chapter I
have drawn attention to that civitas Dei for the establishment of which all mankind ought harmoniously to unite.” (Preface)
+ =Ath= p531 O ‘17 160w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p407 Ag 23 ‘17 110w
“If there were nothing more in the volume than the extracts which Professor Nyrop gathers together from authors little known here, all showing the persistency and boundless arrogance of the modern German, the book would be useful.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p422 S 6 ‘17 500w
=NYSTROM, PAUL HENRY.= Retail store management. il $2 LaSalle extension univ. 658 17-6655
“This book is intended primarily as a textbook for students of the retailing process, and is general in character rather than descriptive of technical matters. The chief merchandising problems are presented clearly and concisely. The author realizes the need of giving to those engaged in retail business a broad view of the field, in order to counteract the narrowing tendencies of intensive routine work. The necessary theoretical matter is presented by means of illustrations taken from actual experiences of merchants. Reality without minute detail is the spirit of the work. Particular forms of retailing—chain stores, department stores, and so on—are not mentioned in the treatise. Location, organization, accounting, buying, sales, and pricing, the factors whose management means success or failure in any retail establishment, large or small, receive thorough treatment. House policies, especially with reference to direct dealings with customers and employees, are commented on. Several of the merchandising functions are illustrated by simple, well-organized charts, and a few carefully selected forms give hints of possible methods for controlling the work of the different functions.”—J Pol Econ
“‘Retail store management’ is closely related to the author’s other books, ‘Retail selling and store management’ (Appleton, 1914) and ‘The economics of retailing’ (Ronald press, 1915). Taken together, Dr Nystrom’s books constitute no small part of the recent useful literature of modern retailing. The Appleton text is bipartite and makes the three repetitive; the portions on store management should be transferred to the LaSalle text and the three texts would then have more or less exclusive fields.” R. B. Westerfield
+ =Am Econ R= 7:641 S ‘17 400w
“It is intensely matter-of-fact. And, in spite of its prosaic subject, it is interestingly written.” F. H. Hankins
+ =Am J Soc= 22:849 My ‘17 150w
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:640 Je ‘17 170w
“Dr Nystrom finds call for the course of instruction he lays down in ‘Retail store management’ in his conviction that a very large percentage of the three million and more Americans engaged in retail trade are incapable and inefficient. ... He strongly urges that everybody connected with retail trading should be fitted as well as possible for the work he is expected to perform. Study of Dr Nystrom’s book will tend to show the soundness of this view, while at the same time it will give a practical response to the need of knowledge and training the author so thoroughly demonstrates.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:130 Ap 8 ‘17 250w
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=OBERHOLTZER, ELLIS PAXSON.= History of the United States since the Civil war. 5v v 1 *$3.50 (4½c) Macmillan 973.8 (17-28462)
=v 1= 1865-8.
The first of a five-volume work whose title suggests the scope. This installment begins immediately after the assassination of Lincoln in 1865 and covers three years to the impeachment of Johnson. The social, economic, political and commercial development of those years is interpreted in terms corresponding to this generation’s needs. The writer puts to the period questions that have never been asked before because they are questions that have grown out of the conditions of modern progress. General headings: President Johnson; The South after the war; Congress in control; The triumphant North; Beyond the Mississippi; The Indians; War upon the president; Mexico, Ireland and Alaska.
“It is a storehouse of detail; every page carries the evidence of comprehensive and discriminating research. The author holds a judicial restraint upon his own views. He is expert in searching for the events and the views of those sharing in the making of history. Like Mr Rhodes’s Mr Oberholtzer’s vision of American achievement embraces more than politics.” L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 46:596 Ja ‘18 1150w
“Mr Oberholtzer writes with vigor and often with discrimination, in easy, flowing style, and he holds the attention of the reader with firmness.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 5 ‘17 450w
“The strong points of the present volume are its remarkable portrayals of life and conditions; its weak ones are those which must become more apparent as the succeeding instalments come out. Indirect discourse, quotations from racy contemporary sources, pen pictures of eminent men, must hold the reader’s interest for a while; but five volumes of this tend to confuse and weary, and one begins to wonder what it is all about. After all the historian must be more than a reporter.”
+ — =Nation= 105:636 D 6 ‘17 1650w
“What makes the book especially interesting is the attention given to the more picturesque and less well known phases of our achievement.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:531 D 2 ‘17 500w
“Some readers will not altogether like the leanings of this work as to political questions; some will think the historian’s sense of proportion somewhat defective; but no one can deny that the author makes the past live again.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:514 N 28 ‘17 80w
“Mr Oberholtzer has faithfully studied the abundant sources of information concerning this period and his copious footnotes constitutes a valuable bibliography.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 11 ‘18 700w
=O’BRIEN, CHARLES.= Food preparedness for the United States. *60c (4c) Little 940.91 17-17192
“In September, 1916, the author went to Germany to study economic conditions, particularly those regarding food supply. ... This book is designed to point out to the individual some of the factors involved and the lessons to be learned from the experiences of the European belligerents, particularly Germany ... who, in rationing her people according to her available supplies, has done so on a basis that was outlined by scientific nutrition experts.” (Author’s foreword)
=Am Econ R= 7:848 D ‘17 50w
“Brief but interesting and suggestive.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17
“This little book should be sent broadcast over the land.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 490w
=Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 50w
“Though much of the advice has been already followed in the passage of the Food bill and the work of the Food administration, and some of the information has already been made clear, the volume contains a great deal that is still interesting, practical, and valuable for us all.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:767 N ‘17 40w
+ =R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 190w
=St Louis= 15:358 O ‘17 20w
“He is weakest in his comment on applied scientific nutrition.” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 39:73 O 20 ‘17 570w
=O’BRIEN, EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON=, ed. Best short stories of 1916, and the Yearbook of the American short story. *$1.50 (1c) Small
This is the second volume of Mr O’Brien’s short story annual. Again he has selected twenty stories which in his judgment represent the best short stories of the year. First place is given to Richard Matthews Hallet’s “Making port,” a story reprinted from Every Week. In addition to the twenty stories reprinted, the volume contains the “Roll of honor” for 1916, a critical summary of fifty-two stories of the year, the rating of the magazines on the basis of the number of distinctive stories published, etc. Mr O’Brien finds the outlook for the American short story hopeful. He says: “Our artists are beginning to think of life wholly in terms of the individual, and to substitute the warmth of the individual in place of the generalised and sentimentalised types to which our American public has been so whole-heartedly accustomed.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17
=Cath World= 105:257 My ‘17 250w
“I am not sure that Mr Edward O’Brien’s ‘Best short stories of the year’ will not contribute their own share to the progressive decline of the short-story in America, for he is creating standards which a real criticism should resolutely reject.” M. M. Colum
— =Dial= 62:345 Ap 19 ‘17 1300w
“In spite of the most honest intention, it is impossible to take this sort of book seriously. The reprinting of twenty stories, the summarizing of fifty more, and the sober printing of a roll of honor—Baedekerized up to three stars—presupposes the existence of fixed canons of literary judgment beyond either the will or the power of humankind to achieve.”
— =Nation= 104:548 My 3 ‘17 200w
“Whether or not one may differ with Mr O’Brien about any particular story in the collection, there is no room for any question about the excellence and value and representative quality of the collection as a whole.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:82 Mr 11 ‘17 730w
“For the first time in my life I have read twenty successive stories and enjoyed every one.” M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 91:583 F 17 ‘17 450w
=O’BRIEN, EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON.= White fountains; odes and lyrics. *$1 Small 811 17-11680
Mr O’Brien’s book of poetry is made up of two parts. The first contains two remarkable odes, “Flesh” and “Flower.” The second is a small collection of lyrics. In his odes, the poet has tried the experiment of adapting the form of the Gregorian plain chant to the demands of English verse.
“There has always been a quiet insistence about Mr O’Brien’s poetic work, which now confined within a volume, challenges the attention of all poetry lovers.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ‘17 750w
+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 90w
“The second ode is a mystic poem of serene beauty and deep significance. The first is more like Whitman’s ‘Children of Adam’ than anything else in American poetry which I have read, and it is marred by the same lack of humor, judgment, self-criticism. ... No more rarified and ethereal poetry is to be found than he has given us in the small group of lyrics at the end of his book. If, to the fine Celtic qualities already so clear in his verse, he could but add humour, restraint, poise, clarity—why then he would cease to be an Irish poet, and that is a thing not to be thought of.” Odell Shepard
+ — =Dial= 63:19 Je 28 ‘17 550w
“A number of very good short lyrics are included in the volume.”
+ =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 40w
“The two odes, ‘Flesh’ and ‘Flower’ have certain flashes of splendor and an effortless beauty. The type arrangement, or line structure, used by Mr O’Brien lessens the poetic value to the average reader.”
+ — =R of Rs= 56:217 Ag ‘17 130w
=O’BRIEN, PETER O’BRIEN, baron.= Reminiscences of the Right Hon. Lord O’Brien (of Kilfenora); ed. by his daughter Georgina O’Brien. *$2.50 Longmans 17-1646
“This book takes us over the long range from the Irish famine to the opening days of the great war. It introduces us to many personages who made history in those times. Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Earl Spencer, Monsignor Persico, Isaac Butt, Charles Stewart Parnell, and Lord Russell of Killowen, are some of the persons whom we meet in its pages. Those who are interested in Irish history come upon striking side-lights in the stirring period covered by Lord O’Brien’s life. ... His official conduct was characterized by great devotion to duty and courage in the midst of much unpopularity and numerous protests and threats. ... His career as prosecuting attorney for the crown brought him in later years the notable reward of appointment as lord chief justice for Ireland.”—Cath World
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:312 Ap ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 20 ‘17 350w
“The style of the book, the more considerable part of which is in the Judge’s own words—twenty-two chapters out of thirty-one—is marked by simplicity and directness. ... His daughter prepared the manuscript for publication, and added some chapters of her own which throw a new charm over the pages. ... A complete and useful index is given at the end of the volume.”
+ =Cath World= 104:692 F ‘17 300w
“It was a rather meagre record which Lord O’Brien left prepared at his death (in 1914), and its piecing out in this volume by his daughter adds little of real consequence. Politically, the most important part of the book is that relating to the Irish Invincibles. The pages are but rarely lighted up by Irish wit, though the reader is often told, somewhat exasperatingly, of amusing stories or clever reports which he is asked to take on faith.”
+ — =Nation= 104:81 Ja 18 ‘17 120w
“These reminiscences of Lord O’Brien are of the most importance for the years 1880 to 1888.”
+ =Sat R= 123:40 Ja 13 ‘17 1000w
“His reminiscences are pleasantly readable, and show why the Judge, with his humor and love of sport, was always popular in Ireland.”
+ =Spec= 117:sup610 N 18 ‘16 120w
“Even an enemy must be impressed by the kindliness and the honesty, the modesty and the courage, of the personality here revealed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 O 26 ‘16 1050w
=ODLING, WILLIAM.= Technic of versification. *4s 6d Parker & co., Oxford 426.2
“The greater part of this book is a selection of mostly well-known verses, classified according to the rhythmic character of the excerpts, and preceded by thirty pages of introductory notes and illustrations. Following the preface is a short list of some early works on versification to be found in the Bodleian library.”—Ath
“To those without facilities for a study of the longer treatise upon the art of versification, the present volume should be useful. The extracts chosen range in date from 1400 to 1913. The book has neither an index nor a table of contents.”
+ — =Ath= p585 D ‘16 90w
“One can scarcely be grateful for the writer’s seeming ignorance of the literature of the subject, or his indifference to the conventional use of technical terms. ... The terminology is often interesting, but certainly as often questionable.”
— =Nation= 104:547 My 3 ‘17 400w
“Professor Odling’s scansion is not always convincing, but his systematic analysis of our poetic forms will interest a good many people.”
+ — =Spec= 117:660 N 25 ‘16 60w
=OEMLER, MARIE CONWAY.= Slippy McGee; sometimes known as the Butterfly man. *$1.35 (1c) Century 17-13219
Slippy McGee, the cleverest crook in America, making his getaway on a freight train, falls and is terribly mangled. When he awakens he finds himself in the parish house of a little South Carolina town, crippled for life. His one piece of luggage, his burglar’s kit, has disappeared, and he does not know till long afterwards when an emergency calls for it, that the parish priest has hidden it inside the statue of St Stanislaus in the church. Father De Rancé’s interest in butterflies and moths is the instrument that saves the soul of Slippy McGee. But it is little Mary Virginia who points the way, suggesting that the slender, supple hands, the hands of the cleverest cracksman in America, be employed in mounting specimens. Slippy McGee thereafter becomes the Butterfly man. Only once does he take on his old character, and then it is in the interest of this same Mary Virginia. After that one occurrence the cracksman’s tools go back into the keeping of St Stanislaus, to stay.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17
“However she may choose to employ these conventions of the story-romancer’s art, it is notable that Mrs Oemler, herself a southerner, takes a vigorous fling at more than one shibboleth, notably that hollow convention of colonel-ism and ‘southern chivalry’ which story-tellers have been wont to handle so tenderly.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:409 Je ‘17 350w
“One of the pleasant novels of the year.”
+ =Ind= 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 60w
“A certain freshness and gusto rescue the story from melodramatic and sentimental fatuity, and render it acceptable in its kind.”
+ =Nation= 104:736 Je 21 ‘17 330w
“Unmarred by so much as a single touch of mawkishness or cant, the story is related with sincerity and charm.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 500w
“In spite of melodrama the book is pleasant from beginning to end, and ‘Slippy McGee’ is a creation the reader does not forget.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 420w
Official register and directory of women’s clubs in America. v 19 il pa $2 H. M. Winslow. Shirley, Mass. 374.2
The preface states: “This is our nineteenth annual ‘Club register.’ The first appeared in 1898 and covered Massachusetts only. The next volume covered New England, and a little later we covered the whole country. ... This is the only directory in the world that covers all the federated clubs.” The text treats of the General federation of women’s clubs, listing officers, etc., then takes up clubs alphabetically by states and their cities giving the number of members and the name of the president of each club. The editor draws attention to the classified list of club lecturers and entertainers found at the end of the volume.
=OGDEN, GEORGE WASHINGTON.= Rustler of Wind River. il $1.30 (1½c) McClurg 17-10160
A fight between the cattle barons who had for years had control of the free ranges and the settlers who had come in to homestead the land is the basis of this story. To cover up the criminality of their proceedings, the cattle men had spread the rumor that the settlers were a band of rustlers and had branded Alan Macdonald, their leader, as a desperado and an outlaw. Saul Chadron had put a price on Macdonald’s head and his hired gunman was on the man’s trail. But at her first meeting with Macdonald, Frances Landcraft, daughter of the commander of the military post, knows that these tales are false, and she thereafter takes his part. Her judgment is vindicated, and the homesteaders’ cause is won.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
“The characters hold together well and when the most original ones are presented together, as in the case of the leading cattle-baron and his murder-tool, the passage between them is strong in its conception and admirably phrased and described.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 20 ‘17 210w
“A tale well worth the reading, not for its interest alone, but because of its historic value as a picture of the West in the days when might made right.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 160w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 250w
=OGDEN, HENRY ALEXANDER=, comp. Our flag and our songs. il *60c Clode, E: J. 929.9 17-22075
A brief account of the origin and history of the United States flag, together with eighteen patriotic and other well-known songs, ranging from “The star-spangled banner” to “My old Kentucky home” and “When this cruel war is over.” The songs are credited to their authors.
=OGG, FREDERIC AUSTIN.= Economic development of modern Europe. *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 330.9 17-13473
Frederic Austin Ogg is associate professor of political science in the University of Wisconsin and author of “Social progress in contemporary Europe,” some chapters of which have been reproduced, with considerable modification, in the present volume. In deciding “what topics to include, and what space to allow to each, Professor Ogg followed these principles: to devote most of his attention to the nineteenth century, contenting himself with a summary sketch of preceding conditions; to omit from consideration the more technical aspects of economic history, such as public finance; and to confine himself in general to the history of three leading countries, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. ... Part 1. ‘Antecedents of nineteenth-century growth,’ occupies 114 pages. ... Part 2, ‘Agriculture, industry, and trade since 1815,’ pages 117-340, covers the development of production in the leading countries, with an added chapter on Russia; part 3, ‘Population and labour,’ pages 343-474, is devoted mainly to the organization and regulation of labor, and part 4, pages 477-641, treats of ‘Socialism and social insurance.’” (Am Econ R) There are bibliographies at the end of each chapter.
“He has read widely, uses his authorities with discrimination, selects and arranges his materials skilfully, and sets forth his product in good English. He is accurate. ... Altogether, his book offers the best survey known to the reviewer of the recent economic history of Europe.” Clive Day
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:608 S ‘17 580w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:429 Jl ‘17
Reviewed by Edgar Dawson
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:151 F ‘18 250w
“The best single volume on the subject. ... Professor Ogg has depended for the most part upon secondary sources and most of these are written in English. ... In the chapter on Russia there is not a single reference to a German authority, although that is the chief source of information for one who does not read Russian. The bibliographies at the end of each chapter ... have not received the same careful attention which the author gave to the text, for there are not infrequent errors in titles, in spelling, etc.” E. L. Bogart
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:237 S ‘17 450w
“Of especial interest are the chapters on socialism and on social insurance.”
+ =Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 30w
“The book might almost serve as a complete history of Europe from the early eighteenth century to the outbreak of the great war.”
+ =Ind= 90:437 Je 2 ‘17 160w
=Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 20w
=R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 130w
“His narrative is, on the whole, clear and accurate, and his elaborate bibliographies will be useful to students of special topics. His remarks on the political activity of the German Socialists, written no doubt before the war, now require revision.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 110w
“The book will be found particularly useful as a reference source on the modern labor movement including the related politics, and the paternalistic enterprises chiefly concerning the working class. It gives much evidence of the author’s thorough study of the available data and scholarly fairness of presentation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ‘17 900w
“In many of the historical instances which it gives, this volume also brings surprisingly telling lessons for our own time. The bibliographical references accompanying each chapter are without serious omission and most useful to the student. The judgment exercised in selection and in the discussion of controversial subjects throughout the book is admirable.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 39:200 N 24 ‘17 380w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p334 Jl 12 ‘17 80w
=OHIO COMPANY OF ASSOCIATES.= Minutes and proceedings of the Ohio company of associates; ed. by Archer Butler Hulbert. (Marietta college. Historical collections) $2.50 Marietta historical commission, Marietta college, Marietta, O. 977.1
“This is the first of a series of volumes which will contain original records, letters, etc., illustrating the settlement and development of southeastern Ohio. There is a long introduction by the editor treating of the origin of the Ohio company, the part taken in its formation by Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, and other leaders, the relation between the Ohio and Scioto companies, and a summary of the land, financial, and ‘paternalistic’ policies of the company. The text of the records covers the period from 1786 to December 21, 1789, and shows, in part, why New England influences were so important in this section. ... These records vividly illustrate the capitalistic as contrasted with the individualistic method of promoting the settlement and development of a new region.” (Am Hist R) “The work, when completed, will contain the name of probably every man of importance in the early annals of the state of Ohio. ... The records are presented as they appear in the writing of the various secretaries, in the large sheep-bound volumes presented to the college by William R. Putnam, the papers having been preserved carefully by the Putnam family.” (Boston Transcript) The editor is professor of American history in Marietta college, Ohio.
“The introduction as a whole is exceedingly well written, and for the first time adequately presents the story of the founding of the company and its influence. The form, appearance, and editing of the book are excellent. Historical students are fortunate in being assured that the editorship of this series is in such competent hands, and we shall look forward eagerly to the completion of a series that will contain one of the most important collections of sources for the study of this section of the west.” M. W. Jernegan
+ =Am Hist R= 23:188 O ‘17 600w
“Professor Hulbert devotes 137 pages to a succinct history of the Ohio company and the ‘Scioto right.’ While these subjects have been treated by previous writers, Professor Hulbert’s paper is such an admirable presentation of the theme, apart from its value as an introduction to the series, that no apology is necessary for its appearance. It gives the reader of the original documents a solid groundwork of information regarding the history of the company from its inception in the bounty land offers made by the Continental congress to prospective soldiers.” G. H. S.
* + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 700w
=OHLSON, HAROLD.= Dancing hours. *$1.25 (1c) Lane 17-2486
Jane Eastwood is the daughter of a deceased pawnbroker. A comfortable income, an unpleasant memory of her parent and a bundle of old letters are Jane’s inheritance. With the bundle of letters, she blackmails her way into society. Jane has red hair and she instantly becomes a popular success. She would have carried the affair off with perfect ease, but alas, the past has a way of not remaining the past. It intrudes itself into the present. But Jane has won the affection of her blackmailed patroness, and she finds another friend, too, who stands by her and sees her through.
“It is splendid to be able to bury oneself in a novel without the horrible suspicion that one is being ‘improved’ or imposed upon by some sugar-tongued propagandist. ‘The dancing hours’ pretends to be no more than a story, but what a story! Here is all the antiquated lumber of mysterious heroines, dashing and handsome villains, manly and long-suffering heroes, unexpected wealth, and happy endings.”
+ =Dial= 62:107 F 8 ‘17 150w
“The story begins well but becomes too preposterous to wear the garb of credibility. It has some clever bits, and the conversations are well sustained.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:75 Mr 4 ‘17 200w
+ =Spec= 118:141 F 3 ‘17 80w
=OLCOTT, FRANCES JENKINS.= Red Indian fairy book for the children’s own reading and for story-tellers. il *$2 (3c) Houghton 17-25283
Sixty-four stories from Indian folk legend have been chosen for this volume. As most of the stories are nature myths, they lend themselves readily to the arrangement by seasons which Miss Olcott has chosen. She says, “In choosing themes for these stories, a large body of folklore of many tribes has been gone over. In retelling, all that is coarse, fierce, and irrational has been eliminated as far as possible, and the moral and fanciful elements retained. The plots have been more closely constructed, and retold in the direct manner interesting to children. The character and spirit of the original stories have been carefully preserved.” The illustrations, including frontispiece in color, are by Frederick Richardson. Many of the stories have been printed in the Saturday Magazines of the New York Evening Post.
“Sixty-four stories delightfully told; they will interest any child of fairy tale age.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17
“Miss Olcott has a real love and a real inspiration for her task. Her re-treatment of materials from the ‘Arabian nights’ more than justified itself. In the present book she has made a more distinct and original contribution to child-lore.” J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:494 D ‘17 310w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 50w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 330w
“Miss Olcott has added two valuable volumes to this season’s output of juvenile books. They should prove rich source-books for the professional story-teller. She is happy in maintaining that naïve simplicity which lies always at the basis of Indian legends.”
+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w
=N Y Times= 22:512 D 2 ‘17 70w
=OLCOTT, FRANCES JENKINS.= Tales of the Persian genii. il *$2 (3½c) Houghton 17-29800
These stories from old Persian tales, adapted for boys and girls, are retold from authentic translations. One of these sources, “Tales of the genii; or, The delightful lessons of Horam the son of Asmar,” appeared in England in 1765, ran thru many editions, and formed part of the youthful library of Charles Dickens. Miss Olcott says, “All the stories have been recast with great freedom, and moulded into a continuous narrative; the aim being to keep them truly oriental and at the same time to preserve all the detail that will delight the imaginative modern boy and girl.” Each story has an ethical lesson, but in addition to their moral teaching, she believes they will foster a love of rich color and an appreciation of beautiful objects. The pictures are by Willy Pogány.
=A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18
“The reteller of these oriental tales has gathered her material carefully, both in its fictional quality and in its atmospheric background. She has been greatly aided by the colorful imagination of the Hungarian artist, Willy Pogány.”
+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w
=N Y Times= 22:512 D 2 ‘17 70w
“The stories will prove very entertaining for they transport the reader to fragrant oriental gardens where many-colored birds and a thousand fountains make music all day.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 280w
=OLGIN, MOISSAYE JOSEPH.= Soul of the Russian revolution. il *$2.50 (2c) Holt 947 17-27862
In the year 1901-‘02 the author of this book was a student in the University of Kiev. He was one of 200 students who were sentenced to one year’s military service in punishment for political activity. In 1905-‘06 he took part in the thwarted revolutionary uprising. He is now in New York and has written this book in English for American readers. He has attempted to give a review of the movement as a whole and to show the character of the different elements concerned in the revolution. The first of the four parts which compose the work deals with Social forces. Part 2 covers the years 1905 and 1906, and the establishment of the Duma. Part 3 draws on Russian revolutionary literature as an aid to understanding the spirit of the movement. Part 4 covers the actual revolution of 1917 up to the formal abdication of the czar. The illustrations are taken from revolutionary periodicals, most of which were not allowed to circulate. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch contributes an introduction.
“A popular but scholarly study.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18
=Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 600w
“He is silent on hidden motivating forces which reveal the moral poignancy of the Russian struggle for the civilized world. The people, the soul and meaning of their revolt, are absent; what we have is the story of the industrial proletariat led and betrayed by a militant revolutionary minority. All Russian life is looked at from the vantage ground of party bias. The main value of Mr Olgin’s book consists in the clear exposition of the revolution of 1905 and the exposé of the ideology of the professional revolutionists.”
– + =Nation= 105:638 D 6 ‘17 1300w
“It is impossible to read him without gratitude for his clarity, his objectivity, his documentation; and impossible not to conclude from reading him that the first fact about Russia is still the Tsardom that has been deposed.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 13:220 D 22 ‘17 1450w
“Mr Olgin has succeeded wonderfully well in clarifying and defining for American readers, who really know very little about any other than superficial aspects of Russian affairs, the origin and significance of the many varied currents of influence and tendency that led revolution-ward. In the third section Mr Olgin does something that all readers of Russian literature will thank him for and makes a novel attempt to link Russian literature and Russian life.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:14 Ja 13 ‘18 820w
“The author has true dramatic power.”
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 80w
“To trace the varied economic and political influences at work for all those centuries of Russia’s history was indeed an enormous task. No one man could hope to accomplish it completely, even to his own satisfaction, but we are not likely to see in our time a better résumé of this complicated subject than has been provided by this Russian journalist.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 220w
=OLIVER, SIR THOMAS.= Occupations from the social, hygienic and medical points of view. (Cambridge public health ser.) *$1.80 (5c) Putnam 613.6 (Eng ed 16-15036)
A book devoted to the relation of occupations to health. It has to do with conditions in England but will doubtless prove of value to all who are interested in similar problems in America. The work was begun before the war and problems rising out of war conditions are not touched on. The subjects covered are: The air we breathe; The air of factories, workshops and workrooms; Work, wages, efficiency and fatigue; The health and comfort of the worker; Occupation and age fitness; Choice of a career; Dusty occupations; Gases; The chemical trades; Injuries caused by electricity; The skin and occupation.
“It will prove valuable and interesting to public health workers, and will give much information to the general citizen who wants a bird’seye view of the subject.” Carl Kelsey
+ =Ann Am Acad= 70:330 Mr ‘17 90w
“Although the book contains a mass of interesting information, the reader constantly receives the impression that he is being presented with a succession of disconnected and unrelated statements. No stress has been laid upon fundamental principles. ... The least satisfactory portions of the book are those dealing with the causation of fatigue, and with the action of gases on the body; these are not up to date. ... In spite of these defects the book contains much that is useful, especially in the chapters on factory hygiene and on dusty occupations, and although it cannot be recommended from a scientific point of view it may prove of value to the general reader.” F. A. B.
+ — =Nature= 97:377 Jl 6 ‘16 570w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:125 Ag ‘16
=Pratt= p23 Ja ‘17
+ =Sat R= 121:422 Ap 29 ‘16 1500w
=OLMSTEAD, FLORENCE.= Anchorage. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-12956
“A cloistered romance,” a story of the Little sisters of the poor, and “Father Bernard’s parish,” a book presenting an unusual aspect of New York life, are the two novels by the author that precede this one. For her third book, she has chosen still another setting, a quiet country community in Georgia. The friendship between Paul Osborne and Harriet Sterling had flowed on quietly for many years. The man was a semi-invalid, shut out by his lameness from active participation in life. In his friend Harriet, he found companionship and the encouragement and mental stimulation his brilliant powers required. Harriet, on her part, found satisfaction in serving him, and if her heart asked for more than this, she gave no indication. This is the situation when Harriet’s young cousin Hilda comes to visit her. Hilda brings a new element into Paul’s life. She comes and goes, leaving bitterness behind her, but out of the bitterness grows wisdom and an understanding of the gift that had always lain ready at his hand.
=A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17
“Miss Olmstead places her scene in Georgia, but her characters seem rather typically of New England. Many individual personages are admirably set out in the tale, so admirably that the reader is a little impatient they should be wasted on so trite a plot.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 150w
=Nation= 105:40 Jl 12 ‘17 220w
“The young girl Hilda, the best-drawn character in the book, is very cleverly drawn indeed. ... Louisa, the middle-aged, commonsense spinster, is also cleverly sketched, and would be amusing if we did not hear quite so much about her. But Paul, around whose character and whose invalidism the entire story revolves, never becomes more than a lay figure.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 450w
=ONIONS, BERTA RUCK (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).= Girls at his billet. il *$1.40 (1½c) Dodd 16-23626
The three of them, Evelyn, Nancy and Elizabeth, their ages ranging from eighteen to twenty-two, lived in what Elizabeth called “a God-forsaken village on the bleakest part of the east coast of England.” They lived with an elderly aunt and their lives were as bleak as the coast itself, for the village was devoid of men. Then comes the war and the establishment of a training camp in their midst and the billeting of a young officer in their very household. But what is one man among three girls! So two friends and fellow-officers are brought forward and in course of time (and not a very long time), there are three war-time engagements to be announced.
“Light, pleasant, and showing none of the horrible side of the war. Not as entertaining as her other books.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17
“The novel is, of course, the lightest sort of whipped cream fiction, but few purveyors of that delicacy whip their cream to so dainty and airy a froth as does Berta Ruck. ... Moreover, she writes with a certain joyousness which is very attractive.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 50w
=ONIONS, BERTA RUCK (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).= Miss Million’s maid; a romance of love and fortune. il *$1.40 (1c) Dodd 15-21422
Miss Million’s maid is Miss Million’s former mistress, Beatrice Lovelace. When the little Cockney maid of all work inherits a fortune from an uncle who lived in America and leaves Aunt Anastasia Lovelace, Beatrice, who has tired of her aunt’s maxim, “Better no society than the wrong society,” runs away and persuades the highly embarrassed Miss Million to take her as lady’s maid. They go to the Hotel Cecil, lovers appear on the scene and many complications ensue.
=A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18
“Mrs Onions treats the complications with ready humour and considerable freshness. Her characters are much more probable than her story.”
+ — =Ath= p244 My ‘16 50w
“Not so clever as certain of Berta Ruck’s novels, but pleasant and entertaining.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 420w
“A very diverting and by no means unexciting story, which, considering the motif, loses nothing by the note of caricature which runs through the whole.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p203 Ap 27 ‘16 140w
Operation and tactical use of the Lewis automatic machine rifle; based on the experience of the European war. il *60c Van Nostrand 355 17-20406
This pocket manual, clearly printed and illustrated, has an introduction by Col. I. N. Lewis, U.S.A. (retired). Colonel Lewis says: “The descriptive text is full and accurate in detail, while the system of preliminary and practical field instruction as outlined follows closely that now employed at the various machine gun schools and special instruction camps in England and France. In our own service, the machine gun is as yet a new and untried weapon, and I therefore believe the general principles governing the present operation and tactical use on the great battlefield of Europe, as briefly presented herein, will be of interest to all officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of our army, navy and marine corps.”
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p16 Jl ‘17 50w
=OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.= Cinema murder. il *$1.35 (1½c) Little 17-15545
One likes Philip Romilly from the first and continues to like him thru all his checkered career; yet, all the time, one wonders if he really did murder his cousin back there under the bridge in England. When he takes passage for America he is traveling under Douglas Romilly’s name and wearing his clothes. Once arrived in New York, he adopts another name and begins a new life. On board ship he had made friends with Elizabeth Dalstan, the actress, who later produces his play. She is ready to go further to show her loyalty to him, and the question of his guilt is of no concern to her. Fortunately for their future happiness the one person in the world who knows the real truth about the occurrence under the bridge puts in an appearance at the most critical moment.
“His portrayal of stage life is as before, highly idealized and ultra romantic, and it brings to the reader all the glamour of the footlights that persists in the midst of those who know nothing of life behind the scenes. But realities are not Mr Oppenheim’s forte, and we are certain to like the stories he tells all the better because they are not.” A. A. R.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 380w
“Suggests that it does not pay to be too good in this world. The outcome of the story justifies the hero in his departure from rectitude.”
— =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 150w
“A swiftly moving story, so cleverly told that its weak spots are easily overlooked, with plenty of color and many effective contrasts.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 400w
“Not one of Mr Oppenheim’s best stories either in writing or construction. Few habitual readers of crime stories will fail to guess early in the tale, at least in a general way, the true outcome of the murder mystery.”
— =Outlook= 116:160 My 23 ‘17 39w
“It will be well for Mr Oppenheim, if he intends further to employ the American vernacular, to take a course in George Ade. ... The story is characteristic and therefore diverting.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 350w
=OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.= Hillman. il *$1.35 (1½c) Little 17-698
Mr Oppenheim has laid aside his preoccupation with international intrigues to tell a love story. Louise Maurel, a distinguished actress, motoring from Edinburgh to London, is stranded in the Cumberland hills. Her car breaks down and she is forced to accept the grudgingly offered hospitality of Stephen Strangewey for a night. Stephen Strangewey is a misogynist and he has brought up his younger brother in the creed that all women are to be despised. But John Strangewey is too human to resist the spell of Louise, and he follows her to London where he is caught up by the whirl of fashionable society. The author’s hand does not lose its skill when it turns to new themes and the reader is left in doubt as to the outcome to the last page.
+ =Ath= p103 F ‘17 60w
“Never before has Mr Oppenheim been more ingenious in the weaving of a plot, never before has he so skilfully led his hero and heroine through many dangers—in this case they are wholly moral dangers—with such logical success.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 3 ‘17 1300w
“There are, of course, two kinds of Oppenheim books—those that are the best of their kind and those that are not so good. ‘The hillman’ is one of the latter. Yet even so it will be read with unabated pleasure, and the reader will not be disturbed by questions of social science, nor, indeed, by questions of reality.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:104 F 8 ‘17 750w
+ — =N Y Times= 22:5 Ja 7 ‘17 450w
“A new though quite successful departure on the part of the author.”
+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 20w
“Some of the minor characters are sprightly and amusing, and the hero is always virile.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 180w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 22 ‘17 40w
=OPPENHEIM, JAMES.= Book of self. *$1.50 Knopf 811 17-13552
“In ‘The book of self’ James Oppenheim tilts against the flesh and the devil in a series of poems that are put forth as intimately related to the struggle America is undergoing and from which a new national life shall emerge. The poems are divided into three sections: ‘Self,’ a revelation of a man’s life, his desires, ambitions, and hopes; ‘The song of life,’ a history of youth’s encounter with life, and ‘Creation,’ the drama of cosmic life unfolding through the individual life of man.”—R of Rs
“Greater restraint in production and a sharper focus of theme, to obviate the cosmic tendency of his mind,—these are necessary to the artistic side of Mr Oppenheim’s work; but we are not disposed to cavil at the poet who makes us think, nor who in his highest moments stirs us with something of the fire of Hebraic prophecy.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ — =Bookm= 46:439 D ‘17 360w
“There is in it something of the intense striving for truth of the scientist who will use every means of experiment to discover if his conclusions are trustworthy. With just such seriousness has Mr Oppenheim delved into the deeps of consciousness to learn the secrets of life.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 1550w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:85 Je ‘17
“The book is a great, though an uneven, volume.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p12 Ap 22 ‘17 230w
“Vigor is his characteristic mark—vigor of thought, vigor of phrase; and, though there are undoubtedly many who, like the present reviewer, totally disagree with his thought and his message, there can be no question as to the power with which that thought and that message are presented. ... Whitman is the antecedent from whom he chiefly derives—in his rhythm, his democracy, and his unfettered naturalism. Indeed, it is matter of regret to us that in this last respect he only too closely resembles his prototype, and that like him he too often permits his splendid powers to run in praise of a perilous and devouring animalism.”
=N Y Times= 22:207 My 27 ‘17 350w
“A remarkable and virile book that voices the under-currents of revolt and flings aloft the banners of the ultimate triumph of spirit over materialistic forces. The rhythmic quality of the poetry is inferior to ‘Songs for a new age,’ however, and more frequent melodic lines would improve the scaffolding that upholds the thought.”
+ — =R of Rs= 55:661 Je ‘17 140w
=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17
=ORCHARD, WILLIAM EDWIN.= Necessity of Christ. *$1.25 Dutton 232 17-13313
“The view propounded by Dr Orchard is that modernism in philosophy and religion confirms the position of Christ as held by the historic Christian faith; that He is shown to be necessary to thought, religion, Christianity, personality, society, and to God; and, lastly, that the application of the faith to modern problems is subversive of the old order of things—indeed, that the Athanasian creed, thought to be ‘the last bulwark of things as they are,’ has been found to ‘read more like the first charter of socialism.’”—Ath
=Ath= p474 O ‘16 80w
“Not since the days of the schoolmen has there been closer or more subtle reasoning in matters of theology and Christian relationships than is found in this little book. ... Orthodox in creed, fearless in criticism, constructive as well as iconoclastic, this diatribe will be sure to arouse thought even when it fails to command assent.”
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 5 ‘17 100w
“The author is too vague and indefinite to be convincing, and his statement that the old evidences for the divinity of Christ are now presented in a way which only stimulates revolt, is unproved.”
– + =Cath World= 105:845 S ‘17 160w
=N Y Times= 22:171 Ap 29 ‘17 40w
“We greatly recommend this very original little book to those who are interested in modern theology.”
+ =Spec= 117:510 O 28 ‘16 400w
=ORCHARD, WILLIAM EDWIN.= Outlook for religion. *$1.50 Funk 17-31685
“Dr Orchard stands to-day at the head of the non-conformist pulpit of England. ... He thinks it necessary to face and state a calm and dispassionate diagnosis of present conditions in the church and the world. This diagnosis he undertakes, and then suggests the remedy for the condition he finds. The present volume has twelve chapters in three parts—The question of the hour, The cry of the times, and The hope of the age. The conditions are: skepticism and materialism overabundant, a confused and apathetic church, a Christianity that has wandered far from application to life of the Sermon on the Mount, and consequently has largely lost its power. Sectarianism is one of the outstanding evils to be abolished. Dr Orchard stands for ‘a social and international application of Christianity in a new catholicism.’”—Lit D
— =Ath= p345 Jl ‘17 1000w
“Dr Orchard’s writing is tense and highminded as ever.” James Moffat
+ =Hibbert J= 15:677 Jl ‘17 110w
+ =Ind= 92:110 O 13 ‘17 60w
=Lit D= 55:51 D 1 ‘17 280w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:117 Ag ‘17
=ORCUTT, WILLIAM DANA.=[2] Burrows of Michigan and the Republican party; a biography and a history. 2v il *$6 (3½c) Longmans 17-29460
The subject of this biography, who was born in 1837, entered national public life in 1872 when he was elected to Congress as a member of the House. In 1895 he was elected to the Senate, and represented his state in that body up to 1911. These two volumes are taken up almost wholly with his public career and his relation to his party. Four chapters of volume 1 are given to his early life and his service in the Civil war. The McKinley bill, Reciprocity, The Wilson bill, Currency, Mormonism and the Smoot case are matters made the subject of special chapters.
“To the student of American history during this vital and highly dramatic period, Mr Orcutt’s work will be of distinct value; for his endeavor to explain the conditions leading up to every important act of his hero involves either a clear statement of facts with a very broad bearing on the national life, or a suggestive grouping of those of minor consequence which will indicate to the student the direction in which it might be profitable to continue a search.”
+ =Nation= 106:15 Ja 3 ‘18 1500w
“In freely using the public utterances of Senator Burrows, Mr Orcutt has wisely followed the best writers in another branch of literature, whose characters are left, as far as possible, to reveal themselves in dialogue. To these utterances in and out of the national capitol we must refer the reader who seeks to obtain an adequate idea of the senator from Michigan as a constructive statesman and an orator of rare gifts.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:499 N 25 ‘17 660w
=ORCZY, EMMUSKA (MRS MONTAGU BARSTOW), baroness.= Sheaf of bluebells. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-17973
For her latest novel of the Napoleonic era, the author devises a tense situation. The story opens with the return to France of Mme. la Marquise de Mortain and her son Laurent. Altho she returns by the decree of the emperor, she does so with full intent to plot against the “Corsican upstart.” In this design she must take account of Ronnay de Maurel, her son by a former marriage. Ronnay de Maurel has been brought up by an uncle and has absorbed his simple democratic ideals. He dresses like the workmen in his own foundries and makes no pretence to knowledge of the world. But he has fought at Austerlitz and has received the “grand eagle” at the hands of his emperor. It is part of the mother’s purpose to win over this son, that his wealth and his iron foundries may be devoted to the service of the king. In this she has at first the aid of her niece, Fernande de Coursan, but the time comes when Fernande can no longer go on with the part she is cast to play.
“Interesting, if you like historical romances.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18
“The plot is ingenious, and is well worked out.”
+ =Ath= p312 Je ‘17 100w
+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 40w
“This new novel is full of excitement in event, of rich color in background, of real interest in character presentment.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:446 N 4 ‘17 350w
“The action is lively, and the local scenes are admirably done.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 300w
“An historical tale worthy of this spirited romancer.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 50w
“Unhappily Baroness Orczy not only uses as a medium a kind of highly coloured cinematography, but employs tricked-out puppets instead of living mimes for her dramatis personæ.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p272 Je 7 ‘17 500w
=ORVIS, JULIA SWIFT.= Brief history of Poland. *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 943.8 16-22948
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Among the short histories of Poland that we now possess in English (Morfill’s, Bain’s, Phillips’s), Miss Orvis’s work seems to the reviewer by far the best. ... The book is, in general, accurate and scholarly. It is to be regretted, however, that the author’s spelling of Polish names is often incorrect. ... Some errors of fact have crept in here and there. ... The account given of the migrations of the early Slavs is open to grave objections, and the author’s description of the appanage system of the twelfth century would apply to Russia much better than to Poland. ... Such errors, however, are not sufficiently common to mar seriously what is, on the whole, a very interesting and praiseworthy historical work.” R. H. L.
+ =Am Hist R= 22:701 Ap ‘17 400w
“Compact, popular and readable.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:261 Mr ‘17
“The writer shows herself to be not well acquainted with the history of the Catholic church in the few passages in which she touches on ecclesiastical matters.”
=Cath World= 104:833 Mr ‘17 580w
“Significant not only for its information about Poland itself, but for the suggestions and allusions that show the development of the present problems of Eastern Europe and the place of Poland and the Slavs in the life of Europe as a whole.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:271 Jl 22 ‘17 670w
“Just the thing for readers who want to read up on a confusing section of European history. Comes down to the present day.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:154 My ‘17 23w
=OSBORN, EDWARD BOLLAND.= Maid with wings, and other fantasies, grave to gay. *$1.25 (2½c) Lane 824 17-29645
A collection of short stories and sketches. In the title piece, a scene on the firing line, with Joan of Arc appearing to a wounded British soldier is described. Several of the others are related more or less closely to the war. One of a quite different type is the account of the simplified spelling conference, a protest meeting of the English words with the Rev. Mr Damn presiding. Canada is the scene of several of the sketches. They are reprinted in part from the Morning Post of London.
“The author has a vivid descriptive touch, which makes ‘The million-pound eight,’ a futurist picture of the prize-ring, readable in spite of its feeble climax. A Roman patriot dying at Cannae; a squad of pacifists waiting at Heaven’s gate, while the real peacemakers, the soldier and the sailor, are welcomed by the King in person; and things like the meeting of spelling-reformers, are done with actuality, though the manner has had more attention than the matter, and the style is a clever blend of jaunty deshabille and fine writing.”
+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 150w
“Yet for the most part the book does not thrill. The two wounded soldier pieces, ‘The maid with wings,’ and ‘The silver eagle,’ are not quite up to the required level of human pathos. The only clever article in the volume is that entitled the ‘Fighting generation.’”
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 5 ‘18 380w
“This rare and invaluable art of being able to give the force and interest of an essay without the well-known deadening process so much favored by essayists, is perhaps the most admirable of all Mr Osborn’s gifts.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:584 D 30 ‘17 840w
“The range of subjects is bewildering in its variety, and Mr Osborn’s attitude is in the main more provocative than persuasive. But he is a stimulating companion, and, whatever his theme, he enriches it with curious lore set forth in an incisive and picturesque style.”
+ =Spec= 119:63 Jl 21 ‘17 500w
“All are clearly the work of a practised writer—of one who has profited by his familiarity with classical and French models to present what he has to say in a form to be read with pleasure and to be understood at sight, and who can assume a cheery and justified confidence in his power to entertain even when an amateur would have thought the material too thin to be worth working up.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p330 Jl 12 ‘17 1100w
=OSBORN, HENRY FAIRFIELD.= Origin and evolution of life; on the theory of action, reaction and interaction of energy. il *$3 (5½c) Scribner 575 17-25802
Professor Osborn is research professor of zoology at Columbia university, president of the American museum of natural history, and author of “The age of mammals,” “Men of the old stone age,” etc. In the present volume, we have his Hale lectures, delivered before the National academy of sciences, Washington, D. C., in April, 1916. The author believes that although “we know to some extent how plants and animals and man evolve, we do not know why they evolve,” and that our failure “to make progress in the search for causes” is chiefly because naturalists “have attempted to reason backward from highly complex plant and animal forms to causes,” whereas we should reverse the naturalist’s point of view, and “think from energy forward into matter and form.” “In these lectures we may take some of the initial steps toward an energy conception of evolution and an energy conception of heredity and away from the matter and form conceptions which have prevailed for over a century. The first half of this volume is therefore devoted to what we know of the capture, storage, release, and reproduction of energy in its simplest and most elementary living phases; the second half is devoted to the evolution of matter and form in plants and animals, also interpreted largely in terms of energy and mechanics.” (Preface) There is an appendix and a bibliography.
=A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17
Reviewed by Archibald Henderson
+ =Bookm= 46:273 N ‘17 1250w
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 8 ‘17 170w
“In presenting his own theory, the ‘energy conception,’ the scientist makes no claim of actual discovery in this field of the causes of life and evolution. ... The energy conception of the origin and evolution of life is as yet in its infancy, ... but it may be claimed for the theory of action, reaction and interaction that it brings us ‘somewhat nearer to a consistent physicochemical conception of the original processes of life.’”
* =N Y Times= 22:377 O 7 ‘17 2300w
“Dr Osborn’s introductory discussion of his problem is extremely well designed to clear away all false or confusing implications that might hamper one in endeavoring to grasp the constructive part of the work. Besides being a striking contribution to the theory of the origin of life embodying all that is soundest in modern thought and research, this book of Dr Osborn’s gives a fascinating account of the prehistoric condition of the earth.”
+ =No Am= 206:957 D ‘17 600w
“It is well to be cautious in statement about any contemporary book; and yet it is difficult not to speak of Henry Fairfield Osborn’s ‘Origin and evolution of life’ as one of the great scientific books, as a book that is permanent in the sense that Darwin’s and Huxley’s books are permanent.” Theodore Roosevelt
+ =Outlook= 118:97 Ja 16 ‘18 2400w
“If, as contemplated, he is able in the near future to add a treatise on the evolution of prehuman ancestry, he will have produced a trilogy far more fascinating than anything in the realm of fiction.” J. Stanley-Brown
+ =Pub W= 92:1380 O 20 ‘17 1000w
“Prof. Osborn’s praiseworthy system of using many tables and plates to explain points in his volumes has been followed in the present work, and adds much to the lucidity and value of the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 870w
=O’SHAUGHNESSY, EDITH LOUISE (COUES) (MRS NELSON O’SHAUGHNESSY).= Diplomatic days. il *$2 (2c) Harper 917.2 17-30372
Mrs O’Shaughnessy’s second book antedates “A diplomat’s wife in Mexico.” That volume covered the rise and fall of Huerta; this one goes back to 1911 and 1912 when Diaz gave place to Madero. As in the first book, the story is told in letters written to the author’s mother.
“Pleasant but hardly as interesting as the first book.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18
“Her interesting pages, somewhat pedantically sown with foreign phrases, throw many lights and shades over the turbulent events of which she was an eye-witness, and give her book permanent importance as contemporary history.”
+ =Bookm= 46:272 N ‘17 250w
“If her descriptions were not so sketchy they would be fascinating.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 240w
“There is much important and interesting political comment in her pages and many anecdotes of a sort that only a diplomat’s wife could tell. ... Chiefly significant, however, is the light she throws on the somewhat perplexing career of Madero.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 8 ‘17 140w
“The book would be better if it were not so long. Some of the family details could be omitted to the strengthening of the whole. ... Her style is sometimes pretentious, but on the whole it is pleasing, appreciative, expressive of a keen observation and an eagerness to study the conditions of the country. ... The illustrations by Ravell—dreamy photographs of Mexican scenes and buildings—are very beautiful.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:548 D 9 ‘17 700w
“The charm of Mexico seen at its best is here graphically presented.”
+ =Outlook= 117:615 D 12 ‘17 70w
=OSTROVSKII, ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH.= Plays; a tr. from the Russian; ed. by G: Rapall Noyes. *$1.50 Scribner 891.7 17-24532
Ostrovsky belongs to the central decades of the nineteenth century, the period of Turgenev, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. In his dramas, however, as the editor points out, he dealt with a phase of Russian life untouched by them, the life of the merchant class. His plays are of varied character, but his real strength, Mr Noyes continues, “lay in the drama of manners, giving realistic pictures of Russian life among the Russian city classes and the minor nobility.” Four examples of these realistic dramas are given in this volume, with the titles: A protégée of the mistress; Poverty is no crime; Sin and sorrow are common to all; It’s a family affair—we’ll settle it ourselves.
“Ostrovsky’s vast work is the most national manifestation of the dramatic genius of his race. He created the Russian drama of manners.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ =Bookm= 46:484 D ‘17 200w
“‘It’s a family affair’ is a keen-edged portrayal of the low standard of Russian commercial morals in the 50’s. ‘A protegé of the mistress’ shows how the serfs were subject to the caprices of irresponsible owners and, like Turgenieff’s ‘Sportsman’s sketches,’ helped to forward the movement for emancipation.”
+ =Cleveland= p6 Ja ‘18 100w
“As histories of Russian manners during the years immediately preceding and following the emancipation of the serfs, and as masterpieces of characterization, these plays have much to give the American student of the drama, even through the medium of an inadequate translation.”
+ — =Dial= 63:398 O 25 ‘17 420w
“The translation, racy, colloquial, yet never falling into the error of modern American (or English) slang that has marred some recent translations from the French, is excellent reading.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 930w
“Although Ostrovsky’s eye for the dramatic is subdued, and there are barren passages, his plays depict bitingly the crude, grasping traits of the Slav merchant class. The strongest play of the four is ‘A protegé of the mistress.’”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 30 ‘17 400w
=O’SULLIVAN, VINCENT.= The Good girl. new and rev ed *$1.50 Small 17-23647
“Vendred, a man of some inherited means, leading the life of a blameless man about town, falls in love with Mrs Dover, ... a singer of high quality, married to a soldier of fortune, and choosing to live shabbily and hand-to-mouth with him rather than to take the fame and wealth which await her as a professional singer. ... Of this household Vendred in due time becomes the chief support; and in the end his good nature is carried to the point of marrying the insignificant daughter of the house, which clinches his position of provider for the whole tribe. The little wife loves him, and is more than worthy of him, but her mother ... has conceived one of her earthy passions for him, and easily annexes him as a lover when her chosen moment comes.” (Bookm) The book was first published in England in 1912. This authorized American edition has been revised and corrected by the author.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:534 Jl ‘17 550w
“‘The good girl’ was originally published in England and warmly appreciated there before Mr O’Sullivan’s own American countrymen had ever heard of the author. ... It is certain that an American novelist of power is disclosed in ‘The good girl,’ which the fugitive essays that Mr O’Sullivan has had published here in magazines hardly justified us in expecting. There is a massiveness and veracity of portraiture in this novel, blended with a sudden illuminating humor—the indubitable mark of real insight and creative force. The character studies are miles away from the conventional brisk American impressionism. Unfortunately, the accent of ‘The good girl’ is wholly antebellum, in the sense that we all seem to have passed beyond the mood in which love-stories of this peculiar type would meet with a response.”
+ =New Repub= 11:255 Je 30 ‘17 330w
“Edward Garnett says that ‘The good girl’ entitles its author to a place among the first twenty American novelists. ‘The good girl’ is a story of marked skill in character delineation, and of equally marked unpleasantness. ... A thoroughly ugly and depressing story.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 310w
=O’SULLIVAN, VINCENT.= Sentiment. *$1.50 (3½c) Small 17-29624
The scene of this story by the author of “The good girl,” is laid mainly at “The Firs, Palebrook, Hampshire,” the home of William’s Aunt Laura. The book deals with the love affairs of four young people, and is dependent for interest on characterization rather than plot. The main characters are William Spring, the self-satisfied but good-hearted clerk, who takes his bearings by the woman of thirty-five or forty years ago, and fails to understand the modern girl; Stephen Ruggles, the ambitious lawyer, whom “thirty-five years with an eye kept exclusively on his own interest had tempered,” and who, in his dealings with women, “had always kept the master-hand” until Penelope swept him off his feet; Penelope Hazard, of the “amber-colored hair,” the “lithe, panther-like grace,” and the “incalculable moods”; and Sabina Moll, the heiress with the “blunt little face,” who “had moved along from the cradle protected by a body-guard of guineas” and who had “that indefinable air of sureness and, small as she was, of command ... which accompanies great wealth.”
“In short, the book has no sound action; it tells nothing about anybody or anything; it is the kind of whimsical skit that will pass readily enough for a ‘novel,’ but collapses outright if you try to take it as a story.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 46:693 F ‘18 380w
“‘Sentiment’ seems like the work of a talented but not assured craftsman.”
– + =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 290w
“It appears that Mr O’Sullivan was born in America, but his twenty years of English breeding have placed him definitely with a British group of sardonic realists, of which Mr John Cowper Powys and Mr Louis Wilkinson are prominent members. Mockery is their forte, mockery of usages, of philosophies, of faiths—particularly, of course, the faith which is called love. ... In ‘Sentiment’ we are vouchsafed no saving draught of honest feeling.”
– + =Nation= 105:540 N 15 ‘17 270w
“‘Sentiment’ thus becomes two stories in one, written in different emotional keys. The ridiculous situation of William, or the intrigue of the siren Penelope, would each have made a charming story. Woven together, their incongruity is glaring, and betrays an inexpertness of construction on the author’s part, which we should not expect from one who comes from England with a reputation like Mr O’Sullivan’s.”
— =New Repub= 14:66 F 9 ‘18 220w
“The people in the book are all real and very cleverly studied.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 420w
=OSWALD, JOHN CLYDE.= Benjamin Franklin, printer. il *$2 (4c) Doubleday 17-3050
The author is editor of the American Printer and a collector of Frankliniana. He has written a life of Franklin, dealing primarily with his activities as a printer, “using the word in the sense which it possessed in his time, when it included printing, editing, publishing, and advertising.” The author says further, “As to the physical structure of the volume, it has been the aim to make it conform typographically somewhat nearly to the style of the books printed by Benjamin Franklin. He had positive ideas as to
## bookmaking. ... and we have endeavored to produce a book that would
meet with his approval could he have opportunity to pass judgment upon it.” The copyright in the book is held by the Associated advertising clubs of the world.
“Of Franklin as a real printer, journalist, and almanac-maker there was little to tell that was new without a somewhat technical and bibliographical investigation of the subject, or, at least, a careful study of the Franklin manuscripts. This Mr Oswald does not appear to have done, or he could hardly have failed to discover the important series of letters from James Parker to Franklin, which have been printed in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts historical society. ... Mr Oswald has compiled a popular account of Franklin, and the many illustrations give his volume a value apart from the text; but he has hardly scratched the surface of the subject.”
=Am Hist R= 22:907 Jl ‘17 330w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:312 Ap ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p9 F 3 ‘17 900w
=Cleveland= p59 Ap ‘17 50w
+ =Nation= 104:411 Ap 5 ‘17 270w
“Especially interesting are the many facsimile reproductions of pages from books and newspapers, title pages, advertisements, designs, printed by Franklin.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:22 Ja 21 ‘17 250w
“Should prove of extreme interest to printers throughout the country.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:344 Ap ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Inland Printer p816 Mr ‘17)
=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 20w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 650w
Out of their own mouths. *$1 Appleton 940.91 17-24873
“Utterances of German rulers, statesmen, savants, publicists, journalists, poets, business men, party leaders and soldiers.” (Sub-title) The book is based in part on a French compilation, “Jugés par eux-mêmes,” published in 1916. A Swiss work, compiled by S. Grumbach, has also been drawn on, and other new matter has been added. The A. L. A. Booklist states that the work duplicates some of the material in Bang’s “Hurrah and hallelujah” and Archer’s “Gems (?) of German thought.” There is an introduction by William Roscoe Thayer.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17
“The work has been done with care and fairness, and the book is of interest, and should be useful for reference.”
+ =Ath= p44 Ja ‘18 70w
“A reading of it is enough to awaken in one a veritable hymn of hate against Germany.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 70w
+ =Educ R= 55:78 Ja ‘18 150w
“Such a volume is also a great convenience when one wants to refer to some significant utterance. But we hope no German will take the hint and compile a volume of what our Fourth of July speechers and newspapers have said of America’s superiority and manifest destiny.”
+ =Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 70w
“We doubt whether all the case is apt to be presented fairly in this manner. It is so easy to omit, and it may often seem most proper to omit a great deal favorable to the enemy, but not pertinent to the point to be proved. The loud utterances of the rash and irresponsible are more apt to be taken than the calmer sayings of the moderate. ... Nevertheless, we think such an enterprise is worthy and useful, for our people cannot understand too clearly the evil against which we make war.”
+ — =Nation= 105:567 N 22 ‘17 1600w
=Pittsburgh= 22:829 D ‘17 80w
+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 50w
“This well-arranged collection is most instructive, and deserves to be widely read.”
+ =Spec= 119:720 D 15 ‘17 130w
=OWEN, CAROLINE DALE (MRS CHARLES H. SNEDEKER).= Seth Way. il *$1.50 Houghton 17-31029
A story of the New Harmony community, Robert Owen’s experiment in communal living in Indiana. With a few exceptions the characters are real people. The hero, Seth Way, is modelled after Thomas Say, the zoologist, altho the author has made him a younger man and has given him a different early environment and woven for him an original romance. Early in the story there is a touching picture of the meeting between the uncouth, unlearned mountain boy, and William Maclure, the geologist, and of the awakening of the boy’s desire for knowledge. Maclure takes the boy under his protection, and gives him his start in scientific training. One of the important incidents of Seth Way’s association with the New Harmony community is his long journey from New York in company with Jessonda Macleod, who comes to the settlement as music teacher. Out of this grows his romance. Jessonda is interesting as a forerunner of the high-minded, independent woman of today.
“A delightful, leisurely story.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18
“Next to interpreting the present, there is no finer task for our novelists than the rescuing and embodiment in fiction of such episodes of our American past. It was worthy of Cooper and of Hawthorne; Mr Howells, the other day, gave a fine example of it in ‘The leatherwood god,’ beside which ‘Seth Way’ quite deserves to be placed.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:602 Ja ‘18 500w
+ =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 220w
“The tale is slight in plot, extremely leisurely in movement, and considering the variety and colorfulness of its historic background, rather surprisingly lacking in both those qualities. However, the picture of this early experiment in community living is not uninteresting.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:550 D 9 ‘17 250w
“Its picture of pioneer days in the Ohio valley is vivid and thoroughly interesting.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:32 Ja ‘18 40w
=OWEN, MARGARET B.= Secret of typewriting speed. *$1 (4c) Forbes 652 17-24985
In this book the author, who is champion typist of the world, shares with others some of the secrets of her success. One of these, and the one she considers most important is “perfect rhythm.” Among the chapters are: Typewriting success; Getting ready for work; Perfect rhythm; Weak fingers; Memory and concentration; Expert exercises; Practice paragraphs; Eliminating lost motion; Transpositions; Punctuation. One of the later chapters describes a speed contest.
=A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18
+ =Ath= p593 N ‘17 100w
“Miss Owen has turned out a clear, practical guide to a subject on which she has so good a right to speak.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p519 O 25 ‘17 50w
=OXENHAM, JOHN.= “All’s well!” *$1 Doran 821
A volume of poems called forth by the war. Those in part 1, “All’s well,” deal directly with the conflict. One of these is the hymn “For the men at the front,” several million copies of which have been sold.
## Part 2, “The king’s high way,” is made up of poems in which religious
sentiment predominates. Here too the influence of the war is evident. In the poems as in the foreword to the volume the author pleads for a future that shall repair the past.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 520w
“A book of popular, sentimentally religious verse, a hymnal of consolation for those whom the war has stricken.”
=Ind= 90:217 Ap 28 ‘17 30w
“Among these poems is the famous ‘Hymn for the men at the front,’ of which over five million copies have been sold and the proceeds devoted to the various funds for wounded soldiers. The majority of the other poems are distinctly religious in character, full-bodied of faith and inspiring in triumphant spirituality.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:435 Ap ‘17 760w
=OXENHAM, JOHN.= Vision splendid. *$1 Doran 821 17-13962
The author of the hymn “For the men at the front,” whose verse has touched some millions of lives, sends out words of courage, comfort and consecration for those who are fighting for liberty, who “out there” “have been in the sweep of the Reaper’s scythe,—with God,—and Christ,—and hell.” The key-note of the volume is in its title poem:
“Here—or hereafter—you shall see it ended, This mighty work to which your souls are set; If from beyond—then, with the vision splendid, You shall smile back and never know regret.”
“The author of ‘Bees in amber’ and ‘All’s well’ has set before his numerous readers a series of poems with a predominantly religious tone. The ‘Vision splendid’ is of ‘a world in which God and Right shall reign supreme.’ The longest, and perhaps the most striking, piece in the book is ‘The ballad of Jim Baxter.’ ‘Promoted,’ ‘The cross-roads,’ and ‘Edith Cavell’ are other noteworthy poems.”
+ =Ath= p310 Je ‘17 60w
“It is for the most part insignificant as poetry, except that it is the medium to carry a certain vital sweep of optimism and of old-fashioned piety.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 650w
“These war poems have a sincerity and a vigor that command the attention and respect of the reader.”
+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 30w
“The ideas in the verse were thrown overboard by intelligent minds of the middle ages. They have little place today.” Clement Wood
— =N Y Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 270w
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 2 ‘17 350w
=OYEN, HENRY.= Gaston Olaf. *$1.35 (2c) Doran 17-25377
His full name, Gaston Olaf Francois Thorson, revealed his mixed French and Scandinavian parentage, and this joint heritage was apparent in his nature too. There were times when Gaston Olaf was wholly French, other times when he was all Norwegian. His entry into Havens Falls was spectacular. Gaston Olaf, arrived in the nick of time, to make himself, as he always seemed able to do, center of a dramatic little
## scene in which an attractive girl played the other part. Tom Pine, his
woods partner, scenting danger, tried to guide Gaston Olaf out of town. It was Tom Pine’s fear that some day his friend would like a town so well that he would settle down and stay there. His fears seem for a time to be justified, for when Gaston learns of the plot of Dave Taggart, of the La Croix lumber company, to steal Rose Havens’s timber, he feels that this town is the place for him. He foils Taggart and helps to make Havens Falls a place fit to live in, and then the choice that Tom Pine has foreseen faces him: town or trail? And the instinct that is deepest seated within him wins.
=A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18
“Sufficiently sincere and realistic to make good reading except when the author abandons his hand-to-hand battles and attempts to be humorous.”
+ — =Ind= 93:240 F 9 ‘18 40w
“There is fighting galore, of course, some entertaining descriptions, and an ending rather out of the ordinary, more reasonable and with more promise of real contentment to come than one usually finds in this kind of tale.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 260w
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=PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.= Adventures of Jimmie Dale. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-5814
He was a member of one of New York’s most exclusive clubs. He was known as an idle young man, but he had a complete and scientific knowledge of his father’s business, the manufacture of safes. There was nothing Jimmie Dale did not know about combinations and locks. So unknown to his society and club friends, he led a double, no, a triple life, acting now the part of the Gray Seal, a clever and mysterious cracksman who always leaves his mark, a gray seal, behind him, and again the part of Larry, the Bat, a denizen of the underworld. The chief mystery of the tale centers in the personality of the unknown woman whose commands Jimmie obeys, and who, whatever the means adopted, always has a worthy end in view.
“Those moralists who object to the introduction in motion pictures of stories which deal with crime and which make the varied infringements of the law appear easy and attractive, will have reason to be incensed by Mr Packard’s story. He makes burglary appear an interesting and even refined occupation. ... The story is interesting from start to finish.”
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 400w
=N Y Times= 22:110 Mr 25 ‘17 340w
“Eventually, the episodes become more and more improbable, and finally descend to frank melodrama. Still the story is above the average of its kind, for, while the hero commits legal ‘crimes’ to right wrongs, his acts are free from taint of viciousness. The incidents are ingeniously conceived.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 180w
=PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.=[2] Sin that was his. il *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-28602
His name was Raymond Chapelle, altho in different parts of Canada and Alaska he had been known as Arthur Leroy, and again as Three-Ace Artie. His reputation was none too savory, and the facts sustained it. His one good deed had reacted to his own loss and he had vowed never to commit another. Then fate compels him to assume a new name and to take on a new character. To save his life, he adopts the garb of a Catholic priest and poses as Father Aubert, while the real Father Aubert faces death in his place. The influence of the habiliment and position of priest works a change in his character, leading to regret, repentance and restitution; also to the winning of a girl’s love.
“The story is well constructed, and the chain of events made plausible, while the religious portion of it never falls into the gulf of the maudlin, though it must be admitted that there are times when it approaches perilously near the edge of that dread abyss. The dénouement, too, is satisfactory, though one cannot help wondering how the good people of St Marleau took the astonishing revelation of the truth about their ‘good young Father Aubert.’”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 380w
“The plot is daring, and only by the most skillful handling is it possible to develop it without wounding the religious susceptibilities of many readers. It is Mr Packard’s most ambitious and also his best work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 460w
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= How to run an automobile. 1917 ed il *$1 (2c) Henley 629.2 17-11228
The author points out that this is not an instruction book on the construction and repair of automobiles. It has been prepared “in answer to numerous requests for a concise exposition of the operating principles of modern gasoline automobiles.” It is intended as “an absolutely non-technical compilation of the operating instructions of leading automobile manufacturers with which the car owner should be familiar.” Contents: Automobile parts and their functions; General starting and driving instructions; Typical 1917 control systems; Care of automobiles. The book is well supplied with diagrams, etc.
“It is possible to immediately turn to your car and apply the knowledge.”
+ =Agricultural Digest= 2:506 Je ‘17 60w
“Instructions are plain and the text is well illustrated.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 40w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
=PAGÉ, VICTOR WILFRED.= Storage batteries simplified, operating principles—care and industrial applications. il *$1.50 (2c) Henley 621.35 17-13513
“A complete, non-technical but authoritative treatise discussing the development of the modern storage battery, outlining the basic operation of the leading types; also the methods of construction, charging, maintenance and repair.” (Title-page) The book also includes special instructions for care and repair of automobile batteries and glossary of terms. It has been written with the cooperation of leading American storage battery makers.
=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 10w
=Pittsburgh= 22:659 O ‘17
+ =Pratt= p22 O ‘17 40w
“A plainly written book understandable by the average reader.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:364 O ‘17 20w
=PAGET, STEPHEN.= I sometimes think. *$1.75 Macmillan 814 A17-1505
“‘I sometimes think’ is a series of essays for young people covering a varied number of topics. By far the most interesting are the witty one entitled ‘Unnatural selection,’ and the graver, keener one called ‘The next few years.’ In ‘Unnatural selection’ Mr Paget tells us how children should choose their parents—if this were possible. Of course, it is really a sermon to parents through their children.”—Springf’d Republican
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17 30w
“It is a beautiful book that Mr Paget has given us, and worthy of the subject. After all, his is the point of view that is desirable today. It is beautifulness that our men will need when they return from learning things and ‘seeing things ugly enough to drive you and me mad.’ These essays are of a spirit to produce the atmosphere that all desire to bring about for the refreshing of the men and the healing of the nation.”
+ =Sat R= 123:321 Ap 7 ‘17 870w
“Full of good sense and good humour. ... He ends on a grave note in ‘The next few years,’ hinting at the great problems which peace will set before us, and at the demands that will then be made on our loyalty and self-control.”
+ =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 80w
“The essays are quite English in atmosphere and tone, but they show a wide sympathy and are whole-souled and suggestive. Mr Paget is always a clear writer, and at times is keenly sarcastic. Older people, rather than the young people whom the author seeks to address, will probably turn to the book with most appreciation and interest.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 190w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p608 D 14 ‘16 1550w
=PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE.=[2] Sons of Eli. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-24274
The first story in this collection is a story of twenty years ago, included with the more recent tales, perhaps, to show that the Yale spirit is the same yesterday and today. The remaining stories are loosely related in that they concern the same set of characters. Some of them have appeared in Scribner’s Magazine. Contents: A victory unforeseen; Follow the ball; “Sleepy” Jordan; The letter of the law; Getting his goat; The Indian; The vengeance of Antonia; A transaction with Shylock; His code of honor.
“[The tales are] crisp and humorous, and hold up high university ideals of sport and of student relations.”
+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 20w
=PALMER, FREDERICK.= My second year of the war. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 940.91 17-6753
“My year of the great war” was published in 1915. This second volume by Mr Palmer covers the year 1916 and is concerned chiefly with the campaigns about Verdun and on the Somme. Mr Palmer’s articles have been appearing in Collier’s. He is said by the publishers to be “the only accredited American correspondent who had freedom of the field in the battles of the Somme.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:308 Ap ‘17
“Unfortunately, many of Mr Palmer’s descriptions lose effectiveness because they are very much like similar descriptions found in ‘My year of the great war.’ ... On the whole, the strongest appeal of the book is to the thoughtful mind.” A. R. Dodd
+ =Bookm= 45:195 Ap ‘17 720w
+ =Cath World= 105:538 Jl ‘17 270w
Reviewed by P. F. Bicknell
+ =Dial= 62:305 Ap 5 ‘17 320w
+ =Lit D= 54:1273 Ap 28 ‘17 250w
Reviewed by Harold Stearns
+ =New Repub= 10:sup16 Ap 21 ‘17 550w
“It is essentially a study of military events. That is not to say that it is not a very human record. It is human and dramatic and full of sympathy. But it is not emotional. ... It does not tell how men felt. It tells what they did. ... Another kind of importance the book possesses: it tells us something of what, in a purely military way, England has done.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:64 F 25 ‘17 600w
Reviewed by Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 91:975 Mr 17 ‘17 280w
“Mr Palmer has won a world-wide reputation for the vividness and accuracy of his descriptions.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 70w
“Perhaps the greatest value of the book is its human note. ... Dwelling on the initiative and bravery of the new British army, Mr Palmer says that ‘Tennyson’s “Light brigade” seems bombast and gallery play after July 1.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 24 ‘17 570w
“It is impossible to say after reading this book that you have a clear idea of the whole scheme of attack in the beginning, or any grasp of the principles that governed the advance when once the main attack was successful. One picture, or one side of the picture, he does convey well: the extraordinary amount of movement on the roads, the crowding up of batteries behind our lines, the ceaseless ebb and flow of transport of all kinds.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p170 Ap 12 ‘17 400w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 60w
=PALMER, FREDERICK.= With our faces in the light. *50c (3½c) Dodd 940.91 17-16213
“Mr Palmer recalls a luminous evening on the Somme, when he came upon a battalion of the New army halted and content, as their commander said meaningly, ‘with their faces in the light.’ The officer went on to predict to Mr Palmer that America, too, would come in, ‘because your faces are in the light ... because that thing which we are now about to attack will drive you, and the thing that is sending us to the attack is calling you.’” (Spec) This little book “illuminates the situation and the conditions in America and the meaning of the war for us,” (N Y Times) and expresses the conviction “that this country as a united nation will face the test in the spirit of the fathers.” (Springf’d Republican)
“A little sermon on patriotism.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17
=Ath= p532 O ‘17 80w
“Perhaps it is the sincerity, perhaps it is the style, but whatever the cause, Mr Palmer’s work remains a very stirring and invigorating piece of writing.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 260w
=Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 70w
+ =N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:685 O ‘17 20w
“This charming little book was written by the well-known American war correspondent for his own countrymen, but it will have an equal interest for English readers.”
+ =Spec= 119:249 S 8 ‘17 200w
“It represents the views of a man who knows war on many continents and is withal an intense American. The blatant tone of less worldly-wise men is refreshingly absent.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 90w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p410 Ag 30 ‘17 500w
=PALMER, FREDERICK E.= Milady’s house plants. il $1 De La Mare 716 17-13238
The author of this “complete instructor and guide to success with flowers and plants in the home” is an expert florist who has had many years experience in solving the problem of house plants. After a chapter on the “Companionship of flowers,” Mr Palmer discusses: Fundamental requirements of all plants; Foliage plants for house decoration; Flowering plants for house decoration; Bulbous plants; House plants out-of-doors in summer; Sowing of seeds and rooting of cuttings; Outside window boxes in winter; Insect pests and remedies; How to treat cut flowers; Sun parlors as plant rooms. “The illustrations are a considerable part of the book, many of the operations being pictured and most of the plants.” (Springf’d Republican)
“This valuable little book is compactly written and well illustrated.”
+ =Ind= 92:345 N 17 ‘17 40w
“The common plants, and some uncommon ones that a mere amateur may safely attempt are listed here with sufficient comment as to name, quality, treatment, etc., to insure their welfare under thoughtful care. ... The index is very full and helpful.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 300w
=PANI, ALBERTO J.= Hygiene in Mexico; a study of sanitary and educational problems; tr. by Ernest L. de Gogorza. *$1.50 (3½c) Putnam 614.09 17-6341
A report of a survey of health conditions made in Mexico City and the Federal district. The report is a frank revelation of evil conditions due to official carelessness and neglect, and is made in the hope of future betterment. The investigation was undertaken by the order of Carranza, and the author, who has held many posts of importance in Mexico, was a member of the joint Mexican-American commission of 1916.
“In a chapter devoted to public health of the City of Mexico, the author presents exhaustive and carefully prepared tables, showing a comparison of death rates in various cities, American and European, which approximate the City of Mexico in number of inhabitants.” H. S. K.
=Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 400w
“A Gallic fervor for system and for a well-expanded and rounded-out scheme for the hygienic redemption of the state permeates the work.”
+ =Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 240w
=Int J Ethics= 27:403 Ap ‘17 140w
=N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:39 N ‘17 20w
“Interesting from an educational point of view.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Mr 30 ‘17 220w
“An ardent plea for public health in Mexico, and a vigorous statement of difficulties in the way thereof.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 38:551 S 22 ‘17 270w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p420 Ag 30 ‘17 120w
=PARIS, WILLIAM FRANCKLYN.= Decorative elements in architecture; random observations on the eternal fitness of things from a decorative point of view. il *$5 (19c) Lane 749 17-13254
A series of papers devoted largely to interior decoration and furnishing. The author says, “Too little stress has been laid upon the fact that as much skill and science and understanding of art is needed in the adornment of the inside of a palace as is required in the designing and embellishment of the outside.” Contents: Sunt lachrymæ rerum; Rationalism in art; Guessing and knowing; The inheritance of the past; Principles and essentials; The development of ornament; Decorative elements; The art of Penelope; Painted glass; Wrought iron. The book is handsomely illustrated.
“‘Decorative elements in architecture’ appeals to the layman as a gem. It is descriptive, historic, and didactic, and written in a style which a layman can understand. The illustrations, of which there are ninety and nine, really illustrate.”
+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 140w
“As befits a book upon art by an artist, it is very finely produced and splendidly illustrated. A rich but not sumptuous cover, good paper, excellent typography and margins—these are, in themselves, details of an art which must be handed on, with the rest, to the waiting future—the art of the book. And a most refreshing thing about the illustrations should be welcomed—they are all of unusual works of art.”
+ =Int Studio= 62:sup24 Jl ‘17 1350w
“As a piece of book-making the work is altogether pleasing.”
+ =Lit D= 53:33 S 1 ‘17 270w
“His book is quite continental in quality; the reviewer, indeed, perhaps through insular prejudice, feels that an occasional illustration from English eighteenth-century ironwork or American colonial furniture would sometimes carry the desired points more tellingly than do the French and Spanish pieces chosen.”
+ — =Nation= 105:607 N 29 ‘17 560w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:110 Jl ‘17 30w
“It is difficult to say whether the book is more for decorators or for the public. Both will get from it inspiration and practical suggestion, but the public perhaps will profit most by having its bewildered face turned firmly, though with a delicate touch, in the right direction.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:531 D 2 ‘17 640w
+ =Outlook= 116:160 My 23 ‘17 130w
“Of special interest are the last three chapters on tapestry, ‘The art of Penelope,’ painted glass, and wrought iron.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 9 ‘17 270w
=PARKER, EDWARD HARPER.= China; her history, diplomacy, and commerce from the earliest times to the present day. 2d ed il *$2.50 Dutton 951 17-30891
“The first edition of this work was published in 1901. To the present (second) edition the author, who is professor of Chinese at the Victoria university of Manchester, has added three chapters, in the last of which he endeavours to describe succinctly how political reform in China arose out of foreign defeat, and how the spirit of democracy asserted itself.” (Ath) Other chapters have been brought down to date.
“Contains much information about a country of which Europeans are as a rule regrettably deficient in knowledge, and the numerous clear maps are of great assistance.”
+ =Ath= p474 S ‘17 170w
“It is a pity, however, that while the author has accumulated a vast store of first-hand knowledge, his style leaves much to be desired. It is also to be somewhat regretted that Mr Parker is interested more in men and their affairs than in nature and her products. Perhaps the least useful part of the book is the last chapter, which deals with the rise of the republic.”
+ — =Ath= p508 O ‘17 770w
“The dominant interest of these pages, which are written with a dry humour that finds expression even in the paginal headlines, lies in their exposure of Germany’s brief but eventful career in the Far East, a subject on which, thanks to his earlier consular experience, Professor Parker writes from inside information. ... Professor Parker’s book should be read by all who desire a closer acquaintance with a land that has suddenly emerged from the picturesque stagnation in which Marco Polo found it. The glossary alone is of great interest and practical use.”
+ =Sat R= 124:190 S 8 ‘17 850w
“This is a book of observations, even more than a book of historical study or economic analysis, though there is enough history to supply a background for the observations. These are expressed in a breezy, buoyant style and are characterized by frankness and a disposition to make disconcerting, but highly amusing comparisons between the Chinese and the English.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 31 ‘18 700w
“His description of the rise of the Chinese republic is coherent and interesting; it bears evidence, however, of having been based to a very great extent upon the study of contemporary local journalism. Professor Parker’s work is at its best when he deals with those subjects which afford opportunity for the display of his wide range of ethnological, historical and etymological research.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p483 O 11 ‘17 710w
=PARKER, HORATIO NEWTON.= City milk supply. il *$5 McGraw 614.3 17-7831
“The volume opens with a discussion of milk and of the diseases which it may convey. The dairy cow and farm are next considered from various angles. Then come valuable chapters on the sanitary production of milk and on milk transportation. The importance of the milk contractor is duly recognized by a chapter of 142 pages. Nearly as much space is given to an able review of methods of public control of milk supplies, this subject having been wisely reserved to the last. Each chapter is supplied with a source reference list.”—Engin News-Rec
“The book is not entirely satisfactory, either in its analysis of production costs or of distribution costs. But as to other topics which the author presumes to cover, the book is most inclusive and authoritative, and will be a most valuable record for all those interested in accurate facts as to sanitary milk, its production, transportation, and inspection.” C. L. K.
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:300 N ‘17 150w
“Such a thoroughly up-to-date book on milk supply as this, written by a man who has dealt with the subject as inspector, health officer, analyst and teacher, should certainly make a broad and telling appeal to all who are concerned with public health and sanitation. ... The
## book deals adequately with its subject and might well serve as a model
for writers who have not yet learned the knack of selecting the most essential facts from a vast amount of material and presenting them in concise, orderly, instructive and readable form.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:153 Ap 19 ‘17 170w
=Pittsburgh= 22:418 My ‘17
“A comprehensive, up-to-date discussion of milk production, distribution, and regulation by a man conversant with every aspect of the subject as inspector, health officer, analyst, and teacher.”
+ =Pratt= p20 O ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
“No other book in English, at least, gives an equal amount of information regarding city milk supply.” Frank Schneider, jr.
+ =Survey= 39:72 O 20 ‘17 170w
=PARKER, LOUIS NAPOLEON.= Aristocrat. *$1 Lane 822 17-5392
The scenes of this three-act play are laid during and immediately following the French revolution. The first act opens on New Year’s eve, 1793, in the house of Louis of Olonzac. Refusing to recognize the existence of the republic, he is preparing to observe the occasion as always, with mass at midnight and a supper with his friends afterwards. The result is imprisonment for himself, his daughter Louise, and his guests. The trial scene takes up the second act, with the dramatic rescue of Louise, and the death of Robespierre as its climax. Act three is laid ten years later.
“Good for reading aloud.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17
“‘The aristocrat’ is exceedingly good, and possesses many of the characteristics which make ‘Disraeli’ enjoyable.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 800w
“A romantic glow envelops the action from beginning to end.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:663 Je ‘17 60w
=PARKER, RALPH MIDDLETON.= Officer’s notes; comp. by Lieut. C: C. Griffith. il *$2 G. U. Harvey, 109 Lafayette st., N.Y. 355 17-11226
“In compiling his notes Captain Parker has taken advantage of the experience gained by nearly twenty years active service with troops—as commandant of cadets at Norwich university, and as the officer detailed to instruct candidates for commissions in the reserve during the past winter. The book is a digest of the information given in the army regulations as to company administration; military law, as laid down in the manual of courts-martial; small-arm firing regulations, including the use and construction of the United States army service rifle; field service regulations, with particular reference to the gathering of information; security; distribution of troops; outposts and orders; marches and convoys, and the shelter of troops in the field.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:378 Je ‘17
+ =Ind= 90:127 Ap 14 ‘17 20w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:67 My ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:89 Je ‘17 30w
“Gives in small compass what the young officer should know.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ap ‘17 60w
“Captain Parker and Lieutenant Griffith have performed a real service for the young officer and for the candidate for a commission in the Officers’ reserve corps by condensing into a little book of 204 pages that can readily be carried in the pocket the essential information from five or six service manuals, and presenting it in clear, everyday English that the average man without any knowledge of military phraseology can readily understand.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 320w
“Perhaps the best evidence of its worth is furnished by the fact that one dealer in the Wall Street district is said to have sold a thousand copies in four days.” R. L.
=Pub W= 91:1326 Ap 21 ‘17 110w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 90w
=PARKHURST, FREDERIC AUGUSTUS.= Predetermination of true costs and relatively true selling prices. il *$1.25 Wiley 657 16-14605
“A careful reading of this book suggests that it is fairer to judge it by the content than by the title. ... Seven eighths of the book deals with costs: the remainder with profit and selling prices. ... That the author has presented the subject in the usual manner will be seen from the chapter headings which are as follows: Importance of absolute control of all sources of information; Discussion of elements affecting true costs; Direct costs; Indirect costs; Recapitulation of costs; Estimating; Profit and relatively true selling prices; Conclusion. ... The closure is an appeal for greater consideration and better treatment of the workman, not only because of philanthropic motives but because it pays.”—Am Econ R
“It is a good book to which to refer a clerk in a cost department for a working manual or a student of the subject of cost accounting. To such persons it offers not only the principles of cost finding but unusually clear and complete illustrations of their application.” J: R. Wildman
+ =Am Econ R= 7:132 Mr ‘17 550w
=Cleveland= p152 D ‘16 15w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:122 Ag ‘16
“‘Greatest value of the book lies in the arguments brought out in the first chapter on the importance of absolute control of all sources of information. ... System explained in this book is a definite one for a given type of manufacture, and the forms shown are taken from the practice of two shops only.’”
=Pittsburgh= 22:462 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from American Machinist p572 Mr 29 ‘17)
=PARKMAN, MARY ROSETTA.= Heroes of today. il *$1.35 (2½c) Century 920 17-25610
The author has told the stories of some of the heroes “who are fighting ‘in the patient modern way,’ not against flesh and blood with sword and spear, but against the unseen enemies of disease and pestilence; against the monster evils of ignorance, poverty and injustice.” The heroes chosen are: John Muir, John Burroughs, Wilfred Grenfell, Captain Scott, Jacob Riis, Edward L. Trudeau, George Washington Goethals, Bishop Rowe, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Rupert Brooke, and Herbert C. Hoover. The book is illustrated with portraits and other pictures.
+ =Lit D= 55:56 D 8 ‘17 70w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 70w
=PARKMAN, MARY ROSETTA.= Heroines of service. il *$1.35 (2½c) Century 920 17-25609
The author has written sketches of the lives of eleven women: Mary Lyon; Alice Freeman Palmer; Clara Barton; Frances E. Willard; Julia Ward Howe; Anna Howard Shaw; Mary Antin; Alice C. Fletcher; Mary Slessor; Marie Sklodowska Curie, Jane Addams. Writing of the work of these women, she says, “The service of the true woman is always ‘womanly.’ She gives something of the fostering care of the mother, whether it be as nurse, like Clara Barton; as teacher, like Mary Lyon and Alice Freeman Palmer; or as social helper, like Jane Addams. So it is that the service of these ‘heroines’ is that which only women could have given to the world.” Each sketch is accompanied by a portrait and there are other illustrations.
“A timely book whose only fault is a happy one, a tendency to idealize.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 50w
“She makes an evident aim to avoid controversy regarding the comparative claims to greatness in each of her subjects. The style of narration is intimate and chatty.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 110w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 70w
=PARRISH, RANDALL.=[2] Devil’s own. il *$1.40 (2c) McClurg 17-28849
The time of the story is the year of the Black Hawk war, and that outbreak has a part in the climax of the tale. It is with one of the problems of slavery, however, that the plot is concerned. In journeying down the river, Lieutenant Knox falls in with Joe Kirby, the gambler. Kirby has been playing cards with Judge Beaucaire of Missouri and has taken from him his home and all his possessions, including his slaves. From Kirby himself, Lieutenant Knox learns that the gambler’s main motive is to gain possession of Rene Beaucaire, the girl reputed to be Judge Beaucaire’s daughter, altho in reality she is his granddaughter, the child of his son and a quadroon girl. Technically she is his slave. Moved by the tragic fate of this unknown girl, Knox sets out to save her; a task which involves the rescue also of Eloise Beaucaire, the judge’s real daughter.
“As is usual in Mr Parrish’s novels, the detail is conscientiously sketched, giving a vivid impression of the political and racial conditions in ‘Missury’ in 1832.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 N 28 ‘17 350w
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w
“The story is tedious in the telling, despite the fact that it brims with exciting adventures and dreadful experiences. Its most interesting feature is the description of the hidden trail whereby slaves escaped to freedom in the days before the war.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:518 D 2 ‘17 300w
“Tales of frontier and pioneer days will probably never lose their flavor with native Americans. The period was so dramatic a one in the history of the United States that it requires very little departure from established facts to make a story that stirs the imagination and arouses the liveliest interest from its first to last chapter.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 370w
=PARRY, THOMAS WOOD.= When Daddy was a boy. il *$1.25 (2½c) Little
A series of stories told by a father to his little son. They are sketches of boyhood on a Kentucky farm. Many of them are stories about animals. In others a black mammy and little negro playmates are introduced. One is a negro folk tale, included as typical of the many told to the author as a child.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:495 D ‘17 100w
“The fact that Daddy lived in a Kentucky home adds a delicious flavor. The book is well illustrated.”
+ =Ind= 92:446 D 1 ‘17 30w
“Every one will like ‘When Daddy was a boy.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 120w
“The incidents are such as a child likes to hear, and the negroes are well portrayed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 80w
=PARSONS, CARL COPELAND.= Office organization and management. (Business administration, section 18) il $2.50 La Salle extension univ. 658 17-8877
The author’s aim has been to supply a broad view of all phases of office management. The work is based on observation of the principles employed in such offices as those of the National cloak and suit company, Sherwin-Williams company, National cash register company, and others. The author, who is now manager of the Shaw-Walker company of New York, was formerly lecturer in business administration at the University of Michigan. Contents; Organization; Laying out the office; Office employees; Office training; Rules and regulations; Discipline; Methods of payment; Promotions; Increasing efficiency; Suggestions and ideas; Esprit de corps; Vacations; Encouragement of savings; Making employees stockholders; Pension systems; Machinery of the office; etc. The volume is provided with various forms by way of illustration, is fully indexed, and made more useful as a text by the inclusion of test questions for students.
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 90w
“By introducing many extracts from the manuals of business houses and by concerning himself entirely with the most practical problems of modern business, Carl C. Parsons makes his ‘Office organization and management’ a valuable piece of work. These things also make an intentionally technical work vastly more interesting than a purely theoretical discussion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 3 ‘17 150w
=PARTRIDGE, EDWARD BELLAMY.= Sube Cane. il *$1.35 Penn 17-13316
“The ten-years-old hero of ‘Sube Cane’ enjoys a series of adventures which Edward Bellamy Partridge relates for grown-ups. Sube’s escapades are very like those engaged in by other mischievous boys who have broken into fiction.” (Springf’d Republican) “‘Sube’ is ‘all boy.’ His is the ingenuity and ingenuousness of adolescence and those who have a furtive sympathy with the innate genius for mischief which characterizes youth will find a humor which does not tax their credulity or patience.” (Dial)
=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17
“An authentic story of boyhood.”
+ =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 110w
“The book is something on the ‘Penrod’ order; not perhaps so gifted with real humor, but certainly full of fun and comic incidents.”
+ =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 50w
“Sube is either less inventive, or the author sees him with a less humorous eye than Mr Tarkington’s, for his adventures arouse comparatively few smiles. But in spite of that, he is natural, and has little of the offensive precociousness often lavished upon boys whose
## activities form the basis of such a story.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 100w
=PATERNOSTER, GEORGE SIDNEY.= Great gift. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-28803
To Hugh Standish has come the crowning honor of his career. At forty-six he is to enter the British cabinet. But it is at this moment that he begins to realize the emptiness of his life. Love, home, family affection for the first time seem to him desirable. In Olive Ingstrom, a girl of twenty, he believes that he has found the fulfilment of his new ideal, and for a time he deludes himself, mistaking her respect and youthful admiration for love. Fortunately he comes to see the truth before two young lives have been blighted. The war menace is gathering at the story’s close, promising to Hugh new
## activities and opportunities for service.
“The business ethics of the hero, and his attitude to life generally, will not appeal to those whose outlook is more spiritual, but the fact that he recognized that he had missed the best in life ... will cause them to close the book with feelings of sympathy dominating those of criticism.”
+ — =Ath= p471 S ‘17 90w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 360w
“The book offers one of those English half-and-half politics and society novels for which Mrs Humphry Ward long ago set the standard. But Mr Paternoster does not follow Mrs Ward’s pattern. He has his own pattern, which is simpler than hers and has fewer of the trimmings of sentiment.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 300w
“The hero is just a little too successful to be realistic. ... It is in the last third of the book, when war is about to break out ... that the novelist begins to show his power.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:90 Ag 4 ‘17 330w
=PATERSON, MRS ISABEL.= Magpie’s nest. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-9810
The author is a young Canadian novelist and this is the second book in which she pictures life in the big Canadian northwest. Hope Fielding, born on the prairies, demands that life give her happiness, and because she does not find it near at hand, she goes far in search of it. But the French have a saying that happiness is to be found in a magpie’s nest; because the magpie always builds out of reach. It is only when Hope has given up looking for it, that happiness overtakes her. One of the new and growing cities of Alberta is the scene of the greater part of the story, but at one time Hope’s quest takes her to Seattle, at another to New York.
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 330w
“Isabel Paterson’s heroine reminds one of Owen Johnson’s ‘Salamander,’ a fact which will doubtless recommend the book to many.”
— =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 90w
“As in Mrs Paterson’s former novel, ‘The shadow riders,’ the scene of a part of the story is in the Canadian northwest, the descriptions of which are fresh and vivid. The book is remarkably well written, and holds the reader’s interest in spite of its reprehensible characters and very unpleasant situations.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:137 Ap 15 ‘17 320w
+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w
“The latter part of the story is in obedience to the conventional requirement of a happy ending and is quite ordinary work. But the first two-thirds ring absolutely true, built from the storied memories of tense, full, eager, devouring youth. The vitality, the wonder, and the hope of immaturity are poured out for us.” M. A. Hopkins
+ — =Pub W= 91:1320 Ap 21 ‘17 430w
“It shows a great advance on Miss Paterson’s previous novel ‘The shadow riders’; and, moreover, it is by no means devoid of humour.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 230w
=PATRI, ANGELO.= Schoolmaster of the great city. *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 371 17-13273
A piece of autobiography and a study of educational conditions as they exist in New York city today. The author came to America from Italy when a boy. He was eleven years old when he entered an American school, and ten years later, having been sent thru college by a father who earned two dollars a day, he came back to the city schools as a teacher. In time, after another interval spent in study, he passed on to a principalship. In this book he writes of his association with the schools, as pupil, as teacher and as principal. He shows how the humanizing touch has made itself felt in spite of the big unwieldy educational system and how school has been linked with community as the first step toward making a new and a better America.
“As interesting to the parent as to the teacher.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 80w
“Mr Patri’s honest and unpretentious book contains both wisdom and inspiration for every teacher and every parent, everywhere.” Clyde Furst
+ =Educ R= 54:516 D ‘17 1000w
“The author knows how to tell a story and when he has told it his point needs no further enforcing. The issues which are so sacred to the old education seem trivial in the face of the realities of present day requirements.”
+ =Ind= 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 200w
“It has the rare gift of unfolding, without consciousness, the real character of an uncommon man.”
+ =Nation= 104:738 Je 21 ‘17 470w
“The simple anecdotes introduce you to real people. That is what makes the book interesting reading, even if you are not concerned with schools and with children. This is a human document, not a pedagogical treatise.” B. C. G.
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 27 ‘17 800w
“Mr Patri’s vision of what the public school should be and should do in American life, in city and country, in rich neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods alike, is an inspiring and an aspiring vision.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 480w
“His book has in it entertainment and valuable suggestions also.”
+ =Outlook= 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 20w
=Pittsburgh= 22:692 O ‘17 90w
“Patri’s book has been compared to Jacob Riis’s portrayal of the lives of the common people in ‘How the other half lives.’ Like Riis, he sees the flaws of our social and educational systems more clearly because of his foreign birth. ... His work has been done in New York, but his experiments are of interest in all American cities. ... Mr Patri was given the principalship of school no. 45, in the Bronx, and he has made it into a model Gary school—one that is a real community center.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:73 Jl ‘17 2350w
“There is no theorizing or dogmatizing. You see the children and the mothers and the homes with his own eyes. You unravel the snarls and tangles with him. You marvel that the despised craft of teaching could be so dramatic, could call for such skill and talent. Schoolmasters like Mr Patri would make teaching the most important of professions, and education the finest of the arts.” Randolph Bourne
+ =Survey= 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 650w
=PATTERSON, AUSTIN MCDOWELL.= German-English dictionary for chemists. *$2 Wiley 540.3 17-6769
“The scope of the book is broader than the title would seem to indicate. It gives English meanings, not only of German words occurring in the literature of general and industrial chemistry, but includes words used in scientific and technical literature generally, as well as a good general German vocabulary.”—Quar List New Tech Bks
“Dr Patterson has filled what has long been an irritating lacuna in the average chemist’s library. ... The book should be eagerly welcomed by the steadily increasing number of young chemists in England and America and by those who, even if they have already a good working knowledge of the language, are occasionally at fault. The book is clearly printed, the German being in roman type.”
+ =Nature= 100:144 O 25 ‘17 220w
“‘The need of a book of this kind has been keenly felt by all scientific men.’”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 190w (Reprinted from India Rubber World My 1 ‘17)
“Dr Patterson has performed a public service in the compilation. ... His extended experience as editor of Chemical Abstracts has given him exceptional qualifications for such an undertaking and the work shows the same painstaking care which characterized his successful work as editor. ... The printing is good, the covers are flexible, and the size is suited to the coat pocket.” C: H. Herty
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:462 My ‘17 60w (Reprinted from Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry p422 Ap 1 ‘17)
“Includes valuable suggestions on nomenclature.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:835 D ‘17 20w
+ =Pratt= p14 Jl ‘17 20w
“Very useful to anyone who has occasion to read German scientific or technical books and periodicals.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 70w
“Since its appearance in January it has been in constant use in the office of ‘Chemical Abstracts,’ where translating work involving every phase of theoretical and applied chemistry is done and it has stood this test of completeness in such a way as to justify the confidence with which it is used.” E. J. Crane
+ =Science= n s 46:414 O 26 ‘17 510w
=PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.= Religious education of an American citizen. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 204 17-20853
This book is “an attempt by the emeritus professor of Christian morals at Harvard to analyze the various influences which direct and go to make up the religious training of the average American.” (Springf’d Republican)