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“The really disappointing section of this volume is that which deals with the remedies. One confesses to some occasional irritation in reading ‘The army and religion,’ due to a certain complacent assumption that the traditional religious synthesis with its dogmatic superstruct...
“The really disappointing section of this volume is that which deals with the remedies. One confesses to some occasional irritation in reading ‘The army and religion,’ due to a...
2. Volume 2 completes the account of the Boer war and deals with Indiaand Egypt. Volume 3 is wholly devoted to the world war and closes with a chapter summing up personal traits. Each volume is illustrated with portraits and maps and there is a fu...
3. Part 3 with the Washington conference of 1919 including a summary of“The assembled material will be useful to the student in the field of labor, even though he may be puzzled by several indefinite references and by some errors (possibly typograp...
4. Chapter I of this book indicates the need of a study of businessEnglish. Succeeding chapters take up such subjects as the business vocabulary, ‘Common errors,’ clearness and emphasis in written expression. Chapters VIII, IX, and X deal with...
5. Part three, on Social measurements, consists of seven chapters. The“The breezy style, the vigorous language, the wealth of information, the multitude of applicable suggestions, compensate for the frequently dogmatic tone and for what will be fo...
6. Part 2, Dreams, includes chapters on: Sleep; Physiological and“The editor of Contemporary Verse has selected from the pages of that magazine devoted exclusively to poetry the representative contributions printed during the past four years...
7. Part I, Elements of self-government, shows how voluntary cooperationdepends on parliamentary law, rules and legislation, rulers and officers, and a constitution. Part II, Self-government in cities, applies these elements to all the details of ci...
8. Volume 2 is in two parts: Songs of childhood: 1901, and Peacock pie.“Enough has been said to show Mr de la Mare’s attitude towards poetry and towards life. The question now arises whether this attitude is not somewhat too severely limited to mak...
9. Part 2, dealing with the morphology, life histories, and evolution ofthe main plant groups, contains: The algæ; The fungi; Bryophytes (Liverworts and mosses); Pteridophytes (ferns, equiseta, and club mosses); Gymnosperms; Angiosperms (dicotyledon...
10. Volume 5, covering the first half of the year 1918, “carries the storyof the German attack to its close.” The battle of the Somme is given seven chapters, with the battle of the Lys and the battles of the Chemin des Dames and of the Ardres treated...
11. Volume 6 “describes the enormous counter attack of the Allies leading“It is written in the author’s usual clear style, and sticks, for the most part, to the business in hand, although the occasional ill-informed references to the Russian revoluti...
12. Part 3, the biographical section, is a study of Miss Austen’spersonality as revealed in her letters and reflected in the novels. Notes and an index come at the end and the whole is prefaced by verses, “To Jane Austen,” from the author’s p...
13. Volume 2 continues the discussion along these lines and takes upProblems of self-government and Problems of living with others. The series as a whole comprises three other volumes by Dr Forbush and two by Dr Louis Fisher on the health-care o...
14. Part I of this guide book is devoted to general considerations withchapters on: Things to consider and to do before you sail; A special chapter on passports; A few important points that should be understood before arrival in France; Conditions...
15. Part II is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists;History of the world war; Château-Thierry, Soissons, and Rheims; British battle fronts and Belgium; Verdun, St Mihiel, and the Argonne-Meuse; Coblence, Switzerland, Provence, th...
16. part 2 are: The supreme sin; Venus or Valkyr? The cardinal’s fiddle;“We find Mr Huneker unreadable. It is not only the rush and freshness of his style, which has all the marvellous energy of a woman in hysterics, that we find unendurable, but we...
17. Part 2, ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chaptersdescribing the content and conduct of the imagination at different stages in the child’s development, variations in the vividness, quality and tendencies of the imaginative proc...
18. volume 1 Mr Kleiser gives a chapter of Quintilian that is worthIn her preface to the American edition of this “Book for would-be authors” the author says, “No one can teach authors how or what to write; but sometimes it is possible to help...
19. Volume 1 is devoted to the building of the cathedral and volume 2 to20. volume 1: The laying of the foundation-stone; Birth of the cathedralidea; The choosing of the architect and the style, 1892–1894; The plan; The structure—building progress—materials—constructional problems; Description and details of exterior; D...
21. part 1, Novelists and novels, he writes of Compton Mackenzie, NormanDouglas, Frank Swinnerton, Stephen McKenna, Jane Austen, Clemence Dane, Dorothy Richardson. Part 2, Poetry and poets, is devoted to J. C. Squire, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Nicho...
22. volume one rejoices in passages of real charm, the product of an alertIn his introduction to this collection of sketches, originally printed in the Evening Public Ledger, A. Edward Newton says: “Where else shall we find simplicity, the gayety, the...
23. Chapter 4 deals with classification and tabulation; chapter 5 (pp.“No city official or head of a department or a business man who has an annual report to make can afford to miss the suggestions contained in Mr Secrist’s book.”
24. Part 1, which is devoted to tackle, has chapters on The bait castingrod; The casting reel; Terminal tackle; Casting lures; Housing the tackle; Repair kits and methods. Part 2, on Methods, has nine chapters: A first lesson in casting; Landing too...
25. Part I contains: The evolution of the principles underlying theproject method; The transfer of the principles to America; Modern American principles of education; The project method in the modern public school; Project work in trade educati...
26. Volume 2, also composed of ten lectures, is devoted to The evolution“As correcting the ‘red in tooth and claw’ conception of the animate world. Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable, but, as a contribution to the ethical and religious problem...
27. Part 6—Literature, book reviews, drama, etc. Part 7—Two short stories“To those who knew him only by his great and minor poems or by the stories of his vanities and eccentricities, these volumes will be a revelation. They reveal his soul as it gre...
28. part I of the book, is composed of short prose essays written for his“Among the many poems inspired by the late war, ‘Magpies in Picardy’ has stood out as one of the very best. To every schoolboy in our land should a copy of ‘Waste paper philosop...
29. Part II. The power plant and its auxiliaries.A collection of thin monographs, written in nontechnical style by authoritative British authors for the general reader. Suitable for general libraries. About thirty volumes have...