Chapter 12
on Industrial combinations in Europe gives us a basis of wide experience. The new chapters on State and federal trust legislation in the United States, and the one on Trusts and the federal court, showing the development of legislation during the last few years, likewise serve to strengthen the economic foundation of the discussions, since the course of legislation has, to a considerable degree, clearly been based upon the principles brought out in the theoretical discussions.” (Preface to fourth edition)
“In our judgment, no other single volume on the subject of industrial combinations, their development, structure, and problems, equals this one for compact information, breadth of view, and the variety of facts presented. The book bears evidence of careful planning and patient work, and is suggestive of the systematic and exhaustive work with which German scholars are credited.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 260w
+ =R of Rs= 57:220 F ‘18 70w
=JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA.= Street of the blank wall, and other stories (Eng title, Malvina of Brittany). *$1.35 (2c) Dodd 16-23590
The first story in this collection of six is a tale of mystery in which the real truth about a murder is brought to light fifteen years after its commitment. The second story “Malvina of Brittany,” the longest story in the book is also the lightest. Malvina is a fay or pixie transported from the pages of old English romance to modern Britain. Each of the four that follow, His evening out, The lesson, Sylvia of the letters, The fawn gloves, represents a different type of short story.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:267 Mr ‘17
“Altogether, it is not a particularly rewarding volume.” F. I.
– + =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 480w
“Mr Jerome writes with sincerity, with feeling for reality, with some insight into the deeper possibilities of life, with a feeling for what is lovely as well as of good report. And that sort of thing is in itself good, better, I should say, than a striving for virility.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:190 Mr 8 ‘17 250w
+ =N Y Times= 22:40 F 4 ‘17 550w
“The stories doubtless have been written at wide intervals and add little to Mr Jerome’s reputation.”
=Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 100w
“Most of these stories are written at greater length than is necessary, and part of what is superfluous is also irrelevant; we should infer, indeed, that Mr Jerome is too preoccupied with edification to take much thought for form. No such criticism, however, is applicable to ‘The fawn gloves.’”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 5 ‘16 450w
=JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON.= Secret bread. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-20670
“The story tells how a bastard was elevated above his legitimate brethren, and surmounted his difficulties by the help of a fine-minded pastor; and in addition we have most graphic and intimate studies of [English] farming and the improvements that a progressive landowner introduces.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 100w
“The abiding impression left by the book as a whole is of a large and sympathetic interpretation of human experience, though set in a minor key.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:486 D ‘17 600w
“‘Secret bread’ is a narrative at heart starkly chill. As a whole, it is undubitably powerful, with many pages of prose of the first rank.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 D 19 ‘17 330w
“It gratefully lacks the famous brilliancy of the ‘younger British school’ of novelists. It has solidity, not only in its portraiture, but in its embodiment of a truth, or, if you will, a moral, as contrasted with the expression of an ‘idea’ in the Wellsian sense. This is a book of rich texture, both in form and in substance.”
+ =Nation= 105:515 N 8 ‘17 580w
“The story is written with a wealth of detail and a great number and variety of characters. All the people in it, notwithstanding their strongly marked differences of social position and mental endowment are delineated with subtility and truth.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 550w
“The author shows great sympathy for the very young and the old. ... A little reserve of force would have been more telling than the almost camera-like detail in which she prefers to indulge—detail that is sometimes wearying, and often coarse and offensive.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:50 Jl 21 ‘17 300w
“The book is very generously planned, like the English novels of an earlier day. And now and then we find Miss Jesse straying a little too widely from her main theme.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p272 Je 7 ‘17 670w
=JOHNS, CECIL STARR.= With gold and steel. *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 17-28765
A romance of France in the time of Henry of Navarre. The hero is François Le Pouldu who comes to Henry with a tale of treasure that he is ready to devote to the king’s service. On a lonely coast he has come upon a wrecked Spanish galleon, loaded with gold, silver and arms. The king furnishes the outfit necessary for salvaging the cargo and François starts on his adventures. Denise de Marmont, sister of one of Henry’s enemies, early enters the tale to give it the required feminine element.
“We congratulate Mr Johns on his ability to get out of the beaten track of the average novel of sword and cloak into the field of fresh plot.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 14 ‘17 210w
“Those who like stirring, old-fashioned historical romance, served with something of the dignity and leisurely manner of the Stanley Weyman novels, will enjoy this story by Mr Johns. ... The characters all do a great deal of talking, but it is conversation that helps to carry on the story, which it does with brightness, vivacity, and humor.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:571 D 23 ‘17 330w
=JOHNS, ORRICK G.= Asphalt, and other poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811 17-13553
Mr Johns’s poem “Second avenue,” which was awarded a prize in a poetry contest a few years ago, is included in this collection of poems. The book takes its title from the group of street ballads with which it opens. The remaining groups that compose its contents are: Country rhymes; The city; Old youth; Three women; Ebb sand and stars.
“Nothing could afford a better illustration of the fact that poetry which addresses itself to current issues or social conditions will grow passé, like a last year’s garment, than the lack of interest which one feels now in a poem like ‘Second avenue.’ The same criticism applies to the opening section of ‘Asphalt,’ to the street ballads, in gutter dialect, through which Mr Johns hits off social conditions. ‘Country rhymes,’ whose title must not mislead one into thinking they are rustic verses, take one captive from the start. They are full of charm and whimsicality, but something much deeper is in them, too. ‘Asphalt’ demonstrates the fact that Mr Johns has versatility and a poetic gift of no common order.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ — =Bookm= 46:578 Ja ‘18 750w
“One could wish that he had omitted the dialect poems at the beginning of his book, but in reading many of the lyrics which compose the rest one experiences little but delight. Not only has Mr Johns a very seductive gift of melody, but at times he has what is rare among contemporary American poets, charm,—which is only one degree removed from magic.” Conrad Aiken
+ =Dial= 62:476 My 31 ‘17 320w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:85 Je ‘17
“On the whole, ‘Country rhymes,’ and the section called ‘Old youth,’ contain the best poetry of the book, the other portions seeming to us not so much absolute achievement as clever experiment or good promise.”
=N Y Times= 22:207 My 27 ‘17 150w
“Has melodic freshness and contains much essential poesy.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:661 Je ‘17 80w
“Orrick Johns reveals himself as a young poet of considerable individuality but little poetry.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 270w
=JOHNSON, BURGES.= Well of English and the bucket. *$1.25 (5½c) Little 808 17-26881
A collection of essays on the writing of English. The author is assistant professor of English at Vassar college and he writes from the point of view of one who has tried to break away from the stilted academic traditions in English teaching. Some of the essays are reprinted from Harper’s and the Century. Contents: The well of English and the bucket; Grammar, the bane of boyhood; Impression and expression; Essaying an essay; The right not to laugh; The everyday profanity of our best people; Ethics of the pen.
“Seven essays, written clearly, convincingly and with a touch of humor.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:79 D ‘17
“This writer is interesting; he puts old views freshly, he urges new ones with effect.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 280w
“The author is able not only to teach the students in his English classes how to write but he can give them good models from his own light, lucid and vigorous pen.”
+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 380w
=Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 70w
“‘The well of English and the bucket’ is a thoughtful piece of work with a very clever title. Its author has pondered much upon the educational and practical problems of writing without missing their difficulties, and, at the same time, without representing the situation as altogether hopeless.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 16 ‘17 250w
=JOHNSON, CLIFTON.= New England; a human interest geographical reader. il *$1 Macmillan 917.4 17-8898
“The aim of the author is to furnish interesting and valuable supplementary reading material for the upper elementary grades. The facts are drawn from geology, nature, history, industry, biography, literature, legend, and humor, and are selected with the idea of entertaining and instructing the reader. The general plan of treatment is first to devote a few chapters to New England as a whole and then to treat each of the six states separately. In dealing with each state the plan is to devote a chapter or two to historical beginnings and the remainder to industries, natural scenery, and famous people and places. There are about two hundred well-selected illustrations.”—El School J
“Beautifully illustrated geographical reader. ... The author betrays his prejudice by absolute silence regarding all things Catholic.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:693 Ag ‘17 60w
=Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 20w
=Educ= 56:174 F ‘18 40w
“Outside of New England the book will be of little practical value as a supplementary reader. If such material is used in school, it should treat of the community in which it is studied. The great value of Mr Johnson’s book to communities outside of New England is to indicate the types of local material which can be utilized in a study of one’s near or immediate locality.”
=El School J= 17:773 Je ‘17 220w
“Thru all the descriptions runs a personal touch that appeals to children. The pictures are most helpful.”
+ =Ind= 91:229 Ag 11 ‘17 50w
“His methods are somewhat unique, and include a combination of the historical and the descriptive.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 380w
=JOHNSON, DOUGLAS WILSON.= Peril of Prussianism. *75c (1c) Putnam 940.91 17-22576
This is “the substance of an address delivered by the associate professor of physiography in Columbia university before the annual convention of the Iowa Bankers association at Des Moines on June 14, 1917.” (Foreword) His argument is that the American ideal and the Prussian ideal of government “are mutually antagonistic, and cannot long exist in the world side by side,” because the “very existence of the Prussian ideal depends upon an aggressive militarism.”
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
— =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 20w
“One of the most interesting features of the book is a series of historical maps showing the area controlled by the Hohenzollern dynasty in succeeding centuries, from the origin of the Brandenburg monarchy to the present day.”
+ =Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 50w
“A vigorous indictment of Prussian methods.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Ag 16 ‘17 60w
=JOHNSON, DOUGLAS WILSON.=[2] Topography and strategy in the war. il *$1.75 (3c) Holt 940.91 17-27768
An analysis of the topography of each of the most important theaters of war, together with a summary of the principal campaigns, pointing out how military operations have been influenced by the surface features of the country. One object is to emphasize the relationship between inanimate nature and the science of war. Another is to place before the reader such a picture of each theater of war as shall enable him to follow with greater ease and livelier interest the movements of our own and our allied troops. Good maps, diagrams and illustrations generously supplement the text.
“A remarkably suggestive book with few technical terms, which will need to be consulted by future historians of the war.”
+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 80w
=Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 40w
“An excellent beginning has been made in the treatment of this rather difficult subject and additional chapters will be demanded as new campaigns bring other regions within the area of active warfare.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 120w
=JOHNSON, JOSEPH ESREY, jr.= Blast-furnace construction in America. il *$4 McGraw 669.8 17-9602
“The author of ‘Blast furnace construction’ has been a student of the blast furnace on both the theoretical and the practical side for a number of years, and has given to the furnace-man many valuable and instructive papers bearing on the operation and control of this most complex of all metallurgical processes. The present volume deals fully with the construction of the furnace proper, from an early date up to the present time, and considers in detail all the adjuncts that play an important part in the production of pig iron.”—Nation
=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17
“This comprehensive work, based partly upon investigations by the author, fills a long felt want in metallurgical literature. ... Of especial note is the chapter on the dry blast.”
=Bul N Y Public Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 100w
+ =Cleveland= p96 Jl ‘17 50w
“The chapter on distribution of stock in the furnace proper is well worth the price of the book, as probably more troubles in blast-furnace operation are traceable to poor distribution than to all others combined. The chapter on washing and cleaning gas could well have been enlarged in scope. ... The intention to amplify this work by another on blast-furnace operation will be awaited with interest by the producers of pig iron and allied products.” C: E. Lehr
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:129 Jl 19 ‘17 300w
“There seems to be nothing of importance upon which Mr Johnson has not touched from the laying of the foundation to the last detail in the completion of a modern blast furnace. His book will be indispensable as a work of reference in every metallurgical establishment in the country.”
+ =Nation= 104:766 Je 28 ‘17 230w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17
“Very useful work on arrangement and construction, and to some extent on mechanical features of operation. Not concerned with metallurgical problems. For this subject see Robert Forsythe’s ‘Blast furnace and the manufacture of pig iron,’ 1909.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:423 My ‘17 30w
“The series of articles on blast construction and operation which appeared in several numbers of Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, is a thorough covering of the subject in the compass allowed by the 405 pages utilized.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:456 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Blast Furnace and Steel Plant p190 Ap ‘17)
“Authoritative treatise.”
+ =Pratt= p20 Jl ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:175 Je ‘17
=JOHNSON, LIONEL PIGOT.= Religious poems. *$1 Macmillan 821
“This selection from the most directly religious poems of the late Lionel Johnson has been made by Mr George F. Engelbach, and Mr Meynell contributes an appreciative and sympathetic preface to a volume which will be welcomed by many admirers of the poet.”—Ath
“‘Friends,’ ‘Winchester close,’ and ‘A dream of youth’ are specially appealing and sympathetic.”
+ =Ath= p44 Ja ‘17 60w
“Johnson’s poems, written after his admission into the Catholic church, are resonant with faith and tender with devotion. Nevertheless, there is not in them that ring of anguish, of personal need, of mystical rapture that arrests us in the poetry of Francis Thompson.”
+ =Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 100w (Reprinted from the Dial)
Reviewed by O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17
=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17
“It is, perhaps, a question whether these selected poems have not the effect of rendering somewhat too definitely a ruling temperament. ... Many might prefer to meet this singer’s most directly religious poems amid the lighter environment out of which they have been taken. Of the attractive quality of their nobility, fervour, and sincerity there can be no doubt. Only—they present the austere outlook on gifts of earthly joy.”
+ =Sat R= 123:577 Je 23 ‘17 900w
“A series of poems of personal aspiration, and a series devoted to the celebration of friendship both reveal a striking kinship of spirit with the religious verse of Digby Markworth Dolben, recently edited by Mr Bridges, and in both cases constitute the poet’s main contribution to the not very large body of English sacred poetry of a high order.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p66 F 8 ‘17 1050w
=JOHNSON, ROSSITER.= Fight for the Republic. il *$2.50 (2½c) Putnam 973.7 17-5857
The subtitle calls this “a narrative of the more noteworthy events in the War of secession, presenting the great contest in its dramatic aspects.” It does not aim to be a complete history of the Civil war. As the author defines his purpose, it is “to set forth clearly such of the greater events as either constituted turning-points or distinctly advanced or retarded the general movement toward the end.” There are a number of folding maps, and several portraits.
“In 1910 the author published ‘A history of the war of secession,’ the military chapters of which are now reprinted under a separate title. The present volume excludes practically everything except military history, and on this side presents little that is not found in the former volume. Students of the war period will find nothing new in ‘The fight for the Republic,’ while for those who are taking up the subject for the first time the book is not to be recommended because it is too one-sided.”
— =Am Hist R= 23:222 O ‘17 250w
“Facts are well backed up by figures. ... A valuable feature of the work is found in the illustrations. There are sketch maps of all the principal battlefields.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 380w
+ =Cath World= 105:409 Je ‘17 170w
“The limitations of the work are considerable. ... It is hardly possible to write, in this day, a valuable history of the Civil war without devoting some attention to the non-military aspects of the period, but for Mr Johnson these matters evidently have little interest. For one who wishes to get a brief description of a battle or a campaign as seen from the Union side, this work will serve well; but he who wishes to read understandingly of the fight for the Union must go elsewhere—for example, to Mr Rhodes—for a more comprehensive account.”
+ — =Dial= 62:318 Ap 5 ‘17 300w
+ =Educ R= 54:97 Je ‘17 30w
“It cannot be recommended to students familiar with the work of Burgess, Rhodes, Ropes, Wood and Edmunds and Formby, but will be useful to any one making a beginning in the field.”
=Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 100w
“Rossiter Johnson has long been recognized as a historian who builds dramatically on a foundation of well-verified facts. This—his third important book on the Civil war in America—seems to leave little more to be said on a subject not easily exhausted.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 1500w
+ =Spec= 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 100w
“The facts concerning the nation’s great struggle can always be portrayed in a new way, and that is what Rossiter Johnson has done.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 12 ‘17 220w
=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= America and the great war for humanity and freedom, il *$1.50 (2c) Winston 940.91 17-17290
“Eight chapters of this book review the antecedents of the war, and the stories of the different states which entered the war in 1914. The six following chapters describe the war as fought in the different countries and upon the sea and in the air. Three chapters give the story of America’s relations with Germany while she tried to be neutral. Then follow some chapters which describe the resources, actual and potential, of the United States, discuss how modern wars are waged, etc. Among these are brief chapters on women and war work, universal military service, the Monroe doctrine, and the flag. The
## book is illustrated with photographs and maps.” (Boston Transcript)
The author is honorary professor of the history of American foreign relations in New York university.
“The author has been for many years a student of American history, especially in its foreign relations, and he has carefully followed the progress of the war from the beginning. The results of his study have appeared in the Transcript and other papers, and now he has gathered them together in this volume which is one of the most enlightening which have appeared up to the present time.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 550w
“For those who like to have a popular ‘vade mecum’ of narrative, argument, and statistics, opening with the ‘Battle hymn of the Republic’ and closing with the ‘Star-spangled banner,’ the volume should prove serviceable. The hundred and more maps and illustrations are, as a rule, well executed.”
+ — =Nation= 105:322 S 20 ‘17 150w
“One of the important works of reference on the war. Of great timeliness to the student of current events.”
+ =Outlook= 116:592 Ag 15 ‘17 110w
=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= America’s foreign relations. 2v il *$6 (2c) Century 327.73 16-9786
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Although rarely brilliant, the style is at all times clear, while some chapters, notably those on Hawaii, Samoa, and Far Eastern relations possess a fascination to be found only in really fine historical writing. ... The index is adequate; the book has neither footnotes nor bibliography. ... Most of the errors made by the author are of minor importance in themselves, but taken together perhaps show an uneven grasp upon all parts of the subject, and at times an inadequate background of political and constitutional history. ... Despite these and numerous other inaccuracies, and the limitations, from the scholarly viewpoint, imposed by its ‘popular’ character, Mr Johnson’s book is the most complete, most readable, and altogether the best account that has been given of America’s foreign relations.” Ralston Hayden
* + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:156 F ‘17 1400w
“The book is readable, and at the same time weighty, and, on the whole, remarkably accurate and impartial. ... The determining factors of American foreign policy are presented to us, correctly, as governed not by theoretical but by practical considerations. It is this which will give it its peculiar value in educating American opinion. ... At the present time when it is of capital importance that the British public should realize what are the really determining motives of American policy, this book should be read by every one who is capable of understanding it. Mr Johnson’s account of America’s attitude from the beginning towards the question of ‘the freedom of the seas’ is, alone, of great educative value.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p62 F 8 ‘17 1550w
=JOHNSTON, MARY.= The wanderers. *$1.75 (1½c) Houghton 17-24277
From the woman of the tree-folk who discovered fire and the uses of the long stick, down thru the ages, Miss Johnston traces the progress, now forward, now back, of women. The cave woman who taught the wanderer man that it is good for two to be together, Gata of the long house, who disclosed the mystery of paternity, Vana who gave away the mother-right and established inheritance thru the male line, Lindane the Amazon, Myrina the courtesan, Valeria the Roman wife, and Alleda, the Goth who brought Christianity to her people, are some of the figures who stand out in the narrative, which, loosely constructed as it intentionally is, is held together by the thread that follows the gradual strengthening, refining and sweetening of the love tie that binds man and woman. The story approaches modern times only so far as the French revolution.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“An impressive departure from the author’s usual field.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 50w
“It is due to the really fine art of the author that she makes the reader become wholly interested in each of her nineteen sets of characters, though only the space of a single chapter is allotted to any one set of characters. Remembering that each one of these chapters has to be built up about some phase of the same subject, we gain some realization of the breadth and difficulty of the task. ... The book is unusual and only an author of the deep insight and the dramatic intensity of Miss Johnston could have made it so revealing.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 1250w
“The book voices in fictional form feminine unrest, without a sufficient disguise for its purpose to be successful. In other words, the artist in Miss Johnston has been pretty thoroughly stifled here by the feminist.”
— =Cath World= 106:400 D ‘17 280w
=Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 50w
“Miss Johnston’s new book shows the same primary weakness that we have found in all her work. This is the weakness of the long face. We suspect that Miss Johnston’s later work has bored a good many people who have approached it with the best intentions. It has no light and shade; it is all done with the down stroke. ‘The wanderers’ is uncommonly hard reading.”
— =Nation= 105:487 N 1 ‘17 450w
“It is a grindstone for the feminist axe. ... The love stories are in themselves typical and appealing, though on the whole monotonous and unvaried by any insight of the depths and chasms between lovers. This does not mean that there are no tragedies, but only that the attitude between lovers is that of lovers in a book—when they are happy it is as protagonists, and unhappy, as tragic exemplars. They exult in terms of uncritical idealism, and they die as badly.” J. L.
– + =New Repub= 13:289 Ja 5 ‘18 430w
“The idea is an interesting and a very ambitious one, and though the book as a whole would be more effective were it not so extremely long, many of the tales are interesting in themselves, containing color and a good deal of drama.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 550w
=Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 30w
“They preserve to an extraordinary degree the atmosphere and probable perspective of life of the periods they represent.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 90w
“The book is a fine piece of imaginative writing—a landmark in the season’s fiction—and enhances Miss Johnston’s already conspicuous position in American letters. ... It is a book for the discriminating.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 430w
=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW.= “Limpy,” the boy who felt neglected. il *$1.35 (2c) Little 17-7454
He had a good home, a kind father, a sympathetic mother and two brothers who did their best to be thoughtful, but he wasn’t happy. His nickname, “Limpy,” explained why, for he wore an ugly iron brace and couldn’t run or fight or play games like other boys. Then he made friends with an old Civil war soldier who had only one leg. Their common bond drew them together, and reassured by this new friend, Limpy found courage to go on bravely till the time came when a surgical operation cured his lameness and made him like other boys.
– + =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17
“Mr Johnston has achieved a task as delicate as difficult. He has disclosed the heart of a boy with a tenderness which has no trace of sentimentality.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 280w
“Huck Finn and Penrod have, between them, made all the other boys of fiction seem a little tame. Were it not for them, ‘Limpy’ would be a capital boy story. As it is, it runs a close second in places, although its hero exhibits something of the lamentable ‘glad’ mania that has recently affected all the little girls of fiction.”
+ =Dial= 62:147 F 22 ‘17 120w
+ =N Y Times= 22:75 Mr 4 ‘17 200w
Reviewed by R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 91:586 F 17 ‘17 450w
“Unfortunately, the book lacks the humor that one associates with stories about boys; but its naturalness, both as to speech and action, goes far to compensate for this deficiency.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 300w
=JOIRE, PAUL MARTIAL JOSEPH.= Psychical and supernormal phenomena, their observation and experimentation. il *$3 (1½c) Stokes 134 (Eng ed 17-9817)
Dr Joire is a professor at the Psycho-physiological institute of France and president of the Société universelle d’études psychiques. “This book deals with such subjects as multiple personality, ‘motricity,’ haunted houses, telepathy, crystal-gazing, levitation, materialization, automatic writing, and the like. It is claimed that psychical phenomena have not, for the most part, been subjected to sufficiently serious observation and scientific analysis; and that their verification, though extremely difficult, is not impossible.” (Ath) The book is translated by Dudley Wright.
=Ath= p473 O ‘16 50w
“To the student of psychology this work should prove of some value. The subject, in its most elementary as well as advanced form, is here dealt with in a broad and comprehensive spirit, and the usual adverse criticisms of psychical phenomena, criticisms which in many cases, to the lay mind at least, seem only too well founded, are tackled by Dr Joire in an able and impartial manner.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 D 7 ‘16 630w
=JONES, DANIEL.= English pronouncing dictionary (on strictly phonetic principles). (Dent’s modern language ser.) *$3 Dutton 423 A17-1345
“The object of this dictionary—it gives no definitions—is to record with as much accuracy as is necessary for practical linguistic purposes the pronunciation used in ordinary conversation by cultivated southern English people. ... The system used for representing pronunciation is that of the International phonetic association, which, in the opinion of the author, is the best as well as being the most widely used of the existing phonetic alphabets. ... Special features of this dictionary are the inclusion of proper names, all plurals of nouns, comparatives and superlatives of adjectives, and the inflected forms of verbs. ... The pronunciation is recorded of 49,690 words, exclusive of inflected forms.” (Springf’d Republican) The author is reader in phonetics in the University of London.
“Here is material for much warm-weather discussion, and to such disputants, of whom this topic counts its millions, there could be recommended no better guide than Mr Jones both for industry and accuracy in collecting his facts and for open-mindedness in the presentation of them. For, apart from a few striking dialectical peculiarities, such as the glide before r in hero and the like, the language which Mr Jones describes would pass as good and by no means peculiar English wherever educated people meet together.”
+ =Nation= 105:71 Jl 19 ‘17 620w
=N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 40w
+ =R of Rs= 56:109 Jl ‘17 80w
Reviewed by W. H. Chesson
+ =Sat R= 123:551 Je 16 ‘17 1400w
“The book will be of much service to Americans as informing them of what is probably the best English usage as to the pronunciation of ordinary words and will be very illuminating to them on the pronunciation of English place names and on the English usage as to other proper names.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 10 ‘17 450w
=JONES, EDGAR DEWITT.= Fairhope; the annals of a country church. il *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 17-16185
“Some of the names in this story of Kentucky country life may be disguised, but the annals are, evidently, history, not fiction. They cluster around a ‘meeting house’ of the denomination known as Disciples of Christ.” (N Y Times) “The protracted meetings, the student preachers, the wooing of one of them, the changing of the old order from the doctrinal champions to the modern minister expert in rural sociology, these and other phases of the parish annals are set forth.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Lifelike and wholly pleasant sketches.”
+ =Ind= 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 50w
“Mr Jones has given more than a mere picture of Fairhope church and its people from ‘The days of controversy and debate’ half a century ago to the present time of broad toleration; he has lifted bodily for our behoof the very soil itself, with its characters, genuine and quaint, and the church which was their centre and soul.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 350w
“Just what Ian Maclaren did to put ‘Drumtochty’ on the map of Scotland, that has ‘David Westbrooke’ done for Fairhope. ... Half a century ago there were public doctrinal debates exciting almost as much interest as the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the political field. Some of these, one in particular, are described here.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 400w
=JONES, EDWARD DAVID.= Administration of industrial enterprises; with special reference to factory practice. il *$2 Longmans 658.7 16-24712
“In this volume the author first outlines the problem of equipment and then proceeds to discuss the formation of an administrative organization, the adjustment of the relations of labor and capital, and, finally, the process of mercantile distribution. The aim of the
## book is two-fold—to trace the application of the scientific method in
industry and to point out the efficiency of an economic policy based upon welfare and service.”—R of Rs
“The proportions of the work are not perfect. Too much space is devoted to the highly technical subject of ‘layout of a manufacturing plant’ and not enough to modern aids to an enlightened administration. The treatment of cost accounting is far too meager and there is nothing at all on managerial statistics and the graphical presentation of facts. Nevertheless, the ground in general is covered with judgment and as thoroughly as a work of moderate size addressed to the general reader would permit. At the end of each chapter is a well-selected bibliography. Where the author most falls into error is in handling some of the technical features of scientific management.” C: W Mixter
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:630 S ‘17 530w
“A valuable, short, compact statement. Not as inspiring as Lewis’ ‘Getting the most out of business’ nor as analytical as Shaw’s ‘Approach to business problems.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:116 Ja ‘18
“Dr Jones has given us a well organized work. It is a straightforward, connected story. As a textbook, it ought to be well received, and as a part of a business man’s library, it should prove an asset.” Malcolm Keir
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:229 My ‘17 250w
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 480w
“Although the preface does not indicate it, this volume is better suited for use as a textbook than as a guide to executives of industrial plants. It covers too wide a range to touch more than lightly on the vital things that make for successful management. The man with executive problems to solve will need fuller treatment.”
=Engin News-Rec= 78:154 Ap 19 ‘17 90w
“Here are no abstract theories of business organization, but facts in profusion stated so professor alike may easily understand. ... Perhaps, in his enthusiasm for the subject, Professor Jones overemphasizes the results which will come from scientific management. After all, the human element must always remain as a large factor in business success.”
+ =Ind= 89:508 Mr 19 ‘17 150w
“The necessary result of this enlargement of scope is, however, that the treatment of all the topics is very brief. Indeed, in some cases, the discussion is so slight as to make it a question whether much benefit can be derived by the student.”
=Nation= 104:557 My 3 ‘17 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17 70w
=Pratt= p28 O ‘17 30w
=R of Rs= 55:220 F ‘17 70w
“Professor Jones has attacked this somewhat formidable task with considerable success.” E. B. Gowin
+ =Survey= 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 150w
=JONES, FRANCIS P.=[2] History of the Sinn Fein movement and the Irish rebellion of 1916; with an introd. by J: W. Goff. il *$2 Kenedy 941.5 17-14796
“Mr Jones analyzes the English influences that have been at work in Ireland for many years. He shows the pernicious attempts to strengthen Ireland commercially and politically. In contrast to these influences he explains the Sinn Fein ideals, and traces out the gradual unification of discontent that culminated in the revolt of 1916. Of that unfortunate insurrection and its leaders, he gives a most intimate account, having gathered his material from personal contact with Pearce, Connolly, MacDonald and the other Sinn Fein leaders.”—Cath World
=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
“His presentation of the Irish problem is the most conclusive written in recent years, and contains a complete review of a period in Irish history that will grow in importance with the passing of time. No one who would know Ireland’s present position can afford to miss reading this scholarly work. In writing it Mr Jones has done a great service for Ireland and her people.”
+ =Cath World= 105:549 Jl ‘17 250w
=Ind= 90:469 Je 9 ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17
“The story of the Sinn Fein movement is dramatically told, and there is a running account of the various armed movements that accompanied it. All this is well done. There is not, however, sufficient notice taken of the Irish trade union movement, or the part it has played in reforming and extending the economic ideas of the Irish people.” Frank MacDonald
+ — =N Y Call= p15 Ap 29 ‘17 900w
=St Louis= 15:187 Je ‘17 20w
=JONES, JENKIN LLOYD.= Love for the battle-torn peoples. 75c Unity pub. 172.4 17-26179
“A series of popular sermon-studies, sketching rapidly the contributions made by each of the warring countries to civilization, which entitle them to the love of the American people. A new statement of the author’s well known faith in human brotherhood and internationalism.”—A L A Bkl
=A L A Bkl= 13:241 Mr ‘17
“A charming little volume.”
+ =Educ R= 54:208 S ‘17 40w
“The author has a wide knowledge of literature and a profound feeling for the great values of history and human life. He has also the gift of expression.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:267 Ja ‘17 60w
“No one will read Mr Jones’s book without feeling that some things have been included that he cannot and does not want to love and that even more has been omitted that one has learned to love. And yet it is fair to say that Mr Jones has more nearly succeeded in reaching an average possessing universal appeal than could have been thought possible before the idea was given a trial.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 11 ‘17 300w
=JONES, JOHN PRICE.= America entangled (Eng title, German spy in America). pa *50c Agnes C. Laut, 286 5th av., N.Y. 940.91 17-8589
“In the course of his work on the staff of the New York Sun Mr Jones has given a year to the close investigation of the subject [of the German spy in America]. ... Here we have a detailed exposure of the misdeeds of von Papen, von Igel, Koenig, Boy-Ed, Captain Franz von Rintelen, the ‘German arch-plotter,’ who was commissioned ‘to isolate commercial and financial America as a base of war supplies from Europe,’ Dr Heinrich F. Albert, Dumba, and the rest of the conspirators; the full story of the Lusitania, an account of Germany’s lobby in Congress, and of the change in the system when publicity became too strong. Mr Roosevelt contributes a foreword, and Mr Roger B. Wood an introduction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p476 S ‘17 200w
=St Louis= 15:166 Je ‘17
“Not only to Americans, however, but to all the belligerent countries, and above all to neutrals, will Mr Price Jones’s book be of service in warning them how the Kaiser makes war.”
+ =Spec= 119:298 S 22 ‘17 1650w
“A remarkable story, lucidly and effectively put together.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p371 Ag 2 ‘17 140w
“Mr Jones’s story is the more deadly because it is supported throughout by documentary evidence, and is told in plain, straightforward language, little embellished by rhetoric.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p380 Ag 9 ‘17 1000w
=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= St Paul, the hero. il *$1 (3½c) Macmillan 225.9 17-10430
“This is the story of the life of St Paul, told with remarkable simplicity and especially designed for younger readers. ... The first chapter shows him as a boy ten years old, talking with his father about the meaning of the law; the last chapter gives us a picture of the heroic champion sealing his loyalty to the gospel by his death.”—Bib World
“The unfolding history is given in untechnical language, vividly and concretely. ... This short book ought to be of great value in Bible study. The pictures are unusual, being reproductions of steel engravings in the classical style. The maps are too fine to be legible.”
+ =Bib World= 50:128 Ag ‘17 160w
“St Paul’s life is so full of incident and so fascinating in detail that to write a long book about him would be far easier than a satisfactory short one; but Professor Jones, with the exactness of a scholar and with the quiet reverence of a Quaker, has produced a series of brief chapters that will convey to young people a very clear outline of the main story, while not exceeding the compass of their patience.”
+ =Cath World= 105:551 Jl ‘17 170w
“The well-known scholar succeeds in making the character of Paul interesting to the adolescent boy. ... The story is written so as to appeal to the youthful imagination.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 110w
=JONES, WILLIAM TUDOR.= Spiritual ascent of man. *$1.50 Putnam 201 17-5700
In his introduction, A. L. Smith, master of Balliol college, says “This book aims at bringing the best philosophical thought of the time within the range of the ordinary reader.” As the author defines his purpose it is “to present some of the main problems of science, philosophy, and religion as these are dealt with by a number of the most prominent writers of our day.” The greatest weakness of the church in the past, he says, has been its failure “to give due heed to the various branches of knowledge in their bearings on religion.” Contents: The scope and limits of science; Matter and life; Body and mind; Intellect and intuition; The “is” and the “ought”; Values; The nature of spirit; The conception of God; Religion and Christianity; Conclusion.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 430w
=Dial= 63:536 N 22 ‘17 220w
+ =Educ R= 54:316 O ‘17 70w
“This book is clearly the fruit both of wide philosophical reading and of hard philosophical thought. ... It is certainly a book which all who have the cause of religion at heart would do well to read and ponder. The book appears at an opportune time. ... We whole-heartedly commend it.” J. T. Walley
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:396 Ap ‘17 720w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
=JORDAN, DAVID STARR.= Alsace-Lorraine; a study in conquest. *$1 (5c) Bobbs 943.4 17-6885
This work was written in 1913. It is based on a study made in Alsace-Lorraine at that time. Writing then, before the war, Dr Jordan compared Alsace to a cyclone center—the quiet place within the storm where there is no movement. Alsace was then the least war-like place in Europe. An Alsatian expression of opinion is quoted as typical: “War is the worst possible solution of our problems, because war is no solution. With war there is never a solution of any question. ... If France should gain Alsace by war, it would be only the beginning of another war, and so on without end.” Contents: The “nightmare of Europe”; The German point of view; Alsace-Lorraine as “Reichsland”: The French point of view; Nationalism. The material of the book appeared in part in the Atlantic Monthly for May, 1914.
=A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17
“Brings very clearly to the foreground the evil results following Germany’s action in striving to absorb a people against their natural affiliation.”
+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 70w
=St Louis= 15:187 Je ‘17 20w
“Prof. Jordan is eminently fair to both sides. The letters he quotes as having received from prominent Frenchmen and Germans on this thorny question form not the least interesting part of his readable and informing little book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Mr 30 ‘17 320w
“If the author is unable to forecast the best solution of the perplexing problem of Alsace-Lorraine, at least he brings sufficient evidence to show that many of those which have been proposed from time to time are utterly impracticable. ... The creation of a new ‘buffer’ state, though not advanced by Dr Jordan as ‘the’ solution, from an analysis of the material which he brings does stand out as at least the most promising approach to it.” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 38:551 S 22 ‘17 1000w
=JORDAN, EDWIN OAKES.= Food poisoning. (Science ser.) il *$1 (3½c) Univ. of Chicago press 613.2 17-14054
The author is chairman of the department of hygiene and bacteriology of the University of Chicago. The introduction deals with the extent and kinds of food poisoning and articles of food most commonly connected with food poisoning. The author then considers: Sensitization to protein foods; Poisonous plants and animals; Mineral or organic poisons added to food; Food-borne pathogenic bacteria; Animal parasites; Poisonous products formed in food by bacteria and other micro-organisms; Poisoning of obscure or unknown nature.
=A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17
“Concise authoritative, non-technical summary of present-day knowledge.”
+ =Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:328 S ‘17 10w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 4 ‘17 600w
“The book is of value at any time, and of importance; but the coming food campaign should focus attention upon it as one of the books which, above the primer grade, lead thoughtful readers into the desired realization of certain physiological aspects of the three-meals-a-day routine.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 39:73 O 20 ‘17 240w
=JÖRGENSEN, JOHANNES.= False witness. il *$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-26259
A translation of a Danish work, “Klokke Roland.” The main part of the
## book is taken up with an examination of “Appeal to the civilized
world” sent out by ninety-three German professors. The author examines their claims and brings evidence to prove them false. In addition the
## book contains miscellaneous chapters on German character and “kultur.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:306 Ap ‘17
“It is an interesting book, written in genuine and acknowledged sympathy with Belgium, and bears the marks of a craftsman.”
+ =Cath World= 105:694 Ag ‘17 300w
=Cleveland= p58 Ap ‘17 80w
“It is the first authoritative expression of the Danish viewpoint—if one may go so far in generalizing—that we have had. And it should be welcomed here, as the comment of a neutral and a neighbor, upon the conduct of the war.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:140 Ap 15 ‘17 430w
“No clearer or more eloquent condemnation of the German treatment of Belgium has been written than this neutral book, which deserves reading.”
+ =Spec= 118:176 F 10 ‘17 120w
=JOYCE, JAMES.= Portrait of the artist as a young man. *$1.50 (2c) Huebsch 17-4707
The story of the childhood, boyhood and youth of a young Irishman. It is extremely subjective and at times difficult to follow in its intricate turnings and abrupt transitions. From babyhood onward, Stephen is a lonely soul. At an early age he is sent to a Jesuit school where, altho he is evidently popular with the boys, he seems more than ever alone. He lives a secret life and during adolescence falls prey to the temptations of sex that lie in wait for the young. The agony of his remorse, his fear of confession, and the peace and exaltation that follows it, are among the most vivid impressions the book gives. The Catholic influence is strong thruout his early life. At one time he is led to think that he has a “vocation,” but when the
## book leaves him at the beginning of early manhood, he is leaning
toward agnosticism.
“The book has an irresistible effect of sharp, first-hand reality. But as a treatment of Irish politics, society or religion, it is negligible.”
=Cath World= 105:395 Je ‘17 1100w
“Such a book would have been impossible forty years ago. Far from looking back with regret at the good old novelists of the nineteenth century (whom, besides, we need never lose), I believe that our fiction is immensely freer and richer than the fiction of our immediate forefathers.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 62:525 Je 14 ‘17 240w
“The book in many places is exceedingly coarse, so marring uncommon beauty, descriptive power and insight.”
– + =Ind= 90:256 My 5 ‘17 50w
“What thrusts itself forward is the naturalism.’ Apart from this, in spite of it, the book has a measure of force by virtue of its sincere intent and its unconquered though ingrowing and indeterminate idealism. Its hero (who surely discourses like nobody in nature) is to be an artist in words—for the sake of Ireland.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Nation= 104:403 Ap 5 ‘17 350w
“The brilliant and nasty variety of pseudo-realism is excellently exemplified in ‘A portrait of the artist as a young man.’”
— =Nation= 104:600 My 17 ‘17 500w
“One almost despairs of conveying it to the person who has conventionalized his idea of Ireland and modern Irish literature, yet there is a poignant Irish reality to be found in few existing plays and no preexistent novel, presented here with extraordinary candor and beauty and power. ... ‘A portrait of the artist as a young man’ is not entirely pleasant. But it has such beauty, such love of beauty, such intensity of feeling, such pathos, such candor, it goes beyond anything in English that reveals the inevitable malaise of serious youth. Many people will furiously resent his candor, whether about religion or nationalism or sex. But candor is a nobility in this instance.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 10:138 Mr 3 ‘17 1650w
“It is worth a great deal to the outside world to read of such events as are chronicled in ‘The portrait’ and ‘Dubliners.’ To see directly into the household and the heart of this sensitive young Irishman of the upper middle class is to be brought face to face with the social, political and religious forces which vex Ireland (and England, too, incidentally) daily.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 650w
“If we begin by complaining of the title of this book, it is only because it may turn some people away from it. Others may be put off by occasional improprieties; and it is useless to say that people ought not be put off by such things. They are; and we should like the book to have as many readers as possible.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p103 Mr 1 ‘17 1100w
=JOYCE, THOMAS ATHOL.= Central American and West Indian archæology. il *$3.75 (5½c) Putnam 913.728 (Eng ed 16-17487)
The author calls this “an introduction to the archæology of the states of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the West Indies.” His aim has been to treat the archæology of these districts in a manner similar to that of his earlier books on Mexico and South America. He says: “The geographical area covered by the book is one which is still very imperfectly known from an archaeological point of view; the people inhabiting it in early times were not so highly developed, politically, as the Mexicans or the Peruvians, and the literature dealing with them is neither large nor easy of access. Still a summary of the known facts may be of use, if only in performing the function of a signpost for future investigators.”
“Summarizes in a scholarly way much material on excavations and discoveries of scientists that has heretofore been unavailable. Good illustrations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:217 F ‘17
“Mr Joyce, who is an assistant in the department of ethnography in the British museum, has already written two earlier volumes on the archaeology of Mexico, Yucatan and the South American continent, including the exceptionally interesting study of early Aztec civilization. ... He has gathered many of the interesting traditions which have come down from pre-Colombian days. Since the conquest of Porto Rico by the United States much has been done by our Bureau of ethnology in the line of ethnological research in that and the adjoining smaller islands, some of the results of which are seen in Mr Joyce’s book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 700w
=Cleveland= p71 My ‘17 30w
=Dial= 63:467 N 8 ‘17 120w
“The title well describes the book as an ‘introduction’ to the subject. As such it has good value. One feels, however, that the price set is high, considering the size of the volume.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:39 N 17 ‘17 280w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p104 Mr 1 ‘17 1100w
=JUDD, CHARLES HUBBARD.=[2] Psychology, general introduction. 2d completely rev ed il *$1.80 Ginn 150 17-25595
A second edition largely rewritten. The writer points out the principal changes and elaborations: (1) “The present edition goes further than did the first in working out the doctrines of functional psychology, especially in so far as these use motor processes in explaining mental organization; (2) The doctrine of attitudes which was presented in the first edition has been much expanded; (3) The applications of psychology have been elaborated, especially through a new chapter on mental hygiene; (4) The view with regard to the importance of consciousness in evolution which was set forth in my paper before the American psychological association in 1909 has been adopted as a guiding principle in this volume. In keeping with this view, the chapter on volition has been wholly rewritten, and several earlier sections have been largely worked over.” The chapters only slightly modified are: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, and 17.
“The significance of this revision for educators is enhanced by the fact that the author, for most of the ten years which have elapsed since the first edition, has been actively engaged in the teaching and administration of education. This has meant that the functional aspect of mental life, in which it is regarded as active, and doing something in the organism which it inhabits and in the world outside—this aspect which was already emphasized in the first edition is still more clearly defined in the additions which appear in the second edition. The student who is sufficiently mature to make applications of general principles for himself will gain profit from a study of the discussions of this book.” H. O. Rugg
+ =El School J= 18:312 D ‘17 400w
=JUDSON, KATHARINE BERRY=, comp. Myths and legends of British North America. il *$1.50 (3½c) McClurg 398.2 17-11232
To her series of books of retold legends of American Indians, east and west, the author adds a volume of tales from the north. Among the tribes represented are the Haida, Eastern Eskimo, Wyandot, Cree, Bella Coola, Lillooet and Chilcotin. The author says, “Only authentic myths and legends have been used in the compilation of this volume. The leading authorities are the publications of the United States Bureau of ethnology, of the Jesup North Pacific expedition, of the Memoirs of the American Museum of natural history, as well as the ethnological publications of the Canadian Bureau of mines.” There are about twenty illustrations.
=A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17
“A large selection of well-executed cuts enhance the aesthetic appeal of the work. The author has, however, been less successful in her comments on some of these samples of Indian art. ... No justification can be found for the promiscuous arrangement of the myths of wholly heterogeneous provenience. ... A more judicious arrangement would have enhanced the value of the work immeasurably.” A. A. Goldenweiser
+ — =Bookm= 45:418 Je ‘17 650w
“They have an ethnological value as well as a picturesque interest.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 450w
“The purpose of the book seems to be the entertainment of young people, but even for this modest design the sketchiness of the material and lack of developed unity leaves it inadequate.”
— =Dial= 63:461 N 8 ‘17 180w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
=JUDSON, KATHARINE BERRY.= Old Crow stories. il *$1.35 (4c) Little 17-24075
A book of animal stories selected from Indian folk lore. “Old Crow” is one of the characters in these tales, others are Raven, Grizzly and Coyote. How Raven brought the light, How Grizzly Bear stole the light; How Sun was made; When Real People were baked; How Coyote got his cunning; How Fire came to the Real People, are some of the titles. The pictures are by Charles Livingston Bull.
“She has retold these Indian myths of the beginnings of things in a spirited manner and in simple enough language for the little ones, yet without the condescending ‘talking down’ to which children instinctively object.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 92:2031 D 8 ‘17 270w
“They have a decided interest for older readers who recognize their ethnic and symbolic importance, while children will read them as the most delightful make-believe.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 70w
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=KAMBAN, GUTHMUNDUR.=[2] Hadda Padda; a drama in four acts; tr. by Sadie Luise Peller. (Borzoi plays, v) *$1 Knopf 839.6 17-30695
This play, translated from the Icelandic, was given its first production in Copenhagen in 1914. In spite of its difficult fourth act, which had made managers hesitate to attempt the play, it was an instant success. The other Scandinavian countries accepted it with equal enthusiasm and preparations for its presentation in Germany were only cut short by the war. It is a four-act tragedy on the theme of a proud woman’s betrayed love. Even in the pages of the printed play, Hrafnhild, called Hadda Padda, stands out as a very vital creation. In his drawing of her character and in the working out of the last act, the young dramatist reveals his northern heritage. There is an appreciative foreword by Georg Brandes.
=Cleveland= p6 Ja ‘18 70w
“The element of the death of Hadda Padda in this occasionally strong little drama is a weakness—not strength, not climax. It is one of the instances of avoidance, of seeking the easiest way out, both for dramatist and character. ... The play deserves success, for, in spite of common places worked out in a commonplace manner, and its artificiality, it goes far beyond the average run of plays, and it is really in a class quite outside our English works.” F. M.
+ — =N Y Call= p19 D 15 ‘17 600w
“Strikingly brilliant play.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 90w
=KARAPETOFF, VLADIMIR.= Engineering applications of higher mathematics. 5v ea *75c Wiley 620 (11-32468)
“‘This is not a book on calculus or analytic geometry, nor on engineering or any branch of it. It is intended to enable an engineer to make a better and more extended use of higher mathematics in his work.’ (Preface) Contents: v. 1. Problems on machine design; v. 2. Problems on hydraulics; v. 3. Problems on thermodynamics; v. 4. Problems on mechanics of materials; v. 5. Problems on electrical engineering.”—Cleveland
“The author has great skill in stating the application of basic principles and in leading students to advanced work without waste of time and energy.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:205 F ‘17
=Cleveland= p9 Ja ‘17 60w
“The treatment is, on the whole, sound, though the diction is often rather loose. ... The mathematical work is not distinguished by neatness, and one finds awkward and cumbrous proofs where often quite simple methods are available. The author appears afraid of making undue demands on the knowledge of his readers, and when a real difficulty occurs contents himself with a reference to a textbook. These criticisms must not be taken to reflect on the competence of the author, whose aims, as recorded in his prefaces, are excellent.”
+ =Nature= 99:102 Ap 5 ‘17 380w
=KAWAKAMI, KIYOSHI KARL.= Japan in world politics. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 327.52 17-21929
Writing from Peking in 1917 the author of “American-Japanese relations” and “Asia at the door” tells us in his preface to this book that prior to 1901 he was one of the founders of the Social Democratic party in Japan. His experiences in America subsequent to that date caused him regretfully to turn from the socialism and trade unionism he met here because he found them to mean a brotherhood between western nations only. “I have come to the conclusion,” he says, “that socialism cannot be achieved until the relations between the East and the West are radically changed.” That such a change may mean the averting of the world catastrophe that the future centuries will otherwise see is his reason for this attempt to “serve mankind by removing some of the misunderstandings now casting a dark shadow upon the relationship of the two nations.” Most of the chapters of this book were originally published as separate articles in the North American Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and other periodicals. Among the topics discussed are: The Japanese instinct of self-preservation; America’s issues with Japan; Is America preparing against Japan?; Land hunger: the background of the immigration question; Japanese immigration to America; The Pacific coast and the Japanese; The expatriation of the Japanese; The open door in China; Japan and America in China; Japan’s blunders in China; America and Japan in Korea; Japan and the Philippines; Japanese “designs” upon Mexico; America and the Anglo-Japanese alliance; America and German-Japanese relations; America and the Russo-Japanese entente.
“The author’s sympathies are with Japan in American-Japanese questions, though his presentation of his views is reasonable and sane. He feels that the Monroe doctrine is unjust to small overcrowded nations and that unhindered immigration is necessary for a permanent peace. He attempts to justify Japan in China and Korea and to allay suspicion of German-Japanese relations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
Reviewed by W. W. McLaren
=Am Pol Sci R= 11:777 N ‘17 300w
=Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 130w
“If he were writing from the patriotic Japanese standpoint, he would remember that Great Britain is the ally of Japan, and as such is to be treated with courtesy and respect. But all the allusions to ‘England’ throughout are as unpleasantly unfair as if they came from a ‘Zeitung,’ and are particularly regrettable at the present moment. If he were writing as a keen-witted American, he would know that the policy of the ‘open door’ enunciated by John Hay has always had British support.”
– + =Nation= 105:571 N 22 ‘17 520w
“The author declares that he was once a socialist. He abandoned socialism, however, when he began the study of the relations of Asia and Europe. This he tells us, is a chasm to be bridged before there can be any reasonable talk of socialism and internationalism. So Mr Kawakami sets about to state the problem. And he does it well.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 O 7 ‘17 750w
“Not often does one find a discussion of Japanese and American relations that will compare with this little book in sanity, reasonableness, judicial temper, and ability to see the rights and wrongs of all sides of a question. As between America and Japan, he makes emphatic his conviction that the crux of the matter is the question of naturalization.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:312 Ag 26 ‘17 950w
+ — =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:388 N ‘17 30w
=KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA.= John Galsworthy. (Writers of the day) il *60c (4c) Holt 823 A17-395
The author ranks Galsworthy higher as a dramatist than as a novelist. His strong points, craftsmanship and sense of form, stand out with distinctness in his plays, and his weakness in character drawing is not so evident. Types are more successful than individual characters on the stage. Furthermore Galsworthy is more successful in his plays than in his novels because most good plays are founded on a situation; most good novels on the development of a situation; “and development is not a characteristic of Galsworthy’s art.” Two chapters are devoted to the plays, two to the novels, one to the sketches, and a final
## chapter considers Galsworthy the artist.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:342 My ‘17
“His admirers will like this essay and it may help those who demand that he be other than he is to understand and value one of the real artists of our time.”
+ =Ind= 91:33 Jl 7 ‘17 120w
=Nation= 104:687 Je 7 ‘17 220w
“A commonplace study of the cataloging type of John Galsworthy, placing emphasis upon his dramas rather than his novels, but taking one production after another in each field with impartial disregard of the demand of the ordinary reader for a measure of synthesis.”
— =Nation= 105:324 S 20 ‘17 430w
“A worthy successor to the other numbers of the series. And that is high praise. ... One is tempted to quote the book in detail, analyze its analyses. It is a pregnant and most excellent little volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 630w
“Not a brilliant or inspired but a good, discerning, level-headed and reasonably sympathetic study. ... One feels, however, that Miss Kaye-Smith over-praises Galsworthy’s power with words.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 1150w
“It goes simply and concisely through the several items of Mr Galsworthy’s work, with descriptive and clear thoughtful criticism.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p551 N 16 ‘16 150w
=KEARY, CHARLES F.= Religious hours. *2s 6d Constable & co., London 821
“The title of this volume will suggest to many readers something in the vein of the ‘Christian year.’ But Mr Keary’s religion is not Keble’s. It is not orthodox, not even Christian, at all. In his prefatory note he says that the poems are chosen, out of a quantity of verse he had ready for publication, as more suited than others to ‘the gravity of the time’; and, he adds, ‘the title “religious” which I have given them is to be construed in this sense, the literary one; the sense in which Herrick often uses the word.’ ... The truth is that religion in Mr Keary’s use means not something fanciful which poets have invented, but what it actually meant for the world of Greece and Rome before the coming of Christianity.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Mr Keary’s long and devoted service to fine letters is well summed up in this choice book, which, we hope, will not be passed by as if it were inferior hymnology.”
+ =Sat R= 123:208 Mr 3 ‘17 750w
“A volume of grave pagan psalms and hymns of a true piety and a true imagination.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p43 Ja 25 ‘17 1550w
=KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE.= Wayside flowers of summer. il *$1.35 Scribner 580 17-14079
“A study of the conspicuous herbaceous plants blooming upon our northern roadsides during the months of July and August.” (Subtitle) In the introduction the author adds, “The plants described in this volume are those that the wayfarer, starting out upon his summer vacation, will most likely meet if he goes on foot, or pass if he takes an auto, or see from the windows of his moving train; they are the ones that are part and parcel of summer life. ... In round numbers they vary from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty.” The botanical descriptions are based on Gray’s “Manual of botany,” seventh edition, and Britton’s “Manual of the flora of the northern states and Canada.” The book is fully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and pictures in color.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:435 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p19 O ‘17.
“Of convenient size for the pocket, of good type for the eye, of generous illustration both in color and line drawings.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 28 ‘17 150w
=KEEN, EDITH.= Seven years at the Prussian court. il *$3 (3½c) Lane 943.08 (Eng ed 17-1178)
The author spent seven years in Germany as a companion in the household of the Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia, sister of the German empress. Like the many others of its kind, the book is made up of personal reminiscences and bits of gossip about royal personages. Among the chapters are: My early days at Potsdam; The princess Margarethe; Incognito visits to England; Servants in German royal households; The crown prince and princess; The days before the war, etc.
“Her knowledge of the Kaiser and his family is at best but second hand information.” D. L. M.
=Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 14 ‘17 400w
“There is frequently a bias in her manner of writing that makes one realize how difficult it is for the author to be fair toward her country’s enemies.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:43 N 17 ‘17 80w
“Much entertaining gossip for those interested in the love affairs and dress bills of royalty is scattered over these rambling pages, but there is singularly little that is significant of anything beyond personal concerns. ... The frequent glimpses of the Kaiser, sometimes in his moods of testiness or of ruffled vanity, are the most enlivening feature of the book.”
+ — =Nation= 104:410 Ap 5 ‘17 270w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17
=N Y Times= 22:271 Jl 22 ‘17 750w
+ =Outlook= 115:625 Ap 4 ‘17 140w
=St Louis= 15:185 Je ‘17 20w
+ =Spec= 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 150w
=KEEN, WILLIAM WILLIAMS.= Medical research and human welfare. il *$1.25 (4½c) Houghton 610.9 17-30712
This “record of personal experiences and observations during a professional life of fifty-seven years” formed the substance of the Colver lectures for 1917 at Brown university. Dr Keen is emeritus professor of surgery in Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia. His professional experience covers the period from the “old horribly fatal surgery of the Civil war” to the present. He has watched surgery emerge “from a septic purgatory into an aseptic paradise,” and he very briefly covers the marvelous changes that have taken place in this time. Among the subjects touched on are Bacteriology, Puerperal fever, Hydrophobia, Modern surgery, Syphilis, Smallpox, Cholera, Yellow fever, Malaria, Cancer, and Tuberculosis.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18
“This record surpasses in interest the most thrilling detective story. ... It is the best possible answer to some of the claims of Christian science training.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 100w
“The readableness, the sagacity, and the persuasiveness of this book are to be found only by the careful perusal which it deserves.”
+ =Outlook= 117:577 D 5 ‘17 90w
“[Written] in brilliant, scholarly, but quite untechnical style.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 240w
=KEENE, LOUIS.= “Crumps”; the plain story of a Canadian who went. il *$1.25 (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-29600
The word “crumps” is trench slang for a bursting shell—“on account of the sound they make, a sort of cru-ump! noise as they explode.” The author is a young Canadian artist who writes of the early days of the war, illustrating his account with his own drawings. He touches lightly on war horrors in his text; but some of his pictures are very grim indeed. There is a very brief foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood.
“Of life in the trenches the writer tells his story with light and cheerful spirit and yet not without full sense of duty and responsibility.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ‘17 600w
=Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 40w
“‘Crumps’ takes the whole thing a good deal as a college boy takes a big football game; it’s all something of a lark, a glorious great game, and even the horrors are touched on with a latent feeling that they are, in their own way, humorous.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:546 D 9 ‘17 1750w
“The chief interest, in fact, of the book is in its earlier chapters, which tell of things that other men have left largely unreported.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 28 ‘17 690w
=KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE, and CARNOY, ALBERT JOSEPH.= Indian [mythology]; Iranian [mythology]. (Mythology of all races) 13v v 6 il $6 (6c) Jones, Marshall 291 17-6787
The sixth volume of the Mythology of all races is made up of two books in one. The first part, Indian mythology, is by A. Berriedale Keith, regius professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Edinburgh university. The author has limited his subject by restricting the treatment as closely as possible to the mythology that is closely allied to religion in India. Part 2, Iranian mythology, is by Professor Albert J. Carnoy of the University of Louvain, now research professor in the University of Pennsylvania. He says, “The purpose of this essay is exactly set forth by its title: it is a reasonably complete account of what is mythological in Iranian traditions, but it is nothing more; since it is exclusively concerned with myths, all that is properly religious, historical, or archaeological has intentionally been omitted.” The illustrations of the volume are deserving of special mention. Among them are a number of fine color plates.
“Both accounts well fulfil their purpose as popular summaries; both will also prove valuable to specialists. The most satisfactory chapters of Keith are those on the Rig-Veda, the Brāhmanas, and the Epic. The chapter on Buddhism, the most difficult one to write, is the least satisfactory of all.” W. E. Clark
+ — =Am J Theol= 22:155 Ja ‘18 1150w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:424 Jl ‘17
“This series promises to be one of the great monuments of the history of religions. It is impossible to enter into a discussion of each one of these volumes. It is enough to call attention to the admirable analysis of material, its readable style, the mass of notes and bibliography.”
+ =Bib World= 50:125 Ag ‘17 240w
“Professor Keith of Edinburgh university, the author of the volume, has already published the standard ‘Vedic index of names and subjects’ and appears as editor and translator of the Sankhayana and Aitareya and of the Taittiriya Samhita. ... This is the first time, however, that any authoritative work has been published in English on the history of Indian mythology. ... The Metropolitan museum of art allowed the color plates from the Persian manuscripts of the Shaknamah to be used for illustrations of the Iranian section.” D. L. M.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 17 ‘17 850w
“Dr Keith has with infinite skill cut a swathe through what seems an inextricable tangle of mythological detail. He makes clear the development of philosophical ideas and yet preserves so much of the mythological drapery in which these ideas are clothed that the book possesses the double quality of scholarliness and fascination. By recognizing the close connection between mythology and religion, he has greatly enhanced, in my opinion, the interest of his subject.” H. A. Clarke
+ =Dial= 63:158 Ag 30 ‘17 1350w
“In clear presentation of matter, and in appropriateness of illustration this volume is superexcellent. For the last, some of the choicest of manuscript and book-decorations have been employed at large cost.”
+ =Lit D= 54:2007 Je 30 ‘17 250w
=Nation= 104:658 My 31 ‘17 1200w
+ =N Y Times= 22:179 My 6 ‘17 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 23 ‘17 640w
=KEITH, KATHERINE.= Girl. *$1.35 (3c) Holt 17-3032
Chapters from this autobiography have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. It gives a series of impressionistic pictures from a girl’s life from childhood up to her eighteenth year. As a little girl she is both mischievous and imaginative. She lives partly in a dream world and invents long and involved romances, of which a handsome actor and a western ranch are features, she herself playing the part of a boy. As she begins to grow up, the narrative seems more artificial and some of the incident and the mixing of the dates of certain known events give the impression that the whole is a piece of fiction.
“It is obvious that its writer has striven hard to write something strikingly original, and that she frequently makes the sad mistake of thinking that freakishness is identical with frankness, and that self-searchings and their public confession are as interesting to the reader as to herself. ... The confessions are too artificial to carry with them the convincing power of truth.” E. F. E.
— =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 10 ‘17 1050w
“It is a very interesting book. People perhaps will like to discuss its social significance,—as I have done. But it is chiefly worth while as a very definite rendering of an interesting conception,—rather a rare thing in art.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:71 Ja 25 ‘17 500w
“Written with a curious detachment and objectivity rare in personal revelations.”
=Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 30w
“A book of ingrowing emotion, of strained and hectic self-consciousness, of feminism in its aimless and sterile phase. It is also consciously and deliberately ‘literary.’”
— =Nation= 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 250w
“The story is no more chaotic than is life itself. One of its charms is its surprises.” J: N. Beffel
+ =N Y Call= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 950w
“The story is written with delicate art, its crisp, lucid style strikingly simple and its situations vividly realized. This is especially true of those portions of the book that deal with the childhood of the girl.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:24 Ja 21 ‘17 250w
“Semi-fictionalized reminiscence. ... It consists of a loose-strung series of incidents, anecdotes and self-revealments ... many of them exquisite in themselves and in their presentation; and the lot of them cumulatively meaningful in their feminine entirety.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:208 Mr ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Life, 1917)
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Sudden Jim. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-6325
James Ashe, senior, was known as “Clothespin Jimmy.” It was a matter of disappointment to him that his son, Jim, in the twenty-eight years of his life had acquired no distinctive title. A man didn’t amount to much, in his opinion, who had done nothing to merit a descriptive name. That was one of the reasons that led him to go off to California leaving his clothespin factory in Jim’s charge. If there was anything in the younger man, he wanted to see it come out. In less than a week on his new job, the son had earned his title, “Sudden Jim.” The scene of the story is a small town in Michigan and local politics play a
## part in the action.
=A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 500w
“He is a type loved by the average American.”
=Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 120w
“A good book of its kind. It is amusing, brisk, swift moving, full of incident and surprise.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:99 Mr 18 ‘17 320w
“Mr Kelland cleverly sketches a group of local characters, whose colloquialisms and hard commonsense are a source of delight. It is a clever, rapid and diverting American story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 330w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 50w
=KELLEY, ETHEL MAY.= Turn about Eleanor. il *$1.40 Bobbs 17-23983
“Half a dozen young people, three girls and three young men, all of them great friends and all but one pledged never to marry, decide to adopt a child and bring it up on the co-operative plan. A little girl of ten, Eleanor Hamlin, an orphan from Cape Cod, is chosen as the subject of this experiment, and the first twelve chapters tell of her experiences with her six volunteer parents, each of whom lives in a different way and has different ideas from any of the rest. Eleanor spends two months with first one and then another, until she has stayed with all six; they teach her a good deal, and to them she is a liberal education.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 100w
“Will attract the favorable attention of those who want an old-fashioned story about new-fashioned people. It is old-fashioned in this day of typewriter-made fiction because it is full of common sense and good workmanship. There is more than an amusing plot, there are real ideas in it, as well as flesh and blood and brain characters.”
+ =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 170w
“It is a bright little story and the cooperative parents are nicely sketched.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:402 O 14 ‘17 250w
=KELLOGG, MRS CHARLOTTE.= Women of Belgium; turning tragedy to triumph. il *$1 (3c) Funk 940.91 17-12252
An account of relief work in Belgium, with special reference to what the Belgium women have been doing for themselves and their countrymen. Mrs Kellogg went to Belgium in July, 1916, as the one woman member of the Commission for Belgian relief. Herbert Hoover, on behalf of the Commission, says “We offer her little book as our, and Mrs Kellogg’s, tribute in admiration of them [Belgian women] and the inspiration which they have contributed to this whole organization.” All profits from the sale of the volume go to the relief work.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:444 Jl ‘17
“A wonderful story of courage and heroism as splendid as any of the battlefield or trench.”
+ =Cath World= 106:105 O ‘17 200w
+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 80w
“There are many angles of vision, of course, from which one may consider the conditions in Belgium, and Mrs Kellogg has elected to put her emphasis, not upon the source of the Belgian calamity, but rather upon the spiritual reaction of the women to the set of circumstances imposed upon them.”
+ =Dial= 63:277 S 27 ‘17 540w
+ =Ind= 91:74 Jl 14 ‘17 110w
“Her tale is moving to a degree. She has given to the world, in her description of the accomplishments of the 55,000 volunteer relief-workers, a remarkable picture of splendid courage and of the noble service of true human brotherhood and sisterhood.”
+ =Lit D= 55:34 S 29 ‘17 300w
“Mrs Kellogg’s restraint gives her book convincing value as a document.” E. S. S.
+ =New Repub= 11:253 Je 30 ‘17 480w
“The simplicity with which she writes makes the wonderful story of the devotion, the unstinted service, the utter self-abnegation with which many thousands of Belgian women are giving themselves completely to this work stand out all the more grandly.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 620w
=KELLOGG, LOUISE PHELPS=, ed. Early narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1669. (Original narratives of early American history) *$3 (2c) Scribner 973.2 17-6235
The author has brought together a group of the original narratives of the early French explorers of the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi. These narratives, as she says, are “full of the charm of brave deeds, of heroic endurance, of abiding enthusiasms, and of famous achievements.” Among them are records of the adventures and explorations of Nicolet, Radisson, Allouez, Marquette, Jolliet, La Salle and Tonty, and Duluth. Three facsimiles of old maps illustrate the volume.
“All of the narratives thus brought together are elsewhere printed, but not all are readily available, nor are all English versions complete or trustworthy. The Tonty memoir, here given in full, should prove useful to students of a wider field than that to which this volume is specially devoted. For all of the journals, Miss Kellogg’s abundant annotation is helpful. The clearly-penned introduction to each narrative not merely summarizes it, but informs the student of what printing it has already had, either in French or English, and makes plain the editor’s choice of text. Not the least interesting feature of the work is a facsimile of a contemporary map drawn to illustrate Marquette’s discoveries. The volume as a whole bespeaks scholarly care.”
+ =Am Hist R= 23:179 O ‘17 650w
=A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17 + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 630w
+ =Dial= 62:485 My 31 ‘17 380w
“Although not by any means the most important of the series, it is in many respects the most interesting. The narrations of the early Frenchmen who traversed the Old Northwest possess a charm that will always appeal to the student of history.”
* + – =Nation= 104:762 Je 28 ‘17 1050w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:428 My ‘17 100w
“It is a great convenience both to the historical student and to the general reader to have these materials arranged in a single volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 110w
=St Louis= 15:155 My ‘17
=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN, and TAYLOR, ALONZO ENGLEBERT.= Food problem. *$1.25 (2½c) Macmillan 613.2 17-29573
The two authors are members of the United States food administration and the book has an introduction by Herbert Hoover. Part 1, devoted to The problem and the solution, has chapters on: The food situation of the western allies and the United States; Food administration; How England, France and Italy are controlling and saving food; Food control in Germany, and its lessons. Part 2, The technology of food use, has chapters on: The physiology of nutrition; The sociology of nutrition [two chapters]; Grain and alcohol. In conclusion there is a brief chapter on Patriotism and food.
+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 29 ‘17 230w
“Their volume is so replete with facts and cogent, lucid reasoning that it is indispensable to all who write on this problem for newspapers and magazines. Particularly instructive, psychologically as well as economically, are the results of a study of conditions in Germany made in these pages.”
+ =Nation= 105:606 N 29 ‘17 1100w
“The present admirably clear book will make the patriotic reader rather painfully conscious of the enormous difficulties in our food situation.”
+ =New Repub= 13:131 D 1 ‘17 450w
“The book is specially remarkable because of its comprehensiveness, the amount of space it covers in its two hundred-odd pages, and for the clarity of its discussion.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:493 N 25 ‘17 700w
“The second section of the book gives a popular exposition of the most widely adopted modern theory of nutrition such as every speaker and writer on food conservation should carefully study to guard him from pitfalls. Altogether, this section is full of new and revised judgments even for those, not specialists, who may claim a general acquaintance with the subject. The only item in the detailed recommendations to which the reviewer finds it difficult to assent is the advice to those of means to subsist as far as possible upon the ‘rare, expensive goods, delicacies, if you please,’ in order to release more of the cheaper foods for the poorer classes and for export.” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 39:297 D 8 ‘17 570w
=KELLY, RUSSELL ANTHONY.= Kelly of the Foreign legion. il *$1 (4½c) Kennerley 940.91 17-28641
“The first seven chapters of this book are letters received from Russell A. Kelly, age 21, volunteer in the Légion étrangère. The letters, many of which were published in the New York Evening Sun, were sent to his parents in New York and have been retained in exactly their original form except for the omission of strictly personal matters.” (Preface) The letters date from November 25, 1914 to June 15, 1915. After the engagement around Souchez on June 16 their writer was officially recorded as “missing.” Their helpfulness lies in their naturalness in the recording of daily happenings. The last chapter of the book gives an interesting history of the Foreign legion, dating its existence back to the fifth century under Clovis.
“One could wish nothing better for our boys ‘over there,’ and on the way, than that their records may be as honorable as that of ‘Kelly of the Foreign legion.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 22 ‘17 230w
“The book differs from many others of its kind in an apparent absence of emotion in the performance of a hated but inevitable task.”
+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 50w
=Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 320w
“That he enjoyed the experience is manifest in spite of his repeated assertions that war is asinine and his ridicule of the theory that war is grand. It is an interesting human document.”
+ =New Repub= 13:28 N 3 ‘17 140w
“Kelly makes the soldier’s life stand out vividly in these letters. The book is a good side light on the war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 5 ‘17 220w
=KELSEY, CARL.=[2] Physical basis of society. *$2 (2c) Appleton 304 17-274
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Two things especially are worth noting about this book. One is the great mass of data which has been assembled. ... The second important feature of the book is that it symbolizes very markedly some of the newer tendencies in the development of sociology.” L. L. Bernard
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:600 S ‘17 500w
“The defects, as far as there are any, are essentially those which are related to the use of the survey method. The extensive character of the facts which are given would seem to justify more personal induction than one finds in the book. A few inaccuracies occur. ... A splendid and original service has been performed by Professor Kelsey in selecting, bringing together, organizing, and presenting in one volume such a fund of concrete material upon the physical bases of social progress. Students undertaking sociological studies, and the busy reader alike, will find the book of increasing usefulness.” E. S. Bogardus
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:270 S ‘17 310w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:289 Ap ‘17
“From the writings of the specialists on geography, natural history, biology, ethnography and criminal anthropology, he has gleaned, arranged and intelligently interpreted experiments and observations not easily accessible to the student. The style is clear and interesting, the treatment concrete and summary, the attitude objective and the spirit impartial. The author shows open-mindedness and sound judgment, and, in dealing with controverted matters, takes pains to give the evidence on both sides.” E. A. R.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:240 My ‘17 220w
“A work that widely read would do much toward bridging the gap between the older generation and the new.”
+ =Ind= 90:295 My 12 ‘17 370w
“Dr Kelsey gives us little more than a compilation of the best thought of authorities on the subjects he discusses. If Dr Kelsey has anything original to tell us, it is only the most assiduous reader who will be able to find it. His two most original chapters are those wherein he discusses ‘Social institutions’ and ‘The nature of progress.’” Harry Salpeter
– + =N Y Call= p14 My 13 ‘17 650w
“The book gives all appearances of having been too hastily written, and thus furnishes grounds for the criticism that the work of sociologists is superficial. This is all the more deplorable because the general plan and logic of arrangement of the book are excellent.” F. S. Chapin
– + =Science= n s 46:215 Ag 31 ‘17 510w
Reviewed by Graham Taylor
=Survey= 38:573 S 29 ‘17 210w
=KEMMERER, EDWIN WALTER.= Modern currency reforms. diags *$2.40 Macmillan 332 16-25102
“Beginning with the Indian monetary reform of 1893 five important currency adjustments have been consummated. The other four comprise those perfected in the Philippines, Porto Rico, the Straits Settlements, and Mexico—although some may doubt the efficacy of that of the last-named country. Professor Kemmerer has assembled data of these five reforms covering the conditions which preceded them, the causes, the plan of readjustment, and the results, presenting it in a volume of unusual value and interest to students of finance.” (Boston Transcript) “Professor Kemmerer was financial adviser to the Philippine government, and during that service drafted the currency legislation for the Straits Settlements. He had especial opportunities for information regarding the establishment of a new standard of value in Porto Rico.” (N Y Times)
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
“Barring the title, the book is quite satisfactory, from table of contents to index, both inclusive. ... No man, surely, is better fitted than Professor Kemmerer to write such an account. The author himself made so much of the history here chronicled that his book must have for every reader an unusual quality of finality. ... Is not adapted to use as a textbook for American college classes.” G: R. Wicker
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:356 My ‘17 220w
“Professor Kemmerer needs no introduction to students of money and credit. His contributions in this field have been numerous and of a uniformly high order. He and Professor Irving Fisher are generally recognized as the two foremost exponents in the United States of the modern form of the ‘quantity theory’ of money value.” E. E. Agger
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:228 Jl ‘17 350w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 390w
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 50w
“Every day enhances the value of this work. ... It is safe to say that attempts at currency reform will play no small part in the finance of the coming years, and the laboratory experiences which Professor Kemmerer here describes will be of inestimable value to the world. To be sure, these experiences are related to fluctuating silver moneys, whereas the great problems of the future will relate to depreciated paper currencies. Yet a depreciated currency is a depreciated currency, whether it be metal or paper.”
+ =Nation= 105:92 Jl 26 ‘17 1200w
“No one wishing to be abreast in the state of the art and science can afford to be ignorant of these object lessons of how prices, taxes, wages, and contracts of indebtedness are affected by such reforms.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:64 F 25 ‘17 180w
=R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 100w
=KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN.= Rib of the man; a play of the new world in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of an afternoon in the fulness of days. il *$1.30 Harper 822 17-8757
The theme of Mr Kennedy’s play is the coming of a new day in which a new relation will be established between men and women and in which there will be no war. “If we depend upon war to end war, we are lost indeed,” says Diana Brand, “No! War will end by the advent of something mightier than itself! It is here, now! At the door!” The
## scene is an island in the Ægean, the time, toward the end of the
European war. Scene and action are arranged to correspond somewhat with the situation in the Garden of Eden.
=A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17
“With all these elements which would seem to remove it far from any sense of reality, the dramatist does the seemingly impossible, and gives us actual people, doing real things in a natural way.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 5 ‘17 170w
=Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 110w
“Part of the dialog is witty; once or twice the plot of the play proper begins to sound very interesting. As for Diana, she is a very real and very wonderful woman, and deserves a better vehicle for her power, beauty and humor.”
– + =Ind= 92:489 D 8 ‘17 330w
“It will be caviare to the general and a stumbling block to some of his stanchest admirers. To the cynical and skeptical it will appear the work of a rhapsodical sentimentalist and visionary. Only those in sympathy with his sturdy apostolic faith will recognize the inspiring spirituality of his main themes, and even they will regret that high ideals, so eloquently and forcibly expressed, should be blurred by much that is extravagant or intemperate.” J. R. Towse
+ — =Nation= 104:608 My 17 ‘17 900w
“Had Mr Kennedy not enlisted the aid of symbolism that simplicity of his program might perhaps have been quarreled with, but he envelopes the issues in such allegorical vagueness that realistic standards are inapplicable.”
=New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 180w
“The fervor, humanitarian aspiration, glorious conception of a spirit-free world, loyalty to true art, occasionally beautiful turn of phrase and daring presentation do not rescue this play from frequent triviality and occasional overwhelming dullness. ... It will leave most readers merely indifferent.” Frank Macdonald
+ — =N Y Call= p12 Ap 22 ‘17 270w
“A vein of satire runs through it, for Mr Kennedy delights in satire, and the character study is delicately done. Of action the play has little; it moves in the realm of thought.”
=N Y Times= 22:162 Ap 22 ‘17 650w
“His people, save for his superman and superwoman with their conception of the new world, are all more or less caricatures, illustrative of present-day types. Indeed the superman and superwoman themselves are tremendously overdrawn, as they must perhaps be in an allegorical play, yet drawn for all that with force and feeling. They express radical doctrines. They utter lines that are ultra-modern, occasionally blasphemous—a compound of Wells and Shaw—and yet it is impossible to escape the lofty thought that animated the poet-dramatist in writing. ... The situations possess true dramatic forcefulness and the lines many times rise to genuine poetry.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 680w
=KENT, CHARLES FOSTER.= Social teachings of the prophets and Jesus. *$1.50 Scribner 220 17-12971
“The discovery that the great prophets and founders of Judaism and Christianity were above all else social teachers and reformers is rapidly revolutionising the study of the Bible,” says the author. “The Hebrew prophets and Jesus speak to us to-day more directly and convincingly than they did even to their contemporaries, for we are far more keenly alive to the importance of the social problems which they were seeking to solve. To appreciate fully the social principles which they laid down it is necessary first to become acquainted with the personality of each of these prophets and with the immediate political and social conditions with which they were dealing. Studied in the light of their historical background, these teachings can then be readily interpreted into universal terms and used as a solvent for the social problems of today.” In this paragraph both the purpose and method of Professor Kent’s book are summed up. It is divided into four parts, treating of: The social ideals of the pre-exilic prophets; The social ideals of the exilic and post-exilic prophets and sages; The social ideals of Jesus; The social ideals of Jesus’ followers. There is a five-page bibliography.
“Dr Kent’s conception of Jesus is well known from his earlier works, and reappears here with still sharper emphasis on the ‘social service’ aspects. ... The objections to this point of view hardly need recapitulating. All this is in no way meant to say that Dr Kent has not written very much of very great value. The weakness is a weakness often to be found in writings of the ‘social service’ school—a desire to obtain results too directly, a constant implication that the biblical teachers spoke with modern problems in modern phrasing ever before their minds. Good method requires that we determine the content of such teaching in the light of its own day. The appendix contains an excellent bibliography, an elaborate list of subjects for investigation and discussion, and a brief classified index of biblical passages.” B. S. Easton
+ — =Am J Theol= 21:470 Jl ‘17 800w
=A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17
“The book will not solve all present-day social problems by the teachings of the Bible. It is not intended to do this. It is meant primarily to be a source book; and when used as such it will be found to be a most excellent one.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 23 ‘17 500w
“It is not so much his social principles that are objectionable, which are one sided rather than false, but his implicit rejection of supernatural religion without which those principles have little force. Traditional Christianity is the most tremendous assertion ever made by man. It is worse than futile to hold, as does this writer, that it matters little or nothing whether it is true or not. That is the one thing that really does matter.”
– + =Cath World= 106:401 D ‘17 580w
=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 30w
“Will be of much assistance to Christian preachers and teachers.”
+ =Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 60w
“This is the work of a man saturated with the broader subject which includes that of the book. Those who are wondering what to teach advanced classes in a church school will find a good course in this college textbook.” L: A. Walker
+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 1 ‘17 150w
“Dr Kent, who is Woolsey professor of Biblical literature in Yale university, is well known to Bible students for his work in religious history and modern criticism. ... Dr Kent is in the main a conservative as regards social theory, but he seeks merely to arrange the social utterances and expand them as nearly as possible in accordance with their original meaning. The book is carefully compiled, and is a valuable and timely contribution to the Christian interpretation of modern social problems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 210w
=KERFOOT, JOHN BARRETT.= How to read. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 028 16-22768
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:240 Mr ‘17
“This is a most suggestive book. It should lead many to realize the mental indigestion from which they suffer, and help them to order their reading so as to make it useful.”
+ =Ath= p248 My ‘17 30w
“Mr Kerfoot is the literary critic of Life; and he has brought into his essay that journal’s distinctive tone: the brilliant and piquant passing into the flippant, and occasionally degenerating into the slangy. But the principles for which he argues are old friends of psychology, applied to reading. ... The principles upon which Mr Kerfoot dwells are by no means new in themselves, but they may well be new to many. The author’s method is certainly novel.”
+ =Cath World= 105:121 Ap ‘17 420w
“There may have been a more fascinating exposition written in some language, at some time, on some subject, than Mr Kerfoot’s book; but one is permitted to doubt it.”
+ =Dial= 62:315 Ap 5 ‘17 430w
“It is all interesting, but we wish he had made some of his statements with more directness and fewer explanations.”
+ =Lit D= 54:569 Mr 3 ‘17 150w
“It is not a humorous book, but it sparkles from the first page at frequent intervals clear to 297. Going to such a school is delightfully rewarding if one will not expect the teacher to do it all. Reaction to the Kerfoot stimulus is not difficult, but it must be seriously experienced, not too much at once, if this book is to be a veritable ‘open sesame’ to literature.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 1 ‘17 350w
=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= In good company. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 920 17-15319
A volume of personal reminiscences of distinguished men. Five of the papers that compose the contents deal with Theodore Watts-Dunton. The other papers are: A. C. Swinburne; Lord Roberts; When Stephen Phillips read; Edward Whymper as I knew him; Oscar Wilde; S. J. Stone, the hymn-writer.
+ =Ath= p255 My ‘17 140w
“A miscellany of excellent personalia, somewhat inflated in manner but intimate in its revelations of the inner world of literary London.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 6 ‘17 370w
“Mr Kernahan’s book, like all good company, is stimulating and provocative. It is too often dull; it is marred by mysterious hints at things the author might tell an he would, and by a very wearisome and embarrassing—an almost servile—self-depreciation. And yet the glimpses that it affords of such ever-interesting figures as Swinburne, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde, and the mountaineer and scientist, Edward Whymper, who are the subjects of the best of the sketches, are amazingly lifelike.”
+ — =Dial= 63:347 O 11 ‘17 490w
“The Wilde essay has some things that had better have been left unsaid.”
+ — =Ind= 91:291 Ag 25 ‘17 250w
“Mr Kernahan, in his pictures of his friends, reveals his own stature—a man big enough to forget his own importance in a study and appreciation of his friends and fellow craftsmen.”
+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 1 ‘17 280w
“This collection of ‘personal recollections’ superficially resembles but essentially differs from the abundant chirping books and articles about the celebrities of the day. It differs from them in containing a number of deliberately executed literary portraits, composed and finished with a clear consciousness that portrait painting is a fine art with a technique beyond the reaches of the cheerful chatterbox.”
+ =Nation= 105:486 N 1 ‘17 950w
“In his circle Mr Kernahan moves with appropriate kindliness and dignity and attentiveness. Of his three graces the best is undoubtedly the last. He has a fine faculty for remembering and recording what people actually said, or what sounds actual.” B. H.
+ =New Repub= 12:309 O 13 ‘17 650w
+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 100w
“He pays a fine tribute to Lord Roberts, in whose campaign for national service he took part. Like every one else who came into contact with that great man, Mr Kernahan was profoundly impressed with his courtesy, his patience, and his abounding energy.”
+ =Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 70w
“One of the most interesting because least familiar sketches in Mr Kernahan’s book is that of S. J. Stone, the hymn writer, author of ‘The church’s one foundation.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 350w
“We have enjoyed Mr Kernahan’s book so much that we find ourselves asking what the reason can be. ... He succeeds very singularly in making us feel that to all these men life was a rich and remarkable affair. ... The average person is chiefly struck by the eccentricities of the great; Mr Kernahan, on the other hand, bears witness to the fullness, sincerity, and passion with which great men live compared with lesser men.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Ap 12 ‘17 1050w
=KERR, SOPHIE.= Blue envelope. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-5983
When she is nineteen, Leslie Brennan learns that she must earn her own living. It had been her father’s wish, her guardian informs her, that she adopt some gainful occupation and support herself for two years. The transition from a well-established social position in a small city to a business college and boarding house existence in New York is a sudden one but Leslie adapts herself to it. She finds a position with a red-haired, irascible chemist, and it is when her employer sends her to Washington with an important formula intended for the War office that exciting events begin for Leslie. It is thru them that she proves her mettle, learning at the same time how affairs stand between her and the red-haired chemist.
“Light, good for reading aloud, and has made a good ‘movie.’ Appeared in Woman’s Home Companion.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17
“The story is told with vivacity and skill. A considerable fault is the not infrequently reviewed recital of happenings for the benefit of persons in the story not as well informed as the readers of the book.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 330w
+ =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 270w
“There is a delightful vein of humor throughout the tale, and, while the pictures of difficulties encountered by working girls are vivid and serious, the story is quickly diverted to a more romantic and improbable course.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 270w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 50w
=KERRUISH, JESSIE DOUGLAS.= Miss Haroun Al-Raschid. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-13954
“Rathia Jerningham, heroine and narrator of the tale, has led a very unusual kind of life. Her mother, Rathia Khan, of Abasside descent, having died when she was but a baby, her father married a courageous English lady who went with him on all his expeditions. It was often very dangerous, for Sir Horne Jerningham was a really great Assyriologist; as his daughter grew up, she shared his work and became herself an expert. But before this Lady Jerningham the second had also died, several years had been spent in England, and Rathia had a year in society before she returned to Asiatic Turkey, leaving her half-sister, Evelyn, and two brothers to be educated in England. The novel begins with the coming of this half-sister to Constantinople, whence she insists upon accompanying her father and Rathia to their home in Mosul. Through Kurdistan and Mesopotamia the story takes us into Armenian villages, among the Chaldean Christians, and into the hold of a Kurdish mountain chief. ... There is a love story interwoven with it all. ... The period is the early nineties, when Victoria was still on the throne of England, and the Armenian massacres were brewing.”—N Y Times
“The author apparently knows well the life of which she writes, for her novel contains an abundance of illuminating and interesting detail.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 650w
+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 70w
“This novel is a little confusing and difficult to follow in its hurry of events, but much may be forgiven for the sake of the vivid picture of Mesopotamia given us by the author. The part of the book which deals with Assyriological excavations in the Land of the two rivers furnishes most timely reading, and incidentally affords much detailed information as to the conditions under which our troops are fighting in that theatre of war.”
+ — =Spec= 118:544 My 12 ‘17 80w
“An exceedingly well-told tale, full of color, excitement, and solid information. The last named is so smoothly merged with the element of fiction, however, that it never transcends the imaginative atmosphere surrounding the narrative.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 460w
“Miss Kerruish’s story has won the first prize in her publishers’ thousand-guinea novel competition, and both the authoress and her judges are to be congratulated on a decision with which her readers will have good reason to agree.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p166 Ap 5 ‘17 790w
=KESTER, PAUL.= His own country. *$1.50 (1c) Bobbs 17-17972
“The plot of ‘His own country’ centres around the personality of Julius Cæsar Brent, whose blood is but one-eighth black. While still a boy he goes to Montreal, becomes in time a physician, marries twice, in each case a white woman. He has three children, a son and two daughters. In middle age the call of his native Virginia rings loud in his ears, and having acquired a competence, he purchases an old estate by correspondence and without revealing his identity as a former slave boy who once dwelt in a cabin in the very district of tidewater Virginia to which he returns. ... He is denied all social recognition. Against the appeal of his wife, he decides to remain, subjecting her and his children to a degrading humiliation even greater than his own. The months and the years pass. He becomes a national figure, lectures far and wide on the race question, heads a great movement to make the negroes a permanent political and financial power, and finally brings upon himself and two of his children the doom of death. A thousand and one details of his association with his fellow Virginians of both races add to the length and substance of the story, and numerous plots and counterplots in it increase its persistent sensationalism.”—Boston Transcript
“The book is long, rather unpleasant, and will have a limited appeal.”
— =A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17
“The hand of the playwright betrays itself in the series of dramatic or melodramatic episodes upon which the story hinges. ... As a tract this book, prophesying as it does a great struggle to the death between the black race and the white, may do more harm than good; as a story, with all its touches of realism, it amounts to a skilful melodramatic contrivance on a great scale.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 45:647 Ag ‘17 800w
“His facts run away with him, and his imagination plays havoc with them. ... His story becomes a veritable chaos of ill-constructed incidents. It is the wildest sort of sensation. ... Its pictorial quality is unquestioned, its creation of both black and white character is remarkable in its truth to life, it contains many incidents strong in their realism, its dialogue abounds in shrewd human touches, but the story as a whole falls far short of reaching the dignity of its theme and of achieving the sincerity of the novelist’s purpose.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 800w
“As a novel, the story is interesting; as a psychological study and as a thought-provoking introduction to more serious consideration of the future of the colored race in America, it deserves attention. To offset the prolixity and occasional stiffness there is a sincere and wholesome study of conditions and atmosphere that cannot fail to impress the reader.”
+ — =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 110w
“We are all thinking first of the war. But we must not forget the problems of democracy facing us at home, and no one of these is more important than the problem of right and justice in our relations with the colored people. ... The story does not offer any solution for the race problem but it does present the tragic situation fairly and humanly.”
+ =Ind= 91:133 Jl 28 ‘17 280w
“Fully and strongly as the case for ‘the nigger’ is put by Brent in speech, it is all belied by Brent in action. He can go so far and no farther towards greatness, fails always to meet the supreme tests. ... This theory of his essential inferiority by reason of the ‘black drop’ in him emerges as the dubitable idea underlying this elaborate and, on the whole, melodramatic narrative.”
– + =Nation= 106:148 Ag 9 ‘17 700w
“Dr Brent is not a tragic figure, nor one that wins the reader’s sympathies. He is not even convincing. The whole story reads much as if Mr Kester meant it to be a warning of the dangers of negro progress.”
— =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 850w
“With very considerable talent, and with more than average knowledge of his subjectmatter, he has written a strange and wonderful melodrama, at times verging on power, at times so crude as to be scarcely tolerable.”
– + =No Am= 206:797 N ‘17 850w
“So far as it discusses race problems it would be a better book if the author showed evidence of the slightest knowledge about the effort made by Booker Washington, Hampton and Tuskegee, and their friends, North and South, black and white, to make a good man and a good citizen out of the negro. He seems to have the idea that the friends of the negro are chiefly occupied in advocating miscegenation and negro supremacy.”
– + =Outlook= 116:556 Ag 8 ‘17 200w
“Mr Kester is neither academic nor melodramatic. The ethics of the question are presented without weakening the dramatic and emotional elements inherent in the tale. It is a very long, but at no point, tedious book. ... which makes a deep impression on the reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 500w
=KETCHAM, EDWARD AUGUSTUS.= Fire insurance. $2.50 E: A: Ketcham, Madison, Wis. 368 16-11610
“The author has been for ten years an examiner in a state insurance department and his purpose in writing this book is stated to be ‘to place in convenient form the essential elements relating to the fire insurance business ... for the student.’ The following chapters occupy 218 of the 301 pages and constitute the important part of the book: History of fire insurance (two chapters), Rating of risks, Fire insurance accounting, and Examination of a fire insurance company.”—Am Econ R
“The book is almost wholly descriptive, with much detail in parts of it. The style is good, but there is a lack of unity and logical arrangement, each chapter reading as if it had been prepared as a paper or as an address. There is little discussion of the fundamental principles underlying fire insurance or of the concrete problems which arise in the conduct of the business. ... No index is provided; and this in a book lacking unity, and almost wholly descriptive in character, becomes a more than ordinarily serious defect.” W: F. Gephart
=Am Econ R= 6:934 D ‘16 800w
=St Louis= 15:10 Ja ‘17 10w
=KETTLE, THOMAS MICHAEL.= Poems and parodies. *$1 Stokes 821 (Eng ed 17-17077)
The author, late professor of Irish economics in the National university of Ireland, was killed in France in 1916. This little book of his poems has an appreciative foreword by William Dawson. The poems themselves are grouped as: Personal; Early poems; Translations; Miscellaneous; Political; War poems.
“They are the reflection of a mind quick and free, rich in subtle ironies and tendernesses, but most frequently—since it was the mind of an Irish patriot—full of a brilliant indignation.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:393 D ‘17 340w
“Those who are interested in following the careers of the men who have made the big concern of their lives the political emancipation of Ireland will no doubt be interested in this volume, but it has no
## particular claim to one’s attention as straight poetry or parody
though it is all quite clever.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 290w
“The charm and the finest quality of Kettle’s poems come out in the dreaming. He fought the Germans for a dream, as he had fought England for a dream; and however uncomfortable it may be for the politicians and rulers of the Empire when this power is expended upon politics, this heroic dreaming is the source of all good Irish literature.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p56 F 1 ‘17 450w
=KETTLE, THOMAS MICHAEL.=[2] Ways of war; with a memoir by his wife, Mary S. Kettle. *$2.75 Scribner 940.91 (Eng ed 17-28917)
“Barrister-at-law, poet, literary stylist, patriotic Irishman, eloquent speaker, member of Parliament, journalist, professor of economics, and finally a soldier, giving up his life at Ginchy on Sept. 9, 1916, ‘at the post of honour, leading his men in a victorious charge,’ Kettle was a man of the loftiest ideals. ... The memoir by his wife is followed by a sequence of chapters which constitute the apologia of an Irish man of letters as to why he felt called upon to offer up his life in the war for the freedom of the world. The first section of the book, ‘Why Ireland fought,’ includes chapters upon ‘The bullying of Serbia’ and ‘The crime against Belgium.’ In the early days of the war Kettle was in Brussels, and had opportunities of visiting Termonde, Malines, and other places. A striking chapter of the book deals with the soldier-priests of France.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p507 O ‘17 970w
+ =Ath= p525 O ‘17 200w
“The book will help to fill a small and solitary shelf in the big library this world-conflict is creating; for it is rich in two of literature’s prime essentials, a lucid and beautiful style, and a fervor in expression that is well-nigh that of the mystic who is a zealot.” S. A.
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 15 ‘17 590w
“The volume is composed of various papers, all bearing the marks of a rare style and scholarship. There are pungent and vivid pages on the scenes he witnessed in Belgium, and on various phases of life at the front, a scathing study of Bismarck, Nietzsche, and Treitschke in ‘The gospel of the devil,’ while the ‘Rhapsody on rats’ is typical of Kettle’s racy wit.”
+ =Nation= 106:96 Ja 24 ‘18 470w
=New Repub= 13:256 D 29 ‘17 1850w
=N Y Times= 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 900w
“Read this book that you may receive comfort and confidence from the unquenchable spirit of the new France. Read the memoir, written simply and movingly by Kettle’s widow, that you may come to love the man for what he was and the country which begat him.”
+ =Spec= 119:297 S 22 ‘17 1300w
“The book contains some brilliant little sketches of life at the front.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p439 S 13 ‘17 860w
=KILMER, JOYCE.=, ed. Literature in the making. *$1.40 (3c) Harper 810.4 17-13416
Mr Kilmer reports interviews with a number of contemporary men and women of letters. He says in explanation of his purpose: “How eagerly would we read an interview with Francis Bacon on the question of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, or an interview with Oliver Goldsmith in which he gave his real opinion of Dr Johnson, Garrick, and Boswell! A century or so from now, some of the writers who in this book talk to the world may be the objects of curiosity as great.” Among the subjects discussed with various authors are: War stops literature—William Dean Howells; The joys of the poor—Kathleen Norris; National prosperity and art—Booth Tarkington; Romanticism and American humor—Montague Glass; Commercializing the sex instinct—Robert Herrick; Literature in the colleges—John Erskine; The new spirit in poetry—Amy Lowell. The interviews were written up first for the New York Times.
=A L A Bkl= 13:440 Jl ‘17
“Much sense and much nonsense will be found, as might be expected, in these interviews.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 My 12 ‘17 480w
“A book of fascinating quality and wide appeal.”
+ =Cath World= 105:681 Ag ‘17 280w
“The titles of the interviews really promise more than the interviewer accomplished but some interesting things are said with point and humor.”
+ — =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 100w
Reviewed by G: B. Donlin
— =Dial= 62:519 Je 14 ‘17 250w
+ =Lit D= 55:48 Ag 4 ‘17 180w
=Nation= 104:662 My 31 ‘17 300w
“A genial, human, gratifying, and readable book. ... A brief biographical paragraph in the table of contents after each author’s name gives an outline of his life and work.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 500w
=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 110w
“The interviews by Joyce Kilmer which have appeared in the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times may be said to have outlived their usefulness. The papers in collected form are a veritable hodge-podge. ... It must not be inferred that Mr Kilmer ‘writes down,’ that he is inept, or that he distorts; he is too good a newspaper man and too honest a writer for that. The papers were not intended to have permanent form, and that is why they appear to such disadvantage in it.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 280w
=KILMER, JOYCE.= Main street, and other poems. *$1 Doran 811 17-28181
Mr Kilmer is now an officer in America’s new army, and six of the twenty-eight poems in this volume are about the war. “The white ships and the red” deals with the Lusitania, while “The cathedral of Rheims” is from the French of Émile Verhaeren. Nearly half of the remaining poems deal with religious subjects.
“At his best he rises to a very noble achievement. The discipline of the sonnet is excellently medicinal for him: it belts him in where he might sag.” C. D. M.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1000w
“The volume just published brings its expected revelation of ‘growth.’ It is an advance over ‘Trees’ not in quantity—for it is still slim—but in the quality, that is to say, the variety of its verse. And its variousness proves Mr Kilmer not less but more a poet of ‘that little, infinite thing, the human heart.’”
+ =Cath World= 106:405 D ‘17 670w
“Facile verse with an aroma of medieval mysticism.”
+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 110w
“The publisher tells us that Mr Kilmer has had, for a man still young, an astonishing varied career. Nevertheless, one could not guess it from Mr Kilmer’s book. Ideas, emotions, language, rhythms, all are oddly second-hand, as if they had been offered to him and blandly accepted.” Conrad Aiken
— =Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 400w
“That delicacy and charm that have characterized Mr Joyce Kilmer’s work in the past are found, with an added note of strong religious fervor, in his new volume of verse.”
+ =Lit D= 55:38 N 24 ‘17 1350w
“In singing quality and in the command of his medium this new collection, largely of lyrics and sonnets, is quite the best he has published. More marked in it also than in his former books, although it has always been one of his distinguishing qualities, is a certain friendly, human feeling.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:530 D 2 ‘17 360w
=KILNER, WALTER G., and MACELROY, ANDREW J.=[2] Cantonment manual; or, Facts for every soldier. il *$1 Appleton 355 17-31017
This book of “facts for every soldier,” prepared by two army officers, attempts to cover briefly the entire field of military training. Chapters are given to: Helpful hints for recruits, Setting-up exercises, Infantry drill, School of the squad, School of the company, Inspections and muster, Honors and salutes, Tent pitching, Signals and signaling, etc. The last chapter provides an “Easy road to French.” Miscellaneous matter, including music for the bugle calls, is given in an appendix. The book is indexed.
“Provides a great fund of practical information and advice.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w
=KIMBALL, MARIA (BRACE) (MRS JAMES P. KIMBALL).= Soldier-doctor of our army, James P. Kimball. il *$1.50 (5c) Houghton 17-9244
The wide extent of Dr Kimball’s service as an army surgeon is indicated by the chapter titles: College and Civil war; Fort Buford—the frontier; The Yellowstone expedition; The Black hills and the Big Horn; The Thornburgh massacre; Texas—Europe—Texas; New Mexico—Santa Fé; New Mexico—Fort Wingate; Governor’s Island—the war with Spain. This memoir, prepared by his wife, is interestingly illustrated. There is an introduction by Major-General William C. Gorgas.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:447 Jl ‘17
“The career of Surgeon Kimball is a distinct part of the history of the country, and a delightful sidelight on certain events that the historian, with mind intent on the high tops, does not and can not include.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 190w
+ =Nation= 105:539 N 15 ‘17 1400w
=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17
=KING, BASIL.= High heart. il *$1.50 (1½c) Harper 17-24285
“Alexandra Adare, who tells her own story, is a Canadian, well born, who had lived an easy life until her father’s death left her almost penniless. ... She was without a suitor of any kind when Mrs Rossiter, who before her marriage had been Miss Brokenshire, one of the extremely rich Brokenshires of New York and Newport, ... engaged her as nursery governess for her little daughter. Then, of course, Hugh Brokenshire, Mrs Rossiter’s brother, fell in love with Alix, and the family objected, especially J. Howard Brokenshire, the father, an autocrat with the worst possible manners. ... The relations of Alix with the various members of the Brokenshire family, especially with the redoubtable J. Howard and his beautiful young second wife, furnish the main part of the story.” (N Y Times) The war enters slightly into the latter part of the story.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“The book has the interest of setting forth the different ways in which Canadians and Americans viewed the earlier stages of the great European conflict.”
+ =Ath= p680 D ‘17 70w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 130w
=Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 170w
“J. Howard Brokenshire is never anything but a wooden figure which moves as the author jerks the wires. But since this is true of every character in the novel, he does not thereby become exceptional.”
— — + =N Y Times= 22:354 S 23 ‘17 450w
=Pittsburgh= 22:750 N ‘17 40w
=Spec= 119:682 D 8 ‘17 20w
“A story to be read thoughtfully. It contains several striking characters—the elder Brokenshire, for example, and one or two minor persons. Its principal significance lies in comparing three branches of the English-speaking race—the native Britons, the Canadians, or ‘Colonials,’ and the people of the United States—and in setting forth the vast influence for peace and the good of humanity that will be evolved when all three come to realize that their fundamental moral principles are one and the same.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 900w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p542 N 8 ‘17 140w
=KING, BASIL.= Lifted veil. il *$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-8203
The woman who came to Arthur Bainbridge’s study was heavily veiled. She told her story and went away. When she comes into his life again three years later he does not recognize her. Out of this situation rises the complication that gives the story its plot. Clorinda Gildersleeve thinks that the clergyman to whom she had gone as a sinner must know her. When he has learned to love her, she takes his love as an evidence of his divine forgiveness, and promises to marry him. The revelation comes to him later. He stands the test but it is when she learns that he has not, as she had supposed, known the truth from the beginning that the real barrier to their marriage is raised.
“The situations are tense and the discussions, though very carefully handled, will offend some readers both in their nature and in their conclusions. Appeared in McClure’s Magazine.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17
“In all its scenes ‘The lifted veil’ is very close to life. ... It offers a clear view of the experiences that confront us every day.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 450w
“A harmless book, carelessly constructed, somewhat verbose, and arriving nowhere in particular.”
— =Dial= 62:401 My 3 ‘17 350w
“In substance the story, like its predecessors, is helplessly and not altogether wholesomely romantic, the old set illusion tricked out in the costume of the hour, and made palatable to Mr King’s large audience, we fear, rather as refined sex-melodrama than as anything else: a means of escape, not of access.”
— =Nation= 105:16 Jl 5 ‘17 180w
“Basil King’s new novel is in many ways quite the best that has come from his pen.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:94 Mr 18 ‘17 570w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 400w
=KING, DOUGALL MACDOUGALL.= Battle with tuberculosis and how to win it. il *$1.50 (2½c) Lippincott 616.2 17-25108
The author practiced medicine for ten years, was for eighteen months a patient at sanatoria in Canada and the United States and resided for two years in a health resort. He has become convinced that many deaths from tuberculosis occur because the majority of patients do not “begin to comprehend the significance of the reasons underlying the only treatment that will bring success.” He has therefore written this “book for the patient and his friends” to set forth “the fundamental scientific facts which help to answer the patient’s constant inquiry—Why must I do this?” (Introd.) The appendix treats of disinfectants.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17
“It is probably the first book ever written which turns the discussion of a dreaded malady into a military romance of thrilling interest. The book will bring hope and cheer to thousands of homes. It deserves a wide advertisement from pulpit and press and should be found in every public library in the land.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 190w
“He has written an unusually clear and helpful manual-at-arms for popular guidance. It is made clearer by the frequent use of simile, chiefly drawn from army life.”
+ =Dial= 63:460 N 8 ‘17 250w
+ =Nation= 105:672 D 13 ‘17 250w
“With the increasing number of books of a popular nature for tuberculosis patients and their families, Dr King’s book will have a certain amount of competition. His new and refreshing point of view, however, will help to stimulate flagging interest on the part of many tuberculosis patients and workers.” P. P. Jacobs
+ =Survey= 39:266 D 1 ‘17 250w
=KING, HENRY CHURCHILL.= Fundamental questions. *$1.50 (3½c) Macmillan 230 17-3741
The author’s aim is “to deal, in not too technical fashion, with some of the most fundamental questions, theoretical and practical, which are involved in the Christian view of God and the world.” Among these problems are: The question of suffering and sin; The question of prayer; The question of Christ; The question of life’s fundamental decision; The question of Christian unity; The question of Christianity as a world religion.
“The last chapter, ‘Citizens of a new civilization,’ is a thrilling statement of the universal meaning and claim of Christianity that must find an answer from anyone who is sensitive to the call to high and heroic duty. The climax of this chapter and therefore of the book is superb.”
+ =Bib World= 50:255 O ‘17 270w
Reviewed by James Moffat
+ =Hibbert J= 15:678 Jl ‘17 60w
+ =Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p7 Jl ‘17 20w
+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17 7w
“A fine spirit and authentic vision mark ‘Fundamental questions’, by Henry Churchill King, the president of Oberlin college. ... President King writes with sympathy and penetration, and his words should be helpful to many who are perplexed at the trend of present-day life and the greatness of its problems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 4 ‘17 250w
=KINGMAN, HENRY.=[2] Faith of a middle-aged man. *$1.25 (2½c) Pilgrim press 240 17-25597
“A little book of reassurance for troubled times,” promises the author. It is for men and women, preoccupied with innumerable cares, that the message is given, men and women whose interest in the chapters “will not come from their wisdom but from the elemental heart-hunger that is common to us all.” The first part treats of “The ground of faith” in eight chapters: Life’s need of faith; The appeal of middle age; The years of attrition; Faith’s inner citadel; The life as a witness to the truth; The personality of Jesus; The witness of the life-stream; The place of the cross. The second part enlarges upon “The outlook of faith” in seven chapters: The fact of God; The divine outlook on man; The good fight; The discipline of pain; Overcoming under difficulties; The hope of everlasting life; The unending fellowship.
“The book is sure to find a place in more than current and ephemeral reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 120w
“The book is just what one might expect of Dr Kingman. Between the lines his friends can read autobiography, and are not disappointed in the courage and faith and fine manliness that speak out from a life where physique has failed to match aspiration, and success has been attained by stern heroism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ‘18 490w
=KINGSBURY, HELEN OVINGTON.= All aboard for Wonderland. il *$1.50 (4c) Moffat 18-1718
A story for younger children. Donald and Rose have spent a wonderful day in the city. Railway terminal, Christmas shops, Hippodrome and city streets have offered them a series of marvels, one after another. Tired and happy and a little bit sleepy, they sit waiting for their train and listening to the trainman’s voice: “Five forty express for Washington—all aboard.” And then: “Five fifty-nine express for India and the elephants—all aboard!” And immediately Donald and Rose find themselves all aboard and off for Wonderland. What follows is a dream story in which the real events of the day are made to blend fancifully into the dream. There are attractive illustrations, four of them in color, by Gertrude Alice Kay.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ — =Bookm= 46:495 D ‘17 50w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 100w
“The story is well conceived and entertainingly written, and the several illustrations in color add to its charm.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 100w
=KINGSLEY, FLORENCE (MORSE) (MRS CHARLES R. KINGSLEY).= Neighbors *$1.40 (2½c) Dodd 17-24704
The central character of this story is Miss Malvina Bennett, the village dressmaker of Innisfield. The reader is also introduced to Malvina’s rival, Mrs Hobbs, who puts out a sign “Madame Louise—Robes” and draws much of the village custom; to Mrs Hobbs’ son who longs to enlist in the English army; to Harry Schwartz, who works in the munitions factory under the name of Le Noir; and to Madeleine Desaye who has fled from France with her father, and with whom these two young men are in love. Miss Philura, now Mrs Reverend Pettibone, who has figured in other stories by Mrs Kingsley, reappears in this with a new baby.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“The characters are stereotyped ones, but the author has a faculty for making them charming. Perhaps the greatest drawback to one’s enjoyment of the book is the tiresome use of dialect.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 260w
“Mrs Kingsley’s new heroine, Malvina Bennett, village dressmaker in Innisfield, is just as pleasing in her own way as was Miss Philura.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 300w
=KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA.= Clothing and health. (Home-making ser.) il *65c Macmillan 646 16-18558
“‘Clothing and health’ treats of the elementary work in sewing, which precedes garment making. It also discusses the leading textile materials, telling where they are grown and how they are manufactured ready for use. The hygiene of clothing, the buying of material, the use of the commercial pattern and the care and repair of clothing are discussed in connection with the lessons on sewing and textiles.”—Springf’d Republican
=Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:144 My ‘17
“A hundred and fifty illustrations enrich the text of this book of 300 pages, as excellent as its mate.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 50w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 50w
“For use in elementary schools, specially rural schools. ... Lessons and questions make it a useful textbook, or it can be used in the home.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:127 Ap ‘17 40w
=KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA.= Home and the family. (Home-making ser.) il *80c Macmillan 640 17-3475
“This is an elementary text book of home making, to be used as a supplementary reader, and source book. It describes the decoration and furnishing of a cottage at Pleasant Valley in a way that develops a strong desire to go and do likewise.”—School Arts Magazine
“Has a chapter with simple directions on how to care for ‘the most important member of the family,’ the baby, and one on right living and how to keep well. Good print and illustrations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:297 Ap ‘17
+ =Nature= 100:3 S 6 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17
“Four color plates and 185 other illustrations add to the attractiveness and to the value of this sensible volume.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 60w
=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Diversity of creatures. *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday 17-11707
A collection of stories and poems. A number of the stories have appeared in American magazines: “In the same boat,” in Harper’s Magazine, December, 1911; “In the presence,” in Everybody’s, March, 1912; “The vortex,” in Scribner’s Magazine, August, 1914; “Swept and garnished,” in the Century Magazine, January, 1915; and “Mary Postgate,” in the Century Magazine, September, 1915. There are fourteen stories and about an equal number of poems.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17
“He has never shown himself a greater master of the art of story-telling, never combined creative imagination with more triumphant realism, or handled his own English prose with more ease, economy, and certainty of effect. The first of the fourteen, ‘As easy as A. B. C.,’ is perhaps the finest short story of the future ever written.”
+ =Ath= p240 My ‘17 850w
+ =Ath= p254 My ‘17 180w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:537 Jl ‘17 330w
“Two of them, ‘Swept and garnished’ and ‘Mary Postgate,’ are products of the war, and that they reveal him at his best is evidence of his command of the vital facts of life. Both are grim.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 1600w
“In these stories Kipling presents the lamentable spectacle of the writer who has written himself out. From ‘As easy as A. B. C.,’ a wearisome, drawn-out, scientific tale in the early H. G. Wells manner, To ‘Mary Postgate,’ an account of the war’s reactive effect on two lonely women, he gives on the whole only meagre evidence of that power which in the eighteen-nineties made his name famous over the globe. The fourteen tales vary in merit, but by a curious grouping the poorest and dullest rank first, the last five stories are the best of the collection. There are two stories of practical jokes on a large scale—‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘The horse marines.’ The last is the better, and has more than a little of the old rollicking humor of ‘Soldiers three.’ ‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ is interesting in conception, but is drawn out to such impossible conclusions and to such an unconscionable length as to destroy its effect.”
– + =Cath World= 105:684 Ag ‘17 280w
“The best stories in this volume are Kipling all over. ... His old vigor of phrase is undiminished, both the vigor which is beauty and the vigor which is brutality.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 62:441 My 17 ‘17 950w
“Three stories stand out from the book sufficiently to assure them a place in the anthologies of the future, ‘As easy as A B C,’ ‘In the same boat,’ and ‘The village that voted the earth was flat.’”
+ =Ind= 90:350 My 19 ‘17 550w
+ — =Lit D= 54:1858 Je 16 ‘17 160w
=Nation= 104:632 My 24 ‘17 550w
+ — =New Repub= 11:112 My 26 ‘17 1100w
+ =N Y Times= 22:177 My 6 ‘17 1100w
Reviewed by Fremont Rider
+ — =Pub W= 91:1315 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
“Only two of the stories actually deal with the war, and in them the author is at his best. They have restraint and dignity. There are no tricks or fireworks, but they are written with immense power and sincerity. In striking contrast to these are the two ‘comic’ stories, ‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘The horse marines,’ which are as bad as anything that Mr Kipling has done in the way of whipped-up humour.”
+ — =Sat R= 123:368 Ap 21 ‘17 600w
+ =Spec= 118:461 Ap 21 ‘17 1800w
“‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘In the presence’ not only transcend the others in merit, but are also most characteristically Kiplingesque.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 770w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p186 Ap 19 ‘17 750w
=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Sea warfare. *$1.25 (4c) Doubleday 940.91 17-7953
“The fringes of the fleet,” printed earlier in a separate volume, is included here as the first of three parts. Parts 2 and 3 are Tales of “The trade” and Destroyers at Jutland. By “The trade” is meant the submarine service. A number of poems are included.
=A L A Bkl= 13:346 My ‘17
“This collection of Mr Kipling’s recent articles exhibits his genius for vivid description of the almost indescribable, and his power of giving life to brute engines and physical energies, at its highest.”
+ =Ath= p601 D ‘16 50w
“Only one American writer has so far laid his finger on the secret by which Kipling may be understood. In a recent article Mr Will Irwin discussed the cleavage in the British race between Norman blood and Saxon—a cleavage that very few understand but that is very illuminating. Rudyard Kipling is clear Saxon. He sees and writes from the Saxon point of view. His Norman-blooded officers are seen from beneath. ... In his most recent book he has given us again the purely Saxon viewpoint, writing as a brother when he writes of Grimsby fishermen. On the other hand, his officers (and the navy with its rigorous caste rule is practically all Norman on the upper deck) are admirable at a little distance.”
+ =Dial= 62:358 Ap 19 ‘17 450w
+ — =Ind= 90:35 Ap 2 ‘17 370w
+ =N Y Times= 22:179 My 6 ‘17 700w
=Pittsburgh= 22:529 Je ‘17 10w
“The ‘Destroyers at Jutland’ chapter furnishes the real interest of the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 6 ‘17 420w
“Have an atmosphere and flavor of their own; they sometimes seem tenuous and even confused, but their effect is cumulative, the significant though often slight incidents related remain in the memory, and we conclude, with the author, that ‘the navy is very old and very wise.’”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 70w
=KIRK, MRS ALICE GITCHELL.= Practical food economy. il *$1.25 Little 641 17-24175
Mrs Kirk offers this book as the direct result of eleven years lecturing on home economics and the teaching of all grades from kindergarten through the academic departments in cooking. Contents: Preparedness in the home; Meats; Bread; Milk; Conservation of fruits and vegetables; Use of fruits in season; Service first. Nutrition tables, Children’s menus, School lunches for children, A week-end vacation for mother, are some of the features of a book designed to put in operation Mr Hoover’s direction to “Eat plenty, wisely, and without waste.”
+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w
“To the average housewife a definition of and a technical treatise on the familiar word ‘calorie,’ is not particularly illuminating. In this
## book Mrs Kirk has incorporated a generous list of examples
representing approximately 100 calories and Professor Atwater’s nutrition table which shows the waste and fuel matter (measured in calories) of every food variety.”
+ =Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 120w
“Mrs Kirk’s technical knowledge is sufficient to enable her to find untechnical expression for it, and she robs calories of half their horror in her careful, practical explanations.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:345 S 16 ‘17 200w
“Special attention is given to the elimination of waste in buying, preparation and cooking. Ways for co-operating with the Food administration are suggested. A special section deals with ‘understanding the gas range.’ An entire chapter is devoted to bread. Decidedly this is the book for all those wishing to become partners with Mr Hoover.” Cyra Thomas
+ =Pub W= 92:816 S 15 ‘17 420w
=R of Rs= 57:220 F ‘18 30w
“Another valuable point in this book is the amount of space devoted to the proper foods for children.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 100w
=KIRKPATRICK, MARION GREENLEAF.= Rural school from within. il *$1.28 (2c) Lippincott 379 17-19387
This book is largely autobiographical. The author tells the story of his teaching experience in a rural school in Kansas some twenty-five years ago. It is a very human story in which the characters of the young teacher, his pupils and the men and women of the community are revealed. With the ripe wisdom that has come from years spent with boys and girls, the author discusses some of the problems of education and discipline represented in that early experience. He is now specialist in education, division of college extension, Kansas State agricultural college.
“Those who have neither attended nor taught a rural school may get much local color and good advice, if they desire them, from this didactic but interesting narrative. The data on consolidation of country schools may appeal to more specialized readers. The proposed rural-school curriculum falls far short of the changes which present conditions demand.” L. L. Bernard
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:554 Ja ‘18 100w
“Shows a sympathetic insight into the rural school problem and should be a source of inspiration to those interested in rural education.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18
“A constructive book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 150w
“The freshness of his approach to a discussion of these problems and of means of making progress towards their solution is the delightful quality of a loosely written book; a book humanly rather than intellectually original. ... His heart is plainly in what he writes, and his sympathy and first-hand experience are refreshing after books which make rural education a dehumanized affair of sociology and public administration. But to appreciate the homeliness of his book is not to forgive its poor organization and padded style.”
+ — =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 220w
“From the first paragraph to the last it is constructive.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:94 O ‘17 110w
“The spirit and tone of the book is sane and helpful and will help to inspire those who sincerely desire to render service to country people.” G: L. Roberts
+ =School R= 25:529 S ‘17 180w
=KITTREDGE, MABEL HYDE.= Home and its management. il *$1.50 (1½c) Century 640 17-13801
“A handbook in homemaking with three hundred inexpensive cooking receipts.” (Sub-title) Among the chapter titles are: The house itself; Kitchen; Dining-room; Living-room; Bedrooms; Plumbing; Useful facts for the homemaker; Laundry work; Marketing; Division of income; Foods and their value. The author is president of the Association of practical housekeeping centers in New York city and chairman of the New York school lunch committee. She has written several other books on housekeeping subjects.
“An amplification of the material contained in two previous books. ‘Practical home making’ and ‘Second course in home making.’ While addressed to school girls, the suggestions are helpful and practical for all inexperienced housekeepers.”
+ =Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 40w
+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
“An authoritative volume.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 190w
“Miss Kittredge’s book begins at the beginning; it takes for granted exactly nothing at all. The youngest and most ignorant housekeeper will learn the fundamentals here. In its compass of less than 400 pages, it is a remarkably inclusive book. It will be of particular value to the young homemaker in a city apartment. It will be welcomed, too, by the woman of limited means.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:284 Jl 29 ‘17 500w
“There are a great many suggestions about living conditions, such as a discussion of the treatment of servants, which hardly belong in a textbook for use in settlement or home-training classes. It seems almost a self-evident fact that the greatest need of the housekeeper at the present time is the ability to evaluate her time and to learn thereby how to maintain an efficient home with the least expenditure of effort. There is no attempt in Miss Kittredge’s book to even suggest this problem, and many of the methods of work that are given are unnecessarily time-consuming.” A. R. Hanna
– + =School R= 25:613 O ‘17 430w
“Even the most experienced housekeeper will be likely to find something new in this volume.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 150w
=KLEENE, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS.= Profit and wages. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 331 17-100
A study in the distribution of income. Income is differentiated from general wealth as “wealth just produced or come into existence.” The author examines the various economic theories that have been put forth and then arrives at his own conclusions, which go back to doctrines of the classical school. Contents: Introduction; Böhm-Bawerk’s theory of interest; The time-preference theory; The abstinence theory; The productivity theory of interest; The essentials of a theory of profit and interest; The theory of wages—The supply of labor; The theory of wages—The demand for labor; Conclusion.
“A clear, well reasoned attempt to state and solve the problem of distribution in economics. Scholarly and highly theoretical, it complements, but does not replace, other works in this field.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:290 Ap ‘17
“The book is excellent in style and tone, and a perusal of its contents will be particularly useful to economists who have followed the subjective theorists into the wilderness of psychological determinations.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:365 My ‘17 150w
“Professor Kleene’s volume must be classified as a contribution to economic criticism. ... On its constructive side the book is fragmentary and lacks coherence. It doubtless will prove useful both to those who are insisting upon a return of theory to the problems and methods of classicism and to those who are demanding a newer institutional economics. If the book is far weaker as a constructive study than as a critical attack, the result is not evidence of personal weakness on the part of the author. Rather it affords testimony to the existing state of economic theory. In view of their problems it is unfortunate that both volumes reveal a lack of familiarity with the writings of the school of English economists who recently have been giving their attention to the subject of welfare, and who of all current theorists seem to be most fully conscious of what they are doing.” W. H. Hamilton
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 72:239 Jl ‘17 220w
“This is a theoretical analysis of the distribution of income, which the trained student may find very instructive, but which will never be read by the ordinary man of affairs.”
=Ind= 89:507 Mr 19 ‘17 90w
=N Y Times= 22:120 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
=R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 40w
“The whole analysis is careful and well reasoned. It will interest everyone who is thinking in the field of economics.” H. F. G.
+ =Survey= 38:289 Je 30 ‘17 250w
=KLEIN, ARTHUR JAY.= Intolerance in the reign of Elizabeth, queen of England. *$2 Houghton 274.2 17-4838
“This careful study (by the professor of history in Wheaton college, Norton, Massachusetts) of the religious and political animosities rife in the Elizabethan era shows, as the author remarks, that the great queen’s reign is ‘not altogether an encouraging field to the idealist seeking in the past for the first rays of the light of tolerance.’ Anglicans, Catholics, and Presbyterians contended, and intrigued against each other, with bitterness and persistence.” (Ath) “Mr Klein ... makes clear his belief that the comparative tolerance of the Anglican church was none of its choosing, but was imposed upon it for political reasons by the queen.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“If Professor Klein had called his book a brief sketch of ecclesiastical controversies during the reign of Elizabeth and had made no pretensions beyond a careful restatement of the conclusions already reached by competent scholars, the book could have been commended as vital, interesting, and for the most part accurate. But as a history of intolerance during the reign of Elizabeth—it must be said in all kindliness—the book possesses the remarkable deficiency of saying very little about it. ... The long bibliography and the acknowledgments in the preface raise expectations of a more extended study of manuscript and printed sources than the text substantiates, for the great majority of its details are supported abundantly by standard secondary authorities and the foot-notes are devoted mainly to Strype, the Parker society’s publications, and the State Papers, Domestic.” R. G. Usher
=Am Hist R= 22:890 Jl ‘17 580w
+ =Ath= p257 My ‘17 150w
“The bibliography is not critical, and evidences the author’s anti-Catholic prejudice. He warns his readers against accepting the statements of Catholic writers, but says nothing against unfair books like Bury’s ‘A history of freedom of thought.’ Again he is not aware of the utter unreliability of Sarpi’s history of Trent, nor does he apparently know that a new critical history of the Council is in course of publication.”
— =Cath World= 105:546 Jl ‘17 670w
+ — =Dial= 62:317 Ap 5 ‘17 300w
“The truth is that the intolerance of churches is an antiquated issue; it is the intolerance of states with which we fight to-day. ... To the question ‘When does persecution cease to be persecution?’ Mr Klein seems to provide the facile answer ‘When it is done by the state.’ ... The bibliography is portentous and indiscriminate, amounting to nearly a fifth of the text.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p208 My 3 ‘17 1400w
=KLEIN, FÉLIX.= Hope in suffering; memories and reflections of a French army chaplain; tr. from the French ‘Les douleurs qui espèrent,’ by Gemma Bailey; with an introd. by Canon H. Scott Holland. *4s 6d Melrose, London 242
“It was the Abbé Klein, of the American hospital, Neuilly, Paris, who gave us the sad and moving little book ‘La guerre vue d’une ambulance’—translated under the title ‘Diary of a French army chaplain.’ The present little book has the same poignant note of single-mindedness; and it is not confined to ‘memories’ for about a third of it contains ‘Reflections’—on the problem of Evil, Grief, Atonement, ‘Lux in tenebris,’ &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p474 O ‘16 70w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 O 19 ‘16 80w
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Fifteen thousand useful phrases. *$1.60 Funk 808 17-30916
That this is a work for study rather than for reference is made clear in the author’s preface on How to use this book, in which he says, “The method used for building a large vocabulary has usually been confined to the study of single words. This has produced good results, but it is believed that eminently better results can be obtained from a careful study of words and expressions, as furnished in this book, where words can be examined in their context.” The phrases for study are arranged in eleven groups: Useful phrases; Significant phrases; Felicitous phrases; Impressive phrases; Prepositional phrases; Business phrases; Literary expressions; Striking similes; Conversational phrases; Public speaking phrases; Miscellaneous phrases. There is an introduction by Frank H. Vizetelly.
“A book of practical usefulness for the student, the writer and the public speaker.”
+ =Cath World= 106:414 D ‘17 50w
“Has great helpfulness for whoever is willing to use it according to Mr Kleiser’s plan.”
+ =Lit D= 56:46 F 9 ‘18 90w
=N Y Times= 22:542 D 9 ‘17 70w
“While some of these selections seem ‘thwarted by fortune,’ one’s criticism must be ‘tempered by charity,’ and there is no doubt that a systematic study of these pages would greatly improve a deficient vocabulary.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:577 D 5 ‘17 80w
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.=[2] How to build mental power. il *$3 Funk 374 17-27883
A practical, constructive aid to mind-development. Each chapter constitutes a lesson. In order, one is taught how to develop concentration, a stock of ideas, orderliness of mind, power and use of words, clear thinking, intellectual force, habit of analysis, sound opinions, the use of the will, imagination and feeling, a retentive memory, conscience, power of intuition, breadth of mind and spirituality. The whole subject of mental culture is presented in a clear, simple manner that can be readily followed by an intelligent student at odd moments.
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Talks on talking. *75c Funk 808.5 16-19827
“Both private and public speech are covered by these ‘Talks’ of Mr Kleiser. ... They refer to Talkers and talking, give Phrases for talkers, consider Talking in salesmanship, How to tell a story, How to speak in public, The dramatic element, Care of the throat, etc. It is worth while for every one to realize the value of an attractive voice, to avoid mannerisms, and to be natural, spontaneous, charming, to the largest possible degree. Mr Kleiser’s pages will help.”—Lit D
“Suggestive but not exhaustive.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:161 Ja ‘17
=Cleveland= p145 D ‘16 30w
“A new book on an old art, which can be taken in hand and read through in an hour or so, while the suggestions, if well remembered, may last a lifetime.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1274 Ap 28 ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:171 N ‘16
+ =R of Rs= 54:685 D ‘16 50w
“The author was formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity school.”
=St Louis= 15:10 Ja ‘17 12w
=Spec= 118:340 Mr 17 ‘17 300w
=KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSON-SMITH)=, ed. Beautiful crochet on household linen. (Home art ser.) il *75c Stokes 746 17-26258
A companion volume to a work on knitting, showing how table cloths, curtain tops, towel ends, sideboard cloths, tea cosies, dressing table runners, and other items may be finished with crochet. The author says that special features of the book are suggestions for finishing cloths with a straight edge, and designs showing natural flowers in filet crochet.
=A L A Bkl= 13:297 Ap ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 10w
“Some of the patterns are effective, but we wish that the designers could find inspiration in conventional renaissance work, instead of trying to adapt the forms of natural flowers to such an unsuitable medium as flat crochet.”
+ =Spec= 116:635 My 20 ‘16 150w
=KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSONSMITH).= Flower-patch among the hills. il *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 828 17-26323
Flora Klickmann is editor of The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine, an English publication, and author of a number of books on domestic art. In this volume she writes of a summer spent in an old English cottage in the hills overlooking the Wye. The book recalls “The garden of a commuter’s wife” and others of the kind in which amusing personal experiences, out-of-door descriptions and neighborly gossip are mingled.
=A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17
“She has much that is quaint and amusing and picturesque to place before the reader of her narrative.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 7 ‘17 140w
“Will appeal to those in whom the love of gardens is an instinct. ... She writes best of what she loves best, and flowers rather than humanity are her happiest inspiration.”
+ =Dial= 62:152 F 22 ‘17 100w
+ =Spec= 116:726 Je 10 ‘16 60w
=KLINE, BURTON.= End of the flight. *$1.50 (1c) Lane 17-11708
Mrs Branstane, as unpleasant a woman as one could find in fiction or out of it, is named by her creator “one of the causeless catastrophes.” The scene of the story is Rossacre, typical of the smaller American cities. Rossacre boasts its social set and its social season. Of the former the Gaylands are the leaders, and it is in the Gayland home that Mrs Branstane occupies the modest position of housekeeper. But there is something sinister in her presence in the house and in her hold over Judge Gayland. He is the first of her victims. Others follow till she meets her match in Andrew Penning. Penning, who in time becomes judge in Gayland’s place, is in love with Annabel, Gayland’s daughter, and it is in her jealousy of the girl that Mrs Branstane oversteps herself and accomplishes her own ruin.
“Primarily a novel of character, of clashing temperaments and wills. Yet its best achievement and the highest promise it contains of the author’s future as a novelist—next, perhaps, to his unmistakable felicity of word and phrase—is his willingness to array his story in a healthy provincialism of scene and feeling, and his considerable ability to make his reader see that scene and share that feeling. In clarity of delineation of character and in sustained and unified effectiveness of its story of character clashing with character, this novel may leave something to be desired.” F. I.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ‘17 1250w
“The characters do not live, and the temptation to much skipping is irresistible. The book is better written than many which take a more compelling grasp of their readers.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:226 Je 10 ‘17 160w
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 430w
=KNIGHT, AUSTIN MELVIN.= Modern seamanship. 7th ed rev and enl il *$6.50 (2½c) Van Nostrand 656 17-11225
This work by Rear-Admiral Knight, first published in 1901, now appears in a seventh edition. A note says, “The present edition is designed to bring the work up to date as completely as possible. To this end, a large amount of new material has been added, much that was obsolete has been cut out, and about one-third of the remainder has been extensively revised or entirely rewritten.” The new edition is illustrated with 159 plates.
+ =Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 10w
=KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR.= Lost little lady. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-25247
The scene of this story for young people is laid in New York at the time of the draft riots In 1863. Nora O’Neil rescues a strange little girl, somewhat younger than herself, from the mob. Nora is warm hearted and impetuous, and the great wealth which has come to her father and herself quite suddenly has not spoiled her. The opportunity to mother this little stranger is a golden one to lonely Nora and she hopes fervently that the child’s people will never be found. Her wish seems in a fair way to be gratified, for Bébée refuses to disclose anything about herself. The two girls become devotedly fond of one another, and, happily, the final solution of the mystery surrounding Bébée does not separate them.
“An entertaining tale.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:64 N ‘17
“Dr and Mrs Knipe have a literary style which places their books far above the range of average juvenile literature.”
+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w
“There is plenty of both plot and incident.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 50w
=KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR.= Maid of old Manhattan. il *$1.25 (1½c) Macmillan 17-24856
A story of New Amsterdam under the rule of Peter Stuyvesant. Annetje, the maid of old Manhattan, had spent her early childhood with the Indians. She knows that they had loved and treasured her highly, for even after they have sent her to live with the white people, their protective watch over her continues. Of her parentage she knows nothing, but she has sometimes been made to feel that she is not Dutch like her companions. Twice it is given Annetje to warn the governor of impending danger. The first time, when an Indian attack threatens, she intercedes with her red friends and the town is saved. The second time her warning is not heeded. The English ships come and New Amsterdam becomes New York. But the ships bring to Annetje the secret of her birth, and Peter Stuyvesant, no longer the governor, sanctions his son Balthazar’s choice of a wife.
=A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18
=Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 30w
+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 80w
“This is a novel whose simplicity and direct methods are its greatest charm. There is enough excitement to hold the reader’s attention, and enough of historical setting to give the simple story dignity. It is a wholesome and pleasing story.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 60w
“I think children from ten on will like it better than I do, because I tried it on them, and they voted it ‘great.’ And they will get a glimpse of old Manhattan at the time the British took it over, learn what they ate and what they wore, and some Dutch words, interesting because quite mysterious.” Maud Thompson
+ =N Y Call= p15 N 11 ‘17 270w
“A story with history, action, and interesting characters, well adapted as a gift for girls.”
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 15w
=KOBBÉ, GUSTAV.= All-of-a-sudden Carmen. il *$1.35 (3½c) Putnam 17-13315
The Metropolitan opera house is the scene of this story, and a little waif, left at the stage door, is the heroine. It is Yudels, the doorkeeper who, having picked her up, becomes her official father; but all of the company, from the prima donna down, help to mother her. She grows up amid the stage scenery. Stage properties are her playthings and she picks up the music of the operas as readily as she does the four languages spoken by the singers. Her favorite is always Carmen, the opera that was sung on the night of her arrival, and it is in Carmen that she makes her own first appearance on the stage.
“It is a pretty little story, light and improbable, but interesting.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:35 Ag 18 ‘17 140w
“The very slight plot is merely a thread on which to hang a detailed description of the world behind the scenes at the Metropolitan opera house, and of much of the mechanical ingenuity which goes to the production of grand opera. Singers whom all New York once flocked to hear are easily recognizable through the very thin disguises with which the author has cloaked them.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 370w
“Famous opera stars of a generation ago cross the background of ‘All-of-a-sudden Carmen.’ ... It is a light story with a pleasant strain of sentimentality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 210w
=KOBER, GEORGE MARTIN, and HANSON, WILLIAM CLINTON=, eds. Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene. il *$8 Blakiston 613.6 16-16701
“A collection of studies each by an expert in the particular subject. ... The essays are in three main groups. Part one discusses specific and systemic diseases of occupation; part two discusses first the cause and means of preventing occupational diseases, then the various occupations in which exposure to injurious conditions is involved. In part three there is a description of the unique Milan clinic for occupational diseases; then a discussion of statistics, their uses and their fallacies; and last, chapters that contain the latest study of legislation for the prevention of occupational disease; on the ‘rationale’ of making such diseases notifiable and including them in the records of vital statistics; on women’s and children’s work; and on administrative power and methods.”—Survey
=American Industries= p43 Mr ‘17
“Although the respective articles have been written by a large number of men, it is exceedingly gratifying to note the general tone of conservatism displayed throughout, especially in the medical discussions.” P. N: Leech
+ =Am J Soc= 23:265 S ‘17 400w
“It is a storehouse of knowledge and will be immensely useful to the teacher of economics and sociology, to the business man, and to insurance officials, as well as to those in charge of public health work or the care of the sick. It deserves a place in every college or public library.” Carl Kelsey
+ + =Ann Am Acad= 70:331 Mr ‘17 250w
+ + =Dial= 62:151 P 22 ‘17 450w
“Intelligent citizens who may wish to obtain light upon the subject will find in this book a great abundance of information.”
+ =Nation= 104:635 My 24 ‘17 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:155 O ‘16
“With editors and contributors of such caliber, the treatise produced is necessarily almost complete and authoritative. ... I believe one of the most important articles in the book is that written by Frederick S. Lee, professor of physiology at Columbia university. It is entitled ‘Fatigue and occupation,’ and in a scientific and dispassionate way endeavors to prove the close relationship of fatigue to occupation ... and specifically of the effect of the length of the working day upon the health of the workers.” G: M. Price, M.D.
+ =N Y Call= p14 N 26 ‘16 800w
“The book is a valuable asset to industrial medical literature. The eminence of its collaborators ... is an indication of its authoritativeness and its classic character. Its range of subjects and the exhaustive references to the original sources at the end of each
## chapter make it invaluable as a reference work. While not the first
American treatise upon the subject, it is the most comprehensive.” T. G. Miller
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p20 Ja ‘17 200w (Reprinted from Journal of the Franklin Institute D ‘16)
“A valuable asset to industrial medical literature. ... While not the first American treatise upon the subject it is the most comprehensive.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:42 Ja ‘17 50w (Reprinted from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1916)
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:339 Ap ‘17 100w
“The numerous bibliographies are valuable”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:418 My ‘17 60w
“Dr T. M. Legge’s section on arsenic poisoning is the best brief treatment of this subject known to the reviewer. ... The most serious problems of industrial life are accidents and tuberculosis, the industrial poisonings (except plumbism) being by comparison relatively unimportant. Accidents presumably fall outside the scope of this work but certainly industrial tuberculosis does not; yet dust removal and factory ventilation are scantily treated, while pages are devoted to rare intoxications, of interest only as medical curiosities. ... ‘Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene’ contains much material which will make it a valuable reference book for the specialist, but it is not likely to supplant either of the two earlier works [W. Gilman Thompson, ‘Occupational diseases,’ G. M. Price, ‘Modern factory’] each of which so well fills its special field.” C. E. A. Winslow
* + =Science= n s 45:260 Mr 16 ‘17 650w
“Basic data are presented with a simplicity, clearness, fulness and interest that at first conceal the magnitude of the completed task. The editors have appreciated the value of mechanical aids, such as heavy-faced type for headings, numbered divisions, paragraphs of moderate length and a good index.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 37:467 Ja 20 ‘17 450w
=KOCH, THEODORE WESLEY.= Book of Carnegie libraries. il *$3.50 (4c) Wilson, H. W. 022 17-27889
In 1907 Mr Koch, of the Library of Congress, issued a portfolio of pictures and plans of typical or notable Carnegie library buildings. This collection of plates is now reissued, together with an explanatory text, which the original work lacked. The book has an introduction by R. R. Bowker of the Publishers’ Weekly. In addition, there is a character sketch of Andrew Carnegie by Hamilton W. Mabie, reprinted from the Century, and a paper on Carnegie libraries and good reading, by Arthur E. Bostwick, of the St Louis public library. Mr Koch’s text consists of chapters on: Method of giving; Documents relating to the establishment of the New York city branches; The architecture of the Manhattan branches; Reaching the people; The Brooklyn branches; Eastern libraries; The public library of the District of Columbia; The South; Pittsburg; Ohio and Michigan; Wisconsin and the Middle West; Iowa and the farther West; The southwest and the Rocky mountain region; California; Library planning. Index to text, Index to plates, and List of plates follow.
=A L A Bkl= 14:148 F ‘18
=N Y Times= 23:32 Ja 27 ‘18 50w
=KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY.= British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin-America. il *$4 (2½c) Century 980 17-14549
Mr Koebel, who has acted as special commissioner for South America for the London Sphere and Standard and has served as editor-in-chief of the “Encyclopedia of South America,” has written a number of books on the various South American states. “His ‘British exploits in South America’ covers a period of more than three hundred years. It opens with a picturesque account of the old English navigators and buccaneers who sailed the Spanish Main, and goes on to describe successively the work of the English and Irish Jesuits in the Spanish colonies, the British voyages of exploration in the eighteenth century, the development of British Guiana and the Falkland Islands, the exploits of the British in Brazil, the part taken by Englishmen in the wars of independence, the early relations of the English with the new republics, and the deeds of innumerable adventurous British travellers, traders, naturalists, and soldiers of fortune.” (Dial) Three aspects of British operations are emphasized: the large part played by capital, the exceptional ease with which the Englishmen took root in South America, and the fact that “almost all of the British achievements in South America have been the work of free lances.” The final chapter, “Today and tomorrow in South America,” is devoted mainly to a discussion of the commercial situation and outlook. Appended is a fifteen-page “Bibliography of modern works from 1870.”
“For the most part the present work is a compilation of extracts culled from contemporary accounts by British writers and pieced together into a somewhat disjointed narrative. The book is provided with illustrations more or less apt in reference and plan of insertion. The bibliography of works issued [since 1870] is not characterized by either accuracy or exhaustiveness, and lacks any sort of evaluation. That the works by Dawson and Scruggs should be mentioned twice, that Bourne’s treatise, along with numerous others of merit, is ignored, that the authorship of Helps’s volumes is ascribed to Oppenheim, and that a reprint of Humboldt’s account should be put down as a recent contribution, are defects not remedied by the inclusion of substantially all of Mr Koebel’s own books. Were Mr Koebel as familiar with the Spanish language and records as he is with those he actually uses, he would not have allowed so many errors and omissions to mar his pages.” W: R. Shepherd
— =Am Hist R= 23:200 O ‘17 550w
=A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“This is the book of an author full of his subject and evidently forms the result of many years of note-taking and much general and special reading. It is a permanent contribution not only to South American literature, but is also a noteworthy addition to the shelves of general romance and adventure.” T: Walsh
+ =Bookm= 46:606 Ja ‘18 170w
“A series of portrait sketches drawn with such surety and finesse that in the brief space allotted to each, the personalities of the most famous of the British soldiers of fortune stand out with extraordinary vividness. ... In the concluding chapter, after having studied the ‘bright side’ of British trade in South America, the author, with an equal candor, examines the reasons for its decline, during the past few years. And they are those we of the United States should also heed.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 9 ‘17 680w
“Mr W. H. Koebel—who, notwithstanding his German-sounding name, is a thoroughgoing Englishman ... speaks with authority on all matters pertaining to the contact of Europeans with Latin American resources, governments, and peoples. ... He gives evidence of an easy command of rich resources of memoirs, diaries, correspondence, and old books of travel and history: he has a keen sense of character, and his chapters make interesting reading.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Dial= 63:57 Jl 19 ‘17 1100w
“Since the author perforce must introduce ‘true blue’ British sea-dogs and buccaneers, one feels he has achieved a triumph in divesting them of the slightest suspicion of rum, and never exploding on his pages an improper swear word.”
=Ind= 91:134 Jl 28 ‘17 490w
=Lit D= 55:43 N 17 ‘17 410w
“The author has an irritating habit of peppering his page with irrelevant marks of exclamation. He lapses at times into rank journalese. But all deductions made, Mr Koebel has brought together a great deal of widely scattered information on South America and presented it in a popular and readable fashion.”
+ — =Nation= 105:512 N 8 ‘17 1250w
“While much of the matter in Mr Koebel’s book will not be new to those who have been sufficiently interested in South America to read its history, there is a freshness in the author’s literary style that makes a relation of an old, or even threadbare, fact peculiarly his own. He is a born story-teller.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:312 Ag 26 ‘17 700w
“The recent, somewhat unsatisfactory position of British commerce in those countries as contrasted with the rapid advance made by Germany before the war is frankly discussed in this volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 140w
=KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY.= Paraguay. (South American ser.) il *$3.50 Scribner 918.9 (Eng ed 17-26318)
In addition to other books on individual South American countries, Mr Koebel has written a work on “South America,” published in 1913, and one on “The South Americans,” published in 1915. “He tells something of the romantic history of this smallest and least accessible of the South American republics. ... He describes the physical characteristics, the cities, the country in general, the people and their life, and devotes much attention to the resources and to the trade in cattle, timber, fruits, cereals.” (N Y Times)
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:350 My ‘17
“A verbose account of the land it describes in which one looks in vain for any real interpretation of the country. The book is largely a presentation of facts, more or less interesting. About two-thirds of the whole is history; the remaining third consists of chapters on various topics.” G. B. Roorbach
– + =Ann Am Acad= 73:232 S ‘17 190w
“Especially valuable and interesting for its detailed account of present-day conditions, a work for which the author is well fitted, as he has shown by several previous volumes in this series. ... The book is, indeed, a storehouse of all those up-to-date data desired by intending tourist or business man, or by the stay-at-home seeker after information.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:101 Mr 25 ‘17 180w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:424 My ‘17 20w
=Pratt= p42 Jl ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w
+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 200w
“Mr Koebel gives a really admirable description of the early history of the colony. ... One of the best chapters is the eighth, on ‘The Jesuit mission establishments.’ Mr Koebel treats the subject fairly and impartially. ... A highly prosperous future, if internal stability be maintained, almost certainly lies before this inland republic, but it is a prosperity of promise. Mr Koebel, drawing his information from official sources, undoubtedly paints a picture too roseate.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p77 F 15 ‘17 2050w
=KOHLER, MAX JAMES, and WOLF, SIMON.= Jewish disabilities in the Balkan states. $1.50 Am. Jewish hist. soc. 17-7956
“This paper, amplified from the form of its original reading before the society and fortified by voluminous foot-notes, is valuable chiefly because of its compact summary of the legislation now existing in Rumania to the detriment of the Jewish population of that country; and, in consequence, thus formulating the terms of the problem which will arise when the present war in Europe is ended. ... The contributions of the United States to this problem have been almost continuous, beginning a full half-century ago with Mr Seward’s note to Turkey. ... All of these efforts, however, as Mr Kohler shows, were instigated by one or another of the organizations designed to further the political and other progress of the Jewish race; but it is none the less to the credit of American statesmen that the spirit of our diplomacy so readily and generously responded to the appeal.”—Am Hist R
“Mr Kohler has marshalled a line of impressive precedents which point the way for American influence to make itself felt beneficently.” G: H. Moses
+ =Am Hist R= 22:708 Ap ‘17 400w
=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 50w
“This volume constitutes one of the most important and valuable issues in the series of ‘Publications’ of this active society. ... Mr Kohler, the one author, is a prominent attorney and writer on historical and sociological topics of this city, Mr Wolf, the other collaborator, is the venerable champion of Jewish rights at Washington; for more than fifty years he has acted in support of the civil and religious rights of his brethren-in-faith at the national capital. ... The book is well printed, furnished with a comprehensive index, and conveniently bound.”
+ =N Y Times= 21:434 O 15 ‘16 700w
“Though primarily intended as a contribution to the literature on Jewish history and not written in a form which will attract the general reader, the present volume is likely to help in formulating the policy of this country concerning European reconstruction after the present war. Its scholarship and authority give it unusual weight as a brief for American intervention on behalf of the oppressed Jews in Rumania and other Balkan states.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 37:438 Ja 13 ‘17 600w
=KORNILOV, ALEKSANDER.= Modern Russian history; being an authoritative and detailed history of Russia from the age of Catherine the Great to the present. 2v maps *$5 Knopf 947 17-8743
“The material chiefly employed in this book by a Russian professor was originally used in his lecture courses at the Politecnicum of Peter the Great in Petrograd within the past two years. It embraces a sketch of Russia’s development as state and people down to the year 1866. The author does not attempt to trace the development of the various Russian nationalities, but aims to expand the history of the Russian people. It is not with Russia’s external history that he deals, but with its social, cultural and inner history. ... The study closes with the year 1890. But in a supplementary section, Mr Alexander S. Kaun, the translator, writes some complementary chapters, although he disclaims all thought of directly continuing M. Kornilov’s work.”—Boston Transcript
“Here is an excellent book on a subject about which there is little good literature in English, and it is made almost unreadable for us by the incompetence of the translator. The title is misleading. It promises a general history of Russia, but the work is almost confined to Russian institutions and political development in the last century and a half. Foreign relations and wars and expansion of territory are touched upon only in a casual and rather slipshod manner, and there are several errors in statement. Economic development comes out a little better, but not much, and there is nothing about such things as the progress of science, literature, or art. On its real topic the
## book is valuable. Being composed for Russians, it presupposes a
certain knowledge of Russian history on the part of its readers. In short, Professor Kornilov’s work is a scholarly, judicious compendium of an important subject, but it is not likely to prove attractive to many American readers. The transliteration of Russian words is in the main good.” A. C. Coolidge
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:148 O ‘17 650w
=A L A Bkl= 13:444 Jl ‘17
“It is likely to contribute to the knowledge and understanding of Russia more than any other single work which has appeared in English in late years.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ =Bookm= 45:320 My ‘17 1000w
“Mr Kaun’s addition is pertinent and readable. He does not enter into a discussion of the causes of the present war, but he aims to show the prevailing attitude of the Russian intelligentzia towards it.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 400w
“Admirably written and reliable. The print of the two volumes is too fine for the comfort of the reader.”
+ — =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 90w
“An outstanding work. Taking as its basis the best studies of Russian social and political development,—Kluchevsky’s ‘Survey of Russian history,’ and Miliukov’s ‘History of Russian culture,’—it is a lucid, dispassionate, discreetly documented and thoroughly reliable survey of the history of Russia in the nineteenth century.” L: S. Friedland
+ =Dial= 62:429 My 17 ‘17 980w
“It is a book for the student, not heavy, but with no particular attempt to attract the casual reader. The full index makes it excellent for reference.”
+ =Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 150w
“The author is radical-liberal in his attitude. Nowhere in English, so far as we know, can one find so clear, simple, and yet somewhat philosophic an account of the growth of liberalism and democracy in the great Slav empire. Professor Kornilov is one of the first to interpret adequately the influence of the Russian publicists and the Russian newspaper press in the formation of parties and policies. He has also a fairly good ethnological account of the various tribes and nationalities which make up the Russian state and which have become more or less Russified. Unfortunately the extreme gaucherie of the translator has filled the pages with hideous Teutonisms and some almost unintelligible phrases.”
+ + — =Nation= 105:267 S 6 ‘17 400w
“It is a relief to feel that one is at last in the presence of a socially-minded and conscientious historian, who is gifted with the ability to assemble and organize complex data, and endowed with the power to see events, institutions and human relations in perspective. ... I wish especially to call attention to our author’s lucid treatment of the peasant problem.” D: Rosenstein
+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 17 ‘17 1100w
“The many tangled threads of Russian life and development are handled in a masterly way, making clear the growth of Russian liberalism through all its varied stages and manifestations. ... Professor Kornilov has the reputation of being a liberal, and therefore it is the more surprising to find his point of view entirely calm, cool, and detached. The hot heart of indignation does not beat in his literary breast, however much it may in his human frame. In that one respect his work seems somewhat defective, since it fails to give the reader an adequate idea in their true colors of Russian affairs and Russian life.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:103 Mr 25 ‘17 1000w
“Naturally of a special interest to us to-day are the concluding chapters, which are packed with interesting information in regard to the various dumas, the zemstvos, the workmen’s movement, and the conduct of the war with Germany.”
+ =Outlook= 116:74 My 9 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:825 D ‘17 40w
Reviewed by R. Staughton
=Pub W= 91:1326 Ap 21 ‘17 250w
“For the first time, we now have an authoritative history of Russia, from the time of Catherine the Great to the third year of the great war.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 220w
=St Louis= 15:187 Je ‘17
“Professor Kornilov’s ‘Modern Russian history’ is an excellent book, and it ought to have an enormous circulation in America. Based on lectures to students, it is written in a clear, luminous style. This history, more than any other book I have read, enables one to understand the Russian revolution of the year 1917, and its prodigious importance. The concluding pages of the book, written by Mr Kaun, intentionally forsake the calm historical manner of Professor Kornilov.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Yale R= n s 7:186 O ‘17 450w
=KREHBIEL, HENRY EDWARD.= Second book of operas; their histories, their plots and their music. il *$2 (3½c) Macmillan 782 17-7943
This book, devoted to some of the more recent developments in operatic music, supplements the author’s earlier “Book of operas.” Contents: Biblical operas; Bible stories in opera and oratorio; Rubinstein and his “Geistliche oper”; “Samson et Dalila”; “Die königin von Saba”; “Hérodiade”; “Lakmé”; “Pagliacci”; “Cavalleria rusticana”; The career of Mascagni; “Iris”: “Madama Butterfly”; “Der rosenkavalier”; “Königskinder”; “Boris Godounoff”; “Madame Sans-Gêne” and other operas by Giordano; Two operas by Wolf-Ferrari.
“Well written, authoritative, and has critical value.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:339 My ‘17
“For the musician and student of music rather than for the average opera-goer.”
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 90w
“As in his earlier work, the free expression of his own preferences and aversions contributes to the enjoyment of the book. Portraits of composers and performers abound, and there are a few facsimiles of autograph scores.”
+ =Dial= 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 200w
“Mr Krehbiel writes with learning and authority, but without pedantry, and in an easy and pleasant style. It must be added that at times his prejudices sit heavy upon him.”
+ — =Ind= 92:384 N 24 ‘17 180w
+ =Lit D= 54:1274 Ap 28 ‘17 120w
“One of the most refreshing things in this book is the enthusiasm for Humperdinck’s ‘Koenigskinder.’ Of particular interest also are the pages on Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly,’ in which the Japanese factors that enter into the texture of the score are made evident.” H: T. Finck
+ =Nation= 105:545 N 15 ‘17 380w
=St Louis= 15:177 Je ‘17 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 19 ‘17 280w
=KROEGER, ALICE BERTHA.= Guide to the study and use of reference books; 3d ed., rev. throughout and much enl. by Isadore Gilbert Mudge. $2.50 A. L. A. 028.7 17-23822
“The third edition of the guide is based, in the main, upon the second edition, 1908, and the two supplements for 1909-10 and 1911-13, but the many changes in reference books and developments in reference work and teaching since 1908 have necessitated many changes from the earlier edition. The general plan and arrangement of the second edition have been followed and Miss Kroeger’s introduction has been kept intact except that one section, ‘How to study reference books,’ has been made slightly more detailed. The lists of reference books, however, have been changed very materially and the annotations have been rewritten and much extended, so that this latter feature of the guide is practically new throughout, only a few annotations having been carried over from the second edition, although somewhat more have been retained from the two supplements. Aside from the new annotation, the revision of the lists of reference books has consisted principally of (1) excision of older titles and editions now superseded by more recent material, (2) addition of new titles including not only the recent books listed in the two supplements and later titles through 1916, but also a very considerable number of earlier titles, principally foreign or more special works not hitherto included in the guide, and (3) the addition of some entirely new lists, such as those on Constitutions, International law, Romances, Historical source books, English public documents, etc. ... In general, information included goes through 1916, and does not cover changes, additions, etc., for 1917.” (Preface) Miss Mudge is reference librarian of Columbia university.
“A new edition of the guide, which is everywhere recognized as the foremost ‘guide to reference books,’ has been demanded by librarians in all parts of the country for the past five years, and the A. L. A. publishing board have been fortunate in securing for this important work the services of Miss Mudge, than whom there is no better judgment on the subject of reference books anywhere in the country. ... Absolutely necessary for all libraries making any pretensions at doing reference work, and recommended for purchase for all libraries having 5,000 volumes or more.”
+ =A L A Bkl= O ‘16
“The new guide lists over one and a half times as many titles as the old edition and the notes are much more critical and minutely descriptive.” M. E. H.
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:243 O ‘17 210w
=KROPOTKIN, PETR ALEKSIEEVICH, kniaz.= Mutual aid: a factor in evolution. *$1.25 Knopf 301 A17-1635
A reprint of a work published in 1902. “At the beginning of the war in 1914, Prince Kropotkin determined to prepare a reprint of his ‘Mutual aid.’ He put it forth as evidence of his belief that the constructive forces of men are at work in spite of the destructive influences of the war, and that these will lead to a better understanding between men and eventually among the nations. In his discussion of the subject of mutual aid, he begins with the evidence of it to be found in animals, and he then proceeds by evolutionary stages through its aspects as found in the social lives of savages and barbarians, in the mediæval city, to its culmination in the modern state and community.” (Boston Transcript)
“As we read these pages it seems impossible that a man capable of such argument and discussion should have been imprisoned behind stone walls as a danger to his country. It was, however, not his country, but its autocrats that feared him and kept him in an exile that is now ended. Prince Kropotkin is at last free to return to Russia and to take part in the government that by his voice and his work he has succeeded in establishing.” E. P. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 11 ‘17 700w
=Dial= 64:32 Ja 3 ‘18 160w
“Those who are old enough to read, and to think seriously, should read this book. Those who are old enough to have read it already, should read it again.” B: C. Gruenberg
+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 3 ‘17 670w
+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 160w
“This sociological study of Prince Kropotkin’s, so full of the generosity and humaneness of the Russian temperament at its best, is in many ways valuable for its instruction, and will be found not lacking in inspiring qualities even by those who think it unduly neglectful of the egoistic instincts and who regard its conception of progress as one-sided; though, of course, the author might reply that individual achievement, such as Plimsoll represented, or Lord Shaftesbury, may be gained by the dedication of exceptional powers to the common good.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ‘17 680w
=KRYSHANOVSKAYA, V. I.= Torch-bearers of Bohemia; tr. from the Russian by Juliet M. Soskice. *$1.40 (1½c) McBride 17-11467
This book by a modern Russian woman tells a story of medieval Bohemia. The time of the story spans the last years of John Hus, from 1401 to 1415. John Hus and Jerome of Prague are two dominant figures in the story, altho its plot is built about the figure of Rugena, a young girl betrothed from childhood to Count Vok of Waldstein. This betrothal is brought about by Bishop Brancaccio, in whom the corruption of the church of the time is exposed at its lowest depths. By lying and forgery he represents the marriage as the will of the girl’s father, whom he has murdered. The two reformers, Hus and Jerome, both play a part in the girl’s later history.
“The novel certainly deserves recognition, if only for the fact that it is perhaps the only work of fiction dealing with the period of John Hus. It has the romantic fascination of the past, and the English reader will find a familiar atmosphere in the book, owing to the excellent translation which has preserved the peculiarities of the epoch through a masterly use of old English and of the traditional methods of Scott and Reade. The author has been true to historical facts.”
+ =Nation= 104:686 Je 7 ‘17 170w
“‘The torchbearers of Bohemia’ differs from the novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz only by greater condensation, a kinship that may be a distinction, but which fails to satisfy those whom modern Russian literature has trained to expect less of a surface treatment. ... Considered solely as a conventional historical novel, the book is vivid enough.”
+ =New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 170w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:87 Je ‘17
“The author has made the theme of this book a round denunciation of everything German in the great days of Hus. ... Miss (or Mme) Kryshanovskaya has done a tremendous amount of historical reading for the artistic and historical touches that lend an air of verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.” W. M. F.
— =N Y Call= p14 Jl 22 ‘17 300w
“In the light of the present situation in Russia, it is peculiarly interesting to note the fire and sympathy with which the struggle for national and religious liberty in Bohemia is depicted by a Russian writer. The splendid personality of John Hus dominates the volume, and gives us an illuminating portrait of that great martyr.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:102 Mr 25 ‘17 380w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 N 2 ‘16 40w
=KUELLER, JO VAN AMMERS.= Young lion of Flanders; a tale of the terror of war; tr. by C. Thieme. il $1.50 Stokes (Eng ed 17-10166)
“The book tells what happened to a peaceful, well-to-do Belgian family, one of the daughters of which had married a German. The principal character, the ‘Young lion of Flanders’ himself, is sixteen-year-old Léon Casimir. An expert motor cyclist, he becomes a dispatch rider in the Belgian army, and distinguishes himself at Marbeke, winning the approbation of the hero-king, Albert of Belgium. He has more than one narrow escape from death, and is very nearly shot with a number of other prisoners.”—N Y Times
“It is told as much by suggestion as by direct description. For appalling as is its revelation of German ‘frightfulness’ and perfidy, it is remarkably restrained.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 440w
“It is not exclusively juvenile readers who will be held by this stirring story, of which the translation is exceptionally fluent and satisfactory.”
+ =Cath World= 106:548 Ja ‘18 310w
“Léon’s adventures will thrill young readers, but the sad and bitter tone of the book puts it into the adult class.”
+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 70w
“The story, the author tells us, was written that her own children might learn thru reading it the horror and futility of war. It seems more probable that the prowess of the boy Leon, and his thrilling adventures would appeal to the heart of youth as glorious.”
— =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w
“It is all quite dreadful enough—unbelievably dreadful, we would have thought it a few years ago. But in the light of our present knowledge we are inclined to feel that in his evident effort not to overstate the author has rather understated his case.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 400w
“The four pictures by Raemaekers with which it is illustrated are even more illuminating than the text.”
+ =Spec= 117:660 N 25 ‘16 30w
=KUENZLI, FREDERICK ARNOLD.= Right and duty; or, Citizen and soldier; Switzerland prepared and at peace a model for the United States. il $1 (2c) National defense inst., Tribune bldg., N.Y.; for sale by Stechert 355.7 16-25197
The author, a native of Switzerland now living in the United States and acting as assistant appraiser at the port of New York, describes the Swiss system of military training and urges its adoption in America. The text of the military constitution of the Swiss federation is given at the close of the book. There is neither table of contents nor index.
=A L A Bkl= 13:377 Je ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 10w
“The preparedness discussion has brought out a number of articles and books expository of the Swiss military system, but this interesting volume is perhaps the most comprehensive and most illuminating of them all.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:34 F 4 ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 22 ‘17 400w
=K’UNG YUAN KU’SUH.= Judgment of the Orient. *60c (6c) Dutton 940.91 17-10431
“Some reflections on the great war made by a Chinese student and traveller, edited and rendered into colloquial English by Ambrose Pratt.” (Title-page) Brief observations as to the characteristics of the different peoples of Europe as they impressed him in his travels, are followed by the author’s discussion of the sex of nations. A nation, like a human being, has a soul, and the soul of the nation like that of the human being has sex. Germany has a female soul. He says, “The psychological genesis of the war between Germany and Europe is sexual. It is a war between the femininity of Germany and the masculinity of her neighbors—especially the masculinity of England.”
“Here is food for thought for the wisest.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 130w
“The opinions recorded have a rapier-like penetration and cannot fail to be a source of satisfaction to those who have the cause of the Allies at heart.”
+ =Dial= 62:153 F 22 ‘17 180w
“It is certainly an ungallant theory as regards woman. ... It is nevertheless an exceedingly curious and interesting speculation, and from the Chinese point of view, certainly does not lack arguments to support it.” J. W.
=N Y Call= p15 Ap 8 ‘17 580w
=N Y Times= 22:28 Ja 28 ‘17 480w
“If, in the flood of foolish writing about the war, more nonsense has anywhere else been packed within the narrow limits of seventy-two small pages, it has not been the reviewer’s ill fortune to see the work.” H. R. M.
— =Survey= 38:174 My 19 ‘17 180w
=KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK.= Rings for the finger. il *$6.50 (6½c) Lippincott 391 17-7933
Dr Kunz, author of “The curious lore of precious stones,” has prepared another valuable book drawing on his wide knowledge of jewels and ornaments. In this book he has treated of “Rings for the finger, from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.” (Title-page) The titles of the chapters are: The origin, purposes and methods of ring wearing; Forms of rings and materials of which they are made; Signet rings; Some interesting rings of history; Betrothal (engagement) rings, wedding (nuptial) rings, and love tokens; The religious use of rings; Magic and talismanic rings; Rings of healing; Ring making. There are 290 illustrations, some in color.
+ =Cath World= 105:125 Ap ‘17 100w
+ =Dial= 62:152 F 22 ‘17 120w
“In his registry of pretty ‘posies’ he revives delightfully a bit of seventeenth century sentimentality.”
+ =Ind= 90:37 Ap 2 ‘17 50w
“No review could indicate all the information in this exhaustive study of rings.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 22 ‘17 250w
“The illustrations to the book are, from the point of view of reproduction, of exceptionally high quality, but they appear to have been selected a little at random.”
+ — =Nature= 99:522 Ag 30 ‘17 950w
“Will have permanent value as a reference book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 500w
“Contains bibliographical foot-notes.”
=Pittsburgh= 22:215 Mr ‘17 3w
“A veritable encyclopedia of fascinating lore. Reproductions of paintings of persons wearing rings are included in the 220 illustrations in color, double-tone, and line.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 150w
“The student and the collector will find the clear and well-arranged plates of great value, while other readers will look with interest at the reproductions of portraits showing the rings as they were actually worn by their owners.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup469 N 3 ‘17 1300w
“Dr Kunz has the vantage point of the Metropolitan museum of New York, with which he is connected, as an initial source for his studies and his rank as an authority on this and kindred subjects is now established.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 10 ‘17 250w
“Dr Kunz has drawn on the most diverse sources for his materials, and has brought together an extraordinary amount of curious learning. He has not, however, the gift of lucid order. ... If the reader tries to find a connected answer to any question that suggests itself, such as the development of the ring forms, he finds himself baffled by wealth of matter and insufficient method.”
+ – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p294 Je 21 ‘17 1050w
=KUPRIN, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH.= Bracelet of garnets, and other stories; with an introd. by W: Lyon Phelps. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-13619
In his selection of stories for this volume, Leo Pasvolsky has had the advice of the author. In a letter from Mr Kuprin, eight of the stories here translated were named as among those he considered “most successful.” “There is wholeness about Kuprin as a writer, which breathes of the strength and power of Russia herself,” writes Mr Pasvolsky. This quality, he says, is brought out best in the longer stories, of which “The bracelet of garnets,” is one. Another side of Kuprin’s art is shown in the very short story, also represented in the volume. In addition to the title story the book contains: The horse-thieves; The Jewess; Anathema; The Læstrygonians; An insult; The park of kings; An evening guest; A legend; Demir-Kayá; The garden of the Holy Virgin. The translator is editor of the Russian Review.
=Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w
“The book as a whole, however, while no less searching in its psychology and no less unsparing in its truth, than ‘The party’ and ‘The eternal husband,’ has an atmosphere of normality and restraint which make a stronger appeal to Anglo-Saxon minds.”
+ — =Ind= 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 170w
“This cheerful note rings through all Kuprin’s works, and places him quite apart from his pessimistic contemporaries—Andreyev, Sologub, and Artsibashev. But he falls far behind them as an artist; he lacks their intensity and reserve. The excellent translation of Mr Pasvolsky does not redeem the platitudinousness of the allegories placed in the end of the book.”
+ — =Nation= 105:374 O 4 ‘17 350w
“Brilliant little studies in character or atmosphere, some compressed into half a dozen pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ‘17 370w
“Two volumes of collections of the short tales of one of the most eminent of living Russian novelists, Alexander Kuprin, have recently been translated, ‘A Slav soul’ and ‘The bracelet of garnets.’ Scarcely any duplication appears, although the biting satire, ‘Anathema,’ is seen in each volume. ‘The garden of the Holy Virgin,’ is a noble illustration of the poetic beauty of Kuprin’s style, when he deals with an exalted theme.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Yale R= n s 7:189 O ‘17 140w
=KUSER, JOHN DRYDEN.= Way to study birds. il *$1.25 Putnam 598.2 17-15688
A small book for beginners in bird study, meant to serve as a guide to the identification of the more common species. It is adapted to the vicinity of New York city. Part 1, Prerequisites, has chapters on: Method of study; Twelve abundant permanent residents; Note-keeping; How to use a key and learn five songs. Part 2 is devoted to the birds of summer, with chapters on: The fifteen most abundant summer residents; The fifteen next in abundance; Nests. Part 3 consists of two chapters on fall and spring bird study; Transients, and Migration data. Part 4 is devoted to winter, with chapters on Winter residents and Winter feeding. Part 5 gives supplementary data, including a bibliography. There are nine colored plates.
“Directions for keeping notes, recording migrations, and learning bird songs, a partial list of books and a note on preservation and propagation of our native birds widen the usefulness of this valuable ornithological primer.”
+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 130w
“Despite the ever-increasing number of books designed to teach the beginner how to study birds, it is doubtful whether, after all, the short cuts are not, in the end, long cuts. The way is made easy—and unprofitable. This is in large measure true of ‘The way to study birds.’ With its nine plates, the book is, of course, no substitute for the amply illustrated manuals by Chester Reed and others.”
— =Nation= 105:130 Ag 2 ‘17 140w
“A bird book of convenient pocket size and of sufficient comprehensiveness to be of actual use.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 140w
“Arranged especially for the students of New York city and immediate neighborhood, but serves equally well for the southern New England states.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 200w
=KYNE, PETER BERNARD.= Webster—man’s man. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-25126
The hero of this romantic tale is a mining engineer, and the heroine, whom he first meets on a western railroad train, is the daughter of the former president of the Central American republic. The story is brim full of action, most of which takes place in the volcanic little republic, which is on the brink of a revolution.
“An extravagant yarn, lively and entertaining.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 20w
“‘Webster—man’s man,’ by Peter B. Kyne, belongs to the familiar and ever popular type of the soldier-of-fortune novel, with all the inevitable stage properties and situations in which the late Richard Harding Davis delighted. The surprising thing about the book is that in spite of this there is a freshness and a certain spontaneous sincerity that makes one forget the triteness of its theme. ... Its people are alive, individual, and intensely appealing.” Philip Tillinghast
+ — =Pub W= 92:807 S 15 ‘17 500w
“A rollicking story of love and adventure which, even in its most thrilling moments, preserves the humorous, devil-may-care atmosphere that characterizes it from the outset.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 200w
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=LAGERLÖF, SELMA OTTILIANA LOVISA.= Queens of Kungahälla, and other sketches; tr. by C. Field. *5s T. Werner Laurie, London
“‘The queens of Kungahälla’ is a cycle of episodes, woven together in a manner highly characteristic of Miss Lagerlöf; the English translation before us supplements it with six short tales which are quite independent. ... The most complete and characteristic is ‘Saint Catherine of Siena.’ ... ‘Old Agneta’ is a mysterious dream of lost souls, tortured with frost on a Norwegian glacier, whose sufferings are mitigated by the efforts of a solitary woman. ‘The fisherman’s ring’ is woven around a description of an Adriatic storm breaking over Venice. ‘The bird’s nest’ alone among these stories is mildly humorous; it describes how a pair of wagtails built a nest and hatched their young in the hand of a hermit who had made a vow not to shift his position. ‘God’s peace,’ which is a sort of appendix to the novel of ‘Jerusalem,’ recounts a terrific incident in the life and death of Ingmar Ingmarson.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“An enchanting revel of fancy.”
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 30w
“Kungahälla is a locality unknown to the guide-books and, we think, to the historians. ... But Miss Lagerlöf gives her fiction such an air of reality that we hesitate to say that this city is wholly fabulous. ... The English reader of ‘The queens of Kungahälla’ will find himself constantly reminded of William Morris’s late prose romances. ... This arises from a similarity in the approach of both authors to the medieval civic life which attracted each of them. ... Miss Lagerlöf has greater vigour of narrative than her English precursor; she leads us more vividly on a more intoxicating revel of fancy, but her essential attitude to the middle ages is the same. She sees the scenes in pure and brilliant colour, like the miniatures in a Book of hours. ... Mr C. Field is often adequate and sometimes excellent, although his text would bear further revision.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p127 Mr 15 ‘17 1000w
=LAJPAT RAYA.=[2] England’s debt to India; a historical narrative of Britain’s fiscal policy in India. *$2 Huebsch 330.954
A companion volume to the author’s “Young India” which reviewed British rule in India from the political standpoint. The present discussion is from the economic point of view, and is supported by the best British testimony, official and non-official. The chapter headings indicate the scope of the work: A historical retrospect; India and the British industrial revolution; “Tribute” or “drain”; How India has helped England make her empire; The cotton industry of India; Shipbuilding, shipping, and minor occupations; Miscellaneous industrial, agricultural, and mining operations; Agriculture; Economic conditions of the people; Famines and their causes; Railways and irrigation; Education and literacy; Certain fallacies about the “prosperity of India” examined; Taxes and expenditure; Summary and conclusion.
“But, even granting all of the author’s statements and argument, passing over his unwillingness to recognize and give just appraisal to all that England has done for India, the fact remains that understanding of the great issues just now at stake and of loyalty to that civilization in which the future welfare of India as well as of the rest of the world is bound ought to have led Lajpat Raya to wait for the presentation of his plea until the greater issues, comprehensive of India’s own, are settled.”
— =N Y Times= 23:51 F 10 ‘18 600w
“This author’s manner is as eloquent as his matter is interesting. Readers may not agree with all his conclusions, but they will, we are sure, appreciate the wealth of information given concerning the economic conditions in India.”
+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 120w
=LANCHESTER, FREDERIC WILLIAM.= Flying-machine from an engineering standpoint. diags *$3 (9c) Van Nostrand 629.1 (Eng ed 17-13807)
This book contains the James Forrest lecture which the author delivered before the Institution of civil engineers three months before the outbreak of war. It has been reprinted in more permanent form in answer to the many requests for copies. The author says, “Since the outbreak of war, from considerations of national secrecy, very little, indeed, of a technical character has been added to the stock of public information, and thus the position existing immediately prior to the war has become a matter of more permanent interest than the author anticipated at the time his lecture was prepared.” He has also added “A discussion concerning the theory of sustentation and expenditure of power in flight,” a paper presented at a meeting of the International engineering congress in San Francisco in 1915.
=Nature= 99:241 My 24 ‘17 1000w
“For a lengthy review see Engineering, April 6, 1917. Also reviewed in Automobile Engineer, Jan., 1917; Mechanical Engineer, Jan. 19, 1917.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Ap ‘17 110w
“An excellent, accurate and interesting lecture on the flying-machine for those familiar with the subject.” E. W. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:330 S ‘17 30w
=LANE, ANNA EICHBERG KING (MRS JOHN LANE).= War phases according to Maria. il *$1 (4c) Lane 17-6332
Two of these war phases are reprinted from “Maria again.” They are included here to make complete the record of Maria’s most noteworthy
## activities between 1914 and 1916. The subjects of the new sketches
are: Zeppelin dangers; Maria’s political opinions; Maria on submarines; On the new equality; Cardboard friendship; War hens; Margarine and society; War notice. The book is cleverly illustrated by A. H. Fish.
“We do not find Maria more than moderately amusing.”
+ — =Ath= p596 D ‘16 30w
“Maria on the subject of everything under heaven from war hens to submarines is a genuine comedy character.”
+ =Dial= 62:148 F 22 ‘17 130w
+ =N Y Times= 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 300w
“A book not to be missed in these times.”
+ =Sat R= 123:42 Ja 13 ‘17 350w
“Mrs Lane’s gifted satirical pen might more profitably be turned to other phases of society than those connected with Maria’s personality.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 450w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p574 N 30 ‘16 80w
=LANE, ROSE WILDER.= Henry Ford’s own story. il *$1 E. O. Jones, Forest Hills, N.Y.; for sale by Baker 17-2686
“The American public, says the writer of this book, has made a hero of the big business man. But Henry Ford, she adds, is not a big business man; he is a big man in business. She tells, in this book, the very simple and very interesting story of Henry Ford’s life, ‘how a farmer boy rose to the power that goes with many millions, yet never lost touch with humanity.’ ... Her record stops shortly after the outbreak of war; it does not include the peace party. But it tells in a good deal of detail about his wage scale and other experiments with his men.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17
“A very human book. If it were just plain fiction it could not interest one more. ... To read it is to get a new realization of what work means, what persistence will do, on what efficiency must build, and of the tremendous power in unselfish will.”
+ =Lit D= 55:45 Ag 4 ‘17 210w
“The platitudinousness and naïveté, the well meaning but sophomoric approach to a problem that are revealed in Mr Ford’s utterances on all subjects not relating to engineering are almost incredible. Such intellectual infantilism would be impossible any grown man in any other civilized country—as would Miss Lane’s ecstatic admiration of it. But the story of Henry Ford does not end there. Against his contempt for the amenities of life and the finer cultural satisfactions may be set his hatred of poverty and wretchedness. In that balance, who can say that the admiration of Miss Lane is misplaced?”
=New Repub= 10:384 Ap 28 ‘17 370w
“A most unusual piece of biography and exceedingly well written.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 400w
+ =N Y Times= 22:119 Ap 1 ‘17 180w
=Pittsburgh= 22:404 My ‘17
+ =R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 90w
“Some day, as has been said, Mr Ford will have a real biography; before that time comes there will be plenty of studies, personal, economic, sociological. Miss Lane’s account is purely popular, colorful, newsy, and it portrays the man.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 13 ‘17 650w
“If sympathy with one’s subject is the sine qua non of biographers this should be the perfect biography. Miss Lane’s enthusiasm for her subject colors the entire book and surrounds him with a halo of glory.” Henrietta Walters
+ =Survey= 38:372 Jl 28 ‘17 120w
“Written in extremely popular and simple style, it is specially adapted to the uneducated or young reader.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:125 Ap ‘17 50w
=LANGE, DIETRICH.= Lure of the Mississippi. il *$1.25 (2½c) Lothrop 17-28332
During the period of the Civil war, Minnesota was the scene of several Indian uprisings, the Sioux seeing in the preoccupation of the white man with a war of his own, an opportunity to regain their lands. One of these outbreaks is described by Mr Lange in this story for boys. The young heroes are two southern boys who have come north with an uncle. Driven out by the Indians, they try to rejoin their parents in Vicksburg, traveling down the river with an old trapper and a friendly red man. Vicksburg is under siege and the boys find that they have exchanged one kind of danger for another. But in time they find their parents and the entire party makes a safe return journey to what is to be their permanent home on the northern prairies.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
=Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 30w
“Yet the story is not unduly melodramatic, but abounds in good pictures of life on the great river.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 140w
=LANGENHOVE, FERNAND VAN.= Growth of a legend. *$1.25 (2c) Putnam 940.91 16-25175
The “legend” of the title refers to the stories without foundation that are common in all countries in time of war. The author has examined some of these legends which have been current in Germany. He calls his book “a study based upon the German accounts of francs-tireurs and ‘atrocities’ in Belgium.” The work has been translated by E. B. Sherlock, and is published with a preface by J. Mark Baldwin.
+ =Ath= p259 My ‘17 180w
+ =Cleveland= p45 Mr ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 90:382 My 26 ‘17 60w
“Written to defend Belgium against unjust accusations, the book also gives the human background of many so-called German ‘atrocities’ which otherwise would seem inexplicable.”
+ =New Repub= 9:251 D 30 ‘16 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:7 Ja ‘17
“M. van Langenhove writes with restraint and painstaking care of the sociological investigator. His book is marked by its absence of invective, of excited denial. ... The book is one of the valuable contributions to the library of war documents.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:3 Ja 7 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:166 Je ‘17
“A dispassionate work, compiled in the impartial spirit of scientific research. Rhetorical expressions of indignation are hardly to be found in its pages, though they abound in Mr Baldwin’s preface.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p134 Mr 22 ‘17 900w
=LANSBURY, GEORGE.= Your part in poverty. *$1 (4½c) Huebsch 331 17-26891
George Lansbury is a member of the Church of England, the Church socialist league and the Independent labor party, has been for thirty years in active political life, and has served on the London county council and the Royal commission on the poor law. He writes this “appeal to men and women of the comfortable classes,” not from the point of view of an economist or a philanthropist but from that of an “ordinary person,” to make clear to them “what Labor asks and what, in his judgment, on Christian principles, Labor ought to have.” Mr Lansbury believes that land values should be taxed, that the wages and profit system should be abolished, that we must substitute cooperation for competition, and that the workers must “join together in great industrial unions or guilds, representative of particular industries.” After an introductory chapter, the subject is dealt with under five headings: Workmen; Women and children; Business; Churches; What we must do. There is a preface by the Bishop of Winchester.
=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17
“Specifically, we are exhorted to join the more advanced section of the working class movement, the section which aims at the complete control of the great industries by the workers in each industry. ... The difficulties which would confront such a system are lightly brushed aside by the author in a spirit of simple faith.”
— =Cath World= 106:256 N ‘17 350w
“There is broad charity in Mr Lansbury’s criticism of those who possess and an earnest appeal to the innate love of man for man. Even in his chapter on business, a sermon on the text, ‘business is business,’ he offers sympathy for the overwrought business man.”
+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 320w
“No one who wishes to understand the labor movement in England can afford to miss this book; few who read it can fail to be captivated by its charm. It is not a program; it is not a treatise. It is simply the expression of an attitude to life which is growing rapidly in importance in every section of the English working classes.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 13:25 N 3 ‘17 1800w
“Mr Lansbury’s indictment of society, the church, and the state is confused, and his suggested remedies are very vaguely indicated. But we are impressed by the sincerity of his wondering indignation, and we feel that the book, at any rate, reflects the doubts and fears of many intelligent workmen.”
– + =Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w
“He seldom lets his feeling get the better of him. Consequently nearly all that he says has force. ... For the sake of symmetry in the argument Mr Lansbury ought perhaps to show that the ‘liberated’ working class—to use the word ‘liberate’ in the sense in which he uses it—would represent a higher standard of probity, self-restraint and disinterestedness than is exemplified by the prosperous elements in society to-day.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 11 ‘17 1150w
“Mr Lansbury has written a penetrating statement. But it is written in such a kindly way that one must wonder at his moderation. He knows the poor and their problems, and he knows where the trouble lies. But he does not attack those who are responsible.”
+ — =Survey= 39:297 D 8 ‘17 430w
=LANUX, PIERRE DE.=[2] Young France and new America. *$1.25 Macmillan 327.73 17-31439
“Reflections of a Frenchman who spent the year 1917 in America. They deal with the present events and those from the near past, but their expression is first inspired by the thought of the near future, that is to say, the period that will begin when this war ends.” (Foreword) The writer sums up what the Franco-American co-operation will mean in the years to come, how the war has opened the way to a better understanding of each other and cemented loyalties. To the Frenchman who thought of the American as a millionaire pork dealer and the American who looked upon the Frenchman as a “fussy, nervous gentleman who wore a red ribbon in his buttonhole” the experiences of the past three years have been fraught with revelation.
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 2 ‘18 680w
“I think M. de Lanux writes about us with too obvious a will to be kind. What he says of America’s coming influence upon French art, literary and plastic, may be true or may be mistaken, but certainly, to my taste, it is written by too glad a hand. Other parts of his book, however, are wholly free from this taint.” P. L.
+ — =New Repub= 13:350 Ja 19 ‘18 1430w
“The author’s notably keen and understanding observations and conclusions in the United States show him to be a trustworthy student of life. Without doubt, M. de Lanux’s book will receive the attention and the interest it deserves. The people of this country are ready for its message and they will welcome both its spirit and its practical suggestions.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:540 D 9 ‘17 780w
=R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 110w
“Told with an amplitude of apt quotation and with a charm which makes this contribution to the literature of foreign relationships a real source of inspiration.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 39:526 F 9 ‘18 200w
=LARNER, RING W.= Gullible’s travels, etc. il *$1.25 (3c) Bobbs 17-5401
Perhaps the narrator in these five tales is the original Tired Business Man. His account of “Carmen” would seem to entitle him to that distinction. His second experience of opera is described in the next sketch, and in the third, from which the book takes its title, he relates experiences at Palm Beach. The two stories that follow are in like vein. First copyrighted by the Curtis publishing company.
=N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 250w
“Amusing but excessively slangy short stories.”
=Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 6w
“Underneath the funny narratives of narrow views and man-handled English, there is a layer of shrewd common sense that punctures the provincialism of the snug middle class and the humbug of our so-called exclusive society. ... A broadly farcical volume.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 150w
=LASKI, HAROLD J.= Studies in the problem of sovereignty. *$2.50 Yale univ. press 320.1 17-8598
“The problem of sovereignty which Mr Laski discusses is whether the seat of authority in society is single or manifold. In other words, whether a sound political theory is monist or pluralist. He argues in favor of the pluralist view, and maintains that a society is a ‘person’ in reality, not merely by a legal fiction; for the law merely recognizes and regularizes a preëxistent fact. He supports this argument by an appeal to the evidence supplied by three ecclesiastical and religious movements in the nineteenth century in Great Britain—the Scottish disruption, the Oxford movement, and the Catholic revival—and by the careers of Le Maistre and Bismarck on the Continent.”—New Repub
“It is an example of painstaking and rather brilliant historical writing, and may justly be classed, both as regards the subject-matter with which it deals and its scholarly method of treatment, with the studies of Mr J. N. Figgis, and particularly his ‘From Gerson to Grotius’ and his ‘Churches in the modern state.’ ... When Dr Laski leaves the field of history and enters upon a discussion of the nature of sovereignty he is less happy, and critics who will attribute to him an imperfect understanding of the real character of sovereignty are not likely to be wanting.” J. W. Garner
+ =Am Hist R= 22:844 Jl ‘17 2200w
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
“An important contribution to the literature of that brilliant school of political writers who are forging for us a new and more satisfactory theory of the nature of the state. It should be read especially in connection with Maitland’s classic introduction to Gierke’s ‘Political theories of the middle ages,’ and Figgis’s ‘Churches in the modern state.’ ... Not only does [Mr Laski’s doctrine] mean an abandonment, or at least a serious impairment of the theory of the sovereignty of the state, but it involves the revival of the eighteenth century doctrine of natural rights, now, however, attached to group-units instead of to individuals. Whether in every
## particular these ideas will withstand the effect of criticism, there
is no doubt that they offer in some respects a much better explanation of contemporaneous political tendencies and movements than the Hegelian theory that the state is an all-inclusive metaphysical organism, which governs the practical politics of modern Germany.” W. J. Shepard
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:582 Ag ‘17 550w
“Throughout, the style is as incisive and clear as the temper is judicial, and everywhere sympathy is combined with a rare detachment.” C. H. McIlwain
+ =Dial= 62:436 My 17 ‘17 2700w
“The book is marked by a certain agreeable scholarship. This scholarship in respect to concrete historical happenings, is however, set in a philosophical frame which is most unbecoming and which must in all frankness be ascribed to the author’s very superficial knowledge of political theory and to his failure to understand or to appreciate some of the most fundamental distinctions of political science. Even if Mr Laski’s assumptions were not of this superficial character, his practical teaching would destroy itself thru its very absurdity.” N. M. B.
– + =Educ R= 54:513 D ‘17 1050w
“Mr Laski has done his part both in making clear his own tentative ideas and in presenting the historical data upon which they are based. This book, moreover, is not to be his last word on the subject.”
+ =Nation= 105:671 D 13 ‘17 280w
“Possibly he assumes at times too great a knowledge of the facts for American readers, and writes in an unduly allusive style, but to the mind of any one who comes from Oxford and has lived in its atmosphere, so permeated with the tradition of the Oxford movement and Catholic revival, the story seems excellently and sympathetically interpreted, for Oxford, though it gives an artificial mannerism which soon dies, gives also a real inspiration, which quickens as well as lives; and Mr Laski belongs, I think, to those whom Oxford has taught to see life whole, as well as to study it in detail.” K. L.
+ =New Repub= 11:25 My 5 ‘17 1650w
“The London Times, with visions of conscientious objectors rampant, finds much in the book that is ‘disreputable and even dangerous,’ and one cannot forbear to suggest that the Times is more agitated about the alleged disrepute of Mr Laski’s theories than their danger. But after the indispensable ‘word of warning’ has been meted out, one cannot fail to appreciate that the truth of Mr Laski’s reasoning overtops the danger.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 820w
“Mr Laski is an Englishman, but he bears a historic Polish name. He should study, from the point of view of that pragmatism to which he makes frequent appeal, the effects of the liberum veto in the old Polish constitution. It still has its defenders as the last word in the assertion of the moral liberty of the citizen. ... Though there is much in this volume which we consider disputable and even dangerous, there is also much that is sound and illuminating; and though his presentation of his subject is too often involved and obscure, it rarely fails to stimulate thought.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p231 My 17 ‘17 2250w
“He has given us a scholarly and invigorating historical review of the significant events and theories which he selects as background for his discussion. He has also given timely warning to us, as citizens, of the dangers of an implicit acceptance of a certain grim Hegelianism which has swept us unprotestingly on into the vortex of a great All which is more than ourselves.’” C: Seymour
+ =Yale R= n s 7:443 Ja ‘18 1250w
=LATOURETTE, KENNETH SCOTT.= Development of China. *$1.75 (3½c) Houghton 951 17-8745
“Mighty changes are taking place in China. It is undergoing a transformation whose results no man can foresee. ... It is certain, however, that the outcome will profoundly affect the entire world. ... If Americans are not to blunder, if they are to make to the new China the unselfish contributions of which they are capable, if they are not to stumble into unnecessary conflict with Japan, if they are to share to the utmost in the trade and the industrial development of the new China, they must know her and must know her better than they do now.” (Introd.) The author, formerly of the College of Yale in China, has written this book for college students and for the general public. His aim has been to present in the light of modern scholarship a sketch of the essential facts of Chinese history and development and of the historical setting for its present-day problems.
“The characteristic feature of this book is successful condensation. ... The book is well written, well printed, and should prove very valuable for the purpose for which it is intended. It brings together within brief compass a variety of essential information which will greatly facilitate the work of classes in oriental history and contemporary politics. In producing this work Professor Latourette has rendered a distinct service both to student and to teacher.” S. K. Hornbeck
+ =Am Hist R= 22:857 Jl ‘17 670w
“Bibliography (7p.) with useful descriptive notes.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:444 Jl ‘17
“Will serve as a valuable textbook to the student of Chinese history. It should meet with even greater favor from that class of general readers who, without the drudgery of technicality and details, desire an unconventional introduction to the civilization of the Far East.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 250w
=Cath World= 105:400 Je ‘17 150w
“Perhaps a dozen brief histories of China are available in English. Some of them are hastily written and untrustworthy. Some are prejudiced. Some are overloaded with dynastic details. ... There is, therefore, a place for Mr Latourette’s ‘Development of China,’ which is carefully written, fair, and free from excessive technicalities.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Dial= 62:524 Je 14 ‘17 1050w
“Mr Latourette is the first writer of a serious work who has accurately set forth the character of the late Yuan Shi Kai. He has furnished also a readable statement of the progress of events since 1894. ... Those interested at all in the Far East will find the volume worth reading and rereading.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 Jl 14 ‘17 170w
“It furnishes a splendid background to just such a study as Professor Hornbeck’s. While lacking the vitality and the temperamental felicity of such life-long writers on China and her history as Giles, for instance, and Little and Martin, Mr Latourette does nevertheless cover the ground that these more rugged writers have covered before him; and he covers it with a precision and a scholarship that perfectly adapt his book to the college classrooms for which he has designed it. ... He further adds to the value of the book as a basis for instruction by a voluminous index and an extremely serviceable and well-chosen bibliography.”
+ =Nation= 104:681 Je 7 ‘17 330w
“An introductory sketch like Mr Latourette’s, notable for the scholarly absence of inflation of facts, for its sense of proportion, and for the understanding it gives of the larger features of China’s development and of the historical setting of present-day problems, meets a real need.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 500w
“He is fair to the Japanese, fair to the British about the so-called opium war, fair to the missionaries and entirely appreciative of all that is best in China’s glorious past. By far the best part of his
## book is that which deals with present-day problems.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 170w
=LAUCK, WILLIAM JETT, and SYDENSTRICKER, EDGAR.= Conditions of labor in American industries. *$1.75 Funk 331.8 17-13561
“The present volume is designed to meet a practical need for a compact collection of the results of the large number of investigations and studies of conditions under which the American wage-earner and his family work and live. It is presented merely as a summarization of the principal and fundamental facts that have been ascertained during the past decade and a half; it is not intended to be a critical discussion of those facts, or to be an argument in favor of or against any
## partizan conclusion, or any remedial program.” (Preface) These
summaries are presented in nine chapters; The labor force; Wages and earnings; Loss in working time; Conditions causing irregular employment; Working conditions; The wage-earner’s family; Living conditions; The wage-earner’s health; The adequacy of wages and earnings. Mr Lauck is author with J. W. Jenks of a standard work on immigration. Mr Sydenstricker wrote one of the reports for the Commission on industrial relations.
“The statistical data presented—most of which was gathered for the United States Commission on industrial relations—are quite extensive. ... There is very little new material in the book. Its purpose, on the contrary, was to make easily available existing material, and this the authors have done in a painstaking manner.
## Particularly valuable are the discussions of unemployment, its causes
and effects: family income; and the health of the worker. The chapter on working conditions is less satisfactory. It is unfortunate that so little attention is paid to unionism and collective bargaining. Perhaps the chief weakness of the book is the tendency to dogmatize from insufficient data.” J: A. Fitch
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:649 S ‘17 1150w
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:151 F ‘18
“The book is intelligently planned, is designed to answer those questions which so frequently arise in the mind of the legislator, the teacher, the general reader, and the newspaper editor. ... While replete with statistics, it is interesting throughout. It deserves careful study and a wide circle of readers.” J. T. Young
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:234 Jl ‘17 570w
=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 40w
=Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 220w
“A valuable reference book for educators, social workers, and all in any way engaged in handling employment problems.”
+ =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by Nathan Fine
=J Pol Econ= 25:851 O ‘17 760w
“No reflective business man, no thoughtful workingman, no social worker, no trade unionist, no student of industrial problems, can study the situation here revealed without realizing how fundamental to our national life these facts must be, and how thoroughly they deserve consideration.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 N 3 ‘17 430w
“To some extent the ‘American labor year book,’ published under the editorship of the present reviewer, attempted to accomplish the same purpose. The present volume is more inclusive. As a reference volume on present-day industrial conditions the book should prove valuable to those who have no opportunity to consult original sources.” Alexander Trachtenberg
+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 24 ‘17 430w
+ =N Y Times= 22:296 Ag 12 ‘17 650w
“The data are largely those relating to conditions between 1900 and 1914 or 1915, since which time many changes have taken place. These, however, are noted, and such facts as are obtainable concerning them are reviewed. The authors appear to have succeeded remarkably well in keeping up with a constantly and rapidly-moving procession of industrial events.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 5 ‘17 870w
“The book is devoted, in the main, to an examination of the income of the American wage-earner and a consideration of its sufficiency. The chapters that deal with that subject are worth reading. One may not always agree with the conclusions—based as they are on statistics that are anywhere from four to sixteen years old and some of them questionable too—but the discussions are illuminating and the figures are the only ones we have. ... The book is full of little errors of varying degrees of importance, from misspelled names to misstatements of fact. Dates get mixed, words are omitted, pages at one point are incorrectly inserted. These are minor matters. But there are other errors that are more serious.” J: A. Fitch
+ — =Survey= 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 600w
=LAUGHLIN, CLARA ELIZABETH.= Heart of Her Highness. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-25586
A romance of Flanders in the fifteenth century. The heroine is Mary of Burgundy, orphaned daughter of Charles the Bold. With her young step-mother as her only sympathetic counselor, Mary is beset with many troubles. In her childhood she had been betrothed to the young son of the emperor of Germany, but the proposed alliance had all but been forgotten, and Louis of France wished to force a marriage with his son, while her own people urged a marriage equally distasteful. Mary herself has given her heart to an unknown youth, and while it looks for a time as tho love must be sacrificed to her country’s needs, the two claims are in the end discovered to be identical.
=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 70w
“Begins like a novel and ends like a fairy tale. There is more than one vivid passage; and if the dialogue is too conventional to be convincing, it is suggestive of those firelight stories that were always too good to be true.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:373 S 30 ‘17 230w
“Miss Laughlin is to be commended for telling her story in present-day English and avoiding the practice of some historical romancers of attempting to reproduce archaic forms of speech.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 220w
=LAUGHLIN, JAMES LAURENCE.= Latter-day problems. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 330.4 17-3490
The three last chapters of the first edition, dealing with money and banking, have been omitted from this revised edition. In their place the author has added five chapters on: Women and wealth; Monopoly of labor; Capitalism and social discontent; Business and democracy; Economic liberty. The omitted chapters may be included later in a volume dealing with monetary problems.
=A L A Bkl= 13:275 Mr ‘17
“The tone of Prof. Laughlin’s dismissal of the case for the working class makes a liberal suspect him. ... The best thing to be said for ‘Latter-day problems’ is that it makes a very creditable attempt to solve 20th century problems with 18th century formulæ.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 270w
=LAVIS, FRED.= Railway estimates, design, quantities and costs. il *$5 McGraw 625 17-14018
“The author, a special lecturer on railway engineering at Yale university, presents in one volume all that is necessary in estimating the probable cost of a proposed railway and the design of general features, together with a complete analysis of details not hitherto available in any single publication.” (Pittsburgh) “The book is more than a development of