chapter 2
” concerning which he states that they are “those which were enunciated by the School of fire as the result of the most careful and comprehensive statistical studies. Their importance to field artillery men of all grades cannot be overestimated.” The three appendixes show Range tables, Common errors in firing, and Problems given at the School of fire. The book was issued in May, 1917 and reached a second printing in July.
=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Jl ‘17 100w
=MORGAN, JAMES MORRIS.= Recollections of a Rebel reefer. il *$3 Houghton 17-11810
“The author was a boy midshipman when the Civil war began. The most interesting period of his service under the confederacy was on the cruiser Georgia, mate to the famous Alabama. His adventures afterwards in the reconstruction period and as an officer in the Egyptian service are told with animation and gusto.”—Outlook
=A L A Bkl= 13:447 Jl ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 21 ‘17 1400w
=Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 60w
“His narrative is frank and relieved with humor, and the breadth of outlook it displays gives it value as a historical document.”
+ =Dial= 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 300w
“Few men could possibly set down such a record of their activities as this book affords. Not every man would care to tell so freely all his escapades as Mr Morgan has told his. Taken as a whole, his story may not inspire the reader to nobler ambitions or a loftier purpose, but it is a positive change from the customary ‘Recollections’ and ‘Reminiscences’ that so many have written, and it reads almost like a romance.”
+ =Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 340w
“Mr Morgan here discloses a personality as interesting as the life adventures which he tells so well. The exaggerated sentiment which mars so many of the books relating to the South of this period is happily absent.”
+ =Nation= 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 700w
“One of the best of recent books of reminiscence, because its narrative has spirit and a sense of humor.”
+ =Outlook= 116:33 My 2 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:526 Je ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p45 O ‘17 40w
=R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 100w
“Throughout Mr Morgan enlivens his book by witty anecdotes mostly concerning persons famous during the Civil war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 27 ‘17 520w
=MORGAN, JAMES OSCAR.= Field crops for the cotton-belt. (Rural textbook ser.) il *$1.75 Macmillan 633 17-2193
In this volume, planned as a college text, the author has endeavoured “to present clearly and accurately the science and art of field-crop production in the south. As the art of crop production is based primarily on the sciences of botany and chemistry, the aim has been to give to these subjects their proper application.” (Preface) Cotton and corn, the two leading crops of the south, have been given first and most extended attention. Other crops given consideration are oats, wheat, rye, barley, rice, the sorghums, sugar cane and the peanut. The
## book is illustrated and provided with an index. The author is
professor of agronomy in the Agricultural and mechanical college of Texas.
=A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 30w
“Prof. Oscar Morgan’s contribution worthily upholds the reputation of the series, and is likely to be accepted as having a value considerably beyond the sphere of usefulness very possibly contemplated for it by its author. ... The book will be appreciated by cotton-growers throughout the world. In that light it is perhaps unfortunate that so much elementary science was thought necessary. The first principles of the physiology and chemistry of plant life might have been left to the lower school text-book. A glossary of terms would have got over any difficulty presumed to exist.”
+ — =Nature= 99:342 Je 28 ‘17 750w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:44 Mr ‘17
=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17 120w
=MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT.= Critique of the theory of evolution; lectures delivered at Princeton university, February 24, March 1, 8, 15, 1916. (Louis Clark Vanuxem foundation) il *$1.50 (6c) Princeton univ. press 575 16-22585
This work by a professor of experimental zoology in Columbia university, is an examination of the older evidence on which the theory of evolution was based in the light of later evidence. In his preface he furnishes a synopsis of the contents of his book: “In the first lecture an attempt is made to put a new valuation on the traditional evidence for evolution. In the second lecture the most recent work on heredity is dealt with, for only characters that are inherited can become a part of the evolutionary process. In the third lecture the physical basis of heredity and the composition of the germ plasm stream are examined in the light of new observations; while in the fourth lecture the thesis is developed that chance variation combined with a property of living things to manifold themselves is the key note of modern evolutionary thought.”
“Scholarly yet popular.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:384 Je ‘17
“Very searching and illuminating exposition.”
+ =Educ R= 54:528 D ‘17 30w
+ =Ind= 90:254 My 5 ‘17 200w
“When we look to the present summary for some statement of what important progress in our conception and understanding of inheritance is to be reported, we are reluctantly driven to the conclusion that what Prof. Morgan calls ‘a satisfactory solution of the traditional problem of heredity’ is only a restatement of the problem in terms of invisible ‘factors’ associated with chromosomes. The existence of such ‘factors’ is not a new inference, but has been a feature of theories of inheritance both before and since Darwin’s treatment of the subject.” E. R. Lankester
* =Nature= 99:181 My 3 ‘17 1500w
Reviewed by A. E. Watson
+ =Survey= 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 370w
“The illustrations are copious and very instructive, and are drawn very largely from flies.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p24 Ja 11 ‘17 60w
Reviewed by Ellsworth Huntington
=Yale R= n s 6:667 Ap ‘17 750w
=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Parnassus on wheels. *$1.25 (3½c) Doubleday 17-24508
“R. Mifflin is the ‘Professor’s’ name, and he has built a book-van in which he travels over the country, selling books to farmers and their families, to people in small towns, wherever he can get an audience and interest people in the joys of literature. ... But the little man ... has decided that he wants to sell his ‘Parnassus on wheels,’ and Helen McGill, housekeeper on a New England farm for her brother, who, from being a farmer has blossomed out into a David-graysonish kind of author, decides that she wants an adventure herself. So she buys the van and she and the ‘Professor’ ... set off together. He is going to ride with her for a day and show her how, and then he is going to Brooklyn to live for a while and write a book. The story is concerned almost wholly with their adventures, which are many and varied and entertaining.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
“It is graceful in style, light in substance, merry in its attitude towards life, and entertaining in every aspect of its plot and insight into character. It is both a story and an essay. ... It is real, yet it is fantastic; it is fantastic, yet it is real. And, best of all, it has an original idea in it that is carried just far enough.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 1400w
“A story of quaint and spicy flavors.”
+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 100w
“Mr Morley combines genuine understanding of the ‘bookish’ temperament with humor that is irresistible.”
+ =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 90w
“A delightfully absurd little book, whose quaint whimsies make excellent reading aloud for winter evenings.”
+ =Ind= 93:241 F 9 ‘18 40w
“A bit of true romantic comedy.”
+ =Nation= 106:118 Ja 31 ‘18 170w
“It is a droll, engaging story, but it is so much more than just a droll story that one needs to read it to find out how many other kinds of things a droll story can be at the same time.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:360 S 23 ‘17 550w
+ =Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 60w
Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 92:803 S 15 ‘17 270w
+ + — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 23 ‘17 500w
=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Songs for a little house. *$1.25 Doran 811 17-29993
Bayberry candles, A charm for our new fireplace, Six weeks old, Reading aloud, The milkman, The cedar chest, Washing the dishes, and The furnace are some of the “Songs for a little house” that constitute the first group of poems in this book and give it its title. “A handful of sonnets,” and a series of poems on the war, followed by a group of humorous verses, “Hay fever, and other literary pollen” complete the volume.
“‘Songs for a little house’ are very delightful and cheery and intimate; very simple, but fresh and bright and musical, in expression. In the other groups Mr Morley shows how versatile are his poetic gifts. He shows it in his themes and interests rather than in his style, though this has a distinction in spite of its common patterns that is full of charm. At trifling, in the light familiar vein, he is a rare performer. In the group of ‘Hay fever, and other literary pollen,’ he is in humorous and witty vein, quite the best of our younger poets who affect light verse.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 730w
“A home-book in every sense of the word. These poems of Mr Morley are written with a very delicate touch—simple and with an air of spontaneity that takes them direct to the heart.”
+ =Lit D= 55:61 D 8 ‘17 570w
=MORLEY, JOHN MORLEY, viscount.= Recollections. 2v *$7.50 (5c) Macmillan 17-29196
This is not a work of biography, for the author does not present intimate details of personal life, and a chronological order is not followed in the arrangement of material. The chapters that compose the two volumes are grouped into six books: The republic of letters; Public life; Three years in Ireland; Policies and persons; A short page in imperial history; A critical landmark. A short passage from the introduction will serve to indicate something of the temper of the work: “Much of my ground obviously involves others; deeply should I regret if a single page were found unfair, or likely to wound just sensibilities. More deeply still should I deplore it, if a single page or phase or passing mood of mine were either to dim the lamp of loyalty to reason, or to dishearten earnest and persistent zeal for wise politics, in younger readers with their lives before them.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:128 Ja ‘18
“His book was bound to be in some degree an apologia, and I notice that more than one critic has condemned its complacency. My own disappointment is on other grounds. I had expected a full length autobiography, and what we have been given is at most a torso. ... Perhaps politicians will welcome what I regret. Yet I cannot help feeling that the book would have gained if it had been a little more intimate, and—though it is on the borders of blasphemy to ask this from Lord Morley—a little more indiscreet.”
+ — =Ath= p659 D ‘17 340w
“A book which contains a wealth of portraiture, wisdom, quiet wit, and what the public loves best of all—‘secret history.’ Here, assuredly, is both a book to praise and a man to praise.”
+ =Ath= p662 D ‘17 1300w
+ =Ath= p682 D ‘17 240w
“For an abstract and brief chronicle of the later nineteenth century times in all their British aspect, the reader of the future will unquestionably turn to these recollections of Lord Morley.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 8 ‘17 1700w
“Never has the intellectual beauty of the Victorian age been more truly and eloquently defined, ever has it been more brilliantly and sympathetically exemplified than by Viscount Morley’s ‘Recollections.’” R. M. Lovett
+ =Dial= 64:16 Ja 3 ‘18 2700w
“One of those works that appear hardly oftener than once in a decade, books indispensable for all students of modern history and social life, and the public affairs of our own age.”
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 170w
“Writing with entire freedom of the political events in England of thirty years past, in which he played so worthy a part, Morley betrays no secrets, sets down no bitter verdicts. His serenity and restraint are out of the common. ... Only an occasional and incidental reference is made to the great struggle, and that without irritation or bitterness. Yet we cannot help thinking that Morley intended this work of his to have its significance as bearing on his attitude towards the war. Without directly condemning it, he sets forth the ideals of statesmanship which would have prevented it. It is a record of enlightened and consistent liberalism which he puts before his readers, leaving them to draw the moral.”
+ =Nation= 105:568 N 22 ‘17 1500w
“The book is essentially a simple one. There is absent from it the personal, eager fling of definiteness that made de Tocqueville’s ‘Memoirs’ the pleasantest of arm-chair comforts. It has nothing of the almost dazzling splendor that made of Meredith, to whom he gives some shining pages, a comet across the sky. It is the revelation of life in its two deepest interests that Lord Morley offers—what he has known of literature and of politics. It is the portrait of the world as it dawned upon the vision of one who gave his days to thought; and curiosity is stilled at the deliberate reservation.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 13:286 Ja 5 ‘18 2800w
“It is not too much to say that Lord Morley does not mention one prominent figure of his time—scarcely one person—without giving the reader a living picture of the man. What he has to say of Gladstone, especially of the failure of his last cabinet, is as vivid as it is valuable. ... As a piece of writing, ‘Recollections’ is charming—charming in the fine, large, literal sense of holding, pleasing, delighting, the reader’s mind.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:489 N 25 ‘17 1650w
=Pittsburgh= 22:804 D ‘17 120w
“The outstanding work of its kind of the year.” Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 92:2028 D 8 ‘17 480w
“Lord Morley’s style as writer and speaker has the merits of clearness, point and logic. It is so plain as to be, if not bald, certainly cold, and it is unrelieved by wit or humour.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:417 N 24 ‘17 1250w
“His attitude has dignity, and frees the book from anything resembling party passion. ... Lord Morley’s book abounds in interest.”
+ =Spec= 119:568 N 17 ‘17 2500w
+ =Spec= 119:600 N 24 ‘17 2600w
“The quotations with which the work is embellished are only such as could come from one who had ‘taken all knowledge for his province.’ On every page there is substance to delight the thoughtful reader as well as to instruct him, for a very high quality of charm is attained in this chronicle of serious persons and serious events.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 3450w
“It is a book of immense interest, stimulus, even inspiration; not one of companionship, still less one of equality. There is more of ordinary humanity in two pages of Boswell or Lockhart than in these two large volumes. Lord Morley is no confessor. We get no weaknesses here except that of a somewhat complacent quality akin to vanity, which contemplates all his doings with a self-assured serenity of approval, but without which the book would have lost some of its best pages.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p561 N 22 ‘17 4400w
“In many libraries the work will have a very limited reading, but if possible it should be at the disposal of those few who will find in it food for thought and discussion and a better understanding of the British people and their problems.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 120w
=MORRIS, LLOYD R.= Celtic dawn; a survey of the renascence in Ireland, 1889-1916. *$1.50 (3c) Macmillan 820.9 17-4807
“‘The Celtic dawn’ is a study of the several movements which, although having their foundation in a single consciously expressed philosophy, have labored in widely varied fields to produce a new social synthesis in contemporary Ireland.” (Foreword) As the five movements of major importance the author names those which have been concerned with literature, with the drama, with the revival of Gaelic, with economic and social reform, and with political thought. These are treated in six chapters as follows: The forces at work; Critical theories of the renascence; Poetry of the renascence; The drama; The novel, folk-lore, and other prose; Movements for social and economic reform. The last
## chapter includes a treatment of the Sinn Fein and the rebellion of
1916.
=A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17
“His survey is the best proportioned, though not in detail the most complete, which we have yet received. ... There are, however, a few
## particulars in which the book might be improved. ... Mr Morris has
failed to indicate the exact problems and the position of the Catholic church in relation to this movement. ... But of all these faults, which are, after all, only minor ones, the worst is the exasperating absence of a usable bibliography. Mr Morris is a good critic, of that we have no doubt, but scarcely a thorough and exact scholar.” Elbridge Colby
+ — =Bellman= 22:438 Ap 21 ‘17 650w
“Boyd’s ‘Ireland’s literary renascence’ is perhaps a better all around treatment, especially as the present volume is not provided with an index.”
=Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 110w
“Mr Morris is particularly happy in his characterizations of A. E. Synge, and James Stephens, but we miss that recent remarkable apparition James Joyce.”
+ — =Dial= 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 250w
+ =Ind= 90:469 Je 9 ‘17 30w
“The last chapter is a sound and valuable piece of work and a most serviceable outline of the various movements in the social and political life of the last generation in Ireland.”
+ — =Nation= 105:74 Jl 19 ‘17 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:61 Ap ‘17
“After dealing adequately with the fiction, the novel and folklore of the Gael, Mr Morris enters with the greatest intelligence into a discussion of the social and economic reforms undertaken in Ireland by Sir Horace Plunkett and ‘A. E.’ The guild organization inaugurated by Plunkett after his return from North America, and inspired by the agricultural banking reforms of Germany, has produced such prosperity and advancement in the country and village life that it may be said to have revolutionized Irish conditions and given new phases to the national political questions. ... ‘The Celtic dawn’ is a work for the shelves of every library that desires a statement of the latest and most significant movement in English literature.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:225 Je 10 ‘17 680w
=St Louis= 15:182 Je ‘17 10w
=MORRIS, LLOYD R.=, comp. Young idea. *$1.25 (4c) Duffield 810.4 17-13546
“An anthology of opinion concerning the spirit and aims of contemporary American literature.” When the plan of this book was formulated by the author, he sent out letters to representative writers among the younger generation of authors asking for opinions on the new movement in literature. A compilation of the replies received, with introductory and concluding essays by Mr Morris, make up this volume. Some of these replies are brief and of interest chiefly as expressions of personal opinion; others, of more extended length, constitute genuine contributions to criticism. Mr Morris has arranged the contents in five parts: The empiricists; The romanticists; The idealists; The pessimists; The traditionalists. The discussion has chiefly to do with the revival in poetry.
“Good for club papers.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17
“The volume constitutes a criticism and interpretation of modern American poetry as it appears to its creators and furnishes the best basis for a comparative study of these poets of any book yet published.”
+ =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 130w
“If you examine the various credos contributed by such poets as Miss Lowell, Vachel Lindsay, Conrad Aiken, Louis Untermeyer, Max Eastman, and Miss Monroe, you will hear them all repeating in one form or another the conviction that what chiefly marks off our period is the passion for emancipation. ... But the thing that strikes one as, after all, strangest about these various passionate confessions of faith is that there should be felt to be so pressing a need to defend the claims of truth on our attention. ... How much more persuasive is the innocence of the Russian, who never thinks of apologizing for telling the truth and has always regarded his everyday adventure as the stuff out of which to fashion the most profound and strangely beautiful creations of the modern mind.” G: B. Donlin
=Dial= 62:520 Je 14 ‘17 1150w
“‘The young idea’ represents a variety of revolutionary spirits. One is willing to grant that most of them would prefer to revolt by writing verse than by telling how they do it.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 15 ‘17 260w
=MORRIS, SIR MALCOLM ALEXANDER.= Nation’s health; the stamping out of venereal diseases. *$1.25 Funk 616.95 SG17-260
“As a member of the Royal commission, Sir Malcolm Morris has written this admirable little book to drive home the lessons of the report. He describes, the history and nature of venereal disease, showing incidentally that it is more prevalent in towns than in the country. He lays stress on the difficulties in the way of compulsory notification, and still more of compulsory treatment. He regards the old policy of regulation, still followed on the Continent, as a complete failure. ... In a final chapter he says some plain words on the increase of the plague caused by the war and the urgent need of dealing with it more thoroughly.”—Spec
“A very admirable little book, written by one who is thoroughly conversant with the subject and entitled to speak to the British public as a great authority. It would be well if copies could be seen in every library in the kingdom.” L. C. P.
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:460 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute sup p1 Mr ‘17)
+ =Spec= 118:141 F 3 ‘17 120w
“While it deals with conditions in England, it is almost equally applicable to our own situation in America, and will not only be useful to those who are directly interested in the public health problems of venereal disease, but will also be valuable to any reader who seeks a clear and simple statement of the facts.” J. H. Foster
+ =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 510w
“It is written with judgment and discretion, as well as with technical mastery of the subject. ... Sir Malcolm Morris has a chapter on ‘Spreading the light,’ which we view with considerable misgiving.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p44 Ja 25 ‘17 500w
=MORRISON, EDWARD, and BRUES, CHARLES THOMAS.= How to make the garden pay. *75c (2½c) Houghton 635 17-18831
A manual for the intensive cultivation of home vegetable gardens written to tell both novices and experienced gardeners how so to cultivate a small area as to increase as much as possible the home food-supply. The authors have had experience as home gardeners and Mr Brues is assistant professor of economic entomology at Harvard university. Contents: Right planning; Profitable methods; Alphabetical list of vegetables with directions; Insect enemies and diseases (Those of the cabbage take three pages of text). The appendix gives tables showing the Food value of fresh vegetables and other foods and dates for garden-planting, also a Home gardener’s calendar for the northern states. The book is indexed.
+ =Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 20w
“An excellent, business-like, little handbook.”
+ =Ind= 91:110 Jl 21 ‘17 50w
“By far the most valuable little book on vegetable gardening for the novice as well as the more experienced that has come under our purview this season.” S.
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:665 O ‘17
+ =St Louis= 15:365 O ‘17 30w
“The garden novice can profit greatly by frequent consultation of this manual.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 28 ‘17 160w
=MORSE, EDWARD LELAND CLARK.= Spanish-American life; a reader for students of modern Spanish. (Lake Spanish ser.) il *$1.25 Scott 468 17-12482
“A reader consisting mainly of extracts from Central and South American newspapers. Our southern neighbors are thus made to describe themselves. These selections are easy, well chosen, and interesting. The editor has travelled much in New Spain and observed closely. His attitude is as sympathetic as could be desired. The annotations are original and refreshingly unpedantic. The copious illustrations are taken mostly from Mr Morse’s own photographs.”—Nation
“No better presentation of South American civilization has yet appeared in textbook form.”
+ =Nation= 104:662 My 31 ‘17 90w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:694 O ‘17 30w
=MORSE, EDWARD SYLVESTER.= Japan day by day, 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83. il *$8 Houghton 915.2 17-28348
“Professor Edward S. Morse, the genial, ambidextrous director of the Peabody museum at Salem and expert curator of Japanese pottery at the Boston art museum, set out for Japan forty years ago for the sole purpose of studying brachiopods. ... The newly founded Imperial university of Tokio discovered this enthusiastic young fisherman hard at work and captured him. He was carried off triumphantly and made professor of zoölogy.” (Boston Transcript) He held this position “during a very interesting period in the early years of the transformation of Japan and witnessed some of the throes of the struggle of occidental and oriental ideals from the vantage-point of a government official, with an outlook from the capital city. It was, however, the daily life of the people, their quaint and curious and clever ways and devices, so different from our own, and their social customs and industrial methods which most interested him. ... This
## book is a narrative abstracted from his daily journal.” (Dial)
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:164 F ‘18
“It is a book of great enthusiasms and conveys a whole world of curious information not to be found in any guide-book.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 1800w
+ =Dial= 63:591 D 6 ‘17 350w
Reviewed by Poultney Bigelow
+ =Ind= 93:72 Ja 12 ‘18 970w
“The present work is encyclopedic in that it furnishes concrete information of the most intimate and detailed character on native life in Japan a generation ago, yet with all the interest of personal and connected narrative.”
+ =Lit D= 56:34 Ja 12 ‘18 400w
“With the multitude of thumb-nail sketches which form an integral part of the record, the general effect is that of a casual illustrated lecture—undeniably vivid in spots, but often disconcertingly abrupt in its transitions from subject to subject, and not infrequently naive in its generalizations.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:451 N 4 ‘17 1200w
“Mr Morse writes with adequate responsibility and in a scholarly spirit. His book is authoritative, detailed, comprehensive; it is also zestful, almost ‘larky.’”
+ =No Am= 206:959 D ‘17 500w
“A record in which the freshness of daily impression is preserved.”
+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 110w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:824 D ‘17 80w
“The unique history of this inimitable record of a traveler’s impressions is suggestive of nothing so much as some rare old vintage which has mellowed for decades in the wood before being finally decanted to delight the palate of a younger generation. Yet, in a work dealing confessedly with the social conditions of a nation in a transition state, one wishes that either the author himself or perhaps some one better informed as to present day conditions in Japan, could have indicated on the one hand the customs which have passed away, and on the other those which still endure.” Calvin Winter
+ — =Pub W= 92:1381 O 20 ‘17 750w
=MORSE, FRANCES CLARY.=[2] Furniture of the olden time. new ed il *$6 Macmillan 749 17-27766
A new edition of a standard work that was first published in 1902. There are over a hundred and twenty new illustrations and a new chapter on “Doorways, mantels, and stairs.” There has also been added a glossary of terms employed by cabinet makers.
“A new edition of a standard work that has made itself almost indispensable to people of taste in matters of household equipment. This is a book to make the reader feel proud of the workers and workmanship of the old days.”
+ =Outlook= 118:68 Ja 2 ‘18 60w
“It is indispensable to the collector and has a special interest as well for the cabinet maker, the art student, and the student of domestic history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 100w
=MORTIMER, MAUD.= Green tent in Flanders. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 940.91 17-24525
These sketches from the war zone appear to be extracts from the daily record of a volunteer nurse. The author is an American woman who served for a time as an assistant in one of the field hospitals. With a somewhat milder and gentler pen, she draws pictures that are not so different from those of Ellen LaMotte in “The backwash of war.” Parts of the book have appeared in Everybody’s and other magazines.
“It is made vivid by the human touches in the glimpses of the poilus as they come and go and in the heroism or littleness of the nurses and doctors.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17
“Of all the books on the war we have yet seen, this is by far the most appealing because of its fine quality of style, its restrained handling, and the intimate, sympathetic view it gives of human nature under the stress of terrible events.”
+ =Cath World= 106:390 D ‘17 370w
“The entries are fragmentary and the harrowing details of field hospital work continually intrude, but suffering, heroism and humor appeal to the author’s human side and she has the artist’s vision.”
+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 50w
“The wounded soldiers who pass under Miss Mortimer’s care are portrayed with graphic, sympathetic touch, and the numerous anecdotes could only have been told by an acute observer with a sense for the picturesque.”
+ =Dial= 64:120 Ja 31 ‘18 90w
“All unconsciously, it would seem, she has struck an immortal chord vibrating thru the silence of mortality, and by it lifts her book out from its haunting shadows into that white light by which many may find faith restored and grief comforted.”
+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 220w
“The artistic vision, the philosophic tendency of mind, and the quiet humor make it all as different from an ordinary chronicle of hospital service as a statue is different from a block of marble.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:463 N 11 ‘17 480w
“The author has illustrated her own book with little pen and ink sketches usually but not always serving as chapter headings, and quite as effective as more finished pictures.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 300w
=MOSBY, JOHN SINGLETON.= Memoirs; ed. by Charles Wells Russell. il *$3 (3½c) Little 17-25282
In every war, says the introduction, there are figures which, “through intrepidity, originality, and brilliancy of action” raise themselves above their fellows and achieve a picturesqueness that is commonly associated with characters in fiction. Such a figure was Colonel Mosby, one of the most daring of the Confederate raiders. “In the South his dashing exploits made him one of the great heroes of the ‘lost cause.’ In the North he was painted as the blackest of redoubtable scoundrels.” Colonel Mosby, who lived to the age of eighty-five, had all but completed his memoirs before his death in 1916. These have now been edited for publication. After the war he became one of Grant’s personal friends, and the book closes with two chapters devoted to: My recollections of General Lee, and My recollections of General Grant.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17
“The story as Mosby has written it is full of deep interest and one, in the reading, soon loses sight of the fact that this is the narrative of one who was doing his utmost to destroy our common country, and becomes absorbed in the delight of the narrative and the vigor of the telling.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 800w
“The narrative of the war is lucidly and interestingly written and his defense of General Stuart’s strategy is a valuable contribution to the military history of the times.”
+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 80w
+ =Lit D= 55:45 O 13 ‘17 400w
“Colonel Mosby seems to have had almost as enjoyable a time in raiding the weak places in Lee’s inaccurate report of the Gettysburg campaign, in Longstreet’s Memoirs, and in the numerous biographies of Lee and other writings by his staff officers as he had during the war in descending upon the trains, camps, and cattle herds of the Union armies in Virginia. ... The lively narrative of Mosby’s own exploits sometimes fails to be sustained by other evidence.”
+ — =Nation= 106:147 F 7 ‘18 1150w
“A very valuable addition to Civil war literature. The only adverse criticism that can be made is that they contain rather too many quotations from official reports and family letters which have but a faint interest to the reader of to-day.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 1200w
=MOSES, MONTROSE JONAS.= American dramatist. new rev ed il *$1.75 Little 812 17-17744
“A second edition of ‘The American dramatist,’ has been revised and enlarged to contain a history of the progress of the motion-picture industry and the advance of American drama since 1910. Mr Moses presents the drama largely in its sociological aspects, and his character sketches of dramatists have a biological trend. ... Among the latter is a study of Percy MacKaye and his father, Steele MacKaye. There is a chapter on ‘little theaters.’ ... The closing chapter discusses the privileges and duties of the dramatic critic.” (R of Rs) A “Bibliography of the American dramatist” is found on pages [379]-394.
=A L A Bkl= 14:67 N ‘17
Reviewed by Algernon Tassin
=Bookm= 46:348 N ‘17 290w
“The author apparently thinks that his task of ‘revision’ is fulfilled by covering the six years that have passed since his work originally appeared with a number of extra chapters here and there. He seems to have left his original work almost untouched, and as the later chapters are not specifically indicated, we are often quite unable to tell whether the author is looking back from 1911 or from 1917. The result is a good deal of muddle. ... There is about ‘The American dramatist’ a lack of enthusiasm, an over-critical note that suggests a quite undue pessimism; a scarcity of constructive criticism.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 220w
“It is, all in all, an excellent book, yet it does not give enough attention to individual plays; gives too much attention to conventionalized ideas, and gives too little credit to ‘the movies,’ to the little theater and to those dramatists of excellent ‘moments,’ who by their very failures to construct model plays best exemplify the American drama’s real trend.”
+ — =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w
=R of Rs= 56:443 O ‘17 150w
=MOSS, JAMES ALFRED.= Trench warfare. il $1.25 Banta pub. 355 17-17084
“Major Moss ... is a member of the United States army, and bases his handbook on private and official British publications which set forth the best methods, as developed by experience, of training and instructing officers and men in trench warfare. The first chapter, on ‘Tactical fortifications,’ deals with the work of making intrenchments and other field fortifications; the second taking up, under the heading, ‘The service of the trenches,’ such matters as routine of duty, billeting, sanitation, the different methods of offense and defense, and the responsibilities of the platoon commander. Other chapters deal with sniping, grenades and grenadiers, gas warfare, bayonet fighting, machine guns, and various features of the offensive. A complete set of questions for every chapter adds to the value of the book for purposes of instruction in training camps. It is very fully illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken at the front.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17
“A good guide book for the soldier.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 5 ‘17 100w
=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 20w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p16 Jl ‘17 60w
“Major Moss’s presentation of the methods of warfare that have been developed during the last three years is perhaps the most exhaustive that has been made.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 210w
=Pratt= p14 O ‘17 30w
=MOSS, JAMES ALFRED, and STEWART, MERCH BRADT.= Military training for boys; intended to develop body, character and patriotism. il 50c Banta 355.07 17-16556
This volume was prepared by two officers of the United States army, joint authors of “Self-helps for the citizen soldier,” for the use of the National school camp association. The purpose is defined as follows: “First, to give the boys of this country a clear idea of the part that military preparedness and training play in the life of a nation; second, to teach them some of the A.B.C.’s of military training; third, to make clear to the American youth that the drills and maneuvers of military training, while necessary, are only one side—the mechanical side—of the soldier’s work, and that the lessons of patriotism, loyalty, discipline, frugality, physical and moral sturdiness, self-reliance, self-control, determination and respect for the law, all of which enter into the training of a soldier, are qualities which will help them to be better citizens and more successful men in every walk of life, and that they may, every day of their lives, while training themselves for their work in life, at the same time, train themselves in the qualities which the soldier must have; fourth, to impress upon our boys the fact that in the future, as in the past, we must depend upon the citizenry of the country to defend it.” (Prefatory note)
=St Louis= 15:359 O ‘17 30w
=MOSS, JAMES ALFRED, and STEWART, MERCH BRADT.= Our flag and its message. *25c Lippincott 929.9 17-14035
This little booklet is by two officers of the United States army. “In the compass of less than thirty pages they give the story of ‘Old Glory,’ explain its symbolism and present in addition the President’s appeal for unity at the opening of hostilities between our country and Germany.” (Cath World) “America” and “The Star spangled banner” are printed in full.
=Boston Transcript= p16 S 26 ‘17 60w
“One of the most attractive leaflets we have seen among the host of such publications the war has brought forth.”
+ =Cath World= 105:846 S ‘17 90w
=MOULTON, FOREST RAY.= Introduction to astronomy. new and rev ed il *$2.25 Macmillan 520 16-23571
“The necessity for a new edition has given Dr Moulton an opportunity to rewrite his manual, with the addition of some new material and an altered organization. The first chapters in the new edition deal with the earth and its motions, and aim in general to ‘illustrate the care with which scientific theories are established,’ and the chapters on the sun and the evolution of the solar system follow the treatment of the moon, planets and comets.”—Springf’d Republican
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:276 Mr ‘17
+ =Ind= 30:382 My 26 ‘17 40w
“The popularity of Prof. Forest Ray Moulton’s ‘Introduction to astronomy’ is attested by the fact that there have been seven reprints since the first appearance of the textbook ten years ago. ... There are nearly 200 diagrams and photographic illustrations. Dr Moulton is professor of astronomy in the University of Chicago and research associate of the Carnegie institution of Washington.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 150w
=MOXCEY, MARY ELIZA.= Girlhood and character; introd. by G: A. Coe. (Manuals of religious education for parents and teachers) *$1.50 Abingdon press 173 16-23594
“For leaders, teachers, and parents of girls this is an analysis of the problems of adolescent girlhood, from the standpoints of physiology, psychology, and growth of character through formal and informal education. Divided into four parts, taking up the problem as the older generation sees it, early adolescence, middle, and later adolescence.”—A L A Bkl
“Has been criticized as bordering on sentimentalism and attempting too varied a field.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:374 Je ‘17
“The author makes clear that the moral education of the emotions begins not with prescribing or proscribing acts for young people, but in self-knowledge, reverence and control.”
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 18 ‘17 150w
“A full bibliography of books relating to girls and women is a valuable addition.”
+ =Ind= 89:559 Mr 26 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:700 O ‘17 40w
“Personal service rather than hearty cooperative endeavor becomes the character factor. This lack in the book is counterbalanced by the suggestive treatment of certain other points.” K. T.
+ =Survey= 38:289 Je 30 ‘17 200w
=MÜCKE, HELLMUTH VON.= The “Ayesha”; tr. by Helene S. White. il *$1.25 (3c) Ritter & co. 940.91 17-4203
The landing squad of the “Emden” was sent on shore at the Keeling Islands to destroy a wireless station. While they were so occupied, the “Emden” became engaged in action, and Lieutenant von Mücke with his men, unable to overtake her in their small motor boat, were left stranded. To stay on the island meant capture by the British, and taking possession of a small sailing vessel, a none too seaworthy craft, that lay in the harbor, they made their escape. This was the “Ayesha.” It is interesting to note that the Englishmen on the island, to whom the “sporting side of the situation” made an appeal, helped the Germans in their departure. As an exciting narrative the tale of their adventures is worthy of the commendation that the translator in her preface and Lieutenant Klein of the United States navy in his foreword give it.
=Cleveland= p71 My ‘17 80w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17
“It is interesting in the first place as a record of gallant and perilous adventure, in more ways than one a veritable wonder-voyage. And it is interesting as a personal narrative, for the gayety, humor, and briskness with which the story is told.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:263 Jl 15 ‘17 170w
=Pittsburgh= 22:530 Je ‘17 70w
+ =St Louis= 15:134 My ‘17 10w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 130w
=MÜCKE, HELLMUTH VON.= The “Emden”; tr. by Helene S. White. il *$1.25 (4c) Ritter & co. 940.91 17-13489
Kapitänleutnant von Mücke, first officer on board the Emden, gives an account of that ship’s adventures in the fall of 1914. News that Germany was at war with Russia and France was received on August 2, and the Emden, then in the Indian ocean, was immediately made ready for action. The first chapter contains a brief and positive statement of the causes of the war from the German point of view, but in the remainder of the book the author confines himself quite strictly to his narrative. As he has related in “The Ayesha,” he had gone ashore with the landing squad at the time of the Emden’s last fight, so he can only describe that event as witnessed from a distance.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17
+ =Ind= 91:32 Jl 7 ‘17 350w
“If this were a primeval struggle, with no cables, wireless, or correspondents to keep the world informed of its minutest fluctuations; if only a few incidents rose out of the haze of rumor to stand clear in the light of fact, the Emden might then be the central theme of an Iliad in which its Capt. von Mücke was Achilles. Unfortunately the narrative, appearing as it did at about the time America declared war, cannot hope for as large an audience as it might have won in a better day.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ‘17 270w
=MUIR, JOHN.= Cruise of the Corwin. il *$2.50 (5½c) Houghton 919.8 17-31765
When the “Thomas Corwin” put out from San Francisco in 1881 in search of the “Jeannette,” lost somewhere in the Arctic, John Muir, already distinguished for his glacial studies in the Sierra Nevada and Alaska, was a member of the expedition. The objective of the expedition was Wrangell Land, then unexplored, for which it was believed De Long of the “Jeannette” had been headed. In the introduction to this volume it is stated that “so far as known, the first human beings that ever stood upon the shores of this island were in Captain Hooper’s landing party, August 12, 1881, and John Muir was of the number.” A second relief expedition touched on the island shortly after, but between that time and the wreck of Steffánsson’s flagship the “Karluk,” in 1914, the region was unexplored. This gives to John Muir’s record a unique value. It was the first, and remains practically the only scientific account of this part of the arctic regions. A series of letters contributed to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, supplemented with extracts from his journal, forms the basis for this volume. It is edited by William Frederic Badè.
“Not as interesting as his other books to the general reader.”
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“A worthy and interesting supplement to his book of explorations in Alaska. ... It is by no means a dry and technical scientific treatise. While he observed and recorded scientific facts he was deeply interested in the human life around him, was keenly alive to the characteristics and ways of the Eskimos.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 12 ‘17 600w
“The joy he found in the voyage and its experiences is evident on every page of his journal or his articles. The picture he gives of that desolate world and of its inhabitants, of the wild seas and the bitter weather or the glory of the short summer, is a picture vivid and compelling and human. The editor has done his work excellently, and has contributed a valuable introduction.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 1350w
“Every admirer of John Muir and every lover of Arctic adventure will rejoice in this book.”
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 60w
=MUIR, RAMSAY.= Expansion of Europe; the culmination of modern history. maps *$2 (3½c) Houghton 940.5 (Eng ed 17-15578)
The author, who is professor of modern history in the University of Manchester, “surveys the origins and nature of the process by which, during the past four centuries, the world has been subjugated by European civilization; he discusses the relations of this process to the problems of the war, and endeavours to analyse the nature of the share in the work taken by the chief European peoples who have
## participated in it. The meaning and motives of imperialism are
discussed, and the successive periods of European imperialism are considered in order of time: the period of ‘Iberian monopoly’; the period of Dutch, French, and English rivalry; the era of revolution, covering the severance of the American colonies from Britain, and the establishment of British rule in India; the period of the transformation of the British empire, 1815-78, and the growth of self-government in the colonies; the era of the world-states and the
## partition of Africa, 1878-1900; and the recent period, covering the
campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan, the war with the Boers, and Germany’s ‘great challenge’ to the world.” (Ath) There are a number of serviceable black-and-white maps. “The essay was originally designed as one of a set of four, to be included under the general title ‘The culmination of modern history.’ Two of these have been already published under the title of ‘Nationalism and internationalism.’” (Preface)
“While it is perfectly obvious that in any account of the expansion of Europe the British empire must be accorded the largest share for both size and achievement, the tale could have been unfolded with much less national self-glorification. Perhaps it might have been desirable not to intimate quite so strongly that ‘force and fraud’ were characteristics of the modes of securing colonial territory by all European countries except Great Britain. ... The chapter on the transformation of the British empire between 1815 and 1878 is easily the best in the book. Here the reasons for the tolerant attitude that Great Britain adopted toward its colonies, and notably toward those of the self-governing type, are summarized with much skill and cogency.” W: R. Shepherd
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=Ath= p366 Jl ‘17 170w
“A simply and clearly written essay, well put together, emphasizing the essentials of the subject and sparing the details. ... Prof. Muir’s brief account of the various modern empires—French, Russian, American, German, as well as our own—does not really do justice to their characteristics. ... Even such important facts as the reactionary change in French colonial policy in 1892 are not mentioned. ... The account of Italian and American colonial experiments is also very perfunctory.”
+ — =Ath= p399 Ag ‘17 1150w
“The book may be read profitably by persons who desire a rapid résumé of the colonial and commercial rivalries of the great powers; more serious students will find it of little value.”
+ — =Dial= 63:460 N 8 ‘17 280w
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“Professor Muir’s historical survey is sound and full, yet without any unnecessary multiplicity of detail; but in the last stages, where the great challenge to the greatest of the new composite world states, the British empire, is dealt with there is a polemical note, and his references to America throughout are acid and grudging.” M. J.
+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:295 Ja ‘18 240w
=Lit D= 55:38 S 29 ‘17 380w
“It is to be regretted that the facts are presented with such a blend of national self-glorification, of small and unnecessary boastings, of bland superiority to the other nations of the world. ... Professor Muir is both at his best and his worst in writing about his own country. ... It is worthy of note that Professor Muir makes an evident effort to be entirely just to the point of view of Germany. It is impossible not to feel that he does not make that effort in writing of America.”
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=Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 160w
=Pittsburgh= 22:765 N ‘17 60w
“We do not find quite the same freshness in the present work as in his ‘Nationalism and internationalism.’ Nevertheless the summary of the workings of a reasonable imperialistic spirit in ‘The expansion of Europe’ is a very lucid survey of the facts, and it has great instructive value.”
+ — =Spec= 118:37 Jl 14 ‘17 1400w
“A scholarly and most readable essay. The point of view is aggressively British and the opportunity to do a patriotic bit by the writing has plainly appealed to the author, but this at least has not affected the clarity of his exposition or his excellent style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 580w
“The first 150 pages cover a survey of the expansion of Europe down to the year 1878. These are, as we should expect, well written, well arranged, the work of an experienced teacher and a competent historian; written as they could not but be, on the lines of Seeley’s ‘Expansion of England,’ they form a useful compendium or text-book. ... The chapters which deal with the events since 1878 are not on the level of his ordinary work. The arrangement is defective, there is a good deal of repetition. ... This is, we suggest, the key to the book; it is written too soon.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p254 My 31 ‘17 1600w
=MUIR, RAMSAY.= Nationalism and internationalism; the culmination of modern history. *$1.25 Houghton 940.5 (Eng ed 17-11913)
“The author’s object is to trace in broad outline the development of two of the most powerful factors in modern history, namely, the nationalist and internationalist movements.” (Ath) “He writes from the standpoint of one who sees a steady growth towards a reign of law in European relations; who believes in the necessity of organizing states on a national basis; and who finds in this kind of national system the sole basis for an international system.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“The author is professor of modern history in the University of Manchester.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:429 Jl ‘17
=Ath= p539 N ‘16 70w
+ =Ath= p578 D ‘16 800w
+ =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 20w
“These are not the only cases where Professor Muir obscures truth by his eagerness for broad conclusions. His theory of nationality, his interpretation of medieval cosmopolitanism are both of them brilliant pieces of journalism, but they are brilliant journalism only because they represent an unnatural simplification of complex facts. They take no account of exceptions, or else they regard them as easy jests. Professor Muir has written a book that is useful for the purposes of dinner-table conversation. But it is not profound enough in its acquaintance with the real issues at stake to be more that a skilful piece of political persiflage.” H. J. Laski
— =Dial= 62:472 My 31 ‘17 530w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:686 O ‘17 100w
+ =Pratt= p38 O ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:154 My ‘17
+ =Spec= 117:809 D 23 ‘16 160w
“Professor Muir’s essay does not suffer from lack of balance, but it is distinctly marred by an overstatement of certain tendencies and an understatement of others which at times give his interpretations, seen at a distance, the color of extreme partisanship. ... This is the more regrettable because Professor Muir, in the same short volume, gives some definitions and leading lines of thought which are of surpassing interest and light up whole centuries of happenings with understanding.” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 38:74 Ap 21 ‘17 700w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p515 O 26 ‘16 120w
“Vigorous, eloquent, well-arranged pages. ... The book before us has, to begin with, one great merit. The author knows precisely what he wants to say, and he says it. ... It is a book which should be read by all who wish for a sane, virile, courageous, and clear-sighted interpretation of the issues of the great war.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p518 N 2 ‘16 1100w
=MUKERJEE, RADHAKAMAL.= Foundations of Indian economics; with an introd. by Patrick Geddes. il *$3 Longmans 330
“The author, who has been a research student of Calcutta university, and who has for some time been investigating the economic organization of modern India, collects in this volume his scattered studies, and provides a comprehensive and useful survey of the conditions of production in that part of the British empire. The book sketches the economic influences of the Indian system of family, caste and religion, presents detailed studies of the principal cottage and village industries, describes the rural system of trade and credit, and discusses the future of the organization.” (Am Econ R) Professor Mukerjee believes that “India’s economic salvation lies not in bodily taking over the industrial system of the West, but in developing and modernizing her own industrial system which, because it fits the environment, will most assure a prosperous, progressive and contented population.” (Ann Am Acad)
“Will appeal to the interests of students of economic history as well as to those particularly concerned with the problems of modern India.” Clive Day
+ =Am Econ R= 7:613 S ‘17 220w
Reviewed by G. R. Roorbach
=Ann Am Acad= 73:237 S ‘17 330w
=Ath= p584 D ‘16 60w
“In order to readjust our knowledge of the Orient, books like Professor Mukerjee’s are extremely valuable. ... He is typical of the new school of Indian thinkers. ... The only defect in his book is the absence of a glossary for native names and expressions.” W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez
+ =Dial= 63:203 S 13 ‘17 1150w
“Professor Mukerjee has performed a great service in taking stock of the vestigial remains of India’s ancient economies as they survive to-day in the traditional arts and crafts preserved by the universal caste and guild systems. He is at considerable pains to show the effect of western institutions on these survivals. ... Most illuminating is the careful description and illustration of the various hereditary trades and their processes of production and distribution.”
+ =Nation= 105:99 Jl 26 ‘17 400w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17
“The importance of Professor Mukerjee’s work lies in his ideas and proposals. ... The book is marred by the writer’s limitation of view. ... The great questions of protection (as against free imports), labour, and capital should have been more fully discussed. ... But his work will repay perusal to those concerned with Indian economics, as showing the views of an educated Indian, which many compatriots possibly share.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 D 7 ‘16 820w
=MULLER, ROBERT ENRIQUE.= United States navy. il $1 Rand 359 17-13461
“One hundred and forty-three reproductions of our superdreadnoughts, dreadnoughts, battleships, armored cruisers, and submarines, and life aboard them; also the work of laying mines, discharging torpedoes, etc. ... Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske furnishes a foreword.”—Wis Lib Bul
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:89 Je ‘17
“A convenient book for boys interested in the navy and those enlisting in its service.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:182 Je ‘17 50w
=MUNDAY, ALBERT H.= Eyes of the army and navy; practical aviation. il *$1.50 Harper 623.7 17-29812
A handbook on aviation. The author is a flight-lieutenant in the Royal naval air service, and his book is planned “to meet the requirements of the layman with a moderate education who wished to obtain a practical knowledge of flying and the fundamental principles of construction, aero-engines, and various other aeronautical subjects.” (Foreword) Contents: Aerial navigation; Theory of flight; Map-reading; Cross-country flying; Charts; Meteorology; Construction; The care and maintenance of aeroplanes; Aero engines; Aeroplane and airship instruments; Wireless telegraphy and semaphore; Aerial photography; Bombs and bomb-dropping; Night flying; Artillery observations from aircraft; Aerial fighting; Lighter than air; Medical supervision of aviators. An appendix gives definitions of terms and tables for the metric system.
=Pittsburgh= 22:814 D ‘17 20w
=MUNDY, TALBOT.=[2] Winds of the world. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-30041
“Here, by the author of ‘King, of the Khyber Rifles,’ a man who knows his India well, is a hair-raising tale of adventure, intrigue, peril, uncertainty, that centres in the loyalty of an Indian regiment and the failure of German ‘diplomacy.’ The chief of characters in the book are three: Kirby, the English colonel of a Sikh regiment; Risaldar-Major Ranjoor-Singh, whom Kirby trusts as he trusts himself; and Yasmini the dancer, to whom the winds of the world have whispered their secrets. ... With these three as chief characters, and a group of German ‘merchants’ weaving their web of plottings, the story runs its exciting course.”—N Y Times
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 170w
“Kirby and the dancer the author has drawn in a conventional fashion, winning the reader’s attention by obvious means enough. But Ranjoor-Singh’s capture of our sympathy is more subtle; it is, as a piece of work, the best thing in the book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:555 D 16 ‘17 320w
“There is abundant mystery and adventure in this lively tale, and the reader’s pleasure and entertainment is enhanced by the author’s humor.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 260w
=MURDOCH, W. G. BURN.= Modern whaling and bear hunting. il *$5 Lippincott 639
“In 1892 Mr Burn Murdoch took part in a whaling expedition to the Weddell sea in Antarctica. He went as an artist, but became so attracted by the fascinations of whale-fishing that he formed a small company, fitted out a motor-driven whaler in Norway—the ‘St Ebba’—and, accompanied by a Norse crew, ranged over northern and southern seas in pursuit of the dangerous but highly profitable Finner. This book tells us how he fared.”—Spec
“This is a story of actual adventure, even more vigorous and entertaining than any fiction could be. More than a hundred illustrations from drawings and photographs add greatly to the value and interest of the book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 250w
“The interesting personality of Mr Burn Murdoch is a welcome embellishment to the subject-matter of his book. On the practical side he is a genuine whaler, in the business for the profit which it offers, with a keen eye for efficient methods in its prosecution, and yet with that larger outlook that would have his own success only an element in the success of all. But he has also in his make-up a well-developed aesthetic element which finds in the sea something more than the whales which are to fill his oil vessels and thereby fatten his bank account.”
+ =Nation= 105:669 D 13 ‘17 900w
=R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 90w
“Mr Burn Murdoch’s descriptions are always effective, because of their simplicity and sincerity. His English is sometimes shaky, but we never fail to grasp his meaning. There could be no greater refreshment to the war-weary mind than the perusal of this book.”
+ =Spec= 119:526 N 10 ‘17 1650w
“Mr Burn Murdoch is by no means so easy to read as he well might be if he had taken a good model—say, for instance, Darwin’s ‘Cruise of the Beagle.’ It is a pity, because he knows his subject, which is good.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 D 13 ‘17 900w
=MURPHY, CHARLES JOSEPH.=[2] American Indian corn (maize); a cheap, wholesome, and nutritious food; rev. and ed. with additions of many new recipes and a foreword by Jeannette Young Norton. *75c Putnam 641.5 17-23804
“The data, gathered by Mr Murphy, formerly food commissioner of Nebraska, is even more valuable today when it was collected for the illumination of the great food convention, held in Paris in 1889. ... This edition holds many new recipes. And besides those for general use is a series suitable for invalids. Prefacing these rules for the making of ‘the very best foods’ from Indian corn is a brief history of its growth and use.”—Boston Transcript
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:156 F ‘18
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 330w
=Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 80w
=MURPHY, THOMAS DOWLER.= Oregon, the picturesque. (See America first ser.) il *$3.50 Page 917.95 17-28901
The sub-title calls this book a “book of rambles in the Oregon country and in the wilds of northern California; descriptive sketches and pictures of Crater and Klamath lakes, the Deschutes river canyon, the new Columbia highway, the Willamette and Rogue river valleys and the cities and towns of Oregon; also of the little-known lakes, rivers, mountains, and vast forests of northern California, to which is added a trip to the Yosemite and to the Roosevelt dam and the petrified forest of Arizona, by motor car.” (Library of Congress card)
=A L A Bkl= 14:164 F ‘18
“In addition to Mr Murphy’s text the reader has a map before him for guidance and a series of half-tone illustrations to justify the author’s enthusiasm over the scenic wonders he visits.” A. A. R.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 900w
“The author fails to invest the open road with the charm that it has in this region, while his portrayal of the major scenic marvels lacks the power of conveying even a modicum of the reactions produced by the originals.”
+ — =Dial= 64:71 Ja 17 ‘18 590w
=Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 50w
=MURRAY, ARTHUR MORDAUNT.= Fortnightly history of the war. maps *$3 Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-16101)
“Not many serial criticisms of the war are worth republication, for most criticisms offered in reviews and newspapers fall out of date as information accumulates. Colonel A. M. Murray’s history of the war written month by month in the Fortnightly Review is, however, a distinct exception. It is true that he has amended and amplified his remarks, but in substance they remain. ... Sir Evelyn Wood in a short introduction expresses his admiration, and also his dissent on certain points.” (Spec) “The present volume takes us from the beginning of the war down to July 18, 1916.” (New Repub)
“The outstanding feature of this voluminous work is its really splendid set of seventy maps that illustrate, with a scrupulous detail, the campaigns and the battles in Europe, Asia and Africa. Colonel Murray writes with a soldierly regard of strategy and tactics. To our mind the French defence of Verdun and the antecedent epoch-making battle of the Marne deserve more analysis than he grants.” S. A.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 420w
“Colonel Murray has written an accurate, terse and shrewdly perceptive military history of the war during its first two bloody years.”
+ =New Repub= 13:156 D 8 ‘17 210w
“A very clear military exposition of events.”
+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 190w
“As it stands, it is, perhaps, more valuable as a history of the evolution of expert opinion than as a ‘précis’ of the military operations. The account of the operations of the Belgian army is very vague: and there are some notable omissions.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p580 D 7 ‘16 880w
=MURRAY, GILBERT.= Faith, war, and policy. *$1.25 (1c) Houghton 940.91 17-23769
These thirteen essays show the reaction of the mind of “a fairly representative English Liberal, standing just outside the circle of official politics” to the European war. “Beginning with ‘First thoughts on the war,’ an article printed in October, 1914, [in the Hibbert Journal] they come down through the three years of war, taking up various questions concerning it, and end with an address delivered March, 1917, before the Fight for right league on ‘The turmoil of war.’ Included is a section on ‘Ireland,’ in three parts, one on the Dublin insurrection, one on the execution of Casement, and a consideration of the future of Ireland written the middle of last March. Two of the papers deal with America in her relation to the war and to England, both of them preceding our entrance into the conflict.” (N Y Times) Several of the essays were first printed in the Atlantic Monthly, Contemporary Review, Westminster Gazette, etc. The essay entitled “How can war ever be right” was printed as Oxford pamphlet no. 18.
=A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
+ =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 100w
“Professor Murray’s book affords a wise and statesmanlike view of complicated problems, and not the least of its merits is the temperate spirit with which these problems are discussed.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:266 N ‘17 490w
+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 40w
“What stands out most sharply and incongruously in the book is Professor Murray’s complaisance in transferring the problems raised by the war to the shoulders of those very diplomats and statesmen whose inadequacy is sufficiently demonstrated by the present débâcle. In discussing the British foreign office, Professor Murray adopts a tone which is nothing less than smug. This fatal complacency extends to everything British.”
– + =Dial= 64:30 Ja 3 ‘18 390w
“One of the most persuasive defenses of British foreign policy ever written. ... Gilbert Murray not only performs perfectly the easy task of showing the manifold fallacies of non-resistant pacifism but courageously ventures to discuss the most questionable phases of his case, such as the suppression of the Dublin revolt, British interference with neutral trade, and the secret diplomacy of the British foreign office.”
+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 210w
“The sentiments of these utterances should get before the minds of all of us Americans, and in particular into the minds of those incomprehensibles who talk of ‘those blood-thirsty Europeans’ who will not compromise, or declare that none of the warring nations know what they are fighting about.”
+ =Nation= 105:408 O 11 ‘17 500w
“There is a Gilbert Murray writing in this volume who fulfills a high expectation. ... There are flashes throughout these pages of a personal intensity of experience. ... But his propaganda is not altogether a pleasant thing to contemplate. ... It is difficult not to be continually reminded in this volume of the poorer sorts of patriotism that make the chauvinist and the jingo. ... Mr Murray beats the German dog with the stick of self-righteousness, failing altogether to account for the less immediate and less nationalistic issues that now are emerging through the conflict, and that propose a revision of the whole structure of monarchical Europe rather than the redemption of the status quo from the nationalistic collision.” F. H.
– + =New Repub= 12:138 S 1 ‘17 2000w
“It is not that the matter is not informative; its lack of backbone, its inconclusiveness is the most striking feature. In almost everything, this Liberal ‘Sir Roger de Coverley’ tells us that ‘much can be said on both sides,’ and to do him justice, he says it, and says it particularly well.” J. W.
– + =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 700w
=N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 560w
“Although many of the papers contained in this volume were written so early in the war as to have lost the appeal of timeliness, there is in the views expressed a permanent rightness that gives the book lasting importance.”
+ =No Am= 206:793 N ‘17 720w
“Especially to be commended to students of ethical aspects of the war.”
+ =Outlook= 117:309 O 24 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:682 O ‘17 80w
“It was a little unfortunate that Gilbert Murray’s ‘Faith, war and policy’ should fall into the hands of an anti-English reviewer in the New Republic and an anti-Russian reviewer in the Evening Post. For their assaults on the book were not quite without prejudice. They hardly did justice to Prof. Murray’s fundamental liberalism. Yet for their irritation there is some excuse. Prof. Murray does claim a good deal for his country. ... He is too ready to put to the back of his mind a less liberal and lofty England, not many years in the past, and by no means suppressed in the present. ... Not all that he has to say about America will be pleasing to American readers. ... There is in the book much fine feeling and brilliant writing; though, as a whole, it is not above the status of controversial, perhaps one may even say, propagandist literature, however much it may be above the average level of that literature.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 19 ‘17 860w
“The finest testimony, perhaps, to the worth of the author’s political and moral philosophy is the fact that there is no great contrast between his reaction to war at the beginning and that after three years of it.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:573 S 29 ‘17 550w
=MUSPRATT, EDMUND KNOWLES.= My life and work. il *$2.50 (3c) Lane 17-3731
These memoirs cover a long period of time, the author having been born in 1833. He is the son of a manufacturing chemist of Liverpool and he has been closely associated with the public life of that city. As a young man he was sent to Germany to study with Liebig, and his German experiences and friendships are the subject of the early chapters. He visited the United States in the year of the centennial and devotes an interesting chapter to his impressions. Other chapters are concerned with travels on the Continent and with the men and women of note he has known.
+ =Ath= p238 My ‘17 1100w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 850w
“We gain a vivid impression of German university life and of the condition of German society in the early fifties of last century. It is not without its lights and shades. ... The book is written in a simple, unaffected manner, with no pretensions to literary style.” T. E. Thorpe
+ =Nature= 98:325 D 28 ‘16 1000w
+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 60w
“Mr Muspratt is well known in Liverpool as a good citizen, with a keen interest in higher education, art, and other worthy causes. He is known more widely as a strong Liberal and Free Trader, and rendered much service to his party in the past by his ‘Financial reform almanack.’ At the age of eighty-three, he has written his reminiscences of a happy life, with notes on his travels, and his many friends will find the book interesting.”
+ =Spec= 117:774 D 16 ‘16 70w
“A book with something on every page to interest the humane reader. ... In these pages we hear of persons whom literature has made famous in the guise of fiction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 950w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p550 N 16 ‘16 230w
=MUSSON, BENNET.= Turn to the right. *$1.35 (3½c) Duffield 17-18357
A novelized version of the play by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard that had so great a run in New York last year. Without letting his widowed mother know, Joe Bascom had served time in Ossining for another’s guilt. Free again, but penniless, he arrives home to find his mother well caught in a snare spread for her by a respected deacon of the town. The deacon’s hold on her is thru a debt of a hundred and twenty-five dollars which Joe is trying desperately to raise when two fellow prisoners drop down upon him. They learn of Joe’s plight, make a journey to the deacon’s grocery, take the needed money from the safe, and give it to Joe without explaining the manner of getting. The deacon is paid, but the pals relieve him of the sum and put it back into his safe. One humorous situation follows another. On the serious side, the deacon’s plans are foiled, the pals “turn to the right,” a way is found for the mother to make her peach orchard pay handsomely, and there is more than the ordinary amount of marrying and living happily forever after.
“The transposition into book form of even the finest play is seldom successful. And the drama from which this novel was written was not of the class mentioned, no matter how ‘successful,’ may have been its run. The combined result is obvious.”
— =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 300w
“The little tale is of a somewhat sugary quality, but in justice to Mr Musson, the novelizer, it must be said that he has done his work nicely, and that the superabundance of sweetness in the whole is no fault of his. The plot has some dexterous twists which enable it to hold the reader’s interest.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 210w
“The transformation is done with greater care and skill than is generally found in work of this order. The story is sentimental, but contains enough colloquial humor to palliate the other element.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 140w
=MUTZENBERG, CHARLES GUSTAVUS.= Kentucky’s famous feuds and tragedies; authentic history of the world renowned vendettas of the dark and bloody ground. *$1.25 (2½c) Fenno 976.9 17-18067
The author has been at pains to discover the truth about some of the famous Kentucky feuds and to separate legend from authentic history. His investigations have led him to the conclusion that these long standing and tragic feuds have had their origin primarily in the failure of legal machinery. In addition to inefficient and corrupt officials, the lack of healthy moral sentiment, of proper education and religious training and the illicit trade in whisky are named as contributing causes. The clannish spirit of the mountaineers is accounted for by the fact of their descent from the highland clans of Scotland.
“His viewpoint is of course all very well if you care to look at everything from a restrictedly moral eminence. Few people who know the mountains probably will care for it, for it is strongly misrepresentative.” R. M.
— =Boston Transcript= p7 My 16 ‘17 550w
“Kentucky’s feuds are, in any large sense, over. ... Their history illuminates the character of the present-day ‘citizen’; it does not afford justifiable grounds for a polemic against his ancestors who made their own law and abode by it.”
=Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 140w
“As a literary product, this volume has little to commend it. A needless multiplicity of detail, doubtless intended to give it weight as an indictment, swells it to burdensome proportions.”
— =Nation= 105:318 S 20 ‘17 850w
“While undoubtedly true in every particular, Mr Mutzenberg’s book in some places reminds one of a dime novel. It is a long record of lawless crimes, murders and outrages. Such a condition of affairs has almost passed away, and, it is to be hoped, will never return.”
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 29 ‘17 320w
=MYERS, GUSTAVUS.= History of Tammany Hall. 2d ed rev and enl *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 363 17-31564
“A history of Tammany Hall has long been wanted. There had been one, and only one, that we know of, issued some sixteen years ago. For the last few years it has been practically impossible to procure a copy, which gives color to the belief that the volume has been undergoing a quiet but effective suppression. At any rate, copies were always held at a high premium. But now the same work has been issued in a second edition, and the history brought down to the present day. ... The matter which was added to the work since its first appearance sixteen years ago is unusually full and complete.”—N Y Call
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:157 F ‘18 90w
“His book should be as useful to the college student of political science as to the voter.”
+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 100w
“The book is not a homily, but a sober recital of cold facts, which it behooves every one who would retain his faith in popular government to ponder deeply.”
+ — =Nation= 105:640 D 6 ‘17 480w
“Where the course of the organization became particularly spectacular, as under the leadership of ‘Boss’ Tweed, Croker, Murphy and others, the narrative is particularly copious, but eminently fair as a recital of fact. ... It is not a recital of ‘original sin’ or ‘inherent depravity,’ though most of the acts chronicled will of course bear that bourgeois interpretation. What we can perceive is the workings of ‘economic determinism,’ the constant struggles of an organization to adapt itself to its environment.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p15 N 4 ‘17 1700w
“Mr Myers, not being a politician, has gone at his job like a historian. He has gone to his sources, old newspapers, city hall records, not forgetting criminal court minutes, with no more partisan passion than would be expected of a man getting ready to write a history of the dynasty that built the pyramids.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 1950w
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=NADAL, EHRMAN SYME.= Virginian village, and other papers; together with some autobiographical notes. *$1.75 (2c) Macmillan 814 17-7187
The author has collected a number of papers and essays originally contributed to magazines. The one from which the book takes its title, “A Virginian mountain village,” appeared in Scribner’s Magazine in 1909. At the request of the publishers he has prefaced the whole with some autobiographical notes. “They say the book represents me as being in so many places and doing so many things that the effect upon the reader is confusing,” he explains. This autobiographical sketch, discursive and enriched with anecdotes, forms a pleasant introduction to the papers that follow. Among these are: Southern literature; A horse-fair pilgrimage; Impressions of Lincoln; Impressions of Lowell; Contrasts of English and American scenery; Cumberland Gap; Lincoln and Stanton; Virginia women.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17
“Although so very much has been written of Lincoln, it still remains true that the impressions of Lincoln incorporated into this book are likely to be read with more interest than almost any of the other pages. Mr Nadal’s style is interesting and he presents his impressions so well that they are likely to be remembered.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 400w
+ =Lit D= 54:1084 Ap 14 ‘17 1000w
“Seldom indeed does one pick up a more seductive volume for an idle hour.”
+ =Nation= 104:603 My 17 ‘17 270w
“He laments that he spent so much of his youth sitting on a fence-rail looking at the landscape, but this occupation seems to have borne its literary fruit: he has a genial responsiveness to the moods of nature. Then he has humor, and what is even more essential to an essayist, a keen observation of men and manners which expresses itself in both portraiture and social analysis. The chapters that analyze southern society and literature are particularly interesting.” E. S. S.
+ =New Repub= 12:81 Ag 18 ‘17 1000w
+ =N Y Times= 22:137 Ap 15 ‘17 520w
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 40w
+ =Pratt= p37 O ‘17 30w
“These papers of Mr Nadal’s have appeared in leading American magazines and newspapers, but are well worth reprinting. They make a charming, readable and informing volume.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 1050w
“A variety of reminiscent sketches, some of them charming in themselves, others of general interest. The author, though a Virginian born and bred, as a cosmopolitan of the outer world sees the South as it really was and is.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p391 Ag 16 ‘17 900w
=NAIDU, SAROJINI.= Broken wing; songs of love, death and destiny, 1915-1916. *$1.25 Lane 891.4 17-6890
“The bird of time” and “The golden threshold,” two earlier books of verse, have introduced this Hindu woman poet to western readers. The third volume is made up of poems grouped together as Songs of life and death, Memorial verses, The flowering year, The peacock-lute: songs for music, and The temple: a pilgrimage of love.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17
“As a whole the volume shows that the Indian woman of to-day is conscious how large her share is destined to be in the guardianship and interpretation of the triune vision of love, faith, and patriotism.”
+ =Ath= p201 Ap ‘17 90w
“If we seek the material India in her verses we shall find it as truly as we do the India of the spirit. ... Her love songs are delicately beautiful. The rhythms are western, but the spirit is all of the east, a spirit of tropical intensities, mingling with brooding certainty of eternal things which is so truly eastern.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 800w
+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 130w
+ =Lit D= 54:1071 Ap 14 ‘17 480w
“Songs of love, death, and destiny. They are saturated with the magic of the East, exquisite in verbal beauty and eloquent with spiritual comprehension.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:438 Ap ‘17 80w
“It is the fourth division of Mrs Naidu’s book, her love songs, which perhaps best illustrates the difference between occidental and eastern verse. In these love songs she permits herself an abandonment that is truly oriental, and that to an Anglo-Saxon reader contrasts rather unpleasantly with the elevation of thought and charm of such poems as Mrs Browning’s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 8 ‘17 450w
=NANDIKESVARA.= Mirror of gesture; tr. by Ananda Coomaraswamy and G. K. Duggirala. il *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 792
“This translation is based upon a Nagari transcript of the second Telugu edition of Nandikesvara’s ‘Abhinaya darpana.’ ... Among the gestures dealt with are movements of the head, the brows, and the hands. The last-named receive elaborate treatment. Numerous illustrations and a bibliography follow the text.”—Ath
“Will be useful as an introduction to Indian dramatic technique and to oriental acting in general.”
+ =Ath= p411 Ag ‘17 90w
=Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 360w
“The little book is dedicated ‘to all actors and actresses,’ but it will interest as well (or more) all students of the drama.”
+ =Nation= 104:716 Je 14 ‘17 570w
“Easy, graceful English. ... The translator would have helped us more if he had done two things, if he had supplied an index, and had commented on some one complete picture.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p199 Ap 26 ‘17 1100w
=NATHAN, GEORGE JEAN.= Mr George Jean Nathan presents. *$1.50 (2½c) Knopf 792 17-24680
A collection of papers on the theater. Mr Nathan is a dramatic critic in New York city, and plays recently produced on the New York stage give him the starting point for discursions on the art of the theater, play making and producing, the shortcomings of American audiences, etc. He is a very sophisticated person, with a cynical outlook and not much hope for the future of American drama, but for much of the sham and sentimentality of current theatrical production he offers an effective antidote. He writes of The Hawkshavian drama; The American music show; The commercial theatrical mismanager; The case for bad manners; America’s most intellectual actress, etc.
“A volume as gay and impudent as its title.” Algernon Tassin
+ =Bookm= 46:348 N ‘17 320w
“A man cannot live—live exclusively and consciously—in a realm of unworthy make-believe without suffering for it; and Mr George Jean Nathan, in some of his phases, is calculated to cause regrets. He opens up some wonderful, sudden vistas for the playgoer, and shoots a number of penetrating epigrams; but his taste and discretion are not equal to his brilliancy.”
– + =Dial= 63:457 N 8 ‘17 340w
“This is a book of serious criticism of the New York theatre. Mr Nathan is self-possessed, cynical, urbane, smart and sometimes flippant. He confounds one with his knowledge of the drama of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany. He gives us facts running over. He loves to shatter legends. His book is refreshingly honest because refreshingly severe.”
+ =New Repub= 13:387 Ja 26 ‘18 230w
— =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 230w
National year book, 1917. maps 50c Hammond & co. 317.3
“A book of facts, figures and general information, together with a new and complete gazetteer of the United States and non-contiguous territories.” The book contains nearly 150 pages of useful information on miscellaneous subjects, with many statistical tables, maps, etc.
=Pittsburgh= 22:430 My ‘17
=NAUMANN, FRIEDRICH.= Central Europe; a tr. by Christabel M. Meredith from the original German. *$3 Knopf 327 17-8207
A translation of “Mittel-Europa,” a German work outlining a plan for a permanent union of the Central European nations. “The nucleus of the organization is to consist of the German empire and Austria-Hungary. To this nucleus will be added the Balkans, Turkey, and the present neutral states to the north of the empire. Thus a combination will be effected that comprises a great stretch of territory through the heart of Europe, binding the members together with ties of common interest. At the same time the enemies of the empire will be separated. The major part of the book is taken up with discussion of the difficulties in the way of a union of the empire and the dual monarchy. The author realizes that the sovereignty of each state must be preserved; and that that may be done, works out a scheme of joint commissions which shall carry out the wishes of the several governments. The tariff problem is recognized also.” (J Pol Econ)
+ =Am Econ R= 7:113 Mr ‘17 130w
“Important because it expresses imperial Germany’s political and economic claims with fervid enthusiasm, but with authority. Classed bibliography (17p.) of German and Austro-Hungarian books designed to further a mutual understanding: does not list translations.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:347 My ‘17
“The author, who is well known on the continent for various earlier books on political questions began his career as a Lutheran pastor and evangelist of socialism. He sprang into notice through several publications of radical propaganda, and entered journalism and politics. In the Reichstag, under the wing of the Liberal Socialist party, he has been long an exponent of Christian socialism and the world-wide mission of German kultur. In the present instance, Naumann does not view the war with the optimism of the German-American press. For him it is a cause of reflection.” R. W.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 17 ‘17 800w
=Cleveland= p58 Ap ‘17 70w
“His book, which has had the good fortune of finding a translator whose version reads like an English original, is indispensable to all who would form a concrete idea of the present working of the German mind, and it is a mine of information for everyone who wishes to gain an insight into the intricate problems of German economics and politics at the hand of a guide who has them at his fingers’ ends, and who is imbued with a living knowledge of German history.” Vindex
+ =Dial= 62:390 My 3 ‘17 2000w
“It should be read by all who want to see for themselves, rather than thru enemy glasses, just what Germany is striving for.”
+ =Ind= 90:592 Je 30 ‘17 1600w
“All the oratory and the enthusiasm that have marked his rise to his present position as one of the most-read political authors of Germany today have been brought by Herr Naumann to his present task.”
=J Pol Econ= 25:213 F ‘17 300w
“As a ‘formulation of current German thought’ the volume deserves the closest reading. And that reading will, by the way, illumine one of the Allies’ exprest conditions of peace—the partition of the Dual empire.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1430 My 12 ‘17 260w
“His book is really a long pamphlet summoning the people of middle Europe to union. It is argumentative, amiable, painfully tactful, shrewd, sentimental. It is skilful journalism, wheedling, exhorting, threatening, appealing to pride, to vanity, to historical tradition, to economic interest, to fear, to ambition. ... Naumann’s real effort is to establish the idea, rather than to solve the problem. ... The lesson for those of us who are, I think, justly suspicious of the mid-European project is fairly evident. Its most powerful support is external pressure. The more Central Europe is isolated and boycotted the easier will it be to create Mid-Europe.” W. L.
=New Repub= 9:357 Ja 27 ‘17 2650w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17
=N Y Times= 22:80 Mr 4 ‘17 450w
“It must be remembered that the economic questions inherent in the doctrine of ‘Central Europe’ come up automatically for some sort of settlement at the end of this year. Then the commercial treaties, not only between Germany and Austria-Hungary, but between Austria and Hungary, will lapse, and if there should merely be a continuance of the present arrangements so long as the war lasts there will nevertheless be indications of what the new economic policy is to be. ... It is not astonishing that Herr Naumann’s book should have made a deeper impression on Germany than any book of recent times. The author writes for everybody; he has enough learning and distinction to satisfy the well-educated and enough clearness and breeziness to attract the common mind. As an old Social Democrat, he understands how to make the most cunning kind of democratic appeal when he is in fact exalting Kaiserism.”
=Spec= 118:701 Je 23 ‘17 1250w
“The most famous book to which the war has given birth.”
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 1650w
Reviewed by Bruno Lasker
=Survey= 38:359 Jl 21 ‘17 1100w
“Naumann says that he conceived the plan of his book in April, 1915. Fortune favored him in the great eastern offensive that followed; and his book had its great vogue in the full flood of success against Russia which encouraged Berlin to lose no time in opening fiscal negotiations with Austria and Hungary, and even attempting to ‘solve’ the problem of Poland. The English reader who now sees the book for the first time should bear the conditions of its production in mind.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p375 Ag 10 ‘16 850w
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Yale R= n s 6:892 Jl ‘17 120w
=NEILL, ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND.= Dominie dismissed. *$1.25 (3c) McBride 828 E17-785
A sequel to “A dominie’s log.” The school master whose original experiments in education were described in that book is dismissed from his position and a representative of the old type of teacher is put in his place. The dismissed dominie goes to work on a near-by farm and watches his successor break down all that he has built up. A small group of the children, however, cling to him, and there are many delightful out-of-school conversations recorded. The educational questions discussed are pertinent to the times. The author warns against the danger of over-emphasis on technical education after the war, and, in a conversation with an American visitor, comments on some of our educational experiments.
“We may justly complain of the careless statements, the false premises, the disputable facts which mar the argument. These help to make Mr Neill’s views on education and sociology unconvincing. All the same, the reader can count on an extremely agreeable picture of school life in a Scottish village, uncompromising in its attitude, but absolutely without malice; and a handbook on socialism into the bargain.” J. F. S.
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 500w
+ =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 190w
“However we may dissent from many of the author’s opinions, he has written a most original and suggestive volume, filled with sayings racy and to the point: a humorous story as well as one packed with theories which make the reader ‘sit up.’”
=N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 570w
=NEILSON, WILLIAM ALLAN.= Robert Burns: how to know him. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-13543
Chapters on: Biography; Inheritance: language and literature; Burns and Scottish song; Satires and epistles; Descriptive and narrative poetry, make up this study of Burns. The author wisely recognizes that the best way to know Burns is to read him and quotes over one hundred of the poems. The author is professor of English at Harvard university.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17
“He gives us an interesting and truthful sketch of the poet’s life.”
+ =Cath World= 105:841 S ‘17 380w
+ =Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 70w
“William Allan Neilson has a trifle too much subtlety and coolness in his method to ‘do’ Burns, the romantic poet, drinker, and lover, with any great amount of enthusiasm; it is Burns the Scotchman whom he really warms to.”
+ — =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 110w
“William Allan Neilson, to judge just from his ‘Burns, how to know him,’ is, first of all, a man of breadth, and only secondly a digger in booklore. Humor of word, as well as humor in a critical sense and understanding of the poet’s and the man’s heart, pervades these well-printed pages. A first class practical idea is that of the glossary. Properly limited to just the really troublesome Scottish dialect words it runs along the margins, instead of being tucked away off somewhere in the back of the book.”
+ =Ind= 92:61 O 6 ‘17 510w
“Will delight every lover of poetry.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 1 ‘17 210w
“It is certainly saying nothing against the book to say that the firm impression it makes is mainly produced by the poems, well chosen and well arranged and, with the marginal glossary, easily read. Their effect, however, is reinforced by a skilful, compact biography, a clear, thoroughly informed chapter on Burns’s language and his literary antecedents, a running commentary on the selections, and a critical summary.”
+ =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 400w
“An excellent introduction to Burns, giving a very sympathetic yet just view, both of the biographical and analytical sections.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:219 Jl ‘17 30w
“There is one perfectly obvious duty, a duty which cannot be too carefully performed, which Mr Neilson—like almost all his predecessors in the editing of Burns—has scanted. We refer to the elucidation of Burns’s dialect. Mr Neilson follows the method of the centenary edition of the poet. He gives fairly numerous glosses in the margin. He does this rather more freely than the centenary editors, and occasionally his gloss is more correct than theirs. Nevertheless he leaves a good deal undone which might easily have been done. The selections from Burns are very judiciously made, and give an exceptionally adequate idea of the poet’s quality and value.” H: B. Hinckley
+ — =Yale R= n s 7:220 O ‘17 650w
=NEKRASOV, NIKOLAI ALEXEIEVICH.= Who can be happy and free in Russia? tr. by Juliet M. Soskice; with an introd. by Dr D: Soskice. (World’s classics) *45c Oxford 891.7 17-23320
Nicholas Nekrassov was born in 1821 and died in 1877. In Russia he is called “the poet of the people’s sorrow” and in the introduction to this first English translation of his greatest work he is pronounced “the sole and rightful heir of his two great predecessors, Pushkin and Lermontov.” The prolog to the poem describes the meeting on the road of seven peasants who dispute over the question that forms the title, Who can be happy and free in Russia? One says only the priest, one says the landowner, another thinks the tsar’s chief adviser may be the happy man, while another declares that only the tsar himself has the right to freedom and happiness. To find the answer to their own question they wander about the country, and in the tale of their adventures we are given a picture of the tragedy and comedy, the sorrows and joys of Russian life.
“It will be very acceptable to English readers as the magnum opus of one of the foremost Russians of his time, ‘the poet of the people’s sorrow.’ The Oxford press deserves thanks for making such a work accessible at a price within the reach of every one.”
+ =Ath= p253 My ‘17 80w
“It is a veritable peasant Odyssey. ... In spite of the fact that the English version of the poem does not preserve the peculiar musical and stylistic quality of the original, the translator has made every lover of good literature her debtor.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ — =Bookm= 46:485 D ‘17 170w
“No one is likely to forget Nekrassov who reads Juliet M. Soskice’s translation, the first into English, of ‘Who can be happy and free in Russia?’ ... No extracts can give more than a hazy notion of the freshness and abundance of Nekrassov’s pictures of Russian life. The poor verse of the translation cannot spoil them.” P. L.
+ =New Repub= 11:163 Je 9 ‘17 1350w
“It differs sharply from all other national epics. ... It might be the joint product of the Russian parallels of Burns, Villon, Synge; it is native, kin to the earth, endemic. It is full of simple vices and virtues, problems and passions; and this very simplicity makes it universal and of eternal importance.”
+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 520w
“Mrs Soskice’s metrical version, mostly in an easy unrhymed measure, is fluent and readable. Dr Soskice prefixes a short Life of the poet—a picturesque and attractive figure.”
+ =Spec= 118:594 My 26 ‘17 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p180 Ap 12 ‘17 40w
“Nekrassov may now be claimed as chief and most beloved of Russian poets; popular and national, devotedly singing the sorrows and social wrongs of the humble multitude with such vigour and fire that his influence upon the youth of the last generation and of this is unbounded, and singing with such simplicity of concealed art that the poorest of schoolchildren learn page after page of him by heart.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p222 My 10 ‘17 2000w
“Full of vivid pictures of peasant life in village and country, this long poem, if taken in small doses, not more than a chapter at a time, is bound to produce a powerful impression.”
+ =Yale R= n s 7:188 O ‘17 70w
=NEVINS, JOSEPH ALLAN.= Illinois. (American college and university ser.) il *$2 (2c) Oxford 378 17-13973
“This is the first history of the University of Illinois, and the first volume on a state institution in Professor Krapp’s American college and university series.” (Nation) The author tells us in his preface that it has “seemed necessary to throw a much greater emphasis upon the record of the past than upon the tendencies or characteristics of the present, and that even in the four final chapters, nominally not historical at all, will be found much historical matter.” There are eight appendices.
“This book has a special significance only for those interested in the educational development of a middle western state. It contains more information than the other volumes in the series but lacks to a large degree the literary charm of most of its predecessors.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 9 ‘17 110w
“The book, pleasingly written, has also the more substantial merits of careful historical detail and a comprehensive grasp of its subject. It is a needed and useful contribution to our educational history.”
+ — =Dial= 63:530 N 22 ‘17 510w
“Portraying his alma mater with the insight of a son and the dispassionateness of a stranger, Mr Nevins has made a book, which, while of peculiar interest, no doubt, to Illinoisians, holds its subject steadily at the level of all who are concerned with higher public education. ... He seizes upon the development of the institution in relation to the state as the unique and commanding aspect of his subject, and he collects and arranges his material to illustrate it.”
+ =Nation= 105:226 Ag 30 ‘17 1200w
=NEVINSON, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD WYNNE.=[2] Modern war; paintings by C. R. W. Nevinson; with an essay by P. G: Konody. *$3.50 McBride 940.91 17-8608
Mr Nevinson interprets the war thru the medium of one of the newer forms of art. He has found it “impossible to express the scenic and mechanical spirit of this twentieth century war with the languishing or obsolete symbolism of mediaeval or classic art.” “As you look at these paintings of Nevinson’s you reach a very obvious conclusion about modern war, namely that the individual soldier does not exist. All the actors on the scene, the soldiers serving the machine guns, or marching on in endless columns, the wounded writhing in pain, are not men but mannikins, gaunt conventionalized creatures, veritable slaves to routine and machines. ... The subject, for instance, of the painting of the field hospital ‘La patrie’ is not so much wounded soldiers as it is gestures of agony.” (Masses)
“The only way to reflect this war truthfully in all its baleful manifestations, is to intellectualize it, to sublimate it, as it were, to transform its macabre into organized graphic representation. It is only through symbols that man can play with infinitudes. Just because he has attacked the problem in this way, C. R. W. Nevinson has been one of the first to react creatively to the reality of modern war.” Carl Zigrosser
+ + =Masses= 9:32 S ‘17 820w
“Mr Nevinson is a cubist, though, as we understand from the essay introducing him, a cubist who wears his cubes with a difference. For ourselves, we should not care if he were ten times more the child of the T-square than he is so long as he can produce pictures like those we are criticizing.”
+ =Spec= 118:367 Mr 24 ‘17 1050w
“His pictures are pictures not because they represent what he has seen, but because they give us ocular experience of his emotions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p63 F 8 ‘17 900w
New manual of bayonet training and practical bayonet fighting. il *75c National military pub. co. 355
The publishers state that this little book is compiled from the regulations in force in the new armies of the Entente Allies, adopted at Plattsburg and other American camps. The first part “Bayonet training, 1916 (Provisional) gives reasons for and practical lessons in bayonet fighting.” The second part “Practical bayonet fighting” “does not purpose to be of assistance in training men for competition fighting, although it may be of some use for individual instruction, but it is hoped that it will be of service to officers and N. C. O.’s when training a squad or a company.” (Foreword)
=A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18
=N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 70w
=NEW REPUBLIC.= New Republic book; selections from the first hundred issues. $1.50 Republic pub. co., 421 W. 21st st., N.Y. 320.4 17-4463
“Sixty-seven of the best articles which have appeared in the New Republic for the last two years are brought together in this convenient and attractive volume. According to the preface, ‘it is a collaboration and makes no attempt at complete unanimity or logical consistency. It aims to give in compact and available form a sample of the liberal opinion in the United States as expressed from 1914 to 1916 at the suggestion of events.’”—Am Pol Sci R
“Bound in boards; will not last.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:333 My ‘17
“As an aid in developing a responsible, well-informed public opinion ‘The New Republic book’ should render considerable service.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:364 My ‘17 150w
=Masses= 9:28 Ap ‘16 1600w
“‘The New Republic book’ shows physically, a tendency to go to pieces under close examination. ... ‘Spiritually’ it exhibits as much coherence as could fairly be expected in a numerous group of men and women animated by a desire to destroy ‘the old crusted folkways’ and to break up ‘the cake of intellectual custom.’ ... Their jaunty attitude towards the past—it is never au revoir but always adios—produces an exhilarating impression of timeliness. One with less spacious faith in the promise of the future might say—the timeliness of sailors who, to profit by a spanking breeze, throw the cargo overboard.”
— =Nation= 104:410 Ap 5 ‘17 400w
“The solid political articles based on broadly democratic principles, and expressing a true aspiration after social progress and international security, have given a leading to many minds and became of much value in the recent political campaign. In the literary articles the paper has been less satisfactory.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 6 ‘17 250w
=NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED.= Newark anniversary poems; winners in the poetry competition. $1.25 Gomme 811.08 17-23312
This volume is published under the auspices of the Committee of one hundred on the 250th anniversary celebration of the founding of the city of Newark, New Jersey, May to October, 1916. It includes introductory chapters on Newark, on “Early Puritan poetry,” on “Civic celebrations as a community force,” and “A plan for a national anthology of American poetry,” by Henry Wellington Wack, editor of the Newarker; the official “Celebration ode,” by Lyman Whitney Allen; the poetry of the Newark pageant and masque, by Thomas Wood Stevens; the thirteen Newark prize poems; and “Other Newark anniversary poems, grave and gay,” which appeared in the Newarker, the Committee’s official journal, published from November, 1915 to November, 1916, as a record of anniversary events. Appendices give biographies of prize winners, names of the Committee of one hundred, etc.
“The poetry included in this anthology of Newark is much above the average level of anniversary verse and forms a worthy tribute to the great city. Our chief criticism is that so many of the bards celebrant found it necessary to apologize for their task.”
+ =Ind= 92:68 O 6 ‘17 350w
“Competitions in the arts are noteworthy for the fact that little good work is produced by them. This rule was not broken in the Newark contest. Nine hundred entries were submitted, and of all those published in the collection at hand only one touches greatness. By a coincidence not often met with in competitions, this great poem was awarded first prize. We refer to Clement Woods’ ringing glorification, indictment and prophecy!” D: P. Berenberg
– + =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 460w
=NEWBERRY, PERRY.= Castaway Island. il *$1.75 (2c) Penn 17-23974
The Galapagos islands, cut by the equator, lie out from the coast of Equador. They have never had a native population, and altho the Panama canal has increased their value, they are still sparsely settled. The island on which Bob Trevlin and Jeffers Stimson are wrecked is quite uninhabited. Bob Trevlin is a young San Francisco boy who is about to take passage for home when he meets Stimson, a soldier of fortune. The two plan to travel together, but a tropical storm drives them out to sea. The island on which they are landed has no human inhabitants, but they find on it a strange collection of wild domestic animals, the descendants, they suppose, of the animals left by earlier colonists. Chickens, dogs, cows and horses are among these, and their re-domestication is one of the occupations of the two castaways. Their adventures on the island cover about six months and include very real perils.
“Brimful of exciting adventure.”
+ =Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 40w
“It is a story full of interest. Attractive illustrations by F. A. Anderson, some of them in color, add much to the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ‘17 120w
=NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY JOHN.= Book of the happy warrior. il *$1.75 (2c) Longmans 18-300
The author has retold some of the old heroic tales for boys, with two final chapters linking the past with the present. Contents: The song of Roland; Richard Cœur de Lion; St Louis, king of France; Robin Hood; Bertrand du Guesclin and the Black prince; News from Poitiers, 1356; France v. Gentlemen of England; The Chevalier Bayard; The old English school; Chivalry of to-day. The illustrations by Henry J. Ford include a frontispiece and several colored plates.
“A book of scholarship and charm by a lover of the classics of chivalry.”
+ =Ath sup= p688 D ‘17 220w
+ =Ath sup= p694 D ‘17 60w
“Good reading, particularly in these days, a book from which older as well as younger readers may get a thrill, is ‘The book of the happy warrior.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 460w
“He has a fine sense of the chivalries of the past as well as the present. He spares no pains with his excellent prose; he shuns alike the modern preciosity which spoils the old stories and the slipshod sentimentality which distorts virtue, a word which in older days meant the essential qualities of manhood. The title of the book in itself is a specimen of his felicitous taste.”
+ =Sat R= 124:sup6 D 8 ‘17 540w
“Sir Henry Newbolt has written another excellent book for boys—and for their sisters too.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup473 N 3 ‘17 360w
“The stories are told in clear, simple language and as far as possible in that of the original chroniclers.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 D 13 ‘17 460w
=NEWCOMER, ALPHONSO GERALD=, and others, eds. Three centuries of American poetry and prose. *$1.75 Scott 810.8 17-24531
A book of selections intended to meet the same need as that filled by “Twelve centuries of English poetry and prose.” In their selection of poetry the aim of the editors has been “to place between the covers of a single volume the greater part of what will remain permanent in American poetry from its beginnings down to the end of the first great production period in American literature.” With regard to prose, so comprehensive an aim was out of the question, but the editors say, “Whenever possible we have used wholes; when this was not possible we have made selections that would show the author’s purpose in the whole, and have above all tried to avoid the scrappiness and ineffectiveness of mere fragments.” Historically American literature is divided into two periods: the Colonial period and the National period, the latter closing about 1890. Chronological table, Index to notes and glossary, and Index to authors, titles and first lines are provided at the close.
=Outlook= 117:387 N 7 ‘17 40w
=NEWMAN, HORATIO HACKETT.= Biology of twins (mammals). (Univ. of Chicago science ser.) il *$1.25 Univ. of Chicago press 575 17-11116
“Dr Newman has made a serious study of the problem of twins among mammals—especially armadillos, which have a way of producing multiple offspring as a regular thing. He has also gathered up the results of other people’s studies and has presented them in a very interesting way. ... Newman’s studies introduce several new factors into the speculations and interpretations of the problems. ... The bulk of the
## book is devoted to the armadillos, first because the author has made
an extensive study of this group of animals, and second because these studies furnish the largest mass of direct evidence on the problems.”—Ind
“Brief, concise résumé of present knowledge.”
+ =Cleveland= p79 Je ‘17 6w
“The book is necessarily technical in parts, but the portions of concern to the general reader only can be read by a judicious skipper with great interest.”
+ =Ind= 92:69 O 6 ‘17 400w
“The essential points obtained by investigators to date have been placed in a single small volume where, appearing in a not too technical dress, they are readily and conveniently available, not to zoologists alone, but to the thinking public in general.” H. H. W.
+ =Science= n s 46:486 N 16 ‘17 1450w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 190w
Newspaper press directory and advertisers’ guide; seventy-second annual issue, 1917. *2s Mitchell, London 072
“This directory contains particulars of every newspaper, magazine, review, and periodical published in the United Kingdom and the British Isles; the newspaper map of the United Kingdom; the press of the British dominions overseas, the Indian empire, the continent of Europe, America, and the Far East; and a directory of the class papers and periodicals. During the past twelve months 69 newspapers suspended publication in the British Isles, and 165 increased their price. In view of such changes as these, it will be evident that the seventy-second annual edition of Messrs Mitchell’s well-known and valuable work of reference must be particularly useful and important. The volume contains special articles dealing with the trend of the modern press, the legal year in its relation to the press, the commercial opportunities offered by the overseas dominions, and other topics.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p245 My ‘17 110w
“The old-established trade record is a guide to the world’s press that we have always found to be accurate.”
+ =Spec= 118:465 Ap 21 ‘17 110w
=NEWTON, JOSEPH FORT.= Ambassador; City Temple sermons. *$1 Revell 252 17-293
“Dr Newton’s call to the City Temple, London, from his pastorate in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has called general attention to him as a preacher. This volume contains fifteen sermons, eleven of which were preached at the City Temple while he was visiting there, before his final call and acceptance. The remaining sermons were delivered in America. The dominant note in the sermons preached in England is Christian good-will. The subjects are concerned with the Christian life and doctrine in their general relations, emphasizing the fundamental problems of God and the relations of men to Christ.”—Bib World
“He does not make his sermons from the last book he has read, but great books often give him his suggestion and point of contact and the most telling illustrations of truth. He is a fine example of what noble literature, especially poetry, may do for the preacher. The sermons speak especially to cultivated minds, yet through their simplicity and naturalness and humanness they make the universal appeal. Here is their real power.” A. S. Hoyt
+ =Am J Theol= 21:475 Jl ‘17 900w
“Dr Newton has a message for the age. It is strongly put, but there are too many blemishes in its form.”
+ — =Bib World= 49:314 My ‘17 250w
“Though the sermons deal with different themes, they have a unity of spirit, as they have one passion and purpose, to make vivid the truth as it is in Jesus, deeper than all dogmas, larger than all creeds, equal to every emergency, whether in peace or war.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 180w
+ =Ind= 90:381 My 26 ‘17 120w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17
“It is hard to discover in them just what appealed to the audience in that great center of English nonconformity. They are hardly original in conception and at times are very discursive, being chiefly distinguished by an ornate rhetoric which garnishes many platitudes.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 4 ‘17 90w
=NEXÖ, MARTIN ANDERSEN.= Pelle the conqueror: daybreak; tr. from the Danish by Jessie Muir. *$1.50 (2c) Holt 17-16731
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:92 Mr ‘17 900w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 1250w
“There is a simplicity and a steady focusing of the main issues in ‘Pelle.’ There is also—and this is one of the most admirable qualities of the book—a right proportion between the personal and the social; the two strands are kept going back and forth and wrought firmly into a unified design. I except the last volume, and it is curious to see how the pressure of social fact squeezes out there much of the reality. In the last volume there is a suggestion of externality. ... Taken all in all, ‘Pelle’ is a fine achievement in democratic art, the most satisfying novel of the labor movement that I have read.” G: B. Donlin
+ =Dial= 62:309 Ap 5 ‘17 1650w
“To this final volume is appended a note about the author by Professor Jespersen of the University of Copenhagen. It seems that Nexö was very little known in Denmark when the first part of ‘Pelle the conqueror’ appeared, some ten years ago. He was a teacher in Copenhagen who had done a little travelling and a little writing—chiefly some short stories which a few people had recognized as exceptional. Copenhagen was the place of his birth (1869); its circumstances were of the humblest. ... Such a work of imagination as this, with its deep humor, its deep humanity, brings home to us, as nothing else can, the artificial nature of those boundaries which language and custom set between one race and another. It is a book for the world; one cannot lay it down without a sense of quickened emotion and enlarged vision.”
+ =Nation= 104:241 Mr 1 ‘17 1250w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 150w
“To Nexö there are no reticences; there is nothing clean or unclean. Brought up himself in the poorest quarters of Copenhagen, and working, like his own Pelle, as a shoemaker’s apprentice on the secluded island of Bornholm, he relives that elemental life through this book. There is in him something of the old Rabelaisian flavor, which we are now far too sophisticated to get pleasantly from that old literature. He brings to our sympathy that rich, earthy, immemorial strain of sex and hunger and primitive necessities, gives it a modern embodiment that is all charm and sincere feeling. ... Surely ‘Pelle’ is one of the great novels of the world.” Randolph Bourne
+ + =New Repub= 10:sup8 Ap 21 ‘17 1700w
“The book is international; it might have been written of Berlin, or Naples or London, or Calumet, as well as of Copenhagen. We can recall no American labor novel which begins to have its sweep and effectiveness; ‘The jungle,’ perhaps, comes closest, although it did not make the differentiation which this book (and the progress of industry) has made between the unskilled and the skilled laborer. It may be that we have the answer here at hand; the subject is being considered by all Socialists and labor leaders. Whether or not the future development of the strife follows the main outlines mapped out in this book, the story will have played its large part in the result.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 1 ‘17 670w
“Side by side with Pelle is the portrait of his wife Ellen, a portrait of charm, which has a certain intimate symbolism which Mr Andersen Nexö handles with grace; and around them are the children and the old librarian Brun who are conceived with something of that simplicity which we associate with another Andersen, and which is the more lovable for that.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p68 F 8 ‘17 800w
=NICHOLSON, DANIEL HOWARD SINCLAIR, and LEE, A. H. E.=, eds. Oxford book of English mystical verse. *$2.50 Oxford 821.08 17-17649
“From Richard Rolle of Hampole to Mr Harold E. Goad some 150 poets are represented, the most prominent being Herbert, Crashaw, Traherne, Blake, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Swinburne, Francis Thompson, A. E. Waite, and Bliss Carman.” (Ath) There is an index of authors and one of first lines.
=Ath= p101 F ‘17 50w
“‘The Oxford book of English mystical verse’ maintains the standards set by its predecessors. ... The distribution of the poems in point of time is interesting. Five-sixths of them—more than five-sixths, if we count Blake among the nineteenth century poets—are the product of that nineteenth century which its own prophets denounced as materialistic and skeptical beyond all previous epochs, of this twentieth century which, we were told before the war, was wholly given over to fads and superficiality. ... The most remarkable feature of most of the poems in this collection is their clarity. Their mystical quality is due to elevation of thought, not to woolly-mindedness.” J. DeL. Ferguson
+ =Dial= 63:207 S 13 ‘17 900w
“In spite of laxities, however, the novelty of the enterprise gives the book a real value.” O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 90w
“When we come to Matthew Arnold we find some variations from his proper text, due, perhaps, to slips in transcribing or to the use of earlier editions. Whatever the reason, we expect to find a great poet in the form which he chose to be remembered. ... The editors have a deficient sense of proportion: that is clear. Their volume, well over 600 pages, includes some examples unworthy of preservation in a first-rate anthology. It might have been a smaller one, more definitely mystic, or, in view of its wide scope, they might have gathered for their posy some lasting flowers which are not of yesterday.”
– + =Sat R= 123:186 F 24 ‘17 1350w
“It will delight every poetry-lover. ... It is the modern men whose work we are most interested to see. To us, at present, the unexpected mysticism of the man of the world, the man of letters, the man of
## action, the unbeliever, even the sinner, is of the deepest
interest—because it is along mystic lines that the religious world is now feeling after assurance. ... But when we have drunk the new wine we turn back to Vaughan and Donne and Crashaw and George Herbert and Traherne, and say: ‘The old is better.’ We are, however, not the less grateful to Mr Nicholson and Mr Lee for giving us to drink of the new also.”
+ =Spec= 118:303 Mr 10 ‘17 1400w
“A book in which a hundred or so poems, not all mystical but all fine and true, the work of poets, are buried in a wilderness of respectable religious verse which is only sometimes mysticism and hardly ever poetry.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p102 Mr 1 ‘17 900w
=NICHOLSON, MEREDITH.= Madness of May. il *$1 (5c) Scribner 17-11468
Billy Deering is in a tight place, very much worried about himself and his future, when a picturesque stranger, introducing himself as R. Hood, takes possession of him. Much against his will at first, thinking his companion is either an escaped lunatic or a crook, young Mr Deering accompanies the stranger on what turns out to be a series of fantastic adventures in which a girl who calls herself Pierrette plays a part.
“Appeared in Collier’s Weekly.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17
“A story to be read by all honest lovers of romance in terms of whimsy.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:408 Je ‘17 260w
“It is so absolutely incredible that the perfectly plausible explanation of the whole situation in the end is positively irritating to the unsuspicious reader, who has not cared to come out of clouds.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 150w
“It is just long enough to entertain a reader in the mood for a trifle that is not trash.”
+ =Cath World= 105:842 S ‘17 140w
+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w
“A trifle of delicious quality—a confection, if you will, of the purest and soundest materials.”
+ =Nation= 104:580 My 10 ‘17 400w
“A dainty, fluffy bit of most irresponsible foolery.”
=N Y Times= 22:226 Je 10 ‘17 230w
+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 30w
“It’s just pure fun, and one only wishes the story were longer.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 200w
“Very light, improbable, and amusing.”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 40w
=NICHOLSON, MEREDITH.= Reversible Santa Claus. il *$1 (6c) Houghton 17-28188
Billy the Hopper, ex-crook, is the hero of this Christmas story. The Hopper, now proprietor of a chicken farm, is leading a blameless life when temptation assails him in two-fold form. To make the matter worse, it is Christmas eve. One of his falls from grace results in the extraction of a bill-book from a fellow passenger’s pocket, an act of which he is heartily ashamed, for petty larceny is far below the level of his talents. The other slip is the stealing of an automobile. Out of this act grow complications. The machine has an occupant—a sleeping baby. It is while attempting to return the child to his parents that the Hopper is persuaded to play the part of a reversible Santa Claus, one who takes things away from people for their own good.
=A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18
“It is burlesque, its quite impossible action moves swiftly; to see it pass once across the screen may divert an idle hour.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 D 1 ‘17 320w
“‘A reversible Santa Claus,’ gives free scope to his humorous fancy. It would be preposterous if it did not concern a fairy world.”
+ =Nation= 105:540 N 15 ‘17 170w
“It is with relief that it is found to be a most diverting tale, its more or less necessary Yuletide cheer well mixed with real gayety and humor.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:518 D 2 ‘17 350w
“Original and amusing.”
+ =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 180w
“Will hardly answer to the demand for a Christmas story, and is perhaps not worth the small library’s purchase.”
– + =Wis Lib Bul= 14:32 Ja ‘18 50w
=NICOLAS, RENÉ.= Campaign diary of a French officer; tr. by Katharine Babbitt. *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 940.91 17-10365
A diary covering three months of the war, from February to May, 1915. The author says, “When I visited America recently I came to realize the widespread interest in the European war shown by the citizens of the new world. ... The many questions I have been asked, and the earnest attention accorded to my accounts of the war, are my excuse for publishing this journal. ... Except for a few trifling omissions, this book reproduces exactly the notes I took at the front. ... The story is a true one, lived and lived intensely. In this fact lies the little merit the work may posses.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17
“The book is of especial interest in comparison with the more off-hand accounts of Ian Hay and the member of ‘Kitchener’s mob.’”
+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 90w
“His book is everywhere simple, frank, humane. ... One cannot suppose that M. Nicolas’s experience or his fortitude is at all unusual. Such daily horrors must be the very stuff of life to thousands. To read of them, thus calmly set down, is to realize once more what an adaptable creature man is and to be filled with wonder that the mere threat of hell should have tortured his imagination for ages.”
+ =Dial= 62:404 My 3 ‘17 350w
+ =Ind= 90:296 My 12 ‘17 120w
“He who would gain an idea, not only of what war means, but of what France means to those who love her, should read this book.”
+ =Outlook= 116:33 My 2 ‘17 90w
=Pratt= p41 O ‘17 10w
=R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:315 S ‘17 30w
“For vividness it would be hard to match this brief story of the front, because it is a genuine diary. ... The printed book is quite as realistically thrilling as if it bore the scars of the original.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 250w
=NIEMEYER, NANNIE.= Stories for the history hour; from Augustus to Rolf. *$1.25 (2c) Dodd
“These stories are written solely for the purpose of being told,” says the author in her preface. “They are not intended for children’s reading, but for teachers’ telling. ... These are stories which I wished to tell, and of which I could find no satisfactory version. ... I have avoided all stories of which numerous good versions exist.” The author is an English woman and the stories are planned to fit courses of study in Great Britain. The period from 50 B.C. to 900 A.D. is covered. Contents: Augustus; Onesimus; Trajan; Pliny; Cornelius; Alaric; Geneviève; Clovis; Columba; Cuthbert; Sturmi; Charles the Great; Charles and Alcuin; Ingiald; Eudes; Rolf. A list of authorities is given at the end.
“There is, fortunately, a growing movement in the direction of giving history a meaning and interest for children such as cannot be compassed by formal lectures and text-books. A good example of the kind of thing that is being done, and done successfully, is ‘Stories for the history hour.’” J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 170w
=NOBBS, GILBERT.= On the right of the British line. il *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 940.91 17-24723
Captain Nobbs was five weeks on the firing line on the Somme, four weeks mourned as dead, and three months a prisoner of war in Germany. He describes vividly how he planned the attack of his company under fire, brought his men into position, directed the charge, and fell, wounded in the head and blinded for life.
“One of the most moving of the personal accounts.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18
=Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 70w
“This is not a great book. It is so unpretentious, indeed, that one wonders why one has finished it at a single sitting. But as a graphic, moving picture it will hold any reader.”
+ =Dial= 64:72 Ja 17 ‘18 240w
=Pittsburgh= 22:763 N ‘17 40w
“A simple and interesting personal narrative.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 20w
=NOBLE, EDWARD.= Outposts of the fleet. *60c Houghton 17-17081
“That heroes of the merchant marine should, as a rule, receive but scant recognition seems very unjust to Mr Edward Noble. ... To the ordinary perils of the deep are now added the risks and the terrors of war, as is vividly brought out in such tales as ‘Torpedoed’ and ‘Homeward with grain,’ which, with seven other short pieces, make up the contents of the book. Most, if not all, of these sea-yarns have already seen the light in various British journals. ... They are new to American readers.”—Dial
“Nine graphic short stories which show a keen insight into the character of the British seaman and a wide knowledge of his life. Printed on very poor paper.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18
“As full of the marine spirit as sea water is full of salt.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 13 ‘17 300w
+ =Dial= 63:400 O 25 ‘17 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17 30w
=R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 40w
Noontime messages in a college chapel. *$1.25 (4c) Pilgrim press 252 17-30764
Sixty-nine short addresses to young people by twenty-five well-known preachers of different denominations. The college is not named, but the preachers represented belong to Boston and its vicinity. Among them are: George H. Hodges, Charles F. Dole, Paul R. Frothingham, Daniel Evans, Samuel M. Crothers, and Raymond Calkins. The addresses are very brief and are in the nature of intimate talks.
“May be suggestive to ministers and leaders of religious organizations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:149 F ‘18
“The thought itself, while sometimes brilliant and suggestive, is more often tame and commonplace.”
– + =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 26 ‘18 110w
“All are characterized by freshness and insight.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 90w
=NORRIS, EDWIN MARK.= Story of Princeton. il *$2 (3c) Little 378 17-28880
This story of Princeton has been written by the editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. It is based on well-known sources, and aims, in addition to giving the essential historical facts, “to present and preserve some of the more characteristic traditions and anecdotes that through two centuries have gathered about the name of Princeton.” (Preface) Contents: When we lived under the king; Princeton’s part in the making of the nation; The reign of terror; Depression and reconstruction; The great awakening; The university. The illustrations are from drawings by Lester G. Hornby.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p9 Ja ‘18 40w
=Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 50w
“The book tells its story well. It is indexed, and the drawings are numerous and good.”
+ =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 190w
“A worthy volume to set beside Arthur Stanwood Pier’s similar study of Harvard. The volume is for the undergraduate and the alumnus in business, not for the man who has a professional or otherwise strongly developed interest in higher education and academic history. It is simply a bright sketch, made possible by Professor Collins’s recent exhaustive book, and frank in its shortcomings.”
+ — =Nation= 105:642 D 6 ‘17 320w
“Mr Norris is particularly happy in depicting the great personalities among the presidents of bygone days.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:549 D 9 ‘17 320w
+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 40w
“The only defect of his entertaining sketch of the university’s history is a tendency to gloss over some of the ‘intellectual’ battles—if they were wholly intellectual—that were waged over questions of policy. ... Mr Norris’s book as a whole is pleasant and unpretentiously informing.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 1050w
=NORRIS, KATHLEEN (THOMPSON) (MRS CHARLES GILMAN NORRIS).= Martie, the unconquered. il *$1.35 (1c) Doubleday 17-22088
Martie Monroe, a girl of strong individuality and much ambition, brought up in a little California town, escaped from her family who economically and socially were on the down-hill grade, by marrying Wallace Bannister, a third-class actor. The Bannisters went to New York, where a son was born. As Wallace was constantly away, and failed to support his wife, she took charge of the boarding-house in which she lived. After her husband’s death, she returned to California to live in the old homestead with her father, her sister Lydia and her son Teddy, and to work in the Monroe public library. After she had accepted an offer of marriage from Clifford Frost, a leading citizen of Monroe about twice her age, John Dryden, who had known and loved her in New York, followed her to California; but Martie, being a Catholic, refused to marry Dryden because he was a divorced man, and, breaking her engagement to Frost, returned to New York to work in the office of a magazine for which she had written some successful articles. Her career is contrasted with that of her sister Sally, who married a poor boy and had four children whom she brought up on an allowance made her by “Dr Ben,” an old physician who believed in the endowment of motherhood.
“Published in the Pictorial Review.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 80w
“To touch unobtrusively and incidentally upon moral questions of the hour has been Mrs Norris’s object in the writing of all her novels, and never has she succeeded so well as in ‘Martie the unconquered.’ ... As a novel with its basis the problem of woman, it will make its strongest appeal because it is not a problem novel. ... There is little of the polemic in it, except as life itself is polemic. It contains much of reality and truth as they are faced by a young woman who is unable to remain amid the placid conditions of her birth. And best of all it is free from the morbid sentimentality that has too frequently obtruded itself into Mrs Norris’s other novels.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 1650w
“The book is readable, and much of it is well written; but it fails to carry out the author’s evident intention to picture the triumph of a dauntless spirit over adverse conditions.”
– + =Cath World= 106:555 Ja ‘18 160w
“The author’s handling of character and her power of rendering the details of village life are worthy of attention. The picture of Malcolm Monroe’s household, dominated by the suspicions of a petty tyrant, is an excellent bit of domestic comedy. Bonestell’s drugstore, where the young folk of Monroe gather for pink sodas; the library steps where they meet and shyly depart on Sunday afternoon walks; the drab existence of New York boarding-houses and flats; the dull reality of the mediocre actor’s days and nights,—these scenes and this youth are part of our American life and they are sketched with a skill that is really notable.”
+ =Dial= 63:220 S 13 ‘17 170w
“Kathleen Norris is suffering the inevitable penalty of over-prolific production. ... If her tricks of manner grow a bit hackneyed, the basic idea on which she works will bear a great deal of repetition.”
– + =Ind= 93:240 F 9 ‘18 160w
“Somehow, as has happened before in Mrs Norris’s work, the story which began so clearly and simply as a record of human experience is gradually enfolded and finally smothered outright in a fog of sheer sentimentalism.”
– + =Nation= 105:541 N 15 ‘17 110w
“It is encouraging to find in a story that is frankly the story of a popular romancer so much of the actualistic and veracious. Nor is the attack on our earlier romantic aura tradition confined wholly to the background. Mrs Norris’ heroine struggles through her loves and early love’s mistakes to her fulness of womanhood and achievement, and there is not even the condescension of a mating-finish.”
+ =New Repub= 12:252 S 29 ‘17 190w
“The best-drawn figure in the book is Martie’s father, a fine and consistent portrait. He stands out, in his bigoted egotism, as one living personality among many vague shadows.” Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p15 D 29 ‘17 180w
“Mrs Norris’s portrayals of character are always graphic, even where they are slight and superficial. Martie is perhaps the most real and vital of all her gallery of feminine portraits.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 670w
“There is close depiction of a rather narrow range of character. The story in workmanship is equal to the author’s best previous writing.”
+ =Outlook= 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 60w
“Martie must be regarded as one of Mrs Norris’s best characters.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 550w
=NORRIS, KATHLEEN (THOMPSON) (MRS CHARLES GILMAN NORRIS).= Undertow. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 17-11464
The story of a married pair who hold together thru adversity only to find themselves drawn apart when prosperity comes to them. Bert and Nancy marry on twenty-five dollars a week. With careful economy they keep well and happy in the little four room apartment. Children come one after the other and Bert’s salary keeps pace with the growing needs of the family. When they have attained real financial independence they move to a fashionable suburb. Here they are drawn into the gay, idle life of the place. They live beyond their means and worry about appearances, but they so far retain their common sense that they can look on the calamity that releases them as a bit of good fortune.
“Copyright by the Curtis publishing company under the title ‘Holly court.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:405 Je ‘17
+ =Cath World= 105:554 Jl ‘17 90w
“Even the characters hardly live. They move vaguely across the screen in the all-too well-known progress of their lives. If Mrs Norris wishes to do any more moral tales, she must make them more vivid and alive or her readers will fly for relief to the latest detective story.”
— =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 130w
“This book is a lantern of warning set on a rock pile.”
+ =Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 50w
=Nation= 104:736 Je 21 ‘17 280w
“One wonders, indeed, if the author is not playing her characters false, in this [suburban] phase of their development, for the sake of the story she is weaving and the moral she desires her readers to get out of it.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:113 Ap 1 ‘17 400w
Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 91:969 Mr 17 ‘17 350w
“The story presents a sharp lesson in the useless extravagance so conspicuous in the American home. But the story is so well balanced that the moral is at no time unduly prominent. It is not long, but is well worth the reading.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 300w
“Interesting despite the heavily-accentuated moral.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 60w
=NORTHEND, MARY HARROD.=[2] Memories of old Salem. il *$4 Moffat 974.4 17-27755
“This book, while written in the form of a romantic tale, is designed chiefly to carry the reader back to the days when Salem was in its glory, the days when its ships sailed the seven seas and brought riches and fame to the ancient port. Miss Northend’s story hangs upon the discovery of a packet of love-letters hidden in the frame of an old picture, and by means of the narrative she skilfully conveys the spirit and the setting of the past.”—Lit D
“In both text and picture Miss Northend emphasizes those striking qualities that make Salem one of the most interesting American towns. The great grandmother, in telling the story, recreates the past with all its glamour.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 1200w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 130w
“Mrs Northend ingeniously contrived a readable narrative in which to embody an immense amount of information. The illustrations alone will be a treasure for any one interested in the life and arts of early New England.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:4 Ja 6 ‘18 260w
“This volume is eminently attractive, both in its physical and pictorial form and in the curious information about old times and old things in Salem.”
+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 70w
“Whether or not this narrative is all that could be desired as an account of colonial manners and customs is by no means certain. Some readers, at all events, would prefer a larger amount of research, and a smaller admixture of personal sentiment. The pictures, however, are the real raison d’etre of the volume.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 330w
=NORTHRUP, EDWIN FITCH.= Laws of physical science; a reference book. *$2 Lippincott 530 17-13944
The author’s aim has been to compile a handbook containing a complete list of the general propositions or laws of science. He says, “We have chosen for a title, ‘Laws of physical science’ but many general propositions, theorems and mere statements of important facts have been included which perhaps, if strictly considered, could not be discriminated as laws. ... When such doubts existed, a policy of inclusion has been followed in preference to one of exclusion.” In all the book contains 480 general statements. These are classified into six groups: Mechanics; Hydrostatics, hydrodynamics and capillarity; Sound; Heat and physical chemistry; Electricity and magnetism; Light. Bibliography and index follow.
“The book is a valuable epitome, and should be of special service to students of physics, chemistry, and engineering.”
+ =Ath= p592 N ‘17 170w
“Dr Edwin P. Northrup of Princeton has done a very useful service in adding to existing reference books his ‘Laws of physical science.’”
+ =Educ R= 54:316 O ‘17 50w
“Students of engineering and the physical sciences have long needed a compact handbook of the established propositions of physical science. Dr Northrup has prepared just such a handbook. ... Each law is followed by one and in some cases by several references to easily accessible textbooks, standard treatises, etc., where detailed and systematic treatment is given of these propositions. This is not the least important contribution of the book.”
+ =El School J= 17:692 My ‘17 250w
“A judicious choice has been made from a large selection of authors, so that in each case the law might be given in its clearest and most exact form. The book is attractively got up.”
+ =Nation= 105:274 S 6 ‘17 70w
“In a book which so obviously fills a gap in our literature it is perhaps a little ungrateful to point out minor defects. The contrast between the thoroughness of the section devoted to current electricity and the incompleteness and lack of unity of some of the other sections is very marked.”
+ — =Nature= 100:265 D 6 ‘17 330w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17 10w
“Unique work of great value for quick reference. Wider in scope than title indicates.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:655 O ‘17 40w
“The demands of condensation have been met for the most part very successfully in statements which though compact are clear and correct. In a few instances, however, the statements should be revised. ... It is perhaps unfortunate that the author has chosen Rankine as his source for various thermodynamic statements, for with all his undoubted genius Rankine is not an easy guide to follow. ... But it is easy to be too critical; the author has successfully carried out his proposal and has done an important service.” A. L. Kimball
+ — =Science= n s 47:120 F 1 ‘18 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 120w
=NORTON, MRS JEANNETTE YOUNG.= Mrs Norton’s cook-book; selecting, cooking, and serving for the home table. *$2.50 (1c) Putnam 641.5 17-11938
The author says, “I have tried to make this a cook book, pure and simple, avoiding all reference to, and rules of, chemistry, feeling that the pupils of the schools of domestic science have all such information. ... [and that] lay women would not ordinarily use such information if it were given.” A half dozen chapters of general information precede the chapters devoted to recipes. Special chapters are given to Invalid cookery, Nursery diet, Child cookery, Children’s
## parties, School luncheons, Camp cookery, etc.
“Recipes are concise but some of them are rather extravagant for the average housekeeper of these times. Would be a great help to tea shops, clubs, or even hotels. Good index.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:435 Jl ‘17
+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 40w
“Besides hundreds of recipes, there are chapters of general information most useful to the housekeeper.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p418 Ag 30 ‘17 50w
=NORWAY, MARY LOUISA (GADSDEN) (MRS HAMILTON NORWAY).= Sinn Fein rebellion as I saw it. il *2s Smith, Elder & co., London 941.5 (Eng ed A16-1424)
“The author is the wife of the Secretary for the Post office in Ireland, and in the letters here reprinted, which were written for family perusal, gives a good idea of the sudden terrors and anxieties of the rising. ‘H.’ at the beginning of the war, had obtained a military guard, armed, for the G. P. O. When the outbreak occurred it was there, but had no ammunition. It is a shocking story of folly and mismanagement. ... Evidence is offered of German assistance of the rebels.”—Sat R
“No literary merit is claimed for these letters, which were intended for family perusal only, but they convey a vivid idea of the events and the anxieties they aroused.”
+ =Ath= p485 O ‘16 60w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:425 My ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:24 Ja ‘17
=Sat R= 122:232 S 2 ‘16 160w
“A perfectly plain, straightforward narrative.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p375 Ag 10 ‘16 800w
=NOURSE, EDWIN GRISWOLD.= Agricultural economics. (Materials for the study of economics) *$2.75 (1c) Univ. of Chicago press 338 16-23032
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
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