Chapter 1
, The emergence of the problem of agricultural economics, is disappointing. ... The best material on the history of American agriculture has not been utilized. ... The editor has kept well in the foreground the social aspect of such matters as the standard of living of the rural population and the defects of the labor force both in quality and quantity. In so doing he has justified his advocacy of the teaching of agricultural economics in every institution which aims to give a liberal education.” P. W. Bidwell
+ =Am Econ R= 7:387 Je ‘17 700w
“Should be a valuable help to teachers of undergraduate students, specially until the whole field is more fully developed. More complete and better edited than other books on this subject.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:245 Mr ‘17
“A more accurate title for this collection of valuable contributions would be ‘Source book of agricultural economics,’ since the author does not attempt to present what would commonly be looked upon as a textbook in the general principles of the subject.” J. L. C.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:300 N ‘17 120w
“A book significant at once of the trend of thought in this direction, and of the new technique of university instruction.”
+ =Ind= 89:421 Mr 5 ‘17 350w
“Where the problem under discussion is of a controversial nature, both sides of the case are carefully presented. But in some instances the author has failed to set forth important facts bearing upon his subject. That is, too little space has been given to certain topics. ... Professor Nourse has assembled some suggestive material. He has produced, as it were, a ‘comparative print’ which throws the searchlight of agricultural data on controversial points in economic theory—theory which has too often been developed without due regard for agricultural facts. In accomplishing his other aims he has not succeeded so well. His collection of materials can hardly be regarded as a first-class textbook. Nevertheless, it represents by far the best attempt that has yet been made to satisfy this need.” G: E. Putnam
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=NOVIKOVA, OLGA ALEKSIEEVNA.= Russian memories; with an introd. by Stephen Graham. il *$3.50 Dutton (Eng ed 16-22949)
“People whose memory goes back to the eastern crisis of 1876-78 are not likely to have forgotten Mme Olga Novikoff, or the part that she played in the struggle between the Disraelians and the Gladstonians of that day. A Russian lady, handsome and clever, well connected and well backed, she captivated Mr Gladstone, and enlisted in support of her cause men so diverse as Carlyle, Tyndall, and W. T. Stead. ... Her new book, rather vaguely called ‘Russian memories,’ is partly a sketch of her past political activities, and partly a survey of certain aspects of Russia during recent years, of her politics home and foreign, and of the immediate situation.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“These reminiscences of a very notable woman, who has numbered among her friends Gladstone, Kinglake (’Eothen’), Carlyle, Froude, Tyndall, W. T. Stead, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Verestschagin, and ‘Mark Twain,’ are opportune in their appearance. ... The volume is provided with a good index.”
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“That much-abused person who is commonly referred to as the future historian will probably consider this lady the last Mohican of Russian monarchism.” Abraham Yarmolinsky.
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“It is a sincere analysis of the relations between Russia and England as she has observed them during the last fifty years. And the personality shown in her writing is one of great intelligence and charm.” R. M.
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“The author has apparently spent little time on the ordered preparation of her book, but her manner of writing is invariably engaging and intelligent.”
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“Her ‘Russian memories’ contain little or nothing that is new or important. They suggest the garrulity and magnification of self which often goes with old age.”
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“Rightly is her book called a book of ‘Memories’; though sprightly, amusing, and entertaining, it is emphatically a book of the past.”
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“What the author says concerning such of her own countrymen as Dostoevsky, Verestchagin, and Skobelev is of particular moment to the student of Russian life.”
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“As she is an uncompromising champion of the old political regime in Russia, some of her observations, as touching czarism and Siberia for example, seem not a little wide of the mark.”
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“The ‘Holy Russia’ of Madame Novikoff seems almost as remote from the Russia of Miliukoff and Kerensky as the England of George III and Lord North from the Britain of Lloyd George.”
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“A vivacious and sufficiently self-revealing record of the activities of the most energetic of the unofficial promoters of the Anglo-Russian entente.”
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“Its publication in England antedated the great days of March, so that it must not be grouped with the rapidly-augmenting library that owes its genesis to the revolution.”
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“This is not a very systematic book, nor is it easy to collect from it any consistent series of impressions. ... The later pages, it is true, deal with the present war, but many others go back a whole generation, so that, as there is no clear marking of the chronology, younger readers will be often perplexed as to the relative position of events.”
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=NOXON, FRANK WRIGHT.= Are we capable of self-government? *$1.50 (2c) Harper 330.9 17-16073
The author considers the “national problems and policies affecting business, 1900-1916.” He “has not tried to answer the question which the title of the book propounds, but rather to review the nation’s recent legislative and bureaucratic strictures upon organized business, sometimes true to the fundamental principles of our government, sometimes ludicrously childish and inconsistent, yet, because the underlying purpose has been honest rather than vicious, making for general progress.” (Introd.) There is a chapter on “Backsliding in New England,” one on “The new era in railway regulation,” and one on “Organized labor and the law.” The introduction is by Harry A. Wheeler, first president of the Chamber of commerce of the United States.
Reviewed by L. E. Robinson
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“The author’s study of the various movements will be of interest to Socialists in recalling some recent events. His conclusions will be found curious, for he often seems to go far in boldness of thought and utterance and to miss wholly underlying causes and actual social forces.” Frank Macdonald
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“This economic interpretation of current affairs is stimulating in high degree. ... It is rather a book for men of business than students, and wherever women have the vote or wish to be qualified to vote or discuss men’s affairs with men, the book should have women readers.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 1000w
“While the title of the book might indicate a pessimistic tendency, the author really shows that our form of government is favorable to the growth of those factors which may by proper cooperation produce the best results in both business and political life.”
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=NOYES, ALFRED.= Open boats. *50c (4½c) Stokes 940.91 17-13295
A book based on the narratives of those who have been sent out in open boats after the sinking of vessels by submarines. Mr Noyes has been at pains to gather together as many authentic records as possible. Contents: Open boats; Sea savagery; The unforeseen; A Prussian; Magnificoes and the dead. Two poems are printed by way of prolog and epilog.
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“Mr Alfred Noyes touches a chord of response in his readers by his facility in rhythmic, picturesque utterance. This facility is often fatal to his excellence as a poet, but it adapts itself readily to the description of German frightfulness on the high seas, which is the subject of this little book of sketches.”
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“The horror of submarine warfare is nowhere made more real than in these terse records, drawn from admiralty reports and from the accounts by survivors.”
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“Mr Noyes has been out with the British trawlers and has personal knowledge of the sea perils that he describes.”
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=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 3 ‘17 260w
“We wish Mr Noyes would more often leave the nail driven in without making assurance doubly sure by hitting it on the head a dozen times more. He has had presumably access to documents that are not published in the press, but we cannot think that he has succeeded in letting the survivors tell their own desperate story in their own vivid and unvarnished style.”
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=NYBURG, SIDNEY LAUER.= Chosen people. *$1.40 (1½c) Lippincott 17-26391
Philip Graetz, a young rabbi, fresh from his studies, is called to minister to a wealthy Jewish congregation in Baltimore. Philip is an idealist, believing passionately in the unity of the Jewish people and in the power of the Hebrew religion to solve all problems. The wide gulf that exists between the people of his congregation and the poor Jews of the slums is brought home to him in a strike in the clothing trade, and the failure of “Jewish ethics” to solve the labor problem all but shatters his second ideal. Love brings a bitter experience to Philip too, for he learns to care deeply for a girl who is not of his own people, and is saved from sacrificing his chosen career only by her fine character and sense of values. An interesting character in the story is David Gordon, the self-made Russian-Jewish lawyer. He is a good foil for Philip, and the fact that they become friends promises well for the young dreamer’s future.
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“In a rough sense this may be called a Jewish ‘Inside of the cup.’” H. W. Boynton
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“A somewhat formal, slightly chaotic and altogether serious story. ... Although Mr Nyburg’s style is extraordinarily verbose, although he emphasizes trifles and is inclined to lengthy discussions of incidents, it is undeniable that in ‘The chosen people’ he has written a novel of exceptional quality.” E. F. E.
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“I have seen few modern American stories so earnest, direct, free from palaver and sentimentality. ... The problems of the Jew in America are presented but not expounded.” J: Macy
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“A book of notable sincerity and dignity, by a Jew who is proud of his race, and whose pride exacts much of that race; by an American also, who desires that American life may be strengthened and ennobled by her Jewish citizens.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 130w
“In delightful and reassuring contrast [to Cahan’s ‘Rise of David Levinsky’] is Mr Nyburg’s ‘The chosen people.’” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 80w
“Refreshing, because it contains none of the conventional sentimentality about the Jew found in the average novel about him. ... Any one who is in the least familiar with Jews will not fail to recognize the prototypes of Arthur Kahn, the cultured ‘cash register’; ... and Dr Philip Graetz, the cultured rabbi of this most fashionable congregation in the city of Baltimore.” Harry Salpeter
+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 650w
“A brilliant piece of work. ... From first to last the book is exceptionally interesting. Detailed as it is, it never drags.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:102 Mr 25 ‘17 800w
“He writes with a simplicity and directness that give the impression of one who speaks with authority.” M. K. Reely
+ =Pub W= 91:969 Mr 17 ‘17 550w
“Mr Nyburg has written a keenly intelligent story which often penetrates the hypocrisies of society and shatters the platitudes and poses of conspicuous types. He has not conquered a penchant for theatrical climaxes, but the story ranks among the most substantial of the season’s fiction.”
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=NYROP, KRISTOFFER.= Is war civilization? auth. tr. by H. G. Wright. *$1.25 (2½c) Dodd 940.91 (Eng ed 17-30069)
A collection of papers on the war by a professor of romance philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. They appear to have been written at different times, but have been arranged in a logical sequence to conform with a definite plan: “The general introduction is followed by four chapters dealing with the devastation in Belgium and northern France, after which, by a natural succession, there come the manifesto of the ninety-three and the replies to the same. War of necessity leads to annexation, which in its turn involves tyranny, and some of the questions connected with this are dealt with in the next three chapters. The movement of the irredentists in Italy proves to what an extent the suppression of nationality produces explosive matter and so Italy’s attitude to the war has been made the object of special investigation. Finally, in a few brief sections, I have endeavoured to throw some light on the relations between war and religion, and war and languages, whilst in the last