chapter 8

of the author’s ‘Railway location, surveys and estimates.’ It is an expansion of that chapter and a setting forth of the timely subject matter in a manner that carries weight and impresses the reader with the author’s broad and practical knowledge of the subject.” (Engin News-Rec)

“It is a pleasure to note that the author, in handling chapters 3 to 11 inclusive—the principal classified cost elements—has, as is his custom, confined himself to the practical illustrative essentials and avoided wordy expansions of irrelevant features. One would have been glad to find in the text three or four chapters instead of three or four pages on the subject of electrical operation and electrification of steam roads.” M. P. Paret

+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:128 Jl 19 ‘17 580w

=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p23 O ‘17 50w

=LAY, WILFRID.= Man’s unconscious conflict; a popular exposition of psychoanalysis. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 130 17-9481

The author offers an interpretation of Freud which will be more acceptable to American readers than many that have preceded it. He has adopted a nomenclature that is more in accordance with our common usage and modes of thought, thus eliminating much of the seeming offensiveness of the Freudian theories. The treatment is popular. His purpose is “to show the unconscious operating in every act of our lives, not merely in the actions ordinarily known as unconscious or automatic, but in that part of our activity to which we attribute the most vivid consciousness.” One important chapter, on a phase little touched on heretofore, deals with the application of psychoanalysis to education. The author suggests that most if not all the faults of the present system of instruction in schools is due to ignorance of the function of the unconscious.

“Fascinating and very practical book.” L. M. Field

+ =Bookm= 45:417 Je ‘17 550w

“Dr Lay, for all the qualities of his argument that look like prepossessions, lays out this difficult lore with a clarity, a charm and a high moral force, that point his book with every power to instruct and improve. No science is so immediately devoted to human service as psychology, no person with his own or society’s welfare at heart can afford to neglect it, and few writers have laid bare its main principles with happier effect than Dr Lay.” B. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 1000w

“A coherent and systematic account, in simple terms, of the fundamental principles and conceptions that are implied in the discoveries and hypotheses of Freud and his school. This is in itself no small achievement. ... It is a pity that Dr Lay still defers so much to the rather inconclusive and therapeutically as well as theoretically useless generalization of sex; that he underestimates, if he at all considers, the importance of the ‘self-regarding instinct’; and that he offers hasty prescriptions to teachers.”

+ — =Dial= 62:485 My 31 ‘17 230w

“It gives one a fair idea, in an easy and entertaining style, of what it is all about—and incidentally enables one to measure the depths of psychoanalytic credulity.”

+ — =Nation= 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 300w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:93 Je ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p7 O ‘17 50w

“Valuable book, which should be in the hands of all parents and educators.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 110w

=LAZARILLO DE TORMES.= Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and his fortunes and adversities. *$1.50 (4c) Kennerley 17-12486

This version of the first picaresque romance is “done out of the Castilian from R. Foulché-Delbosc’s restitution of the editio princeps, by Louis How.” (Sub-title) “The “Life” was probably in existence in some form or other, perhaps for some time, before 1554, the date from which our earliest editions reach us. But the numerous English editions of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early nineteenth centuries are not widely current in these days, and they are all filtered through French translations.” (Dial) There is no plot. Lazarillo’s experiences with his many masters form a satire on society in sixteenth century Spain. After a prologue, the narrative proper is divided into seven treatises or chapters. “The first deals with the early life of Lazarillo and his peregrinations as guide of a blind beggar. In the next four he appears as the servant of a priest, an impoverished petty noble, a friar and a pardoner. In the sixth and seventh he serves a painter of tambourines, a chaplain and a constable, and finally becomes a town crier of Toledo, ... and settles down as the complacent husband of a maidservant of the archpriest of San Salvador parish. Most of the action passes in Toledo or in its immediate neighborhood.” (Introd.) The historical introduction of forty-four pages, and the notes, are by Charles Philip Wagner.

=Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 100w

“Mr How has attempted a literal version; he goes so far as frequently to sacrifice smooth English in his effort to keep the construction of the original. The result is occasionally a racy bit of phrasing, but too often the reader misses the craftsmanship of the anonymous author. The notes, by Mr Charles P. Wagner, will be of interest to serious students of Spanish. Some of the latter will doubtless wish to quarrel with Mr How over a few of his renderings.”

+ — =Dial= 63:216 S 13 ‘17 290w

+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w

“Should serve greatly to widen the circle of readers of the tale. We think such who come to it afresh will enjoy the series of anecdotes through which Lazarillo passes with the perfect effrontery of the mediæval rogue.”

+ =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 200w

=LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.=[2] Frenzied fiction. *$1.25 (2c) Lane 827 18-768

To “Nonsense novels,” “Further foolishness” and other humorous works, Mr Leacock now adds a work of “Frenzied fiction.” It opens with the author’s “revelations as a spy,” quite as solemnly ponderous and neither more nor less revelatory than many of the supposedly authentic confessions. Other pieces in the book are: Father Knickerbocker—a fantasy; The prophet in our midst; Personal adventures in the spirit world; The cave man as he is; The new education; Back from the land.

“The book is the work of a warmhearted and joyous spirit, a friendly, gentle soul that pokes good natured fun at our ridiculousness, our pretensions. He makes you like him and he makes you laugh. It is much.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:573 D 23 ‘17 1500w

“This is Leacock at his best, and this best is better than others of his recent books. The fun is sly and penetrating; the burlesque quality is sustained; the writing is that of a humorist, not that of a mere jokesmith.”

+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 40w

=LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE.= Enforced peace; proceedings of the first annual national assemblage. 50c (1c) League to enforce peace 172.4 17-697

A volume containing the proceedings of the first annual national assemblage of the League to enforce peace, held in Washington, May 26-27, 1916. An introductory chapter is devoted to the organization of the League. Its principles and proposals are given in an appendix. Among the papers reprinted are: The League to enforce peace and the soul of the United States, by Edward A. Filene; The League program, preparedness, and ultimate reduction of armaments, by Hamilton Holt; Constitutionality of the proposals, by William H. Taft; The Monroe doctrine, by George Grafton Wilson; The European nations and the League program, by John Bates Clark; American labor and a constructive settlement of the war, by Samuel Gompers; American agriculture and the League to enforce peace, by Carl Vrooman.

=Cath World= 104:839 Mr ‘17 250w

=Cleveland= p37 Mr ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:135 F ‘17

=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 160w

=LEAMY, EDMUND STANISLAUS.= My ship, and other verses. *$1 Lane 811 17-30423

Many of the poems in this book were inspired by travel in far countries. The author is the son of an Irish patriot, and Katharine Tynan in her foreword says of him: “His father’s adventure was the one upon which so many have embarked, will embark—the great adventure for the Dark Rosaleen. The son’s adventure carries him over oceans and continents, but he has always the faithful, the untravelled heart that belongs by right to his father’s son.”

“Full of the spirit of youth and glowing with adventure.”

+ =Lit D= 55:62 D 8 ‘17 350w

“Mr Leamy sings sweetly his unaffected songs of gentle and kindly sentiment, old memories, wandering and the home-spirit, seen tenderly through mellowing mists of revery and dream.” M. T.

+ =New Repub= 13:353 Ja 19 ‘18 30w

“A collection of verse that seeks to translate the emotions aroused in the American by America herself.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 350w

=LE BAS, SIR HEDLEY FRANCIS=, ed. Lord Kitchener memorial book. il *$2.50 Doran (*3s 6d Hodder and Stoughton, London) (Eng ed 17-12259)

This record of Lord Kitchener’s life is largely pictorial, altho tributes by men who were his friends and associates are included, also a complete record of his own speeches made during the progress of the war. The profits from the sale of the book go to the Lord Kitchener national memorial fund, which is devoted to the relief of disabled soldiers.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 21 ‘17 450w

“This is not a biography, and yet in speech and picture it records the life of Kitchener from his boyhood until as field marshal his life ended.”

+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 15 ‘17 300w

“The volume’s first value is pictorial. The second value is personal.”

+ =Outlook= 116:75 My 9 ‘17 190w

=R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 110w

+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 150w

=LE BLANC, MAURICE.= Golden triangle; the return of Arsène Lupin. il *$1.35 (1½c) Macaulay co. 17-2342

It is April, 1915, and Paris has her share of maimed soldiers. She also has still in her midst spies and plotters. It is around the efforts of one of these soldiers, Captain Patrice Belval, to free the woman he loves from the fate that threatens her that this story turns. But the plot is too intricate for the honest, impulsive captain to unravel. For “Little Mother Coralie” of the hospital wards is wife to the scoundrel financier, Essarès Bey, a Turk passing as an Egyptian and a naturalized Frenchman. The wealth of France is at stake. Therefore Arsène Lupin, under an assumed name, again appears upon the scene, and under his marvellous skill, the tangled web is made straight.

=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 40w

=Boston Transcript= p10 N 24 ‘17 270w

“The entire atmosphere is always tense, but so confused at times that there is difficulty in determining just what is what and who is who. ... The characters of the story are well done.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 320w

“One flaw in the story I must point out. It contains too much crime. Does Le Blanc confuse us connoisseurs with drunkards of crime who must have their dose increased in size with each chapter?” M. A. Hopkins

+ — =Pub W= 92:806 S 15 ‘17 450w

“It must be acknowledged that the book is more entertaining before Arsène Lupin appears like a god out of the machine to smooth all difficulties in almost too easy a manner.”

=Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 120w

=LE BON, GUSTAVE.= Psychology of the great war; tr. by E. Andrews. *$3 Macmillan 940.91 (Eng ed 16-23099)

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“Only for libraries making a very complete collection of war material.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17

“The reader will find M. Le Bon’s argument saturated with loyalty, but not blindly; he will find running through it a sanity of comprehension that may lead to irrelevance but not to injustice; and he will observe a sincere objective intent. ... In view of the peculiarly meagre contributions that in any way illuminate the psychology of the war, and equally of the fact that so many writers admit and emphasize that the psychological causes are the significant ones, the essay of M. Le Bon attains an importance which his reputation presages and his performance confirms.” Joseph Jastrow

* + =Dial= 62:182 Mr 8 ‘17 1700w

“The title of this book does not convey a correct idea of its scope. It would probably be impossible for any living man to write a scientific psychology of the war, partly because psychology is not at present provided with the necessary principles and methods and partly because sufficient data are not yet available. ... This must not be taken to imply that the book is not valuable. It would be valuable if it were only as a collection of excerpts from newspapers, interviews, letters, and state papers. But it is more than this; it is an informing and stimulating book. I mean only that it is not what the author seemingly intends it to be, namely, an explanation of the war in terms of psychological laws. The author adds nothing in the present book to what he has already said on the collective mind.” R. B. Perry

+ — =J Philos= 14:527 S 13 ‘17 1400w

“What Gustave Le Bon writes is always worth reading. No man living knows more about the facts of social psychology, or builds more plausible hypotheses when facts are wanting. ... If the author could have written with scientific impartiality, he would have produced the most important rational work on the war that has yet appeared. Scientific impartiality, however, is not to be expected from a patriot whose country is agonizing under invasion. ... The scientific value of the first third of the book is sadly impaired by mystical contamination of rational conceptions.” A. S. J.

+ — =New Repub= 10:52 F 10 ‘17 1450w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:7 Ja ‘17

=LEDOUX, LOUIS VERNON.= George Edward Woodberry: a study of his poetry. (Contemporary American poet ser.) $1 Poetry review co., 12 Chauncy st., Cambridge, Mass. 811 17-18966

“An interesting biographical essay on this great modern New Englander, on the influences that have governed him and made his poetry what it is, thoughtful, philosophical, cultivated and also very acutely felt. The book includes a good bibliography of all of Mr Woodberry’s writings.” (Ind) Mr Ledoux is vice-president of a firm of mining engineers and has published several volumes of poetry.

=Ath= p469 S ‘17 30w

+ =Ind= 90:553 Ja 23 ‘17 70w

+ =Lit D= 54:1787 Je 9 ‘17 620w

+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 40w

=LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS.= Songs of peace. *3s 6d Jenkins, London 821

“Last July there fell, fighting for world freedom in the ranks of the Royal Inniskilling fusiliers, the Irish poet who more than any other of recent years has won for himself a unique place in Irish (and incidentally English) letters. ... His work was introduced to the world by Lord Dunsany, who wrote the foreword to ‘Songs of the fields,’ a friendly office which he has again performed for ‘Songs of peace,’ Ledwidge’s last book. ... The poems in the new volume are more self-revelatory than those of ‘Songs of the fields.’ ... The influence of outward events is shown, not only in the tone of the poems, but in the names of the sections into which the slender volume is divided—At home, In barracks, In camp, At sea, In Serbia, In Greece, In hospital in Egypt. Despite stirring times and deeds, the poet’s thoughts turn constantly to Ireland, and his song is most often of her. For this reason Lord Dunsany names the new volume ‘Songs of peace,’ ‘in spite of the circumstances under which they were written.’”—Boston Transcript

+ =Ath= p593 D ‘16 60w

“Ledwidge is before all else the poet of Irish landscape. ... Not only does he give the physical appearance of Ireland, but the true inwardness of her landscape—the color, the scent, and the sound of his beloved land, that the Gael may feel a catch in his breath as he reads, and find his brain flooded with many memories. ... As a poet of nature, Ledwidge has imaginative power linking him with the great poets of the past. ... Yet he is in no sense imitative, he belongs to his own day and has a personality of his own.” N. J. O’C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 1200w

+ =Pratt= p34 O ‘17 30w

“This is Mr Ledwidge’s second book, and it shows happily, if anyone doubted it, that his gifts and endowments are of the lasting order. He is a genuine poet; he raises common things above their commonness; he has the vision which perceives and makes beauty.”

+ =Sat R= 123:162 F 17 ‘17 520w

“Last week brought the news that the author of these ‘Songs of peace’ has been killed. ... No one can say what he would have been if he had lived. One cannot be confident about the promise of the queer tender beauty in these poems. ... But of the beauties there can be no doubt.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p391 Ag 16 ‘17 1050w

=LEE, JAMES MELVIN.=[2] History of American journalism. il *$3.50 Houghton 071 18-292

A comprehensive and authoritative history of American journalism prepared by the head of the New York university school of journalism. The text which runs through the following chapters is illustrated with reproductions of famous papers and cartoons: Precursors of American newspapers; The first American newspaper—the Boston News-Letter; Beginnings in colonies; Colonial period, 1704-1765; Revolutionary period, 1765-1783; Period of early republic, 1783-1812; First dailies and early party organs; Party press period, 1812-1832; Beginnings in states, 1783-1832; Beginnings of the penny press; Transition period, 1832-1841; Beginnings in states and territories, 1833-1873; Mexican war to Civil war period, 1846-1860; Civil war period, 1860-1865; Reconstruction period, 1865-1880; Period of financial readjustment, 1880-1900; Period of social readjustment, 1900-; Journalism of to-day.

“Unfortunately, Mr Lee thinks it necessary to belittle the work of his predecessor. Were Mr Lee’s own work absolutely flawless, this harsh judgment upon the work of his fellow journalist might be pardonable, but under the circumstances it seems peculiarly unnecessary and inconsiderate. The vast amount of information gathered by Mr Lee makes his volume undeniably of great value as a storehouse of facts. But as a history it contains many defects of arrangement and style. Its index is so incomplete as to be absolutely worthless.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 1150w

“He has performed his task con amore, as his comprehensive work attests.”

+ =Lit D= 56:44 F 9 ‘18 370w

“A book of prime importance to all newspaper men who take an intelligent interest in their profession, of decided interest to the general reader on account of its lively style, and of real value to the student of American life because of its comprehensiveness and its presentation of the ethics as well as the annals of its subject.”

+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 60w

=LEE, JENNETTE BARBOUR (PERRY) (MRS GERALD STANLEY LEE).= Green jacket. *$1.35 (2½c) Scribner 17-24273

This is an unusual kind of detective story. Millicent Newberry, a small woman with gray eyes and hair, who dresses in gray, and whom anyone passing in a crowd would not have noticed particularly, tired of detective work as done in Tom Corbin’s detective agency, because she came to see that “It isn’t commonsense to go on catching folks and locking them up forever, or for a little while—and then letting them run loose.” So she set up an agency of her own and took no cases except with a signed agreement that she should say what should be done with the criminal she caught. Milly solved the mystery of the Mason emeralds which had for two years baffled other detectives. It was her custom to knit when on a case, and the book takes its title from the green jacket she was knitting while she pondered on the mysterious disappearance of the emeralds.

=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

“This story of Millicent Newberry is largely a thing of atmosphere, for it is the subtler realm of atmosphere that Mrs Lee finds the surest way to make her heroine real to us.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 1150w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 60w

“Altho the author leads the reader to expect miraculous sleuth work on the part of Millie Newberry, one is sadly disappointed. The story is rather well constructed but there is not sufficient suspense to hold the interest.”

– + =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 60w

+ =New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 90w

+ =N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 300w

=LEE, ROGER IRVING.= Health and disease; their determining factors. *$1.75 (1½c) Little 613 17-8216

The author is professor of hygiene at Harvard university and this book on preventive medicine is the outgrowth of lectures delivered to his classes. It is intended for the layman, whose duty it is to cooperate intelligently with health authorities in the prevention and control of disease. Dr Lee’s purpose is to give him a summary of the knowledge that has been gained by medical science, not omitting to point out the things that science has not yet learned and the fields that are still to be explored. There are chapters on: Heredity; Food; Air; The skin; Exercise and work; Light and the eyes; The hygiene of the teeth and the upper air passages; The hygiene of the mind and the nervous system; The communicable diseases; The air-borne diseases, etc. There is also a discussion of Occupational diseases and a chapter on The function of the board of health.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17

“Concise and easily readable. ... The volume constitutes a summary knowledge gained from scientific medicine in recent years, but there is an utter absence of technical matter so unwelcome to the layman.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 370w

+ =Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 20w

“There is nothing in the nature of ‘every-man-his-own-physician’ about this book. On the contrary, the reader of books like this will be very likely to learn when to send for the physician. ... There is a good index and the book is well printed.”

+ =Ind= 90:515 Je 16 ‘17 200w

“Now, as never before, such a work may helpfully serve employers who would understand the wisdom and gain of solving the health problems of their employees. It may even assist medical practitioners who would like a summary of preventive remedies.”

+ =Lit D= 55:33 Jl 14 ‘17 370w

+ =R of Rs= 55:556 My ‘17 90w

“It is a misfortune to use this phrase [’The air-borne diseases’] in any sense. ... Specially to be commended are the chapters on Alcohol, tobacco and the habit-forming drugs and on the Venereal diseases and sex-hygiene. ... It is to be most cordially recommended to the lay reader and might find a useful place as a text in a general elementary college course in hygiene and sanitation, and should certainly be on the desk of every teacher of biology and hygiene.” C. M. Hilliard

+ =Science= n s 45:463 My 11 ‘17 350w

“Sane, comprehensive, interesting and up-to-the-minute. One feels that, at last, the subject is set upright, solid, and on its feet.” G. S.

+ =Survey= 39:171 N 17 ‘17 200w

=LEFEVRE, EDWIN.= To the last penny. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-10667

Tommy Leigh, newly graduated from college, is faced with the necessity of earning a living. Having grown up in the belief that his father is a rich man, the discovery that he must fend for himself comes as a shock. The severity of the blow, however, grows out of the suspicion that his father is not an honest man, that he has taken advantage of his position as a trusted bank employee to appropriate the funds that paid for his son’s education. Tommy’s first job takes him out to Dayton, Ohio, where he enters the employ of the Tecumseh Motor Company. The chief interest of the story is centered in Thompson, the head of this company and his business methods. At the end there is an adjustment between Tommy and his father and an explanation of the father’s motives.

“A good clean story. ... Appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17

“A mechanical piece of work.” H. W. Boynton

– + =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 40w

“The story has already appeared serially in one of the well-known weeklies and will be a welcome addition to the summer library of novels. ... It is a book to help one as well as to amuse him.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1857 Je 16 ‘17 220w

“Entertaining, and exceptionally ingenious.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 270w

=LEGGE, THOMAS MORISON, and others.= Origin, symptoms, pathology, treatment and prophylaxis of toxic jaundice observed in munition workers. *$2.50 Longmans 615.9

“Since the war a new occupational disease has been listed in the British factory inspection reports and has been added to those for which compensation can be claimed under the law. This is toxic jaundice, a form of poisoning caused by contact with the explosive trinitrotoluol, or triton, or TNT, to give it all its names. ... In 1916 there were reported in Great Britain 181 cases of toxic jaundice—the severe form of TNT poisoning—with 52 deaths. Milder forms need not be certified, but they are said to number about 30 times as many (some 5,400). ... As our output of munitions increases, TNT poisoning will inevitably increase unless we adopt the means of prevention worked out in England. This book is a mine of interesting information concerning this new and important industrial disease.”—Survey

“While much of it is very technical and of value only to physicians, there is a great deal for the lay inspector or welfare worker.” Alice Hamilton

+ =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 350w

=LE GRAND, PHILIPPE E.= New Greek comedy; with an introd. by J: Williams White. *$4.50 Putnam 882 17-21776

“Professor Legrand’s ‘Daos, tableau de la comédie grecque pendant la période dite nouvelle’ appeared in 1910 and immediately commanded the favorable consideration of classical scholars. Now Mr James Loeb, who had already translated Decharme’s ‘Euripides and the spirit of his dramas’ (1905) and Croiset’s ‘Aristophanes and the political parties of Athens’ (1909), has put us still further in his debt by providing an English version of Legrand as the concluding member of a trilogy of French works dealing with the history of ancient drama. ... With the idea of securing the attention of a wider public, not a little which would be of interest primarily to specialists has been omitted in the present edition. The translator’s preface states that the selection of passages for omission was made by the French author and that the bulk has thus been reduced by almost one-third.”—Class J

“Between the author and the translator every effort has been made to recommend this book to the general reader without taking away any part of its accuracy or its importance to the scholastic world.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 900w

“One would be greatly mistaken if he concluded that the present version were rendered altogether suitable for the general reader, for Greek and Latin words, phrases, and sentences are left standing in the text with such frequency as to present a serious obstacle to all but the classically trained. ... It would have added considerably to the value of the book if the author or translator could have brought the bibliographical references quite up to date. ... I have tested the translation at numerous points and have found it uniformly accurate. ... The original edition had no index, but Professor Capps has supervised the compilation of an extensive index for the translation. ... The French edition was competently reviewed by Professor Prescott in Classical Philology, V (1910), 377ff.” R. C. Flickinger

+ =Class J= 13:77 O ‘17 1350w

“Although Legrand’s book is unquestionably the best available description of New comedy, it is at times tedious reading, in its English form, for the general student of literature. It is often unnecessarily profuse in arraying examples of a given phase of comedy; the French author’s style of exposition is sometimes clumsily mechanical; and in general a clear succinct statement of the essential features of content and form, described from the standpoint of a modern reader of ancient comedy, would serve much better the needs of the audience to whom Mr Loeb addresses his translation.” H: W. Prescott

+ — =Class Philol= 12:442 O ‘17 220w

“This book will be not only indispensable to the conscientious student of literary history, but of genuine interest to the intelligent general reader who might be repelled by the mass of technical material, wisely omitted in this case, which so many writers on classical subjects seem to think it ignominious to spare him.” E. D. Perry

+ =Educ R= 55:73 Ja ‘18 900w

“The ‘Daos’ of Prof. Legrand, which Mr Loeb now gives us in an excellent version, has not the characteristic French gift of brilliant generalisation. It is rather a book which appeals to the main trend of American scholarship, which is to gather up laboriously an infinite amount of small detail. ... It will be a bit stiff for the general reader who is in view, for it is thickly spread with the names of plays, which are usually fragments of plays, and dramatis personæ.”

+ =Sat R= 123:578 Je 23 ‘17 1350w

“M. Legrand is happy alike in his opportunity and in the use that he has made of it. ... To the general reader the omissions are no loss, while Mr Loeb’s English version shows that he himself is a master of the art which he has done so much to encourage.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p220 My 10 ‘17 2150w

=LEIGHOU, ROBERT BENJAMIN.= Chemistry of materials of the machine and building industries. il *$3 McGraw 660 17-11589

“A text-book for technical schools considering from the standpoint of the user the chemistry of water, fuels, refractory materials, iron and steel, nonferrous materials and alloys, foundry sands, building stones, lime and gypsum products, cement, clay and its products, paints, varnishes, lubricants, glue, rubber, insulating materials, etc.” (Cleveland) The author is associate professor of chemistry in the Carnegie institute of technology.

“The bibliographical footnotes and the lists of books and periodical references at the chapter endings make this an excellent reference for both the technical and the public library.”

+ =Bul N Y Public Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 50w

“There is a curious admixture of the scientific and the popular methods of treatment. The references are many and interesting, though it is to be doubted whether the technical student will be other than bewildered by their number, or the user of materials, seeking detailed information, will be less than exasperated by the glossing of facts indicated by their unceasing recurrence.”

+ — =Engin News-Rec= 78:603 Je 21 ‘17 150w

“Intended for students who have a knowledge of elementary general chemistry. ... An excellent reference for both the technical and the public library.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p4 Ap ‘17 90w

“Useful work, including a wide range of materials and giving concise information much of which is not easily available elsewhere.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:668 O ‘17 90w

=Pratt= p23 O ‘17 40w

=LEONARD, MARY FINLEY.= Ways of Jane; a story with which the wise and prudent have no concern. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield 17-8350

This is the story of Jane and her friends on Sycamore street and of certain other people who live in the more aristocratic Kenton place. Jane is seven years old and she lives with Angela, her aunt, who is young and lovely and who writes reviews of books to help with the family living. Jane has a part in the reviewing, too, placing large blue penciled R’s on the paper jacket of each book as it leaves Angela’s hands. Jane’s best friend is Miss Goldie, the little dressmaker who shares her belief in fairies and ogres. Her next best friend is David. David is a young man who lives in Kenton place, but Jane does not recognize class distinctions and this does not interfere with their friendship. There are other pleasant people in the story and before the end of it Jane’s faith in fairies, yes, and in ogres, too, is vindicated.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17

“A very slight, rather pleasant and somewhat long-winded little story.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 140w

“Although Jane is a juvenile, the book is not.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 180w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 40w

=LEONARD, STERLING ANDRUS.= English composition as a social problem. (Riverside educational monographs) *70c (2c) Houghton 808 17-5148

The idea that lies back of this monograph is expressed by Dr Suzzallo in his Editor’s introduction: “Most self-expression is for the purpose of social communication. We express ourselves in the presence of other people to gain appreciation or stimulation and to influence and control others. Our whole use of language has a social setting.” The author has worked out this idea in a plan for composition teaching in grades and high school. Four chapters discuss: The sources of composition projects in child-activities; The social group as an agent in expressional development; The organization of ideas; Evolution and attainment of expressional standards.

=A L A Bkl= 13:294 Ap ‘17

“Stimulating, somewhat technical.”

+ =Cleveland= p72 My ‘17 70w

+ =Dial= 62:316 Ap 5 ‘17 180w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:46 Mr ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:646 O ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p17 O ‘17 60w

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

+ =School R= 25:606 O ‘17 90w

=LESLIE, SHANE.= Celt and the world. *$1.25 (3½c) Scribner 940 17-7029

The present war is termed a Teutonic family split. The real point at issue is, Which of the two imperial branches of the Teutonic family shall rule the sea. The theme of the book is the relation of Celt and Teuton in history, with special reference of course to the relation of England and Ireland. Between Germany and Ireland, there can be little in common is the author’s conclusion. “The fortunes of Ireland are with the Anglo-Celtic empire, though the reactionary English element has by unwisdom obscured the path.” Contents: The Aryans and their religion; Celt and Teuton; The conversion of the Celt; The holy Aryan empire; The Aryan dispersion; A view of Irish history; The Teutonic family split.

“Not only from the standpoint of history is his book interesting, but he has built up an argument which is certainly thought-provoking.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 220w

“Though entertainingly written and abounding in literary charm, the study will prove a disappointment to most readers. They will naturally expect an illuminating study of the influence of one of the world’s great races on its general trend of events, but they will find instead an opportunist brief born of the present war.”

=Cleveland= p81 Je ‘17 80w (Reprinted from America)

“Pre-supposes a ‘well-read’ reader and a receptive mind. To many the sketch of Irish history will be the most interesting thing in the book; and the praise heaped upon the Celtic hero, Daniel O’Connell, will find few critics. Mr Leslie surely knows his subject.”

+ =Cath World= 105:823 S ‘17 340w

“An essay on European development from an unusual angle—from the angle of a student who remains rather aloof from the achievements of the two imperial branches of the Teutonic stock—the German and the Anglo-Saxon. Mr Leslie’s ideal of European union is one from which Europe seems to have decisively departed—a union under the presidency of pope and emperor. ... Now that the dominant Aryan people, the Teutonic, are wasting themselves in fratricidal conflict, the menace of Asia becomes more positive, more immediate. That is the thesis of ‘The Celt and the world.’” Padraic Colum

=Dial= 62:435 My 17 ‘17 900w

+ — =Nation= 105:73 Jl 19 ‘17 400w

“Both learned and brilliant—a rare combination today.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:225 Je 10 ‘17 400w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17 20w

Letters from a French hospital. *$1 (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-15442

A series of letters written to her people at home by an English girl nursing in France. They range in date from July 31, 1915 to September 17, 1916. For the most part they are concerned with the every day duties and routine of hospital service, but now and again there is a reflective sentence that reveals the writer’s character. “I never for a moment wanted the Boches to win, but I just can’t want them killed,” she writes. At another time she tells that she has just motored over to the Spanish frontier where she stood on the border and “looked longingly over into peace.”

“American women who are looking forward to hospital service during the war cannot fail to be interested in these unusual letters.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 30w

“The letters are an interesting revelation of all the unconscious little heroisms that are part of the daily life near any great fighting front.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 220w

“Pictures conditions similar to those described in ‘Mademoiselle Miss,’ and the writer displays many of the same qualities, which led to success despite her lack of training.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:185 Je ‘17 50w

=LETTS, WINIFRED M.= Hallow-e’en, and poems of the war. *$1.25 Dutton 821

“Most of the war poetry has had in it more or less of the clangor of battle, the exaltation of spirit that fills the soldier at the firing line, the gay comradeship of the march. But these poems are mostly from the point of view of the home-staying ones and are full of the tender reverence of these for the soldier fighting and dying, of compassion for the bereaved at home, and of admiration for the courage with which they bear their losses and sorrows.”—N Y Times

“A somewhat different touch marks these war poems in comparison with most of the war poetry the last two or three years have brought forth—a touch that perhaps can be best described as the priestly touch of understanding and compassion and healing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:234 Je 17 ‘17 530w

“Contains many fine poems, several of which have received praise on previous publication in English magazines. ‘Hallow-e’en, 1915,’ ‘He prayed,’ and ‘The spires of Oxford,’ have a rare quality and deserve a place among the best expressions of the war spirit in poetry.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 50w

“Miss Letts never strikes a wrong note or plucks needlessly at our heartstrings, and if there is little gaiety in her new volume, there is no wantoning with sorrow.”

+ =Spec= 118:76 Ja 20 ‘17 200w

=LETTS, WINIFRED M.= Spires of Oxford, and other poems. *$1.25 Dutton 821 17-24170

“The majority of the poems in this volume were published in 1916 under the title ‘Hallow-e’en and poems of the war.’ The verdict of the public, as shown by continual requests for permission to republish, is that ‘The spires of Oxford’ is the most important poem in the volume—and therefore in issuing a new edition with several new poems, we bow to this verdict and give ‘The spires of Oxford’ its place in the forefront of the volume.” (Publishers’ note) Contents: Poems of the war; Ad mortuum; Miscellanea.

“They have a felicity of expression, variety, distinction, a touch of dramatic fervor and a genuineness of feeling which make them appealing.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17

“These war poems one may read through with responsive interest, but with no keen poignancy, except on one occasion. That exception is in the verses called ‘What reward?’ ... The poems in the other two groups of Miss Letts’s volume show her, I think, in a better poetic light. ... The work is always clear, sometimes vivid, always cleanly wrought.” W. S. B.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 500w

+ =Cath World= 106:402 D ‘17 90w

“Contains some poems on the war which we should be sorry to have missed.”

+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 120w

“There are many noble war-poems in Miss Letts’s book, but the part of it which impresses us most is that containing poems personal in theme. Miss Letts’s chief claim—and a strong claim it is—upon the affections of those who care greatly for poetry is the group of poems called ‘Ad mortuum.’”

+ =Lit D= 55:34 O 6 ‘17 850w

“They are primarily poems—buoyant with beauty, full of fresh visions of loveliness, warm and human and sweet. The war poems are dignified and reveal an occasional flash of understanding that is all too unusual in war verse.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 470w

+ =N Y Times= 22:566 D 16 ‘17 230w

“The poem from which the book takes its title is an outstanding example of war verse, notable for its simplicity and feeling. ... Almost equally affecting is ‘Halloween, 1915.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 24 ‘17 280w

=LEUBA, JAMES HENRY.= Belief in God and immortality; a psychological, anthropological and statistical study. *$2 (2c) Sherman, French & co. 218 17-54

The author says, “In an earlier book [’A psychological study of religion,’ 1912] I have considered the origin, the nature, the function, and the future of the belief in what I have called ‘personal’ gods. The present volume is a similar study of the belief in personal immortality.” Part 1 treats of The two conceptions of immortality: their origins, their different characteristics and the attempted demonstration of the truth of the modern conception. This part also includes an examination of the studies of the Society of psychical research. Part 2 presents a statistical study of the belief in a personal God and in personal immortality in the United States.

## Part 3 treats of the present utility of the beliefs in personal

immortality and in a personal God. The author is professor of psychology at Bryn Mawr college.

“The author presents a somewhat detailed study of the belief in God and a future life as it appears in primitive religions and in the modern world of educated men and women. The treatment is extremely suggestive and illuminating. The conclusion is that these beliefs, having in the minds of people today little or no relation to the conduct of life, may well be discarded in favor of more practical moral teachings. The book deserves careful reading on the part of all religious and social workers.” Irving King

+ =Am J Soc= 23:129 Jl ‘17 550w

“It is a pleasure to find, as one does in Leuba’s work, a really fresh presentation and something like an original point of view. Professor Leuba has put in his debt all those who have the welfare of religion at heart by showing them that the situation is really much more serious than most of them had supposed.” J. B. Pratt

+ =Am J Theol= 21:629 O ‘17 1650w

=A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17

+ =Ath= p94 F ‘17 100w

“Rarely, if ever, has the distinction between two quite different conceptions of personal immortality been so successfully elaborated.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 150w

“There are few subjects as to which statistics can be more meaningless, and that is saying a great deal.”

— =Educ R= 54:316 O ‘17 40w

“The book is exceedingly interesting, but far from convincing, when one realizes that the conclusions are based merely upon questionnaires sent to interested persons of the college world.”

=Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w

“The reader of this study can but be impressed with the fact that in this book is discussed with the fair spirit of critical inquiry a subject that in recent literature has been even unscrupulously handled.” J. R. Kantor

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:396 Ap ‘17 500w

=Nation= 104:496 Ap 26 ‘17 350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:41 Mr ‘17

=LEVI, N.= Jan Smuts; being a character sketch of Gen. the Hon. J. C. Smuts, K. C., M. L. A., minister of defence, Union of South Africa. il *$2.50 Longmans 17-15584

“General Smuts, leader of the British forces against the Germans in German Southeast Africa, has gone to England as a member of the British Imperial war cabinet. ... He is one of the really interesting personalities of this far-flung war. And in a book, written by a South African neighbor, presumably for South African readers in the first place, and then for Britons in general, the author of the present volume has offered a real contribution to the knowledge of the world at large. ‘Jan Smuts’ is, as the title page states, a character sketch rather than a biography. It is written with great simplicity, out of a heart-felt admiration, with the utmost sympathy and the most intimate knowledge both of the man himself and of the circumstance and the events of his life.”—N Y Times

“The work gives one the flavor of South Africa. It is not only the racy English idiom enlivened with fresh South African phrases, nor the imagination that loves to play with odd figures of speech drawn from the author’s own experience; it is the insight into the Boers, the sympathetic insight of a man who has seen a wider world only to estimate his own better. Few men in their lifetimes have been so fortunate in their biographers as General Smuts.” Wallace Notestein

+ =Am Hist R= 23:434 Ja ‘18 450w

+ — =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 330w

“Seems to lack those picturesque features and that broader humanity with which we associate General Botha.”

+ — =Ind= 91:293 Ag 25 ‘17 150w

“It is exceedingly interesting. ... The last sentence is all the more interesting in connection with a statement quoted from A. G. Gardiner of the London Daily News that Jan Smuts is ‘the most considerable figure in Greater Britain.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 520w

“His biography is doubly worth while; it describes both an interesting individual character and the recent development of South African economic, social, and political conditions.”

+ =Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 70w

* =Spec= 118:365 Mr 24 ‘17 1500w

“His style is dreadful. ... Yet Mr Levi has his merits. He is ingenuous and kindly. His knowledge of facts is accurate, his judgment of political opponents not usually overharsh, his reverence and affection for General Smuts himself very genuine and very obvious. His book, at least, comes pat to the moment. ... People in this country might do much worse than get it and read it. It will, at least help them to understand the elements of South African politics and the position of the Botha government.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 22 ‘17 430w

=LEVINE, ISAAC DON.= Russian revolution. il *$1 (2½c) Harper 947 17-15056

This work by the foreign news editor of the New York Tribune has chapters devoted to: A century of struggle for freedom; Russian autocracy and the great war; Russian democracy and the great war; The birth of social Russia; The Duma and social Russia; The democratization of the army; The rule of Goremykin; The dark forces; Working for Prussianism; A traitor to democracy; The crisis; Rasputin and Protopopov; The revolution; The fall of czarism; The new Russia; The future. Summarizing the contents, the author says, “The first six chapters of this book give a general survey of the forces that underlay the revolution. The following six chapters deal with the events in the thirty months preceding it. The last four chapters cover the revolution proper and its possibilities.”

“Very interesting and compact.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17

=Ath= p530 O ‘17 200w

“A clear-cut and sober analysis.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ =Bookm= 46:483 D ‘17 100w

“It is a thrilling story and it is so well presented on the whole that one forgets the aberrations of the author’s English style.” N. H. D.

+ + — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 850w

“Presents information which is not easily obtainable elsewhere.”

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w

=Dial= 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 90w

+ =Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 150w

“Although he has leavened the mere literal record with competent and sometimes illuminating interpretation, Mr Levine does not attempt to give more than a hasty journalistic summary. Yet even in so slight a book the author is compelled to devote over two-thirds his space to an analysis of the governmental disorganization, chicanery and almost open treason which made the drama of March, 1917, inevitable.”

+ =New Repub= 12:56 Ag 11 ‘17 600w

“The book as a whole is fascinating. But one chapter of it, because of its unusual character, may be mentioned, that dealing with Rasputin.” Frank Macdonald

+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 22 ‘17 600w

“Tells in crisp, journalistic style, and with a full sense of its amazingness, this latest romance of human freedom. The author draws from a full and deep knowledge of Russia; he is able to sum up the salient facts leading gradually and surely to the revolution without wasting time or losing the reader’s attention.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:221 Je 10 ‘17 1500w

=Pittsburgh= 22:679 O ‘17 70w

+ =Pratt= p44 O ‘17 10w

“By all odds the most journalistic and vivid of the presentations of the motives and forces that are energizing the Russian national movement. ... Mr Levine’s terse and graphic narrative of Petrograd’s days of transition from absolutism to modern democracy can hardly be surpassed.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 250w

“Much of what he says should be common knowledge, and if it is not his book should help in making it so.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 26 ‘17 100w

“The personalities of Sturmer, Rasputin, Protopopov, the Tsaritsa, and other pro-Germans are clearly brought out.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p413 Ag 30 ‘17 950w

=LEWIN, PERCY EVANS.= German road to the East. *$2.50 Doran 327.4 (Eng ed 17-9488)

“An account of the ‘Drang nach Osten’ and of Teutonic aims in the Near and Middle East. It discusses the political and economic causes which underlie the Eastern question, the problems of the Balkan states and Russia, the position of Persia and the probable result of British occupation of Bagdad.”—A L A Bkl

“Interesting in connection with Naumann’s ‘Central Europe’ (Booklist 13:247 My ‘17) and Gibbons’ ‘New map of Europe’ (Booklist 11:258 F ‘15). Well documented with a selected classed bibliography (8p).”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17

“Mr Evans Lewin’s book lacks the personal knowledge and individual feeling that give originality to Sir Thomas Holdich’s writing. Its strongest feature is its bibliography, and, indeed, the whole book smells somewhat of the lamp; yet the standpoint from which it is written fatally deprives it of authority and permanence. A history of German penetration in the Near East would be an intensely interesting sociological study; but Mr Lewin is not writing a history, he is making out a case. ... There is a great deal of excellent geographical analysis and solid historical information in Mr Lewin’s book.”

– + =Ath= p24 Ja ‘17 650w

“An excellent and painstaking study of the Berlin to Bagdad project, the fullest and perhaps best balanced account of Pan-Germanism, which has so far appeared.”

+ =Cleveland= p85 Jl ‘17 50w

“A scholarly and important contribution to the literature of the war and its causes.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 15 ‘17 750w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17

“The study throughout is comprehensive and penetrating and authorities are given for all important statements.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 150w

“In this useful book Mr Lewin examines in detail the development of Germany’s ambitious designs on the Near East, typified in the phrase ‘from Berlin to Baghdad.’ Every one, we suppose, now understands the German desire to absorb the whole heritage of the ‘Sick man,’ but it is convenient to have the diplomatic and economic history of the German schemes during the last twenty years set forth in this readable form. Mr Lewin, we think, exaggerates English ignorance of pan-Germanism.”

+ — =Spec= 117:706 D 2 ‘16 250w

“Mr Lewin is already known by his useful volume on the Germans in Africa; he has many qualifications for the task he has undertaken; he has great industry and wide reading, and, in particular, has a very thorough understanding of British colonial aims and interests. This latter quality is shown in the volume before us; by far the most valuable chapters are those on Asia Minor, and particularly on Persia. ... While, therefore, the book is of great value as regards the events in Asia, for an explanation of the real influences and character of German policy at home it is inferior to other recent works such as those of Dr Rose, or Dr Prothero’s very useful pamphlet, ‘German policy before the war.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p482 O 12 ‘16 2000w

=LEWINSKI-CORWIN, EDWARD HENRY.= Political history of Poland. il $3 Polish book importing co., 83 2d av., N.Y. 943.8 17-19703

“The author has sketched the history of the Polish state from its early beginnings to its disintegration, and has followed the fortunes of its scattered remnants down to the present day. The chapter on The Polish question and the great war contains information on the Polish legions and on the present attitude of Polish patriots towards Russia, Germany, and Austria not easily obtainable elsewhere. ... Dr Lewinski-Corwin believes that a free and republican Russia will make the reconstruction of Poland, as an independent state, in confederation with Lithuania and Ruthenia, a political possibility.”—Nation

=A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17

“A chapter on the Polish legions and the attitude of the ‘patriots’ toward Austria, Germany and Russia is illuminating and gives information not easily accessible elsewhere.”

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w

“The last two chapters, however,—dealing with ‘constitutional Russia and the Poles’ and ‘the Polish question and the great war,’—have decided value, not alone because they bring the story up to date, but because they show an unusually keen insight into the perplexities of the contemporary Polish problem.” F: A. Ogg

+ — =Dial= 63:583 D 6 ‘17 670w

=Lit D= 55:39 S 15 ‘17 280w

“Fully familiar with his subject. ... The interest of the volume is enhanced by numerous illustrations. ... The book might have gained in value by more careful proof-reading.”

+ — =Nation= 105:298 S 13 ‘17 240w

“A great deal of space is given to the many efforts of Poland to free itself from Russian serfdom.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:330 S 9 ‘17 370w

=Pittsburgh= 22:679 O ‘17

“If due allowance is made for these limitations, Dr Lewinski-Corwin’s book takes its place as the best and most authoritative brief history of Poland now on the market.” C. J. H. Hayes

+ — =Survey= 39:298 D 8 ‘17 800w

=LEWIS, BURDETTE GIBSON.= Offender and his relations to law and society. (Harper’s modern science ser.) il *$2 (1½c) Harper 364 17-10887

A work on prison reform and modern correctional methods by the Commissioner of correction for New York city. The book is made up of two parts, the first, Society and the offender, is a study of methods actually in use in various institutions. There are chapters on: The court and the offender; Classification of the offender; Probation and parole; The indeterminate sentence; Autocratic government and discipline; Other systems of government and discipline, etc. Part 2 deals with the prevention of crime and considers the different social forces which can be used to that end. There are several appendixes presenting interesting matter relating to prison practice, including among other items a Plan for the rational treatment of women convicted in the courts of the County of New York prepared by Katharine B. Davis.

“The book is open to criticism because of the inadequate development of part 2 on the prevention of crime. The common-sense point of view, the thoroughly socialized legal attitude, and the new illustrative material from the author’s experience are the strong points.” E. S. Bogardus

+ — =Am J Soc= 23:553 Ja ‘18 180w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 550w

+ =Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 60w

“Neither reactionary nor sentimental.”

+ =Ind= 91:292 Ag 25 ‘17 120w

“The great merit of this book is the humanity and intimacy, the familiarity of detail and truthfulness, with which it treats of four complicated aspects of society’s dealing with the wrongdoer.”

+ =Nation= 104:734 Je 21 ‘17 1700w

“Mr Lewis combines idealism with common sense. ... The volume is sound in its philosophy, shows in the author both a practical familiarity with present methods and an intelligent reading of history and is to be heartily commended to all those who are interested in the problem.”

+ =Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:533 Je ‘17 100w

=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 20w

“It is refreshing to find an administrator so alive to the modern scientific study of the individual delinquent and to the need for individual treatment. Mr Lewis’s approach to his subject is for the most part liberal and scientific; his information goes far beyond the files of his own department. ... The book is not as fluent in style as Wines’ ‘Punishment and reformation,’ but it supersedes that volume for the student of penology today.” W. D. Lane

+ =Survey= 38:531 S 15 ‘17 600w

=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= Innocents. il *$1.25 (3c) Harper 17-24286

The author calls this “a story for lovers,” “a tale for people who still read Dickens and clip out spring poetry, and love old people and children.” (Introd.) It is the story of the later years of Mr and Mrs Seth Appleby, who, though they were born in New York city, and had lived there upward of sixty years, were “rustic as a meadow-ringed orchard.” After their daughter has married a prosperous druggist in a small New York town, “Father,” who has clerked for many years in Pilking’s shoestore on Sixth avenue, decides to give up his job, and, with the help of “Mother,” opens a tea-room in an old farm house on the cliffs at Grimsby Head, Cape Cod. Why the venture fails, how the old couple take to the open road and how they finally make a place, and that no mean one, for themselves in Lipsittsville, Indiana; instead of living with their eminently respectable daughter who is always trying to make them over, is sympathetically told by Mr Lewis.

“An entertaining and amusing variant of the typical love story.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17

“It is in spite of his ingenuity, not because of it, that the reader keeps on believing in Father and Mother, the devoted and the irrepressible.” H. W. Boynton

– + =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 170w

“The characterization rings true, but the adventures, especially the long tramp from city to city, are pleasantly improbable.”

+ — =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w

“The facile smartness of phrases, the essential flimsiness, of Mr Lewis’s latest book presents a spectacle made all the sadder by the traces of a better self revealed in it.”

– + =Dial= 63:531 N 22 ‘17 550w

“We wonder if the publishers really agree with the notice-writer that the book is ‘a tender romance of an American Darby and Joan?’ Sentimental farce would come nearer the mark.”

— =Nation= 105:540 N 15 ‘17 260w

“Preposterous but rather amusing story.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 140w

“In some of his former stories Mr Lewis has shown a peculiar understanding of the gray, limited lives of the small work people of a big city and of the meaning to them of their possible pleasures, dreams, and temperamental expressions. In ‘The innocents’ he gives full rein to this faculty, with the result that the intimate and full-length picture of Mr and Mrs Seth Appleby, otherwise ‘Father’ and ‘Mother,’ is very touching, very charming, and so simple and true in all its essentials that even when the story is at its most audaciously romantic pitch it is still plausible.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 600w

“The story as a whole is a delightful picture of mutual love and courage, that floats like a fresh breeze over the reader’s consciousness, jaded with the conventional romances of the day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 310w

=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= The job. *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-6323

A story of modern business and of a woman’s place in business life. Una Golden, who comes from Panama, Pa., to New York, is an ordinary girl, with blond hair and eye-glasses. The story covers ten years of her life, from 1905 to 1915, from the age of twenty-five to thirty-five. In that time she studies at a “commercial college,” holds various jobs, and lives the life of a working girl, in boarding house, “home,” and light-housekeeping flat. Midway in this period she finds the job getting on her nerves, and takes the way of escape offered, marriage. But marriages made from that motive start with a handicap, and Una’s is a failure. She returns to the job with new resolution, determined to conquer. She does, becomes a successful business woman, and then begins to consider the possibility of a second marriage in which conflicting claims of home and a career are both to be satisfied.

“Some of the episodes of her unfortunate marriage may be considered too frank and sordid but they are not the main interest, while the story leaves one with more confidence in the women who are beginning to realize the possibilities of ‘the job.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17

“What justifies the book, in the end, is not its ‘idea,’ or its incidental cleverness, which is notable, but its portrait of a woman. Una Golden is—herself.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 405:316 My ‘17 750w

“To say that Mr Lewis’s novel is aggressively modern is not to say more than truth. It expresses the American spirit of this very day and hour.” E. F. E.

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ‘17 1400w

=Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 140w

“One may discern here a sermon preached, a plot more or less arranged. But there is no escaping the sincerity and originality of the central portrait. As a person, theories apart, Una Golden rings true.”

+ — =Nation= 104:433 Ap 12 ‘17 470w

“Sinclair Lewis has one attribute of genius—sympathetic insight. ... He has not only made a woman who works for her living the central figure of his story, he has insisted on doing so without sentimentality or melodrama or false pathos. He has kept the spotlight of the novelist on her without giving her a spotlight-life.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 10:234 Mr 24 ‘17 1250w

“The story of the girl who for one reason or another goes into business has been told many times; but very, very seldom indeed with even one-half the convincingness which this author has managed to give to his history of Una Golden. ... Sane, generous, well balanced, above all, real, it interprets by presenting this world as it is.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:82 Mr 11 ‘17 1050w

“The story is a serious, if gloomy, study. It has no light phases. ... In its main details the story rings true, considering the character concerned, but it is unpleasant.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 My 27 ‘17 450w

“The story reads like a true one but is hardly pleasing enough to attract the ordinary novel-reader.”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 70w

=LIBBY, WALTER.= Introduction to the history of science. il *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 509 17-8227

“This book is intended as a simple introduction, taking advantage of the interests of youth of from seventeen to twenty-two years or age (and their intellectual compeers) in order to direct their attention to the story of the development of the sciences. ... It is a psychological introduction, having the mental capacity of a certain class of readers always in view, rather than a logical introduction.” (Preface) Contents: Science and practical needs—Egypt and Babylonia; The influence of abstract thought—Greece: Aristotle; Scientific theory subordinated to application—Rome: Vitruvius; The continuity of science—the medieval church and the Arabs; The classification of the sciences—Francis Bacon; Scientific method—Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes; Coöperation in science—the Royal society, etc. The closing

## chapter is a discussion of science and democratic culture. The author

is professor of the history of science in the Carnegie institute of technology, Pittsburgh.

“A little book on a big subject in excellent English. [The relations of science] to other fields of man’s life—education, war, religion, industry, travel, philosophy, art, ethics, and democracy—are well touched upon, and the closing chapter deals chiefly with Matthew Arnold and Nietzsche. It contains many interesting facts that will be new to most persons, and also a number of passages that set one thinking. Many history teachers might broaden their view of the past by perusing this volume.” Lynn Thorndike

+ + — =Am Hist R= 23:125 O ‘17 720w

=A L A Bkl= 14:10 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 20w

+ =Dial= 62:487 My 31 ‘17 600w

“Breathes on every page the tolerant, generous, objective spirit of science. But Dr Libby is no narrow champion of scientific as opposed to literary culture, and he recommends systematic teaching of the sciences in relation both to the daily work and to their historical and cultural antecedents.’ It is on account of its broadening and stimulating cultural influence that this fine work of Dr Libby’s is to be recommended. It should find a place, if not always in the curriculum, certainly in the library, of every high school, normal school, and college in the land.” Cephas Guillet

+ =Educ R= 54:192 S ‘17 600w

+ =Educ R= 54:531 D ‘17 80w

“We have long needed a systematically organized and clearly written history of science for the college student and the layman who is not taking active part in the development of any one of the sciences. Professor Libby’s new book is probably the first contribution in this field.”

+ =El School J= 17:610 Ap ‘17 350w

“Professor Libby has divided his purpose in such a way as to obscure and to break the thread of his subject. He, apparently, tries to compress into one small volume a résumé of the history of all the sciences from the earliest times. In addition to this almost hopeless task, he wishes to attract and to influence the youth by showing the nobility of science. He also wishes to exalt the national spirit, and he does it by devoting whole chapters to Franklin and Langley, which compels him to compress or to omit many of the really great achievements in science. As a textbook, the work is of value in spite of this confusion. In the first place, there are almost no others available, and in addition Professor Libby has been accurate and his style is readable.”

+ — =Nation= 105:274 S 6 ‘17 500w

“One of the most effective pieces of scientific popularization it has ever been my good fortune to read. Prof. Libby has a power of presenting clearly ideas often difficult from their inherent abstractness that has rarely been equalled save by men of genius like Huxley and Galton. He has obviously an intimate acquaintance with his subject, and he has a singular success in communicating his enthusiasm. His book is, on the whole, conceived in admirable perspective. It has exactly the right amount of biographical material to give it the genuine touch of living personality.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 12:23 Ag 4 ‘17 2000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17 130w

“With an undercurrent of philosophical speculation, the treatment is rather biographical, typical scientists being selected to illustrate the attitude and the methods of the scientists, as well as the principles developed and applied.” B. C. Gruenberg

+ =N Y Call= p15 S 16 ‘17 270w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p19 Jl ‘17 60w

=St Louis= 15:361 O ‘17 40w

=LIDDELL, ROBERT SCOTLAND.= On the Russian front. il *8s 6d Simpkin, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-15304)

“Mr Liddell saw the great Russian retreat of last summer in a double capacity: he was a member of the seventh group of Polish Red cross volunteers, and also the correspondent of the Sphere; that is to say, he took part in the events described in the book, and he recorded them before his impressions became blunted. ... It is a depressing story that Mr Liddell has to tell—a story of crippled men, of gutted buildings, and of refugees, flying one with his drawing-room suite on a cart, another with a couple of canaries in a cage, several with nothing but some potted plants. But the Russian soldier is not depressed; his comment is ‘Neechevo’—‘It is nothing.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:168 N ‘16

“Every page in this book was written amid the routine of danger, a battle thundering quite close at hand, and a drama of mingled sweat and blood and dirt coming with the stricken, whose uncomplaining courage was an awful monotony of silent anguish.”

=Sat R= 122:299 S 23 ‘16 1200w

Reviewed by the Earl of Cromer

=Spec= 117:551 N 4 ‘16 1600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p317 Jl 6 ‘16 650w

=LIEBKNECHT, KARL PAUL AUGUST FRIEDRICH.= Militarism. *$1 (2c) Huebsch 172.4 17-26892

A fearless arraignment of autocracy which cost Liebknecht his freedom and resulted in the suppression of his book. It is a clear statement of the principles and convictions of the man who has so courageously led the struggle against militarism in Germany. He points out that militarism in its four-fold development is the offspring of capitalism; “militarism for abroad,” navalism, colonial militarism and “militarism for home.” He shows that all of the policies of the militaristic system serve the exploiting interests of the ruling classes of capitalism instead of furthering economic development in conformity with the duties and interests of civilization. Militarism obstructs class consciousness, turns the army into a handy, docile effective tool, while distorting the reason and narcotizing the soul. Thruout the discussion the point of view of the proletariat is kept—of the under-dog against whom the army is a weapon along the path of economic struggle.

=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17

“Herr Liebknecht assails the past record of militarism socially, politically, economically, historically, and statistically, with true German thoroughness.” C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 40w

=Dial= 64:115 Ja 31 ‘18 620w

+ =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 160w

“The book is chiefly of historical interest, since the world war is so changing world ideas. ... But the book is interesting and timely for the light it throws on the pre-war Germany and for the illumination it makes of the character of Karl Liebknecht.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 900w

“The fact that Dr Liebknecht’s ‘Militarism’ was suppressed and the author put in prison for his daring criticism of the German military system would assure it a cordial welcome in the United States even were the book not so abundantly able to stand on its own bottom. ... Yet be warned that Dr Liebknecht measures us along with other countries and finds us, well, not absolute perfection. He lists us and our methods along with other nations and their methods with a horrid impersonality that intimates that we are just like other folks.” M. A. Hopkins

+ =Pub W= 92:811 S 15 ‘17 850w

“While the book perhaps overemphasizes the part played by the class struggle in creating modern armaments, its words deserve the most careful heeding.” H: Neumann

+ — =Survey= 39:471 Ja 26 ‘18 630w

“Interesting at the present time, but not essential in small libraries.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:29 Ja ‘18 50w

=LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.= Uncollected letters; now first brought together by Gilbert A. Tracy; with an introd. by Ida M. Tarbell. il *$2.50 Houghton 17-28895

Three hundred letters which Lincoln wrote for the greater part from 1858 to 1861 most of which have never been published before. Tho many of them are brief each has the stamp of Lincoln individuality; and covering, as they do, a great range of interests they furnish a sidelight on the character of Lincoln which no student can overlook. There are legal letters, letters that bear upon the period when Lincoln was competing with Douglas for the senatorship, and letters that reflect his life and relations with friends, all of them giving ample illustration “of his cleverness, his fairness and continued zest in the political game.” The collector of the letters was a clerk in the War department from 1863 to 1868 during which time he grew to love and revere the great emancipator. “Mr Tracy has crowned his life long devotion to Abraham Lincoln with a noble gift to the people of the country.”

Reviewed by L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:595 Ja ‘18 330w

“In spite of the scarcity of allusions to his domestic life it is profitable to get such glimpses as are revealed in the collection. ... It must be said that a considerable portion of these letters have no connection with the great service and life of Lincoln, but relate to commonplace and routine matters. Many are not worth preserving except for their autographs. It is regrettable that classification and topical headings are lacking, though the index is complete and satisfactory.” H. S. K.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 1250w

“That many are inconsequential does not discount the value of the entire collection. As a whole they shed strong light upon Abraham Lincoln’s life.”

+ =Lit D= 55:43 D 1 ‘17 110w

+ =Nation= 105:569 N 22 ‘17 950w

“Many of the pieces are of little moment, except that, as Miss Tarbell says in her preface, ‘Nothing that he wrote is without importance’”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:445 N 4 ‘17 1050w

+ — =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 110w

=LINCOLN, JOSEPH CROSBY (JOE LINCOLN, pseud.).= Extricating Obadiah. il *$1.50 (1½c) Appleton 17-25818

Cape Cod, of course. A simple story scheme that runs something like this: Obadiah Burgess inherits a house and twelve thousand in cash. He had formerly been a cabin boy and had gone to sea with Captain Noah Newcomb. At the time of his prosperity his old captain, now retired, is touring Cape Cod and is laid up for motor repairs in Obadiah’s town of Trumet. Obadiah had indulged in a good deal of talk about his wealth and excited the cupidity of a dealer in antiques who begins a systematic and apparently successful campaign to relieve Obadiah of his wealth. Worried, Obadiah appeals to his old friend. After the captain finds that about a dozen are taking part in weaving a net around Obadiah he turns to a task quite similar to putting together a picture puzzle. He lists his pieces, gets their number, and puts them together to the amazement of Obadiah and the discomfort of his culprits.

“Full of Cape Cod dialect and humor.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 50w

+ =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 90w

“The author’s versatility is equal to any difficulty and he evolves plots, inner plots, and counter-plots. He makes impossible and exaggerated facts seem quite plausible.”

+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 29 ‘17 210w

“The simple little story is familiar and commonplace but it is a fairly entertaining tale, nevertheless.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:484 N 18 ‘17 270w

“Again we have racy dialogue, honest fun, and clever situations.”

+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 30w

“The plot is not a very heavy one, but who reads a Lincoln novel for the plot alone! One reads it for genial old tars like Captain Noah, for rascally old skinflints like Balaam Griggs, for Serepta Hatches, keeping tabs on how many times Mary Barstow’s beau calls, for salt water vocabularies, for glimpses of Cape Cod’s sandy marshes and for mental whiffs of stiff sea breezes.” R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 92:1374 O 20 ‘17 450w

“In the new story there is a well-sustained plot in addition to a new group of familiar character types. The story is in Mr Lincoln’s best vein, which spells unadulterated diversion.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 350w

=LINCOLN, NATALIE SUMNER.= Nameless man. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-24163

“Beginning with an argument about the yellow peril, this novel of murder and intrigue attempts to prove its actuality. Between California and Washington, in diplomatic circles and social life, the mystery runs, implicating white men as well as Japanese. And mingled with the adventure of seeking the fomenter of plots and murderer of innocent men is the never-failing love interest, as troubled as it is true.”—N Y Times

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 40w

“Abundant thrills mark the progress of the tale.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 160w

“Although the facts as they are ultimately disclosed seem incredible, and the characters are stereotyped ones, the excitement of unraveling the tangled threads and of having the sport of detection keeps interest awake.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 170w

“If the reader dismisses the mischievous political innuendoes he may enjoy a diverting mystery tale.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 110w

=LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL.= Chinese nightingale, and other poems. *$1.25 Macmillan 811 17-25832

The first collection of Mr Lindsay’s poems to appear since the “Congo” volume. There are five groups: The Chinese nightingale, awarded the Levinson prize in 1915, is alone in the first group; in the second are a half dozen poems under the heading, “America watching the war”; the third includes poems grouped under “America at war with Germany”; the fourth is a collection of “Tragedies, comedies and dreams”; while the fifth is a group of “Poem games” all of which have been successfully illustrated in pantomime. The aim of the poem game is to abolish orchestra and piano, replacing them with the natural meaning and cadences of English speech which, the author claims, can convey poetic ideas faster than musical feeling.

=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18

“Whatever Vachel Lindsay does, one feels the sincerity and the strong native impulse back of it. He is a vitalising force in modern poetry, having at once the social vision and the knowledge that it cannot be realized apart from beauty. Technically he has widened the outposts of poetry, and we may look to him to annex a still wider demesne.” J. B. Rittenhouse

+ =Bookm= 46:576 Ja ‘18 590w

“It is disappointing to regard Mr Lindsay in ‘The Chinese nightingale and other poems,’ taking an attitude below the ‘Congo’ volume, and levelling, in the group, the ‘General William Booth’ column. ... In ‘America watching the war’ ‘The tale of the tiger tree’ finely illustrates the tapering of Mr Lindsay’s imaginative power into a mannerism; it is all here, the kind of incisive exploration in vision which Mr Lindsay takes to particularize a simple and impressive fact, but the kind of familiarity which envelopes it, takes away the thrill of emotion that we do feel in ‘The Chinese nightingale,’ and in the poems of the two earlier volumes. Mr Lindsay can never fail to be interesting, seductively arresting, exhilarating, in his own strange and individual way. ... The new art, or combination of arts, which Mr Lindsay has devised in ‘The poem games,’ is, apart from ‘The Chinese nightingale,’ the most interesting feature of this new book.” W. S. B.

– + =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 750w

+ =Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 90w

“Any admirer of Lindsay will observe with distrust this growing insistence on the sermonizing feature of his work.” L: Untermeyer

– + =Dial= 63:633 D 20 ‘17 1050w

“Of all the American poets to whom the epithet ‘modern’ has been applied Nicholas Vachel Lindsay has struck the most distinctively American note.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 D 15 ‘17 1000w

=New Repub= 13:353 Ja 19 ‘18 60w

“The book does not lift his place in American poetry; its crudities are more noticeable, as this is a third book; but the spontaneous soil-taste of some of the poems cannot be gainsaid, nor his ability to weave garments of fantastic wonder, to please childlike hearts forever.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p14 D 8 ‘17 670w

“For beauty and vigor the title poem is unsurpassed in modern poetry.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 80w

=LINTIER, PAUL.= My .75; reminiscences of a gunner of a .75 m/m battery in 1914; from the French; with a preface by Frances Wilson Huard. *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-24670)

A dramatic story of France from the days of mobilization to the battles on the Aisne. The author, twenty-three at the time of his death, has not only furnished the world with a first hand account, clear and gripping, of the important events ending at the Marne and the Aisne but has prepared a human document which will show the ages to come the heroism of souls as they reacted to the stupendous demands of the field of honor. “The admirable patience, the great good humour, the intelligent cleverness and heroic devotion together with the plain, simple courage, all the deep-rooted, undreamed of qualities of the French race, are to be found within its covers, making it a monument to stoic virtue.” (Preface)

“It is the work of a fine, eager spirit and it is well done, clear, vivid, unpretentious. No one can deny that he had the gift of narration. But it is promise, not fulfilment, after all.” C. M. Francis

+ — =Bookm= 46:450 D ‘17 270w

“The book is an important document because the two qualities of the French race are here found, intellectual cleverness and simple courage.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 330w

“Amongst the appalling number of war books ‘My .75’ stands out. Plainness of language and matter of fact descriptions go to make the

## book distinctive.”

+ =New Repub= 13:387 Ja 26 ‘18 100w

“There is pathos, romance, and history in the proper degree. There is just enough of each to make the work comprehensive. Paul Lintier has that fine combination of delicacy and strength, so characteristic of Balzac, De Musset, and Bordeaux. It is an exceptional book and should live in the hearts of those who love France and in the minds of those who love good literature.”

+ + =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 140w

“It is the work of an acutely observant and sensitive mind. On one page the author puts down horrors and outrages with downright realism; on another he reveals the power of rumour or the glory of a country luxuriant in natural beauty. ... The candour of the writer is remarkable.”

+ =Sat R= 123:553 Je 16 ‘17 400w

=Spec= 119:770 D 29 ‘17 100w

“His book should live, however, for a long, long time, because of its single truthfulness and sincerity, because of its vivid pictures of the French army in the early part of the war. The spirit shown by Lintier in his diary was the spirit of his comrades—of France. Every detail, no matter how ghastly, bears the stamp of truth.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 26 ‘17 300w

=LIPPINCOTT, HORACE MATHER.= Early Philadelphia; its people, life and progress. il *$6 Lippincott 974.8 17-28902

“This book endeavors to name and describe all the leading characters and the various social, financial, and patriotic organizations, giving portraits and reproductions of people and places, buildings and bridges and parks, in such a way as to offend none and please all, at least all whose names and interest are included. It is a sort of book of heraldry for all the substantial and socially fit of the present day. If you are a Philadelphian and have ancestors who counted in the city of Franklin, this book will give you name, business, and standing.” (Dial) “Mr Lippincott begins with a sketch of and tribute to the founder of the city and carries the record down to and beyond the middle eighteenth century.” (Springf’d Republican)

“Other little matters of this sort might be found, but so many errors have been contained in other books about the times (notably ‘Hugh Wynne’), concerning Quaker traits and local geography, that these seem trivial, and one gets a very fair picture of old scenes and manners from Mr Lippincott’s book. The style is clear and the selection of subjects well proportioned.” I: Sharpless

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:416 Ja ‘18 530w

+ — =Dial= 63:593 D 6 ‘17 350w

+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 60w

“Naturally and logically, a great part of the volume is devoted to a description of the Philadelphia Quakers. Other elements in the city’s growth receive due attention, and there is an interesting treatment of the German and Scotch-Irish migrations into what was then the wilderness.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 90w

“Mr Lippincott has not written a classic account of Philadelphia life. But his sketchy pages are readable and informing and are suitably flavored with quotations from contemporary documents.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 550w

=LIPPMANN, JULIE MATHILDE.= Mannequin. *$1.30 (3½c) Duffield 17-12389

A case of mistaken identity is the basis for this story. A rich and idle young woman is taken for one of the mannequins in a dressmaking establishment. The mistake is made by Mrs Jerome-Jarvis, an autocratic society leader, who had engaged the real mannequin as a companion on a yachting trip. Elizabeth Tiernan finds herself hustled without ceremony aboard the great lady’s yacht, and thinking it a joke that can be explained in the morning, she keeps silent. But by morning the joke has been carried beyond her control. She scents a mystery, and by making a few errors in judgment on her own account, adds to the confusion.

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 200w

“This new book by the author of ‘Burkses’ Amy’ and ‘Martha-by-the-day’ is one of those tales which, being possessed of an utterly preposterous plot, require the lightest and deftest kind of handling. Such stories need wit, and debonair, irresponsible gayety; they must froth and sparkle, if they are not to be merely silly. And ‘The mannequin’ reminds one very much of lukewarm ginger ale—entirely flat and insipid.”

— =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 230w

“The situation develops into a hilarious farce, with ludicrous misunderstandings and cross purposes. The heroine is always charming and sprightly, and the story affords amusement.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 150w

=LIPSON, EPHRAIM.= Europe in the nineteenth century; an outline history. il *$2 Macmillan 940.9 (Eng ed 17-859)

“The author, already known by his ‘Introduction to the economic history of England: middle ages,’ now provides a history of Europe from the fall of Napoleon to the present time.” (Ath) “In the preface to the book now under review Mr Lipson lays claim to a certain originality, at least of presentment. He has, he says, ‘discarded the traditional method of writing European history from the standpoint of international politics in favour of a method of treatment which gives a concise and connected account—analytical rather than narrative—of the internal development of the chief European states after the fall of Napoleon.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“The brevity of the book, as compared with other recent discussions of the same subject has been brought about by some notable omissions. Substantially no space is given to England or to minor states like Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries; the industrial revolution and, in general, the social and economic parts of the story, are given only slight attention—much less than in most of the later books; little emphasis is placed upon European history since 1870, except as connected with the outbreak of the war. ... An extremely pleasant characteristic of the book is the calm, historical temper with which Mr Lipson approached those parts of his subject that deal with the present war. ... As an example of the book-maker’s art, the volume reflects war conditions in the unsubstantial character of the binding. There are no bibliographies and the index is inadequate. The maps do not compare favorably with the best of recent publications on nineteenth-century Europe.” C: R. Lingley

+ — =Am Hist R= 22:852 Jl ‘17 650w

“Of particular importance are the chapters on ‘The reform movement in Russia, 1815-1916,’ and ‘The growth of the German empire, 1815-70.’ ... Mr Lipson gives a clear account of the achievement of the political unity of Italy. ... The maps in the volume can be commended. Altogether, Mr Lipson has produced a valuable summary of modern European history, treated in a somewhat novel manner.”

+ =Ath= p437 S ‘16 250w

“The chapter on the Balkan States will probably be the most valued by the ‘general readers’ for whom the book is intended.” G. B. H.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:157 Ja ‘17 50w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17

“From the point of view of the general reader one capital defect of Mr Lipson’s method is that it necessarily takes too much knowledge for granted. ... In general, apart from this defect, the chapters dealing with the internal developments of the states are clear and accurate, though following in the main conventional lines. ... His chapter on the Reform movement in Russia is particularly interesting, especially the account of the effects of the industrial revolution which followed the emancipation of the serfs and the introduction of railways. But here again the bias that makes him defend the Commune makes him less than fair to autocrats. ... Not all the chapters reach the high level of that on Russia. The least satisfactory perhaps is that on the Balkan States.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p470 O 5 ‘16 1300w

=LISTER, CHARLES ALFRED.= Charles Lister; letters and recollections. il *$3.50 Scribner 17-13304

“This volume, which serves as a memento to his son, Lord Ribblesdale has compiled out of letters written to his family and friends by Charles Lister, to which are added a memoir by the father, and recollections of the son by Sir Rennell Rodd, under whom the young man served in the British embassy at Rome before the war, and others. Charles Lister took part in the Gallipoli campaign, where he was wounded three times, and died from the effects of the last wound in August, 1915, at the age of 28. ... The letters begin five years before the opening of the war and relate his doings, observations, and thinking during a holiday in Germany, his two years of service at Rome with the British embassy, a trip to India and Constantinople, and then take up his experiences on the expedition to the Dardanelles. These last compose the bulk of the book.”—N Y Times

“Unusually readable letters.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:58 N ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:130 Ap 8 ‘17 200w

=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w

+ =Spec= 118:45 Ja 13 ‘17 1500w

“There is never a trace of the junker spirit, never a word about the glory of war. There is hardly any self-consciousness. The book is a continuous revelation of charm, high spirits and character: also of a young man’s alert-minded and fruitful reaction to the various phases of his experience in the 20th-century English world.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 1150w

“Lord Ribblesdale has done his work as editor with detachment and restraint. With abundance of material, he has managed to keep the book comparatively small and altogether interesting.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 4 ‘17 1150w

=LITCHFIELD, GRACE DENIO.= Song of the sirens. *$1 Putnam 811 17-11825

Ulysses is made the hero of this poem. In rhymed couplets and regular measure the author tells the story of the perilous passage of the Sirens’ rock, with Ulysses lashed to the mast and vainly demanding release from his unheeding seamen. One of these is singled out from the rest, the youngest and least of the rowers, who suffers in his master’s agony.

“The book stands out among this season’s volumes of verse as a work of much more than passing interest and value. It is unfortunate that none of our magazines had an editor sufficiently enlightened to discover ‘The song of the sirens’ and print it as a serial.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1861 Je 16 ‘17 750w

=LIVESAY, FLORENCE RANDAL=, tr. Songs of Ukraina; with Ruthenian poems. *$1.50 Dutton 891.7 17-26397

“This collection of the songs of the essentially poetic and musical ‘Little Russian’ people is divided into parts according to subject—Cossack songs, Wedding songs, etc., the longest section being Folk songs; and the poems by Fedkovich (1834-1888) having a place by themselves.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:392 Je ‘17

+ =Ath= p543 N ‘16 60w

“The translations, though not ideal, are lively and spirited. It is a book which every lover of poetry will prize.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 800w

=Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 90w

“The translations into English are excellent.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:287 Ag 5 ‘17 150w

“The translator is a Canadian—her home is in Winnipeg. ... These folk songs of the ‘forgotten kingdom of Ukraina’ have come down through singing centuries and hold in them the history of the most artistic of Slav people.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:112 My ‘17 60w

“The gloom and toil of the Russian peasant pervades these poems, and it must be said that in some cases they seem hampered by faulty translation.”

=Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 50w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 40w

=LIVINGSTONE, RICHARD WINN.= Defence of classical education. *$1.40 (2c) Macmillan 375 (Eng ed 17-12623)

“A main contention, in this able defence of the humanities in education, is that a nation can be ‘scientific,’ though compulsory classics are the staple of its secondary education, and though the majority of its youth is trained in classical schools. Particulars are given to show that German secondary education is far more classical than ours. A caution is conveyed against the mistake of supposing that we are simply suffering from the predominant position of classics in our public schools, and that we have only to expel them in favour of physical science and modern languages ‘to be cured of all our ills.’ It is admitted by the author that we need more physical science in industry and elsewhere; but it is pointed out that our real weakness is a national indifference to knowledge. Cogent presentations of the case for Greek and the case for Latin are embodied in chaps. 3 and 4; and an effort is made later to combat the idea that the classics can be studied satisfactorily in translations. The last chapter contains suggestions for reforms.”—Ath

“The title of the book may, we fear, militate against its usefulness and have the tendency of warning off the general reader, who may regard it as the work of a specialist. ... ‘A defence of classical education’ is admirably adapted, by its absence of technicalities, its infectious enthusiasm, and its clear and graceful style, to appeal to that growing public which is ready to know more of this new learning.”

+ =Ath= p24 Ja ‘17 1050w

+ =Ath= p37 Ja ‘17 170w

“This book is, unfortunately, based upon two misconceptions, both of which are common amongst classicists. ... The title of the book is a misnomer, for the work is not a defence of classical education at all. ... As a plea for the retention of classics in a general scheme of education, the book is excellent. Where Mr Livingstone is dealing with facts he is on safe ground, and the majority of the work is a ‘hymn of praise’ which is wholly admirable. His assumptions, however, are nearly always erroneous, and his conclusions illogical; one cannot help thinking that a little knowledge of scientific method would have saved him from many pitfalls.”

– + =Nature= 99:1 Mr 1 ‘17 900w

“The questions most frequently asked are these: Why should the classics have a place in our education? Why should they not be confined to a few specialists? Why should they not be entirely replaced by our own and other modern languages, literatures, and history? To these inquiries Mr Livingstone wisely devotes the greater part of his book. ... We are glad to see that Mr Livingstone ends with some excellent suggestions for reform in classical teaching, more attention to ‘realien,’ and less prominence for the purely linguistic side.”

+ =Sat R= 123:41 Ja 13 ‘17 1100w

“Mr Livingstone has written a charming book. The beauty and solid worth of the best Greek and Latin authors are admirably described in his main chapters. But while we sympathize heartily with his reverence for the classics, we cannot help remarking that he does not really face the question whether they can be read with profit in translations.”

+ =Spec= 118:174 F 10 ‘17 900w

“Among these fixed points which are emerging, the central one, and the most important, is the growing conviction that the aim of education is neither literary culture nor scientific acquirement, neither technical skill nor commercial aptitude, but the creation and diffusion of citizenship in its full sense. ... Mr Livingstone’s volume is a statement, satisfactory in its fullness, excellent in its sanity and moderation, of the reasons for holding that, here and now, the study of the classics has a necessary and important place in such an education.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p30 Ja 18 ‘17 2650w

=LIVINGSTONE, WILLIAM PRINGLE.= Mary Slessor of Calabar: pioneer missionary. 6th ed il *$1.50 Doran 16-22663

“The heroine was a Scotch girl born amidst the humblest surroundings and conditions, which made her at fourteen and for fourteen years a millworker in the city of Dundee. ... From her early childhood she was interested in the missionary efforts along the old Calabar coast, and here from 1876 until her death in 1915 she carried on, often alone and in the midst of danger, a pioneer work for the reclamation of the savage tribes. This well written memoir, based chiefly upon her many letters, gives the reader a striking picture of the barbarous life and customs of the natives of Calabar and shows the uplifting power of civilization.”—Ind

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:350 My ‘17

=Cleveland= p106 Ag ‘16

“One of the most fascinating missionary biographies ever written. It has the romance of heroism and adventure, the vitality of vigorous achievement, the freshness of pioneering in a land of strange peoples and weird customs.”

+ =Ind= 88:327 N 20 ‘16 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:91 Je ‘16

“Has had the unusual experience for a biography—and especially that of a foreign missionary—of being among the ‘best sellers.’ In its first months it is already in its fourth edition, and well it may be, for rarely has a life been lived so full of romance, of heroism, and at the same time of absolute sincerity and simplicity.”

+ =Outlook= 115:194 Ja 31 ‘17 2750w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:526 Je ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p45 Ja ‘17

=LIVINGSTONE, WILLIAM PRINGLE.= Story of Mary Slessor for young people; a true story of adventure, heroism and faith. il *$1 Doran 17-4476

“The natives of Africa knew the heroine of this true story by the name of ‘The white queen of Okoyong.’ Her real name is Mary Slessor, and this is her biography. It is written for children, and tells the whole life history of the brave Scottish missionary whom the Presbyterian church sent out to Africa in 1876. From that date until her death in 1914 Miss Slessor acted as friend, teacher, minister, doctor and officer of the law to the savages in the then uncharted wilds of Calabar.” (Boston Transcript) Mary Slessor is one of the “Heroines of service” about whom Mary R. Parkman writes in her book of that title.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:454 Jl ‘17

“This book ought to fire the imagination and direct the activities of boys and girls until they shall become in turn such workmen as Mary Slessor was in the realm of unselfish service.”

+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 90w

“The account throws many sidelights on African customs and institutions.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 160w

=LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN.= Red planet. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 17-26481

Grief-stricken with the sudden news of the death in action of his only son, Sir Anthony Fenimore turns to take his place as chairman of a war committee with the words: “The boy didn’t shirk his duty. Why should I?” This opening incident is the keynote of the book, which is a story of England in war-time, a story of high courage and of homes made desolate. It is told by Major Meredyth of the regular army who, invalided since the Boer war, could, at first, only watch those

## activities in which he longed to join. But, in the end, he, too, finds

his place and can say: “I, too, am a man of the great war. I have lived in it, and worked in it, and suffered in it. So long as one’s soul is sound—that is the great matter.” His work had been the helping to keep sound the souls of those about him in the little south of England town in which he lived, and, in particular, to aid as only a brother officer could, Leonard Boyce, in his tragic struggle between his better and his lower nature. It is this struggle for self-mastery, fought out in South Africa, in England, in the trenches, that forms a background for the incidents of the book, and it is Betty Fairfax, type of all true women in the war, who gives charm and heart to the tale. Locke, the romancer, is no longer romancing. He is telling spiritual truth.

“Well written, full of good character sketches and will be popular. Appeared in Good Housekeeping.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17

+ =Ath= p528 O ‘17 110w

“‘The white feather’ might have better suggested its central motive, for the chief figure in the action is an English officer with a lifelong strain of cowardice to fight down and conceal. ... A piece of clever claptrap. Any war might have served as the background.” H. W. Boynton

— =Bookm= 45:645 Ag ‘17 650w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 1300w

“Written with much skill, timely to the very minute, and full of human appeal. Mr Locke has succeeded, in his portrayal of Boyce, in giving a living character to literature. The conclusion is an artistic blunder, as well as distasteful from the moral point of view.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:110 O ‘17 600w

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 110w

“It is the astonishing combination of the modern and the mid-Victorian that fascinates the reader of ‘The red planet.’ A well-ordered globe is Mr Locke’s, an England rubber-tired and ball-bearing, not the dusty and irresponsible country of Mr Britling. And we are not sure that Boyce is not one of the most virile men that Locke has ever drawn.”

+ =Dial= 63:162 Ag 30 ‘17 270w

“A thoroly interesting story crisply and entertainingly written.”

+ =Ind= 91:291 Ag 25 ‘17 400w

“For all its clever and amusing detail, there is little sincerity in this book: even the great war is used merely as an off-stage convenience for the development of an essentially commonplace and artificial plot.”

– + =Nation= 105:124 Ag 2 ‘17 450w

“We cannot even pretend to believe in these people. They are pallid and patriotic and dull. They do not really exist.”

— =New Repub= 12:82 Ag 18 ‘17 400w

“Mr Locke has always shown remarkable skill in making interesting, even heroic or lovable, figures out of most unpromising material, such as that of his ‘Beloved vagabond,’ and none of that skill deserts him as he unfolds this story through the pen and personality of Major Meredyth, almost helpless paralytic though his leading character is. ... We can come into touch with the struggle only through the spirit. But his spirit flames and mounts, and in it one sees the spirit of England.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:245 Jl 1 ‘17 1350w

“Mr Locke is always better in character rendering than in plot, and even more so than usual in this novel.”

+ — =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 170w

=Pittsburgh= 22:649 O ‘17 50w

+ — =Sat R= 124:335 O 27 ‘17 500w

“Skilfully constructed and worked out to a dramatic close.”

+ =Spec= 119:330 S 29 ‘17 950w

“While presenting but a tiny corner of the war drama, he makes the reader feel the spirit and far-reaching effects of the struggle.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 600w

“It may be that recollections of ‘Lord Jim,’ and perhaps of ‘The four feathers,’ make Mr Locke’s analysis of Leonard Boyce seem a little confused and shallow.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p452 S 20 ‘17 600w

=LODGE, HENRY CABOT.= War addresses, 1915-1917. *$2.50 (3c) Houghton 308 17-14032

A collection of addresses made between 1915 and 1917. Among them are: Mexico, a speech delivered in the Senate, January 6, 1915; Force and peace, the Chancellor’s address at Union college, June 9, 1915; France, delivered before the Franco-American Republican club of Massachusetts, September 6, 1915; National defence, delivered before the National security league at Washington, January 22, 1916; Armed merchantmen, delivered in the Senate, February 18, 1916; The failure of the Executive to vindicate American rights, delivered in the Senate, February 24, 1917; and War with Germany, delivered in the Senate, April 4, 1917.

=A L A Bkl= 14:7 O ‘17

“Some of these addresses are of great interest and value to students of public affairs. All of them deal with topics of present day interest and all are of sufficient merit to warrant their preservation for readers of a future generation.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:594 Ag ‘17 90w

“All the attributes of a sound statesmanship based upon a thorough knowledge of the past, a clear understanding of the present and a prophetic insight into the future are to be found in the volume of Henry Cabot Lodge’s ‘War addresses, 1915-1917.’” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 26 ‘17 770w

+ =Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 120w

“Naturally, Mr Lodge’s addresses in the Senate and elsewhere, during the years 1915-16, were those of a Republican senator criticizing a Democratic administration; and some of his criticisms were very keen. Yet even then, he was often in accord with President Wilson.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 O 13 ‘17 450w

“Mr Lodge’s shift from advocacy of a league of nations to opposition, coming coincidentally with Mr Wilson’s new emphasis and the raising of the question as an immediate practical issue, is the most important fact that ‘War addresses’ records. ‘War addresses’ is an exceptional book for its directness. But it leaves the impression that Mr Lodge is progressive where progressiveness matters least, and reactionary where the opportunity for liberalism is most bright.” C. M.

+ — =New Repub= 13:221 D 22 ‘17 1500w

“There is a kind of luminous simplicity and earnestness in the statement of plain truths and sound ideals that hardly ever fails of its effect. This kind of eloquence is possessed in no small degree by Senator Lodge. ... The more controversial parts of the political speeches, too, will delight any not too unsympathetic reader who appreciates caustic criticism, subtle sarcasm, and argumentative skill.”

+ =No Am= 206:136 Jl ‘17 480w

=Pittsburgh= 22:688 O ‘17 120w

=R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 80w

“The ‘War addresses’ are hardly important except as political documents—using political in the partisan sense. Of course Mr Lodge’s polished phrases give his speeches a superficial distinction which the oratory of the Senate frequently lacks. But no consistent application of principle is manifest in this collection and no fundamental policy besides the gaining of political advantage.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 2 ‘17 450w

=LOEB, JACQUES.= Organism as a whole. il *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 575 16-25201

Individual physiological processes are readily explained on a physiochemical basis, but how, from this point of view, is the fusion of individual processes into a harmonious whole to be accounted for? This is the problem to which Dr Loeb of the Rockefeller institute addresses himself in this volume. The book is based on his experiments in recent years and consists of chapters on: The specific difference between living and dead matter; The chemical basis of genus and species; Specificity in fertilization; Artificial parthenogenesis; Determinism in the formation of an organism from an egg; Regeneration; Determination of sex; Mendelian heredity and its mechanism; Animal instincts and tropisms; The influence of environment; Adaptation to environment; Evolution; Death and dissolution of the organism.

“Scientific and accurate in details and should be read by all individuals interested in a mechanistic philosophy of living things.”

+ =Nation= 104:494 Ap 26 ‘17 850w

+ =Pratt= p19 O ‘17 20w

“The volume is a valuable addition to the science series—a series in which so many subjects have been treated—and is one that will appeal strongly to anyone who has the rudiments of a zoological training.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Mr 30 ‘17 300w

“Gifted with strong scientific imagination, Professor Loeb is one of those who go on, making the most of the facts we have, imperfect though our comprehension be.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p461 S 27 ‘17 2200w

=LONDON, CHARMIAN KITTREDGE (MRS JACK LONDON).=[2] Our Hawaii. il *$2.25 (2c) Macmillan 919.69 17-27941

A book that has grown out of the experiences of the Londons in the “little space of Paradise ... that is so beautiful and restful and green.” One of Mrs Jack London’s evident desires is that the journal, in addition to its descriptions of Hawaii, may reveal something of her late husband’s personality and manner of living. The journal covers a few months spent in Hawaii a decade ago and concludes with a résumé of experiences there in 1915-1916. Mrs London says, “I have tried to limn a picture of the charm of the Hawaiian Islander as he was, and of his becoming, together with the enchantment of his lofty isles and their abundant hospitality.” Maps and illustrations accompany the text.

“There are several reasons why ‘Our Hawaii’ is an exceedingly interesting book.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 650w

+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 70w

“Her desire to express the spirit of Hawaii in the written word has made her book in some places resemble the attempts of a schoolgirl intent on writing a theme full of ‘atmosphere.’ In spite of being badly written, the book derives some interest—though not much—from its exuberant impressions and also from the biographical facts revealed about the author’s husband.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 200w

=LONDON, JACK.= Human drift. il *$1.25 Macmillan 818 17-6354

A collection of miscellaneous papers and sketches reprinted from various magazines. The human drift is an essay on the movements and migrations of peoples in their search for food, and the rise and fall of races. Following this come four sketches drawn from Jack London’s own experiences on land and sea. The introduction written for “Two years before the mast” is reprinted, and the book closes with two short plays.

=A L A Bkl= 13:440 Jl ‘17

+ =Dial= 62:404 My 3 ‘17 430w

=Ind= 90:474 Je 9 ‘17 70w

+ =Nation= 104:583 My 10 ‘17 350w

“London has not attempted much in the dramatic field. A reading of the two sketches included in this volume is enough to show that, with all his power of dramatic description and narration, the dramatic form itself is beyond him.” D: P. Berenberg

=N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 430w

“Lovers of Mr London’s work will probably find him at his best and most individual self in the essay on ‘Small boat sailing,’ which will be a very enjoyable bit of writing for all devotees of that sport.”

=N Y Times= 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 300w

=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17

“London voices no new thought in his philosophical sketch, ‘The human drift,’ but he does present old ideas in a new and vivid garb.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 740w

=LONDON, JACK.= Jerry of the Islands. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-12393

Jerry is an Irish terrier, a dog of many adventures. Born on one of the Solomon Islands, he early comes to know as master the man called Skipper. Skipper to Jerry is a god. To others he is captain of a boat engaged in “nigger-running,” the trade by means of which labor is supplied for the South Sea plantations. The calling is a dangerous one, and when Skipper meets his fate, Jerry falls into the hands of a head-hunting chief and a cannibal village becomes his home. Chance saves him from the cooking-pot and he escapes into the wilds. But unlike another dog hero, Jerry does not revert to the primitive. The yacht Ariel comes to his rescue, and in Harley and Villa Kennan Jerry finds two gods worthy of a dog’s worship.

=A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17

“As a protracted dog yarn, the story is quite pleasant reading.”

+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 80w

“Jerry and his tale are more plainly fiction than that great dog story, ‘The call of the wild’; but what a story-teller this man was!” H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:536 Jl ‘17 430w

“His knowledge of and sympathy with his subject is unbounded, and his imagination plays with all its customary vigor and variety over a multitude of scenes in which men as well as the dog hero have an important part. ... It is good, too, in his last novel to find Mr London a story-teller and not a propagandist.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ‘17 1300w

“While ‘Jerry’ is not in any sense one of London’s best works, it is yet worth reading.” D: P. Berenberg

– + =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 300w

“The story suffers a good deal from excess verbiage. ... This fault is at its worst and more discouraging in the early chapters, before the reader’s interest has been awakened. But if, by dint of hope and skipping, he goes on he will be well repaid.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:158 Ap 22 ‘17 630w

+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 40w

“The book is effectively written in a way, yet tediously full of the traders’ variety of pigeon-English called bêche de mer, which serves as a medium between white man and black. The home-staying white of this country will find it not easy to understand.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:251 S 29 ‘17 530w

“In this last story of his Mr London has struck a new note. He has sought to express the gentler emotions—the love of the dog for the master and the love of the master for the dog.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p356 Jl 26 ‘17 700w

=LONDON, JACK.= Michael, brother of Jerry. il *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-29517

Like Jerry, Michael was a dog of the South seas, and like Jerry he could make himself quite as much at home on slippery decks as on dry land. Michael’s first master is Captain Kellar of the Solomon islands, but after he is stolen by Dag Daughtry he comes to love that none-too-honest, beer-drinking steward with all a dog’s devotion. It had been Daughtry’s intention to sell the dog, but having given much loving patience to his training, he finds that he cannot part with him. Circumstances, however, take Michael away from this considerate master and he falls into the hands of a noted animal trainer and enters the life that Jack London calls an animal hell. “Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world,” he writes in a foreword. Michael is rescued in time by Harley and Villa Kennan, but he is never the same dog again.

=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

“Jack London was the founder of a school of writers in fiction whose work will outlive his own, but which is not likely to catch the trick, the magnetism—call it what you will—that distinguishes his own above the rank and file.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 400w

“Red tears and bloody sweats!—these are the tributes Jack London loved to wring from the torn hearts (as it were) of his auditors. If the reader would put his finger on some special item in proof of this, let him read the description of the fight between Michael and a quite casual man which takes place after Michael has been rescued from the torment of the trained-animal world, and which is therefore clearly introduced on its own merits.”

– + =Nation= 105:666 D 13 ‘17 350w

“If the picture drawn by London of the training of animals for the circus and the stage is a true one, then the quicker we act to eliminate animal performances the better. It is to be hoped that ‘Michael’ has a wide circulation.” D. P. Berenberg

+ =N Y Call= p14 D 29 ‘17 380w

“It is, of course, scarcely necessary to say that much of this book is anything but pleasant reading. If, however, what it tells be indeed the truth, then it is reading which people should have forced upon them. Michael himself will appeal to all dog-lovers, and Dag Daughtry is well drawn.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:490 N 25 ‘17 1100w

=LONG, HAROLD C.= Plants poisonous to live stock. (Cambridge agricultural monographs) il *$2 (5c) Putnam 581.6 (Eng ed Agr17-863)

The author says, “As in the case of a previous volume ‘Common weeds of the farm and garden,’ the preparation of this handbook was undertaken because of the great lack of readily available and reliable information on the subject in English scientific literature.” An introductory chapter discusses such matters as What is a poisonous plant? Harm done by poisonous plants, etc. The remainder of the book is given up to descriptions of plants and of the symptoms of poisoning. There is a chapter devoted to Plants suspected of being poisonous and one to The effects of plants on milk.

“A handy work of reference in a subject on which the literature is remarkably scattered. The author has brought together many facts from numerous technical reports and journals, and the compilation will be of great value to those responsible for the care and treatment of animals.”

+ =Nature= 99:501 Ag 23 ‘17 430w

“Mr Long has filled a gap in scientific literature with a monograph which shows wide knowledge. The bibliography shows the extent of his gatherings.”

+ =Sat R= 124:sup7 Jl 7 ‘17 110w

=LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH.= Outlines of English and American literature. il $1.40 (1c) Ginn 820.9 17-14159

This “introduction to the chief writers of England and America, to the books they wrote, and to the times in which they lived,” is based on the author’s earlier works, “English literature” and “American literature.” It is a work however in which “the material, the viewpoint, the presentation of individual writers” are entirely new. The author’s aim here has been to relate literature to life. He says, “The only valuable or interesting feature of any work of literature is its vitality.” For each literary period a brief historical survey and a review of literary tendencies are given. These are followed by biographical sketches of authors and discussions of their principal works. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography.

“Histories of English literature and histories of American literature are many, but rarely if ever has the one subject been compressed within the pages of a single volume in a way to show their unity and alliance. Dr William J. Long has, however, done this with exceptional skill. ... Attractively printed and bound, illustrated with many portraits and scenes, Dr Long’s book gives incentive to a study of literature. It is elementary, to be sure, but it contains much that is profitably enlightening to readers who are fully acquainted with the subject.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 800w

“Excellent illustrations.”

+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 70w

“Written with much vivacity and charm. The latter third of the book is given to an uncommonly well balanced review of American letters.”

+ =Ind= 91:230 Ag 11 ‘17 120w

“The opening chapters excellently combine a view of the development of the language along with an account of the literary monuments. There is no attempt to bring American literature into relation with English; we have frankly two volumes in one. The story does not come beyond Stevenson and Ruskin, and Howells is the only living American author treated at length.”

+ =Nation= 105:260 S 6 ‘17 100w

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

+ =School R= 25:610 O ‘17 70w

“William J. Long, the well-known nature writer, could be pardoned a few heresies, for the author discloses considerable freshness in his impressions and his style; but the book is too full of erroneous statements and erroneous judgments to be accepted as an introduction to English letters.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 25 ‘17 500w

=LONGACRE, LINDSAY BARTHOLOMEW.= Prophet of the Spirit. *75c Meth. bk. 224 17-23303

“The sub-title of this book is ‘A sketch of the character and work of Jeremiah.’ In his preface Professor Longacre says: ‘The following brief study of the prophet Jeremiah has been made in the belief that attention to the distinctions of time and circumstance leads to a discovery of God’s methods of self-revelation. The purpose has been to portray a man rather than to expound a book.’” (Boston Transcript) “A preliminary chapter on the literary history of the book leads to a study of ‘The man his neighbors knew,’ and with this key in our hands we pass through his various struggles with king and people, and no less with himself and his God, till we emerge to the clear sunshine of the New covenant of spirit and life.” (Bib World)

“An admirable little book. It is excellently written and well adapted to the purpose for which it was written. The prophet Jeremiah is made to appear like a real man working among his fellow-men.” J. M. P. S.

+ — =Am J Theol= 21:634 O ‘17 230w

+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 190w

“Professor Longacre’s conception of the character of Jeremiah is admirably carried out.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 320w

=LONGMAN, W.= Tokens of the eighteenth century connected with booksellers and book-makers. il *$2 (9½c) Longmans 737

The practice of issuing “tokens” in lieu of small change grew out of the scarcity of coins of small denominations. A “token” issued by a tradesman corresponded to a promise to pay the amount stamped on the face. The author, a collector of these curious examples of coinage, has brought together all the information he has at his command concerning tokens issued by booksellers and others connected with the book trade of the 18th century, including authors, publishers, engravers and paper makers.

“The descriptions of the various tokens are accompanied by interesting notes on the life and history of their issuers. These include notably Eaton, Spence, and others who suffered on behalf of the liberty of the press at the close of the eighteenth century.” E. T. L.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:317 Ap ‘17 100w

“A delightful account written by a collector who knows his subject. ... It may be recommended to collectors of tokens, and to those for whom the history of booksellers, printers, etc., is attractive, as well as to any one investigating political opinions of the period.”

+ =Nation= 104:636 My 24 ‘17 270w

+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 60w

=LONGSTAFF, FREDERICK V., and ATTERIDGE, A. HILLIARD.= Book of the machine gun. il *$3.50 Dodd 358 (Eng ed 17-7941)

This work by two British officers consists of chapters on: The evolution of the machine gun; Machine guns in battle: The evolution of machine gun tactics; Matériel; Machine guns in the British army; Machine guns in Germany and Austria; Machine guns in various foreign armies; Tactics; Training. In addition there are appendixes giving A bibliography of unofficial works; List of some British patents; and Extracts from Colonel Mayne’s works. At the close of the book, following the index, are grouped a series of illustrations, arranged chronologically to show the development of the machine gun.

=A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18

+ =Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 30w

“Timely and complete.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Jl ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w

“Written with professional knowledge.”

+ =Pratt= p14 O ‘17 10w

=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ‘18 20w

“An authoritative work.”

+ =St Louis= 15:364 O ‘17 20w

“So far as skill may be learned from a book, it may be learned from this volume.”

+ =Spec= 118:104 Ja 27 ‘17 350w

=LONGSTRETH, THOMAS MORRIS.= Adirondacks. il *$2.50 (3½c) Century 917.47 17-25281

“There are but two kinds of travelers; those who enjoy the road, and those who think they shall have enjoyment at the end of it. To the latter pass the time of day good-naturedly enough, but reserve the former for your company.” (Preface) So two friends walked, motored, canoed, climbed, sailed and camped in every part of New York state’s natural park. This volume is the outcome of their wanderings which in addition to generous guide-book material gives an account of the early settlement in the Adirondacks of Napoleon’s brothers, tells of the different Indian tribes and their warfare, of Trudeau, Stevenson, Dewey, Warner and others whose names are associated with the region, and of the present-day work of the state’s conservation commission. The illustrations, reproduced photographs, show the grandeur and loveliness of the region at their best.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17

“Written in a pleasant style and well illustrated.”

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 110w

“Mr Longstreth is not a Thoreau, but he is a first-rate observer and an amusing raconteur.”

+ =New Repub= 13:131 D 1 ‘17 90w

“Mr Longstreth is a schoolmaster who has occupied his holiday time for many seasons in open-air living and journeying. He has spent more than one summer in the Adirondacks. ... The result is a book that is at once the record of a jolly summer, a history and description of the Adirondacks, and a succinct guide to those who would learn of its beauties and enjoyments at first hand. Mr Longstreth’s leisurely style has real charm—a quality not always to be found in a book so full of information as this.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 710w

“Mr Longstreth’s book is most informal, sprightly, and vivacious, yet abounding in matter-of-fact detail of the sort most needed by the tourist.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 130w

=LORIMER, NORMA OCTAVIA.= By the waters of Africa; with introd. by Douglas Sladen. il *$3.50 Stokes 916.7 (Eng ed 17-31878)

“A woman traveler’s account of what is going on to-day in British East Africa—how the settlers and government officers live and go about, and how the country is being slowly developed. An interesting feature of the book is the description of the famous African lakes, Victoria Nyanza and Albert.”—R of Rs

“Perhaps the homeliness of home-letters adds to the charm of the book, which, in spite of its faults of style, does tell of the common things which a man would have never thought of describing.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 13 ‘17 850w

“Great praise is due this lady who, in spite of many dangers, has done such remarkable exploring and given us such interesting information about it.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:574 D 23 ‘17 370w

+ =R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 60w

“Miss Lorimer in her light-hearted pages from a diary gives perhaps a truer picture of daily life in these great colonies than we find in more serious works.”

+ =Spec= 119:64 Jl 21 ‘17 100w

“Unfortunately, she has accepted every piece of casual gossip about the history of the country without investigation. Those who will bear this in mind, and want merely an easily digested story of a woman’s experiences and adventures in both the towns and the back-veld of this amazingly interesting colony, will find Miss Lorimer an entertaining guide.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 Je 21 ‘17 450w

=LOTI, PIERRE, pseud. (LOUIS MARIE JULIEN VIAUD).= War; tr. from the French by Marjorie Laurie. *$1.25 (2c) Lippincott 940.91 17-18154

A book of war sketches written between August, 1914, and April, 1916. Among them are: Two poor little nestlings of Belgium; A gay little scene at the battle front; Another scene at the battle front; An evening at Ypres; At the general headquarters of the Belgian army; At Rheims: All-souls’ day with the armies at the front; At Soissons; Two Gorgon heads.

“The book is interesting throughout, and the translator’s share has been well done.”

+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 90w

=Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 60w

“In the perusal of this new volume by Loti, it is brought home to one again how inexplicably and beautifully his manner and matter are fused. He treats of the usual subjects, but in the atmosphere of this book, one sees everything bathed and refreshed.”

+ =Dial= 63:400 O 25 ‘17 330w

“In this book Pierre Loti is at his literary best, plus a tender genuine sympathy for his countrymen and their Belgian neighbors and a bitter scorn and hate for the German spirit that has outraged Belgium and France. Yet he seeks to maintain at least a mask of artistic restraint.”

+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 15 ‘17 250w

“His pictures of the men in the trenches, the wounded, the refugees, etc., are indeed trivial and pallid compared with the narratives written by dozens of men who, before the conflict, were quite unknown to literature. The prevailing note is somewhat effeminate, strident, and hysterical.”

— =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 290w

“It is not a coherent book, it is episodic, a scrap-book, a hodge-podge of emotions, judgments, reports. And this constitutes the book’s special charm and value. It is a glimpse into the mind of a highly sensitive and perhaps overcivilized man who has been deeply shaken by the tragedy of his native land and all the world. ... This is the war’s book—the war has made use of the delicate and sensitive instrument that is the mind of the author of ‘Pêcheur d’Islande.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl I ‘17 470w

“Those familiar with his rather dreamy and saccharine descriptions of Turkey, Palestine, Japan, and the South Sea islands will be a little surprised, we think, at the comparative terseness of phrase in this volume. The descriptions are of war especially as it affects little children, the Sisters of Mercy, the wounded soldiers, and the exiled rulers.”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 110w

“M. Loti’s book by virtue of the almost feminine fineness of perception, the exquisiteness of imagery and the sympathetic tenderness by which his pages are graced, will make an impression on the reader’s memory. The only occasions on which Loti is unworthy of himself are when he permits himself bitter and scurrilous personal attacks upon the Kaiser and the Crown prince.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 320w

=LOUGH, WILLIAM HENRY.= Business finance. *$3 (1½c) Ronald 332 17-14250

“This book, as its name indicates, is concerned with the every-day financial problems of the private business concern. The point of view taken throughout is that of an organizer or financial manager of an enterprise. While the book deals primarily with business conditions and financial practice in the United States, it includes many references also to the experience and practice of other countries which may yield suggestions of value to American business men.” (Preface) The book is made up of five parts: Finance and business; Capital; Securing capital; Internal financial management; Financial abuses and involvements. The author is president of the Business training corporation, New York city. He is also author of a work on “Corporation finance.”

“Compactly conveyed information.”

+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 40w

“A book which takes rank as one of the important accounting books of the year. Its subject is not new, of course, as it treats of problems which arise every day in private business concerns, but it is a pioneer work in that it is the first attempt we have seen to assemble and co-ordinate data relating to methods of financing business enterprises and from such data to deduce proper and scientific procedure. ... The chapter on financial standards is of decided interest in connection with the proposed statistical library to be established under the endowment fund of the American institute of accountants. ... Not the least interesting feature of this book is the manner in which Mr Lough has driven home his points by numerous illustrations taken from famous (or infamous?) failures in commercial history. Concrete instances are worth many pages of theory to clinch an argument.” W. H. L.

+ =Journal of Accountancy= 24:153 Ag ‘17 1100w

=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 40w

=St Louis= 15:321 S ‘17 30w

=LOVAT-FRASER, JAMES ALEXANDER.= Henry Dundas, viscount Melville. il *$1.10 Putnam (Eng ed 17-13682)

“To portray a personality rather than to describe a political career, to delineate a character rather than to unfold a history, J. A. Lovat-Fraser has written a slender volume dealing with the life and

## activities of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville.” (Boston Transcript)

“The shrewd Scottish lawyer was for long the friend and chief colleague of the younger Pitt, ruled Scotland and India, managed the great war for some years, and was first lord of the admiralty till six months before Trafalgar.” (Spec)

“Mr Lovat-Fraser has written a discriminating and interesting biography of Dundas as a parliamentarian, as the holder of various offices of cabinet rank, and as a figure in social life in London and Edinburgh. But Dundas ranks with Newcastle and George III, as one of the three great political bosses of the eighteenth century; and despite Mr Lovat-Fraser’s book, we are still waiting for adequate studies of the methods and achievements of all these three bosses.” E: Porritt

* + – =Am Hist R= 23:212 O ‘17 520w

“To tell the full story of the life of Henry Dundas, first Viscount Melville, is at present impossible. Numerous documents at the Public record office and in other quarters await investigation before a complete account of Melville’s career can be attempted. The author’s object, therefore, is, from the materials now available, ‘to delineate a character rather than unfold a history’; and he may fairly be said to have been successful.”

+ =Ath= p49 Ja ‘17 70w

“Mr Lovat-Fraser’s volume is a concise summary of his life, although it scarcely succeeds in presenting a character and personality rather than a political career.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 21 ‘17 880w

“J. A. Lovat-Fraser’s excellent description of parliamentary political corruption in Scotland in the eighteenth century explains how it was that Dundas was able to rise and then to hold such autocratic power north of the Tweed that he was commonly known as ‘King Harry the ninth.’”

+ =Nation= 105:350 S 27 ‘17 230w

“Mr Lovat-Fraser resents Mr Fortescue’s denunciations of Dundas as one of the worst war ministers we have ever had, but he attempts no definite reply to the charge, presumably because it cannot be disproved. Dundas believed in scattering small bodies of troops over the whole theatre of war—a policy which cost us dearly in blood and treasure, especially in the West Indies. In this respect, and in others, he was Pitt’s evil genius.”

=Spec= 117:810 D 23 ‘16 200w

=LOW, SIDNEY JAMES MARK.= Italy in the war. il *$1.75 Longmans 940.91 16-24919

“Our knowledge of Italy’s part in the war has been limited. We have the more reason, therefore, to welcome a book that holds the promise of a notable enlargement of that acquaintance and understanding. ... It outlines the history of the country, political and military, since August, 1914. It makes plain the hope of the Italy of the future. It presents the problems and the circumstance of Italy’s part in the world conflict. ... In his study of the progress of the war Mr Low not only points out the necessary differences between the Italian battle lines and methods of fighting and those in France and Flanders, but shows where the Italian strength has been and where its weakness, where its mistakes have been made and lessons learned, and describes in detail the various steps in the conflict.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17

“More than the majority of war books his seems to offer worthwhile information.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 250w

“So far, this is the most informing book from the Italian side.”

+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 150w

“A comprehensive study of Italian conditions, strategy, fighting. ... An interesting feature of his book, too, is the information that Mr Low has to give us about Austria and the Austrian part in the war. ... The book is illustrated, too, with excellent photographs from the Italian headquarters photographic department.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 500w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 380w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 40w

=LOWE, CORINNE MARTIN.= Confessions of a social secretary. il *$1.25 (1c) Harper 17-5813

Those who delight in reading of the private affairs of that limited section of the social body that is labeled Society will find much to interest them in this book. It gives what appears to be an honest account of the inner workings of the households of a society leader, including town house, country house and Newport cottage. There are details regarding the management of servants, the arrangement of house

## parties, the planning of dinners, etc. Society, if this be a true

picture, must be a deadly dull affair! There is a slight thread of fiction in the story of the rich young girl who chose to marry a real man. The title of the serial publication of these confessions was “This is the life.”

“The book is written in a humorous, readable manner, with more than one touch of real character drawing and a moral in the futility of the life that strives for nothing better than social pre-eminence—and attains it.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 170w

“One must be curious indeed about the doings of this set to be diverted by the detail of their domestic arrangements; these details Miss Lowe presents with photographic candor.”

=Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 230w

+ =Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 170w

“Its thread of fiction is not without charm, but its interest and its conspicuousness alike are due to its authenticity. There is nothing fictitious about this record; the anecdotes are true stories; the people are real and may, with no great effort, be identified if one knows enough; the descriptions are photographic.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 400w

=LOWELL, AMY.= Tendencies in modern American poetry. il *$2.50 Macmillan 811 17-25828

Amy Lowell, herself a leading exponent of the new in poetry, writes of six fellow poets: Edwin Arlington Robinson; Robert Frost; Edgar Lee Masters; Carl Sandburg; “H. D.” and John Gould Fletcher. In her preface Miss Lowell says, “What sets the poets of to-day apart from those of the Victorian era is an entire difference of outlook. Ideas believed to be fundamental have disappeared and given place to others. And as poetry is the expression of the heart of man, so it reflects this change to its smallest particle. It has been my endeavour in these essays to follow this evolution, in the movement as a whole, and also in the work of the particular poets who compose it. I have tried to show what has led each of these men to adopt the habit of mind which now characterizes him, why he has been forced out of one order into another; how his ideas have gradually taken form in his mind, and in what way he expresses this form in his work.” A bibliography of the works of the poets represented closes the book, and there is an interesting photogravure portrait of each.

“An excellent critical estimate.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 70w

“In her ‘Tendencies in modern American poetry’ Miss Lowell is emphatically ‘there’; there in heart, mind, and spirit: there with her faith and her reasons for it; there with her polemical aptitudes and her full employment of them; on the spot, up to date, with her eye on the poetical clock, to the last second of the latest minute.” H: B. Fuller

+ — =Dial= 63:444 N 8 ‘17 1500w

“To meet the ordinary extraordinary ignorance about poets and poetry nothing could be more useful and valuable. When Miss Lowell is not busy with amateurish ethnology and ‘atavism’ and evolution and pseudo-science, she is one of the best expositors that modern poetry could have. And it is for her sympathetic exposition of the things she likes rather than her ineffectual announcement of a system and a touchstone that her book deserves to be read.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 13:52 N 10 ‘17 1800w

“The outstanding fault of the book lies in the fact that Miss Lowell has cast herself into double and conflicting rôles—those of critic and propagandist. It becomes a certainty that she is not looking at her subject from an unbiased standpoint, but, instead, that the book is written to bolster up the case for imagism.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p15 N 25 ‘17 1400w

“‘Tendencies in modern American poetry’ is a book that needed to be written, and it is doubtful if any one else in America besides Amy Lowell could have written it. She has brought to the task not only critical insight and independence of spirit, but a personal acquaintance with the poets she has discussed. This has served to enlarge her view, not to guide her judgments.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:481 N 18 ‘17 1900w

=LOWNDES, MARIE ADELAIDE (BELLOC) (MRS FREDERIC SAWREY-LOWNDES).= Lilla: a part of her life. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-10163

A story based on a possible situation growing out of the war. Lilla is a delicate, reticent woman whose marriage to Robert Singleton has been uneventful and colorless, altho not unhappy. Making her home with his people, she has found it necessary to repress her own personality until she hardly knows what strong emotion can mean. It is after the report of her husband’s death early in 1914, while she herself is taken up with war work, that she meets Dare Carteret. They are married a short five weeks after their first meeting. Lilla, to whom love had been unknown, has learned its meaning. Then in the midst of her great happiness Robert Singleton returns. The story closes with Lilla in France and with one of the two men involved in her tragedy starting out with Kitchener on his ill-fated voyage.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 1250w

“It is disappointing to find the introduction of characters wholly extraneous to the subject in hand and not even indirectly promoting the action, yet in whom the author attempts to create an interest by long explanations concerning their earlier lives.”

– + =Cath World= 106:106 O ‘17 550w

“There are many vivid pictures of London in war time, especially dramatic and thrilling being that of the first Zeppelin raid. The story moves quietly and rapidly, through emotional climaxes of many kinds that are always tense and gripping and incidents that would be bizarre against any but their fateful war background, to its tragic conclusion. But out of the mangled and smashed human happiness upon which it closes there rises the note of spiritual triumph.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:113 Ap 1 ‘17 480w

“The book is ably and sincerely written, and there is a dignity in Mrs Belloc Lowndes’s handling of her characters which gives them both interest and stability.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 5 ‘16 350w

=LOYSON, PAUL HYACINTHE.= Gods in the battle; tr. from the French by Lady Frazer; with an introd. by H. G. Wells. *3s 6d Hodder & Stoughton, London 940.91 (Eng ed 17-25626)

The author is the son of Père Hyacinthe, the great preacher, and was, before the war, “a rational pacifist” and the editor of Les Droits de l’Homme. Since 1914, he has devoted himself to speaking and working in the cause of the Allies in France, England, Holland and elsewhere. “This collection of ‘Open letters’ to a great variety of persons appeared originally under the title ‘Étes-vous neutres devant le crime?’ A considerable portion of the book, however (104 pages), is devoted to ‘The Roman Rolland case’—appeals and criticisms and other matter connected with the attitude towards the war of M. Rolland, as shown in his ‘Above the battle’ and elsewhere. ‘Notes’ on the contents of the book at the end occupy 45 pages. Neither author nor translator receives any benefit from the sale of the volume; M. Loyson’s fees for the rights of translation has been given by him to the British Red cross fund.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

=Pittsburgh= 22:762 N ‘17 40w

“No Englishman could have written this book, but we must get our insular minds to realise that there is more than one way of doing a thing. The popular style of to-day in England rather tends to telegraphese than to sustained efforts of argument, irony, and rhetoric. ... M. Loyson fortifies his statements throughout with notes and references, especially regarding the case of M. Rolland. ... M. Rolland, on the evidence here set out at length, is clearly convicted of dodging and paltering.”

+ =Sat R= 123:503 Je 2 ‘17 680w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p107 Mr 1 ‘17 80w

“We do not write in M. Loyson’s manner, or, if we do, we do it ill. But M. Loyson does it well, for it is his natural way of expressing himself. He can make the grand gesture without becoming absurd. ... With all its fire it is never spiteful even against the German people. M. Loyson is still a pacifist and a gentleman. The translation is all the more successful because Lady Frazer, herself a Frenchwoman, has not tried to make it too English.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p123 Mr 15 ‘17 1000w

=LUCAS, SIR CHARLES PRESTWOOD.= Beginnings of English overseas enterprise; a prelude to the empire. *$2.90 Oxford 382 17-20009

“There has been much study and writing on special periods in the history of the English chartered commercial companies, but almost no attempt to give a continuous narrative of the whole career of any one of them. The work of Sir Charles Lucas, which endeavors to tell the story of three of the earliest companies, is therefore a welcome and important contribution to the literature of the subject. These three are the Merchants of the staple, the Eastland merchants, and the Merchant adventurers. The first is perforce, for lack of materials, very brief, and the second a slight, almost an outline sketch; the work is therefore practically a history of the Merchant adventurers of England from their obscure origin in the Netherlands in the fourteenth century to their dissolution, after at least four centuries of continuous existence, at Hamburg in 1808.”—Am Hist R

“It is written with the ability and mastery of the trained historian.” E: P. Cheyney

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:381 Ja ‘18 890w

+ =Nation= 106:16 Ja 3 ‘18 1200w

“Their story as unfolded in Sir Charles Lucas’s concise but weighty monograph, is not only illuminating as regards the past but pregnant with lessons for the future after the war. The ‘Beginnings of English overseas enterprise’ is a real and important contribution to that history which is ‘philosophy teaching by examples.’”

+ =Spec= 118:38 Jl 14 ‘17 1050w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p317 Jl 5 ‘17 1900w

=LUCAS, ST JOHN WELLES LUCAS.= April folly. *$1.50 Dutton

“In ‘April folly’ Mr St John Lucas continues the story of Dennis Yorke which he began some years ago in ‘The first round.’ The central theme of the first part was the relation of Dennis, a wayward boy and an artist, to his father, ‘The Apostle of the respectable.’ This sequel begins with the funeral of Mr Yorke and the return of Dennis to his artistic friends in Chelsea,—Tellier, and Sandys, and others. Now that the death of his father has set him free to develop his musical genius Dennis’s artistic progress is great; but he is still very much in the making, serious with that immense seriousness of youth which Mr St John Lucas can describe so accurately and sympathetically, drawn one way by his art, another by the cold rectitude which he has inherited in the very fibres of his being.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Mr Lucas’s version has the merit of quietly humanising materials which have been so often merely galvanised for an easy public.” H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:646 Ag ‘17 530w

“After a decidedly well-told story, in progress, the reader suffers the anti-climax at the end with rebellion and dissatisfaction.”

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

“A first-rate analysis of calf love in London Bohemia. The only difficulty lies in the comparative slimness of the subject; it does not draw out the novelist’s resources. The whole group of Chelsea musicians is well sketched and we should have preferred following their adventures rather than turning to the sordid, pathetic little tragedy to which the story finally devotes its course.”

+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 170w

“His adventures in sex take us along none of those miry ways to which the bold young school have now wonted us. Nevertheless, they would have seemed desperate enough if we had been regaled with them at the time of their alleged occurrence, a quarter of a century ago. ... ‘Yes, but what of it?’ is the mood in which this kind of story, however nicely done, has a way of leaving us.”

=Nation= 105:178 Ag 16 ‘17 350w

“The musical and artistic environment in which this drama of human relationships is played out to its pathetic and ironic conclusion is delightfully sketched.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 450w

“Mr St John Lucas is one of the very best of our short-story writers, to say nothing of his excellent anthologies of French and Italian verse and his graceful original poems. ... He avoids the monotony of uniform cleverness which marks the dialogue of some excellent novelists. He is judicious, too, in skating over thin ice, for you cannot write of Bohemia without touching on its squalid fringes as well as its hearty camaraderie. We may note in conclusion that while the story is written by an artist, with a lively sympathy for artistic ideals, he is so impartial in dealing with normal and even Philistine people that we come away with a heightened respect for them.”

+ =Spec= 117:418 O 7 ‘16 800w

“The story is told with a gentle penetration and judgment which give it charm; and the friends who are grouped together both in Chelsea and at Hampstead move and act with the pleasant ease of real companions; their comments on their arts are vivid and faithful.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p500 O 19 ‘16 430w

=LUEHRMANN, ADELE.= Other Brown. il *$1.35 Century 17-23048

“A story of dual personality ... [by the author of ‘The curious case of Marie Dupont’]. It adds to its psychological interest, a murder, a mine in Mexico and a love story ending in New York.”—Ind

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 50w

+ — =Ind= 93:240 F 9 ‘18 50w

“The story is unnecessarily complicated with endless twists and tangles. ... It is a mediocre story.” C. W.

— =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 110w

“‘The other Brown’ is well able to baffle and enthrall the most astute reader, and the personalities taking part in it are altogether charming.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 300w

“The author handles her plot with sufficient skill to keep the reader mystified—which is the only requirement of fiction of the sort. ... The conclusion is not entirely easy and natural.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 190w

=LUTZ, RUFUS ROLLA.= Wage earning and education. diags 50c (1c) Cleveland foundation. Survey committee; Russell Sage foundation 370.91 16-26854

This is a summary volume of the Cleveland survey series, presenting a synthesis of the results of the survey as a whole. Part 1 has chapters discussing some of the general phases of the subject, among them: The industrial education survey; Forecasting future probabilities; The wage earners of Cleveland; The future wage earners of Cleveland; Industrial training for boys in elementary schools; The junior high school; Trade training during the last years in school, etc. Part 2 is given up to summaries of the special reports.

“The risks of such an assumption of static social and economic conditions are already apparent. ... The experiences of the nations at war, as well as developments in older American communities, raise some doubts about the advisability of confining the vocational training of women to retail selling, to the sewing trades and to limited fields of the more mechanical forms of office work. The least satisfactory portion of the report is that dealing with vocational guidance and school placement.” Lucile Eaves

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:903 D ‘17 370w

=El School J= 17:525 Mr ‘17 600w

“The volume contains independent and illuminating comment. The chapter on vocational guidance is one of the sanest in the whole field.”

+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

=LYNDE, FRANCIS.= Stranded in Arcady. il *$1.35 (3c) Scribner 17-14177

Neither Donald Prime nor Lucetta Millington knows how they happen to find themselves alone in the northern woods on the shore of an unknown lake. Each tells a story of preceding events that ends in haziness. That they have been separately drugged, kidnapped and left together in this lonely place is the only explanation. But the story has to do not so much with this mystery as with the adaptation of two sophisticated young people, one a novelist, the other a teacher of domestic science, to primitive conditions.

“Appeared in Scribner’s Magazine.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17

“Ingenious and unusual.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 160w

+ =Cath World= 105:539 Jl ‘17 100w

“There was a time when it seemed as though the author of ‘The honorable Senator Sage-Brush’ might intend to use his very marked gifts as a story teller for the serious presentation and interpretation of certain phases of our American life, but Mr Lynde has apparently decided instead to devote himself to a lighter kind of fiction. However, this little romance is interesting, amusing, and well written, and will prove a very pleasant means of whiling away a few idle hours.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 330w

“So well told that one is willing to forget mere improbability.”

+ =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 70w

+ =Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w

“This story is different from and less spontaneous than the bulk of Mr Lynde’s other work. Still the action is rapid and a spirit of comradeship and good nature pervades it.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 230w

=LYNDON, LAMAR.= Hydro-electric power. 2v il v 1 *$5; v 2 *$3.50 McGraw 621.31 16-23566

“The work, as may be inferred from the title is quite general in scope, covering both the hydraulic and electrical phases of design. Volume 1 is entitled ‘Hydraulic development and equipment,’ and volume 2 is entitled ‘Electrical equipment and transmission.’ However, it should not be concluded that the two volumes are entirely independent of each other. As the author puts it in the preface to volume 2, ‘this volume forms a companion to, and is, in fact, a continuation of volume 1. There is no definite point of division between the two volumes, and this treatise was divided into two sections solely to make it less cumbersome and more convenient for reference.’”—Engin Rec

=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 10w

“Vol. 1 of this work is about the most concise treatment of hydraulic engineering from the standpoint of design and construction that is now available. ... The work is notable for its completeness rather than the newness of material presented, since it incorporates fundamental and standard formulas that have been used in the design of water-power developments. In interpretation of this information lie the practical difference and usefulness of the book as compared with other works available. ... Vol. 2 forms a very good supplement to the first volume but cannot be considered an adequate treatise on the electrical design and installation of station equipment or on transmission systems.”

+ =Elec World= 69:665 Ap 7 ‘17 350w (Review of v 1 and 2)

“Students and practising engineers interested in the design of hydroelectric-power plants will wish to add this book to their libraries. ... On the whole, it may be said that the author’s work is well done. In scope the book is excellent; it touches on almost all phases of plant design and defines the principles governing design very well. ... A number of very good charts and diagrams are included. The illustrations are excellent, and the publishers have done their part well.”

+ =Engin Rec= 75:235 F 10 ‘17 500w (Review of v 1 and 2)

=LYNN, ETHEL.= Adventures of a woman hobo. *$1.50 (3c) Doran 17-15672

The author tells of a trip from Chicago to San Francisco taken in company with her husband in 1908. She was threatened with tuberculosis, and looked on a return to California, her native state, as her only salvation. Lacking funds for the journey, they started out to work their way, using a tandem bicycle as a means of travel. Midway across the plains, the tandem was abandoned. They traveled for a time in a prairie schooner, and finally completed the last stages of the journey on freight trains. The experiences described are varied and interesting. At the close the author reports that her health was fully restored and that her view point had been modified. She says, “My belief in the inherent kindliness and unselfishness of the human heart has been strengthened. ... Never again will I think it necessary to change human nature before we can improve social conditions.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17

=Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 150w

“This book is worth the reading of all Socialists. It is a clarifying description of why the stranger you meet would rather knock you down than bid you the time of day.” L. W.

+ =N Y Call= p15 O 7 ‘17 500w

=N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 250w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 110w

=LYTTELTON, EDITH SOPHY (BALFOUR) (MRS ALFRED LYTTELTON).= Alfred Lyttelton. il *$4 Longmans 17-15058

This life of Alfred Lyttelton, who died in 1913, is a particularly intimate biography. It is written by his wife, who says in the preface to part 2, “Alfred’s unique position among his contemporaries was due not so much to gifts of intellect as to gifts of character. His life was not full of adventure, nor, if measured by some standards, even of achievement. What he was, rather than what he did, needs to be portrayed. In trying to draw the picture of a man’s character, his affections must be described, and as truthfully as possible.” Alfred Lyttelton entered Parliament in 1895, was sent to South Africa as chairman of the Transvaal concessions commission in 1900, and in 1903 was made secretary for the colonies.

“Few biographies offer more chapters of constant and varied interest.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 650w

+ =Sat R= 123:sup3 Mr 31 ‘17 1450w

“An unusually intimate record of the man as he revealed himself to his family and friends. What his loss meant to his friends has already been declared by the tributes paid to his memory by Mr Asquith in the House of Commons; by the address delivered by Mr Balfour last August at the unveiling of the memorial tablet in St Margaret’s, Westminster; and by the appreciations contributed by Lord Curzon and Lord Midleton to the Times at the time of his death. He made fresh friends all his life, but never lost his older ones.”

+ =Spec= 118:388 Mr 31 ‘17 1600w

“Alfred Lyttelton was not a great man, yet his widow has written an extraordinarily interesting and fascinating biography of him. Mr Lyttelton married two remarkable women, first, Laura Tennant, sister of Mrs Herbert H. Asquith, and on her death, the author of the present volume, who was Edith Balfour.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 950w

“She has executed her labour of love both with skill and judgment, throwing the strong lights in her picture upon Alfred Lyttelton’s incontestable splendour of character and charm of disposition, and leaving his ministerial rank and political achievement to furnish just the drapery and the background of the figure.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p139 Mr 22 ‘17 1050w

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=MABIE, HAMILTON WRIGHT.= Fruits of the spirit. *$1.25 (2c) Dodd 204 17-13307

A collection of essays that have appeared in the Outlook during the past ten and more years. The preface says, “It is significant that the latest essays, written in 1916, during a period of great physical depression, are concerned with the fundamentals of faith, action and achievement.” A few of the titles are: The practice of immortality; The ultimate companionship; The prophecy of love; The larger plan; The child and the world; Lodgings and homes; A secret of youth; The wisdom of youth; The long view of life; Meeting life squarely; The test of courage. There is an introduction by Lyman Abbott.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17

“Ethical in content, hortatory in spirit, they are unexceptionable in matter and form and also quite undistinguished.”

– + =Nation= 105:351 S 27 ‘17 120w

“The essays will be found spiritually valuable, not only to the individual reader, but to groups, and even to congregations, especially in the summer when opportunity to attend ordinary church service is often denied.”

+ =Outlook= 116:161 My 23 ‘17 120w

=MCADIE, ALEXANDER GEORGE.= Principles of aërography. il $3 Rand 551.5 17-19384

“‘The principles of aërography’ deals with the most recent advances in meteorology. ... The purpose and scope of the book are summarized in the opening sentence of the preface, ... to present this new knowledge [of about the last ten years] in a convenient form even if considerably condensed.’ ... The successive chapters are: ‘A brief history of meteorology; units and symbols; temperature scales; thermodynamics of the atmosphere; stratosphere and troposphere; the circulation of the atmosphere; the major circulations; the minor circulations; forecasting storms; the winds; the water vapor of the atmosphere; condensation; dust and microbes; atmospheric electricity; precipitation; floods and notable storms; frosts; [and] solar influences.’”—Science

“The book is well printed on paper calculated to make the illustrations appear at their best. In fact, the illustrations are one of the chief charms of the book, for they are refreshingly new. The treatment of the clouds is especially good and well illustrated. The long chapter on atmospheric electricity, which is devoted almost entirely to the consideration of the thunder shower and lightning, is again an excellent one. ... Judged as a textbook, and thus the first book to be used by a student or general reader, it has many shortcomings. The material is not well arranged; there are too many omissions and not enough elementary detail in the treatment of many subjects.” W. I. M.

+ — =Astrophys J= 46:301 N ‘17 1100w

“All teachers of meteorology and physical geography owe a deep debt to Professor McAdie for this helpful volume.” F. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 10 ‘17 750w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 O ‘17 130w

“Well illustrated and indexed.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:814 D ‘17 30w

“Unfortunately, coherence and clearness seem to have been sacrificed to brevity in the attempt to make the book a college text. The volume will probably be of greatest value as a reference accompaniment to a well-ordered course in meteorology. As a reference book for the advanced student, however, it is lacking in footnotes or bibliography, but it offsets this with its wealth of tables computed only with difficulty, and of illustrations and diagrams drawn from valuable, inaccessible sources.” C: F. Brooks

+ — =Science= n s 46:264 S 14 ‘17 950w

=MCARTHUR, JOHN CAMPBELL.= What a company officer should know. (Harvey military ser.) il $2 Harvey 355 17-16323

“The officer will learn how to maintain discipline without becoming a martinet, to foster in his men those absolutely essential requirements of cleanliness and sobriety, initiative within proper restrictions, cheerfulness under hardship, and last but not least how to make thoroly understood that the good conduct and comradeship of each individual is responsible for the well being of the whole command. Of these, examples are given by way of personal anecdote, which assist in pointing the author’s instruction.”—Ind

=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17

“It is not too much to state that every reserve officer should provide himself with this handy guide. ... There is an excellent appendix of military forms and abbreviations but one wonders why a little book so cheaply bound and printed should cost so much.”

+ — =Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 150w

=MACAULAY, MRS FANNIE (CALDWELL) (FRANCES LITTLE, pseud.).= Camp Jolly; or, The secret-finders in the Grand Cañon. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24510

A story of the Grand Canyon. Three Kentucky boys, Billy Hargrave, and his cousin Teddy, and Rags, a young colored boy, accompany Billy’s father, an eminent geologist, on an exploring trip thru the canyon. Under the guidance of Wildcat Pete, they have many adventures, and Rags, with his droll comments and his amazement at everything he sees, furnishes much merriment for the party.

“Well written.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:64 N ‘17

“The record is a pleasant and mildly exciting one.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w

+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 20w

=N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 90w

“A good open-air story for younger boys.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 70w

=MACBETH, MRS MADGE HAMILTON (LYONS).= Kleath. il *$1.35 (1½c) Small 17-24097

Christopher Kleath who comes to the Klondike in the early days of the gold rush is something of a mystery. He is engaged as a linotype operator on the first newspaper published in Dawson. But he gives evidence of many other talents, and his manner and social bearing give the impression that he is, or has been, a man of the world. Then too, on one occasion, he shows a surprising skill in picking a lock. Clare Meredith, the wife of the big, fine Klondike doctor, early shows an interest in Kleath, but he proves impervious to her wiles. On the other hand, while he is plainly in love with little Goldie Meadows, he never tells her so. The secret of his past is dramatically explained in the trial scene, after he has been accused of robbing the bank.

“It is regrettable but true that we could not lose a heart-beat during the course of this innocuous story.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 230w

“Her tale is mingled of humor, pathos, and sensationalism, with an unbecoming leaning toward dare-deviltry. It carries a certain air of conviction and will serve for readers whose imaginations accept the printed page as probable truth.”

=Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 80w

“The story is a fairly good specimen of the particular class of fiction to which it belongs, and is sufficiently interesting to hold the reader’s attention.”

=N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 270w

“The picture of conditions in Dawson city at the height of the Klondike gold rush is more restrained than is sometimes found in novels of the type.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 290w

=MCCABE, JOSEPH.= Pope’s favourite. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 17-14139

Pope Alexander VI, Giulia Farnese, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, Fra Savonarola and other historic personages appear in the pages of this novel. The author says, “I have chosen a period so rich in colour, so instinct with turbulent life, and so well known to us, that imagination had not a laborious task. I have put a little blood into the veins of the great dead figures of the Borgia period and restored the missing threads of the worn historical tapestry.” Giulia, the pope’s mistress, is drawn sympathetically. She appears as a young girl, accepting unquestioningly the customs of her time and deeply puzzled by Savonarola’s preachments. Lucrezia Borgia is presented in a new light, a weak rather than a vicious woman.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:650 Ag ‘17 330w

“It is not all of equal merit, but at least in the figures of this beautiful Giulia and of her ‘Cousin’ Cesare he has made us see a real man and woman of much more than ordinary fascination. He has made for us a brilliant historical picture.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 1100w

“Historically accurate but not very full-blooded story.”

+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 30w

“If the title cause the reader to expect a book that he will conceal behind a magazine in public, he will be misled. It is hardly ‘pour les jeunes filles,’ neither is it for the sensation seekers. It is simply a good historical novel—one of the best that it has been our luck to see in a long time.”

+ =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 190w

“The picture is rich in detail, colorful, yet described with a certain cool aloofness, a curious lack of vitality. The reader finds himself calmly admiring the author’s scholarship rather than excited or enthralled by his narrative.”

=N Y Times= 22:206 My 27 ‘17 400w

“The author succeeds in making Pope Alexander a living character, but Cesare Borgia is only a shadow.”

+ — =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 30w

“Mr McCabe, who writes so trenchantly on so many subjects of religion, history, science, and biography, here turns his busy pen to the task of writing a romance of a period to which he has devoted special study.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p107 Mr 1 ‘17 60w

=MCCABE, JOSEPH.= Romance of the Romanoffs. il *$2 (2½c) Dodd 947 17-29048

In his first chapter the author sketches the primitive democracy of the early Slavs as it existed before the “inevitable military chiefs” had fastened their hold on the people and established the beginnings of autocratic government. He then proceeds with the ugly story of Moscovite and Romanoff rule. There is irony in his title. He says, “This is not a history of Russia, but the history of its autocracy as an episode. ... To a democratic people there can be no more congenial study than this exposure of the crime and failure of an autocracy. To any who find romance in such behaviour as kings and nobles were permitted to flaunt in the eyes of their people in earlier ages the story of the Romanoffs must be exceptionally attractive.” The story is carried down to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917.

“He takes visible delight in exposing the vices and crimes of Russia’s rulers and he revels in exploding time-hallowed historical reputations, for instance, that of Peter the Great. Although this denunciatory and iconoclastic tendency has its drawbacks, particularly in a historical study, it should be welcomed as a wholesome reaction against the complacencies and shams of official Russian historiography.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ — =Bookm= 46:484 D ‘17 200w

“Mr McCabe’s book would be more useful, and the story of the Romanoffs could be followed more easily and intelligently, if he had appended a family tree of this not too familiar line of monarchs, or if he had even given a chronological list of the Romanoff czars.”

+ — =Dial= 64:114 Ja 31 ‘18 270w

=MCCALEB, WALTER FLAVIUS.= Happy: the life of a bee. il *75c (2c) Harper 595 17-12824

The autobiography of a bee. The author’s purpose is to set forth the life of the hive, the perils, joys and adventures of honey gathering, in attractive story form. The book has attractive illustrations and decorations by Clement B. Davis.

“A true story, its incidents being as scientifically exact as they are interesting.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 280w

+ =Ind= 91:229 Ag 11 ‘17 30w

+ =N Y Times= 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 70w

“For young readers this nature story does something like that which Maeterlinck’s famous book on the bee did for older people.”

+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 60w

=MCCANN, ALFRED WATTERSON.= Thirty cent bread; how to escape a higher cost of living. *50c (3c) Doran 641 17-14406

The author says, “With regulation, now, we can have all the food we need for home use and export to our allies, 200,000,000,000 pounds. Without regulation, we shall have bread cards and soup kitchens within a year.” He discusses the situation with regard to various foodstuffs and offers suggestions for their conservation.

=A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 40w

=New Repub= 12:280 O 6 ‘17 260w

“His book goes into a number of interesting details on several phases of the ‘food problem,’ such as the classification of and speculation in eggs, the conservation of grain, and the preservation of vegetables.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 150w

=Pratt= p26 O ‘17 20w

“A simple, convenient argument.”

+ =St Louis= 15:357 O ‘17 20w

=MCCARTER, MARGARET (HILL) (MRS WILLIAM ARTHUR MCCARTER).= Vanguards of the plains. il *$1.40 (1½c) Harper 17-29178

A story of Kansas and the Santa Fé trail and of the part played by peaceful commerce in the upbuilding of the prairie empire. On one of his early trips over the trail between Kansas City and Santa Fé, Esmond Clarenden, a pioneer merchant and trader, takes the three children who are his wards with him, feeling that they are safer with him than they would be if left alone. This is early in the ‘forties, when the journey is fraught with grave perils. The youngest of the three children, Gail Clarenden, tells the story and in following its development from his childhood to manhood, gives a panoramic picture of the growth of the West. The story has elements of historic interest, adventure and romance.

“A good story of adventure, intrigue and mystery to which the historical background lends an added interest.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:169 F ‘18

Reviewed by J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 70w

“No American can read [this book] without a keener realization of what that security, which has been ours from our birth, means.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 5 ‘18 560w

“The story as a whole is thrilling enough to hold any reader’s attention. But the value of the book lies in its pictures of early life on the plains and its pages from the book of the Middle West’s development.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:447 N 4 ‘17 650w

=MCCLELLAN, GEORGE BRINTON.= Mexican war diary. il *$1 (5c) Princeton univ. press 973.6 17-11694

This war diary begins with McClellan’s departure from West Point in 1846 and is continued thru the battle of Cerro Gordo in 1847. The editor, Professor Myers of Princeton, is at work on a life of General McClellan, and this diary forms a part of the collection of manuscript material in the Library of Congress which he is using as a basis.

“This diary was decidedly worthy of publication. The true character of our ‘citizen soldiery’ is presented with a tinge of prejudice but essentially in colors true to the original. And much interesting information is given in reference to certain episodes of the Mexican war—particularly the march from Matamoros to Victoria and Tampico (pp. 21-50), the siege of Vera Cruz (pp. 53-73), and the battle of Cerro Gordo (pp. 79-90). In his account of this battle McClellan makes a distinctly important contribution to the history of Pillow’s operations.” J. H. Smith

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:220 O ‘17 370w

“Well worth publishing, for it gives a perfect picture of the young army officer who was to become in the Civil war the idol of the Army of the Potomac.”

+ =Cath World= 105:407 Je ‘17 280w

“Besides containing a remarkable revelation of General McClellan’s much debated personality, and graphic pictures of the march on Mexico City from Vera Cruz, fully explains, at that early date, the unwisdom of employing raw volunteer forces in active military operations.”

+ =Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 70w

=Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:531 Je ‘17 60w

“Gives vivid glimpses of the campaign of 1846 and makes clearer than ever the failure and futility of the ‘volunteer system’ as a national reliance in time of war.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 60w

“From it we gain an intimate view of the Mexican war not to be found in ordinary books of history.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 11 ‘17 300w

=MCCLENDON, JESSE FRANCIS.= Physical chemistry of vital phenomena. il *$2 Princeton univ. press 541 17-13355

A work for students and investigators in the biological and medical sciences. The author is assistant professor of physiology in the University of Minnesota and the work is based on lectures and laboratory work given to graduate and advanced medical students in that institution. “The purpose of the book is not to go far into physical chemistry but to develop a tool for physiological research. Lengthy discussions of debated questions are avoided by tentatively accepting the hypothesis which fits the most facts, until a better one appears. For further discussion of any subject the reader is referred to the literature list and index.” (Preface) The literature list is extensive, occupying thirty-six pages, with a subject index (to the list) of seven pages following. There is no index to the text.

“If the reader of this book, as is certainly advisable, has had a course in physical chemistry, he will find occasion to use marginal question marks, or to make corrections, in a number of places. Defects of the sort pointed out are, however, only slight and somewhat excusable misadventures in the first edition of a volume which has so much to commend it, and which is a noteworthy and valuable contribution to scientific literature.”

+ — =Nation= 105:275 S 6 ‘17 550w

“As a whole the book exhibits the defects as well as the merits of its extreme brevity and condensation. The author evidently wishes to be as concise as possible, and largely for this reason his discussion and statements of fact frequently appear dogmatic and lacking in much needed qualifications. Certain explanations are incomplete or otherwise open to criticism.” R. S. Lillie

+ — =Science= n s 46:565 D 7 ‘17 1250w

=MCCLINTOCK, ALEXANDER.= Best o’ luck. *$1 (4c) Doran 941.5 17-28776

Tells how a fighting Kentuckian won the thanks of Britain’s king and a D.M.C. He was a sergeant in the “Canadian overseas” and rendered conspicuous service during a raid on the enemy’s trenches and, later, in rescuing wounded men at great risk. Contents: Training for the war; The bombing raid; “Over the top and give ‘em hell”; Shifted to the Somme; Wounded in action; A visit from the king.

“Told in the picturesque style of the better class of sporting writers, abounding in humorous, pathetic and thrilling incidents, the story is sure to gain large favor with those who wish to understand war as it is.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 N 28 ‘17 280w

“A random set of reminiscences, a trifle wordy, but sincere.”

+ — =Dial= 64:120 Ja 31 ‘18 170w

“Though less comprehensive than Empey’s ‘Over the top,’ it deserves a place beside that genial chronicle, because of its absolute honesty, its utter realism, and its unabashed humor. There are several chapters devoted to his training as a bomb thrower. These pages are of

## particular interest and value because of the fact that the American

troops in France are being specially trained for bombing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:532 D 2 ‘17 550w

“Narrated in simple style by one who ‘don’t lay claim to being much of a writer,’ but who has a story to tell.”

+ =Outlook= 117:387 N 7 ‘17 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 620w

=MCCLUNG, MRS NELLIE LETITIA (MOONEY).= Next of kin; those who wait and wonder. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 940.91 17-30691

Mrs McClung is an Alberta woman who, from the public platform thruout our states, is telling the story of Canada in suffrage and war. “Times like these” had its leader of the herd, Mike, who planted his feet firmly in the watering trough and kept the other cattle from drinking. Here was a clearly drawn prototype of the political leader who blocked women in their struggle for the ballot. “Next of kin” has a little no-breed hen, a philosopher with personality, in spite of frozen feet and lack of pedigree. “She went down to her death with a smile, hustling and cheerful to the last.” It is so with the throng of obscure war-mothers whose hearts are wrung as they see their young sons cheated out of boyhood to assume men’s burdens on distant battlefields, yet who heroically make the sacrifice. Pervading every page is the mother spirit, triumphant in giving “bread and blood as the sacrament of empire.”

“Gives a splendid idea of the effort which Canada has made, especially the women’s part.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18

“Several times this reaction of a woman to wartime conditions in Canada gives promise of some understanding of this conflict and the causes that underlie it, and of wars in general and their motivating forces. But no sooner are our hopes raised by such a suggestive flash than she plunges us down into the depths of sentimental maunderings.” C. W.

+ — =N Y Call= p19 D 20 ‘17 150w

“The book is a curious mixture of sound sense and nonsense, of wit and banality, of sympathetic understanding and sentimental sophistry. Withal it is marked by that sincerity which one finds in so many pseudo-public documents, such as the letters written by the farm women of the United States in response to a governmental inquiry. The sense of cheer which makes the interspersed verse reminiscent of that of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, should give it a large vogue; while the smoothness of the style and the simplicity of the stories can only serve to contribute further to its popularity.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:490 N 25 ‘17 370w

=MCCLURE, SAMUEL SIDNEY.= Obstacles to peace. *$2 (1½c) Houghton 940.91 17-8588

The obstacles to peace are of two kinds, says the author. First there are the questions of territory, access to the sea, etc.; second, the states of mind of the peoples at war. Of the second he says, “I have tried to describe the extraordinary hatreds, contempts, and horrors that divide the warring nations; so I have given much space to the records of alleged atrocities. The most important single fact in Europe today is the feeling caused by belief in these records. This feeling constitutes the greatest single obstacle to peace.” The most important “obstacle” of the first group is Turkey. “The fate of Turkey is the issue of this war.” The author presents many original documents and writes from personal experience in the warring countries.

“Mr McClure also presents a summary which covers the crises of the decade that followed 1904 and appends a discussion of Anglo-German relations after 1912. From the historian’s point of view this is the most important portion of his work. The book is primarily designed for the general public, but every teacher of recent European history will be glad to have it on his shelves.” C: Seymour

+ =Am Hist R= 23:214 O ‘17 430w

=A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17

“On the editorial side of this book, its most important quality is Mr McClure’s keen understanding of the fact that war is first of all a state of mind ... engendered, made possible and carried on by states of mind. ... A truer, more deeply fundamental thing was never said. And yet Mr McClure’s book is one of the very few books about the war in which this truth has been emphasised, and in which it is made the cornerstone of all argument.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Bookm= 45:321 My ‘17 1250w

“The Belgian invasion and atrocities have left Mr McClure under no illusion as to German procedure, and his most interesting comment bears upon the hypnotic national illustration of that people. This is perhaps the striking contribution which Mr McClure gives us in all his 500 pages.” B. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 450w

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 60w

“Mr McClure has many faults. He is an incurable gossip. He writes with astonishing carelessness. He continually obtrudes his own personality into events where it has no place. But, again and again, he has some useful document to transcribe, some valuable fact to record; and for these alone his book would be worth reading. As an attempt at analyzing the real aims of the belligerents the book is a failure.” H. J. Laski

+ — =Dial= 62:472 My 31 ‘17 430w

“A war book which, in certain aspects, is one of the most deeply impressive works we have had on this greatest human drama.”

+ =Ind= 90:470 Je 9 ‘17 230w

+ =Lit D= 55:40 O 13 ‘17 290w

“In respect of its contents this book is probably the book of the year in the field of the literature of the war.”

+ + =Nation= 105:38 Jl 12 ‘17 1950w

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 420w

“Perhaps the most conspicuous feature of the book is the emphasis which Mr McClure gives to the matter of Turkey. He found, and in this book he makes public for the first time, the details of the Anglo-Franco-German agreement of 1914 with regard to Asia Minor.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:121 Ap 1 ‘17 350w

“A book of great historic value; a book for editors and librarians. ... The contrast between Georg Brandes’s ‘The world at war’ and S. S. McClure’s ‘Obstacles to peace’ is interesting and suggestive. Georg Brandes, the pacifist, gives us his conclusions without facts to support them; S. S. McClure gives us facts and leaves the reader to draw his own conclusion.”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 130w

“The book strives to be and is eminently fair, but the result is a stirring arraignment of Prussian militarism. This is trenchant in itself, and is also interesting because Mr McClure has been accused of pro-Germanism by certain sympathizers with the Allies.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 330w

Reviewed by Bruno Lasker

+ =Survey= 38:554 S 22 ‘17 600w

“Its value is enhanced because it deals not only with these matters from the point of view of the Allies, but from time to time gives us some indication of the German point of view. Perhaps the most attractive chapters are those towards the end, dealing with France, and one entitled ‘Heroic voices.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p574 N 29 ‘17 1000w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:185 Je ‘17 70w

=MCCLURE, WALLACE MITCHELL.= State constitution-making. $3 Marshall & B. 342.7 16-17760

“Though designed especially as a contribution to the problem of revising the state constitution in Tennessee, [this work] will nevertheless have a wider field of usefulness. Parts 1 and 3 give a history of constitutional development in Tennessee and a discussion of peculiar Tennessee problems, but part 2, entitled ‘Current thought and

## action upon constitutional problems,’ will be found serviceable by all

students of state government. The author brings together in convenient form the state constitutional provisions on such subjects as elections, organization of state governments, the short ballot, the budget, municipal and county government, organization and procedure of the legislature, direct legislation by the electorate, etc.”—Pol Sci Q

=Cleveland= p131 N ‘16 70w

“Mr McClure’s effort is worthy of high praise. He presented to his fellow-citizens a history of constitution making in this country and an analysis of our federal and state constitutions which should have convinced them that the constitution of their own state was in sore need of revision.”

+ =Nation= 104:606 My 17 ‘17 370w

“He has succeeded admirably in concealing any partisan bias, if he has one, and has presented opposing views with a clarity and fairness that are greatly to be commended.”

+ =Pol Sci Q= 31:661 D ‘16 160w

“There is probably no other volume in print that contains so much of this material systematically digested and arranged.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:216 F ‘17 120w

=MCCOMB, SAMUEL.=[2] God’s meaning in life. *75c (3½c) Harper 231 17-25739

Man’s need of God is the central thought in this book of short essays. Especially, the author holds, is this need making itself felt at the present time. The chapter titles are: “Do we need God?” God and our ideals: God the great companion; God and regeneration; God—person or principle? Christ’s idea of God; Conversation with God; Can a “finite God” satisfy? The discovery of God.

“The book is small, a companion to the volume on Prayer and faith by the same author but its viewpoint is large and the benefits of its reading should be great. Dr McComb is well-known in Boston because of his work on psychotherapy while at Emmanuel church, and this book bears evidence of that training. Not that it expounds or even advocates the movement, but through the emphasis which is constantly laid on the definition of God as a Power.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 12 ‘18 350w

=MCCOMB, SAMUEL.= New life; the secret of happiness and power. *50c (3½c) Harper 248 17-5701

A series of essays on the spiritual life. The author finds the secret of modern unrest in the lack of spiritual satisfaction in individual lives. Social and civic activities, however worthy, do not fill the soul. A new attitude toward God that will bring man into harmony with His law is what is needed. Contents: The need of a new life; Should a man worry about his sins? The real meaning of sin; The need of conversion; Is conversion possible? Sudden versus gradual conversion; The regeneration of character; The power of the new life; The Christ ideal; The sociological value of the new life; The new life atoning and optimistic.

=A L A Bkl= 13:330 My ‘17

=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 20w

“The book is written in simple language, and is intended for the average reader. It will prove of great value to every pastor and social worker. Dr McComb writes in a happy, hopeful vein, and his discussion of these old questions is fresh and modern. The book has a positive message, but is undogmatic in its tone.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 4 ‘17 110w

=MCCONNELL, JAMES R.= Flying for France with the American escadrille at Verdun. il *$1 (4½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-6754

The author of this little book went to France in 1915 to drive an ambulance. After some months in this service he resigned to join the flying corps. The book is made up of four chapters: Verdun; From Verdun to the Somme; Personal letters from Sergeant McConnell; How France trains pilot aviators.

=A L A Bkl= 13:346 My ‘17

“It is this note of a spiritual awakening which lifts Mr McConnell’s book out of the class of the adventure narrative.”

+ =Ind= 90:296 My 12 ‘17 110w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17

“It is a short book, of little more than 150 pages—and with large print and wide margins at that—but it has a deal of interesting matter in it. It is both exciting and informative. And its record is something of which, as Americans, we can all be proud.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:98 Mr 18 ‘17 250w

“Vivid and interesting account of the daily work of the American escadrille of the French flying corps, particularly over Verdun and on the Somme front.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:458 My ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering p141 Mr 1 ‘17)

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:529 Je ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p41 O ‘17 20w

“Not the least interesting portions of the little volume are the touching tributes which Sergeant McConnell pays to his comrades who fell before him.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:549 My ‘17 300w

“Written in simple, but gripping style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 130w

“Slight but very readable account.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 40w

=MCCORMICK, FREDERICK.= Menace of Japan. *$2 (2c) Little 327 17-9690

“When the determination of the immediate question of the future of Europe comes to conference, the fate of America’s interests and the future of the United States in the Pacific will be determined by Japan and the winners of the world war. ... The only hope for American honor, international justice, protection of commerce and trade, and other American interests in East Asia in future will be either the triumph of an European-American treaty coalition over Japanese-European Prussianism, or a triumph of the military forces of the United States over those of Japan, and a mastery in Washington in the management of foreign affairs.” These are some of the conclusions voiced in the final chapter, “Back to the guns.” “The sword, which Providence and Wisdom commend to China, they also commend to America,” is its last word. The author has been a journalist and war correspondent in the Far East since the Boxer uprising.

“A book which no thoughtful reader could for a moment take seriously.”

— =Am Hist R= 22:905 Jl ‘17 430w

– + =A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17

“Distinguishing between fact and fiction in books upon the politics of the Far East is no easy task, even when the author cites his sources of information; in this book it becomes impossible, except to the expert student; for Mr McCormick informs us in his preface that ‘many things contained herein ... cannot be publicly ascribed to their sources ... many are simply extracts from my own journals and private records.’ The author’s rabid anti-Japanese bias casts suspicion, if not upon his facts, at least upon the soundness of his judgment. As the reader passes from one chapter to another he becomes convinced that he is in the presence of a propagandist, not a sober historical writer.”

– + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:593 Ag ‘17 530w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 730w

“Mr McCormick, although at times unjustifiably violent in his rhetoric, has without any doubt made out a clear case against Japanese diplomacy and our own inaction.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:249 My ‘17 1050w

“Many of his assertions are too sweeping, and his conclusions are sometimes palpably unsound. With due allowance for journalistic dash and patriotic fervor, his book can be read profitably. It contains a good deal of interesting information on the ins and outs of world diplomacy since the Russo-Japanese war. It is, however, almost wholly lacking in documentary citations, and the careful student will often be uncertain what to accept at face value and what to discount.” F: A. Ogg

– + =Dial= 62:432 My 17 ‘17 450w

=Outlook= 115:760 Ap 25 ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 20w

“The author was for years an Associated press correspondent in China, and in recent years he has been secretary of the Asiatic Institute. His personal acquaintance with the events he describes dates from the Boxer rebellion. His style is decidedly journalistic, but in places is commendably vivid. The book is essentially a study in imperialism. Whether the conclusions are sound is a question that admits of debate.”

=Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 400w

“A thoroughly mischievous work. Mr McCormick’s judgment and language are not marked by diplomatic restraint, nor does he sift evidence with care or display profound knowledge of the complicated matters with which he deals.” H: R. Mussey

— =Survey= 39:48 O 13 ‘17 1750w

=MCCORMICK, HAROLD FOWLER.= Via pacis; how terms of peace can be automatically prepared while the war is still going on. 60c (9c) McClurg 940.91 17-5546

This suggestion for a means of determining peace terms was written in December, 1915, issued privately in July, 1916, and is now put forward for consideration by the public. The author asks that the belligerents “enunciate the objects for which they are fighting and place their peace terms in precise and concrete form in the hands of selected neutral countries—whose role would be, not that of mediators but of custodians and ‘transfer agents.’ The terms thus deposited could be changed periodically in accordance with the varying fortunes of the war, the resulting benefit being that each side could know at a given moment precisely what the other was demanding and could examine his own assets, chances and hopes accordingly.” (Foreword)

=Int J Ethics= 27:540 Jl ‘17 180w

=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 28 ‘17 420w

=MCCRACKEN, ELIZABETH=, ed. To mother; with an introd. by Kate Douglas Wiggin. il *$1 Houghton 821.08 17-13752

This “anthology of mother verse” is arranged under the headings: The young mother; Mothers of men; Christmas mother poems; Lullabies; The joy of motherhood; Old-fashioned mother poems; Sonnets on motherhood; Tributes to mothers. It includes poems by Wordsworth, Tennyson, Coventry Patmore, Eugene Field, Jane and Ann Taylor, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and other English and American poets. Masefield’s “C. L. M.” and Henley’s “Matri dilectissimæ” are not included. There is an imaginative introduction by the editor, about a child and a garden; and indexes of first lines, of titles and of authors.

=A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17

“The collection shows both discrimination and wide reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 160w

=Cleveland= p90 Jl ‘17 40w

“A collection of verse that contains neither the sentimental nor the banal, nor does it ever descend to doggerel however well intentioned. A book that one need not apologize for sending to anybody’s mother.”

+ =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w

=MCCULLOUGH, ERNEST.=[2] Practical structural design. il $2.50 U. P. C. bk. co. 624 17-29163

“A text and reference work for engineers, architects, builders, draftsmen and technical schools; especially adapted to the needs of self-tutored men.” (Sub-title) The book is an outgrowth of a series of articles that appeared in the numbers of Building Age from 1914 to 1916, with the title “Design of beams, girders and trusses.” Before writing the articles the author had used the subject matter in evening classes where it was presented to the type of “self-tutored” men for whom in particular the book is planned. Contents: External forces; Internal forces; Problems in design of beams; Girders and trusses; Joints and connections; Graphic statics; Columns and structures. The author is a member of the American society of civil engineers and is a licensed structural engineer and licensed architect of the State of Illinois.

“If in our college days one of us had dared to tell our professor of mechanics or structures that a really comprehensive text could have been written without the use of calculus or algebra, he would certainly have been classed with the heretics. The writer has always felt, however, that such a thing could be done and now his belief is realized in Mr McCullough’s admirable work. Although containing only 293 pages, it is difficult to find a phase of structural engineering such as is likely to be encountered in the city practice of a designing engineer which is not covered in a satisfactory manner.” W. S. Edge

+ + =Engin News-Rec= 80:128 Ja 17 ‘18 500w

=MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR.= Green fancy. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-23981

Green fancy is a strange hidden house on the American border of Canada. In and around it royal personages, third-rate actors, a New York man of the world, a beautiful woman, an Irishman of fortune, an international crook, all play their parts in an exciting drama of European intrigue.

“The narrative gallops along at a rapid rate, with plenty of dramatic incidents and exciting situations, while the author garnishes characters, incidents, and narratives with touches of humor.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 290w

“It is a light romance, but the element of mystery is well sustained after the manner of such writers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 240w

=MACDONALD, ALLAN JOHN MACDONALD.= Trade politics and Christianity in Africa and the East; with an introd. by Harry Johnston. *$2 Longmans 266 16-22960

“This able book won the Maitland prize at Cambridge for an essay on the thesis, ‘Problems raised by the contact of the West with Africa and the East, and the part that Christianity can play in their solution’—one of the fundamental questions, that is, which confront the Empire and cannot be evaded. The chapters on the liquor traffic in West Africa and in Ceylon are very painful reading. ... Mr Macdonald discusses the difficult question of mixed marriages, and concludes that ‘the Eurasian, so long as he exists ... must be treated, if not as a social equal by the members of either dominant race, at least as a man and a brother in the great Christian community.’”—Spec

=A L A Bkl= 13:245 Mr ‘17

=Ath= p475 O ‘16 120w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17

“Sir Harry Johnston, who is rated an authority on English colonial matters, contributes an interesting introduction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:242 Je 24 ‘17 70w

=Pittsburgh= 22:430 My ‘17 100w

“From first to last Mr Macdonald seeks after truth in such a temperate manner that his book will be read with pleasure even by those who will differ from some of his views.”

+ =Sat R= 122:sup8 N 4 ‘16 1550w

“Sir Harry Johnston’s introduction is a remarkable tribute to the Christian missionary.”

=Spec= 117:556 N 4 ‘16 160w

“An extensive, detailed, and able review of labour and liquor problems in Africa, India and China.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p455 S 21 ‘16 140w

“While one may not be convinced by Mr Macdonald’s argument, and there are slips in his ethnological statements ... his book is valuable for its full and impartial account of the difficulties between Europeans and natives as they exist at the present moment.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p520 N 2 ‘16 1100w

=MACDONALD, GEORGE.= Evolution of coinage. (Cambridge manuals of science and literature) il *45c (1c) Putnam 332 17-8356

The introductory chapter gives in brief the early history of coinage. Subsequent chapters take up: Coinage and the state; The material of coinage; Form, and methods of production; Types; Legends; Dates, and marks of value; Key to the plates. Select bibliography and Index follow. Eight plates illustrate the volume.

“An account, admirably written and illustrated, of the development of coinage in its technical and general aspects. The economic history of the subject is not included in the author’s plan.” C. D.

+ =Am Econ R= 7:413 Je ‘17 50w

“It would be difficult to imagine a better introduction to numismatics.” H.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:316 Ap ‘17 90w

“His illustrations are excellent.”

+ =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 100w

=MACDONALD, J. RAMSAY.= National defence. *2s 6d Allen & Unwin, London 172.4

“In this small book Mr MacDonald concentrates his attention not on the peace problem of the moment or on post-war international policies, but on a criticism of ‘militarism’ as a principle and as a means of national defence. He does not, that is to say, here attack the war spirit and compulsory military service on humanitarian or sentimental grounds, but on grounds of national defence as the most likely means to promote what it is supposed to prevent; ‘created to give a sense of security and to defend, whereas its very existence keeps fear alive and adds to danger.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=Ath= p106 F ‘17 130w

“A chapter on ‘A democratic Germany and peace’ is a significant warning to those who expect the Germans to translate military defeat into a pacific democracy. The Germans may rid themselves of their reigning house, as the French rid themselves of Napoleon III in 1871, without wishing to forget the war.” M. J.

=Int J Ethics= 27:529 Jl ‘17 430w

=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 50w

=Spec= 119:189 Ag 25 ‘17 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p59 F 1 ‘17 100w

=MACDONALD, JAMES ALEXANDER.= North American idea. (Cole lectures for 1917) $1.25 Revell 18-273

“A course of lectures delivered in the early part of the present year under the auspices of the Vanderbilt university of Nashville, Tenn., by the editor of the Toronto Globe. ... The North American idea which the author sets forth, is a recognition of the law of the world’s good will as an infinite and immutable law of the ordered life of human society and as the law of the world’s good will. This law of good will never is broken. No more than the law of gravitation can ever be broken. The world’s good will is law for all nations. Its transgression makes inevitable Germany’s undoing. ... ‘Already the leaders of world-opinion, at all the battle fronts of the world’s mind have learned the truth of the Christ dictum in the realm of world politics, that no nation can live to itself or can die to itself alone.’ An internationalized world is to be the outcome of the present world conflict of ideas. North America must play her part in the great conflict of ideas. Her preparedness must be that of the American mind, consciousness and will. ‘Service is the measure of our civilization. Service for others is the keynote of our democracy.’”—Boston Transcript

“Dr Macdonald has gained an international reputation, which the present volume will surely enhance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 360w

=Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 30w

=Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 80w

“Of prominent importance is Dr Macdonald’s enlightening review of United States history, and that of the Dominion. Of the latter he exposes great ignorance among us. Startling is his exposure of General Bernhardi’s secret mission hither in 1913 to prepare Germans for mischief among us in the coming war.”

=Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 180w

“The reader is, perhaps, led to share the speaker’s zeal for democracy and internationalism. But as an exposition of North America’s attitude toward these greatest of causes the book is altogether inadequate. Comparatively little of the political achievement of either Canada or the United States is presented by the speaker.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 200w

=MCDOUGALL, GRACE.= Nurse at the war. il *$1.25 (3½c) McBride 940.91 17-20977

This is the story of the “F.A.N.Y. corps” in Flanders and France, told by the Scottish nurse who started the work in September, 1914. The corps has now over 50 members working in the zone of the armies, and a few more in a convalescent camp in the center of France. They are doing motor ambulance, first aid, base hospital, and convalescent canteen work.

“Here is one of the most modest books to have grown out of the war. The author’s name does not even appear upon the title page. ... Among the most inspiring parts of the narrative are those which tell of struggles against early official refusal to accept women’s service, when male prejudice and mistaken kindness prevented and delayed the entrance of woman to one of her truest and noblest fields of

## activity.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 300w

“‘Graphic’ the publishers term it, and the word is none too strong. Besides being graphic, it has an air of hurry that suits well the incidents that it relates. She does not parade horrors, but her buoyancy is so irrepressible that neither does she shrink from letting them appear in all their ghastliness.”

+ =Nation= 105:610 N 29 ‘17 190w

+ =N Y Times= 23:344 S 16 ‘17 90w

=MCDOWELL, WILLIAM FRASER.= Good ministers of Jesus Christ. (Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching) *$1.25 Abingdon press 251 17-15666

“Dr McDowell is a bishop in the Methodist church. ... [In this book] he divides the work of the Christian ministry into eight divisions, using the work of Christ as a basis and guide for these aspects. He terms them revelation, redemption, incarnation, reconciliation, rescue, conservation, co-operation and inspiration.”—Springf’d Republican

“The lectures have large-mindedness as to practical problems of religion and wisdom in dealing with men. Every page has suggestions for the preacher.” A. S. Hoyt

+ =Am J Theol= 21:633 O ‘17 340w

“Bishop McDowell is, in our judgment, strongest in his chapters on redemption and rescue. The terseness and beauty of the style is an outstanding feature of the lectures.”

+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 70w

“Assuming that his hearers intended to enter the ministry of the Christian church, he has tried to show them in these eight lectures how they may become good ministers of Jesus Christ. He speaks as one who has had thorough training for and long experience in the Christian ministry.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 830w

“The style is clear and incisive, the substance rich with accumulated wisdom and instinct with passionate earnestness.”

+ =Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 60w

“In the long series of these annual lectures this last is inferior to none. It is characteristically inspirational and vitalizing.”

+ =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 140w

“The book is an interpretation of the ideals of Wesley’s followers in the light of modern needs and modern thought. ... It is interesting to note the many divergencies of thought from the very excellent series of lectures delivered on the same foundation [Lyman Beecher foundation, Yale university] in 1915, by President Hyde of Bowdoin college, entitled ‘The gospel of good will.’ The two series, read together, give one an admirably-balanced view of the religious needs of men and women to-day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 8 ‘17 400w

=MACE, ARTHUR C., and WINLOCK, HERBERT EUSTIS.= Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht. il *$10; pa *$8 Metropolitan museum of art 913.32 17-2044

“The first publication of the Egyptian expedition of the Metropolitan museum is this handsome quarto volume by the assistant curators of the museum’s department of Egyptian art. The work of the expedition was begun in the winter of 1906-07 on the site of the pyramid-field of Lisht, which includes the pyramids of Amenemhat I and Senusert I, of the twelfth dynasty, with ‘royal’ cemeteries surrounding them. ... Text and drawings, photogravures and colored plates present and describe the site and the tomb, the clearing of the tomb, the coffins and canopic box, the jewelry, ceremonial staves, and pottery. Appendixes contain notes on the mummy, by Dr G. Elliott Smith, and an index of names of objects from the painted coffins. Mr Albert Morton Lythgoe, curator of the department of Egyptian art, is general editor of the publications of the expedition.”—Dial

“A careful index makes reference easy. And the book, a royal quarto, printed in clear large type, is a credit to the institution that made it possible and to the authors whose wealth of learning makes one gasp with astonishment.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 850w

+ =Dial= 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 170w

“It will be seen that the volume under discussion is part of a large and comprehensive plan of archæological work, which neglects neither science nor the public, but has considered the needs of all with real scientific statesmanship. ... The jewelry, which is very fully presented in color plates, photographs, and drawings, makes the volume of importance to all students of the goldsmith’s art.”

+ =Nation= 105:95 Jl 26 ‘17 1500w

“Highly specialized as it is, the record contains a good deal of general interest, and may be read with enjoyment by a wider public than that concerned merely with the results of the archaeological expedition’s work. ... It need scarcely be pointed out that the plates which illustrate the great volume—there are thirty-five of them, as well as eighty-five ordinary figure illustrations—are of the finest.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:117 Ap 1 ‘17 500w

=MCFADDEN, GERTRUDE VIOLET.= Honest lawyer. *$1.25 (1c) Lane 17-6331

A provincial neighborhood in Dorset a hundred years ago is the scene of this story. The hero is a young attorney who has just succeeded to his uncle’s practice. The heroine enters the tale in a most startling way, by sending a proposal of marriage to the lawyer-hero, who has never seen her. Just why beautiful, haughty and much sought after Quenride Chideock should have done this remains a mystery for some time. The answer involves a forged will, the foiling of a particularly black villain, a trial for felony, and a pardon obtained under unusual and romantic circumstances.

“Rather sensational tale.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 250w

“The events of the story are improbable, not to say impossible; it is romance pure and simple, wholly removed from realism. ... An adherent of Mr Howells is not likely to care for the strange incidents and unheard of situations of ‘The honest lawyer’; but to those who wish to be taken out of themselves into a wholly different world from any they have known, Miss McFadden’s ingenious and well-told story may be heartily commended.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:152 F 11 ‘17 200w

=MACFARLANE, ALEXANDER.= Lectures on ten British mathematicians of the nineteenth century. (Mathematical monographs, no. 17) il *$1.25 Wiley 925 16-14318

“This posthumous publication contains most interesting biographies of ten of the leading mathematicians of the nineteenth century in Great Britain, namely, of George Peacock, Augustus De Morgan, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, George Boole, Arthur Cayley, William Kingdon Clifford, Henry John Stephen Smith, James Joseph Sylvester, Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, Isaac Todhunter. These sketches are a part of the lectures given by Dr Macfarlane at Lehigh university during the years 1901-04.”—Science

“Should appeal to all students of human nature. It is, however, of more special interest, because not only are the personalities drawn, but the work and achievements of these men are presented and discussed in considerable detail.”

+ =Engin N= 77:112 Ja 18 ‘17 500w

“The list is truly representative.” G. B. M.

+ =Nature= 99:221 My 17 ‘17 1700w

“The author’s personal acquaintance with some of these men, and with intimate friends of them, enabled him to add personal touches which will be relished by the reader. Particularly gratifying are the details about Boole and Kirkman, concerning whom little had previously appeared in print. The future historian of mathematics during the nineteenth century will find the booklet full of interesting material. ... Carelessness in the proof-reading is noticeable.” Florian Cajori

+ =Science= n s 45:88 Ja 26 ‘17 680w

=MACFARLANE, CHARLES.= Reminiscences of a literary life; with an introd. by J: F. Tattersall. *$3.50 Scribner (Eng ed 17-19702)

“A man who met Shelley at Naples and introduced him to Pompeii, who saw Keats in Italy, who talked with Hartley Coleridge at Grasmere, and who knew all the London wits of George IV’s day is a very welcome acquaintance. Charles MacFarlane, whose reminiscences have been discovered in manuscript in a country bookshop, was a prolific author now forgotten save, perhaps, for his historical novel, ‘The camp of refuge,’ which may have inspired Kingsley’s ‘Hereward the Wake.’ In later life he had to seek refuge in the Charterhouse as a Poor brother, and there, before his death in 1858, he finished dictating the two stout quartos which he meant for his son as an heirloom—and probably for the public as well. The son, an Indian officer, died in 1872, and the memoirs have been preserved by some happy chance, to be published at last by the descendant of MacFarlane’s old friend, the John Murray of Byron’s time.”—Spec

“He is an extremely lucid chronicler of events and a caustic analyst of character. ... Among the many picturesque personalities brought by MacFarlane into his book is Thomas De Quincey, whom he handles without gloves. ... It seems altogether likely that these reminiscences were never completed, or that if they were the final volumes are lost or still undiscovered.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 1850w

“MacFarlane was a man of cultivated mind, was a fit associate of the varied personalities with whom he had contact. The chief value of his

## book lies in his reaction to those personalities. And along with his

easy-going chatter about them goes an instinct for discerning the things which are characteristic, revealing.” Garland Greever

+ =Dial= 63:518 N 22 ‘17 1300w

“One of the most entertaining books of the sort published in many a day.”

+ =Nation= 105:611 N 29 ‘17 270w

“Full of engaging details of the literati and dilettanti of the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as some well-known Italians and Anglo-Indians. ... Writing casually, MacFarlane was not always accurate.”

+ — =Sat R= 123:390 Ap 28 ‘17 1150w

“He hated Radicals, loathed Miss Martineau and De Quincey, and bore a seemingly justifiable grudge against Charles Knight, for whom he wrote ‘The pictorial history of England’ and other popular books; but there was no real malice in his nature. ... His meeting with Shelley fills the first, and best, chapter in the book. ... MacFarlane’s serious books are forgotten, but his reminiscences will be read and quoted for a long time to come.”

+ =Spec= 118:643 Je 9 ‘17 2300w

“He is as honest as a very determined and rather prejudiced old gentleman may be. Down go his likes and dislikes, all pat; and since he took care to know a good many of the interesting people in the first half of his century, writes about them honestly, and engagingly ‘gives himself away’ in so doing, his book is lively from start to finish.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Ap 5 ‘17 1750w

=MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLA (CANFIELD).= Boys and girls of many lands. il *$1.25 (3c) Crowell 17-25294

It is the author’s purpose to tell for American children something of the every day lives of boys and girls of other countries. A little African boy, Carl of Australia, Our playmates in Austria, Jaurez, a lad of the Amazon, A little maid of old Quebec, Boys and girls in China, are the titles of a few of the twenty and more chapters. There are sixteen illustrations from photographs. Mrs McFee is author of “Outlines, devices and recreations in United States geography,” “Studies in American and British literature,” and other books for school use.

=MACGILL, PATRICK.= Soldier songs. *$1 Dutton 821 17-20683

“In his third book of the war, Mr MacGill turns from prose to verse. As his ‘Songs of the dead end’ were written out of the life of his youth in Ireland, so these ‘Soldier songs’ are the lyrical expression of the sights and sounds he encountered a few years later in the midst of ‘war’s orgies of carnage.’ To him war has a charm, but it is merely the charm of adventure that adds to the joy of living and that gives him a theme for writing. ... In a dedicatory letter addressed to ‘My dear H. J.’—which initials undoubtedly represent his London publisher, Mr Herbert Jenkins—Mr MacGill responds to a request for information about the favorite songs of the soldier on active service.”—Springf’d Republican

=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17

“In all these poems there is never absent that strong sense of the part played by nature in man’s life which is always conspicuous in Mr MacGill’s prose as well as in his verse. He responds eagerly and vigorously to the scenes amid which he is suddenly placed.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 26 ‘17 1600w

“The easy dialect of the trenches predominates, but in spite of this, literary quality is not lacking in many of the poems. ‘Marching’ and ‘Before the charge’ are fine bits of verse.”

+ =Cath World= 106:408 D ‘17 120w

=Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 90w

=Ind= 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 60w

“Noteworthy for its hearty rhythm, its sturdy originality of phrasing, and for the courageous spirit which permeates it. By a strange paradox, this poet has found in battle the sanity of outlook not noticeable in the work he wrote in times of peace.”

+ =Lit D= 55:41 Jl 7 ‘17 350w

“We recommend to all who look upon war as something worth all its ghastly horrors in the ‘purifying’ results it bestows on mankind the poems entitled ‘After the war,’ ‘Out yonder,’ ‘Red wine,’ ‘The return,’ ‘A vision,’ ‘The everyday of war,’ and particularly ‘Letters.’ Be it remembered that these poems are the testimony of a man who finds a justification for this war.” D: P. Berenberg

+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 240w

“Like everything of MacGill’s, they are ‘different’ from anything else. They are, besides, a genuine contribution to the few specimens of real poetry produced by the war.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 620w

+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 100w

“Make somewhat grim reading, but they are not as harsh as his prose, and now and again a note of unexpected and delicate tenderness is heard. ... It is indeed a signal proof of versatility that the trench poems written in the crudest slang and the reverent and dignified lines on the crucifix in Givenchy church should have come from the same pen.”

+ =Spec= 118:76 Ja 20 ‘17 70w

“Criticism of the songs as works of art, beyond allowing their metrical passability, would show them to fall between two stools, since they are not poetry on the one hand, not spontaneous expression of crude emotion, on the other.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 17 ‘17 420w

“These songs seem perhaps more than any verse of so strictly ‘soldierly’ a type that has come from the trenches to bring home to us something that is really alive—to ‘get there,’ if the expression may be allowed—more truly and easily, and without a touch of jingling bravado.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 O 19 ‘16 400w

=MACGRATH, HAROLD.= Luck of the Irish; a romance. il *$1.40 (1½c) Harper 17-25084

William Grogan, born in New York, thrown upon the streets at nine, a journeyman plumber at twenty-four, is the kind of hero who, like “the Hindu Yogi, could set his body grinding corn, take his soul out and go visiting with it.” For three years from his cellar shop window he had seen the same two shapely feet, sensibly shod, trip lightly by. Saturdays minus and the gap of July and August led him to the conclusion that she was a school teacher. He had never seen her face. “There were lots of homely women with pretty feet. He hadn’t many illusions left, this young philosopher of the soldering-iron, and he wanted to keep this one.” The wheel of fortune turns. A part of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is dumped into his lap. He puts himself aboard a ship for a trip around the world. The pair of feet is on the same boat. Mystery with plenty of treachery spices the story which must be left to the reader.

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 60w

“A lively tale, the interest of which depends almost entirely upon its plot, and, though in the climax at Singapore it does seem as if the author might have managed to concoct a more plausible excuse for the delay which enabled William to arrive in the very nick of time, the story as a whole is amusing.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:394 O 14 ‘17 430w

=MACHARG, WILLIAM, and BALMER, EDWIN.= Indian drum. il *$1.40 (1½c) Little 17-25511

It was an Indian superstition—that the drum, hidden somewhere in the woods at the northern end of Lake Michigan, tolled the passing of every soul lost on the lakes. Twenty years before, when the freighter “Miwaka” had gone down with all on board, the drum had beaten short. Twenty-five was the number of the lost, but the drum made the count twenty-four. And there were those who had waited many years for the return of a rescued man. The story opens with the disappearance of Benjamin Corvet of Chicago, veteran ship owner and best known man on the lakes. Coincident with this is the arrival in Chicago of young Alan Conrad of Kansas, who had been summoned by Corvet. Henry Spearman, youngest member of the firm Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman, insists that the senior partner is dead, but Constance Sherrill refuses to be convinced and encourages Alan in his search for the missing man. The mystery shrouding Alan and his relationship to Corvet, together with the explanation of the connection between Corvet and Spearman and the lost “Miwaka” is cleared away with the wreck of Carferry 25, when the count of the Indian drum is again one beat short.

“An unusually good mystery story.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

“The tale is clearly and pleasantly told, the characters acceptably real, and the solution eminently satisfactory.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 230w

“The plot is painstakingly worked out and the book is better written than most plot stories. The power and tragedy of the Great Lakes in time of storm form an impressive background.”

+ =Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 70w

“The big scene on the lake steamer when the cars get loose recalls the place in ‘Ninety-three’ where the gun breaks loose between decks and begins to batter the ship to pieces. The incident is as thrilling as anything short of Flanders.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 92:1372 O 20 ‘17 370w

“The story, despite the obviousness of its dramatic struggle, is skilfully constructed, its air of mystery being well sustained.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 280w

=MACHEN, ARTHUR.= Terror. *$1.25 (3½c) McBride 17-25086

An ingenious mystery story, impossible, fantastic, yet with a moral that sets thoughtful people musing. Rural England which is the scene has a succession of strange deaths. Workers in munition factories, miners, farmers, tourists and laborers are stricken down, some apparently asphyxiated, others victims of inexplainable violence. The theory is suggested that the Germans, before the war, undermined the earth, and, from hidden vantage points, are making use of some deadly ray to destroy the people. In the end it is revealed that the terror had been due to a mute uprising of the brute creation against their human masters who, in descending to the plane of beasts to conduct warfare, had released their spiritual hold over the animal creation. The subjects revolted because their king abdicated his throne. Hatred is contagious. The animals under its spell turned on man to destroy him.

=A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18

“‘The terror’ is a pure tour de force in diabolism. With its haunting unreality, its many passages of real beauty, its passages of description of Welsh scenery, no little pleasure may be derived from its chapters.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 130w

=Ind= 92:192 O 27 ‘17 60w

“Artfully does the story-teller establish his fiction upon an indubitable fact, fresh in every reader’s mind. The British were inactive; we all wondered why at the time, and here, says our deponent, with his crisp reporter’s air, is the answer.”

+ =Nation= 105:457 O 25 ‘17 550w

“The horrors that mark the animals’ sudden war upon mankind seem isolated from their cause, and do not convince one of any real terror at the root of them. In spite of the disappointment, and the defect of a good idea not vigorously carried out, ‘The terror’ is a distinguished book, and bears the mark of a strangely original mind.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:158 D 8 ‘17 150w

“The fancy is an excellent one, and on the whole well worked out, though, naturally, there are many things left unexplained, and some that do not hang very well together. But as ‘A tale of terror’ it certainly qualifies, and we should conjecture that the book has not been published in England, though it, no doubt, will be after the war.” J. W.

+ — =N Y Call= p14 O 14 ‘17 530w

=N Y Times= 22:400 O 14 ‘17 320w

“Daring, ingenious tale.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:808 D ‘17 50w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p70 F 8 ‘17 80w

=MACIVER, ROBERT MORRISON.= Community: a sociological study. *$3.75 (3c) Macmillan 301 17-17545

“A small portion of this work has already appeared in the Sociological Review and other quarters. The greater portion is concerned with what are believed by the author to be the fundamental laws of social development. Prof. Maciver declares that social science, in order to advance, must cease to be subject to the methods and formulæ of physical and biological science. It has a method of its own; and social relations cannot adequately be stated quantitatively, nor understood as expressions of quantitative laws. Of militarism the author remarks that it has been the enemy of modern social development, and that, if it cannot be overcome, ‘in all we do to build a greater civilization we are preparing greater offerings to the powers of destruction.’”—Ath

“This is easily the most notable book of the year in sociology. ... It is impossible to outline in a satisfactory manner the argument of a book so fertile in ideas. The only fair thing that the reviewer can do is to urge all interested in social science to read the book. It is far easier, however, to criticise the work, and in certain respects it deserves criticism. It is doubtful, for example, if the author has rendered sociology a service by adding another terminology to the many already in existence. ... Finally, Professor Maciver’s attempt to make psychology purely a subjective science, the science of ‘the knower’ (p. 60), and thereby divorce the social sciences quite entirely from it, will scarcely meet with approval on the part either of psychologists or of a large number of sociologists. These are, however, on the whole, minor defects in a work whose substantial value nearly all students of the social sciences will heartily recognize.” C: A. Ellwood

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:598 S ‘17 950w

“It strikes one as a serious omission that almost no reference is made to the contributions of earlier writers to the same theme. ... On the other hand, the author shows no particular familiarity with the sociological tradition. For that reason the terms used in this book are more or less improvised, consequently lacking in precision, and the whole volume is vague, thin, plausible, and innocuous.” R. E. Park

— =Am J Soc= 23:542 Ja ‘18 550w

Reviewed by L. L. Bernard

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:772 N ‘17 770w

“What makes Dr Maciver’s volume so helpful is the fact that it was written before the outbreak of war and is published unaltered. It is a masterly book, characterized by a firm grasp of principles, and it is about principles that we want clear thinking at the present time. ... The volume is refreshing in that it is neither doctrinaire nor dogmatic. The lack of pretension about the book does not, however, hide the fact that it is written with a thorough knowledge of the best work in modern psychology and philosophy.”

+ =Ath= p235 My ‘17 1650w

=Ath= p248 My ‘17 150w

=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 60w

“It suffers from a certain abstractness. Again and again one needs the apt illustration which will serve to drive home the point that has been made. It is a well-arranged book; and a student who is acquainted with the literature of which it is a part can read it with interest and profit. It is, indeed, here that its main value lies. It is nothing so much as an encyclopædia of the problems involved in the fact of human organization. ... It is permissible to suggest that future work of this kind will be the more useful and suggestive in so far as it is written from the standpoint of historical experience.” H. J. Laski

* + – =Dial= 62:517 Je 14 ‘17 1850w

“Dr Maciver has done valuable service not only in providing us with a summary analysis of acquired results, but also reminding the specialist of the immense value of a wide outlook. The author disarms criticism by acknowledging that the subject is too vast for any adequate survey to be made in the present state of our knowledge. On the whole Dr Maciver’s book is completely successful.” C. D. Burns

+ =Hibbert J= 16:175 O ‘17 680w

“Remarkable book—remarkable for the vigour, originality and precision of the views presented. ... Of the two appendices, A is a very masterly criticism of neo-Hegelian identification of the state with society. It is, perhaps, in this illuminating criticism of authorities such as Professor Bosanquet in this appendix and of M. Durkheim (p. 87), Mr William McDougall (p. 79) that Dr Maciver is at his best.” M. J.

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:292 Ja ‘18 340w

=Nation= 105:698 D 20 ‘17 340w

“We may express our gratitude for so able and suggestive a plea for the value and importance of individual human personality in the life of community, a plea more deeply significant against the background of present-day happenings.” W. L. S.

+ =Nature= 100:124 O 18 ‘17 1000w

“While there is no question that what he has written is of high ability, Mr Maciver has yet certain defects of outlook and method which detract from the value of his thought. His thesis is over-elaborated. ... What is more serious is the unreal atmosphere of the book. Again and again it becomes difficult to grasp the vital fact that of this community we are ourselves part. There is missing the apt historical illustration which would lend point to the argument. ... Not the least serious defect in Mr Maciver is his seeming ignorance of vital tracts of human experience which are essential to his theme. ... If this is for the most part a criticism that is adverse, it is because Mr Maciver has written what is an indispensable book.” H. J. L.

+ — =New Repub= 11:283 Jl 7 ‘17 2200w

=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 40w

“A very able and penetrating analysis of communal development in the broadest sense.”

+ =Spec= 119:331 S 29 ‘17 120w

“We needed this book badly. Of the thousands who lightly talk about ‘national reconstruction,’ how many question the issues involved? This book provides a real preparation for the task.” A. H. Burnett

+ — =Survey= 39:201 N 24 ‘17 540w

“This book, the work of a Canadian professor, is one of unmistakable originality. ... In precision of language, in accuracy of definition, in the expulsion of indefinite phraseology, Mr Maciver’s volume contrasts, to his advantage, with the bulk of sociological literature. Certain pages are in the best style of philosophical exposition. But Mr Maciver does not wholly escape the besetting sin of sociologists—diffuseness.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p194 Ap 26 ‘17 1500w

=MACKAY, CONSTANCE D’ARCY.= Little theatre in the United States. il *$2 (3c) Holt 792 17-29335

Aims to give a complete survey of one of the “newest, freest, most potent and democratic forces in the art of the American stage.” The author shows that the idea of little theatres came from Europe. In Paris in 1887 the first experiment was launched by André Antoine. In America the movement is new, dating from 1911-12. The “arch-foe of commercialism,” this great promoter of common interest has grown rapidly in America. The chapters describe the contributions and achievements of the more important little theatres of the United States and tell of the work going on in the laboratory theatres of the universities. There is also a word on the cost of little theatres, on repertory theatres, and on little theatres that have failed.

+ =Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 50w

“A crisply written informational volume.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:107 Ja ‘18 480w

“The author has done little more than bring together trivial notes and opinions. ... And the information is frequently inaccurate.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 330w

“Meets a real need to satisfy requests for the history of the little-theater movement.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:30 Ja ‘18 80w

=MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY).= Journal of small things. *$1.35 (2c) Duffield 940.91 17-8206

The author writes of France in the early days of the war. The preface, by W. L. Courtney, says: “Those who have read Mrs Mackay’s book which she entitled ‘Accidentals,’ will know exactly what to expect from her new book ‘Journal of small things.’ Like the early one it consists of a series of little sketches more or less in the form of a diary, vignettes taken from a very individual angle of vision. ... The precise quality of them is that they are extremely individual and intimately concerned with the little things—episodes half observed, half forgotten, which cluster round a big tragedy.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:396 Je ‘17

+ =Ath= p106 F ‘17 60w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 570w

“The writer’s intense sympathy with the sufferings she records is unmarred by emotionalism, and permits her to produce an account objective enough to be valuable; and, although Mrs Mackay is apparently not a Catholic, the ‘Journal’ is full of a beautiful reverence for the religion of the French people.”

+ =Cath World= 105:838 S ‘17 250w

“This is the record of a spiritual development, and it is by far the most impressive, the most poignant which this reviewer has yet found in the mass of war literature. It is a volume to be read and reread, and always to be kept near at hand.”

+ + =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 230w

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 40w

“It stays with one, with its heartache and its beauty; not for themselves and their lost homes, but over and over again—‘Sauvez la France.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:182 My 6 ‘17 600w

+ =Outlook= 116:33 My 2 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:682 O ‘17 80w

+ =Sat R= 123:sup6 My 19 ‘17 190w

“The book is sad, it cannot be otherwise, but it is truthfully sad and is informed with a delicate sentiment which is never sentimental and which gives to her sketches contrasts of light, shade, and atmosphere.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 400w

=MACKAY, MRS ISABEL ECCLESTONE (MACPHERSON).= Up the hill and over. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-10164

A little village in Canada, very amusingly described, is the scene of this story. Dr Henry Callandar, of Montreal, seeking mental rest and change of scene, finds both in Coombe, where he buys out the practice of old Dr Simmonds. Well-wishers inform him that old Dr Simmonds really has no practice to sell and that Coombe is an unprofitably healthy town, but all this fits in perfectly with Dr Callandar’s plans. He comes into town on foot, like a tramp, and his first encounter is with Esther Coombe, the young school mistress. What promises at first to be a very pretty love story is interrupted by the meeting between Callandar and Esther’s stepmother. Callandar and Mary Coombe had known one another in the long past and there is that between them that throws the shadow of tragedy over the awakening of a new love. But the shadow lifts, making for the story a sunny ending.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:405 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 350w

“The rather melodramatic plot is redeemed by skillful character drawing.”

+ — =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 50w

+ =Lit D= 54:1857 Je 16 ‘17 180w

“A book with which we are glad to have made friends.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:126 Ap 8 ‘17 350w

“An unusual novel of Canadian life by a Vancouver writer. It is admirably written and very interesting. There is truth, humor, and charm in the pictures both of the place and the people, while the construction is exceptionally good and the plot well and logically developed.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:119 My ‘17 150w

=MACKAY, LUCY GERTRUDE.=[2] Housekeeper’s apple book. *75c Little 641.5 17-29531

The author classes the apple among the most essential foods and gives over 200 recipes for its use. Apple sauce and apple salads, baked apples and fried apples, apple puddings, pies, cakes and dumplings are all here, with many variations. The book is indexed.

=A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 70w

=MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE.= Canterbury pilgrims. *$1 Macmillan 812 17-403

Percy MacKaye’s play “The Canterbury pilgrims” was published in 1903. This operatic version was prepared in the summer of 1914. With music by Reginald De Koven it was given its first performance at the Metropolitan opera house in New York during the season of 1916-17. Geoffrey Chaucer himself is one of the characters, together with the best known of the pilgrims, the Knight, the Squire, the Friar, the Miller, and so on, not forgetting the Wife of Bath.

“That Mr MacKaye’s comedy has been out of print for some time gives a fresh interest and appeal to this operatic version. ... Long regarded as one of the finest of Mr MacKaye’s poetic dramas, it has now achieved the highest recognition in this country.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 10 ‘17 400w

“Rare among librettos in English, it is readable. ... Where Chaucer has failed him is in the matter of plot, and the effort to supply the deficiency is not so fortunate. ... In the play, as it was published in 1903, there was more opportunity to seek safety in an entirely appropriate discursiveness. The condensation necessary in an opera makes the incongruity of the plot only the more apparent.”

+ — =Nation= 104:411 Ap 5 ‘17 250w

“With the possible exception of the Prioress, the characters are convincing portrayals. The whole affords relaxation for the student of Chaucer and satisfaction for the lover of good stories.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 22 ‘17 350w

=MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE.= Community drama; its motive and method of neighborliness; an interpretation. *50c (10½c) Houghton 792.6 17-17646

The substance of this book was “delivered as a lecture before the American civic association in 1916. ... Mr MacKaye considers community drama the ‘ritual of democratic religion.’ Also by offering a dramatic channel for social consciousness he would convert the mentality of competition into the mentality of coöperation, and foster the growth of the international mind, thus making end to war.” (R of Rs) The appendix gives newspaper comments on the production of “Caliban” in New York in 1916.

=A L A Bkl= 14:49 N ‘17

“As Mr MacKaye admits, there are other excellent ways of attaining the ‘international spirit,’ there are other ‘substitutes for war,’ but no one who reads this little book can deny that he proves his own scheme to be at least worth the trying. ... Little attention is given to the rather important subject of the effect of this new amateur ‘community drama’ on expert and professional acting and authorship.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 250w

=Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 110w

“It is too slight to be of much value to the student of sociology or of the drama, nor specific enough to be of service to those interested in the practical aspects of the pageant or community play, and too emotional—too sentimental—to carry conviction to the intellectually aware.”

— =Dial= 63:277 S 27 ‘17 280w

— =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w

=R of Rs= 56:443 O ‘17 130w

=MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE.= Sinbad the sailor. *$1.25 Houghton 812 17-10549

The tales of “Sinbad the sailor” and “Beauty and the beast” have been fused to make this “lyric phantasy” in a prelude and three acts. A note says that music for the play has been composed by Frederick S. Converse.

“An extravagant but entertaining phantasy. ... Full descriptions make the play effective for reading aloud.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:440 Jl ‘17

“The dialogue consists of sprightly nonsense on the Gilbertian order, and there are some good lyrics. The settings and transformations, the work of Joseph Urban, seem, as described, to be the last word in modern lighting and stagecraft.”

=Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 100w

“Percy MacKaye proves himself more the poet than the dramatist for ‘Sinbad’ ends with all its ‘first line frenzy’ of inspiration, fancy, visualization, lyricism, naïvete, whimsicality in dramatic structure gone, lost in dull verbiage, vanished in its middle act.”

+ — =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17

“If Mr MacKaye were an unknown, struggling author, one could offer him at least the gift of silence. But for a man of his standing in the world of literature and the drama to put forth such a ‘lyric phantasy’ as ‘Sinbad’ is calculated to make the judicious grieve.”

— =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 200w

+ =Pratt= p36 O ‘17 20w

=MCKELLAR, K. B.= Machine gun practice and tactics for officers, N. C. O.’s and men. *90c Macmillan 358 17-18610

A concise manual on methods of organization and machine gun units and sequence of training which has grown out of three years of experience at the front and in instructing men for active service in the present war.

=A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18

+ =Ind= 92:343 N 17 ‘17 20w

=R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 30w

=MACKENNA, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Adventure of death. *$1.50 (5c) Putnam 218 17-15977

Chapters on The great adventure; The fear of death; The painlessness of death; Euthanasia; What life gains from death; Does death end all? by a British physician who “has enjoyed exceptional opportunities of studying the state of mind and demeanour of those who are at the point of death, and of gathering and collating the experiences of soldiers who have faced the perils of war.” Dr MacKenna believes that a normal man in perfect health has “in some degree a salutary fear of death,” but that “when his hour comes, in almost every case the fear is lost, that a physician has no right to end the life of an apparently hopeless sufferer; that death in itself is painless, and that there is nothing inherently impossible in the survival of personality.”

“No one is likely to find the slightest difficulty in following the argument of ‘The adventure of death,’ for it is very clearly written. Its chief blemishes are the over-abundance of quotations from the poets and philosophers—some of which seem to have more sound than relevance—and an extraordinary gaudiness of style.” J. F. S.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 530w

=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 20w

“A beautifully and simply written little book whose perusal ought to do away entirely with the fear and horror of death that lurk in the minds of most normal people who have never been brought into much close connection with it.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:281 Jl 29 ‘17 710w

“His little essay is eminently sane and comforting, and that without being a tract.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ‘17 700w

=MCKENNA, STEPHEN.= Sonia; between two worlds. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-20668

“Mr McKenna elects to call his novel ‘Sonia’; but Sonia Dainton, charming if turbulent, plays in reality but a small part in it. The story is mainly concerned with the doings and development of George Oakleigh, who acts as narrator, and his two friends, Lord Loring and David O’Rane, from their schooldays at Melton—the famous English public school that stands ‘like a group of temples on a modern Acropolis’—down to the first years of the great war.”—Spec

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:205 O ‘17 650w

“Should the social historian of the future wish to find a convincing picture of one stratum of pre-war Britain he can do no better than read Stephen McKenna’s novel, ‘Sonia.’” F. I.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 1000w

“A substantial as well as absorbingly interesting novel, worth the time it takes to read.”

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 100w

“An excellent example of those novels of school and college life which only the English know how to write, perhaps because the English are the only ones who know how to live that life. But it is more than charming narration and delineation; it has a sense of the traits in British character which make it survive.”

+ =Dial= 63:280 S 27 ‘17 190w

“Of course, Mr McKenna has chosen to write ‘Sonia’ in the bald narrative vein for purely artistic purposes. By making the everyday life of an aristocratic order that is passing so homely and friendly, by avoiding any quick, hot anger at the impeccable and stupid extravagance of silly routine, Mr McKenna can vivify O’Rane’s contrasting point of view more enduringly than by dramatic rant.” H. S.

+ =New Repub= 13:103 N 24 ‘17 820w

“The novel is well written, done conscientiously, and with infinite care. A great deal of it is interesting, but unfortunately a great deal of it is excessively tiresome. It is a great pity that this should be so, for the book is in many ways excellent, an intelligently thought-out and carefully produced criticism of certain phases of English life as it was before the war.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:332 S 9 ‘17 500w

“By a member of the recent British commission to Washington. The best part of this book, both for quantity and quality, consists of a review of the actions and thoughts of people in the years just preceding the war, beginning with the hero’s schooldays in 1898, and some account of the modifications which the war has brought about. We congratulate the author on much shrewd discernment and considerable wit, as well as on his attitude towards social problems. We wish we could as heartily commend his characterization, but here, especially in the case of the girl whose name figures in the title, his failure by comparison is very marked.”

+ — =Ontario Library Review= 1:119 My ‘17 100w

+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 100w

+ =Spec= 118:416 Ap 7 ‘17 970w

“The description of life in Mr Oakleigh’s London in the year of fate is really brilliant, an odd frenzied London, where an eager humanitarianism, showing itself in the sincere pursuit of social reform and international understanding, could mix with senseless personal indulgence. ... It is Mr Oakleigh’s vivid impressionism as a whole, rather than its details, that gives to this book its great interest.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p116 Mr 8 ‘17 800w

=MACKENZIE, CAMERON.= Man who tried to be it. il *$1 (5c) Doran 17-7928

From Wellesville, where he had been general manager of a small business concern, John Hadden was called to Chicago to become president of the Consolidated shoe corporation. John Hadden was accounted a successful business man. He had power and driving force and he looked on the Consolidated as just another and wider field for the exercise of his abilities. But he failed at it, failed because he tried to do too much and because he treated his subordinates as subordinates and tried to make of them mere machines subject to his will. He failed because he tried to use in the big business methods that had been successful in the small business.

=A L A Bkl= 13:405 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 350w

“Tersely and interestingly told, and its ‘moral’ deserves a wide reading.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:99 Mr 18 ‘17 280w

“The author displays considerable insight into the organization and conduct of a big corporation, and the story is an illuminating reminder of how far co-operation in the management of present-day corporations has supplanted the ‘one man’ control of a not distant day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 280w

“Capital character study of business men. ... No romance and rather unpleasant.”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 70w

=MACKENZIE, DONALD A.= Stories of Russian folk-life. *2s 6d Blackie, London

“This volume of the ‘Story and legend library’ contains seven short stories of Russian life, both ancient and modern, and an introduction in which the author gives us an interesting sketch of a few of the most prominent facts of the geography and history of the country. Some of the stories are traditional, and in one we have an exciting and tragic encounter with wolves, while in the last, and in some ways the best, there is an account of the actual moment of transition for the peasants from serfdom to liberty.”—Spec

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17 30w

+ =Sat R= 123:68 Ja 20 ‘17 150w

+ =Spec= 117:sup609 N 18 ‘16 100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 N 2 ‘16 50w

“‘Stories of Russian folk-life’ is a cheerful volume, and the pictures are good. But the title does not indicate the contents very clearly. The book is apparently not translated, and it is not the retelling of old tales. Mr Donald Mackenzie’s effort appears rather to have been to tell certain stories in the folk-lore spirit.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 D 14 ‘16 170w

=MACKENZIE, JEAN KENYON.= African trail. il 50c Central committee on the united study of foreign missions. West Medford, Mass. 266 17-10203

“A textbook on the approach of the Gospel to primitive peoples was ordered of this experienced missionary, after her striking letters under the title ‘Black sheep’ had appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1915. The present work is the result, and is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature of missions.” (Boston Transcript) “For here is far more than simply an account of religious work among the Bulus. It is a poetic, impassioned setting forth of the great romantic endeavor of the messengers of the ‘tribe of God’; a description in few words of the effect on the white man of life among strange peoples; a remarkable analysis of the first results of the ‘technique of Christian living,’ the ‘ten tyings,’ on the heathen mind.” (Ind) A brief reading list is appended.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 9 ‘17 220w

=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 50w

“The book is full of original and enlightening expressions, of keen psychology, of human sympathy. It stands beside Keable’s beautiful ‘City of the dawn,’ tho broader in scope and deeper in thought. It may be a good textbook. It certainly is literature.”

+ =Ind= 90:34 Ap 2 ‘17 170w

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w

“There is not in existence any other missionary text-book that presents with such power the underlying psychology of certain African tribes.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:330 S ‘17 220w

=MACKINTOSH, HUGH ROSS.= Immortality and the future. *$1.50 (2c) Doran 218 A17-1602

Dr Mackintosh, professor of theology in New college, Edinburgh, restates the Christian doctrine of life after death “on a new foundation, after careful examination of many arguments and much evidence for and against it.” (Springf’d Republican) “In the first part of the volume he takes up the historical development of ideas concerning death and a future life among primitive races and the earlier civilizations. Then, in four chapters, he studies the doctrine of death and life set forth in the Old Testament and Judaism, in the teachings of Jesus, in the apostolic age, and during the long history of the church. The second part, which fills more than half the book, is devoted to ‘a reconstructive statement’ of the hopes of the Christian world, the reasons therefor, and the conclusions of modern belief, deduced from historical and theological research, as to immortality.” (N Y Times) “Some part of the best literature for those who wish to pursue the study of this field is mentioned in the text or footnotes.” (Preface) The first edition of this book was published in England in 1915.

+ =N Y Times= 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 400w

“One of the best of recent books on the subject of life after death, written from the religious point of view.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 30 ‘17 370w

=MCKNIGHT, GEORGE HARLEY.=[2] St Nicholas: his legend and his rôle in the Christmas celebration and other popular customs. il *$2 (5½c) Putnam 922

How a dignified bishop of the medieval church came to take on the character of our popular Santa Claus is one of the matters touched on in this book. The author has brought together a store of scattered material relating to the real life of this saint and the legends that have grown up about him. He says, “In St Nicholas the reader will come in contact with a personality of unique amiability, whose influence has permeated popular customs for many centuries and has contributed much of sweetness to human life.” The illustrations show how the saint has been pictured in popular German prints, early Italian painting and other works of art. One interesting chapter is devoted to St Nicholas plays.

“It is indeed to be regretted that we have known so little of the good Saint Nicholas himself. That want is readably and pleasantly filled in this new book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:566 D 16 ‘17 350w

=MCLAGLEN, LEOPOLD.= Bayonet fighting. il *75c National military pub. co. 355 A18-120

The system of bayonet fighting described in this little manual was invented by Captain McLaglen about the year 1910. In it there is a certain amount of jiu-jitsu. Twenty thousand men of the 1st and 2d Expeditionary force of Australia were instructed by Captain McLaglen in the new method and it is in wide use with the British troops. The fifty-five illustrations have captions printed in French as well as English.

=N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 120w

=MCLAREN, A. D.= Germanism from within. *$3 Dutton 914.3 17-26319

“‘Germanism from within’ by A. D. McLaren is, as the title implies, a series of studies about the German people, but they have not all been called forth by the war, as many of them were written before it. Their central theme is an analysis of Germanism. The author has lived for seven years in Germany. He was in Berlin at the time of the declaration of war, was later arrested and spent eight months in a concentration camp. Mr McLaren treats all phases of German life, political, religious and military. ... An interesting chapter is devoted to the study of the Kaiser.”—Springf’d Republican

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:350 My ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 720w

“Thus the book is no mere by-product of the war. It is the careful work of a patient observer who has for thirty years been studying the politics, industry, education, character, and ideals of the German people.”

+ =Dial= 63:401 O 25 ‘17 270w

“Far indeed from any shade of pro-Germanism, he yet believes some elements in the German nature are misconstrued. For example, even the severe Prussian is not a pure materialist. Of this the universal German devotion to the Christmas festival is evidence.”

=Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 70w

“A journalist by profession—he was a reporter in Germany for the Sydney (Australia) Daily Telegraph from 1908 to 1915—Mr McLaren has observed German life and character from many points of view. ... There is often a certain hardness in Mr McLaren’s treatment and in his conclusion, but the reader is always aware of the great force of his logic. Mr McLaren’s chief weakness is his limited knowledge of German history.”

+ — =Nation= 104:687 Je 7 ‘17 220w

“His frame of mind is notably judicial and his constant aim seems to be utterly fair to the German people.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 330w

=Pittsburgh= 22:675 O ‘17 20w

=R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 100w

“The book is painstaking and often interesting, but the author, in his conscientious efforts to be strictly fair (which he is), becomes at times a trifle labored and confused in his style.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 23 ‘17 350w

=MACLEAN, STUART.= Alexis; a study of love and music. *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-22300

“Cosmopolis, a bustling provincial city somewhere in the United States, possessed a first-class musical critic. Van Alstyne Bradshaw ... was a talented composer as well as a lover of all good music, and did his sincere best to improve the taste of Cosmopolis’s very self-satisfied inhabitants. But he had had a great sorrow in his life; he was an embittered man, inclined to be pessimistic, and very lonely, until he met the boy Alexis. The son of a washerwoman and a day laborer, both Hungarians, Alexis Vaczy was a born violinist. It did not take Bradshaw long to discover this fact, and what he did to Alexis and what Alexis did to him the book tells. ... Two love-stories help to complicate the plot.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 50w

“It is not often that a reviewer finds himself in a glow over an American novel, but such is the present writer’s experience with ‘Alexis.’ ... It does not suffice to say that this story has attractive subject-matter, ... nor is it enough to say the story is exceptionally well written, or that the characters are deftly drawn, or that there is a lot of splendid talk about music and musicians. ... There is between the lines an indefinable quality of ardor, of the eagerness and intensity of youth and youthful ambitions. One knows from the start that the story will be a happy one.”

+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 200w

“While it is evidently intended to be a study of the musical temperament, and as such is not badly done, the most interesting thing in the novel is the picture of the musical and would-be musical society of Cosmopolis.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 340w

“The work is distinctly above the average novel in intelligence.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 10 ‘18 440w

=MCMAHON, JOHN ROBERT.= Success in the suburbs. il *$2 (3c) Putnam 630 17-14063

A book that offers to tell “how to locate, buy, and build; garden and grow fruit; keep fowls and animals.” This promise is repeated in the chapter headings: The hike to the suburbs; Scouting for a suburban home; Financing the suburban home; Legal fixings and fences; The suburbanite his own architect; The fireproof house; Remodeling old houses; The garden; Fruit trees and small fruits; Animals on the suburban place, etc. There are over forty excellent illustrations. Useful tables are given in an appendix.

=A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 30 ‘17 430w

“An interestingly written and practically suggestive book.”

+ =Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 30w

“His optimism is merry, not patronizing, and the more convincing that he sets up a moderate standard, planting it in good practical advice. Of course, covering much ground, the book is suggestive, not a complete building and garden guide.”

+ =Ind= 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 50w

“It is a very interesting and instructive book, and combines practical, scientific, and legal instruction. With this book and personal enthusiasm it would seem possible to make a success of any suburb.”

+ =Lit D= 56:38 Ja 26 ‘18 200w

+ =Nation= 105:127 Ag 2 ‘17 430w

“To all suburbanites and would-be suburbanites I introduce this book as the most complete work on the ‘suburban game’ yet published.” G: H. Hamilton

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 12 ‘17 400w

“A practical book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:165 Ap 29 ‘17 50w

“A rather slangy account of life in the suburbs, but at the same time a valuable account, for it contains many practical hints to the suburban dweller as to house and garden, orchard and poultry yard.”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 36w

“Many personal experiences are related which are of practical service to the novice in country life.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 400w

=MACMILLAN, MARY LOUISE.= More short plays. *$1.50 Stewart & Kidd 812 17-21729

This is the author’s second book of plays suitable for amateur production. “Short plays” was published in 1915. Among the seven plays in the new book are two that are rather more ambitious than the title would suggest, “Honey,” with scenes laid in a southern mill town, and “The pioneers,” an historical play of the Middle West. The remaining plays, His second girl, At the church door, The dress rehearsal of Hamlet, In Mendelesia, parts 1 and 2, and The dryad, are shorter pieces.

“All the plays are pleasing, however, viewed from different angles. ‘His second girl’ is a delightful bit of comedy. ... ‘The dryad’ is a poetic fantasy in verse that will appeal to the heart of every tree-lover.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 160w

=MACMURCHY, MARJORY.= Woman—bless her; not as amiable a book as it sounds. *$1 Doran 396 (Eng ed 16-21046)

“An appeal to women for proper recognition of their work in war and reconstruction. It is addressed primarily to the women of Canada, but can be read with benefit by women in the other dominions and in Britain. ‘The most useful economic and social war and reconstruction work that each woman can do,’ says Miss MacMurchy, ‘will be found more readily if she can define the economic and social duty of the class to which she belongs.’ To this end she divides women into categories. ... The writer proceeds to study the particular work in each category, to estimate its value to the nation, and to show where it can be developed and extended.”—Spec

“Useful for the facts and statistics presented.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:149 Ja ‘17

“Librarians should purchase this book and make special efforts to circulate it.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:30 S ‘16 250w

=Spec= 117:837 D 30 ‘16 140w

=MCNALLY, GEORGIA MAUD.= Babyhood of wild beasts; with foreword by W. T. Hornaday. il *$2 Doran 17-29790

“Miss McNally was born and lived for a part of her early life on the frontier where she came to know something of the wild animals, to care for them and to feel that she understood them. The wild babies of whom she tells were some of them her own personal home friends, like Pompey, the baby lion, and others she became acquainted with in the big Bronx zoological and other gardens. All the wild babies she has known in one way or another, and the many interesting pictures are of the animals themselves.”—N Y Times

“A fascinating account.”

+ =Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 80w

“Through it all you get accurate scientific facts, with now and then a good scientific word smuggled in where its meaning is quite evident from the context. There is no sugar-coating of facts with silly stories. This is a book to be most heartily recommended to boys and girls of all ages.” R. F. Zametkin

+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 140w

=N Y Times= 22:499 N 25 ‘17 160w

=MACNUTT, JOSEPH SCOTT.= Modern milk problem in sanitation, economics, and agriculture. il *$2 (5½c) Macmillan 614.3 17-17296

The author is lecturer on public health service in the Massachusetts institute of technology. His book stresses “the practical and economic as well as the sanitary factors involved,” and should interest not only health officials, milk inspectors, dairymen, city dealers, legislators and physicians, but also inquiring consumers.

“The book covers practically the same ground as is covered by ‘The city milk supply’ by H. N. Parker. The chapters on the analysis of the sanitary aspects of the milk problem are well done. The chapter on the economic factors is superficial and does not even cover the secondary material available to the author. There is some valuable material in the appendix on milk statistics, grading systems, the North system, costs and prices, and milk products.” C. L. K.

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:300 N ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 30w

+ =Ind= 92:109 O 13 ‘17 150w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Jl ‘17 70w

“Probably the only work combining in concise form the economic, agricultural and sanitary features.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:818 D ‘17 50w

+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 120w

“A distinct acquisition to the literature on the subject. Its most distinctive feature is its illuminating treatment of the economic factors which enter into the present-day milk problem.” L. F. Rettger

+ =Science= n s 46:292 S 21 ‘17 600w

“Shows in a clear and intelligent manner why there is a milk problem.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 29 ‘18 360w

“This book can be recommended as a reliable, up-to-date and readable exposition of the milk situation. Enough material in the way of facts and figures is inserted to support the argument fully.” Franz Schneider, jr.

+ =Survey= 39:72 O 20 ‘17 410w

“A timely book, explaining why there is a milk problem, but more useful for the student than for the housewife or the baby’s nurse. Rosenau’s ‘Milk problem’ (1912) is more complete though now a little out of date. The bibliography (6p.) and the appendix material are excellent.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:29 Ja ‘18 40w

=MACQUARRIE, HECTOR.= How to live at the front. il *$1.25 (3c) Lippincott 355 17-24528

This is a book of “tips for American soldiers” by a second lieutenant of the British royal field artillery, who has been in the United States addressing young officers and men preparing for active service. Lieutenant MacQuarrie has tried to tell the American boys going to the front about the little things in warfare, not found in the official military textbooks or presented by staff reporters. He has much to say on discipline, on the details of life behind the firing-line and in the trenches, on the English and French people with whom the soldiers will come in contact and the British Tommy in particular, on the folks at home, the censoring of letters, the effect of war on character, and the desirability of studying the life of Jesus “to prevent war from killing your soul.” In the rather unusual chapter entitled “A curse of war,” he warns the young soldier against the fearful number of women now going about “quite unmoral and very kindhearted,” and begs him to remember that he is the father of future Americans and to give his children a fair chance.

“Told with engaging straightforwardness and humor.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17

“From every aspect, light, serious, deeply human and sincerely religious, every American soldier will be helped by reading Lieutenant MacQuarrie’s book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 210w

“The author writes sensibly and clearly and enlivens his advice with anecdote, making the book enjoyable as well as informative.”

+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 100w

“Written without pretension, it is reminiscent of the matter-of-fact advice of an elder brother who has seen the world to a younger brother who has not. It is not a book that goes to the roots of things, or tries to.”

+ =Dial= 63:589 D 6 ‘17 200w

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 80w

“The author is the more to be commended for the interesting, lively, readable humanness of this volume in the light of the fact that, where he finds it needed, he does not hesitate to run the risk of seeming to ‘preach’—though never was any approach to ‘preaching’ less sentimental and less dry. The chapter on ‘A curse of war’ is frank, sane, fine.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:2 Ja 6 ‘18 870w

=Pittsburgh= 22:835 D ‘17 60w

Reviewed by Ruth Stanley-Brown

+ =Pub W= 92:814 S 15 ‘17 550w

“The advice is informally expressed and given in excellent spirit.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 100w

+ =St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 30w

“It is very much to the point; thoroughly practical, shrewd, vivacious, and clear.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p33 Ja 10 ‘18 30w

=MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER.= Book of holidays. il *$1.25 (4c) Crowell 394 17-31084

Believing that our holidays are degenerating into mere play days, the author has taken upon himself the task of reminding us of their meaning. The book is adapted for young people. All our special days, are included: New Year’s day; Lincoln’s birthday, St Valentine’s day, Washington’s birthday, St Patrick’s day, Good Friday and Easter, May day, Arbor day, Bird day, Mothers’ day, Memorial day, Flag day, Independence day, Labor day, Columbus day, Hallowe’en, All Saints’ day, Election day, Thanksgiving day, and Christmas.

=Outlook= 117:615 D 12 ‘17 30w

“The book will prove profitable reading for older persons as well as the young.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ‘17 40w

=MADDOX, HARRY A.= Paper; its history, sources, and manufacture. (Pitman’s common commodities of commerce) il 85c Pitman 676 17-15681

“‘A book written with a view to acquainting the general reader with a full understanding of how raw material is converted into paper. ... Gives an excellent history of the introduction of the early forms of crude paper from the East, together with matter relating to the making of paper in England and the Continent in early times.’ Inland Printer”—Pittsburgh

“Covers much the same ground as Dawe but gives more space to the history of paper making, is more detailed as to manufacture, does not contain so many descriptions of the different kinds of paper, and is sixty-five cents cheaper.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 10w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

“Valuable for the school library—especially the historical sections.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p19 Ap ‘17 50w

“Mr Maddox is an authority on this subject. Descriptions of the various machines and details as to their operation, full explanations of the methods employed in making handmade papers, and other interesting facts, make the book a most valuable one for the printer, the stationer, the advertising man, the engraver, the artist, the lithographer, and others, not to mention the people directly concerned with the manufacture and sale of papers.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:341 Ap ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Printing Art p65 Mr ‘17)

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:458 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Inland Printer p103 Ap ‘17)

“Primarily for those concerned in making, handling or using paper, yet written in language intelligible to the general reader.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:660 O ‘17 40w

“Brief semi-technical treatise which would be instructive to the general reader interested in knowing how paper is made.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 18w

=MADSEN, ARTHUR WILHELM.= State as manufacturer and trader; an examination based on the commercial, industrial and fiscal results obtained from government tobacco monopolies. *7s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 336.19 (Eng ed 16-23037)

“The purpose of this monograph is apparently to show the defects of government-managed industries, and so far as tobacco manufacture is concerned, the effort is entirely successful. The author presents brief sketches of the state tobacco monopoly in France, Italy, Austria, Japan, Spain and Sweden. He shows the financial results, the popular verdict on the quality of goods produced, and the unbusinesslike management of the public authorities. Outside of France his sources of information seem to have been meager, but there is undoubtedly an unanimous verdict against government control in all the countries treated.”—Ann Am Acad

“An appendix of over sixty pages to which the author continually refers in the text contains many valuable statistical tables. These tables derived from official reports, indicate by countries the financial results of tobacco monopolies, the wages paid to factory operatives, etc. ... Whether one agrees or disagrees with the attitude of the author towards state socialism, one is unfavorably impressed by the absence in his work of an impartial analysis of the testimonials presented, by the lack of a judicious weighing of arguments pro and con.” Simon Litman

– + =Am Econ R= 7:434 Je ‘17 480w

“It is unnecessary to emphasize the point that the author’s conclusions, founded on a single industry, are not to be applied without reserve to all government undertakings.” J. T. Y.

=Ann Am Acad= 70:328 Mr ‘17 100w

=Ath= p475 O ‘16 40w

=Nation= 104:557 My 3 ‘17 140w

“A competent résumé of the world’s experience with the principal commercial industry carried on by the government in any considerable number of countries.”

+ =New Repub= 10:173 Mr 10 ‘17 400w

=Spec= 117:sup534 N 4 ‘16 80w

=MAETERLINCK, MAURICE.= Light beyond; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$2 (4c) Dodd 236

The mystery of death has always held the imagination of Maurice Maeterlinck, and of late years he has tended to give it more and more of his thought, a tendency intensified by the war. In this volume the translator has collected “a selection of essays illustrating the later stages of Maeterlinck’s quest.” They are chosen from the three volumes entitled, “Our eternity,” “The unknown guest,” and “The wrack of the storm.”

“Too frank and sincere a philosopher to assume that he can answer with finality a question which has defied the ages, he contents himself with reviewing the evidence pro and con as he sees it, leaving deductions to those who read.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:498 N 25 ‘17 980w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 N 1 ‘17 40w

=MAETERLINCK, MAURICE.=[2] News of spring, and other nature studies; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. il *$3 (9c) Dodd 580.4

A collection of nature studies. Only one of them, Our city gardens, reprinted from the Daily Mail [London], is new to American readers. The other papers have been selected from “The measure of the hours” and “The double garden.” The translator says, “I have taken the opportunity not only of revising my translation with some thoroughness, but also of introducing all the additions and corrections which the author has made in the French edition of these two books.” Contents: Our city gardens; The intelligence of the flowers; Perfumes; News of spring; Field flowers; Chrysanthemums; Old-fashioned flowers; The wrath of the bee. There are twenty illustrations in color by Edward J. Detmold.

“An exquisite book indeed. We may point out to those who have not read ‘The double garden’ and ‘The measure of the hours’ that the lover of beauty, as of nature, can ill-afford to miss such essays as these.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:558 D 16 ‘17 670w

=MAGNUS, LEONARD ARTHUR.= Pros and cons in the great war, a record of foreign opinion, with a register of fact. *$2 Dutton 940.91 17-2674

“An alphabetized compilation of opinions, the material for which has been drawn mainly from German and other foreign sources, with occasional reference to official documents.” (Ath) “There are many of the things which a student would look for: as atrocities, balance of power, Belgium, commercial rivalry, the Entente, envelopment of Germany, false news, the Hague conventions, hatred, Italy, Kaiser, kultur, Middle Europe, militarism, navalism, Pan-Germanism, Poland, prisoners, right of search, the United States, and the causes of the war. The book very largely contains hostile opinions, with some arguments in opposition, and some comments by the editor himself.” (Nation)

“Very useful for reference.”

+ =Ath= p106 F ‘17 60w

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

+ — =Bookm= 46:390 N ‘17 30w

“An excellent bibliography contains a long list of contemporary writings upon the war, which the ordinary reader would never know of. It must be said that the numerous pieces out of which the book is made have not always been well put together.”

+ — =Nation= 105:567 N 22 ‘17 370w

=MAGNUSSON, CARL EDWARD.= Alternating currents. il *$4 McGraw 621.31 16-24124

A work by the professor of electrical engineering in the University of Washington. “The treatment is of theory, not heavily loaded with field and shop practicalities, and aims to help students to gain an idea of internal reactions and to handle certain physical facts in mathematical shorthand. Transformers are taken up after voltage generation and circuit properties. This is followed by motors, generators, converters, insulation, polyphase power, long-distance transmission.” (Engin N)

“A good text for college classes, suitable for more advanced reference work. ... Contains problems, a few footnote references, and many diagrams, some of which are not very satisfactory.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:383 Je ‘17

“Another addition has been made to the already long list of electrical teaching texts that are primarily lecture notes arranged to satisfy the specific needs of specific institutions. By stating that the book, even though having 500 odd pages, covers only fundamentals, the scope is indicated. ... The chief feature of originality lies in pushing the study of transmission lines farther than common with undergraduates.”

+ =Engin N= 77:110 Ja 18 ‘17 120w

=MAHER, RICHARD AUMERLE.= Gold must be tried by fire. il *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-10983

As in two earlier novels, Father Maher has told a story of industrial conditions in northern New York. The scene is a mill town, dependent wholly on the paper manufacturing industry for its existence. Daidie Grattan, who three years before had thrown a wrench into her machine and walked out of a cotton factory, comes to Barton to work in the mill. In the years following her act of rebellion the girl had gone thru a bitter experience, but she had found healing at the hands of a Catholic sisterhood and with new courage had come out into the world with the hope of helping other girls. Not until she is employed in his mill does she discover that Hugh Barton is the man who had once saved her life in a crisis. The situation between these two is worked out against a background of industrial unrest, labor warring with capital, the independent manufacturer fighting for his life against the trust.

=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17

“Mr Richard Aumerle Maher marries his attractive working girl to the son of the millowner. As the publishers say, this does ‘bring the volume to a pleasing close,’ but I have a feeling that things do not happen so. The real strength of the novel is the dramatic picture of the industrial wars.” J: Macy

+ — =Dial= 63:112 Ag 16 ‘17 190w

“Like ‘The Shepherd of the North,’ by the same author, this is a tale of sentiment without being a tale of folly.”

+ =Nation= 104:737 Je 21 ‘17 280w

“If you start reading ‘Gold must be tried by fire’ you are compelled to finish it, although you are apt to wonder why you ever began it.”

=N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 370w

“There are tenseness and power in situation and treatment.”

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 30w

=MAHER, RICHARD AUMERLE.= While shepherds watched. il *$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 244 17-28077

Father Maher has retold the story of the birth of Christ. Beginning in the early chapters with the annunciation and the visit to Elizabeth, he continues the story thru the journey to Bethlehem, the birth of the child and the visit of the wise men and shepherds, and closes with an interpretation of the meaning of this child’s birth to the world.

“A vivid interpretation of the Christ story suitable for the older and more thoughtful children and for adults.”

+ =Ind= 92:446 D 1 ‘17 30w

“Written with feeling and simplicity.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:564 D 16 ‘17 110w

=MAHIN, JOHN LEE.= Advertising; selling the consumer. 2d ed il *$2 (3c) Pub. by Doubleday for the Associated advertising clubs of the world 659 16-22121

“The author reviews the economic and social factors related to selling. He emphasizes the mediums and English of advertising rather than purely psychological principles. The power of personal salesmanship and the need of individual initiative are shown in relation to middleman and consumer. The present business organization from producer to distributor is seen to be that of profit yielding according as the group spirit is understood by the advertiser in telling his message.” (Ann Am Acad) “The work is based on lectures delivered before the School of commerce of Northwestern university, and for this new edition has been revised, with some new chapters substituted for old.” (N Y Times) The book was first published in 1914.

“This book is one of the few dynamic advertising books in the field at the present time.” H. W. H.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:231 S ‘17 90w

“An interesting feature of the book is the descriptive list of books for supplementary reading which follows each chapter.”

=N Y Times= 22:173 Ap 29 ‘17 200w

=MAHONEY, HENRY CHARLES.= Sixteen months in four German prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben; chronicled by F: A. A. Talbot. il *$1.50 McBride 940.91 (Eng ed 17-7955)

“Mr Mahoney is, by profession, an expert in photography. At the outbreak of the war he was in Germany, with his camera, on his way to take up an interesting appointment in Warsaw. Unable to get into Russia, he tried to get back into Holland, but was denounced as a spy, arrested, taken to Wesel, and subjected to the formidable ordeal of a midnight secret trial. ... Mr Mahoney was able to establish his innocence. He was not formally acquitted, but the charge was not pressed, and he was interned in Sennelager. After a time he was released, but only to be re-arrested and sent to Ruhleben, whence he was eventually returned to England as an invalid, unfit for military service. And now he tells, with Mr Talbot’s collaboration, his long and exciting story.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Altogether, the picture of ‘Prussian militarism’ exhibited by Mr Mahoney is a hideously repellent one, and his recital gives no evidence of exaggeration, either.” Joshua Wanhope

+ =N Y Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 1100w

“The book is more than a recital of a prisoner’s sufferings in Germany; it is a splendidly thrilling tale of heroism and adventure.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:478 N 18 ‘17 500w

=St Louis= 15:166 Je ‘17

“If anything more were needed to pillory Germany in the world’s opinion, this book would supply the deficiency. Mr Mahoney tells of the attempts of the American ambassador to mitigate the hardships of the English prisoners, and of the deceit practiced on him by the authorities. This chapter harmonizes with Mr Gerard’s own narrative.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ‘18 450w

“The chief interest, if not the chief merit, of Mr Mahoney’s book lies in the fact that he has told the truth about Sennelager, where things were done which have dug a formidable gulf between the British and German peoples, and about Major Bach, the infamous commandant of that camp. ... The evil fame of the unspeakable major has penetrated into every prison camp in Germany.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p51 F 1 ‘17 1100w

=MAHONEY, JOHN JOSEPH.= Standards in English. (School efficiency monographs) *90c World bk. 808 17-20535

A course of study in oral and written composition for elementary schools. The course was worked out in practice while the author, now principal of the State normal school at Lowell, Mass., was assistant superintendent of schools in Cambridge. Part 1 of the book consists of a discussion of the course; part 2 of an outline of work by grades.

“The movement for economy of time has nowhere been as well carried out in actual school practice as in Mr Mahoney’s ‘Standards in English.’ The style of the book is direct and non-technical and it should be put in the hands of elementary school teachers for the distinct improvement of oral and written work in English.”

+ =El School J= 18:231 N ‘17 470w

=MAINS, GEORGE PRESTON.= James Monroe Buckley. $1.50 Meth. bk. 17-22865

“By common consent, Dr J. M. Buckley, for more than thirty years editor of the New York Christian Advocate, has been and still is the accepted spokesman and leader of American Methodism. This fact alone might entitle him to the somewhat unusual honor of a biography published during his lifetime. ... The author treats his subject in separate chapters as editor, debater and parliamentarian, traveler, and author. Not the least interesting part of the record is the story of Dr Buckley’s triumph over physical handicaps that would have discouraged an ordinary man.”—R of Rs

“We consider the book of great value. Dr Buckley is a very remarkable man. ... This book was written for a purpose, but its purpose was not simply to interest and please. It will do both, but primarily it was meant to help. ... It not only reveals the greatness of this man, but the possible greatness of every normal man.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 1250w

+ =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 80w

“Dr Buckley’s personality is so compelling, his versatility in thought and expression so remarkable, and his proved ability in diverse fields of activity so well known, that thousands within and without the great Methodist fold will welcome the book that his colleague, Dr Mains, has felt impelled to write. The work is naturally eulogistic, but the author does not permit himself to abandon the judicial attitude.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 150w

=MAJOR, CLARE TREE.= How to develop your personality; with a foreword by Sir Herbert Tree. il *$1 (4c) Crowell 174 16-18755

The author is a graduate of the Academy of dramatic art of London, founded by Sir Herbert Tree, and many of the principles of that school are embodied in her book. The book is divided into four parts: Physical personality; Vocal personality; Self-expression; and Mental power.

“Very practical little text book. It is primarily intended for the actor, but there is very little in it which does not apply and cannot be used with profit by any man or woman.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 250w

+ =N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 80w

“The author presents her teachings in a straightforward, sensible manner.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 110w

=MALORY, SIR THOMAS.=[2] Romance of King Arthur and his knights of the Round table; abridged by Alfred W: Pollard. il *$2.50 (1½c) Macmillan 398.2 17-28655

This abridgment of Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur” has been made by Mr Pollard of the British museum, who had previously edited a complete edition of the work. With a scholar’s respect for a master work, the editor has refrained from revision, confining himself to the elimination of repetition. He says, “I have tried to clear away some of the underwoods that the great trees may be better seen, and though I know that I have cleared away some small timber that is fine stuff in itself, if the great trees stand out the better, the experiment may be forgiven.” A glossary is provided. Sixteen pictures in color and others in black and white are Arthur Rackham’s contribution to the book.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:142 Ja ‘18

“The abridged edition, excellently illustrated by Arthur Rackham, is of distinctive literary worth and the book itself is most attractively bound.”

+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 40w

“As the omitted matter is largely of a redundant character, the present edition will answer fully the requirements of readers in general.”

+ =Int Studio= 63:127 Ja ‘18 110w

“Young readers should welcome this judicious abridgment of Malory by a scholar who has feeling for the original, and who has weighed carefully what is best suited to boys and girls. The edition is beautifully printed, with illustrations in color—some of the best done by Rackham.”

+ =Lit D= 55:56 D 8 ‘17 100w

“Sir Thomas Malory himself would be hard to please were he dissatisfied with the fashion in which Arthur Rackham has chosen to limn his lords and ladies. The illustrator’s occasionally troublesome wealth of detail is here artistically consistent with the text.”

+ =Sat R= 124:sup6 D 8 ‘17 230w

“Mr Pollard has done his work well, and the old stories of Lancelot and Galahad, of Gawain and Tristram, and their fellow-knights will in this simpler form gain many new readers.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup473 N 3 ‘17 130w

“The artist has given much thought and study to the costuming of the remote period, but in physiognomy Mr Rackham is not to be absolved from the charge of a tendency toward caricature. This defect in Mr Rackham’s art is rather serious. The book, however, makes an ornamental and valuable addition to one’s library. The scholar’s contribution gives it more than the usual importance of works of this type.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 630w

“Mr Pollard in abridging Malory has only done for young readers what most older readers have learned to do for themselves. And Mr Rackham seems to have been fortified by the greatness of the matter. His design has never before been so bold, his colour so rich and clear. His touches of comedy are adroit, his tragic sense more powerful than in any of his previous works.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 D 13 ‘17 220w

=MANGOLD, GEORGE BENJAMIN.= Challenge of Saint Louis. il 60c Missionary education movement 309.1 17-25094

“Starting out with a religious survey, Dr Mangold finds there are some 400 Christian churches, valued at some $15,000,000. He then wants to know what these churches do in connection with the 21,000 illiterates of the city; with that half of the children who do not finish the eighth grade; with the 10,000 children at work. ... Dr Mangold wants to know what the churches are doing to help remedy these and many other evils. He insists all through the book that the church has a duty to perform and that it cannot remain satisfied with mere lip service.” (Survey) Dr Mangold is director of the Saint Louis school of social economy and the book is intended for mission study classes.

“Mr Mangold, whose word in social economy is authoritative, discusses [these problems] with rare dispassionateness.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:320 S ‘17 10w

“Those who study it will not only learn that ‘something must be done,’ but why it must be done and what can and should be done. Dr Mangold has performed a good service, both as a sociologist and as a Christian.” Oscar Leonard

+ =Survey= 39:148 N 10 ‘17 430w

=MANIATES, BELLE KANARIS.= Amarilly in love. il *$1.25 (2½c) Little 17-26657

This book is a sequel to “Amarilly of Clothes-Line alley.” “In Miss Maniates’s former story Amarilly helped to clean in a theatre, and was regularly engaged to keep in order the studio of Derry Phillips, artist, who took an interest in her and decided that she ought to be helped into better surroundings. But it was her energy and foresight and resource that ‘syndicated’ the family, so that every one earned something, and when they had pooled their earnings they were presently able to buy a little farm not too far from a town, and live in health and comfort and country plenty. There the reader finds them at the opening of this story. Amarilly, by the bounty of Derry Phillips, has been four years in college and is soon due to return home. A somewhat mysterious man has just bought the adjoining property, and the reader is for a time kept in doubt as to whether Amarilly is to be ‘in love’ with this man or with her benefactor, who is at work at his art in Paris.” (N Y Times)

=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 100w

“Those who enjoyed reading of the adventures of ‘Amarilly of Clothes-Line alley’ will doubtless find pleasure in this ‘joyous record’ of her later experiences.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 220w

“The story is a slight little thing, but it is gay and breezy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 450w

=MANIATES, BELLE KANARIS.= Our next-door neighbors. il *$1.35 (3½c) Little 17-7455

A family of amazingly ill-behaved children are the center of interest in this story. A childless couple who know very little of the habits of the children of the species, watch with apprehension the arrival of the Polydores. Their apprehensions are more than justified. Father and mother Polydore, one literary, the other scientific, have little time to devote to their offspring, and when the two go off suddenly on an expedition to Chile, the five boys are left in the care of the Wades, who very reluctantly find themselves won over by the naughty but engaging youngsters.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17

“An engaging little tale, having many of those qualities which made its predecessor, ‘Amarilly of Clothesline alley,’ so popular. It lacks, however, the former’s spontaneity.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ‘17 260w

“A ghost story, a love story, and the story of an eccentric and moneyed uncle are all worked into the texture of the lightly woven material, which forms altogether an amusing fabrication.”

+ =Dial= 62:247 Mr 22 ‘17 110w

+ =Ind= 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 40w

“The tale would be amusing if it had some tinge of possibility, but it is exaggerated out of all relation to real life. ... The vivacious style of the book makes it pleasant reading, however, if one does not try to fancy its young barbarians in the world of actuality.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:90 Mr 11 ‘17 150w

“The children are not particularly attractive and the character portraiture generally is rather dim.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 170w

=MANTZ, HAROLD ELMER.= French criticism of American literature before 1850. (Columbia univ. studies in romance philology and literature) *$1.50 Columbia univ. press 810.4 17-12600

“In the following study an attempt is made to discover French opinion on the subject of American literature, from about the beginning of the nineteenth century to about the year 1850.” (Preface) In such early French criticism as exists the author finds a reflection of disappointment. The French had looked to the literature of the new republic for an expression of the ideals of liberty, and they found in it only an imitation of the traditions of English literature. French criticism thereafter ceased to notice American writers until Tocqueville wrote his “Démocratie en Amérique.” The quotations in the volume are in French, without translation.

“A graver defect in Mr Mantz’s study is that his ‘selection’ does not select some of the most important periodicals of the epoch. He has not included the famous Globe, that herald of cosmopolitan criticism, nor any authoritative newspaper of the class of the Journal des Débats. Some salient articles such as that of Balzac on Cooper (Revue Parisienne, 1840) receive no mention whatever.”

+ — =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 590w

“One or two first-rate minds hardly redeem the mediocrity and pretentiousness of much of the criticism which Mr Mantz reproduces here.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 30 ‘17 450w

=MARBURG, THEODORE.= League of nations. *50c (3c) Macmillan 341.1 17-29206

“This little book is a history of the movement in the United States to secure action by the United States and other nations, after this great world war, looking to the establishment of a League to enforce peace.” (Foreword) Mr Marburg was one of the originators of the movement and his purpose here is to describe the developments with which he has been connected. He calls his book “A chapter in the history of the movement,” and hopes to follow it later with a second volume. William H. Taft has written a foreword.

“A concise exposition of a movement toward the establishment of a durable world-at-peace. Its chief merit is its freedom from wordy explanations and extravagant forecasts, so common in many works on the subject.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 29 ‘17 160w

=Cleveland= p8 Ja ‘18 30w

“Little need be said about this work, as it is practically nothing more than a restatement of the familiar aims of the league and its progress since war was declared. It may be taken as authoritative by those who consider the matter as one of particular importance.” Joshua Wanhope

– + =N Y Call= p14 D 29 ‘17 340w

=MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.= Leonard Wood, prophet of preparedness. il *75c (8c) Lane 17-10224

The foreword says, “The most effective way of presenting any cause is in human terms, and, if possible, through the medium of a personality that exemplifies the larger principles involved. There was no need of extended search for a subject. General Wood literally incarnated both the letter and the spirit of preparedness. ... The story of his life, therefore, is offered as a human document in evidence of the great cause to which he has dedicated his courage and his character.” The material of the book appeared in a magazine article in Everybody’s, March, 1917.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 270w

“Can easily be read in an hour and is worth several.”

+ + =Ind= 90:215 Ap 28 ‘17 140w

“Although his book is written from the viewpoint of ardent admiration, Mr Marcosson has sufficiently restrained his enthusiasm to make his rapid survey of General Wood’s career a just and true appreciation of his service to the nation.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:121 Ap 1 ‘17 300w

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 200w

=Pratt= p49 O ‘17 10w

=MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.= Rebirth of Russia. il *$1.25 (3½c) Lane 947 17-21674

The accomplished American journalist left London for Russia upon the news of the abdication of the Czar. He was greeted upon arrival as a representative of the new republic’s newest ally in the fight for freedom. The United States had gone to war with Germany between March 16 and April 7, while he travelled. In his first chapter, The long night, he tells of the pro-German forces in the Russian government which precipitated the revolution. The succeeding five chapters describe in vivid detail the scenes which were enacted while he was in England. These include the abdication of the Czar. Later he writes of what he himself saw and heard from such men as Kerensky, Prince Lvoff, etc., and tells of the labor unrest which followed the proclamation of the republic. The chapter on The revolution makers and the illustrations from photographs will be found of interest.

“Those who have followed these absorbing events in the press from day to day will be especially grateful for a more rationalized and consecutive account in book form than the daily press could possibly afford.” J. E. Conner

+ =Am Hist R= 23:435 Ja ‘18 460w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p419 Ag ‘17 80w

Reviewed by Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ — =Bookm= 46:483 D ‘17 100w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ‘17 550w

“‘The revolution in Petrograd’ might have been a more descriptive title, for Mr Marcosson gives the impression that the most of the

## action went on in the capital, whereas we know that it had an

empire-wide effect. As it stands ‘The rebirth of Russia’ neither measures up to the demands of that momentous event nor completely records it.”

– + =Cath World= 106:394 D ‘17 380w

“There will be more complete and adequate accounts of the revolution when time has permitted the sifting of facts and documents, but this pioneer work is like the Russian revolution itself, vivid, tumultuous, rapid, impressionistic.”

+ =Ind= 93:72 Ja 12 ‘18 280w

“But it is a pity that Mr Marcosson deals so slightly, and slightingly, with two outstanding items of universal interest: the Council of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates gets rather shabby treatment from him; one can only gather that he does not approve of it. And Rasputin—that strange, mysterious man is passed over with a few adjectives. Of tremendous interest are the sketches of Lvoff, Milyukoff, and of Guchkoff, and the other members of the provisional government.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:56 N 10 ‘17 200w

“A first class piece of descriptive writing. The reader is taken through all the successive phases of the great overturn, down almost to the present time, and the narrative is, we think, one of the best pieces of work that Mr Marcosson has ever done.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 380w

“His book is disappointing, for it shows little of the touch of the first hand observer. ... But it has the virtue of giving a succinct, comprehensive account of the great event, with its preludes and its consequences for a short time afterward.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:289 Ag 5 ‘17 1250w

“An account somewhat summary in treatment, somewhat rhetorical in style, but informing and filled with significant or striking incidents.”

+ — =No Am= 206:798 N ‘17 590w

+ =Outlook= 117:65 S 12 ‘17 40w

“He does not dawdle over the sentimental aspects of the era, but loses none of its dramatic values.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 92:812 S 15 ‘17 370w

=R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 70w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 6 ‘17 210w

“Until it is replaced by a more weighty and judicious history of the revolution—and that cannot be for many years—this little volume is a decidedly useful source of information on contemporary Russia.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 38:549 S 22 ‘17 170w

“Perhaps the most useful of Mr Marcosson’s chapters is that in which he gives us a sort of ‘Who’s who’ of the revolution. The names of many of the leaders are puzzlingly long, and the records of the greater number are familiar to few but their own countrymen.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p350 Jl 26 ‘17 600w

=MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.= War after the war. il *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 382 17-6755

Trade rivalry after the war is the theme of this book. “Peace will be as great a shock as war,” writes the author. “Hence the need of preparedness to meet the inevitable conflict for universal trade. We—as a nation—are as unready for this emergency as we are to meet the clash of actual physical combat. Commercial preparedness is as vital to the national well being as the training for arms.” Contents: The coming war; England awake; American business in France; The new France; Saving for victory; The price of glory; The man Lloyd George; From pedlar to premier.

“He has gained his facts at first hand in Europe, and gives two keen character sketches, one of William Morris Hughes, prime minister of Australia and his contribution to England’s awakening, and one of Lloyd-George in action.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:377 Je ‘17

“Mr Marcosson wrote before the United States entered the war, and on the assumption that she would not be drawn in. But his major thesis is not notably affected by the change of circumstances. His argument is, on the whole, plausible. The danger of commercial isolation and decadence of the United States seems, however, exaggerated.”

+ — =Dial= 63:213 S 13 ‘17 450w

=Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 180w

“It is a fair enough warning for America to organize and nationalize her export trade. Mr Marcosson does good service in dramatizing that warning. But he does a better service in his popular Sunday newspaper supplement style of exposition of the intricate financial machinery underlying the war.”

=New Repub= 10:302 Ap 7 ‘17 400w

“Those who may dissent from Mr Marcosson’s views in this particular will assent to praise of the piquancy with which he puts his position before the reader.”

=N Y Times= 22:217 Je 3 ‘17 1000w

+ =R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:137 My ‘17 20w

“Marcosson sounds a timely warning to the United States as to the commercial self-reliance.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 110w

“Mr Marcosson is most interesting when he deals with matters of finance, and it is significant that he renounces the theory of economic exhaustion which he previously held and is now convinced that ‘the extents to which financial credit can be expended in the countries at war seems to be almost without limit.’ that ‘man power—beef, not gold—will win.’” Nannie Young

=Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 200w

“The most notable portion of the book is his frank criticism of American business organization and methods.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p179 Ap 12 ‘17 500w

=MARGOLIS, MAX LEOPOLD.= Story of Bible translations. il 75c Jewish pub. 221 17-16188

“The author confines his work to the translations of the Hebrew scriptures. ... Additional chapters reveal the inherent difficulties of Bible translation and enumerate the various agencies for the circulation of the Scriptures.”—R of Rs

“Professor Margolis tells his story interestingly, in an easy, flowing style; he writes in a judicial and moderate spirit, with an evident desire of fairness, and if he lays more stress than is usual upon the work of Jewish scholars, it is because his little book is intended chiefly for Jews and aims to give the Jewish point of view. ... He appears to be unacquainted with the claim, made by Cardinal Gasquet, of a Catholic origin for the first translation of the Bible into English; nor does he know, apparently, the influence of the Douay version upon the authorized King James. His whole chapter on the age of the reformation is too much influenced by the traditional Protestant view.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:117 O ‘17 200w

“Special emphasis is laid upon the work that has been done by Jewish scholars from the days of Saadya, Rashi and David Kimhi down to the present time.”

=Ind= 92:67 O 6 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:698 O ‘17 10w

=R of Rs= 56:330 S ‘17 110w

Marion, by the author of “Me.” il *$1.35 Watt

“Marion, one of the eleven children of an English artist settled in Hochelaga, the French quarter of Montreal, tells her own story. Endowed with beauty and brains, and not endowed with a single shred of discretion, nor with the apparently almost extinct quality that used to be known as womanly reserve, she fares forth into the world of Bohemia, to earn her bread as actress, artist’s assistant, model—any unconventional and hazardous thing that comes to hand. ... Marion passes through many compromising situations, thrilling adventures, hairbreadth escapes from both want and infamy.”—N Y Times

“That it is written with vivacity and skill needs not to be said to those who have enjoyed its predecessor. The dominant feeling, however, with which one closes the book is ‘the pity of it.’ ... The interest of the story is greatly enhanced by its profuse and unusually beautiful illustrations, every one of which has the rare merit of really illustrating the text.”

=N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 350w

“The most interesting portions of her revelations tell of her sensations as a model and of her rather lurid experiences in studios. ... There is no pretense at style in the book and little humor, as the author has been chiefly occupied in presenting a human document.” F. M. Holly

=Pub W= 90:2071 D 9 ‘16 430w

=MARKS, JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS.= Three Welsh plays. *$1 Little 812 17-7561

The first of these plays, “The merry, merry cuckoo,” gives a tender and touching little picture of the sympathetic devotion between a married pair who have lived long years together. The remaining two, “The deacon’s hat” and “Welsh honeymoon,” are comedies. The first was published in the Dramatist, and in the Metropolitan, and the third in Smart Set. All have been played in various places thruout the country, in little theatres, by drama societies, etc. The author was awarded one of the first prizes of the Welsh national theatre in 1911. Application for permission to produce the plays should be made to the author, in care of the publishers.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:342 My ‘17

“She will do surer work than this, but her dialogue has emotional shading and her effects are subtle.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:349 N ‘17 90w

“They have been acted a number of times and proved their validity on the stage.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 180w

“Such folk plays as these of Jeannette Marks give the touch of life the play world needs.” Frank Macdonald

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 8 ‘17 200w

“Only a very blind critic could fail to see the excellent human quality of the plays contained in this volume, and only a very cold one could withhold admiration. Charm these plays have in abundance. It is a simple charm compounded of genuine feeling, childlike thinking, and quaint unaffected expression. The localism of the plays is novel and taking; the dialect is used with discretion, and is manifestly the speech of the heart. ... They are delightful to read and perhaps dramatic enough to hold an audience.”

+ =No Am= 205:630 Ap ‘17 750w

“For sheer loveliness, humor, and the revealing of eternal wisdom through human nature, these plays easily surpass most of the one-act plays offered to the public.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 11 ‘17 400w

=MARRIOTT, JOHN ARTHUR RANSOME.= Eastern question; an historical study in European diplomacy. *$5.50 (3c) Oxford 949.6 17-15969

The author, who is a fellow of Worcester college, Oxford, states that he knows of no other book “identical in scope and purpose” with his own. He aims to give a “systematic and continuous account of the origin and development of the Eastern question.” “There is an introductory outline, then after a chapter on the geography of the Balkans and its influence on the politics of the Near East, the history of the Ottoman empire is narrated, giving much space to Napoleon and Greek independence, until the Crimean war. A very full

## chapter is devoted to this war. ... The last six chapters deal with

contemporary history.” (Boston Transcript) The last chapter covers the years 1914-16. There are three appendices and nine maps, one of these being an ethnological map of the Balkan peninsula. A list of authorities is appended to each chapter. Some of the material has been utilized for articles recently contributed to various English magazines.

“The few blemishes detract little from the great positive value of the book, which like much of the work of Englishmen succeeds remarkably well in preserving the true historical spirit in a time of warlike passions.” A. H. Lybyer

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:390 Ja ‘18 700w

“The author has supplied a real need in English historical literature. It comes at a very opportune time. It is the work of a genuine scholar, learned and free from conscious bias.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 580w

+ =Cath World= 106:388 D ‘17 450w

“One of the most illuminating chapters in this invaluable book is that entitled ‘Physics and politics,’ and future negotiators may take to heart the suggestions made at p. 33 that any settlement of Balkan affairs must originate from within.” Ernest Satow

* + =Eng Hist R= 32:435 Jl ‘17 1450w

“A clear, scholarly, and accurate account of Balkan problems.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:345 S 16 ‘17 900w

“It is an able and scholarly book, such as we should expect from so well known a member of the Oxford school of modern history as Mr Marriott, and it brings together in an orderly narrative many episodes that lose their significance in the ordinary European histories.”

+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 220w

“It is a very small book for so large a subject; and, though it probably contains as much as the ordinary reader is likely to digest, and that in a digestible form, it still leaves room for a work based on exhaustive research. Mr Marriott has earned our thanks by giving us, at the cost of no slight labour, a study which has long been needed and should certainly be widely read.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p267 Je 7 ‘17 2000w

=MARSH, RICHARD.= The beetle. *$1.50 (1c) Putnam 17-3888

The story is told in the first person by four of the characters, a London clerk, a scientist, a young society woman, and a detective, each of whom in turn gives his own version. The mystery is well sustained thruout the four narratives. There is an element of hypnosis in it, and one of oriental magic, in addition to the element of sheer physical horror, the horror one instinctively feels of creeping things.

“This is an absorbing narrative of fantastic horrors that should be read only by those of unimpaired nervous system and then preferably in broad daylight.”

=Bellman= 22:279 Mr 10 ‘17 170w

“Is it a purely critical affectation to feel that these books are not good because they lack reality, because they do not try to convey the impression of life, but are content to give an idea or to tell a story?... Is it a dry-as-dust pedantry that says the idea is good or the story is good, but that the book is not good from the critical standpoint? I think not,—naturally.” E: E. Hale

— =Dial= 62:146 F 22 ‘17 700w

“Mr Marsh does not know how to create character; his young chemist is especially unconvincing. The attempts at humor are clumsy indeed; Mr Marsh ought not to bother his head about providing comic relief. He has a powerful imagination and he knows how to tell a story, and these powers have enabled him to write a book guaranteed to give an hour’s excitement to every one healthy enough occasionally to enjoy horror.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:52 F 11 ‘17 200w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 350w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Abington abbey. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-25863

“‘Abington abbey’ details in 388 leisurely pages, how the family of George Grafton, banker, moves from his London home and settles in the newly purchased Abington abbey, a delightful old country place. ... Mr Grafton is a rich widower, with three beautiful daughters, and a son at school. These, with the ‘Dragon,’ the girls’ governess, constitute the family.” (N Y Times) “The story as a whole cannot be satisfactorily summarized, for, although its sequence is uninterrupted and its events hang together closely, its effects are almost wholly atmospheric.” (Boston Transcript)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:490 D ‘17 470w

“It is an intimate revelation of the English temperament, the English tricks of thought, and the English way of living. ... Interwoven into the story is the personality of one of those clerical characters without whom no story of English life seems complete. ... And it is solely through the novelist’s account of this clergyman’s persistent interest in the affairs of his parishioners, of his determined intrusion into their home life, and of the quiet rebuffs that he met from the Graftons and others, that a humorous aspect is given to the novel.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 20 ‘17 1200w

=Nation= 106:94 Ja 24 ‘18 600w

“It is almost startling to come across a book, published in 1917, which, for all reflection it gives of the time in which it was written, might have come from the pen of Jane Austen or Anthony Trollope.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:412 O 21 ‘17 750w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Upsidonia. *$1.50 (3c) Dodd 17-26182

Upsidonia is not pictured as a utopia; it is merely a country where everything usual to us is turned upside down. The poor are more highly respected than the rich, servants give orders to masters, prisons are places of comfort and luxurious ease. The story is told by a young Englishman who inadvertently wanders into this strange country. His first act is to toss sixpence to a beggar, who turns out to be a person of power and influence. Amazing complications follow.

=A L A Bkl= 13:267 Mr ‘17

“The ingenuity of all this is unquestionable, its satiric import is at times easily discernible, but it is very obviously not the sort of fiction with which Mr Marshall is most thoroughly at home.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 1200w

“No one who read that superb story ‘Watermeads,’ would suspect Mr Marshall of so commonplace a mind as is revealed in this thoroughly uninteresting story of a fictitious country. ... It is a barren tale of unpleasant people, without humor or originality or reason.”

— =Dial= 62:106 F 8 ‘17 150w

“A breezy, amusing story, cleverly told, although not always quite up to the possibilities of its theme.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:33 F 4 ‘17 550w

“Mr Marshall’s latest book would make a delightful short story; or it might well serve as the foundation for a more complicated fantasy. But in forcing it to the fashion of a six-shilling novel Mr Marshall has doomed it to failure. ... There are, here and there in the book, touches of humour of a far finer kind especially in the solemn footnotes regarding the politics, customs, and literature of Upsidonia.”

– + =Spec= 116:24 Ja 1 ‘16 220w

=MARSHALL, HENRIETTA ELIZABETH.=[2] This country of ours. il *$2.50 (1c) Doran 973 17-31892

This is an English writer’s story of the United States, told for young people. It follows “Our island story,” “A history of France” and other similar works by the author. The contents are arranged as follows: Stories of explorers and pioneers; Stories of Virginia; Stories of New England; Stories of the middle and southern colonies; Stories of the French in America; Stories of the struggle for liberty; Stories of the United States under the Constitution. This final section brings the story down to the present time. There are ten illustrations in color by A. C. Michael.

“The book appears to be in the main historically accurate. It is noticeable that while the days of discovery and colonization receive very thorough treatment, the period following the Civil war is put into about forty pages—a condensation which gives the reader the impression of being out of proportion in a work of 612 pages.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 350w

=MARTIN, EDWARD SANDFORD.= Diary of a nation; the war and how we got into it. *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-28643

A brief record of the formation of American opinion for the student of the war who wishes to go back to the beginning of it and chronologically run thru the comment, from this side of the water, from August, 1914, to the time when the United States entered the conflict. The observations are selected from articles that appeared in Life and “are concerned with the war in Europe and with American politics as affected by it. By what processes of sympathy and indignation, thru what vicissitudes of diplomacy, delay and almost despair, we came after two years and a half to the breaking point with Germany, may be traced in a measure in the chapters.”

“Full of shrewd common sense.” C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 40w

+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 40w

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 1 ‘17 230w

“In calling attention to this inspiriting and aptly named volume we may recall what we said of the previous reprint of articles from New York Life. They stand for a type of editorial comment for which there is no parallel in British journalism—unconventional, colloquial, but trenchant and often intensely serious though appearing in what is nominally a comic paper.”

+ =Spec= 119:648 D 1 ‘17 1700w

=MARTIN, HELEN REIMENSNYDER (MRS FREDERIC C. MARTIN).= Those Fitzenbergers. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-7923

Little Liddy Fitzenberger had led a strangely isolated life. For some reason, unknown to her, no one in Virginsburg would associate with “those Fitzenbergers.” Her father, glum and morose, never speaks to her, and between her stepmother and herself there is open dislike. Her only friend is Elmer Wagenhorst, and Elmer insists that their meetings must be kept secret. The coming of the new minister and his wife to Virginsburg makes a big difference in the life of Liddy, and the time comes when she and Elmer find their positions reversed.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 420w

“We hardly blame the Pennsylvania Dutch for their dislike of Mrs Martin, for she pictures them as stupid, mean, unforgiving and immoral. ... The humor of the story is irresistible.”

=Cath World= 105:267 My ‘17 120w

“All these are very real people. There is, however, a trace of bitterness in the author’s characterization that the book would be better without. There must be more than a little humor in such a settlement as Virginsburg There always is. Mrs Martin too rarely shows her ability to catch its gleam.”

+ — =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 280w

“The dialect is true to type, and the story holds the reader’s interest to the end.”

+ =Ind= 90:86 Ap 7 ‘17 100w

“Each new novel by Mrs Martin shows distinct progress in fictional art, and this one excels most of her other books in the vitality of its plot, the variety of its characterization, and the briskness and humor with which its action moves. Mrs Martin is developing especially in her handling of conversation.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 400w

“The quaint talk is capitally rendered and the characterization is good; but the author in the latter part of the story yields to the temptation to make her now educated girl and boy talk too elegantly, while the plot becomes ridiculous.”

+ — =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 70w

=MARVIN, FRANCIS SYDNEY=, ed. Progress and history. *$3.75 Oxford 901 17-19164

“‘Progress and history’ is a series of essays arranged and edited by F. S. Marvin and published in 1916 and is a sequel to ‘The unity of western civilization,’ published the year before. It was originally a set of lectures given in Birmingham. Where the former collection aimed at a statical view of the permanent unifying factors that have held western civilization together, the present one exhibits a dynamical view of these forces in growth. The idea of progress covers the conception of increase of knowledge, increase of power, and ‘increase in our appreciation of the humanity of others. The first two thoughts, harmonized and directed by the third, may be taken to cover the whole field, and this volume to be merely a commentary upon them.’” (Nation) “The contributors are Mr L. P. Jacks. Mr Clutton Brock, Mr R. R. Marett, F. Melian Stawell, the Rev. H. J. Carlyle, Baron F. von Hügel, Mr A. E. Zimmern, Professor J. A. Smith, and the editor.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“It must attract the attention of the educated public not only by the present actuality of its appeal, but by the good and often brilliant style of the writers, and generally by their known competence to deal with the several subjects that fall to the share of each. Unfortunately, as in most works written in indefinite combination, the unity of purpose becomes less clear in some parts of the book (generally speaking, perhaps, in this case after the fifth essay), and the result is a certain nebulosity, which is not inconsistent with suggestiveness.” Alice Gardner

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:302 Ap ‘17 950w

“In ‘Moral progress,’ Dr L. P. Jacks abandons the historical mode of treatment. He gives a keen analysis of the notion of progress and of the flattering assumption that we are progressing morally. His essay is pure gold throughout, and no analysis can do it justice. But anyone who believes the things he sees daily in his newspapers should read it about once a week for his sanity’s sake.” F. C. S. Schiller

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+ =Int J Ethics= 28:138 O ‘17 310w

+ =Nation= 104:559 My 3 ‘17 220w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 28 ‘16 90w

“Throughout the book there is a kindred aim, with excusable differences as to detail in certain problems. And this aim is idealistic, spiritual, with all possible stress laid upon the factor of betterment.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 4 ‘17 2300w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Locked chest; and The sweeps of ninety-eight. *$1.25 Macmillan 822 16-21746

Two of John Masefield’s early plays, written in 1905 and 1906. They were brought out in a limited edition in 1916 and are now issued as one of the volumes of the regular edition of Mr Masefield’s works. “The locked chest” is based on one of the Norse tales in the Laxdaelasaga. “The sweeps of ninety-eight” is a play of the Irish rebellion of 1798.

“Written with a considerable amount of humor, and though little likely to add to Mr Masefield’s fame, the plays are thoroughly readable and capable of presentation.”

+ =Dial= 62:445 My 17 ‘17 180w

“Both are one-act plays, vivid, dramatic, and with sharply drawn characters. ... ‘The sweeps of ninety-eight’ is of another Irish insurrection, and has Irish humor in its grim comedy. But ‘The locked chest’ is tense with emotion and tragedy, its simple action revealing long years of life, and supprest, unrecognized passions. Such a play stands forth like a Rodin figure, stripped of all unessentials.”

+ =Ind= 90:34 Ap 2 ‘17 100w

“Mr Masefield’s reputation as dramatist will not be enhanced by these two one-act plays.”

— =Nation= 105:296 S 13 ‘17 400w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:185 D ‘16

“If ‘The sweeps of ninety-eight’ was signed Douglas Hyde it would be thought that this distinguished poet and Gaelic scholar had gained a new intensity of feeling and sense of dramatic construction. Surely Dr Hyde never wrote anything more Irish than this play of Mr Masefield’s.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:142 Ap 15 ‘17 520w

=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 20w

=St Louis= 14:438 D ‘16

“The little plays are pleasant reading. Incidentally they should appeal to amateurs in search of short, lively, actable pieces.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 16 ‘17 190w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Lollingdon Downs, and other poems. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 17-10980

“Mr Masefield’s new volume contains more than fifty sonnets, forming a long cycle, but broken by a few interludes, descriptive, allegorical, dramatic, narrative, or lyrical.” (Spec) “The volume also contains a long narrative poem, ‘The blacksmith,’ a strange piece of fantastic imagining, a brief little war play, ‘The frontier,’ and several other immaterial verses not without pictorial appeal.” (N Y Times)

=Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 80w

“This volume has a singular and intriguing unity, a unity broken up by interludes and by a succession of changes in the angle of approach, and in time and place. ... It is panoramic, rich in perspective—passing all the way from lyric and reflective sonnets to terse poetic dialogues and narrative lyric almost ugly in its bareness. It would be idle to pretend that Mr Masefield is a philosopher. He is not intellectual except in the sense that he is tortured by an intellectual issue; he is neither subtle nor profound. But he feels this issue intensely, and even more than usual he strikes music and beauty from it.” Conrad Aiken

* + =Dial= 63:55 Jl 19 ‘17 1100w

“In ‘Lollingdon downs’ we ask for food, and he shares with us—his hunger. A powerful dramatic sketch of a tremulous and tingling imperial ‘Frontier’ is the best performance in this brief and rather baffling work.” O. W. Firkins

– + =Nation= 106:90 Ja 24 ‘18 170w

“By this very reason of the depth of the author’s thinking, there is a possibility that the verses in ‘Lollingdon Downs’ may not have the wide reach of his other volumes. Mr Masefield’s work now is all intellect purged of the more human and earthly appeal; it addresses itself primarily to those who appreciate the metaphysical in its superabundant and alluring aspects.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:234 Je 17 ‘17 400w

“His present volume is at once a withdrawal and an advance. ... There is no single piece here so good as his lines on his mother printed in the ‘Oxford book of English mystical verse.’ But he has largely laid aside those scenes of violence couched in defiantly bad language which seemed to be his favourite matter a while since.”

+ =Sat R= 123:412 My 5 ‘17 1100w

“The subject-matter of the sonnets reminds us alternately of Lucretius and FitzGerald’s paraphrase of Omar Khayyám—though the treatment lacks the composure of the one or the serenity of the other—and we cannot resist the conclusion that the difficulties of the task have been increased by the form adopted.”

=Spec= 118:614 Je 2 ‘17 500w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Lost endeavour. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan A17-398

An adventure story of the seventeenth century. Charles Harding, a school boy walking home from Deptford with one of the masters, a Spaniard known as “Little Theo,” is waylaid and kidnapped and put aboard a vessel bound for Virginia where he is to be sold into slavery. His companion meets a like fate but for a time their ways are separate. One goes to a life of hardship in Virginia, one to romantic and desperate adventure in the West Indies. When the two meet again they unite in an effort to establish a kingdom on one of the islands. This is the “lost endeavour” of the title, but it is no less a thrilling adventure for all that. The English edition of this book was published by Nelson in 1910.

=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

“The reader who could not warm to ‘Captain Margaret’ or to Masefield’s other experiments (too clearly experiments) in prose romance may find something more spontaneous and genuine here.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:312 My ‘17 450w

“John Masefield’s ‘Lost endeavour’ as a swashbuckling yarn is too poetic, too literary, for adolescents, and too lacking in all consideration that such a fact as woman’s existence might sometime conceivably enter into even the minds of pirates, for adults. Also, its Indians are too grotesque and its plot too plotless. But certain remarkable bits of characterization and certain flashes of pure poetry make it all as surely Masefield as any page of Kipling is surely Kipling.”

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“Whatever advantage it may seek from costume and atmosphere is a minor affair; the narrative is well capable of standing on its own feet. ... The tale lacks the sort of ending to satisfy a boy’s heart—the Treasure Island ending; but whatever it loses thereby as a boy’s book it gains as a man’s book. It is very much that.”

+ =Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 350w

“To have endued, as Mr Masefield has done, the threadbare romance of Aztec ruins and Indian magic with true romantic bigness and persuasiveness is a considerable triumph of the imagination. The chief quality of the thing—apart from its poetic realism as a sea story—is its extraordinary blending of the dreamlike with the actual. ... If this tale fails wholly to satisfy, its failure will not be due to any lack of power or artistry on Mr Masefield’s part, but to the reader’s feeling that a fictional power that is perhaps capable of producing results like those which Joseph Conrad achieves has been spent upon a rather flimsy theme.”

+ =No Am= 205:629 Ap ‘17 630w

“Masefield’s description of the old ship navigated by the pirates has the same vivid lyrical quality as his amazing description of a vessel in ‘Captain Margaret.’”

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 110w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 280w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.=[2] Old front line. il *$1 (4c) Macmillan 940.91 17-27866

A description of “the old front line as it was when the battle of the Somme began.” It is written for days when the marks of the battlefield are gone, when “Centre Way, Peel Trench, Munster Alley, and these other paths to glory will be deep under the corn, and gleaners will sing at Dead Mule Corner.” The town of Albert is taken as the central point of reckoning distances. From Albert four roads lead to the battlefield of the Somme—one to Auchonvillers and Hébuterne, one to Authuille and Hamel, another to Pozières and a fourth to Fricourt and Maricourt. Mr Masefield locates the defenses of both the enemy and the Allies, going into details of boundaries, topography, places of greatest weakness and strength. To relieve the account of possible monotony there are poetic allusions to natural loveliness and dramatic references to the terror of the happenings along the Somme.

“A vivid piece of descriptive writing. It has the charm of a veteran’s reminiscence wherein the setting is hallowed by the action.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:161 F ‘18

“We could wish that Mr Masefield would visit the other scenes of momentous conflicts, and furnish the topographical data indispensable to a proper understanding of the military events.”

+ =Ath= p51 Ja ‘18 50w

“Nothing less than the endowment of poetic sensibility and the gift of a flexible style would have sufficed to make his narrative other than monotonous. But its interest is keen and continuous.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 750w

“More than any other writer, Mr Masefield has given us the feeling of the curious blind world of the trench fighter.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 170w

“With its well-chosen photographs and trench map, this admirable little book will be of permanent value.”

+ =Spec= 119:770 D 29 ‘17 120w

“His book, it need hardly be said, is not an ordinary guide. Its design is to be useful, and there are, indeed, signs of the task: a certain forced quietness and contraction of the style, broken by outbreaks and pulsations of language as a duty is passed: business first, and then Dalilah. We could not miss these excursions, for Dalilah is beautiful though a temptress; but sometimes we remember that she was not true.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 3 ‘18 1200w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Poems. *$1.60 Macmillan 821 A17-1381

The eighteen poems in this collection, which is published with the consent of Mr Masefield, were selected by Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, and Willard Higley Durham, of the English department of the Sheffield scientific school, Yale university. The copyrights run from 1911 to 1916. Contents: A consecration; The everlasting mercy; Dauber; Biography; Cargoes; Sea fever; Spanish waters; An old song re-sung; The west wind; On Malvern hill; Fragments; Tewkesbury road; Sonnets; August, 1914.

“‘Dauber,’ ‘Biography,’ ‘Cargoes,’ ‘Fragments,’ ‘Tewkesbury road,’ ‘Spanish waters,’ ‘Sea fever,’ ‘The west wind’ and ‘An old song re-sung’ appeared in ‘Story of a round house’ (Booklist 9:330 Ap ‘13), ‘Consecration’ and ‘On Malvern hill’ appeared in ‘Salt water ballads’ (Booklist 10:314 Ap ‘14), ‘The everlasting mercy’ was published separately in 1912 by Macmillan at $1.25. All but one of the sonnets appeared in ‘Good Friday’ (Booklist 12:373 My ‘16).”

=A L A Bkl= 13:460 Jl ‘17

“From the wild, lawless, vulgar, often carelessly written narrative telling of the fight between Billy Myers and Saul Kane, to the last poem in the book, the elegiac stanzas of which, hinting at the changes brought about by the great war, are cast in the quiet dignity and mellifluous flow of Gray’s ‘Elegy,’ there is an immense advance in technique.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 360w

=Ind= 92:62 O 6 ‘17 140w

“The ease of the procreation of books in our shifty era is illustrated in the selection from Mr Masefield’s poems. Apart from this useful glossary [a glossary of sea-terms], a clever student in an industrious afternoon, if he knew Masefield, could virtually have compiled this volume which has absorbed the convergent energies of three Ph.D.’s.” O. W. Firkins

— =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 110w

=MASON, ALFRED EDWARD WOODLEY.= Four corners of the world. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 17-25588

This is a collection of twelve stories and one play, which have been copyrighted from 1909 to 1917. The play, “Under Bignor hill,” deals with the Roman occupation of England. Two stories, “One of them” and “Peiffer,” deal with the European war. Most of the others deal with murder, ghosts or suicide. “The crystal trench” tells how Mark Frobisher’s body was lost in a crevasse and how his wife saw the glacier yield it up after twenty-four years.

=A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18

“They are very enjoyable, these stories; and if writers like Conrad, Thomas Burke, and H. G. Dwight had not projected into the short story a quality that gives it vitality and endurance, we should perhaps be fully content with the temporary satisfaction to be got from ‘The four corners.’ According to the standard created by these writers, Mr Mason’s work is flat. According to the standard of the average, it is most excellently good.”

+ — =Dial= 64:117 Ja 31 ‘18 190w

“England has no more ingenious or versatile tale-maker than the author of ‘The four corners of the world.’ We do not imply that Mr Mason’s work is feebly imitative, but it is derivative and representative and, rarely, individual, rather than ever really original. There are no dull or ill-written stories in this volume, and they should satisfy that very large constituency which responds to the short story as a clever contrivance.”

+ — =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 220w

“All the stories are interesting and well written, even though no one of them is particularly remarkable.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:394 O 14 ‘17 650w

+ — =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 10w

“Among the grim stories ‘North of the tropic of Capricorn’ is very successful; the tragedy is vivid because not too much is said. ... Among the longer stories ‘Green paint’ is a successful venture into the realms of an undefined South American republic, governed by the unscrupulous and plausible strong man.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 4 ‘17 550w

=MASON, CHARLES FIELD.= Complete handbook for the sanitary troops of the U.S. army and navy, and national guard and naval militia. 4th ed rev il *$4 Wood 355 17-5986

“The fourth edition is stated to have been carefully revised and brought up-to-date, with considerable new material relating to nursing and pharmacy. Describes the organization of the sanitary troops in post and field, briefly outlines human anatomy and physiology, gives instruction in first aid and nursing, mess management and cooking, materia medica, pharmacy, post and camp sanitation, riding, packing and driving, minor surgery, and clerical work. Part 9, dealing with the army regulations and the Manual of the medical department, has been completely rewritten to agree with the latest editions of these documents.” (N Y P L New Tech Bks) The work was first published in 1906 under the title “A complete handbook for the hospital corps.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ap ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:328 S ‘17 10w

=MASON, WILLIAM PITT.= Water supply (considered principally from a sanitary standpoint). 4th ed rewritten il *$3.75 Wiley 628.1 16-24713

“For the present edition a large amount of the text has been entirely rewritten and suitable amount of new material added. The tables have been brought up to date and new photographs introduced. ... The chapter on Drinking water and disease has been strengthened by the addition of many pages devoted to typhoid fever. ... Newly developed methods of water purification, particularly processes aiming at disinfection, come in for consideration, as do certain newly found factors influencing natural purification in streams and stored waters. The use of chlorine ozone, ultra-violet light and copper sulphate receive attention. There is considerable discussion of various phases of the pollution of drinking water supplies and the care of watersheds.”—Science

=A L A Bkl= 13:460 Jl ‘17

=Engin N= 76:1181 D 21 ‘16 80w

+ =Engin Rec= 75:235 F 10 ‘17 150w

+ =Nation= 105:97 Jl 26 ‘17 800w

“Although this can not be called an exhaustive treatment of the subject it is one of the most interesting and suggestive treatises on water supplies published since the old book of the same title by Professor William Ripley Nichols, of the Massachusetts Institute of technology.” G: C. Whipple

+ =Science= n s 45:240 Mr 9 ‘17 250w

=MASSEY, EDWARD.= Plots and playwrights. *$1 Little 812 17-23583

This comedy was originally produced at the “47 workshop,” Harvard university, under the direction of Prof. George P. Baker. It was afterwards produced by the Washington Square players, at the Comedy theatre, New York city, in 1917. In the prologue, Caspar Gay, the “dollar dramatist,” looking for an inspiration for his new play, meets Joseph Hastings, writer of short stories, who undertakes to show him drama on every floor of an Eleventh street lodging house. The three scenes in part 1 give these three dramatic episodes. In part 2, Gay and Hastings meet again. Gay tells Hastings that he has only found material for drama, but that it is material which can be turned into “a big Broadway success.” Then follows a “burlesque of a crook play, in which the characters of the three episodes take the parts.”

=MATHEWS, BASIL JOSEPH.= Paul the dauntless, the course of a great adventure. il *$2 Revell 220.9 17-58

“This admirable story of the life of St Paul has for its basis an accurate presentation of all it is possible to know about the life of the great apostle. ... Taking as the skeleton of his story the scanty facts known of Paul’s life and journeyings, Mr Mathews himself followed in the footsteps of all his wanderings, studying the scenes, the people, the life, not only as they are at present but as history describes them to have been in the early years of the Christian era.”—N Y Times

“Written in a spirited style and abounds in picturesque descriptions of scenery and thrilling adventure. A large number of illustrations in color as well as in black and white from drawings and photographs add interest to a very delightful and stimulating book.”

+ =Ind= 89:117 Ja 15 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:188 D ‘16

“At once historically accurate and absorbingly interesting.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:36 F 4 ‘17 300w

“Well worth reading. The author has covered much of the ground traversed by St Paul in his wonderful journeys, and has profited by the researches of Sir W. Ramsay and Principal George Adam Smith and other scholars, so that though his narrative is cast in a popular form with a good many imaginary conversations, it is solidly based on facts.”

+ =Spec= 117:738 D 9 ‘16 60w

=MATHEWS, MRS GERTRUDE (SINGLETON).= Treasure. il *$2 (4c) Holt 918 17-9241

A story of gold hunting in Dutch Guiana. The author has set it down as nearly as possible in the words of the man whose adventures she relates. He is a mining engineer who confesses that his first interest is not in metals. It is his love for the primitive and the wild life of the bush that takes him into out-of-the-way places. In the adventures recorded in this book he left Paramaribo to go into the interior in search of a mythical lost mine. His pictures of the tropical forest and stories of his native companions, together with the revelation of the attractive personality of the narrator, make it an unusual book.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:398 Je ‘17

“The life of the ‘bush’ is well portrayed by a nature lover and it is a pity that a somewhat unique coinage of words mars the style.”

+ — =Ind= 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 50w

“It is exceedingly interesting on several counts. It is an out-and-out story of a search for gold. It is full of curious happenings, strange places. Its few characters are delightfully alive. And the personality of the man himself, his love for beautiful things, and his power to make the bush live in his picture of it, are all unusual and vastly worth reading about.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 600w

=MATHEWS, JOHN MABRY.= Principles of American state administration. *$2.50 (1½c) Appleton 353.9 17-1515

A book based in part on college courses in state administration given at Princeton university and the University of Illinois and in part on researches carried on for the Efficiency and economy commission of Illinois. The author says, “No attempt has been made to describe exhaustively all of the multifarious activities and functions of the American states. ... The aim has been rather to select for description those services and functions which appear most to deserve attention, either because of their intrinsic importance or because of their suitability for illustrating the general principles of state administration.” Part 1, the introduction, discusses general principles; part 2 is devoted to The organization of the administration, with discussions of the duties and powers of the governor and other state officers; part 3 takes up The functions of the administration, including taxation, public health administration, etc. A conclusion considers the reorganization of state administration.

=Am Econ R= 7:419 Je ‘17 40w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:7 O ‘17

“There is no single volume which brings together so much first-hand material concerning the structure and functions of the state executive departments. The facts are well-chosen and effectively presented. The treatment of the office of governor is especially detailed and judicious. The author necessarily treads frequently on controversial ground. His discussion of open questions is always suggestive, though it is not to be expected that the reader will accept all his conclusions.” A. N. Holcombe

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:346 My ‘17 630w

“This admirable description of the machinery and activity of state administration is the first separate treatment of the subject which has appeared. It sets a high standard for later works in this field. ... The author’s conclusions as to the modern tendencies in administration are sound and well reasoned. He offers also a goodly number of references for collateral reading and chooses these from works representing different standpoints. The reader is in this way given a broad view of state problems. There is a good concluding chapter on reorganization. ... The book deserves and should find a wide field of usefulness among the colleges and universities.” J. T. Young

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:238 My ‘17 450w

=Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 360w

=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 130w

“The book is written in clear, non-technical language and should be of use, not only to students of state government, but also to delegates who this year and next will be engaged in drawing up new constitutions.”

+ =Dial= 63:71 Jl 19 ‘17 250w

“A noteworthy production.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:151 Ap 19 ‘17 180w

=Ind= 90:252 My 5 ‘17 140w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:39 Mr ‘17 70w

+ =N Y Times= 22:127 Ap 8 ‘17 240w

=Pratt= p9 Jl ‘17 30w

“The entire work will be found helpful to legislative committees and other bodies interested in making the executive arms of our states more efficient.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:109 Ap ‘17 10w

“One of the commendable features of the work is the simple and understandable style which the author uses in setting forth the organization of the executive branches.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 16 ‘17 320w

=MATHEWS, SHAILER.= Spiritual interpretation of history. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 904 16-25174

“The William Belden Noble lectures in Harvard university for 1916 were delivered by Dean Shailer Mathews of the divinity school of the University of Chicago. His subject was ‘The spiritual interpretation of history.’ ... In the first lecture he considers views which more or less explicitly belittle or deny spiritual forces in history, and endeavors to show that they overlook or underestimate data for which a spiritual interpretation is demanded as a working hypothesis. In the remaining lectures up to the concluding one he attempts to show that a study not only of these data but of the historical process itself discovers a tendency which compels the recognition of spiritual forces, if not a spirit, in social development.”—Springf’d Republican

“The final lecture on the Spiritual opportunity in a period of reconstruction, though practically helpful, is less compelling than could be wished, and betrays the benumbing effect of trying to combine science and religion in one discussion.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:124 O ‘17 500w

“While the author surveys a large field in a small volume, the treatment is far from truncated. On the contrary, the style is lucid and attractive throughout; and the conclusions are based on an unusually rich and varied mastery of the field of human experience. The author shows fine justice and sanity in dealing with conflicting theories, each of which is given its due place in the synthesis of the whole.” J: E. Boodin

+ =Am J Theol= 21:624 O ‘17 1050w

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=Bib World= 49:312 My ‘17 370w

“Professor Mathews’s rational tendency is a hybrid between Tennyson’s purpose which runs through the ages, and Spencer’s impersonal Unknown, Bergsons’s ‘élan vital,’ Hegel’s ‘weltgeist,’ and Lotze’s ‘purpose.’ The layman is merely confused by this metaphysical fog, while the theologian finds it too illusive to damn as heresy. But the man who is seeking an escape from the mechanistic conception of life and wishes to remain loyal to the scientific spirit of the time receives no genuine help from this doctrine.” V. T. Thayer

— =Dial= 63:200 S 13 ‘17 750w

“The well-balanced tone and insistence on practical efforts towards social ideals are commendable and ought to prove stimulating.” A. G.

+ — =Eng Hist R= 32:627 O ‘17 110w

“A valuable contribution toward the working out of a worthy philosophy of American life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 700w

“These interesting and timely lectures strikingly exemplify the author’s remarkable facility for brilliant generalization.” G. T.

+ =Survey= 39:327 D 15 ‘17 280w

=MATHEWSON, CHRISTOPHER.= Second base Sloan. il *$1.35 (2c) Dodd 17-13076

The scene of Mr Mathewson’s latest baseball story is a small town in Pennsylvania. Here Wayne Sloan, from Georgia, with his loyal friend, Junius Brutus Bartow Tasker, and his dog Sam, finds himself stranded. Wayne, who is now forced to make his way in the world, is handicapped by lack of training. Back home he had been brought up to be a gentleman. But he has pluck, and, much to the horror of his faithful colored friend, who has strict ideas as to social propriety, is ready to accept anything that offers. Finally June is established as bell-boy in a hotel and Wayne finds a position in a freight office. From playing ball with the men in the railroad yards, he advances to a place on a Y. M. C. A. team, and ultimately is offered an opening in professional baseball. The advisability of entering on this career is very carefully weighed before the step is taken.

=Pratt= p51 O ‘17

=MATTHEWS, BRANDER.= These many years. *$3 (2½c) Scribner 17-25853

In this volume, Brander Matthews, critic, playwright, and professor of dramatic literature in Columbia university, who says that he “was born contented as well as cheerful,” tells the story of his life of almost sixty-five years, setting down “only the pleasanter memories.” The first chapter, The point of view, gives us some interesting reflections on autobiography. Some other chapters are: New York in the early seventies; Parisian memories; Early London memories (two chapters); and Criticism and fiction. In the last-mentioned chapter, Prof. Matthews expounds the underlying principle of the art of book-reviewing. There is no index.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:128 Ja ‘18

“I fear that the author of ‘These many years’ has succumbed occasionally to the fallacy of assuming that the general reader was prepared to contribute to the consideration of his pages an exercise of visual imagination which is not necessitated by the facts set down. But the book, as a whole, is highly satisfactory.” Clayton Hamilton

+ — =Bookm= 46:357 N ‘17 3000w

“Unending delight is to be found in every line of this delightful autobiography.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 O 13 ‘17 1400w

+ =Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 80w

“If the reader is envious of the author’s fortune in knowing so many men of distinction, at least he may be glad that the privilege fell to a man who could write so charmingly about them.”

+ =Ind= 93:42 Ja 5 ‘18 600w

“‘These many years’ is every bit worth while reading.”

+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 1 ‘17 680w

“Mr Matthews has never lost the enthusiasm, the impressionability, the precipitancy, or the occasional tenacity of youth. These characteristics give the stamp of individuality to his pages.” J. R. Towse

+ =Nation= 105:639 D 6 ‘17 1100w

“Our autobiographer is first of all an American, then a New Yorker, then a cosmopolitan, but he is all these, and charmingly and convincingly, but least winningly a New Yorker. All the more because I say this, I must add that the chapters on New York literature and its members are of such unique value as to constitute an incomparable contribution to our literary history. It is such as no one could have written except one who was part of it and saw it all, and who with his greater love of literature still makes us realize that in New York it has always been not the superior but subordinate of journalism. That is saying it too rankly, and yet not unjustly.” W: D. Howells

+ =N Y Times= 22:405 O 21 ‘17 2450w

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott

+ =Outlook= 117:640 D 19 ‘17 2200w

+ =R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 130w

“But the work is a worthy memorial of a useful literary career. It is modest and unpretending, and is redolent of that graciousness which the literary world of New York has now seemingly lost.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 1150w

“Good reading for the young aspirant in authorship, both for content and style.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 100w

=MAUPASSANT, HENRI RENÉ ALBERT GUY DE.= Second odd number; thirteen tales. *$1.25 (3½c) Harper 17-13186

Contents: Tony; Decorated; The colonel’s idea; The jewels; Fear; Two friends; Relics of the past; A question of diplomacy; Mademoiselle Perle; The madman; The home-coming; Passion; Grave-walkers. “The opening sketch of this volume, called ‘Tony,’ is quite noisome, and can amuse only the lovers of horseplay. ... ‘Two friends’ and ‘The colonel’s idea’ vividly record events and feelings of the German war of 1870, but they might have been the events and feelings of the German war of the present, they fit so well the facts now occurring.” (Introd.) Ten of the tales were translated by Charles Henry White and three by Virginia Watson. The introduction is by William Dean Howells.

“The translation is spirited but too much in the United States idiom.”

+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 80w

“‘The second odd number’ is bound to cause some disappointment. ... Three or four of the stories now given—‘The jewels,’ ‘Grave-walkers,’ ‘Passion,’ perhaps ‘Decorated’—may have been excluded from the earlier list because of the greater reluctance to deal frankly with sex matters, but most of them were probably omitted for other reasons as well. ... Perhaps the tale that in proportion and restraint comes nearest to ‘The necklace,’ ‘The coward,’ and ‘A piece of string’ is ‘Two friends.’”

+ — =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 330w

“The present ‘Odd number,’ issued by the same publisher, has been made to match the original as to color and size and the design of its back. It has even an amiable and slightly perfunctory introduction by Mr Howells. But of the thirteen tales only two or three are worthy to be placed among that first thirteen. ‘Two friends,’ ‘Relics of the past,’ and ‘Mademoiselle Perle’ are touched with human sympathy; the rest have the acrid flavor, the brutal or fleering tone of the unfortunate genius who, not soon enough for his own comfort, found his own way out of a despicable world.”

+ — =Nation= 104:632 My 24 ‘17 320w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:109 Jl ‘17 30w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 16 ‘17 130w

=MAVOR, JAMES.= Government telephones. *$1 Moffat 384 16-24693

“In ‘Government telephones’ Prof. James Mavor of the University of Toronto gives a history and critical examination of the experience of Manitoba, Canada, with the public ownership and operation of the telephone system of the province. The early development of the service was promoted by the Bell company, beginning about thirty-five years ago. The government purchase was made in 1908 and Prof. Mavor contends that his thorough examination of the government’s work shows indubitably that the public ownership has been a practical failure.”—Ind

“One cannot but wish that he had outlined something of a constructive program. Beyond indicating faith in regulation and private ownership, and condemning public ownership, in general terms, he does not point a way out. And the Manitoba which he pictures needs help.” H. B. Vanderblue

=Am Econ R= 7:406 Je ‘17 730w

=A L A Bkl= 13:377 Je ‘17

“In view of the fact that he cites only the figures most favorable to his contention, and neglects to mention the others, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that he is more interested in making out his case against public ownership than in making known the whole truth. In short the book as a whole, regarded as an argument against public ownership, is unconvincing; but it is not without value as a record of certain mistakes which governmental telephone administrations, like private companies, would do well to avoid.” A. N. Holcombe

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:357 My ‘17 820w

“The study of this one experiment should prove enlightening to all who are personally or academically interested in the problems of state ownership.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 100w

=Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 20w

“Although notably one-sided, the general impression created by the

## book is that, measured by business standards, government telephones in

Manitoba were a failure. Whether there were any compensating advantages, such as are alleged by many to result from operating a postal service at a loss, the method of the author is not of the sort to show.”

=Engin News-Rec= 78:361 My 17 ‘17 280w

“Strangely enough, the author holds that these defects cannot be eradicated. They are necessary accompaniments of government ownership! A surprising induction without confirmation.”

=Ind= 90:297 My 12 ‘17 130w

“While written in an admirable style and well arranged, the book fails fully to convince the analytical reader.” W. J. Donald

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:954 N ‘17 490w

“Much has been written concerning the experiment of Manitoba in the public ownership of telephones, but Prof. James Mavor’s Government telephones’ is the most searching and complete analysis of the results. The confidence of the reader in the findings would be greater if it were not evident from several passages that the author on general principles is completely opposed to government conduct of industries.”

+ — =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 120w

=R of Rs= 55:220 F ‘17 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 28 ‘17 420w

=MAXWELL, CHARLES ROBERT.=[2] Observation of teaching. (Riverside educational monographs) *70c (3c) Houghton 371 17-25130

This manual, an outgrowth of the author’s work as supervisor of the training school of the Whitewater (Wis.) normal school, is designed “for the use of students in training, for the use of teachers who are desirous of analyzing the various elements in the teaching process, and for the use of other persons who are interested in the observation of teachers at work.” (Preface) Contents: The nature of the problem; The purpose of observation; The value of observation; The teacher; The pupils; The lesson procedure; The development lesson; The drill lesson; The review lesson; The lesson for appreciation; Questioning; Class management; The physical features of the schoolroom.

“This book will be of most service to the prospective teachers in our normal schools and schools of education. It will be helpful to the supervisor in that it analyzes the qualities of teaching and the important aspects of school procedure that ought to be uppermost in the mind of the supervisor in his observation work.” H. O. Rugg

+ =El School J= 18:317 D ‘17 220w

=MAXWELL, CONSTANTIA.= Short history of Ireland. *80c (2c) Stokes 941.5

A short history of Ireland dealing mainly with political events. The author’s purpose has been “to present a clear and impartial account of the chief features of Irish history,” and she has purposely left social and economic questions, and matters of mythology and literature out of her scheme. Contents: Early Ireland; The Norman invasion and settlement; The decline of English power and advance of the Celts; The Tudor conquest and the plantation of Ulster; The rebellion of 1641 and the Cromwellian settlement; The war of the revolution; Ireland under the old colonial system—the period of Protestant ascendancy; Ireland since the Union. The volume is provided with maps and plans. The author is lecturer in history in Trinity college, Dublin.

“A convenient, not very sympathetic, introductory manual.”

+ — =Ind= 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 60w

“The author doubtless has marked opinions on the many problems which have faced Ireland since it became a homogeneous nation, but she keeps them religiously to herself. One of the great merits of this history of Ireland is its absolute fairmindedness.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 500w

“Miss Maxwell’s book is, however, little more than a syllabus, and in such a work it is difficult to indicate the full meaning of every event. Again, too, her matter-of-factness becomes slightly arid.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 90w

=MAXWELL, WILLIAM MOREY.= If I were twenty-one; tips from a business veteran. il *$1.25 (3½c) Lippincott 658 17-29211

If you were twenty-one again and had life before you what would you do? This question is answered for the youth of the land, out of the experience, long and successful, of a man who sees the human and humorous side of things as well as the serious and problematic. There is moderation in his counsel. He avoids extremes. He advises a young man not to become a specialist. He believes that the future will demand all-around business men. If he were twenty-one again he would do a great deal of reading, would take counsel of men who have made a failure of life and would approach a career gradually, not taking a salaried position under twenty-five. Contents: If I started again; Finding your place in life; Self-esteem and self-confidence; Getting a job; Handling men; Employing men; The dishonesty of honest men; The amateur ad. writer; Writing a business letter; Do figures lie?

“Because Mr Maxwell’s volume is amusing, that fact does not prevent it from containing many neat little truths.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 D 8 ‘17 420w

“Almost every page gives amusing and instructive anecdotes from the author’s experience, and the style is quite remarkable for a man who does not profess an overfondness for the literature the professors say we must read if we would write well. One can quite honestly tell any young beginner in business to study this book, even if he has to pawn his coat to get it.” Frank Fitt

+ =Pub W= 92:1385 O 20 ‘17 400w

“His book is full of suggestions, not in the shape of formal advice, of which a superabundance has already found its way into books designed for young and inexperienced business men, but in crisp, humorous paragraphs, the nub of which is likely to stick in the mind.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 160w

=MAY, MAX BENJAMIN.= Isaac Mayer Wise. il *$2 (2½c) Putnam 17-6906

The subject of this biography is called the founder of American Judaism. When he came to America in 1846 he found the Jews scattered and unorganized. Their religious life was “an intolerable imitation of that which existed in the old ghettos of Europe.” It seemed to him that if Judaism was to survive in America “it would be necessary not only to Americanize the Jew, but also his Judaism.” He made this his life work. His biography has been written by his grandson, Max B. May, judge of the Court of common pleas, Hamilton county, Ohio. The author has allowed Dr Wise to speak for himself as much as possible, quoting from his writings in The Occident, The Israelite, and other papers.

=A L A Bkl= 13:312 Ap ‘17

“What is significant, what really stands out in the whole biography, is how definitively the reform movement in Judaism is a social and political movement and how little it is a genuinely religious movement.”

+ =Dial= 62:251 Mr 22 ‘17 250w

“For American Hebrews, especially those who belong to the ‘Reformed’ school, the biography of this distinguished leader by his grandson will have intense interest. ... For the Gentile, on the other hand, there is less to attract him, so absorbed is the interest in things Jewish. Moreover, the din of arms and clash of conflict, the reiteration of the word attack, are so incessant that he might rise from its perusal with prejudice either created or intensified”

=Lit D= 54:917 Mr 31 ‘17 130w

“Judge May has refrained, purposely, from discussing Dr Wise as theologian and writer. Yet, there was need for such a work as Judge May has written. It portrays chiefly the personal side of Dr Wise, his descent and ascent; it depicts the heroic struggle of his career. It is not written in a cold, critical tone, but with warmth, con amore; and in the case of a man who was above all a great personality, this, no doubt, is the best means of approach and appreciation. ... The attractive form of the book, with four portraits of Dr Wise, will add to the pleasure of reading it.” H. G. Enelow

+ =N Y Times= 21:565 D 24 ‘16 1950w

=Pratt= p49 O ‘17 40w

=MAYO, KATHERINE.= Justice to all. il *$2.50 (2½ c) Putnam 353.9 17-6231

The author has written an account of the Pennsylvania State police. This force is organized to promote state-wide order, to give sparsely settled country districts the same police protection as that provided in large cities. The author cites many instances of services of this kind, but by far the larger portion of her book is given to the

## activities of the State police in mining communities in time of labor

disturbances. Her many quotations show that from its beginning the organization has had the support of the press and the opposition of organized labor. Theodore Roosevelt writes an introduction to the book.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:291 Ap ‘17

=Ath= p465 S ‘17 800w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 27 ‘17 950w

+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 120w

“At present Pennsylvania alone has a State police (in her case the word constabulary is a misnomer); the story of its work, which has carried admiration wherever known, is here told with accuracy, detail, and color.”

+ =Nation= 104:187 F 15 ‘17 1350w

“Not once in the book is the workers’ side of the case brought to light. Not once is the legal right of self-defence upheld. Not once is the inalienable right to protect one’s home recognized.” F: P. Burdick

=N Y Call= p1 F 4 ‘17 2500w

“Her account is so humanly interesting because she has written—and written well and eloquently—out of full knowledge.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:30 Ja 28 ‘17 700w

“A narrative recording the exploits of disciplined efficiency is always fascinating. This one is particularly so; some of the chapters of the book are hero-stories and some are first-rate detective stories. The book is aimed at the general reader: it is interesting enough to be read purely for pleasure; and it should exert a considerable influence.”

+ =No Am= 205:472 Mr ‘17 400w

=Pittsburgh= 22:215 Mr ‘17 70w

“Numerous vivid accounts of engagements between the police and criminals are given. ... Other descriptions pertain to the chasing and capture of murderers, the breaking up of the vicious black-hand gangs which terrorized the mining sections, the ridding of the countryside from Sunday ‘keg parties’ that generally wound up in crime, the disruption of the anarchistic ‘I. W. W.s’ when that sect attempted to put out of existence the United mine workers’ union.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 9 ‘17 600w

=The Times= [=London=] =Lit Sup= p400 Ag 23 ‘17 1000w

=MEAD, DANIEL WEBSTER.= Contracts, specifications and engineering relations. il *$3 McGraw 620.03 16-20301

“A complete outline of professional conduct in engineering relations from hunting a ‘job’ to drawing a contract is set forth in this work for the benefit of the college student. The book, however, has a much wider application than educating the engineering student, since it would seem that others besides undergraduates could pursue further the study of engineering contract preparation with benefit to themselves and their clients. ... The work is a good summary of technical literature on this subject to date, and contains an extensive bibliography, including many references to articles in current engineering journals.”—Engin News-Rec

“Comprehensive text-book.”

+ =Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 20w

“So far as the subject of contract writing is concerned, the book is to be preferred to any work published in recent years.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:364 My 17 ‘17 330w

=Pittsburgh= 22:459 My ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Electric Railway Journal p674 Ap 7 ‘17)

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:521 Je ‘17 40w

=MEADE, ALWYNE.= Modern gasworks practice; with an introductory note by Stanley H. Jones. il *$7.50 Van Nostrand 665.7 17-21116

The author states that since no general work of reference covering modern gasworks practice exists, he has attempted to remedy the deficiency. He says, “It must be realized at the outset that so far as the principles and practice of modern gas-making are concerned no single individual can lay claim to omniscience. ... No pains have, however, been spared to develop the book essentially on the ideas of the practical man, whilst every precaution has been taken to avoid inaccuracies. ... Nearly every chapter has been submitted for suggestions to an expert in the particular branch with which it deals.” Among the subjects covered are: The planning and laying out of gasworks; Foundations, gasworks’ buildings, etc.; The horizontal retort bench; The control of horizontal retort settings; Vertical retorts and chamber ovens; Refractory materials; The mechanical handling of materials; Electrical plant in gas works; Gas-making and other coals. The author is lecturer in gas engineering and allied subjects to the London county council.

=MEANY, EDMOND STEPHEN=, ed. Mount Rainier, a record of exploration. il *$2.50 (2½c) Macmillan 917.97 16-23519

A collection of historical and scientific papers bearing on Mount Rainier, or, as some of the authors prefer, Mount Tacoma. Edmond S. Meany, the editor, is professor of history in the University of Washington and president of the Mountaineers. The first paper is a reprint of Captain George Vancouver’s account of his discovery of the mountain in 1792. Other papers of historical interest are: First approach to the mountain, 1833, by William Fraser Tolmie; First recorded trip through Naches pass, 1841, by Lieut. Robert E. Johnson; Tacoma and the Indian legend of Hamitchou, by Theodore Winthrop; First attempted ascent, 1857, by Lieut. A. V. Kautz; First successful ascent, 1870, by General Hazard Stevens. Later papers deal with the rocks, glaciers, flora, etc.

=A L A Bkl= 14:22 O ‘17

“With admirable judgment all these reports and records of exploration and scientific study have been arranged chronologically. ... These collected papers, though written strictly from a scientific point of view, include much of popular interest. Especially attractive are the stories of the various successful ascents of the mountains.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 230w

+ =Dial= 62:447 My 17 ‘17 170w

+ =Lit D= 54:1710 Je 2 ‘17 200w

=Nation= 105:18 Jl 5 ‘17 300w

“When it is remembered that Mount Rainier national park is visited annually by increasing thousands of tourists, the far-reaching interest in such a book as this will be readily appreciated.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 400w

“Especially replete with information concerning the origin of place names in the Mount Rainier region.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 80w

“A volume of great interest and value to every lover of adventure, or student of history. At the end of the book is a complete and very valuable list of the flora of Mt Rainier.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 29 ‘17 280w

=MEARS, MADGE.= Candid courtship. *$1.40 (1½c) Lane 17-23340

“Joan Allison and Colin, her brother, who is a doctor, live in a boarding house. Another occupant, Stewart Austen, falls in love with Joan, and is refused when he proposes to marry her, on the ground of a bit of philandering he has committed in his youth, about which he tells her frankly. Colin, meanwhile, has succumbed to the friendliness of Val Carruthers, a tawdry, kindly light of love, married to a veterinary, who has been one of his patients. They decide to leave England together and, just as they are off, Colin leaves a note to this effect for his sister. Joan turns to Austen for help, they discover the couple’s destination, pursue them in a hired motor car, get lost in a fog and, after having been obliged to spend the night together in the car, they arrive early in the morning at a hotel—a most compromised pair. ... Austen offers to take all the blame for the episode, but Joan, whose viewpoint on the question has been reversed, refuses to do this and ends by proposing to him and being accepted.”—N Y Times

=Ath= p415 Ag ‘17 80w

“This is a very amusing little story and Miss Mears handles it for all the fun there is to be had. Her conversation is decidedly clever, her situations are funny, and her sense of comedy so good that she can make the most of her opportunities. Apparently she is well up on the thoughts and ideas of modern England—feminine England in

## particular—and the satire is as bright as it is good-natured.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:333 S 9 ‘17 500w

“The characters of both Colin and Austen, in different ways, lack the vigour and the knowledge which would have given balance to this careful study of young womanhood; they are figures not in a world of men but in a world of women.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p334 Jl 12 ‘17 770w

“Mechanical World” pocket diary and year book for 1917. il 40c Norman, Remington co. 621.08

“In this, the thirtieth annual issue, several new features have been introduced. In particular, attention is directed to the section on Steam and the steam engine, which has been very largely re-written. ... New tables have been introduced giving dimensions of piston rings, governors, etc. ... A new section on The heat treatment of steel has been introduced. ... Many new illustrations have been introduced, while the book generally has been subjected to a thorough revision.” (Preface)

=Pittsburgh= 22:342 Ap ‘17 50w

=Power= 45:333 Mr 6 ‘17 80w

=MEEK, ALEXANDER.= Migrations of fish. il *$4.50 Longmans 597 F17-152

“Mr Meek has written a scholarly and exhaustive work on the migration of fish. As the director of the well-known Dove marine laboratory at Cullercoats, he has a first-hand acquaintance with the subject.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “An introduction treats of tides, tidal and ocean currents, geological changes, nomenclature, and the literature of the general subject. Then follow thirty-two chapters dealing with various groups of fishes, from lampreys and sharks to toad-fish and anglers. Finally, we have twenty pages of general considerations and conclusions.” (Nation)

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:298 Ap ‘17

“Handling in masterly fashion a subject of intense scientific interest and of vital commercial importance, Alexander Meek has spared no effort to elucidate every phase of the matter and to make the most of our present knowledge. His arrangement is clear and concise.”

+ =Nation= 104:246 Mr 1 ‘17 410w

“Notwithstanding what we have criticised as faults of commission or omission in this substantial work, it is one which no one interested in fishery science or desirous of an up-to-date grasp of some of the phenomena underlying practical fishery questions can afford to overlook.”

+ =Nature= 99:81 Mr 29 ‘17 900w

“The director of the Cullercoats marine laboratory has put together in this solid and valuable book all that is known as to the migrations and distribution of fish, taken class by class.”

+ =Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w

“A mine of information and will be of the greatest use to all who are engaged in researches into the marine food supply of the nation. It is well illustrated, well written, and, whilst doing justice to other workers, shows a competent degree of criticism. It also has what all good books should have—a thoroughly good index.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p570 N 30 ‘16 540w

=MEEKER, JAMES EDWARD.= Life and poetry of James Thomson (B. V.). il *$1.75 Yale univ. press 17-7035

“This little book will bring nothing new to students of Thomson’s work, but it may well prove a useful introduction for those not fortunate enough to have secured Salt’s biography of the poet. Mr Meeker disclaims any ambitious purpose; he has made a compendium, largely from the studies of Salt and Dobell, now become rare. He adopts a rigid chronological order in the discussion of the poems, which he uses as an interpretative commentary of the biography. He quotes generously from the poems, and has chosen characteristic extracts from the letters and the journal cited by Salt.”—Dial

“Mr Meeker’s book is clearly and entertainingly written; and he did well in his account of such a life as Thomson’s to adopt the method, as he tells us, of ‘using his poems and his prose chronologically as a key to his inner development.’”

+ =Cath World= 106:253 N ‘17 750w

=Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 110w

=Dial= 62:446 My 17 ‘17 250w

“Has the considerable merit of brevity and is written in a style perfectly clear though quite lacking in distinction. It brings out no new facts of the poet’s life, and, so far as mere biography goes, will not replace the works already published. Nor can it be said that the critical parts of Mr Meeker’s commentary rise much above the common-place.”

+ — =Nation= 104:373 Mr 29 ‘17 200w

“Despite the crudities of the book, the central figure stands out strongly, a figure strangely kin to our own Poe, and England’s dead youth, Chatterton; and as such it is worth while.”

+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ap 29 ‘17 140w

=Pratt= p49 O ‘17

“Of value for its appeal to general interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 5 ‘17 200w

=MEIGS, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.= Life of John Caldwell Calhoun. 2v il *$10 (3½c) Neale 17-24427

John C. Calhoun was born in 1782. He entered public life at an early age, coming into prominence in 1807 at the time of the “Leopard” and “Chesapeake” affair. He was a member of Congress during the War of 1812, and a strong advocate of relentless prosecution of the war. He became a dominant figure in the storm and stress period that followed, standing out staunchly against abolition and for states rights. His life all but spans the period between the Revolution and the Civil war, and any account of it must be a contribution to national history as well as to biography. The author has based his work on original sources, having access to many new letters and papers. Volume 2 contains the index.

“May be accepted as the long-desired complete and impartial life of the great nullifier.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:139 F ‘18 650w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 800w

“The powerful yet pathetic personality of Calhoun has never been so adequately portrayed as in the present biography. It is not only a history of the man, but one of his times.”

+ =Outlook= 117:476 N 21 ‘17 60w

“Mr Meigs is a Pennsylvanian, born since Calhoun’s death and free from the prejudices of the long period during which controversies in which the South Carolinian was identified divided public opinion in this country. His work as a biographer has been scholarly and thorough to a degree, and as a record of the public career of the South’s greatest statesman, this volume leaves little to be desired.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 120w

=MEIKLE, WILMA.= Towards a sane feminism. *$1.25 (4c) McBride 396 (Eng ed 17-21128)

Miss Meikle’s argument is “that a dependent class must become economically influential before it can hope for political power” (Dial), therefore women should enter commerce and business on a large scale. Feminist leaders, and militant suffragists in particular, come in for much criticism, yet the author believes that “without the nomadic life of the suffragists a mentally healthy womanhood could hardly have been evolved from the mentally anæmic ‘lady’ of the last generation.” Political enfranchisement, however, is far less important than “the reformation of the domestic relations of women, of their relation to their husbands, and their relation to their children and their work.” Political freedom will follow upon economic freedom. “Economic independence is vitally necessary for women in order that the full beauty of home life may be secured.” Other factors that will help to secure this are early marriages, less rigid marriage laws, and state aid in bringing up children. The fundamental, ultimate problem is the problem of sex. It must be solved “by attempting to balance the fiercest claims of the body with the mind’s ultimately stronger hunger for romance.”

“Written for England but applicable in many of its ideas to women anywhere. Thought provoking and to many, irritation-provoking.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:7 O ‘17

“There is a frankness throughout the book which leaves no unpleasant taste in the mouth even after the chapter in which sex is discussed.”

+ =Ath= p37 Ja ‘17 70w

“The author does not preach suffrage especially. Her attitude seems to be rather that of Lincoln toward abolition. If she can save women without getting a single vote she will do it. But she thinks that the vote will help her to gain her objects.” I. W. L.

=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 18 ‘17 530w

“Miss Meikle’s sharp and witty criticism is directed neither against men nor against the unawakened woman, but against feminist leaders and types and trends themselves. ... The family’s sacredness is undermined by her idea that ‘motherhood is one of the most casual of all relations.’ ... Her book is immensely capable and provocative. It is so novel in its scathing wit and its high good humor of irreverence that I can imagine it taken with some resentment by the more studious American feminists. Fortunately the discussion is of England, and there is admiring comment on women’s social and public achievements in the United States.” Randolph Bourne

+ =Dial= 63:103 Ag 16 ‘17 450w

“The criticisms of the Pankhurst psychology, and the snobbish, pretentious fraud of the higher education for women at the older universities, are admirable and much to the point. The style is clear and terse, with a graphic pictorial quality, but Wilma Meikle should beware of facile antitheses and off-hand dogmatism. She often sacrifices accuracy to effect.” F. W. S. Browne

+ — =Int J Ethics= 27:406 Ap ‘17 150w

“One wonders much where Miss Meikle obtained all of her remarkable assortment of misinformation about affairs in the United States.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 180w

=Pratt= p17 O ‘17 20w

“Her plea for restricting the size of the family is distinctly unpatriotic in such times as these, and her sneers at religion and good breeding in a chapter on ‘The Break-up of the lady’ are in the worst possible taste.”

— =Spec= 117:sup686 D 2 ‘16 80w

=MELISH, JOHN HOWARD.= Franklin Spencer Spalding, man and bishop. il *$2.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-14393

Franklin Spencer Spalding, Bishop of Utah, died in 1914. This story of his life is written by the rector of Holy Trinity church, Brooklyn. The biography begins with an account of Frank Spalding’s boyhood. He was eight years old when his father was appointed missionary bishop of Colorado, and his early years were thus spent in surroundings similar to those which were to be the scenes of his manhood labors. Subsequent chapters are: Frank Spalding, Princeton ‘87; The choice of a profession; Theological student; Jarvis Hall days; The parish house; Spiritual growth; His approach to the social problem; Called to be a bishop; The church in Utah; Salt Lake City; Mormonism; Begging east and west; The church in the mining camp; The church and socialism; Man among men; Manoach.

+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 60w

“In Mr Melish’s well told story of this earnest life we get no sectarianism and much discussion of the practical problems now before the church and before society, and much shrewd advice to the missionary.”

+ =Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 70w

“A helpful book for college men considering the question of a life calling, for ministers affected with excessive prudence and laymen who do not appreciate the work of a true minister. Socialists will find the chapter on the church and socialism almost as illuminating, perhaps, as the average churchman.” L: A. Walker

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 12 ‘17 400w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:744 N ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 40w

“The story of his life and work which Mr Melish has put together will help to preserve his memory and will prove inspiring to all who labor in hard places. It is also worthy of consideration as an answer to the overworked argument that the Episcopal church, cares little for social righteousness and those who labor with their hands.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 27 ‘17 950w

Reviewed by Graham Taylor

+ =Survey= 39:254 D 1 ‘17 380w

=MELVILLE, NORBERT JOHN.= Standard method of testing juvenile mentality by the Binet-Simon scale; with the original questions, pictures and drawings; a uniform procedure and analysis. il *$2 Lippincott 371.9 17-13701

This standard method of testing juvenile mentality by the Binet-Simon scale is prepared by the director of the psychological laboratory, Philadelphia school of pedagogy, and is based on experiments conducted by the author in public schools in Philadelphia, and other cities. These investigations, which have involved the training of several hundred co-workers, have demonstrated the necessity and practicability of standardizing each detail of procedure. Some of the questions that are given attention for the first time are: “With what tests should the examiner begin? Which of two alternative questions should be first employed in a given case? Under what conditions may a test be repeated? By what precise standards shall we decide whether responses in such tests as the definitions should be credited at age six or age nine?” Part 1 is devoted to General procedure in gathering and analyzing the data; Part 2 to Uniform method of applying the Binet-Simon scale (Final revision by Binet and Simon, 1911). William Healy, of the Juvenile psychopathic institute of Chicago, writes an introduction for the work.

=Ath= p518 O ‘17 150w

“The standard method developed by the writer of this manual is well characterized as provisional.’ We should note, however, that at the same time it is the outcome of more detailed research and gives more adequate attention to details of mental testing than does any such manual which we have yet seen.”

+ =El School J= 17:689 My ‘17 300w

“Part 2 provides, in form convenient for use, all the printed materials necessary for the tests. This is in itself a distinct service to Binet test-users.” M. R. Trabue

+ =J Philos= 14:530 S 13 ‘17 500w

“It is essentially a guide to practice, and as such may be warmly recommended.”

+ =Nature= 100:103 O 11 ‘17 280w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:93 Je ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:540 Je ‘17

“A very useful and practical work.” Alexander Johnson

+ =Survey= 39:260 D 1 ‘17 50w

=MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= Book of prefaces. *$1.50 (3c) Knopf 810.4 17-28839

The first two-thirds of this volume by the editor of the Smart Set discusses the work of Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, and James Huneker. The last third deals with Puritanism as a literary force. Here Mr Mencken discusses both the “Puritan impulse from within,” which “has been a dominating force in American life since the very beginning” and the “genesis and development” of the “Puritan authority from without”—the “organization of Puritanism upon a business and sporting basis.” Mr Mencken is out of sympathy with “this moral obsession,” as he calls it, which sets American literature “off sharply from all other literatures.”

“They abound in clever phrases and quick turns of thought.”

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“Few have dared to suggest so clearly the exact ways in which the present-day Puritans have laid a numbing hand on art and the manner in which their work has been done.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 1100w

— =Nation= 105:593 N 29 ‘17 2350w

“He has all the raw material of the good critic—moral freedom, a passion for ideas and for literary beauty, vigor and pungency of phrase, considerable reference and knowledge. Why have these intellectual qualities and possessions been worked up only so

## partially into the finished attitude of criticism?” Randolph Bourne

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“Here are vital appreciations, here are pungent bits of writing that interpret in terms of the classic realism, romanticism, naturalism, and what not, without the heavy professorial pedanticism.” F. J. K.

+ =N Y Call= p14 N 25 ‘17 1750w

“Mr Mencken is an intelligent man with a certain gift of phrase, and if he were content to be a critic, and not so often an apologist for the nasty, and if he only wrote in earnest, instead of being provocatively flippant and cynical, his mind might count in the critical councils of the hour. He writes entertainingly, but without special penetration, about Conrad. ... Mr Mencken does not merely rant against the Puritans. ... He does see that there was a moral elevation in Puritanism, though he apparently does not sympathize with a morality that subordinates the personality to a spiritual ideal—that, in other words, has the same aim as art. ... Pithy and nettling persiflage is the final judgment that one must pass on Mr Mencken’s book.”

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=MENZIES, AMY CHARLOTTE (BEWICKE) (MRS STUART MENZIES).= Memories discreet and indiscreet. il *$5 Dutton 17-30307

“This is a book of reminiscences of the interesting people whom the author met in the course of a wandering outdoor career as the wife of an army officer in India, Egypt, and England. She tells many new stories about celebrities as widely separated as Cardinal Manning and Lord Cardigan, Parnell, Father Stanton, Melton Prior, and Fred Burnaby; and she draws an unconventional sketch of a side of Lord Kitchener’s character not generally presented to the public. She gives, also, some fresh details of the famous ride to Kandahar and the Majuba Hill disaster, but serious information is not her forte.”—Spec

“An easy, intimate account of the life and achievements of those well-known to fame, told with a style and ease of manner that gratify our interest and curiosity.”

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“In her lighter moods she is always entertaining; she avoids malicious scandal, and leaves on the reader’s mind the impression of a very attractive personality, sweet-tempered, broad-minded, and unselfish, more devoted to living than to literature.”

+ =Spec= 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 170w

“The writer is a plucky, versatile, travelled woman; an entertaining conversationalist who writes as she talks.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p258 My 31 ‘17 980w

=MEREDITH, CHRISTABEL M.= Educational bearings of modern psychology. (Riverside educational monographs) *60c (2c) Houghton 370.1 17-715

This work by an Englishwoman, is an application of some of the principles of modern psychology to elementary education. The aim of the book is “to give a brief account of some portions of recent psychological work which have had and are likely to have a special influence on education. Part 1 is concerned mainly with genetic psychology: instincts, the growth of habit, and the effect of environment and suggestion. ... Part 2 is concerned with some special studies in educational psychology and in particular with experimental work.” (Preface) Dr Henry Suzzallo, in his introduction says, “The compass of the work is small, but a fine discrimination in choice and organization has made brevity a virtue unaccompanied by its usual shortcomings.”

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+ =Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 20w

“Within her limits Mrs Meredith has done distinctly useful work, choosing her topics with discretion and treating them in a competent and serviceable way. ... The final chapter on adolescence contains wisdom for parents as well as for teachers.”

+ =Nature= 98:27 S 14 ‘16 200w

=Pratt= p16 O ‘17 20w

=MERINGTON, MARGUERITE.= More fairy tale plays. il *$1.50 Duffield 812 17-22672

A companion volume to “Fairy tale plays,” planned on the same lines. The author has chosen familiar fairy tales and made them into plays, introducing new characters as her plots demand. Contents: Puss in boots; The three bears; Hearts of gold, or, Lovely Mytlie; Hansel and Gretel. A fee is charged for the stage use of any of the plays.

“They contain very little action and hardly a line of sincere dialogue; its lines being farfetched and facetious talk,—most of it (thank Heaven) well over the heads or under the feet of children.” J: Walcott

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=Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 20w

“Teachers and parents eager for plays to give to children will find this volume, by a seasoned playwright, of great help.”

+ =Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 60w

“The book has nothing in common with its name. It is devoid of either imagination or play.” LaVergne Miller

— =N Y Call= p14 Ja 12 ‘18 200w

“The conversation, too, is in keeping and often witty, and the stage directions are definite enough to result in a satisfactory representation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 70w

=MERTON, HOLMES WHITTIER (YARMO VEDRA, pseud.).= How to choose the right vocation. *$1.50 Funk 174 17-14247

A book which “aims to meet—so far as it is possible to do so without expert personal counseling—the urgent need of individual guidance in choice of vocation.” The author discusses in turn the dominant abilities—construction, intuition, reason, form, color, number, attention, etc. With the analysis of these dominant characteristics is included discussion of what he calls “essential” and “supporting,” as well as consideration of “deterrent” abilities. Following the discussion in each case are a group of “self measuring questions” and a list of the professions and trades which demand the characteristics under discussion. Several hundred professions, arts, commercial enterprises and trades are included in these lists. In conclusion there is a chapter on “The great vocation”—agriculture. Mr Merton is a vocational counselor in New York city and author of “Descriptive mentality.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 230w

“Its value is lessened by the lack of an index.”

+ — =Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 50w

“A curious, entertaining and doubtless useful compilation.”

+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 40w

“It is an educational volume of the self-educational kind, sure to profit one if studied in a receptive mood.”

+ =Lit D= 55:43 N 3 ‘17 290w

+ =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 200w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:125 Ag ‘17

“This overambitious attempt defeats its end by being so cumbersome that it is not convincing. It is doubtful whether any but those so intelligent as to need little guidance could guide themselves by this elaborate system. The book is worthy of study by vocational counselors for the suggestiveness of the questions and the descriptions of characteristics.” F. M. Leavitt and Margaret Taylor

– + =School R= 26:61 Ja ‘18 150w

=MERWIN, HENRY CHILDS.= Horse; his breeding, care, and treatment in health and disease. il *$1.50 (2c) McClurg 636.1 17-14155

A book on the breeding and care of horses. Earlier books by the author include “Dogs and men,” published in 1910, and “Road, track and stable,” published in 1912. Part 1 of this book treats of The breeding, training, and care of horses, part 2 of Diseases and injuries. A bibliography gives references to other books on the subject. The volume is well illustrated and is indexed.

=MERWIN, SAMUEL.= Temperamental Henry. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-24396

“‘Temperamental Henry,’ also sometimes known among his mates as ‘Henry the Ninth,’ is an eighteen-year-old youth who lives in a small Illinois town not far from Chicago. He holds the centre of the stage, but around him are grouped his ‘crowd’ of boys and girls, all of about his own age, while more or less importantly across the scene now and then crosses one of their elders. The author has turned his attention especially to Henry, and him has dissected and discussed and pictured, up and down, in and out, through all his waverings, irresponsible, sudden moods and absurdities, comedies and tragedies. It is a remarkable—and amusing—portrayal of the age of adolescence, comparable with, or, rather, a sort of chronological sequel to Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen,’ with which it will, inevitably, be compared.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 60w

“Henry strikes the reader as remarkably true. It is because he is so undoubtedly true to that temperamentality of youth, that the book possesses a meaning far in excess of the light story which it tells. The ability to bestow so complete a sense of reality upon a character must be acknowledged as fine art.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 3 ‘17 920w

“Mr Merwin takes his eighteen-year-old hero rather seriously, and makes one feel the near-tragedy as well as the humor, the romance as well as the banality, of that distressing period of emotional chaos termed adolescence.”

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w

“Both funny and pathetic.”

+ =Dial= 63:464 N 8 ‘17 80w

“Frankly, while we acknowledge that ‘boys will be boys’ and we love their foolish boyishness, we find ‘Henry the ninth’ a terrible strain on our credulity and are glad that our nineteen-year-old friends are not such gullible idiots.”

— =Lit D= 55:38 O 27 ‘17 230w

“The readers of the story, and they are sure to be many, will be glad to know that Mr Merwin purposes letting them follow Henry’s career as he grows older and becomes something more than an unlicked cub.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:366 S 30 ‘17 550w

“We would hardly say that Merwin and Barrie were in the same class as writers, much as we like the American’s humor and realism. But they both, surely, have created and given the breath of life to one adolescent, temperamental boy. Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen’ was funny. And it had its moments of extremely clear insight into a boy’s mind. But ‘Temperamental Henry’ goes much deeper, as did ‘Sentimental Tommy.’ ... Probably the most human bit about the whole book is the dedication. ‘To Sam and John,’ it reads, ‘with sympathy.’ That is the whole point. ... The author understands.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 92:801 S 15 ‘17 450w

“A most entertaining tale.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 500w

=MERWIN, SAMUEL, and others.= Sturdy oak; theme by Mary Austin; the chapters collected and (very cautiously) ed. by Elizabeth Jordan. il *$1.40 (2½c) Holt 17-31033

A composite volume from the pen of fourteen prominent writers who, good suffragists that they are, donated their services to the cause. It is a lively story of one George Remington who, as the action begins, has just brought his bride to the old Remington place, and is launching upon a political campaign for the post of district attorney. One of the big issues upon which he must express an opinion is that of woman suffrage. He writes a flowery article for his town’s leading paper, containing the usual anti home-is-the-sanctuary, man-the-protector, woman-the-ministering-angel line of objection to enfranchising women. The suffragists fully aroused, organize and swing into one of those efficient campaigns for which they are noted. Their aim is not to defeat Remington so much as to teach him a necessary lesson. When two unprotected female relatives of the clinging-vine type swoop down upon him, when his adorable wife becomes a suffragist, when he is shown the wretched housing conditions of the factory district owned by comfortable, flabby-brained women who won’t shoulder responsibilities—the scales fall from his eyes. His victory is complete.

“A good story and a boost for woman suffrage.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

“Though it is obviously a tour de force, it turns out to be no worse, if no better, than dozens of novels set adrift by the publishers each season. As a presentation of the ‘woman question,’ of which suffrage of course is only a phase, ‘The sturdy oak’ is absurd, even though it advances all the stock pros and demolishes all the stock cons. It is made to seem the more absurd by comparison with the new edition of ‘A woman of genius,’ by Mary Austin, the writer of