: W. 822 17-13749

Four of Lord Dunsany’s plays are included in this volume: The tents of the Arabs; The laughter of the gods; The queen’s enemies; and A night at an inn. The first of these, Edward Bierstadt in his recent study of Lord Dunsany says, is the only one of his plays that contains anything nearly approaching a love story. It appeared in the Smart Set for March, 1915 and was produced at the Arts and crafts theater in Detroit in 1916. “A night at an inn” was published by The Sun-Wise Turn, inc., in 1916 and has been played, as has “The queen’s enemies,” by the Neighborhood Players of New York city.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:49 N ‘17

“‘A night at an inn’ is the only one that does not seem too poetical to be in prose. The ideality which is the basis demands, at least in part, a metrical form for the others. Prose belongs to realism.”

+ — =Ath= p412 Ag ‘17 250w

“‘A night at an inn’ is the climax of terror in the collection, but for sheer beauty there is none of these plays to compare with the poetic charm of ‘The tents of the Arabs,’ which is one of the most beautiful things which Lord Dunsany has ever written.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 1250w

“Reading these plays, one marvels at the simplicity of their action and wonders if Lord Dunsany will be able much longer to follow the vein that has proved so golden, with results so large and, it may be said, so monotonous.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 160w

“‘The laughter of the gods’ is written with the delicate satire characteristic of the author, and the subtle horror in ‘A night at an inn’ will, we think, make it difficult for the reader to put it aside until the last word has been read.”

+ =Spec= 119:222 S 1 ‘17 80w

“We do not know that ‘A night at an inn’ has ever been acted in England, and we hardly like to say that we wish it could be, because to see it would inevitably mean a sleepless night to follow. Nothing since ‘The ghost stories of an antiquary’ has frightened us quite so uncannily. ‘The queen’s enemies’ is not among his best plays. The scene might be effective on the stage: in the book all seems too carefully arranged.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p343 Jl 19 ‘17 1450w

=DU PLESSIS, JOHANNES.= Thrice through the Dark continent. il *$4.50 (3c) Longmans 916 17-27663

The author is a professor in the theological seminary of the Dutch Reformed church in Stellenbosch, South Africa. This “record of journeyings across Africa during the years 1913-1916” is largely an account of his travels between mission stations and of the work among the natives carried on by the various societies and institutions. Two journeys across Central Africa form the basis of the narrative. Among the chapters are: Kumasi and its heroes; Along the Gold coast; Ten days in South Kamerun; Travels in the two Nigerias; In the French sphere of influence; From the Shari to the Ubangi; In north Congoland; The Nile and its reservoirs; Through British East Africa; To the Mountains of the Moon. The book is fully illustrated and there is a folding map.

“The author says little of politics or the war, but describes the country and the natives in a fresh and interesting way.”

+ =Spec= 119:529 N 10 ‘17 200w

“He has, indeed, gathered into one volume a mass of information about very many missions which cannot be got elsewhere. He may be credited with a fair degree of impartiality, quite as much as any man of strong theological convictions can be expected to exercise. ... For the rest, he presents many details of African travel in wild regions which, if the type is not novel, are always full of variety and incident. In spite of a stilted pomposity of style which he is never able to abandon, Mr du Plessis reveals himself most engagingly in his pages as a ‘voortrekker’ of the real old sturdy Dutch stock.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p449 S 20 ‘17 1500w

=DURAND, WILLIAM FREDERICK.= Practical marine engineering for marine engineers and students; with aids for applicants for marine engineers’ licenses; 4th ed., rev. and enl., by C: W. Dyson. il $6 Van Nostrand; for sale by Marine engineering, 461 8th av., N.Y. 621.12

“The first edition of this book was written by Prof. W. F. Durand. ... A second and then a third part were subsequently added. In the present edition Captain Dyson has combined the three independent parts into a consecutive whole, besides adding new material. The book is devoted mostly to marine engines and their many auxiliaries for driving ships and making them habitable. There are also chapters on engineering materials, fuels and computations for engineers.”—Engin News-Rec

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:153 Ap 19 ‘17 90w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:106 Jl ‘17

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:450 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from International Marine Engineering p190 Ap ‘17)

“Excellent book for the engineer or novice who may be preparing for examination for a marine engineer’s license. The treatment is as plain and non-mathematical as possible. The greatly increased interest in marine engineering renders this new edition of the best American practical book on the subject particularly timely.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ‘18 70w

=DURANT, WILLIAM JAMES.= Philosophy and the social problem. *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 301 17-24304

The author is an instructor in philosophy connected with Columbia university. “The purpose of this essay is to show: first, that the social problem has been the basic concern of many of the greater philosophers; second, that an approach to the social problem through philosophy is the first condition of even a moderately successful treatment of this problem; and third, that an approach to philosophy through the social problem is indispensable to the revitalization of philosophy. By ‘philosophy’ we shall understand a study of experience as a whole, or of a portion of experience in relation to the whole. By the ‘social problem’ we shall understand, simply and very broadly, the problem of reducing human misery by modifying social institutions.” (Introd.) In Part 1, “Historical approach,” Mr Durant considers Socrates, Plato, Bacon, Spinoza and Nietzsche in order to see what there is in their views on the social problem “that can help us to understand our own situation today.” Part 2 is entitled “Suggestions,” but the author states that he is “proposing no solutions.”

Reviewed by C. E. Ayres

=Am J Soc= 23:544 Ja ‘18 470w

=A L A Bkl= 14:112 Ja ‘18

“Accurate, concise and very disappointing book. The author writes with a crisp, effective style; he seems to possess a gift for summary. ... In this somewhat futile Socratic discussion the pros too accurately balance the cons; there is little left to go on with.” Archibald Henderson

– + =Bookm= 46:277 N ‘17 230w

“The author says things that need repeating, and he says them eloquently and earnestly. ... I fear, however, that his plan of campaign, if followed, would only get philosophy the reputation of being a gadding busy-body, meddling in everybody’s business, having none of her own.” M. C. Otto

– + =Dial= 63:449 N 8 ‘17 1800w

“Dr Durant has an earnestness of manner, a flowing vigor of expression and a skill in summary which makes his book readable even for the man who has never turned his attention to problems of philosophy.”

+ =Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 100w

“Dr Will Durant, though an instructor in philosophy, holds philosophy in very low esteem indeed—this being, in fact, one of the amusing phenomena that have sprung from the Deweyesque brand of pragmatism.”

— =Nation= 105:490 N 1 ‘17 500w

“Part 1 of Dr Durant’s volume is so well done that there cannot be but regret for its brevity. For a little space he has shown these masterly thinkers as kin to us, and, had he pursued this part of the work farther, he would have given us a most significant volume.”

+ =N Y Call= p14 N 11 ‘17 450w

“The chief value of the book lies in its call to rescue philosophy from the calm death of social ineffectiveness. It is to be feared, however, that in order to make out his case, Mr Durant has in some instances made his philosophers a bit too modern. It is rather a strained interpretation, for example, to read into the Socratic ‘virtue of wisdom’ an endorsement of psychoanalysis.” H: Neumann

+ — =Survey= 39:445 Ja 19 ‘18 300w

=DURELL, A. J. V.= Principles and practice of the system of control over parliamentary grants. *21s John Hogg, London 351.72

“This work, by the chief paymaster at the War office, with a foreword by Sir Charles Harris, assistant financial secretary, War office, deals authoritatively with the important subject of the control of public expenditure. The main divisions of the book are concerned with the House of commons, the parliamentary standing committees, the comptroller and auditor-general, the treasury, and the accounting department. ... There are copious references throughout the book to parliamentary papers containing reports of the public accounts committee and estimates committee, and to authorities dealing with public finance and kindred matters.”—Ath

“The author has presented the facts in such a manner that the volume is likely to become a standard work of reference upon the expenditure of public money.”

+ =Ath= p464 S ‘17 120w

“The book opens with its only weak section—a sketch of the constitutional aspect of the financial system, derived from secondary authorities that are somewhat out of date. When Colonel Durell turns to review the present financial system he is clearly in his own element. With the detailed analysis in the last two chapters of the control exercised by the treasury and the function of the accounting department, nothing comparable has yet appeared publicly in print.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:209 S 15 ‘17 1500w

“Colonel Durell sets out in detail the steps taken during the nineteenth century to secure effective machinery for parliamentary control.”

* + =Spec= 119:219 S 1 ‘17 930w

=DURET, THEODORE.= Whistler. il *$3.75 Lippincott 17-12506

“Theodore Duret’s book on Whistler, which appeared a number of years ago in the original French edition, has been translated by Frank Rutter, and makes a welcome addition to the mass of literature that has been forming for the last thirty years about the salient figure of the American master. Duret knew Whistler well, and adds to his natural carefulness in statement the lively note of personal adventure. ... Duret brought to his task, however, more than the mere data of a conscientious reporter or the pleasant gossip of an acquaintance; he is initiated in the craftsmanship of which he writes, and is an appreciative critic of the painter’s achievement.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 13:436 Jl ‘17

“The great merit of this biographical study is its terse and orderly presentation of the essentials and the omission of all those superfluities which so often obscure the really important features of a biography. ... The translation is accompanied by [32] capital reproductions of many of Whistler’s most important works.”

+ =Int Studio= 61:99 Ap ‘17 150w

+ =N Y Times= 22:95 Mr 18 ‘17 230w

“Naturally M. Duret writes somewhat in the vein of a second at a duel. Whistler’s career was so much a progress of deliberate pugnacity that any record of it is inevitably one of blows, given and courted. As these encounters so often centred upon the artist’s work there is a certain piquancy in the opportunity of refreshing our individual judgments upon this, furnished by the many and wholly admirable reproductions with which the volume is illustrated.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:366 My ‘17 170w (Reprinted from English Review ‘17)

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:512 Je ‘17 50w

“M. Duret, who was a lifelong friend, steers a mid-course between those who, like Mr Menpes, record with gusto every incident of mud-slinging and vanity, and the large and detailed volumes of Mr Pennell, in which everything is recorded and the hero can do no wrong.”

=Spec= 118:391 Mr 31 ‘17 400w

“As a sketch of Whistler’s chequered history, with its struggles, attacks, financial hardships, and final success, this book is fairly adequate, and certainly makes interesting reading. ... But those who wish to follow and understand Whistler’s technique in painting and etching, and to realize the amount of hard honest labour that underlay those performances of his that seem so slight and easy, will do well, when they read M. Duret, to turn back to the more precise volume of Mr and Mrs Pennell.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p77 F 15 ‘17 700w

=DURHAM, HARRY WILLIAM.= Saws: their care and treatment. il *$2.50 (4c) Van Nostrand 621.93 A17-1554

The object of this work is “to provide a reliable book of reference for those who are learning the art of saw fitting, or who may be interested in the proper methods of sharpening and keeping saws in order.” (Preface) The author states that he has found no modern work in English treating of the subject with the exception of certain trade publications. He has attempted to select the best methods from among the many he has observed in practice, but has been careful not to lay down hard and fast rules. Among the topics covered are: Particulars of reciprocating saws; Particulars of circular saws; Sharpening saws by hand filing; Saw-sharpening machines; Setting the teeth of saws; The saw-sharpening room.

=DWIGHT, HARRY GRISWOLD.= Persian miniatures. il *$3 (3c) Doubleday 915.5 17-26877

A travel book by the author of “Stamboul nights” which touches lightly and whimsically the things of Persia that draw the traveler thither,—its cities, its structures, its scenery, its peoples and its indefinable oriental magic. “About rug books” is an interesting and encouraging chapter for those who think despairingly that the Persian rug is passing. The writer believes that there is no more danger of the Persian rug becoming a thing of the past than the oil painting. He says that under mud roofs, not available for the department store buyer, there are being woven carpets quite as good as came from the looms of Abbas the Great. “Social life in Hamadan, descriptions of home apparatus, humorous appreciation of personality, of every kindred, every tribe, sly Pepys-like analysis of high local and imported dignitaries, merry, human, homey stories of everyday life of foreigners in Persia, incidents of adventure and misadventure, make up most of this volume.” (Boston Transcript)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:91 D ‘17

“An amazingly modern book of travel. No roses and nightingales, no bulbuls nor tropical scents and sounds, no humbug of any kind does Mr Dwight deceive us with in his descriptions of Iran. He does impart the beauty of the treeless land, he does make real and recognizable even for an unimaginative reader, the joy to be found in strange appearances of life, and in the different and admirable in architecture. The quality of the book cries in the market place to be imparted, to be shared, to be read aloud with a mutual enjoyer, even its last learned chapter on Avicenna.” M. C. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 720w

“The present volume has all the atmosphere of charm and oriental coloring that its title would lead one to expect. The intimate description of the author’s sojourn in a Persian town will go far toward making us familiar with an ancient and engaging people.”

+ =Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 130w

“It would be a grave belittling, however, of a book that has in it much of valuable information, the fruit of careful research, to emphasize only its charm of style and its vividness of description. ... The author is blest with the ability to offer a great deal of information, nay more, to correct mistakes in less well-informed writings, without a trace of pedantry.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 850w

“Mr Dwight brings to his new work the ability to be graphic, whimsical, and always readable.”

+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 40w

=DYER, WALTER ALDEN.= Creators of decorative styles. il *$3 (8½c) Doubleday 749 17-28460

A survey of the decorative periods in England from 1600 to 1800. It is the plan of the writer to consider the lives and personalities of the leaders of artistic thought in England, tracing, at the same time, the contemporary development of styles in the cognate arts. These leaders are: Inigo Jones; Daniel Marot; Sir Christopher Wren; Grinling Gibbons; Jean Tijou; Thomas Chippendale; Sir William Chambers; Robert Adam; Josiah Wedgwood; George Hepplewhite; and Thomas Sheraton. Illustrations reproduce many original pieces of furniture to be found in the Metropolitan museum of art.

“The trouble with the book before us, so far as trouble exists, is that Mr Dyer has not succeeded altogether in a vital synthesis of his critical and biographical material. It is only fair to say that the data available on the personal side seems prevailingly very scant. Especially worth while are the chapters on Tijou, the little-known French master of ironwork, a domesticated English worker, and Wedgwood, the famed creator of designs in pottery.” R: Burton

+ — =Bookm= 46:479 D ‘17 320w

“Mr Dyer, who has of late made a specialty of writing upon this attractive subject and who has undoubtedly done much in the formation of a revived taste for the beautiful has produced here a work of superior excellence. A large number of well executed illustrations adds to the value of the work.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 21 ‘17 500w

“A thoro knowledge of just such facts as this book presents will go a long way towards giving to your house that ‘indefinable air’ of charm and culture and a still more desirable quality—restfulness.” Ruth Stanley-Brown

+ =Pub W= 92:1389 O 20 ‘17 330w

=DYER, WALTER ALDEN.= Five Babbitts at Bonnyacres. il *$1.30 (2c) Holt 17-25085

A very up-to-date country-life story in which Farmers’ bulletins play an important part. It is written for young folks, but older people who are interested in farming and in rural problems will also enjoy it. The Babbitts are a city family who go back-to-the-land. The story carries them thru two years of their experiment on a Massachusetts farm, and leaves them satisfied and happy, and well started on the road to success. There are four Babbitts to begin with; the fifth member, who is added to the family later, is a young boy who comes to them as a state ward. His development under a more fortunate environment than he has before known is an interesting study.

“The Babbitts never accomplish superhuman deeds on the soil; their crops are not abnormal. The story goes through two seasons, and there is a steady increase in results, due to the pluck and splendid spirit of the family.”

+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 160w

“Mr Dyer evidently means his story to be a practical handbook of how such a farm should be treated in order to make it a moderately paying investment. ... The fictional interest with which he has invested it by means of the Babbitt family makes it an entertaining yarn, for Mr Dyer writes always with charm and humor and sanity.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 250w

=DYSON, G.= Grenade fighting. il *50c Doran 355 17-29564

A small manual on the training and tactics of grenadiers. The author is late brigade grenadier officer of the British expeditionary force.