Chapter 1

gives “a short sketch of the man and his career.” Succeeding chapters on Socialism, Jaurès and the Dreyfus case, Socialist methods, “The new army,” and International peace, while giving Jaurès’s views and actions, necessarily also contribute much to the history of French socialism.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17

Reviewed by H. A. Yeomans

=Am Pol Sci R= 12:154 F ‘18 170w

“This book is cursorily written and, though laudatory, is far from making out the ‘greatness’ of its hero. As is to be expected, many hoary old calumnies are brought forward against Catholicism. Yet in reality it is not Catholicism which Mrs Pease so bitterly attacks, but something quite other, that ancient and fanciful monster we had long since thought deceased, ‘the Romish church.’ That the authoress resurrects the word is sufficient comment on the intellectual quality of her book.”

— =Cath World= 106:395 D ‘17 520w

“Of particular interest at present is the discussion of the opinions of Jaurès on military policy.”

+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 80w + =R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 70w

“The French accused Jaurès, more particularly in his later years, of pro-German sympathies. ‘M. Jaurès, c’est l’Allemagne,’ wrote M. Charles Maurras about a fortnight before the war; and it has not unnaturally been assumed that this was the charge which loaded the pistol of the assassin. His firm article of faith was that the German ‘comrades’ did not want war, and that war might be prevented by the open-hearted appeal of a French socialist whom they trusted. ... Mrs Pease’s volume will help readers to understand his place in recent history, though her exposition of his ideas is more enthusiastic than critical.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p497 O 19 ‘16 870w

=PEASE, THEODORE CALVIN.= Leveller movement; a study in the history and political theory of the English great civil war. (Prize essays, 1915) $1.50 Am. hist. assn. 942.06 17-9688

“Dr Pease, of Illinois university, has made a careful study of the Leveller movement led by John Lilburne during the civil war. He emphasizes the Levellers’ demand for a supreme law which neither king nor Parliament could override, because in this respect they anticipated the founders of the American constitution. Dr Pease is unusually sympathetic towards Lilburne, though he does not vouch for the honesty of that clever but unattractive man, and sees that if the Levellers had shattered the discipline of the army Charles II would have come back in 1649 and crushed Presbyterians, Independents, and Levellers alike.”—Spec

“It is unfortunate that space limitations prevented the inclusion of the bibliography in full, for which many students of the period would have been very grateful. Finally, Mr Pease is quite right in his admission that his study is ‘avowedly sympathetic.’ Whatever the admirable qualities of Lilburne and his fellow-Levellers, however glad one may be that such doctrines as they advocated found voice, it still remains a question whether, in their own day, they helped or hindered real progress. It is to be hoped that Mr Pease will add to his excellent study a supplementary treatise on their relations to every-day affairs, apart from the realm of political theory. For such a study no one is so well qualified.” W. C. Abbott

+ =Am Hist R= 22:900 Jl ‘17 550w

“A very solid and valuable contribution to history and political science, and much the most detailed and thorough study we have of the political theory of probably the most interesting group in a most momentous period.” C. H. McIlwain

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:584 Ag ‘17 600w

“Reveals research work of value and importance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 9 ‘17 300w

“The book is written with strict attention to the rules of sound historical workmanship and embodies the result of patient research in materials of unquestioned trustworthiness.”

+ =Nation= 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 220w

+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 130w

“Mr Pease includes in the volume a bibliography as painstaking and thorough as his text.”

* + =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 4200w

“This book, which won the Herbert Baxter Adams prize in European history in 1915, appears at a fortunate, or at least an appropriate, moment. It tells of a struggle between Moderates and Extremists in the course of a great revolution, and, though it would be very difficult to construct an historical parallel between events in England from 1647 to 1649 and events in Russia in 1917, there is a certain element of similarity in the applications of enthusiastic idealism to new conditions.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 My 24 ‘17 1800w

=PEAT, HAROLD R.=[2] Private Peat. il *$1.50 (3c) Bobbs 940.91 17-29848

Private Peat is a Canadian soldier who experienced the whole gamut of war sensations from the thrill of enlistment to the loss of consciousness “out there” when he lay in the open two nights and a day before the stretcher bearers found him. His narrative is full of the grimness and humor of life in the trenches and behind the lines. But most of all he shows the soldier’s clear quality of courage to live because he must through an inferno of destruction and death, of murder and horror. Romance is a part of the story. The last chapter is written by the girl herself—a free lance of Fleet street—whose advertisement concerning a lost cousin was the beginning of a hospital acquaintance with the disabled private which ended in marriage after his return to Canada for discharge. The writer is on a successful lecture tour in America now.

“It is for the most part more serious than ‘Over the top,’ yet it also reflects the indomitable humor of the ‘Tommy’ and it is entertainingly written.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18

“He gives a colorful, varied picture of life at the front in all its aspects.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:546 D 9 ‘17 830w

“If a person has ever felt a strong desire to talk with one of the boys who has been in the thick of it on the western front, let him get ‘Private Peat.’” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 92:2025 D 8 ‘17 290w

=PEATTIE, ELIA (WILKINSON) (MRS ROBERT BURNS PEATTIE).= Newcomers. il *$1.25 (4c) Houghton 17-24275

This story for older girls has appeared as a serial in the Youth’s Companion. The Wardells come to Dalroy, Illinois, as strangers. Robert Wardell has been offered his first position as an engineer on the dam which is to be built on the Rock river. His mother and two sisters accompany him. Dalroy is a sorry enough looking town at first sight, but, resolved to make the best of it, the Wardells enter wholeheartedly into its life. The tact and sympathy of the mother and the kindness and high spirits of the young people make friends for them all and several blighted lives—like that of the old school teacher who has lost his position, and of the girl who is paying for her mother’s failings—are set in happier lines by their companionship. The touch of love interest blends unobtrusively into the narrative.

“A pleasant story.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18

“A good love story for girls, lively, entertaining and with frequent touches of keen humor.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w

=Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 70w

=PEDDIE, ROBERT ALEXANDER.= Outline of the history of printing. 2s 6d Grafton & co., London 655.1

The author is Cantor lecturer on the history of printing and librarian of the St Bride typographical library. This volume is a revised and enlarged edition of lectures delivered before the Royal society of arts in 1914. The first six chapters take up the history of printing by centuries, two chapters being given to The nineteenth century and after. Six chapters on the history of printing in colors follow.

“Mr Peddie’s volume—it reaches scarcely more than fifty pages—contains much in little about the printer and printing.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ‘17 820w

=PEIXOTTO, ERNEST CLIFFORD.= Revolutionary pilgrimage. il *$2.50 Scribner 973.3 17-28097

“To the many American people who never visit or think of their historic places this volume will be a picturesque lesson in American history. Starting in Boston, we are shown by pen and picture the important buildings and places connected with the War of the revolution. From Boston we are taken over pleasant roads to Lexington and Concord, then to Lake Champlain, Saratoga, New York, New Jersey, the Carolinas, Virginia and Washington. One of the features of the

## book is that Mr Peixotto, by letter and document, lets many of the

noted characters tell their own story. Paul Revere, Ethan Allen, and Major André all recount their own adventures. ... The illustrations are in black and white from Mr Piexotto’s own hand.”—Boston Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 D 1 ‘17 130w

“Will appeal to all patriotic Americans, especially those contemplating a motor trip a little out of the ordinary.”

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w

+ =Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 40w

=PELLETT, FRANK CHAPMAN.= Our backdoor neighbors. il *$1.50 Abingdon press 590 17-30148

“These backdoor neighbors are the red tails and cooper hawks with a taste for chicken meat; ‘Foxy’ Squirrel, who likes any kind of table dainties; the screech owls, partial to mice; ... and many other little creatures not always received in polite society. ... The Naturalist, as Mr Pellett designates himself, lives in a modest Iowa farmhouse among surroundings which he has left ‘uncultivated’ to a degree deplored by his human neighbors. ... His story proves that he has had unlimited enjoyment from association with his backdoor neighbors. Quite regardless of propriety he pries into their most intimate and private affairs.”—Pub W

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:191 D ‘17 40w

“They will appeal to those who are either afraid of the over-technical ‘nature book’ or are skeptical of ‘nature faking.’ There is no trace of the latter in ‘Backdoor neighbors.’ It radiates sincerity nor is there any nauseating sentimentality.” R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 92:1385 O 20 ‘17 420w

“The stories are told in a way to hold the reader’s attention, and at the same time furnish facts of value.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 60w

=PENNELL, ELIZABETH (ROBINS) (MRS JOSEPH PENNELL) (N. N., pseud.).= Lovers. *$1 Lippincott (Eng ed 17-26658)

“Like ‘Our house’ and ‘Nights,’ ‘The lovers’ is largely autobiographical, and like them it is written in Mrs Pennell’s own intimate manner that brings to its pages all the graces and imagination of fiction. Its action takes its beginning just outside the windows of Mrs Pennell’s own home in the heart of London, and although it carries us to the battlefields of France, her own part in the story and her commentary upon it adds to its persistent flavor of romance, and gives it a distinctive atmosphere of reality. ... As long ago as June, 1911, there appeared in the Century a short story by Mrs Pennell called ‘Les amoureux.’ It now forms, under title of ‘In the garret,’ the first chapter of the four chapters that make up ‘The lovers,’ for what Mrs Pennell thought was a complete story was merely its beginning.”—Boston Transcript

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

“One of the few enduring books that have come or that are to come out of the great conflict.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 1550w

“One of the few bits of real literature dealing with the war.”

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 50w

“‘The lovers’ is a book to bring the huge, wasteful tragedy of war strongly home to its readers.”

+ =Dial= 63:165 Ag 30 ‘17 420w

+ =Nation= 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 200w

“Because it is so simple, so tender, so human, so true, so absolutely of the stuff of life in wartime days, Mrs Pennell’s little tale deserves wide reading. The mere story of the story is a romance in itself.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:231 Je 17 ‘17 600w

=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 40w

+ =St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 30w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 My 5 ‘17 120w

“Among the best descriptions known to us of life under training in England and of certain sides of life at the front. Harold Chapin’s are not so vivid, so perceptive, nor so thoughtful. And the consolation is the ‘splendidness’ of this artist, lover, mystic, who could keep the flame of his spirit burning through all the drudgery, horror, and filth in which he had chosen gallantly to pass his days for his soul’s sake. Mrs Pennell has done her work with fine judgment.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p232 My 17 ‘17 530w

=PENNELL, JOSEPH.= Joseph Pennell’s pictures of war work in England; with an introd. by H. G. Wells. il *$1.50 Lippincott 940.91 17-26395

“Reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of munitions works, made by Mr Pennell with the permission of the British government, and accompanied by notes by the artist.” (Ath) “The drawings, etchings, and lithographs describe the activity of workshops, furnaces, forges, mine shafts, cranes, in time of war. The book really represents an apotheosis of machinery. Mere man is at a discount. When he does appear in these pages, he is but an elusive, fleeting figure.” (Outlook)

=A L A Bkl= 13:388 Je ‘17

+ =Ath= p54 Ja ‘17 50w

“These pictures are splendid, they are noble, they are victorious, they are inspired. The balance of light and shade, the sureness of the drawing, the keenness of observation betrayed by hundreds of valid details that have their due effect, make this book one of the most valuable documents of the great war.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 380w

=Cleveland= p97 Jl ‘17 60w

“That is his interpretation of the present war—a battle of the mechanical genii which have been evolved by human ingenuity, now become our masters—and destroyers. This interpretation is borne out by the brusque words commenting upon each drawing. There is much in this volume which it would be well for every American to ponder.”

+ =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 200w

“There are fifty-one full-page reproductions of Mr Pennell’s sketches, and for each the briefest of descriptions in choice and impressive language, sometimes tinged with laughter, oftener with tears. Every picture accents the terrible grimness of war.”

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 8 ‘17 190w

“Mr Pennell has had exceptional facilities afforded him for obtaining these pictures. No such opportunity is available to the ordinary citizen, and next to the privilege of actually visiting the works themselves, no more effective means are available for obtaining a clear and vivid idea of all that is meant by the manufacture of munitions of war than that provided in this most interesting collection of drawings.” W. Ripper

+ =Nature= 98:385 Ja 18 ‘17 250w

“Something of that strange anthropomorphic life with which Hardy can imbue even an ordinary cross-road, over which dead autumn leaves are swirling as if caressingly Mr Pennell lets be conveyed through his sketches of these new and tireless industrial giants.”

+ =New Repub= 12:141 S 1 ‘17 330w

“Pennell’s book is one of the most valuable contributions to the literature of the present war, inasmuch as he gets closer to the truth than the writers of most of the nationalist publications with which the market is flooded.” L. G.

+ =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 430w

“That these industrial subjects should be identified with a world war is not an inspiration to him, for he puts himself on record as not believing in war.”

=N Y Times= 22:252 Jl 1 ‘17 200w

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w

+ =R of Rs= 55:548 My ‘17 120w

“Mr Pennell works with such facility and industry that his drawings are open to the charge of superficiality. There is a sameness of emphasis and diffuseness of treatment which would not perhaps be observable in a smaller number of works.”

=Spec= 118:644 Je 9 ‘17 170w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p8 Ja 4 ‘17 680w

=PENNY, FANNY EMILY (FARR) (MRS FRANK PENNY).= Love tangle. *$1.50 Dutton

A novel the scene of which is laid in southern India. “The wide divergence of oriental and English ideals in general is emphasized here in two particulars: in ethics the problem of a police official’s duty when one of his kinsmen is a prisoner; and in marriage the impossibility of courtship under the existing native etiquet, and the hazards of interracial unions. The story involves three couples, two English sisters, a judge and a soldier, and two young Indians educated in England and moving in the same set with the others, but oriental at heart.” (Springf’d Republican)

“The author of ‘A love tangle’ has written many romances of Anglo-Indian life. ... This one is a piece of amiable, feminine writing, relieved, for the occidental reader, by freshness of setting and motive.”

+ — =Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 550w

+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 260w

=PERKINS, LUCY FITCH (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).=[2] Belgian twins. il *$1.25 (5½c) Houghton 17-29863

The author has made Belgium in the early days of the war the scene of her latest “twin” book. In the end Jan and Marie, the Belgian twins, find a haven in New York. The author says that the story is based on the actual experience of two children.

“Mrs Perkins has done well to introduce into the nursery some account of Belgian atrocities, not so gruesome that they will frighten the young reader, but sufficiently strong to leave a proper feeling in the minds of boys and girls regarding the unpardonable attack on a smaller country.”

+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 70w

“One reads real war history in the many things that happen to them. The author has made the most delightful sketches to illustrate the book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 60w

+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 60w

=PERRY, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Community center activities. (Dept. of recreation) *35c Russell Sage foundation 371.6 17-1504

A handbook for community center directors. Its purpose is “to suggest

## activities for after-school occasions and to indicate sources of

information about them.” The material in the main body of the book is arranged under such headings as: Civic occasions; Educational occasions; Entertainments; Handicrafts; Mental contests; Neighborhood service; Physical activities; etc. Preceding this is a classified index in which the various activities suitable for stated spaces, assembly room, kindergarten, gymnasium, etc., are grouped together. At the close a number of sample programs are given.

“A suggestive handbook for parent-teacher associations.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:333 My ‘17

“The material is unusually well organized in this report, and the

## activities and suggested literature so arranged that the reader can

quickly find the desired information.”

+ =El School J= 17:532 Mr ‘17 220w

“Should be of constant aid to social workers, teachers and others engaged in community organization.”

+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 60w

“Probably the greatest obstacle to the rapid development of social centers is a lack of leaders who know how to make them go. The Department of recreation of the Russell Sage foundation has offered one big means of equipping workers in public-school social centers in this little service-manual and reference book of something over 100 pages.” R. N. Baldwin

+ =Survey= 38:175 My 19 ‘17 200w

=PERRY, L. DAY.= Seat weaving. il $1 Manual arts press 689 17-13349

An elementary text-book for manual training classes, fully illustrated, which explains the processes of weaving cane, rush, reed or splint seats for chairs and stools. The author is supervisor of manual training in Joliet, Illinois.

=A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:106 Jl ‘17

“The clearly written directions are supplemented by seventy excellent photographs and line drawings.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p20 Jl ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p27 O ‘17 10w

“Would also be a satisfactory guide to amateurs interested in this kind of work.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 50w

=PETERSON, ARTHUR.= Andvari’s ring. *$1.25 Putnam 811 16-25216

The story of Sigurd retold in blank verse. The narrative is marked by a few innovations. Sigurd is pictured as a Norse rover by sea as well as by land. The action is placed near the middle of the fifth century, and into the second part of the narrative, after the death of Sigurd, Attila the Hun is introduced.

“An old-fashioned poem well worth reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ‘17 380w

=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17 10w

=PETERSON, ARTHUR EVERETT, and EDWARDS, GEORGE WILLIAM.=[2] New York as an eighteenth century municipality. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) *$5 Longmans 352

“If it is well for the office boy turned bank president to remember his obscure beginnings, so it may be well for a community. New York is reminded in these two monographs that once ‘ye cytie’ found it necessary to proclaim that ‘every seaventh house in the darke time of the moon should cause a lanthorne and candle to be hung out on a pole every night,’ One reads of a municipal budget of $3,000 and a police department of eight men.” (New Repub) “Part 1 of the volume, prepared by Mr Peterson, carries the study up to 1731; Mr Edwards deals with the period running from 1731 to 1776.” (N Y Times)

“All the germs of municipal institutions are here competently examined and arranged, with not a little spice of humor in the selection of quotations.”

+ =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 120w

=N Y Times= 23:21 Ja 20 ‘18 60w

“These minute and comprehensive accounts of the beginnings of a vast city might be called studies in evolution, so strikingly do they show how the municipal oak has grown from a tiny acorn. They will prove invaluable to students, but also entertaining to the general reader.”

+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 70w

=PETERSSON, C. E. W.= How to do business with Russia; with notes and additional chapters by W. Barnes Steveni. *$2.25 Pitman 382 17-28940

“This volume contains a summary of the experience and business methods of Mr C. E. W. Petersson, a merchant of Petrograd and Riga, who for many years successfully carried on a large trade in machinery and kindred goods with various Russian towns.” (Preface) The translator, W. Barnes Steveni, who has himself written several books on Russia, states that he has made “such additions and alterations as may cause the book to be of more value to British and American readers.” He says also, that while the Russian revolution will “modify considerably some of the questions dealt with in this work,” because the towns will change quickly, the “real Russia, which is mainly agricultural and pastoral, will alter but slowly” and therefore the hints of information here given will always be of value. Part 1 deals with “Russia as a field for business enterprise,” while part 2 gives “Hints and advice to business men dealing with Russia.” An appendix gives “Consular information and postal regulations.” The foreword is by Charles E. Musgrave, secretary to the London chamber of commerce. There is a map of Russia, but no index.

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p286 Je 14 ‘17 60w

=PETHERBRIDGE, F. R.= Fungoid and insect pests of the farm. (Cambridge farm institute) il *$1.25 Putnam 632 Agr16-1262

“The author tells us this book has been written for those who wish to acquire some practical knowledge of farm and garden pests. It naturally does not aim at dealing with all the numerous enemies which affect crops, but rather at giving an accurate account of some of the commoner forms.”—Nature

“It is a pity a great many more of the common pests were not included, especially amongst the arthropods, for then it would have been of very considerably greater value. The accounts also of many of the pests treated in the book are far too short to be really helpful.”

+ — =Nature= 99:144 Ap 19 ‘17 300w

“This little book is well printed and well illustrated but is not extensive enough as to the number of diseases and pests discussed to justify the title. It can hardly serve as a very general reference for farmers and market gardeners as the authors have hoped. ... As a short reading text or bulletin to familiarize the public with mycological methods and to indicate possible remedial measures for control of a few pests, it contains interesting matter. ... No mention is made of any diseases of small fruits or of orchard and shade trees and but slight attention is given to the commonest garden crops.” H. L. Bolley

+ — =Science= n s 45:191 F 23 ‘17 370w

=PFISTER, OSKAR ROBERT.= Psychoanalytic method; auth. tr. by Dr C: Rockwell Payne. il *$4 Moffat 130 17-4346

“Dr Pfister is a pastor and seminary teacher in Zurich and a disciple of Freud. His book includes the definition and history of psychoanalysis, discussions of its theory and technique, and reports of what he has accomplished by its use in cases of neurotic students. ... The conclusion gives summarized examples of the practical benefits of psychoanalysis and what education has to expect from it. ... There are introductions by Sigmund Freud and G. Stanley Hall.”—N Y Times

“Pfister’s book is designed to equip educators with the knowledge necessary to enable them to carry on psychoanalytic treatment of subnormal pupils as well as to foresee and prevent later abnormalities, the causes of which are operative, even in the earlier years, and may be detected only by means of the psychoanalytic technique. ... It is almost the only one that has a practical application to human problems outside of therapeutic ones. ... A part of Pfister’s treatise points out the applications of the Freudian theory to literature, art and religion ... and shows how the creative artist, is saved from his art by being a neurotic.” Wilfrid Lay

=Bookm= 45:199 Ap ‘17 840w

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 530w

“A very technical presentation of psychoanalysis, used by Dr G. Stanley Hall as a textbook for his classes. The author’s method is to make a brief statement followed by a description of cases which illustrate his point.”

=Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 40w

“The book, while nowhere rising to the brilliance of some of the Freudian writings themselves, is probably the most careful and inclusive presentation yet published in English of the results attained and the theories elaborated by Freud and his followers. It excels in this respect such works as Brill’s ‘Psychanalysis’ and Hitschmann’s ‘Freud’s theories of the neuroses.’ Unfortunately, Dr Payne’s translation can claim only a moderate measure of success. The over-literalness of the renderings has given numerous passages an irksome awkwardness and, occasionally, obscurity. One needs sometimes to translate back to the German to arrive at the intended nuance of meaning.” E: Sapir

+ =Dial= 63:267 S 27 ‘17 2000w

“The 588 pages of this book show what has actually been done through this psychological method. They contain most inspiring suggestions for the physician, theologian, and the pedagogue. Dr Pfister has made a comprehensive study of all the analytic methods which have been developed from Freud’s original theories, and any one reading his work will get a fair idea of the whole stretch of this rapidly growing field of psycho-therapeutics.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:325 S 2 ‘17 320w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 150w

=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, comp. Selected articles on the income tax; with special reference to graduation and exemption. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 3d and enl ed *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 336.2 17-27760

For this third edition of the Debater’s handbook on income tax all the material of the second edition has been retained and the volume has been brought up to date by the addition of new articles and references. As the preface states, the new edition is timely, in view of pending legislation for an increased income tax as part of the war revenue bill. Two features of the proposed law, the graduation of the tax and the exemption of incomes under a certain amount have been given special attention. Material is also provided covering recent state legislation.

=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, ed. University debaters’ annual. *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 808.5

Volume three of the University debaters’ annual contains the constructive and rebuttal speeches delivered in the intercollegiate debates of the following colleges and universities: Iowa, Ohio state, Coe, Oberlin, Western Reserve, Columbia and Chicago. The subjects debated are: Government ownership of railroads; Universal military service; Compulsory arbitration of railroad labor disputes; Chinese and Japanese immigration; Compulsory arbitration; Progressive inheritance tax. For each subject a brief and bibliography are provided. The book follows volumes one and two, edited by E. C. Mabie.

=A L A Bkl= 14:152 F ‘18

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:14 Ja ‘18 20w

=PHILLIPPS, LISLE MARCH.= Europe unbound. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner 940.9 17-4205

Mr Phillipps is author of “Form and colour,” and other works on art. In the collection of essays in this book, he examines some of the fundamental causes of the war and the ideals that support the different fighting nations. He says, “My purpose has been to deal, however inadequately, not with the outward circumstances or immediate causes of the war, but with what I cannot help thinking are its real causes. I mean those slowly developing, intensely hostile, eternally incompatible philosophies of life of which the two opposing groups of the free and unfree nations of Europe are to-day the representatives.” Contents: Ideals of the war; Liberty; Liberty and Christianity; The Prussian ideal; The British empire; Empires past and present; The influence of France; Modern liberalism; Modern conservatism; The future.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:347 My ‘17

“A book which shows more insight into the deeper issues of the war than any other, except Baron von Hügel’s ‘The German soul,’ that has appeared in England since 1914.”

+ =Ath= p143 Mr ‘17 1700w

=Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 27 ‘17 250w

“Contains an impressive revelation of what the English masses are thinking.”

+ =Ind= 90:382 My 26 ‘17 70w

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:535 Jl ‘17 280w

“Where I think Mr Phillipps is profoundly right is in his vigorous insistence on the authoritarian character of the German state and its dangers to the liberty of Europe. We badly need a book that would point out exactly what principles are involved in the exercise of political authority.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 12:195 S 15 ‘17 1850w

“It is characteristic—inevitable—that he should have studied the war as he has studied art and politics—as the expression of the great spiritual forces in the life of men and nations. ... On the need in England for realization, for clear thinking, for wise speech, and for democratic growth Mr Phillipps insists throughout his book. The volume as a whole is, in its study of ideals and ambitions, of pertinent interest to American students of the war.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:27 Ja 28 ‘17 1000w

“We commend the book especially to clergymen and teachers of the young.”

+ =Outlook= 116:161 My 23 ‘17 100w

=Pratt= p41 O ‘17 50w

“His conception and his presentation of the idea of liberty are noble and inspiring. ... He is a democrat who really trusts the people. ... However much readers may disagree with many of the author’s points of view, they would be dull of soul if they did not find these essays stimulating and purifying in a high degree.”

+ =Spec= 118:74 Ja 20 ‘17 3000w

“No part of his book will be read with more interest, and none is more valuable, than the frank criticism to which he submits not only the modern Conservative but also the modern Liberal party. Speaking as one who has done his part as a Liberal candidate for Parliament, he has the courage to say what innumerable men of all parties have thought.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p567 N 30 ‘16 1950w

=PHILLIPS, CHESTER ARTHUR.= Readings in money and banking. il *$2.10 Macmillan 332 16-19082

“Instead of taking a large number of selections merely illustrative of the principles involved and setting them down individually, Professor Phillips chose from different writers what seemed to him the best available discussions of the principles themselves, and these discussions with correlative descriptive matter he wove together into approximately complete chapters. Hence ... the book leaves the impression of an organized treatise.”—Am Econ R

“The reviewer believes that for class-room purposes the two books [Moulton: ‘Principles of money and banking’ and Phillips: ‘Readings in money and banking’] can be used with advantage to supplement each other. Outside of the class-room both would have to be used in connection with a good text.” E. E. Agger

+ =Am Econ R= 6:924 D ‘16 160w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:333 My ‘17

“The chapters on the foreign banking systems are very opportune.” T: Conway, jr.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:227 My ‘17 120w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:172 N ‘16

=Pittsburgh= 21:591 D ‘16

+ =Pol Sci Q= 31:650 D ‘16 60w

+ =R of Rs= 55:221 F ‘17 20w

=PHILLIPS, DAVID GRAHAM.= Susan Lenox, her fall and rise. 2v il *$2.50 (1c) Appleton 17-6327

This two-volume novel is a study of prostitution and of a woman who rose to success after enduring degradation in all of its forms. Susan, an illegitimate child, grows up in the home of an uncle in a middle-western town. Denied a normal life by the stain of her birth, she is thrown out into the world at the age of seventeen. Economic pressure forces her on to the streets. She makes several efforts later to earn a living in legitimate ways, but always comes back to the one profession that seems to offer satisfactory compensation. In the end, thru the aid of a distinguished playwright, she wins success as an actress.

“That Mr Phillips was sincere, I do not doubt, but that he had any intimate knowledge of the life of the young girls who fill our factories and our shops, I do not for a moment believe. ... The conclusion of the story is merely laughable. That a woman so sodden with vice, so soaked with whisky and at last with opium, should escape all its physical penalties, and, without previous apprenticeship, become, almost in a day, a famous actress, contradicts every human experience.” J. T. Gerould

— =Bellman= 22:385 Ap 7 ‘17 650w

“Based on uncompromising fact, stamped with an individuality that was in itself a hallmark of distinction, and illumined by an almost incomparable art, this story is invested with a significance that makes it a thing apart. ... Susan Lenox is more than a novel: it has a social, human and economic significance that lifts it to the high places.” I: F. Marcosson

+ =Bookm= 45:26 Mr ‘17 4300w

“Despite the attempts to prejudge Mr Phillips’s posthumous novel by frantic claims as to its high moral purpose and sincerity, it seems impossible for any unbiased reader of fiction to view it otherwise than as an extremely offensive addition to the literature of pornography. ... For Susan Lenox to have remained the acme of physical perfection after undergoing the horrors of the life that she deliberately sought and endured is impossible. Mr Phillips’s story may be realism, but it is certainly not reality.” E. F. E.

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 500w

“There is only one deadly charge to make against this story—it is an epic of feminine courage that required for its plausibility a consistent exaggeration of the difficulties of women in industry and a humorlessly romantic view of prostitution. ... Yet apart from these preposterous exaggerations, natural to a man who had no comedy, Susan Lenox is a story that moved and impressed this reader deeply. ... It is the great fortune of David Graham Phillips, if the enhancement of one’s memory is to be called fortunate, that the one big book he left unpublished was probably the best thing he ever did.” F. H.

=New Repub= 10:167 Mr 10 ‘17 1700w

“He is not merely less selective than Flaubert; he is positively less selective than Arnold Bennett. It is precisely because he tells us so much about everybody that might equally be true of anybody else that his narrative is never intense and sometimes exceedingly dull.”

— =N Y Sun= Ap 8 ‘17 580w

“It would have been much better for Mr Phillips’s reputation and the repute of American letters if it had never been published. ... It is false at its core. ... Susan Lenox is dragged through all the grime and the abominations of the underworld. Mr Phillips spares neither her nor the reader any of its revolting filth.”

— =N Y Times= 22:62 F 25 ‘17 900w

“For Susan had neither social consciousness nor social conscience. ... We are told briefly in the last two chapters that Susan succeeds as an actress. A man dies and leaves her his money and an interest in his plays. She uses the money to produce the plays and becomes a well-known star. Without the money and the influence of the dead man’s name, Susan would have been nothing. She lacked two essentials to success—a conscious and sustained purpose and a capacity for hard work.” M. K. Reely

— =Pub W= 91:588 F 17 ‘17 1000w

“A novel that will excite diverse opinions, but it is sincere, and its frank pictures of degradation are informed with ethical purpose—which is not often the case in such stories.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 550w

=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Banks of Colne (the nursery). *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-13955

This is the fourth of Mr Phillpotts’ series of novels of British industry. A big nursery on the bank of the Colne gives the story its background, and there is some description also of the local oyster fisheries. Men and women more or less connected with these two industries are the characters of the story. They form a loosely-knit group, and so far as the story has plot, it concerns Peter Mistley, a landscape gardener at the gardens, and Aveline Brown, the woman he marries shortly after she has come to the town a stranger. Aveline was not free to marry, but this she does not tell Peter. Her attitude toward marriage is much the same as that of the two wandering vagabonds, William and Emma. She takes what is offered her of happiness and pays the price when the time comes without cringing. The war is in progress at the time, and more than one man of the story is claimed by it; Peter with the rest.

“Not one of Mr Phillpotts’ best works.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17

“It contains one rather interesting character, the vagabond brother of the rich nurseryman and mayor of Colchester, though he, like his grave brother, is a platitudinarian. The style is that of one who has not merely swallowed the dictionary, but also bolted an encyclopædia.”

– + =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 140w

“‘The banks of Colne’ has not the atmosphere of its predecessors. There exists here no such close relation between the people and the soil, between their lives and their labors, as was to be found in ‘Brunel’s tower,’ in ‘Old Delabole’ or in ‘The green alleys.’ ... We do not mean thereby to imply that it is not a vital, a significant, a commanding piece of fiction. It is all these, for it is by Mr Phillpotts’s hand. ... Were all its other elements negligible, and they are not, we might read ‘The banks of Colne’ for joy of its style.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 1650w

“As always, the women are alive and never stupid, however unmoral they may be.”

=Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 370w

“We used to accept him, perhaps, as a chronicler of ‘real life,’ an interpreter of character in the concrete. He is, rather, a teller of tales and a commentator upon human nature.”

=Nation= 105:69 Jl 19 ‘17 430w

“A novel of maturity and even tone.”

+ =New Repub= 12:198 S 15 ‘17 400w

“To us the book is the greatest piece of work Mr Phillpotts has yet written. ... Books like this will help America to understand the England of today in a way difficult to overestimate for its value to both nations.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 770w

+ =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 110w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 550w

“The pacifist Quaker-woman and the young men who enlist are treated with equal sympathy. All through the eventful and moving story, which looks at love from many angles and gives (or rather, perhaps, carefully makes) room for thoughts of many minds on many topics, nothing is condemned but lack of sincerity and lack of faith.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p296 Je 21 ‘17 600w

=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Plain song, 1914-1916. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 (Eng ed A17-1560)

“Through the thought of the poems—there are thirty-eight in the volume—two threads run: the first is abhorrence of what the German government has done, coupled with great pity, charity, a willingness to forgive, a scorn of being revenged upon, the German people; the second is the purpose of democracy in the world.”—N Y Times

“Mr Phillpotts has given us the war—one phase, and another, and still more—in living words.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:371 S 30 ‘17 820w

“The title of this book is the least successful part of it. We can imagine nothing less plain and nothing more unlike song than the poems it contains. They are war pieces garbed in rich, luxuriant phraseology, in which Mr Phillpotts appears less as the poet than the publicist and the preacher, hymning in sonorous lines the praises of the navy, the New army, France, and so on, and scourging the crimes of Germany, and the folly of the pacifists with trenchant rhetoric.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 28 ‘17 70w

=PHOUTRIDES, ARISTIDES EVANGELUS.= Lights at dawn. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811 17-14981

Dr Phoutrides is an instructor in Greek and Latin at Harvard university. “The greater number of the poems were written before the present war. But in those written since, the war note is generally absent. The poem in ballad form, ‘Lord Kitchener,’ is one or the few exceptions.” (Boston Transcript) “The dawn from the west,” with which the volume opens, was written for the “Ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts,” and published under the title of “America, the restorer.” The longest poem in the book “Ktaadn and Morning Dew,” tells the old Indian legend of our Mt. Katahdin.

“Dr Phoutrides writes with a fine scholarliness. Yet the distinct classicism of his verse never halts spontaneity. Many forms are used—the lyric, however, principally. His use of blank verse is especially felicitous, the lines often possessing a veritable singing quality. ... This Hellenic poet exalts his own land and ours, above all that ‘freedom’ which crowns America.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 720w

=Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 60w

=PICKERING, JOHN CLARK.= Engineering analysis of a mining share. *$1.50 McGraw 332.6 17-5157

“The considerations entering into the analysis of a mining venture have been instructively set forth by Mr Pickering. There is little doubt that the great mass of ‘investors’ in mining stocks do not analyze their purchases very sharply. Mr Pickering, for the sake of simplicity, applies his analysis to a single share, stating that obviously the analysis by shares is equivalent to the analysis of the whole property. He endeavors to follow a line of investigation based on data available to the average share-holder. The discussion is confined to gold, copper, silver, lead and zinc.”—Engin N

+ =Engin N= 77:436 Mr 15 ‘17 130w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p18 Ap ‘17 190w

“‘An interesting and a useful book. It would have been better if it had been edited carefully and if a wider reference had been made to other writings on the subject. ... His style is pleasant, his judgment appears sound, and his whole treatment of the subject is well worthy of an experienced engineer.’” T. A. R.

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:345 Ap ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Mining and Scientific Press p394 Mr 17 ‘17)

“Based on twelve years’ experience in the United States, South America, Mexico, Canada and Africa.”

=Pittsburgh= 22:522 Je ‘17 30w

=PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD.= Jerry. il *$1.50 (1½c) Houghton 17-4313

Jerry, the young Irish hero, is one of the workers for an independent steel company when the story opens. He is doing well, supporting his mother and looking forward to marriage with his sweetheart, Nora Scanlan. But the independent company is swallowed up by a big corporation. A change of policy brings on a strike and Jerry finds himself out of a job. He also loses his sweetheart, for Nora doesn’t take kindly to adversity. Jerry and his mother move to the big city, taking with them the three orphaned children of one of Jerry’s fellow strikers. With this family to support, Jerry finds a place on the police force, studies law and is admitted to the bar. In the meantime Kate, the oldest of the three children, is growing up and helping Jerry to forget the fickle Nora.

=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

“To read Mr Pier’s story is the equivalent of seeing the scenes of a motion-picture film flash before one’s eyes. ... The substance of ‘Jerry’ is essentially that of the popular story for boys that Mr Pier is an adept at writing. In style, in character, in incident, it is reminiscent of this literary form, and we are certain that his latest novel will appeal readily to the many young readers who have taken pleasure in ‘Grannis of the fifth’ and ‘The new boy.’ If it helps them across the bridge between fiction for children and novels for grownups, it will serve an excellent purpose.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 1050w

“A good, satisfying fairy tale, set in a would-be modern city, with make believe graft and police scandals and murders. ... It is not rubbish, though it is a bit hard to say why it is not rubbish. It has all the earmarks of trash, and yet it fills the soul with a sort of self-satisfaction that all is well and that all will turn out fine.” W. M. Feigenbaum

– + =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 330w

“A pleasant story, quite interesting and with some cleverly drawn characters.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:69 F 25 ‘17 250w

“The story, which is told with spirit, is an appeal to young men to enter the fight for purer public service.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 200w

=PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD.= Plattsburgers. il *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 17-23757

A story of the experiences of some college boys at Plattsburg. “Life at the Plattsburg camp is very different to-day from what it was during the period covered by this story. ... The training of the boys was less intensive than that to which the recruits at the later camps were subjected. Instead of being drilled in only the infantry branch of the service, they were given an opportunity to get at least a smattering of knowledge about other branches. This story is generally true to the conditions that existed at the first camp; in minor details the routine that it describes does not correspond with the routine followed at the subsequent camps.” (Preface) The story is reprinted from the Youth’s Companion.

=A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17

“A clean-cut story of manly boys that will have much the same attraction for boys that the author’s St Timothy stories have.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 40w

+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 60w

+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w

=PINDAR, GEORGE N. and others.= Guide to the nature treasures of New York city. il *75c Scribner 507 17-5881

“A valuable and much needed manual entitled ‘Guide to the nature treasures of New York city’ has been prepared by George N. Pindar, Registrar of the American museum of natural history, with assistance from Mabel H. Pearson and G. Clyde Fisher. It deals with the collections in the American museum of natural history, the New York aquarium, The New York zoological park, the New York botanical garden, the Brooklyn museum, the Brooklyn botanical garden, and the Brooklyn children’s museum.”—N Y Times

=N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 120w

=Pratt= p13 Jl ‘17 30w

=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY).= Woodcraft for women. (Outing handbooks) *80c (2½c) Outing pub. 796 17-9692

The author finds the explanation of the difference in the lure that the outdoors holds for men and women in their different childhood

## activities. Natural instincts suppressed in young girlhood demand

stimulation and development in adult life if women are to know the joys of an active outdoor life. She says, “In this book there has been no endeavor to set forth a distinct type of woodsmanship for women only, but rather to show the possibilities of an art which can be made common to the sexes.” Contents: Woman and the out of doors; Woods clothing; Clothing—continued; Packs and accessories; Packing and portaging; Tents and camp making; Cooking utensils, fires, and foods; Cooking expedients; Paddling; Hunting and fishing; The winter woods; Going alone; Camp courtesy; The first time out; The spirit of the open.

“Gives practical advice to women on all sorts of questions. Has a suggestive chapter on ‘camp courtesy.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:13 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 80w

=PINTNER, RUDOLPH and PATERSON, DONALD GILDERSLEEVE.= Scale of performance tests. il *$2 Appleton 136.7 17-16883

A performance test is one which requires a response in action in place of the language response required in other intelligence tests. The work has grown directly out of attempts to grade deaf children, with whom the ordinary tests could not be used. The tests also meet the difficulty of dealing with foreign speaking children, since verbal directions are not essential. “The situation itself calls for some response without the necessity for any verbal instructions on the part of the examiner. ... Naturally in giving the test to hearing children the examiner will say something, but what he says is not essential for the understanding of the test.” (Introd.) The authors have assembled a group of tests of this kind and have attempted a standardization.

“The detailed description of the tests and the norms given make available and usable tests of a type that are much needed. Many workers who meet the difficult question of determining the mentality of those whose command of language is slight will value this work. The only drawback lies in the fact that most of the tests here included are so simple as to be significant only for individuals quite young in age.” A. F. Bronner

+ — =Am J Soc= 23:546 Ja ‘18 350w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 10w

“The programme is admirably carried through, with abundance of well-arranged tables and sufficient interpretation to show the bearing of the results and warn against sources of error.”

+ =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 290w

=El School J= 18:75 S ‘17 400w

Reviewed by F. N. Freeman

+ =El School J= 18:148 O ‘17 120w

=Int J Ethics= 28:284 Ja ‘18 130w

“The authors have done a service that their colleagues in mental measurement will not estimate lightly.” F. L. Wells

+ =J Philos= 15:134 F 28 ‘18 1200w

“A few of the tests partake of the nature of a puzzle and hence are tests, not of general intelligence, but of the peculiar ingenuity that works by intuition or a fortunate chance, rather than by reasoned judgment. However, the book will be of help in certain cases that are embarrassing to the tester. The volume includes some useful criticisms of the Binet scale, the Yerkes point scale and others.” Alexander Johnson

+ — =Survey= 39:260 D 1 ‘17 220w

=PIPER, EDWIN FORD.= Barbed wire, and other poems. $1.25 Midland press, Moorhead, Minn. 811

The awakening self-consciousness of the Middle West, which is just beginning to express itself in literature, has produced in Mr Piper a new poet and social historian. The first half of “Barbed wire, and other poems” is made up of short unconnected poems which, taken together, tell the story of the patient conquest of the prairie and interpret the spirit of the adventurous, land-hungry band that has traveled steadily westward across our country. The slow upbuilding of civilization in a new land is followed in such poems as “The movers,” “Dry bones,” “The sod house,” “The drought,” “The grasshoppers,” “The schoolmistress,” “Ten cents a bushel,” “Meanwhile,” “The church.” The second section of the book, “The neighborhood,” is given to longer narrative poems. Both groups are reprinted from the Midland: a magazine of the Middle West.

“Precisely what Robert Frost has done for New England Mr Piper has done for the West from Illinois to the foothills of the Rocky mountains. ... One cannot with too much emphasis lay stress upon the social value of Mr Piper’s poems, for with a most vivid use of the imaginative faculty he weaves for us the fabric of a community rising on the bare breast of nature. ... ‘Barbed wire and other poems,’ is a very unusual collection, an important and distinctive contribution to American poetry.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ‘17 1450w

“He writes with vigor and freedom and the quality of this one book is such as to assure instant success. Nothing so eloquent on the personality of neighborhoods as ‘The banded’ has come from American poets. Yet he can forsake commonplace phraseology to write lines of pure flowing melody, and a lyric as delicate as ‘Moon worship.’”

+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 180w

=PLATNER, JOHN WINTHROP=, and others. Religious history of New England. (King’s chapel lectures 1914-1915, 1915-1916) *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 277.4 17-15979

“A series of King’s chapel lectures delivered by eight men—each a representative of the communion about which he speaks. ... The story of the Congregationalists is told ... by Prof. John W. Platner. Geniality and humor enrich the pages in which Dean William W. Fenn describes the revolt of the Free Will Baptists and Christians against the standing order and the intellectual and academic counterpart of this popular movement which resulted in the founding of the Unitarian churches. Dean George Hodges tells with kindly humor and sound historical judgment the dramatic story of the implanting of the episcopate in hostile New England. The almost equally hostile reception met with by the Methodists ... is recounted in a painstaking and picturesque manner by Dr W. E. Huntington. President George E. Horr of the Newton theological institution treats the history of the Baptists. The position of the Quakers in New England is considered by Prof. Rufus M. Jones, that of the Universalists by Rev. John Coleman Adams, and that of the Swedenborgians by Dr William L. Worcester. The history of the Roman Catholics is omitted with regret, as it was impossible to secure for the lectures an historical narrative from a member of the Roman Catholic communion.”—Springf’d Republican

“Profitable as these surveys are, it is to be regretted that certain questions concerning this group life have not been more distinctly considered. How, for example, did the Calvinist system begin to lose its hold even in the days of its ablest and most vigorous exposition? The remarkable growth of the Baptists at the end of the eighteenth century is mentioned without explanation. If one asks how denominational organization came out of autonomous congregations, satisfaction is again denied.” F. A. Christie

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:415 Ja ‘18 590w

+ =Ath= p519 O ‘17 300w

“The title of the volume indeed is hardly justified by its contents, for it contains denominational history only and not the general religious history of New England, except for the earliest days when there was nothing but Congregationalism there. Having filed this caveat it is only right to say that the limited purpose of the series is admirably fulfilled. The treatment of the several denominations, being in each case by an adherent, is sympathetic but as a rule entirely fair, and only now and then unduly laudatory.”

+ =Nation= 105:100 Jl 26 ‘17 900w

“So interwoven are religious and political ideas, and so large has been New England’s share in shaping American ideals, that this history is one of national interest. It is a history of the rise and progress of religious liberty. A single lapse from historical justice needs pointing out. The Quaker ranters persecuted by the Puritans were not, as any reader would infer, the same sort of people as the estimable Friends of to-day. The volume needs an index.”

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 170w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 1250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 100w

“These lectures provide entertaining reading, and the English student will gain much knowledge set out with the warmth of feeling felt by men dealing with subjects dear to their hearts, but with no pride of sect or narrowness of outlook.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 O 11 ‘17 940w

=PLUCKNETT, FRANK.= Introduction to the theory and practice of boot and shoe manufacture. (Longmans’ technical handicraft ser.) il *$2 Longmans 685 A16-1147

“The author, who has had considerable experience in teaching this subject in England, states that the book is intended not only for technical students, but also for a ‘large circle of those who are interested in the rapid modern developments of the industry, and who have not the advantages of technical instruction.’ Scope is limited to the usual lines of work, omitting hand operations when the corresponding operations are more efficiently performed by a machine. There are chapters on the anatomy of the foot, foot measurements, lasts, and a comparison of English, French and American measurements.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:141 S ‘16

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p22 N ‘16 90w

=Pittsburgh= 22:519 Je ‘17

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 70w

=PLUMON, EUGÈNE.= Vade-mecum for the use of officers and interpreters in the present campaign, new and rev ed *75c Brentano’s 448 17-16324

“The result of actual work in interpreting for the British forces in France. Gives French words and phrases with their English equivalents arranged in the natural order of need under, marching order, from landing place to front, the field, the rear, tables of measures, money, distances, abbreviations, map signs, etc. Does not mark pronunciation.”—A L A Bkl

“Useful to the man who has even a slight knowledge of French.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:9 O ‘17

=St Louis= 15:323 S ‘17

=POE, EDGAR ALLAN.=[2] Poems; ed. by Killis Campbell. il $1.50 Ginn 811 17-24169

“Professor Campbell is a member of the English faculty of the University of Texas and his study of Poe’s life and work has been long and enthusiastic. He has included in the volume all the poems collected by the poet himself or by his literary executor, Rufus S. Griswold, while in separate sections are several early poems and a dozen others of doubtful authenticity. The introductory section contains the story of Poe’s life, followed by a brief discussion of the text of his poems and of his habits of punctuation and revision. ... Through the body of the book Professor Campbell gives on each page the variant readings for the version he has selected. An important feature is afforded by the very copious notes filling nearly 200 pages which explain every obscurity of the text and set forth the details of composition, probability of source, and other matters of interest.”—N Y Times

=Boston Transcript= p7 O 27 ‘17 590w

“One need not accept all Professor Campbell’s judgment’s in detail to pronounce this new edition of the ‘Poems’ the most important contribution to Poe scholarship that has appeared for some years. Perhaps the greatest merit of the book is its sobriety and sanity. In the section of ‘The canon of Poe’s poems’ Professor Campbell treats a subject on which he has made valuable researches; and his brief comments on the poems doubtfully attributed to Poe are admirable. The résumé of opinion in ‘The clash of the critics with respect to Poe’s poems,’ though brief, is excellently presented.”

+ =Dial= 63:595 D 6 ‘17 330w

“A most scholarly edition. Perhaps the most notable feature of the

## book is the full use of references to the Poe literature, the volume

of which will probably surprise even those who thought themselves well versed in this study.”

+ =Nation= 106:97 Ja 24 ‘18 250w

“A careful and scholarly work showing diligent research and discrimination.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:567 D 16 ‘17 260w

=POLLAK, GUSTAV.= House of Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg monarchy. 50c N.Y. Evening Post co., 20 Vesey st. 940.91 17-27945

The seven articles contained in this book were published in the New York Nation and the New York Evening Post between the dates of March 22 and July 5, 1917. To these papers the author has been a contributor since 1874 and 1881 respectively. He was born and educated in Vienna. Of the house of Hohenzollern he says: “Not all that can be said, and must justly be said, of Prussian leadership in the intellectual and material development of Germany can obscure the patent failure of the Hohenzollern dynasty.” Other titles are: Bismarck’s neglected policies; The vision of a Central Europe; Austria’s opportunity; The future of Bohemia; Hungary and the fall of Tisza; The Poles of Austria.

“Trenchant and vigorously-written little book.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:156 F ‘18 50w

=N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 410w

=POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK.=[2] Commonwealth at war. *$2.25 (3c) Longmans 940.91 18-1123

Half of the papers that make up this book are reprinted from The Times [London] Literary Supplement. Others have appeared in the Contemporary Review, Yale Review, and other periodicals. Each article is dated so that the bearing of the time of writing on the views presented is made evident. The dates range from October, 1914 to August, 1917. The author is professor of English history in the University of London. Among other subjects he considers: Rumour and historical science in time of war; The length of wars; The freedom of the seas; The war and the British realms; British idealism and its cost in war; The growth of an imperial parliament: The temptation of peace; The prevention or war.

=Spec= 120:41 Ja 12 ‘18 160w

“One cannot logically complain that Prof. Pollard too often in this book writes as an advocate rather than a historian, for the articles were largely published to explain the British mind to itself; but it is fair to note that this attitude detracts from the permanent value of the book. The strongest chapter of the book is Prof. Pollard’s argument against a British imperial federation.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 7 ‘18 500w

“There might have been more appearance of unity in the contents if certain pages had been omitted or altered; but, as Professor Pollard, enunciating a canon of literary probity apt to be forgotten, says, ‘to modify the record of expressed opinion in the light of later events indicates a dishonest assertion of consistency or prescience, and is one of the most insidious forms of historical forgery.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p590 D 6 ‘17 1000w

=POLLARD, HUGH B. C.=[2] Story of Ypres. il *75c (5c) McBride 940.91 17-19406

“There is no name connected with the European war that will live longer in men’s minds than that of Ypres,” writes the author in beginning his story. He describes the two battles, illustrating his account with sketch maps. The pictures are by Thomas Derrick.

“The author graphically describes the flight of the population on both occasions, the latter being a terribly lurid picture, its horror increased by the then new German device of gas fumes.”

+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 120w

“The condition of the famous cloth hall after each bombardment is well pictured in the pen and ink drawings of Thomas Derrick.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 23 ‘17 150w

=POLLOCK, FRANK LILLIE.= Northern diamonds. il *$1.25 (2c) Houghton 17-24854

This story, which appeared in the Youth’s Companion as a serial and its sequel, recounts the adventures of three Canadian boys on two trips into the north in search of diamonds. The first trip, taken in winter on skates and snow shoes, is successful. The boys find what they are in search of—a little sack of precious stones reported to be hidden in a deserted cabin. The stones prove to be of inferior value—but they are diamonds for all that, and the next journey is taken in hope of finding the source. This trip has a different, tho not a wholly disappointing, outcome.

“An exciting, well told adventure story for boys and girls about twelve or thirteen.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18

Reviewed by J: Walcott

=Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 40w

=N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 50w

=POLLOCK, FRANK LILLIE.= Wilderness honey. il *$1.25 (2c) Century 17-24398

A story for boys and girls. Alice, Bob and Carl Harman are three young Canadians dependent on their own resources. The general store that has been the family source of income for three generations no longer pays and the young people are faced with the necessity of selling out. Alice has already had some experience with bee keeping, and, hearing of a large apiary for sale in the northern part of the province, they decide to stake their all on this venture. The story of their plucky and successful fight against such enemies as timber wolves, bears, and an ill-natured squatter follows. The story was published in the Youth’s Companion.

=A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18

=Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 40w

“Excellent pictures are drawn of life in the wilderness, and of the methods of bee culture.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 130w

=POLLOCK, HESTER MCLEAN.= Our Minnesota; a history for children. il *$1.60 Dutton 977.6 17-11001

“After a brief survey of the beautiful land itself, a study of its copper-colored ‘first inhabitants,’ and of their memorials existing today, Miss Pollock tells how the English gained the land by exploration, colonization, war, purchase from the French and treaties with the Indians. Then follow the story of the explorers, French, English and Italian; Radisson and Grosvilliers, Du Luth and Father Hennepin, La Salle, Carver, Long, Beltrami and Nicollet. ... Transportation, education, mines, minerals, landmarks and famous men are in turn briefly studied.”—Boston Transcript

“The account of the development of its vast natural resources forms a marvelous record of which not only all Minnesotans but all Americans should be proud.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 270w

“The book is somewhat marred for the reviewer by the author’s naïve assumption that all the acts of the early pioneers were virtuous, and that the Indian was cruel and crafty in opposing the seizure of his land. Although the growth of industries is dwelt upon, no mention, as far as could be found, was made of the passing of the wonderful resources of the state, its virgin timber and its mines, into the hands of the few. On the whole, however, the book is an interesting and faithful presentation of the life story of Minnesota.” P. L. Benjamin

+ — =Survey= 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 370w

=POOLE, ERNEST.= His family. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-13623

A deep sense of the continuity of life, as it is handed on from generation to generation, pervades this thoughtful novel. Roger Gale, close on to sixty years old, living in the New York house that has been his home since his early marriage, tries to understand the new and bewildering currents of modern life as they are reflected in his three daughters. These three represent distinct types. Edith is the domestic and maternal woman, fiercely absorbed in her children. Deborah is the active woman, spending herself on social movements. Laura is the modern woman of society, living life gladly, throwing away old conventions and breaking into new paths, without fear and without regret. In each of them Roger sees his own life repeated. Each of the three has something of himself. It is the second daughter, Deborah, who is nearest to her father’s heart. With her passion for mothering the world at war with her instinct for personal motherhood, she is the most interesting study in this worth while book.

=A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17

“The one story of this month, beyond doubt, is ‘His family.’” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:532 Jl ‘17 800w

“The most striking and appealing feature of the story is its absolute sincerity and plausibility. ... If English or French readers, or readers of any other nation, wish to gain an accurate knowledge of life as it is lived in an American family and an American community, they need only read Mr Poole’s novel.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 1550w

“Roger is not a sufficiently vivid personality to carry the burden of the book, and this defect will prevent it from making a permanent impression.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:540 Jl ‘17 250w

“Roger Gale is the finest old father of a family since Silas Lapham, of whom in many ways he reminds me. And the resemblance, or, if the resemblance is not as close as I think, the recollection is a compliment to Mr Poole. For Mr Howells is a master in the portrayal of elderly men.” J: Macy

+ — =Dial= 63:113 Ag 16 ‘17 480w

“The book is bigger than the ordinary novel, more far-reaching in its meaning, more deeply rooted in human experiences.”

+ =Lit D= 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 290w

“We find it happily difficult to put in the familiar measured terms our impression of such a book as this. In its mass, its solidity, its noble and simple contour, it rises like a shining peak above the high, and flat, plateaus of our ‘average workmanship.’”

+ =Nation= 104:680 Je 7 ‘17 1300w

“If Mr Poole were primarily an artist, writing a novel for the sake of giving such emotion as a work of art can convey, his insistence would not be nearly so great on his specific idea of the family. But the thing that seems to lead Mr Poole to write a novel is the same thing that led Zola to write novels—the desire to illustrate a large group-idea by the processes of fiction. It is really the way of the scientist as against the way of the artist. ... There is no ultimate recompense for the solemn theme that runs through ‘His family.’ Beginning with its pernicious enunciation on page 6, it comes back on pages 18, 25, 45, 85, 95, 118, 123, 149, 161, 196, 236, 268, 286, and heaven knows in how many other places—the theme that people live on in their children’s lives.” F. H.

=New Repub= 11:164 Je 9 ‘17 1450w

“A book full of truth, power and beauty.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 670w

“Told simply and sincerely, with careful craftsmanship, this book is worthy of the best traditions in American fiction. It touches on many vital problems of our modern life, but the problems are never emphasized at the expense of character.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:194 My 20 ‘17 1050w

“This book is chiefly to be prized as a picture of Mr Poole’s own soul. ... It rewards the best that one can bring to it. ... It has spiritual penetration and latitude and elevation. It is filled throughout with a deep and intimate consciousness of the reality of other souls.” Lawrence Gilman

+ =No Am= 205:943 Je ‘17 1500w

“A novel of admirable poise and of quiet but deep-lying social import.”

+ =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 200w

“Appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, v. 35-36, Sept. 1916-May 1917.”

=Pittsburgh= 22:510 Je ‘17 70w

+ =R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 270w

“Compared with ‘The harbor,’ ‘His family’ is analytical in even greater degree. It is not unjust to say that the second novel does not grip as did the first. It is perhaps more polished, and Mr Poole undoubtedly reveals a more pronounced grasp of the technique of the novel; but it lacks something of the enthusiasm, the vividness and the freshness of discovery which made ‘The harbor’ the immediate success it was. This is not to say, however, that ‘His family’ is not one of the notable novels of the season.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 1150w

=POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE.= Japan at the cross roads. *$3.50 (2½c) Dodd 952 (Eng ed 17-27871)

First hand facts about Japan brought together to delineate the real state of affairs in Japan and to indicate the forces which are at work moulding public opinion and the directions in which they are leading. Politics, finance, social conditions and religion are the interests that chiefly occupy the writer’s attention. “Mr Pooley pays tribute to the rapid progress Japan has made, and to the vigor and energy of her statesmanship, but he does not disguise his belief that radical improvement must be effected before Japan can claim of right a position as a first-class power. ... Mr Pooley’s discussion of Japan’s foreign relations, particularly those with the United States, will do much to clear up a lot of misinformation about this matter which exists in America.” (Publishers’ note)

“The cumulative effect of all the criticism in the book is considerable; and, even assuming that some of the shadows in Mr Pooley’s picture are as dark as he paints them, we doubt whether the present is the best time to draw up so unflattering an account, and so sweeping an indictment, of our allies.”

– + =Ath= p682 D ‘17 250w

“The author sums up the Japanese in a manner which clearly points out their weak as well as their strong characteristics.” H. S. K.

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

“The book would gain somewhat if the author conceded more frequent summaries of his facts and more emphatic statements of his conclusions; these the reader must carefully elicit for himself. So comprehensive a study should have an index appended. But these minor faults are insignificant in Mr Pooley’s illuminating achievement.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 610w

“His chapters on ‘Social conditions,’ and on Japanese methods in Korea and Formosa, deserve attention. He shows how the war has benefited Japanese industry.”

+ =Spec= 119:774 D 29 ‘17 150w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p543 N 8 ‘17 60w

=POORE, IDA MARGARET (GRAVES) lady.= Admiral’s wife in the making, 1860-1903. *$3 Dutton (Eng ed 17-20978)

“Lady Poore has written a very charming book on her girlhood and early married life, completing the autobiography which she began at the end, so to say, in her ‘Recollections of an admiral’s wife.’ The daughter of Dr Graves, Bishop of Limerick, she spent a happy youth in Dublin, Limerick, and County Kerry, with less happy intervals at an English school. She married in 1885, soon after Commander Poore had won great distinction by his work in the Nile expedition. ... As the wife of a naval officer with modest means, Lady Poore seems to have enjoyed life heartily in Bermuda, Halifax, Jamaica, Malta, Alexandria, and other stations whither her husband was sent, as well as in France and Italy for periods of unemployment.”—Spec

“A sense of humour and an element of delightful frankness are two factors helping to make Lady Poore’s book very pleasant reading.”

+ =Ath= p256 My ‘17 90w

“The spirit not only of a very gracious and plucky British gentlewoman infuses it, but the spirit of Britain itself.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ‘17 650w

“A few of these memoirs, a blessed few, are well worth reading, because their authors can write and ought to write. Among this last select class is Lady Poore.”

+ =Sat R= 123:343 Ap 14 ‘17 1850w

+ =Spec= 118:493 Ap 28 ‘17 240w

“This is a jolly book. It reads like the letter of an intimate friend who has snatched a spare moment to tell you the many things she has seen to interest her in her travels, because you are sure to understand the point of it all without expecting her to labour it.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p162 Ap 5 ‘17 1050w

=POORMAN, ALFRED PETER.= Applied mechanics. il *$2 McGraw 620.1 17-17214

“A knowledge of general physics and of the calculus is assumed for the study of this undergraduate text-book, which aims to develop basic principles in a way which the average student can easily follow. Two unusual features are claimed: (1), the extended use of the graphic method; (2), the large number of illustrative examples which have been solved in detail. Numerous practical problems with answers are also given. The author is associate professor of applied mechanics in Purdue university.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

“The book is a fine example of effective, interest-arousing presentation. Instead of dealing with abstract principles, the strong psychological appeal of a single engineering problem is used. Some of the principles in which many graduates are especially weak have been given exceptionally clear and satisfactory treatment. The typographical work, the drawings and reproductions are also distinctly superior to previous standards.” J. P. J. Williams

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:131 Jl 19 ‘17 380w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p13 Jl ‘17 80w

=PORTER, ARTHUR KINGSLEY.= Lombard architecture. 4v v 1-3 ea *$12, v 4 *$15; set *$50 Yale univ. press 723 (17-9830)

Professor Porter describes his book as “a definite synthetic analysis of Lombard architecture.” Volume 1 traces its growth from its Byzantine beginnings in the sixth century to the end of the twelfth century. “More than half of this volume is given to the discussion of ornament and the arts accessory to architecture.” “Part 4 of volume 1 is given to iconography. Volumes 2 and 3 take up in detail the study of the multitudes of edifices which, often hidden away in remote villages and cities, have been up to now scarcely even a name and which, nevertheless, preserve precious remains, full of interest to the student of religion, of architecture and of other arts. These volumes are printed in a smaller type and are extraordinarily rich in legendary and historic lore.” (Boston Transcript) The fourth volume consists of a series of 244 plates with from two to ten half-tones each. The bibliography gives an idea of the author’s wide reading. “Only 750 copies are printed from type.”

“For the architect these superb volumes will be of the utmost importance; the general reader will find in them an enormous amount of information presented in a clear and fascinating style. The portfolio of illustrations, many of them from pictures taken with the magical telephotographic lens, will appeal to anyone who delights in rare views. The typography is faultless.” N. H. D.

+ + =Boston Transcript= p7 My 29 ‘17 1000w

“The amount of careful erudition, of often eloquent description, of sound judgment and accurate criticism is bewildering. The translations of justifying text in Latin and Italian must in themselves have taken months of labor; the searching out of authorities and the balancing of contrary views, resulting frequently in the rectification of dates and the discovery of unknown or wholly forgotten artists and architects, the knowledge of history involved and the breadth of architectural comprehension make the work of first importance.” N. H. D.

+ + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 230w

“Of that most important element in Lombard ornament, the grotesque, the author writes with convincing common sense.”

+ + =N Y Times= 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 950w

“The most careful, scholarly, and learned work dealing with architecture that has thus far been produced in America. Only one criticism is possible, and that is on the presentation of the plates; these, which consist of a great mass of folio sheets, unbound, each containing four or five illustrations, bear numbers only, and the task of sorting them out as one reads, identifying them from a key sheet, and getting them back again into the box, is almost insuperable.” R. A. Cram

+ + — =Yale R= n s 7:420 Ja ‘18 3350w

=PORTER, MRS ELEANOR (HODGMAN) (ELEANOR STUART, pseud.).= Road to understanding. il *$1.40 (1c) Houghton 17-9250

The story opens with an unfortunate marriage. Helen and Burke were alike in one thing only; each was self-centered and spoiled. Attracted by Helen’s pretty face, Burke defied his father and gave up his home to marry her. Trouble followed shortly and a separation. Left with her baby daughter, Helen begins to think things out. She decides to make of herself the kind of woman Burke could respect. She is very ignorant but she is willing to learn. With the help of good friends, she does so. Many years pass and Betty, the daughter, is a grownup girl before the three are again brought together.

“Will be popular, specially with inexperienced girls.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17

“One or two situations which are well worked out make the book worth reading.”

+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 60w

“The book is without doubt decidedly different from Mrs Porter’s previous work. ... As an artist Mrs Porter shows both more power and more restraint in this new novel.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 700w

“Of the light and shade and depth of true characterization she has hardly an inkling. She has that plentiful lack of humour which seems almost an asset with the best-buying public. ... We note that this preposterous story stands second to ‘Mr Britling’ upon the bestselling lists for April. It would be interesting to know how many readers of either can have endured the other.”

— =Nation= 104:736 Je 21 ‘17 300w

“We find ourselves always objecting to the situations as more than improbable and to the characters as not consistent with themselves. Besides, life is short, and the road Mrs Porter’s heroine elects is unconscionably long. Still, the book is so well written and holds so much of truth that it must be ranked among the really good stories of the day, well worth the reading.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:186 My 13 ‘17 500w

“Take it from a pessimist, this new book by Eleanor H. Porter will be among the six best sellers within a month and it really is much more of a book than ‘Pollyanna.’” Robert Lynd

=Pub W= 91:974 Mr 17 ‘17 250w

=Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 20w

=PORTER, GENE (STRATTON) (MRS CHARLES DARWIN PORTER).= Friends in feathers. il *$3.50 (4c) Doubleday 598.2 17-15687

A revised and enlarged edition of “What I have done with birds,” published in 1907. It is primarily a book on bird photography. It is illustrated with the author’s own remarkable photographs and the text is made up largely of an account of experiences while obtaining these pictures.

=A L A Bkl= 14:67 N ‘17

“The illustrations, showing various birds never before photographed in their natural positions are uniquely fascinating.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 260w

“One of the most fascinating of bird books.”

+ =Ind= 91:110 Jl 21 ‘17 50w

“Though a student of bird-life would look in vain for any new observations of importance, and though the natural history to which the author frequently appeals is of a very thin quality, her work, nevertheless, is worthy of high praise for the excellence of many of her photographic studies; only a field student who is an adept with the camera can appreciate how fine some of these pictures really are.”

+ — =Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 490w

+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 80w

=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= Dormie one, and other golf stories. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-24401

A collection of golf stories, reprinted from Collier’s, Every Week, and other magazines. Contents: Alibi; If you don’t mind my telling you; The runner-up; The luck of the devil; The last round; If it interferes with business; Dormie one; “Consolation.” In the preface which he adds gratuitously the author touches on the difficulties involved in writing stories about golf. “I know of only one other sport,” he says, “which offers fewer possibilities for a red-blooded story of nerve and skill and stamina—and that’s billiards!”

“A collection of excellent stories. ... But good as they all are, well written technically, and often bubbling over with shrewd dialogue, we rather doubt their holding readers to whom the revered game of golf is an unknown quantity.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 250w

“This collection of tales, none of which is impossible (if indeed any is improbable), will be the joy of many a golfer second only to playing the game.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 300w

“The eight tales comprise a sort of anthology of the links; in deft plot construction, in sharp character sketching in every attribute that goes to the making of a good story, the author has succeeded admirably.” C. W.

+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 100w

“You need not be necessarily a golfer to appreciate the stories, for though a golf course is invariably employed as a setting, there is in each story a perspicacious study of human temperaments, together with a literary finish, which gives it a value entirely independent of its eighteen-hole environment.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:400 O 14 ‘17 750w

“They are so rich in human nature that the subject-matter is merely incidental.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 350w

=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= What he least expected. il *$1.50 (2c) Bobbs 17-8466

The hero is a young Harvard man who at the beginning of the story is down on his luck. The European war has just closed the New York Stock exchange and deprived him of his job. He answers a “help wanted” advertisement and after a rigid cross examination finds himself engaged at a high salary. What his work is to be remains a mystery. He is sent to one of the best hotels and told to wait further orders. The

## action begins almost immediately, following his introduction to two

attractive girls. New York and Bermuda are the scenes of the story. “Help wanted,” was its title during serial publication in Collier’s.

=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

“Mr Hall’s books and stories belong to the harmless group. ... The public is said to like love stories, real or false, hackneyed or original, and Mr Hall believes we must feed the public what we think it wants.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 300w

“Who says that grown-up Americans don’t believe in fairies?... Mr Holworthy Hall turns raw mythologic ore into the pure gold of that kind of installment novel which keeps its readers infantile.”

=New Repub= 11:142 Je 2 ‘17 180w

“The liveliest kind of a lively yarn, with all sorts of entanglements and cross-purposes that thoroughly accomplish their manifest destiny—which is to bewilder and interest the reader.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 200w

“The author always makes his characters talk easily and amusingly, but his plot is too complicated and unreal to rivet attention.”

– + =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 20w

“A love story which has married a detective story. The union has its points.” M. A. Hopkins

=Pub W= 91:972 Mr 17 ‘17 250w

“A light story which moves at a rapid pace, with a liberal sprinkling of colloquial slang and humor.”

=Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 150w

=POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.=[2] Lustra of Ezra Pound, with earlier poems. *$1.50 Knopf 811 17-31072

The first book of Mr Pound’s poetry to appear in this country since 1912. The first group contains about eighty short pieces whose themes range from “The tea shop” to “The study in aesthetics.” In the second group are translations from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga. The last thirty are poems published before 1911.

“No one challenges the poet’s right to draw his materials from any source that he chooses. No one cares how far into the past he penetrates, so that he brings back something of beauty and value, something that he has revitalized and made his own. But when from these excursions into the antique he brings back chiefly what is inconsequent and often repulsive, one sees no particular reason for going so far afield for material.” J. B. Rittenhouse

– + =Bookm= 46:577 Ja ‘18 450w

“His poems are too complicated for hasty judgment. One must read—and read again a week later. They are ironical, jeering and intolerant, they are lonely, contemplative, searching, carefully formed and firmly living. Perhaps you hate Ezra Pound. He says many of us have the manner. Perhaps you like him, but whatever else you do you cannot ignore him. He has an individual fashion of saying things and he is without fear.” K. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 6 ‘16 700w

“Its range and variety are its most outstanding quality and its chief defect. The volume seems a catch-all for Pound’s slightest utterance. What makes this lust for print the more puzzling is the fact that Mr Pound has not only a critical but a selective gift. But ‘Lustra’ is something more than a haphazard and too inclusive collection; it is the record of a retreat, a gradual withdrawal from life.” L: Untermeyer

– + =Dial= 63:634 D 20 ‘17 980w

“In this book we have no signs of those graceful medieval verses that Mr Pound used to write so perfectly. Sometimes Mr Pound is so modern as to be incomprehensible.”

— =Lit D= 55:38 D 15 ‘17 140w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 29 ‘17 630w

“‘Lustra’ does more than force the painful conclusion of deterioration: it reveals the actual process, the poems written before 1911 being separated from those composed later. Rarely is it possible to see in one book so sharp a line of cleavage, so complete a superiority of periods as Mr Pound lets us witness by his act of separation. Before 1911 life still stung Mr Pound.” M. T.

– + =New Repub= 13:352 Ja 19 ‘18 1300w

“The ‘Lustra’ is bookish; instead of revealing further heights or depths of existence, it bears the echoes of dead literature. Personally, I would rather have one of Arturo Giovanetti’s things, such as ‘The last nickel’ or ‘The walker,’ or one of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago poems than the whole volume called ‘Lustra,’ in spite of the embroidered gorgeousness of the Cathay translations, contained therein.” G: W. Cronyn

– + =N Y Call= p18 D 20 ‘17 750w

“The only healthy pages are entitled ‘Poems published before 1911.’”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 25 ‘18 300w

“The form which Mr Pound has chosen gives brevity, and that is enough. The richness of content compensates for its looseness. But in Mr Pound’s original poems there is seldom this compensation. It is poetry made too easy. As you read it you feel as if you had tried to sneeze and failed. There is a titillation, the promise of something about to happen, but at the end nothing has happened, not even a well-turned verse. That is the fault we have to find with most of these poems; too little happens in them. When Mr Pound is serious there is promise in his seriousness.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p545 N 16 ‘16 900w

=POWELL, CHILTON LATHAM.= English domestic relations, 1487-1653. (Studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (2½c) Columbia univ. press 392 17-11684

The author calls this “a study of matrimony and family life in theory and practice as revealed by the literature, law, and history of the period,” and states in his preface that he has tried “to make the field of investigation within these limits as all-inclusive as possible.” “Four appendixes are added to the book, in the first of which a complete account is given for the first time of the divorce suit of Henry VIII, and in the second, a new conception of the married life of Milton and the cause of his famous divorce tracts is advanced.” (Am Hist R) There are fourteen pages of bibliography.

“Perhaps the most valuable portions of Dr Powell’s book are the chapters describing and analyzing the domestic conduct book of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the contemporary attitudes towards woman and the wider ranges of domestic literature. ... Such a careful and detailed study as Dr Powell’s should be sincerely welcomed by every student of the family. The fresh material it assembles and the painstaking way in which it traces the evolution of new ideas concerning marriage and divorce make it a genuine contribution to the growing body of literature on this subject.” Willystine Goodsell

+ =Am Hist R= 23:142 O ‘17 500w

“The author’s interests—and his style—are not literary, but the book will be useful to the student of literature as well as of social history.”

+ =Ath= p353 Jl ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p10 Ja ‘18 120w

“The performance is scarcely equal to the promise. The second half of the volume deals with the literature of the subject and, though the author discusses a number of important but little-known writings, this part of the work is scarcely more than a critical bibliography. The important part of the study comprises the first three chapters. ... The field was harvested a dozen years ago with some thoroughness by Professor Howard in his monumental ‘History of matrimonial institutions’; but Dr Powell has discovered several unused literary sources and has been able to correct Professor Howard’s conclusions on various important points.”

+ — =Dial= 63:351 O 11 ‘17 370w

“It is included in the ‘Studies in English and comparative literature,’ but is of wider scope than most books so classified. There is a good deal here that will be of interest to the student of ‘kulturgeschichte’ or to the sociologist, for the author has very carefully assembled a good body of information respecting marriage and the family, from sources not ordinarily open to the non-expert in the period’s literature.”

+ =Nation= 105:375 O 4 ‘17 600w

“Dr Powell’s method, if it yields little to our actual knowledge, certainly gives a useful summary of contemporary opinion.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup547 N 17 ‘17 850w

=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= Brothers in arms. *50c (7c) Houghton 940.91 17-17404

A tribute to the French, written on the occasion of the visit of the French mission to America by a well-known war correspondent who has marched with the armies of France, and who wishes those of his country-people who have not had the same opportunity as he of knowing the French “to understand what manner of men are these our brothers in arms.” He does for our relations with France what Captain Ian Hay Beith has done for our relations with England in “Getting together.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17

“The first twenty pages is fulsome in style. The writer is so eager to excel in description that his work becomes monotonous and devoid of interest. Beginning with the twenty-ninth page comes a change. Mr Powell swings into his best stride.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 260w

=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 50w

=Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 60w

“Might suitably serve as a memorial of the visit of Marshall Joffre and the other French commissioners to this country. Moreover, it is worth reading on its own account.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 50w

=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= Italy at war and the Allies in the west. il *$1.50 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-14525

This is the author’s third book on the war. “Fighting in Flanders” and “Vive la France” have preceded it. The first four chapters are devoted to Italy’s part. He says, “It is no exaggeration to say that not one American in a thousand has any adequate conception of what Italy is fighting for, nor any appreciation of the splendid part she is playing in the war.” Contents: The way to the war; Why Italy went to war; Fighting on the roof of Europe; The road to Trieste; With the Russians in Champagne; “They shall not pass”; “That contemptible little army”; With the Belgians on the Yser.

“More descriptive of actual fighting conditions and less of a political interpretation than Bainville (Booklist 13:442 Jl ‘17).”

=A L A Bkl= 13:446 Jl ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 270w

=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 90w

“He has a talent for collecting interesting scraps of information and adapting technical details of artillery or aviation to the comprehension of the uninitiated.”

+ =Dial= 63:212 S 13 ‘17 270w

“If his visits to the Champagne, Verdun and the Somme front are less impressive, it is because what is comprized within the title of his book, ‘Italy at war,’ today is the best first hand record of that war region.”

+ =Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 150w

“The chapter on ‘Why Italy went to war’ is of particular value. For that question is perhaps the one of the whole war concerning which Americans in general have felt most uncertainty and about which they had the least information.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 180w

=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 30w

=POWELL, OLA.= Successful canning and preserving. (Lippincott’s home manuals) il *$2 Lippincott 664 17-26659

This is a “practical handbook for schools, clubs and home use,” by an assistant in the home demonstration work of the United States Department of agriculture. It covers the history of scientific canning, the equipment, canning in tin and glass, the description of the processes necessary for canning fruits and vegetables, with suggestions for their use in the diet, the drying of fruits, vegetables and herbs, the preservation of meat, canning club organization, the business side of canning, teaching canning and related activities. Questions and bibliographies are given at the ends of the chapters. The appendix gives an “Address list of state institutions from which agricultural extension work under the Smith-Lever act is directed” and an “Address list of firms furnishing supplies for canning and preserving.”

“The most complete manual to date, for a textbook or for scientific canning at home on a small or large scale.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17

“The title does not do full justice to the extent and value of the information contained.”

+ =Cath World= 106:268 N ‘17 180w

+ =Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 50w

“With the help of many illustrations, proper preparation and equipment are presented. The unfortunate part of it is that few can afford such a complete and adequate paraphernalia as is here advised.”

+ — =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 26 ‘18 130w

“The author has done a remarkably thorough bit of work.” M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 4 ‘17 210w

“The directions for each method are carefully given and the recipes varied.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 4 ‘17 360w

=POWELL, MRS SOPHIA HILL (HULSIZER).= Children’s library; a dynamic factor in education; with an introd. by J: Cotton Dana. *$1.75 (2c) Wilson, H. W. 028.5 17-13388

A discussion of the relation of the children’s library to the school from the modern educational point of view. As the author points out in her first chapter, the attitude of modern educators toward the place of books in the child’s early school life has undergone a change. She writes of: The place of books in education; Early libraries for children; The elementary-school library; The high-school library; The library resources of country children; Public library relations with public schools; The public library an integral part of the public education; The children’s room; The children’s librarian and her training; Aids to library work with children; Book selection; Some social aspects of library work with children. An extensive bibliography follows. John Cotton Dana in his introduction says, “A careful study of the relations of children’s reading to teachers, parents and librarians has long been needed, and this is precisely what Mrs Powell has given us.” The author is a graduate of the Pratt institute library school, and her library experience has included work in Cleveland and New York.

“This book is unexpectedly interesting and thought-provoking. An example of the critical method of the author is her discussion of the much-lauded children’s room, which, it appears upon careful examination, neither meets an otherwise unmet educational need nor does it properly meet a real recreational need. The last chapter, on ‘Some social aspects of library work with children,’ suggests a number of possibilities for the library in a wider social field.” F. F. Bernard

+ =Am J Soc= 23:276 S ‘17 720w

“Sensible, interesting, compact and inclusive—should be used in every library.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:422 Jl ‘17

“A book which all school administrators and those charged with instruction in English ought to read.”

+ =English Journal= 6:513 S ‘17 50w

“A study of its sane pages will help both teacher and librarian, and thereby, incidentally, the children.”

+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w

“Some well-considered and apparently sound conclusions concerning the place of reading in education and the use of cultural books in elementary schools are set forth.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:338 S 9 ‘17 60w

“A revelation of the development and the possibilities of this educational agency. All who are interested in the possibilities of the library will find the entire book very helpful and the bibliographies highly useful.”

+ =Religious Education= 12:395 O ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:385 N ‘17 10w

“This book deserves the attention of all who direct the study of English in either elementary or high school.”

+ =School and Society= 5:711 Je 16 ‘17 90w

“The book under review will do much to unify the work of the public school and the public library. The book is certain to find an important place in all libraries as a general-reference book and as a text in library-training schools.”

+ =School R= 25:533 S ‘17 180w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 29 ‘17 220w

=POWERS, HARRY HUNTINGTON.=[2] America among the nations. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 327.73 18-669

In some sense a sequel to the work published a year ago, “The things men fight for.” The aim of the writer is to furnish an historic interpretation of our national character and our relation to other nations; to supply the “family point of view” from which America was obliged to look forth when she entered the war and so became a member of the European family. The first part of the text is devoted to a consideration of “America at home,” including among the chapters: The first Americans, The struggle for the Pacific; Despoiling the Latin, The break with tradition, The aftermath of Panama, and Pan-Americanism; the second part treats “America among the world powers,” with chapters on: The great powers, The Mongolian menace, Greater Japan, The unfeared Powers, The background of Europe, Germany, the storm centre, The storm area, The greatest empire, The great fellowship, and Forecast.

=PRATT, HENRY SHERRING.= Manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects. il *$3.50 McClurg 592 16-17348

“As the author remarks in his preface, there has been no lack of manuals relating to the common insects, but hitherto a person wishing to identify animals of the other invertebrate groups has had to go to technical papers and treatises which, in many cases, have been inaccessible to all except specialists. Professor Pratt’s manual follows that of Leunis’s ‘Zoologie,’ a standard German work dealing with the animals of Europe; it is intended especially, for use in the eastern and central portions of the United States and Canada.”—N Y Times

“Needed only in large, school, and college libraries.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:338 My ‘17

“It will be a useful book for the reference shelves of biological laboratories, for general libraries, and for students of zoology. It does not replace special monographs.”

+ =Dial= 62:109 F 8 ‘17 200w

“There is a good glossary and a thorough index. The thousand-odd illustrations are all familiar line cuts of textbook style, well chosen and clearly reproduced. The faults are almost altogether those due to the condensation necessary to the limits of a single volume. The uncoated paper does away with extra weight. The most serious lack is the absence of all common names, except in the case of groups.”

+ — =Nation= 105:275 S 6 ‘17 430w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:154 O ‘16

=N Y Times= 22:8 Ja 7 ‘17 80w

“The author is professor of biology in Haverford college.”

=St Louis= 15:12 Ja ‘17 9w

=PREEV, ZINOVY N.= Russian revolution and Who’s who in Russia. *2s Bale & Danielsson, London 947 (Eng ed 17-20023)

“This little book, by the editor of the Twentieth Century Russian and Anglo-Russian Review, contains first an account of the revolution (19pp.) and then a ‘Who’s who,’ not confined to persons but containing explanations of phrases like ‘Constitutional Democrats,’ ‘Intelligentsia,’ ‘Zemstvo union,’ &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“The brief biographies, beginning with the Tsaritsa, speak freely about the persons they deal with.”

=Sat R= 123:604 Je 30 ‘17 230w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p239 My 17 ‘17 40w

=PREVITÉ ORTON, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Outlines of medieval history. maps *$2.75 (2c) Putnam 940 (Eng ed 17-21845)

A history of medieval Europe, embracing the period from 895 to 1492 A.D. The author says, “In the choice of events to narrate I have been guided by their far-off results, rather than by their immediate éclat in their own time, and have tried to indicate how in the middle ages were accomplished the growth of modern man and the life and attitude to life of modern times.” Contents: The barbarian migrations; The Eastern empire and the Saracens; The fusion of races in western Europe; The development of feudalism; The papal monarchy; The East and the crusades; The fall of the Western empire and of the papal theocracy; France and England; The councils and the Italian renaissance; The East and the Turks; The despotic monarchies.

“Mr Orton fairly accomplishes his aim of indicating ‘how in the middle ages were accomplished the growth of modern man and the life and attitude to life of modern times.’ As this involves some loss of local colour and a style which, though clear and well balanced, is usually a little bare and restrained, the book will probably be more appreciated by older than younger students, but this must be accounted a defect of its quality.” J. T.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:616 O ‘17 280w

“This is a lucid and scholarly sketch of a vast subject which is by no means remote from practical politics, though it nominally closed with the fifteenth century. ... Mr Previté Orton has to deal with masses of facts and dates, but he writes very well and is full of ideas, so that his book is easy to read.”

+ =Spec= 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 200w

“The want of a satisfactory guide to medieval history has long been felt. Hallam’s work is no longer adequate, and more recent books dealing with the subject do not cover the whole ground. Students have been thrown back, therefore, on treatises having a wider range, such as Lavisse and Rambaud’s ‘Histoire générale,’ of which medieval history forms only a part. Mr Previté Orton’s ‘Outlines’ satisfies the conditions desired by giving within reasonable limits a comprehensive survey of the middle ages as a distinct historical subject. The success he has achieved in this difficult task is very great.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 Mr 22 ‘17 1150w

=PRICE, CHARLES MATLACK.= Practical book of architecture. il *$6 Lippincott 720 16-24966

“The purpose of this handsomely made and compactly written volume is simple but very much worth while; to state in untechnical language the sources of our present day architecture. Not so much regarding the details of classic architecture as it appears in the Parthenon or the mysteries of Gothic architecture woven into a fabric like Notre Dame; but rather a clear statement of just what distinguishes classic and Gothic architecture respectively, how much of its ‘indicia’ are practically applicable to the needs of to-day. ... Most interesting perhaps are the two chapters on Native American architecture and on such special topics as ‘l’art nouveau’ and ‘modernist’ architecture, as well as the office building, modern hotel and railroad terminal. ... The second part of the book, ‘A practical guide to building,’ discusses sanely such questions for the prospective house builder as the selection of site, style and materials to be used, the choice of and relations with the architect, comparative costs of various styles and materials, and plans and interior details.”—Pub W

“A popular treatment of interest to those intending to build, to beginners in the study of architecture, and to the general reader. Covers the subject fully as an art and a science and yet may be understood by the layman. ... Has excellent illustrations, many of modern work.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:254 Mr ‘17

“The illustrations, 255 in number, are particularly good.”

+ =Ath= p197 Ap ‘17 90w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 300w

+ =Cath World= 105:836 S ‘17 210w

“The reader gets unusual delight from the illustrations, which are mainly chosen from well-known buildings in big cities, thereby making them more vital and understandable.”

+ =Lit D= 54:770 Mr 17 ‘17 300w

+ =N Y Times= 22:58 F 18 ‘17 200w

“Like Mr Talbot Hamlin’s book, which also appears at this time, Mr Price’s makes its own individual, educative appeal. Surely the man in the street as well as the trained critic should find much of practical value in such volumes.”

+ =Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:120 F ‘17 50w

“There has been no book on architecture before just like this one.” Fremont Rider

+ =Pub W= 91:211 Ja 20 ‘17 350w

=R of Rs= 55:218 F ‘17 90w

“Mr Price gives a great deal of extremely sound instruction and advice, and that with convincing point and clarity. Admirable theories or principles are eloquently argued or presented; but the unworthy, and even second-rate, examples with which he sometimes seeks to illustrate them, tend rather to damp one’s latent enthusiasm and to check one’s conversion. His English ‘typicals’ are for the most part peculiarly ill chosen and unfortunate.”

+ — =Spec= 119:14 Jl 7 ‘17 1700w

“A work which aims at and renders a service popular rather than professional. ... The public has been slow to realize that architecture is the one art from which it can not escape even if it desires to do so.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 19 ‘16 450w

=PRICE, JULIUS MENDES.= Six months on the Italian front. il *$3.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-88)

“Mr Price’s book deals with the operations of the Italian army from the Stelvio to the Adriatic (1915-1916). Mr Price is the wellknown war artist correspondent of the Illustrated London News, and he had the privilege of following the Italian armies all along their five hundred miles long front in the period which might be rightly called preparatory in their hard war.” (Sat R) “He was actually present at the capture of Gorizia and Monfalcone in 1916.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 50w

“This book is wholly reportorial and free of discussions of international questions. ... The illustrations can be endorsed without quibbling as among the best of the war yet published, when the giving of true ensemble is considered. They are rich in minutely faithful sketches of the equipment of the Italian army, and frequently achieve marked excellence in their graphic portrayals of the troops of Cadorna scaling precipitous Alpine cliffs.”

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

“It is journalistic and impressionistic in the bad sense. It is a pity to waste such excellent yellowish white thick paper and fine type, when the few really great books of the war are huddled into their cramped volumes with myopic print.”

— =New Repub= 13:224 D 22 ‘17 250w

“He makes particularly vivid, with both pencil and pen, the difficulties of warfare in the Alpine region.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 500w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:763 N ‘17 40w

“A very graphic and faithful description and comment.”

+ =Sat R= 123:413 My 5 ‘17 850w

“Mr Price is primarily an artist, not a journalist. ... He is quite frank about his qualifications as a war correspondent: an amateur at the game, knowing no Italian, not even enough to venture on an Italian phrase in his book without stumbling. ... There are a certain amount of tirades in this book against Austrian ‘frightfulness.’ ... This continual search for evidences of what we have learnt to call ‘kultur’ results often in the digging up of facts which, judged by any reasonable standard of a man accustomed to the necessities of modern warfare, are no more evidences of ‘frightfulness’ than our similar methods are evidences of excessive ‘humanity.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p188 Ap 19 ‘17 450w

=PRIESTLEY, HERBERT INGRAM.= José de Gálvez, visitor-general of New Spain (1765-1771). il $3 (2c) Univ. of Cal. 906 A16-1488

José de Gálvez, visitor-general of New Spain, 1765-1771, and later appointed minister of the Indies, was, says the author “with the possible exception of the second Revillagigedo, the most able representative of the Spanish crown in New Spain during the eighteenth century. He certainly was the most competent minister of the Indies during the Bourbon régime.” This study is limited to his years of service as visitor-general, since it was in this period, the author points out, that he gained the practical knowledge that shaped his later policy as minister. The author is assistant curator of the Bancroft library, University of California, and the work is issued as one of the University of California publications in history.

“The author has made ample use of new sources from the archives of Spain and Mexico and, in addition, has made available in English much material already published in Spanish. The volume shows a vast amount of painstaking labor and is readable and interesting throughout. It is a valuable contribution to the study of Spanish colonial institutions.” R. R. Hill

+ =Am Hist R= 23:199 O ‘17 550w

“Mr Priestley’s description of the Spanish colonial system under Charles III is admirably complete.” G. B. H.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:459 Jl ‘17 230w

“A sketch map that might profitably have contained more names, the instructions to Gálvez, a full bibliography, and adequate index complete the volume, and with ample footnotes make it a desirable contribution to Latin-American institutional history.”

+ =Nation= 105:490 N 1 ‘17 410w

“The book should have permanent value as a record of Mexican history and Spanish colonial administration.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 500w

=PRIESTMANN, EDMUND YERBURY.= With a B.-P. scout in Gallipoli; a record of the Belton bulldogs; with a foreword by Sir Robert Baden-Powell. 2d ed il *$1.75 Dutton 940.91 17-21842

“This is a collection of letters written home by a scoutmaster serving as a subaltern who was killed in action in November, 1915. There is much humor in the book, and the author’s quick perception of the grotesque is evidenced by many of his drawings, which are reproduced in connection with the text.”—R of Rs

+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 60w

+ =Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 140w

“A bubbling sense of humor characterizes them throughout and he has always a keen eye for interesting little incidents, whether comic, pathetic, or tragic, and a clever pen in describing them.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 180w

+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 50w

“The little sketches of life on the bloody peninsula are written with a sureness that commends the book to a far larger audience than the intimate one for which they were intended.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 110w

“The racy, cheery letters home which make up this volume show the Boy scout ideal at its best. ... The book is full of clever humorous little drawings by Lieutenant Priestmann himself.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 110w

=PRINCE, JANE.= Letters to a young housekeeper. *$1.35 (6c) Houghton 640 17-4601

Housekeeping ways and means are here discussed in the form of letters. The letters are in fact essays on the following subjects: Economy in the household; The budget; Servants; Maid of all work; Weekly cleaning; Family meals; Duties of servants; Behind the scenes at a dinner.

“The chapters on duties of servants and serving a dinner are specially good.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:435 Jl ‘17

“Fortunate those women into whose possession this book comes. For not only is its friendly advice practical. Its spirit is that which lifts housekeeping into that highest of all womanly avocations—homemaking. There is about it, moreover, a delicious sense of personality.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 300w

+ =Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 50w

“This little volume contains facts—general and particular—on household economy and the household budget. ... and finally the vexing matter of a ‘dinner party.’ It is a readable and valuable book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 180w

“Even to the woman who has no servants and who may be disposed to class the book as useless in her circumstances, there is more or less of helpful suggestion in matters like table arrangements, how to sweep a room properly, etc. Type and binding add to the attractiveness and value.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 13 ‘17 200w

“The directions are detailed but explicit. A book which can be unreservedly recommended for every library.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 70w

=PRINGLE-PATTISON, ANDREW SETH (ANDREW SETH).= Idea of God in the light of recent philosophy. *$3.50 Oxford 201 17-24221

This volume is based upon the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1912 and 1913. The author is professor of logic and metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. In philosophy he is an idealist. “The twenty lectures are grouped in two series. Beginning with commentaries upon Hume’s ‘Dialogues concerning natural religion,’ the author proceeds to discuss critically and fully the views of Kant, Ritschl, Locke, Berkeley, Comte, Spencer, William James, Bergson, Prof. Bosanquet, and many others.” (Ath) “Most of the chief points of metaphysics and ethics come under review.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Dr Pringle-Pattison concludes, among other things, that “for a metaphysic which has emancipated itself from physical categories, the ultimate conception of God is not that of a pre-existent creator but, as it is for religion, that of the eternal redeemer of the world.”

=Ath= p246 My ‘17 180w

“In the use he makes of the principles of continuity of process and the emergence of real differences, in his insistence on the reality of appearances and his account of the finite individual in relation to the Absolute, in his treatment of the idea of creation and his elucidation of teleology as a cosmic principle, Professor Pringle-Pattison has made an illuminating advance in the study and discussion of his subject.” R. Latta

+ =Hibbert J= 16:153 O ‘17 4850w

“The chief criticism upon Professor Pringle-Pattison’s work is rather the vagueness with which he almost invariably expounds his position. On the majority of the issues of contemporary philosophical controversy relevant to his subject it is well-nigh impossible to say exactly what his position is. ... In spite of these shortcomings Professor Pringle-Pattison’s book will be of considerable value to all interested in the perennial problem of the Divine and the human.”

+ — =Nation= 105:457 O 25 ‘17 1000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:139 S ‘17 100w

“These lectures evince the new spirit gained by twentieth-century philosophy from biology.”

+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 120w

“An able philosophic exposition of the fundamental tenet of Christianity. ... We may draw attention to his sensible and—if we may use the word—manly treatment of the problem of evil.”

+ =Spec= 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 120w

“The reader will feel a deep delight in Prof. Pringle-Pattison’s ability to handle ideal clearly, in the breadth and eclecticism of his speculation, in his feeling for the realities of poetry, and in his determination to impart to philosophy a human and practical aspect as well as metaphysical consistency.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 1300w

“Dr Pringle-Pattison’s volume will find readers in classes which in the so-called ages of faith would have turned away from it either because discussion of it seemed profanation or—what was more often the explanation of the mood of estrangement—because it was not for them a living, ever-present question. ... Each age desires its own ‘Théodicée,’ and ours is still unwritten. It will borrow, when it is composed, not a little from the pages of Dr Pringle-Pattison. ... We miss in this volume a certain unity of purpose. The author strays here and there according as the thought of the moment suggests. But, if too much a collection of episodes, the book is what it claims to be, constructive.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p184 Ap 19 ‘17 2250w

=PROTHERO, GEORGE WALTER.= German policy before the war. *$1 Dutton 327.43 (Eng ed 16-13631)

“An address given before the Royal historical society, Jan. 21, 1915. It is concerned (1) with the ideas and principles, the ambitions and motives which have produced in Germany a state of mind favorable to war; (2) with the historical events and the economic conditions which have strengthened this tendency; and (3) with the course of international politics which rendered an armed conflict difficult to avoid.” Condensed from introductory note—Pittsburgh

“Interesting but highly inconclusive is the author’s development of the militaristic theory of the state. ... In spite of its fairness of tone, the work bears the marks of special pleading, and is, as was perhaps inevitable, a partizan interpretation of history. ... The weakest point is the author’s failure to appreciate the German attitude toward the alliance with Austria.” R. H. Fife, jr.

– + =Am Hist R= 22:200 O ‘16 320w

=A L A Bkl= 13:261 Mr ‘17

+ — =Eng Hist R= 21:674 O ‘16 370w

“The introductory chapter contains the best brief statement we have seen of the development of German philosophic thought and teaching into potent ideas which are believed to influence Germans at present.”

+ =Nation= 103:444 N 9 ‘16 1150w

=N Y Times= 22:110 Mr 25 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 21:508 N ‘16 70w

“Where changing circumstances and personalities in power count for so much, it is impossible to assert positively that this or that policy was dominant at all times, and probably Mr Prothero, to prove his case, lays too much emphasis on the consistency of German intentions. He might have expanded his brief remarks upon the social and financial conditions inside Germany, and we should have welcomed his fuller views on some other points; for instance, the effects of Italy’s Tripolitan war. But he has certainly given us a concise and most readable and informing chapter of absorbing European history.”

+ =Spec= 117:160 Ag 5 ‘16 880w

“While the analysis as a whole is sound enough without being

## particularly new, it is open to weighty objection just at the points

which seem most fatal to Mr Prothero’s ‘main thesis.’ That applies perhaps most of all to the treatment of the question of Morocco, and of Franco-German relations generally.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 My 25 ‘16 1100w

=PROUD, EMILY DOROTHEA.= Welfare work: employers’ experiments for improving working conditions in factories: with a foreword by D: Lloyd-George. *7s 6d Bell, London 331.8 (Eng ed 17-4011)

“An ably written volume, dealing with means of preserving the health and promoting the happiness of workers in factories. ‘Welfare work’ is defined as consisting of ‘voluntary efforts on the part of employers to improve, within the existing industrial system, the conditions of employment in their own factories.’ Factory welfare departments and the duties of a welfare secretary are described.”—Ath

“The treatment of the subject is practical and sympathetic. Especially interesting chapters are those dealing with the industrial environment, wages and hours, and incidental aids to welfare, such as the provision of baths, gymnasia, means of recreation, and the like.”

+ =Ath= p427 S ‘16 100w

“The matter is well and methodically arranged, with copious foot notes containing extracts from both American and English authorities, and has an excellent index. There is, however, no bibliography. This would have been a valuable addition. ... Together with Mr Lloyd-George we warmly commend this book to employers, factory superintendents, and to all members of the general public interested in the future and well being of their respective countries.” G. K. S.

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:250 Ja ‘17 600w

“Her book is by all odds the most complete and detailed exposition of the subject which has yet appeared.”

+ =Nation= 105:272 S 6 ‘17 210w

“The author is an Australian of wide experience in factory investigation both in Australia and England. At present she is connected with the British ministry of munitions.”

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:345 Ap ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p8 Jl ‘17 10w

“Miss Proud is certainly moderate as a radical economist, dealing with things as they are, and trying to be a peacemaker in her chapters. But yet her radicalism shows itself, and takes her away from some questions of essential importance.”

+ — =Sat R= 122:229 S 2 ‘16 1350w

=Spec= 117:556 N 4 ‘16 130w

“The whole volume constitutes an exceedingly valuable contribution to a field where clarifying discussion is much needed.” H. R. Walter

=Survey= 37:671 Mr 10 ‘17 550w

“Her treatment of the subject is dispassionate and scientific without being cold or dry. The weakest point is the comparatively small range of observation which forms the basis of her study. It is confined to Australia, New Zealand, England, and Scotland. We congratulate Miss Proud on a pioneer book of high quality and real value.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Ag 31 ‘16 1250w

=PRÜM, ÉMILE.= Pan-Germanism versus Christendom; the conversion of a neutral; ed. and with comments by René Johannet. *$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-15439

## Part 1 of this volume is a reprint of the open letter by M. Émile

Prüm, leader of the Catholic party of Luxembourg, to Herr Mathias Erzberger, member of the Reichstag and leader of the Catholic centre party of Germany. It was a protest against the invasion of Belgium and Luxembourg and was seized and prohibited in Germany. Part 2 is an account of The proceedings instituted against M. Prüm, and in an appendix there is a discussion of The evolution of the German Catholic centre.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 300w

=Cleveland= p85 Jl ‘17 80w

“Its peculiar interest to-day comes from its account of the evolution of the Centre party and the light it throws on the Centrist leader.”

+ =Nation= 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 550w

“We recommend it to the perusal of any still unconvinced pro-German if his mind is open to consider a plain narrative of those facts which have converted a former pro-German into a vigorous opponent of German imperialism and all its works.”

+ =Outlook= 116:198 My 30 ‘17 80w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 D 28 ‘16 190w

=PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE.= Bulletin. $15 (service basis) Wilson, H. W. (16-16611)

This is the second annual cumulation of the bulletins of the Public affairs information service, described as “a cooperative clearing house of public affairs information.” The work of the service is outlined in the preface. It is “not merely an information collecting and disseminating agency. Its primary aim is to be of concrete assistance in minimizing the task of the busy librarian, professor, social worker, business man, head of department or bureau. The service carries out its activities by means of the weekly bulletins, the bi-monthly cumulations and the annual number. It acts as agent for the distribution of both free material and material with a cost, desired by the cooperators. It extends the privilege of borrowing from the collection and supplies typewritten material for copying purposes. The Service may be freely used as an information bureau.” The annual volume consists of an alphabetical arrangement under subject headings of all the material (books, pamphlets, reports, magazine articles, etc.) indexed during the year.

=PÜCKLER-MUSKAU, HERMANN LUDWIG HEINRICH, fürst von.= Hints on landscape gardening; tr. by Bernhard Sickert and ed. by S: Parsons. il *$3.50 (8c) Houghton 710 17-19173

This volume, “which furnishes a natural sequence to ‘The art of landscape gardening,’ by Humphrey Repton [1907], is the second of a series of authoritative books to be brought out by the publishers,” says Mr John Nolen in his introductory note. In addition there is an introduction by the editor giving a sketch of Prince Pückler’s life and an estimate of the importance of his contributions to landscape art. The text itself consists of chapters on: The laying-out of a park; Size and extent; Enclosure; Grouping in general, and buildings; Parks and gardens; Concerning the laying-out of the lawns of parks, meadows, and gardens; Trees and shrubs and their grouping, and plantations in general; Roads and paths; Water; Islands; Rocks; Earthworks and esplanades; Maintenance; with a second part descriptive of Prince Pückler’s park in Muskau.

“Somewhat discursive but sound advice on the laying out of parks and estates.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:157 F ‘18

“In an admirable introduction, Mr Parsons gives many delightful extracts from Prince Pückler’s letters, showing what a romantic old idealist he was. The book itself is a treasure for anyone who loves nature. It ought to have a powerful influence here in America, where city planning (of which he was an early advocate) and the laying out of parks as well as of great private estates are destined to become more and more a feature of our civilization.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 1300w

“The book is unique. It is to be hoped that the series will be continued—and that without so long an interval as has passed between the appearance of the first two volumes.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:752 O 18 ‘17 220w

“The author’s style, which has been closely followed by the translator, is poetic and original, and his method of treating the subject so near his heart removes it altogether from the region of dry and academic treatises.”

+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 280w

“The illustrations and maps are a notable feature of the volume.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:812 D ‘17 90w

=PURINTON, EDWARD EARLE.= Pétain, the prepared. il *50c (9c) Revell 17-26783

The author has written a brief sketch of General Pétain, who commanded the French at Verdun. The point of his story is that when General Pétain’s opportunity came to him at the age of sixty, he was ready to meet it, and the lesson the author draws from the story is given a wide application to American life. There is a one-page foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood.

=A L A Bkl= 14:40 N ‘17

“A book that can be read in less than an hour, containing a message of strength and cheer for all the years ahead, is surely worth reading. Such a book Mr Purinton has given us.”

+ =Lit D= 55:53 D 1 ‘17 50w

=PUTNAM, GEORGE ROCKWELL.= Lighthouses and lightships of the United States. il *$2 (3c) Houghton 656 17-13732

“This book is planned to cover, in a general and rather non-technical way, a description of the lighthouses, especially in the United States, and a history of their development.” (Preface) The author has felt it a “pleasant obligation” to bring these facts together, and he has tried to include “enough of the personal deeds of the men and women who serve humanity in the lighthouses and on the lighthouse vessels to show the fine spirit which pervades them.” Among the chapters are: Boston light and the colonial lights; The lighthouses under the United States government; Lights in the approaches to New York; Lights of the Florida reefs and the gulf coast; Lights of the Pacific coast and Alaska; Lights of the Great Lakes and the rivers; Lightships and lighthouse tenders; The light-keepers. The book is well illustrated.

“The lighthouse service may fairly be called a model of competent administration and scientific ingenuity in the general staff and of faithfulness, endurance, and helpfulness in the rank and file; and Mr Putnam’s exposition of its history, plant, equipment, operations, and personnel is also a model.”

+ =Am Hist R= 22:906 Jl ‘17 350w

=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17

“The author of this valuable, fascinating and authoritative book is the United States Commissioner of lighthouses and he has the last word (up to June 30, 1916) on a subject of vital importance.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 1100w

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 40w

“A story interesting to the engineer as a man and as a practitioner.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:563 S 20 ‘17 120w

+ =Ind= 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 60w

+ =Lit D= 55:37 N 3 ‘17 290w

“The book is written for the general reader, but one wonders whether the author would not have been well advised to assume in such readers the ability and willingness to penetrate a little deeper into the scientific phases of the subject, even at the expense of considerable mental effort. A glance at the new Encyclopædia Britannica article on lighthouses, and especially its illustrations, will suggest that the author might have greatly enhanced the value of this volume without taking it in any respect out of the mental reach of the great majority of those who were likely to read it.”

+ — =Nation= 105:406 O 11 ‘17 950w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p11 Jl ‘17 100w

=Pittsburgh= 22:663 O ‘17 10w

“While the great toil of the business machine necessary to maintain this work is not slighted, the romantic aspect of perpetual adventure with the sea fills this book with genuine thrills and recommends it to all classes of readers. The beautiful cuts of the lighthouses and life-saving stations past and present give vivid interest to this admirable record.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 250w

“Particularly entertaining are the chapters which tell of the difficulties between our own independent colonial lighthouse keepers and the early national government, and the one which gives memoirs and annals of sundry keepers, both men and women.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 3 ‘17 320w

=PYLE, JOSEPH GILPIN.= Life of James J. Hill. 2v il *$5 Doubleday 17-15184

“In the list of great railroad men whom this country has produced the name of James J. Hill will always stand as one of the greatest of them all. ... It is only a little more than a year since Mr Hill died, at the age of 78. ... Mr Pyle took up his task as biographer with the best equipment. For Mr Hill had chosen him some years before to write the story of his finished life, had turned over to him letters and diaries and other documents, and had talked much with him for the purpose of giving him a true picture of himself, his works, and his surrounding conditions in his early years. In a little prefatory note Mr Pyle says that the only instruction Mr Hill ever gave him concerning this prospective biography was this one sentence: ‘Make it plain and simple and true.’”—N Y Times

“Without displaying many of them, Mr Pyle has had access to the letters and diaries of Mr Hill, and has freely used autobiographic dictations. Only Dr Oberholtzer’s ‘Jay Cooke’ gives financial history for the railroads with equal detail and accuracy. The point of view of Mr Pyle is disappointing. Instead of allowing his evidence to tell its own story, he lays down dicta.” F: L. Paxson

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:196 O ‘17 650w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:58 N ‘17

=Dial= 63:217 S 13 ‘17 400w

“Altogether this is a book that is thoroughly worth reading both as the life-story of a successful worker of a truly American type and also as an example of what can be accomplished by honesty, unremitting endeavor, and high ideals.”

+ =Lit D= 55:44 Ag 4 ‘17 920w

“Mr Pyle has made a book that is worth while, so far as it goes. He has contrived to make a clear statement of many abstruse matters connected with the making of the Great Northern railway, and as a ‘source-book’ his biography will stand. And, upon reflection, it is only fair to admit that to put a man like ‘Jim Hill’ on paper is a task much easier to criticise than to perform. But—could there not have been a few more anecdotes, say, in the appendix?”

+ — =Nation= 105:344 S 27 ‘17 1400w

“Like most authorized biographies, Mr Pyle’s work suffers somewhat from the fact that it is all eulogium. Nevertheless, its value as the life story of one of our great nation builders is high and its interest unceasing. Young men just starting upon their careers ought to find in its pages inspiration and guidance. For, however much James J. Hill won for himself by his lifetime of work, the service he rendered his country was beyond valuation.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:237 Je 24 ‘17 1800w

“Excellent if sometimes a bit monotonously eulogistic biography, which, nevertheless, might well be in the hands of every young American.”

+ =Outlook= 116:521 Ag 1 ‘17 680w

=Pittsburgh= 22:671 O ‘17 70w

“Mr Pyle had a large subject and a wealth of material from which to select, and it probably seemed to him impossible to do justice to his theme in any smaller compass. Sometime, however, he should put this biography into about half the space at a popular price for popular consumption. It is well to have the larger work, although some parts of it seem needlessly long.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 1100w

=PYM, THOMAS WENTWORTH, and GORDON, GEOFFREY.= Papers from Picardy. *$1.50 (3c) Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-89)

Two English chaplains discuss some of the moral and spiritual aspects of war. “The papers owe their title to the fact that they were written, for the most part, during the fighting on the Somme in the summer and autumn of 1916. They are, however, the result of experience gained not only there but in other parts of France, in Flanders, and in a soldiers’ hospital at home.” (Preface) In part 1, Rev. T. W. Pym writes of the following: Some considerations as to the varying effects of war on the individual; A commentary on the soldier’s attitude to war; A study in contrasts and in the influence of reaction; Discipline—and after? Something definite; Postscript: an epitome of war. In part 2, Rev. Geoffrey Gordon writes of: The chaplain’s dilemma; Some prisoners; Active service; Honour where honour is due; In a regimental aid post; What is truth? etc.

=A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 80w

“Part 1, by T. W. Pym, seems a more broad-minded, charitable, and human document than part 2, but even that looks life’s problems fairly in the face and acknowledges the inefficiency of the modern church to meet the present needs of men. In the chapter ‘Something definite,’ we have the strongest possible exposition of the fallacies that nurture dissipation of all kinds. ‘Papers from Picardy’ has a more universal appeal and meaning than most books of the kind.”

+ =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 250w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:133 S ‘17 80w

“Both authors are undeniably sincere and both have based their conclusions on facts that have come within their personal knowledge.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 80w

Q

=QUICK, OLIVER CHASE.= Essays in orthodoxy. *$2 Macmillan 230 17-24306

“The author of these essays is chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury.” (Int J Ethics) “His aim in these chapters discussing leading doctrines of the Christian faith is not primarily apologetic. His position is that what is needed is elucidation in the face of misunderstanding. His presentations of the orthodox doctrines—those of the atonement, of justification by faith, and of the Holy Spirit—are treated not as dogmas based on authority or on scriptural texts, but as reasonable and necessary solutions of the problems of life.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“A book which has the two merits of steadiness and frankness in its Anglican outlook.” James Moffat

+ =Hibbert J= 15:677 Jl ‘17 150w

=Int J Ethics= 27:543 Jl ‘17 130w

“The chapters upon ‘The Holy Spirit as witness and sanctifier’ contain not a little good counsel upon practical problems of belief and conduct; and they are written with a freshness that makes their perusal a pleasure. In his discussion of some articles of the creed Mr Quick is, we think, less successful.”

+ — =Spec= 118:518 My 5 ‘17 1350w

“As a whole the book is certainly a singular illustration of the right method of presenting orthodoxy to a reflecting mind under the influence of the disintegrating tendencies of the day.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 D 28 ‘16 230w

“A book which is full of sound thought and always well expressed. ... These criticisms are offered just because the general argument of the

## book is so impressive, and is worked out with so much skill. Among the

numerous theological discussions to which we have been invited lately this volume has a special claim to consideration.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p64 F 8 ‘17 1000w

=QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS.= Notes on Shakespeare’s workmanship. *$2 Holt 822.3 17-14157

The papers in this volume are revised from lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge. The author says: “They seek to discover, in some of Shakespeare’s plays, just what he was trying to do as a playwright. This has always seemed to me a sensible way of approaching him, and one worth reverting to from time to time. For it is no disparagement to the erudition and scholarship that have so piously been heaped about Shakespeare to say that we shall sometimes find it salutary to disengage our minds from it all, and recollect that the poet was a playwright.” The plays studied in the first group include Macbeth, Midsummer-night’s dream, Merchant of Venice, As you like it, and Hamlet. A second group comprises plays representative of Shakespeare’s later workmanship and includes Pericles, King Henry VIII, Cymbeline, The winter’s tale and The tempest.

“A delightful addition to Shakespeare criticism.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17

“Multitudes of books upon Shakespeare have been written, but we doubt if any of them contain as much undiluted common sense as is compressed by Sir Arthur into these pages.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 1500w

“It would not serve as a text for use with high school or college students but would enrich their knowledge and add to their interest if used as a supplement to their studies, and would delight any Shakespeare lover.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 90w

“The chapters are pleasantly written observations which retain the conversational flavor of their original form.”

+ =Dial= 63:468 N 8 ‘17 70w

“In the author’s discussion of these many-sided masterpieces there is, of course, a great deal that will provoke dissent. The assertion that there is no mystery in Hamlet’s character is a hard saying to digest. We prefer, however, to direct the attention of our readers to the fine critical analysis of ‘Macbeth.’”

+ — =Nation= 105:458 O 25 ‘17 1150w

“Endowed as he is with ripe scholarship, as well as discriminating knowledge of a subject in which he has specialized for many years, Sir Arthur is quite sure of himself when he tells us how the poet wrote his plays.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 170w

=QUIN, MALCOLM.= Problem of human peace; studied from the standpoint of a scientific catholicism. *$1 Dutton 172.4 17-22690

“The author decides that a human peace can only come about through the operation of the modern mind. By an adequate scientific study of war this mind will realise that both causes and effects are hostile to that perfection in Christ which is the spiritual aim of Christendom. After a rapid elimination of alternatives Catholicism, which is said to include all that is best in eastern as well as western thought, is selected as the only antidote to the causes of war—a Catholicism, however, thoroughly overhauled by the modern mind, and then disseminated through the Roman organization. The peoples will thus be informed with the common national policy of perfection.”—Int J Ethics

=Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 60w

“The insistence laid on the part that the church might play in relation to peace is valuable.” C. D. Burns

+ — =Int J Ethics= 27:540 Jl ‘17 180w

“The book should be read by thoughtful students of religious and social movements as an indication of ‘modernism’ inside as well as outside the Roman church.” A. G. Spencer

+ =Survey= 39:201 N 24 ‘17 600w

=QUINN, ARTHUR HOBSON=, ed. Representative American plays. il *$2.75 Century 812 ‘17-4225

“Twenty-five American plays, by the leading dramatists of the country, that show the development of the American drama from 1767 to the present time. Each play is prefaced by a short biographical sketch of the author, the cast of the first performance, and other interesting detail.” (R of Rs) “Opening with the first American tragedy, ‘The prince of Parthia’ (1767), and the first American comedy, ‘The contrast’ (1787), and including works of such early playwrights as William Dunlap, James Nelson Barker, Nathaniel Parker Willis and George Henry Boker, the collection includes ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ ‘Hazel Kirke,’ ‘The octoroon,’ Bronson Howard’s ‘Shenandoah,’ Gillette’s ‘Secret service,’ and even ‘Madame Butterfly’—here first published in dramatic form. ... As illustrations of contemporary tendencies in the theatre, the book includes plays by Clyde Fitch, Langdon Mitchell, Augustus Thomas, William Vaughn Moody, Percy MacKaye, Edward Sheldon and Rachel Crothers.” (Cath World)

“Presents in a convenient form material not otherwise easily accessible. Bibliography (8p.).”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:302 Ap ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 17 ‘17 620w

+ =Cath World= 105:106 Ap ‘17 300w

+ =Cleveland= p52 Ap ‘17 250w

“If the three latest productions—those by Mr MacKaye, Mr Sheldon and Miss Crothers—had been omitted, space might have been found for Burk’s ‘Battle of Bunker Hill,’ for Mrs Bateman’s ‘Self,’ for Hurlbert’s ‘Americans in Paris,’ and for the plays in which Solon Shingle and Bardwell Slote are the salient figures. Otherwise the selection is excellent, even if the plays chosen are, many of them, little better than curiosities.” Brander Matthews

* + =Educ R= 54:84 Je ‘17 300w

“As valuable a single book for student use in the pursuit of American literature as has ever appeared. ... The material is ample and typical, the text is clear, the introductory matter is compact with discriminating information, and the whole is capped with a bibliography which is generous without being a wanton display of industry minus judgment.”

+ =Nation= 104:547 My 3 ‘17 850w

“Professor Quinn in his collection of these twenty-five representative plays, carefully and unobtrusively edited, has thrown more light on the state of public taste along the Atlantic seaboard in the last century than could be acquired from any other sort of collection.” R. E. Rogers

+ =New Repub= 10:sup10 Ap 21 ‘17 2000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:42 Mr ‘17 140w

=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 20w

“This is the first collection of its kind and its significance and value will recommend it to all classes of readers.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:440 Ap ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:184 Je ‘17 20w

“A convenient collection of twenty-five of the best American plays, which will enable the student to follow the development of the American drama, and makes possible that special study of it which the Drama league is promoting this year.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:157 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Drama League Monthly)

=QUINN, ELISABETH VERNON=, ed. Stokes’ wonder book of fairy tales. il *$2 (2c) Stokes 17-25356

This very beautifully illustrated volume contains a selection from the world’s best fairy tales, forty-two in number. An effort has been made to include all the most loved stories, among them Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding-hood, Three bears, Snow-white, Sleeping beauty, Aladdin, Ugly duckling, Cinderella, and Rapunzel. In addition two modern tales have been given the distinction of inclusion. These are “The tale of Peter Rabbit” and “The story of little black Sambo,” two stories “which have established themselves permanently in children’s hearts.” The pictures are by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.

“The size will make it awkward for circulation but it is delightful for the children’s reading table, and for a gift book.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17

+ =Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 70w

“The selection of stories seems judicious, and the texts used are direct and simple.”

+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 60w

R

=RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA) princess.= Germany under three emperors. il *$4 Funk 943 17-30068

“This account of Prussian diplomacy makes public for the first time much information regarding the Kaiser, his two immediate predecessors, and their great minister, Prince Bismarck. The author tells us how the first emperor was influenced by the great chancellor in the upbuilding of the imperial German plan, how the Emperor Friedrich, who might have modified this plan considerably, was rendered impotent by disease, and how Bismarck, ignoring his wishes, set about instilling the doctrines of militarism into the willing mind of the heir apparent. The story, as it unfolds, shows how the pupil outran the master and how the present Kaiser at last dismissed his aging chancellor and took over control of affairs himself. All this, together with the plots and counterplots that brought Europe several times to the brink of war, is set forth.”—Lit D

=Lit D= 55:49 D 8 ‘17 140w

“Princess Radziwill is by birth a Russian and, after her marriage to a Pole, she lived much in Berlin. In both countries her associations were with the court and diplomatic circles, and she knew personally many of the men and women who made the history of Europe during Bismarck’s half century of public life. Her book, however, is in no sense the gossipy chronicle which that fact might imply, but a very capable getting together and interesting arrangement of the facts of Germany’s political history since the middle of the last century, told with the vivifying touch of personal contact.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:14 Ja 13 ‘18 600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p335 Jl 12 ‘17 90w

=RAE, HERBERT, pseud.= Maple leaves in Flanders fields. *$1.75 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-10673)

“In ‘Maple leaves in Flanders’ a Canadian soldier, who hides his identity under the nom de guerre of ‘Herbert Rae,’ gives a breezy description of the recruiting of a Canadian regiment dubbed by the author ‘The pompadours,’ and what the regiment has done in the war.” (N Y Times) Admiral Markham writes the introduction.

=N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 300w

“Written in an informal style, that is full of humor. ... The work is easy and delightful reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 21 ‘17 100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 60w

=RAEMAEKERS, LOUIS.= Kultur in cartoons; with accompanying notes by well-known English writers. *$5 Century 940.91 17-31662

Louis Raemaekers is conceded to be the “only great genius who has been brought out by the war”; who is “worth two army corps to the cause of the Allies.” This is a companion volume to “Raemaekers’ cartoons” published last year. To this cartoonist the war is not a “topic,” not a “subject for charity” but “a vivid, heartrending reality.” There are over a hundred drawings whose artistic appeal is subordinated to the appraisal of them as political documents and as historic records of crimes and barbarities “which the civilized world must not be permitted to forget lest the horrors of the past three years descend upon us again.” Each cartoon is faced with a paragraph of description and interpretation by an English writer.

+ =Lit D= 55:49 D 8 ‘17 140w

=N Y Times= 22:514 D 2 ‘17 70w

“There is little artistic finesse about Raemaekers’s work. His is of the blunt pencil rather than the Spencerian pen; yet force and action are added to his drawings in ratio to the thickness of his pencil. His vigor is crushing—well-nigh brutal. But his subjects demand the brutality he throws into his work. Despite this fact, however, he has light moments.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 500w

=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.= Yukon trail; a tale of the North. il *$1.35 (2c) Houghton 17-13621

Gordon Elliot, an agent for the government, is sent to Alaska to investigate the valuable coal claims of Colby Macdonald. Macdonald is the big man of the North, and, while recognizing his brutality and ruthlessness, the North admires him and, in general, upholds him against the government. But Gordon Elliot comes representing a new order and a new social conscience which demands the conservation of natural resources in place of the reckless exploitation Macdonald stands for. The paths of the two men cross early. Elliot meets Macdonald on the boat going up. Sheba O’Neill is on the boat too, and the girl at once becomes a factor in the struggle.

=A L A= Bkl 14:28 O ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 50w

“It will be all the same to you whether you read this novel or any one of half a dozen of the same variety of the present season. It is a fairly plausible, well-planned yarn that clings to the traditions of its type and its setting.”

+ — =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 130w

“No one will question Mr Raine’s first-hand acquaintance with his ground and the zest with which he handles the theme, even if the rather narrow trail has been trodden frequently before.”

+ =Nation= 105:18 Jl 5 ‘17 170w

“The plot is put together in a workmanlike way, and contains plenty of incident.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 300w

“An echo of the famous Ballinger conservation scandal of several years ago is found in ‘The Yukon trail.’ ... It is a wholly entertaining tale which moves at a rapid, virile pace against a background of rugged mountains, wide spaces and untamed nature.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 200w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 60w

=RALEIGH, SIR WALTER.= Sir Walter Raleigh: selections from his “Historie of the world,” letters and other writings; ed. with introds. and notes, by G. E. Hadow. il *$1.40 Oxford 900

“This book contains, besides extracts from the first edition of the ‘History’ (1614), as well as some of Raleigh’s letters to his wife and others, the text of ‘The last fight of the Revenge at sea,’ issued anonymously in 1591. A biographical introduction, followed by commentaries on the texts, and ample notes, will be found in the volume.”—Ath

=Ath= p257 My ‘17 60w

“The extracts from the ‘Historie’ show what Raleigh thought on many questions of military science and statesmanship—some of them analogous to questions before us to-day, such as Spain’s aim at securing the hegemony of Europe, the contrast between the English and Spanish treatment of native races, the Spanish method of spreading false reports of victories in neutral countries, the best means of repelling an attempted invasion of England, the futility of trusting to a river or a mountain-range to stop an army, the method of dealing with ambassadors who plot against the country to which they are accredited. ... Miss Hadow’s notes are rather meagre. A short glossary of words used in obsolete senses would have been useful to the general reader or the young student. ... Attention is not called to Raleigh’s interesting use of ‘Armado’ of a ship, and ‘Armada’ of a fleet. ... The book is beautifully produced. The word ‘ingentes’ is, however, misprinted on p. 102.” G. C. M. S.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:456 Jl ‘17 550w

“Miss Hadow and the Clarendon press have done a sound service to the cause of English history and English letters. ... They have made accessible the essential wisdom and the considered judgment of one of the keenest-edged spirits of Elizabethan times. ... The book has a peculiar interest for the Englishman to-day.”

+ =Spec= 118:644 Je 9 ‘17 1350w

“In this little book the indispensable part of Raleigh’s writing is preserved.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p127 Mr 15 ‘17 1750w

=RALEIGH, SIR WALTER.= Sir Walter Raleigh: “the shepherd of the ocean”; selections from his poetry and prose. il *50c Macmillan 820.8 16-25284

“The finest and most moving poetry and prose by Sir Walter Raleigh has been edited in particular for students of literature by Frank Cheney Hersey of Harvard college. ... The selections include, aside from the introductory sketch of his life, twenty-six selections, those popularly known and others difficult to find, such as The 21st book of the lost poem, ‘Cynthia,’ written in praise of Queen Elizabeth, pages from ‘The discovery of Guiana,’ ‘A relation of the Cadiz action,’ and ‘A report of the truth of the fight about the Isles of Azores.’ Portraits of Raleigh and Sir Richard Grenville and cuts from old paintings and drawings illustrate this volume.”—R of Rs

+ =Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 50w

“A tercentenary offering. The selections are almost equally divided between Raleigh’s verse, in which he was always a gentleman, and his prose, in which he was not seldom a poet. In portions of the latter the editor has, wisely for the flavor’s sake, kept the old spelling. To include extracts from Raleigh’s trial was a happy stroke.”

+ =Nation= 104:546 My 3 ‘17 120w

+ =R of Rs= 55:214 F ‘17 180w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 26 ‘17 150w

=RAMSOWER, HARRY CLIFFORD.= Equipment for the farm and the farmstead. (Country life education ser.) il *$2.25 Ginn 630 17-12148

The author, professor of agricultural engineering in the College of agriculture of the Ohio State university, has prepared this book primarily in the interests of “the farmer of the present who is seeking information as to ways and means of making his work easier and his burdens lighter.” The book is also adapted for use as a college text. The author points out that the subject is one which has been given little attention, since the agricultural colleges, experiment stations, etc., have been so largely concerned with crop yields and the improvement of live stock. He devotes chapters to: Some principles of mechanics; Transmission of power; Materials of construction; Cement and concrete; Laying out the farm; Farm fences; Farm buildings; The farmhouse, etc., with special chapters given up to the principal items of farm machinery, The plow, Seeding-machinery, Grain-binders, etc.

=Agricultural Digest= 2:505 Je ‘17 120w

=A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 30w

=Pittsburgh= 22:821 D ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p24 O ‘17 10w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 60w

=RANDOLPH, THOMAS.= Poems and Amyntas; ed., with an introd., by J: J. Parry. il *$2 Yale univ. press 821 17-7487

“Professor Parry believes that there are external reasons for the oblivion that Randolph [1605-35] has suffered. ... One reason why he believes Randolph has been unread is that, after his death, his brother made the mistake of publishing all of his works which he could find together. For this reason the reader has to wade through even the school exercises of Randolph in order to discover his mature work. ... To remedy this, Professor Parry has reprinted about one-third of the extant works in this volume. He has tried in every sense to avoid the errors of Hazlitt. He has made no changes of his own in the text, relying in large part upon the fact that most of the readers of such a book would be those who were familiar with seventeenth century literature and able to read the early texts with no difficulty.”—Boston Transcript

“At the present time, it is too hard to find an edition of Thomas Randolph. He may be read only in rare early editions or in the faulty Hazlitt edition, which is itself long out of print. ... Professor Parry’s introduction to the volume will aid in making it of great interest to students.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 500w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17

“Randolph, like so many other of the earlier poets, would find his most enthusiastic readers in those under twenty. Their minds are more impressionable and they are not so apt to question. If you begin to question and criticise too deeply, it is a wasted task to read him. ‘Amyntas’ is juiceless, and scarcely repays reading. Dr Parry’s editorial work is finely done, and his introduction is a model.” Frank Macdonald

=N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 200w

=RANSOME, ARTHUR.= Old Peter’s Russian tales. il *$2 Stokes 17-26894

“The twenty-one stories in the book are such as Russian peasants tell their children and each other. ... The author says that the stories selected for this volume are ‘not for the learned nor indeed for grown-up people at all. No people who really like fairy stories ever grow up altogether. Their reading will convey some idea of the mental processes of the race inhabiting the broad plains and distant forests of half-mysterious Russia, and throw light on the Russian peasant’s interpretation of natural phenomena and the abode of his mythology.’ The principal illustrations are the work of a Russian artist, Dmitri Mitrokhin.”—Springf’d Republican

“Well told with humorous touches.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17

“They seem every bit worth while in their folk-lore quality.”

+ =Lit D= 55:56 D 8 ‘17 150w

+ =N Y Times= 22:512 D 2 ‘17 210w

“He tells his tales with the skill belonging to an experienced man of letters.”

+ =Sat R= 122:sup10 D 9 ‘16 140w

“The book is a unique contribution to the holiday output.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 280w

“The tales, though they are second-rate literary matter, should read aloud well. The feeling is that the author is having a pleasant relaxation.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 D 14 ‘16 70w

=RAUSCHENBUSCH, WALTER.=[2] Theology for the social gospel. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 230 17-31090

An elaboration of four lectures delivered in 1917 on the Nathaniel W. Taylor foundation before the annual convocation of the Yale school of religion. The main proposition is that we have a social gospel and what we need is a systematic theology large enough to match it and vital enough to back it. In the first three chapters the author shows that a readjustment and expansion of theology, so that it will furnish an adequate intellectual basis for the social gospel, is necessary, feasible, desirable and legitimate. The remainder of the book offers concrete suggestions how some of the most important sections of doctrinal theology may be expanded and readjusted to make room for the religious conviction summed up in “the social gospel.”

“The book is brave and direct and gathers together in lucid statement much that has been thought out in theology in the past decade. It is a combination of beautiful thought, of keen insight and of one-sided and restricted views. The social aspect of the gospel has its all-important place, but other sides of the question need to be considered in a completely philosophical work.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 15 ‘18 420w

=RAVAGE, MARCUS ELI.= American in the making. *$1.40 (2c) Harper 17-28804

The young Rumanian who writes this “life story of an immigrant” tells us that they who know only America cannot really know America, that “only from the humble immigrant” can they learn “just what America stands for in the family of nations.” And so he tells us his story from his boyhood in Vaslui, Rumania, to his sophomore year at the University of Missouri. Mr Ravage came over in 1900 and settled among his country-people in the “Little Rumania” of New York city. He began to earn his living as a peddler, and after working in a bar-room, and a sweatshop, he succeeded in educating himself sufficiently to enter the University of Missouri, though the sweatshop, he tells us, was his first university, and his fellow toilers there gave him the first stimulus towards reading books and the first introduction to radical thought. “Nothing in the way of thought-interest was too big or too heavy for this intelligentzia of the slums.” His first year in Columbia is a lonely one, save for one friend. He goes back to New York for his vacation and lives “through the last and bitterest episode in the romance of readjustment.” One year in Missouri has made him a stranger to the East side ghetto and when he goes back to college he finds that at last the barriers are down between him and his classmates—that he is no longer “a man without a country”—he is an American.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:93 D ‘17

“Mr Ravage’s story of how he became an American and why the process took so long is of especial interest and value because he brings out the non-material reasons for the difficulties in the Americanising of our newly come peoples. He makes clear the mental and spiritual non-adjustments, the constant strong pull of the old world soul. And that is something which we, with our so different heritage, find it difficult to realise.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:330 N ‘17 450w

“But not as a portrayal of the Jewish spirit nor as a recognition of its leaven, not as a study in Americanization is this book primarily arresting. It is a remarkable sketch indeed of contacts between diverse cultures, but it is not alone an ethnological sketch; it is a picture of the life of the spirit, it is literature. In its ironic restraint and subtle interpretation the book is unsurpassed, it seems to me, in the literary art of this country.” E. C. Parsons

+ =Dial= 64:107 Ja 31 ‘18 2700w

“Gives the impression of being not only a more searching but a more honest account of the process of being Americanized than has been presented by any one else.”

+ =Nation= 105:609 N 29 ‘17 440w

“Mr Ravage’s story is full of spiritual adventure. Where have we a more illuminating picture of the motives, the pathos and the fantasy, that bring people from their remote countries to America?... Surely we have had nothing like this story of the assimilation of an eager, idealistic, floundering Rumanian youth into the light, hearty life of a mid-western state university. ... In such a career we see something vital being done to America by the immigrant, as well as something vigorous being done to the immigrant by America.” R. B.

+ =New Repub= 14:30 F 2 ‘18 900w

“There is food for thought in ‘An American in the making.’ And always there is keen interest.”

+ =N Y Time=s 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 1350w

=Pittsburgh= 22:804 D ‘17 50w

“The value of this autobiography lies in the fact that the author did achieve Americanization, and from this vantage point could look back over his heartrending struggles with an eye that fully appreciated what he had lost and gained. The humor and clear-sightedness of the author, to say nothing of the colorful and stimulating style, make the book one of the most interesting products of the season.”

+ =Springf’d= Republican p8 N 13 ‘17 1050w

“[His experiences] are depicted with a remarkable command of English idioms and American sense of humor.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 130w

=RAWLINGS, GERTRUDE BURFORD.= British museum library. il $1.25 (2½c) Wilson, H. W. 027.5 17-11000

The author says: “This essay traverses some of the ground covered by Edwards’s ‘Lives of the founders of the British museum,’ and the Reading-room manuals of Sims and Nichols all long out of print. But it has its own field, and adds a little here and there, I venture to hope, to the published history of our national library.” (Preface) The chapters take up: Steps toward a national library; The Cottonian library; The Sloane bequest; The early days of the British museum; Anthony Panizzi; Later days of the British museum; Recent history of the library; Accessions by gift, bequest or purchase; Accessions through the copyright acts; The catalogue; The subject index; Some treasures of the British museum library. The appendix gives lists of some of the official catalogs and other information.

+ =Ath= p32 Ja ‘17 190w

=St Louis= 15:355 O ‘17 20w

+ =Sat R= 123:15 Ja 6 ‘17 900w

“An attractive and scholarly account of the rise and progress of the great library. ... Some of the principal treasures are well described.”

+ =Spec= 118:176 F 10 ‘17 100w

“Without being in any sense a guide the book provides readers with a brief and well-arranged survey of the contents of the national library and of the methods of obtaining access to them.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p6 Ja 4 ‘17 700w

=RAWLINSON, HUGH GEORGE.= Intercourse between India and the western world from the earliest times to the fall of Rome. il *$2.25 Putnam 930 (Eng ed 16-19470)

“Professor Rawlinson has chosen a romantic subject for his book, and, within the limits he has proposed to himself, has done justice to it. Academic India is at present very busy studying the records of the earliest periods of Indian civilization, and is discovering with just pride and pleasure that the Hindu culture had much in common with the origins of the polities of western nations. ... The old Hindus were certainly daring navigators, keen traders, and colonists in distant lands. They were skilled administrators, and possessed a copious literature dealing with all the affairs of men in organized society, and lacking only in historical accounts of their own doings. The suggestion is natural that the West may owe larger debts to India than have hitherto been recognized.”—Spec

“Needed only in large or special libraries.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:348 My ‘17

“The author endeavours to give a succinct account of his subject, which has never been dealt with as a whole in any English work, although the material has been handled by a host of writers. ... The

## book is useful as a compendious summary, and probably may reach a

second edition, when corrections such as those noted can be inserted. Others are needed.” V. A. S.

+ =Eng Hist R= 31:661 O ‘16 600w

“With much learning, but in a readable and agreeable style, Professor Rawlinson has pieced together our fragmentary knowledge from the foregoing and other sources. His volume is a handbook, not a compilation of original documents like the tomes of McCrindle. The extent of his citations and the account that he takes of recent studies in this by no means neglected field gives it, however, much value for reference purposes as well as for passing perusal.” E: P. Buffet

+ =J Philos= 14:442 Ag 2 ‘17 950w

“Those interested in the relations of East and West revived by the war will find Professor Rawlinson’s book a useful and entertaining guide to a necessary and picturesque background. ... The few errors in the book are due to the inaccessibility of a good library in India, where the author holds a chair in an Indian college.”

* + =Nation= 104:134 F 1 ‘17 950w

+ =Pratt= p41 Jl ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:377 O ‘17 10w

“Full of interesting and suggestive topics—a work that will be even more useful to Indian students than to western readers of Indian history. The book is an admirable continuation of its author’s excellent ‘Bactria: the history of a forgotten empire.’”

+ =Spec= 117:106 Jl 22 ‘16 430w

“If its facts were all known before, they were dispersed in a variety of books, and to bring them together into one cover is to do a service to a large number of people who would like to know the general results arrived at by research with regard to the relations of ancient India and the West, and who would be unable to consult the various books from which Professor Rawlinson draws.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p268 Je 8 ‘16 2000w

=REED, EDWARD BLISS.= Sea moods, and other poems. *$1 Yale univ. press 811 17-25111

A handful of verse, most of which is introspective reaction to the varying moods of the sea. The writer depicts the depression of fog, the exhilaration and tonic of the blue sea, the caprice of the sea and its freedom and romance. The writer for the time being is “fisherman, hunter, and sailor, playing with dreams by the sea.”

“These poems are well done, often very well done; the finish is complete, but they are illuminated from within. They have not the spontaneity, the abandon of an overflowing impulse. They tread a bit heavily their proper metres, overladen with a too literal expression rather than with the sense and emotion and imagination of the subject. The author rises to a higher perfection in verse than in poetry. Thus what we want is not verse about the sea, but the poetry of the sea.” W. S. B.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 300w

=Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 30w

=REED, HELEN LEAH.= Memorial day, and other verse (original and translated). *75c De Wolfe & Fiske co., 20 Franklin st., Boston 811 17-23580

A little volume whose profits are to be devoted to the work of helping soldiers blinded in battle. It contains in the first part several patriotic pieces, among them “Your country and mine,” “The Harvard regiment,” “The Grand army passes” and “A Canadian trooper to his horse.” The second group is made up of lighter verse for children. The third division includes some well-known odes from Horace.

“Sincere and varied verse, unpretentious and pleasing.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 720w

“Miss Reed is not a poet of the highest flights, nor does she profess to be, but this book is thoroughly entertaining. Her expression is consciously confined; when she does write swingingly the results are less happy. Her verse is not free from faults of rhyme and meter. But the diversity of subject matter bears witness to breadth of mind.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 280w

=REED, HELEN LEAH.= Serbia: a sketch. il $1 (5c) Serbian distress fund, 555 Boylston st., Boston 949.7 17-59

A letter from the author says that the book “aims to give the average reader a clear and concise account of Serbian history from the earliest times, with some attention to the present war.” The headings for the five sections of the book are: Serbia: starting; Serbia: singing; Serbia: seaward; Serbians; Serbia: sighing. The book was written for the benefit of the Serbian distress fund, and was first put on sale at the Allied bazaar in Boston. All proceeds from the general sale of the book also go to the relief fund.

“The book will be useful to all interested in the causes of the war. Its sale will help the Serbian fund, and it is a pleasure to recommend it most heartily, as both well-written and generally accurate.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 16 ‘16 550w

“Useful, for all its slightness, for the information it gives and the sense of personality it manages to convey.”

+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w

=REED, HOMER BLOSSER.= Morals of monopoly and competition. *$1.25 Banta pub. 338 17-13289

“The author is primarily concerned in describing the evolution now taking place in the business world, ‘one of the outstanding features of which is the change from private and competitive morality to public and co-operative morality.’ He first attempts to explain why private competitive morality has been found unsatisfactory, by a detailed account of its results under the practice of railroad discriminations in the case of the Standard oil company. Secondly, he describes the solutions proposed as evolved in the court decisions concerning railroad rebates and a fair rate of return for public-service companies. Thirdly, through a criticism of these decisions, he attempts to set forth the principles established to meet the new conditions. Then, turning from public callings to private callings, he follows a similar plan in the case of the large industrial corporations. ... The general conclusion is that industrial combinations which are doing business under the law of private callings ought to be regulated under the law of public callings.”—J Pol Econ

“The author predicts that the large industrial combinations will in the course of time come to be recognized as public service corporations, and will be subjected to regulation in much the same way that the railroads now are. But he does not make his point.” Eliot Jones

— =Am Econ R= 7:643 S ‘17 600w

“Students of business ethics will find the new book of interest as an outline of the changes which have taken place within a comparatively few years in that field. It explains the trend of the times, and is probably more or less prophetic of future changes in the matter of the regulation of business competition.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 200w

+ =Ind= 91:134 Jl 28 ‘17 160w

=Int J Ethics= 27:534 Jl ‘17 160w

“Offers a clear and simple statement of the significant change that has occurred in our attitude towards ‘big business.’” B. H. Bode

+ =J Philos= 14:613 O 25 ‘17 350w

Reviewed by C. W. Wright

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:628 Je ‘17 570w

=REED, THOMAS HARRISON.= Form and functions of American government. il *$1.50 (1c) World bk. 353 16-24343

“This book is the result of nine years’ experience in teaching government and a lifelong interest in politics. It is intended primarily for that great majority of high-school pupils who go no farther on the road of formal education and aims to deal with the principles of governmental organization and activity in such a way as to be a suitable basis for the most thorough high-school course in preparation for citizenship.” (Preface) The book is divided into six parts, preceded by an introductory chapter on Government, and why we study it. The six parts take up: The background of American government; Parties and elections; State government; Local government; Government of the United States; The functions of government.

“The author has shown remarkable skill in being brief without being misleading. A most commendable feature is the evolutionary or organic viewpoint, which finds consistent expression throughout.” A. B. Hall

+ =Am J Soc= 23:267 S ‘17 410w

“Usefully illustrated; full bibliography at chapter-ends.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:334 My ‘17

“The subject is treated from an historical point of view, but in the main each topic is brought up to date and the views are progressive throughout. ... Several errors—of fact rather than interpretation—may be noted. ... This book was in press during a period of unprecedented federal legislation, so various facts concerning the Philippine government, preparedness, military and naval academies, and the income tax are already out of date. Also, the shipping board, the farm loan board, the tariff commission, prohibition of child labor, and the inheritance tax have come into existence since the book went to press. ... There is an excellent bibliography at the end of each chapter.” F. A. Magruder

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:164 F ‘17 800w

“An admirably stimulating text book.”

+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 70w

“Teachers of civics who desire to make their instruction practical in the best sense of the word should not overlook this volume, for besides having the notable merit of definiteness Professor Reed’s volume is inclusive, well-proportioned, accurate, and readable.”

+ =Nation= 104:556 My 3 ‘17 120w

“The author of this handbook came to his task with a rather unusual equipment. A graduate of Harvard university and of the Harvard law school, he was successively a member of the bar of Massachusetts and of New York, and in 1908 was appointed to a professorship of government in the University of California. For six months in 1911 he held the office of executive secretary to Governor Johnson and in 1916 secured a leave of absence from the University to assume the duties of city manager of San José, Cal. His book, therefore, has a background of practical experience in governmental affairs.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 90w

“Among the many volumes recently put out on citizenship for school use, it is clearly one of the ablest, both in its careful preparation and clear writing. In its real appeal to the natural civic interests of the high-school student it stands alone.” R. N. Baldwin

+ =Survey= 37:616 F 24 ‘17 250w

=REELY, MARY KATHARINE=, comp. Selected articles on immigration. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 2d ed *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 325.73 17-6882

Changes in this second edition of the debaters’ handbook on immigration consist of: a revision of the bibliographies on European and Asiatic immigration, with the addition of references bringing them down to date; a revision of the section on The European war and immigration, with the addition of new reprints, and the addition of a group of references on Americanization.

=A L A Bkl= 13:366 My ‘17

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 40w

=REELY, MARY KATHARINE=, comp. Selected articles on minimum wage. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 331.2 17-6881

This volume is an outgrowth of a pamphlet issued in 1913 in the Abridged debaters’ handbook series. Like other volumes in the series it contains briefs, bibliographies and selected reprints presenting both sides of a debatable question. The explanatory note says, “An attempt has been made to choose wisely such articles as would present the question from many points of view, that of the employer, the trade unionist, the lawyer, the economist, the social worker, etc.” Among those who argue for the minimum wage are Margaret Dreier Robins, Florence Kelley, John A. Ryan, Walter Lippmann, Sidney Webb and Louis D Brandeis. Among those opposed are John Bates Clark, F. W. Taussig, J. Laurence Laughlin, Rome G. Brown and Helen Marot. The volume is indexed.

=A L A Bkl= 13:334 My ‘17

=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 40w

“An excellent handbook giving all the latest data and discussion.”

+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 20w

“The introduction, a brief sketch of the history of the minimum-wage movement, shows the compiler to be strongly in sympathy with it and to be capable of sharp criticism as regards its various phases; but the selection of articles is marked by impartiality as well as by good judgment. ... The 200 pages, including a bibliography and a good index, will be interesting and helpful not only to prospective debaters, but to the general reader desiring to get a fair impression of the considerations that have been brought to bear on this subject by representative thinkers and writers.”

+ =Nation= 104:556 My 3 ‘17 180w

“In her introduction to the volume the compiler makes a few very interesting observations. ... The literature on the subject is very extensive, and the compiler made use of the best that has been published. General bibliography as well as references to the material used, and a well arranged index, are included in the volume which makes it very convenient for the reader.” A. L. Trachtenberg

+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 530w

=Pratt= p12 O ‘17

“In all cases the material is selected with impartiality and with obvious intent to do full justice to both sides of a question.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 100w

Reviewed by Henrietta Walters

+ =Survey= 38:371 Jl 28 ‘17 100w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 30w

=REEMAN, EDMUND HENRY.= Do we need a new idea of God. *$1 (3c) Jacobs 211 17-18044

The Rev. Edmund H. Reeman is a Unitarian minister and is at present pastor of the First Unitarian church, at Trenton, N. J. He states in his preface that “there is need for a reinterpretation of life and a restatement of religious faith in the light of democratic outreach and impulse.” His book is an attempt to turn our “thoughts away from the old ideas of God as a king upon a monarch’s throne, the remote and transcendent creator and ruler of the world and life, to the thought of God as the God of all the struggle and outreach of life—the real Life-Force of the universe and the eternal toiler in the universe,—a God who needs our strength and grit and will and courage far more than He needs our tears and our penitence.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 20w

“This book makes good. ... There is a striking difference between this book and the most prominent current pronouncement on the same subject—H. G. Wells’s ‘God, the invisible king.’ Both books are good on the destructive side, with the balance decidedly in favor of Wells. Constructively, however, the British writer seems, in comparison, vague, truistic, naive, and dogmatic. ... Both writers conceive of God as finite, holding up men’s hands and being held up by them, but Mr Wells is vague in differentiating God from the Life Force and maintaining his personality, while Mr Reeman is perfectly clear in identifying the two and in giving the doctrine of divine immanence a modern pragmatic meaning.”

+ =Dial= 63:215 S 13 ‘17 600w

“Like many other dissatisfied souls, the author finds it much more easy to point out the inadequacy of the old than to lead into positive notions of the new, but his attempt is a worthy one.”

+ — =Ind= 92:301 N 10 ‘17 330w

“Much that the author says is well said, and has been said as well by leaders in scientific theology. ... Evidently he has not studied the New Testament, or seen its Revised version.”

+ — =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 130w

“This conception of God as the master spirit of struggle, the ‘eternal toiler’ of the universe, is shown to be in line with the facts of modern experience.”

=R of Rs= 56:330 S ‘17 120w

=REEVE, ARTHUR BENJAMIN.=[2] Adventuress. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-30121

Marshall Maddox, head of “Maddox munitions, incorporated,” is murdered and the model of the telautomaton, a wonderful war invention is stolen from his safe. Craig Kennedy, “scientific detective,” well known to Mr Reeve’s readers, is put in charge of the case. Several other members of the Maddox family enter into the story. The adventuress is Paquita, a little Mexican dancer in whom Marshall Maddox has been interested.

“From the very first page, where the story opens with the crack of a revolver shot, the reader is taken along through mystery, exciting adventures and deep-laid plots. The story is interesting from its many human aspects.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 310w

=N Y Times= 22:538 D 9 ‘17 340w

=REEVE, ARTHUR BENJAMIN.= Treasure train. il *$1.35 (1½c) Harper 17-15286

A dozen stories, adventures of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, who, by means of chemical analysis or some curiously and delicately devised instrument, gets at the truth of a crime and rounds up the criminal. The crimes uncovered by his laboratory methods of investigation are of the subtlest order. Some involve the use of deadly toxins,—muscarin, digitalis, and abrin from the Hindu prayer-bean which resembles snake-venom. Some cases introduce deadly gas, deadly germs and dum-dummed poisoned bullets. For every mystery there is a quick and sure solution, the way to which comes spontaneously forth from the laboratory-trained mind of this calm, clear-headed detective.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 30w

“When one considers how closely the author follows the same general formula in constructing each story, the amount of variety in them is rather surprising.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:238 Je 24 ‘17 180w

=REEVES, FRANCIS BREWSTER.= Russia then and now, 1892-1917. il *$1.50 Putnam 914.7 17-13230

In 1892 the author was sent to Russia in charge of the cargo sent by the Philadelphia relief committee to the famine sufferers. In this book he gives an account of his mission, illustrating it with photographs taken at the time. To give contrasting descriptions of modern Russia, he quotes from the writings of others, including two articles by Margaret Wintringer on the abolition of vodka.

“The book takes on the nature of a pleasing memorial of a worthy charity and is hardly more than that.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 220w

“Mr Reeves has made a pleasant and appropriate memorial of an incident in the friendly relations that have long existed between the United States and Russia, but he leaves unsatisfied those readers who expect any analysis or interpretation of Russia, or the Russians, then or now.”

– + =Dial= 63:535 N 22 ‘17 180w

“It is in the appendix to the book that we find the most useful information concerning conditions in Russia since the war began and before the Czar’s abdication. This for the most part consists of extracts from newspaper articles by other hands, and gives a fairly complete basis for contemporary judgment. Of these articles the most valuable is the paper on ‘Russia’s future needs for capital,’ by Samuel McRoberts, vice president of the National city bank of New York city.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:221 Je 10 ‘17 350w

“The book contains nothing of consequence about Russia now, and the author saw, or at least realized very little about the bureaucracy of Russia then.”

=Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 80w

=REID, FORREST.= Spring song. *$1.40 (2c) Houghton 17-8741

Four of the Westons were ordinary children. First there was Edward, something of a fop, then Barbara, a trifle priggish, then Ann, always out of breath, but so warm-hearted and kind, and last, there was Jim, a jolly little boy with a fondness for riddles. It was Grif who was different. Grif sees and hears things of which the others are never aware. He is sensitive to influences that never touch his brothers and sisters. In this story he is brought to the verge of a mental and physical breakdown by contact with a morbid and unbalanced mind. The nature of Grif’s illness puzzles everyone, but his healing is finally brought about most simply and beautifully.

“The children are well drawn, but the book will have only a limited appeal.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:314 My ‘17 350w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 21 ‘17 570w

“A heart-breaking little tale. ... And its poignancy lies in the fineness and restraint of feeling that differentiate it from the coarsely and slushily sentimental child-literature which so often appears to be ‘what the people want.’”

+ =Nation= 104:760 Je 28 ‘17 450w

“Very moving and imaginative study of the most moving of all living things: childhood laid upon the rude sacrificial stone of adolescence, and quivering to its death.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w

“The descriptions of the English countryside are very lovely, and the story holds the reader’s interest firmly from beginning to end. There is about it nothing slovenly or unfinished; the author has the artist’s instinct, the artist’s loving care, and the result is a book of distinction and charm.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:47 F 11 ‘17 400w

“More than half of Mr Forrest Reid’s story is a pure delight: the rest makes for what we are old-fashioned enough to think unnecessary sadness. ... The story of the clouding of an innocent but highly strung mind is not as horrible as that of ‘The two magics’, but it is painful.”

+ — =Spec= 118:48 Ja 13 ‘17 450w

“There are few contemporary stories of childhood reaching the artistic height of ‘The spring song.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 380w

“There are a number of very amusing scenes in the book, and the children’s characters, especially Jim and Ann are delightfully drawn. ... But the author’s intentness on the pursuing nightmare robs the later part of the book of some balance, until Grif’s delusions appear real against a rather shadowy background.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p536 N 9 ‘16 400w

=REID, SIR GEORGE HOUSTON.= My reminiscences. il *16s Cassell & co., London

“Scottish by birth and ancestry, an emigrant to Australia in 1852, and later a successful barrister, prime minister of New South Wales, premier of the Commonwealth of Australia, first high commissioner for the commonwealth and now independent imperialist member of Parliament for St George’s, Hanover square, the author of this autobiography has had an active, eventful, and distinguished career, and has rendered many valuable public services. Much of the volume is concerned with Australian politics. ... The author relates several amusing incidents.”—Ath

+ =Ath= p313 Je ‘17 250w

“As a summary of leading figures and measures in Australia it is of value, but outside of politics it is dull.”

+ — =Sat R= 123:437 My 12 ‘17 500w

“Of Lord Kitchener he says: ‘When he spoke his words were few and distinct. Some thought him cold-hearted, and so he was when he was dealing with incompetents and offenders. But his was a warm heart, all the same. He was the only man in England who used to greet me with, “Hullo, old man!” I used to feel that such a greeting meant that he thought me fit for my job.’”

+ =Spec= 118:519 My 5 ‘17 1750w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Ap 26 ‘17 60w

“It contains too many technical and statistical passages to be read eagerly by the untraveled Englishman. It has no pretension to be a history of Australia; but it presupposes in the reader a considerable familiarity with that history, for it is mainly concerned with the mechanical progress of political measures and not with the physical and social conditions that made them opportune or expedient.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 My 3 ‘17 1100w

=REINHARDT, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students. 14th ed rev and enl il *$1 Van Nostrand 745 17-8375

“More than twenty years of use under all sorts of conditions have proved the value of Reinhardt’s ‘Lettering.’ ... In the preface to the first edition the author stated that, while there were then many books that dealt with ornamental lettering, there was none which treated the art ‘from a purely practical viewpoint.’ To make good so great a lack, he set forth simply and clearly a very practical method of producing most effective results in freehand lettering of working drawings. ... The present edition has been given ‘a more rounded aspect,’ to quote from the preface, by supplying such apparent omissions as an analysis of the Greek alphabet, methods of laying out and constructing titles and by adding some practice sheets.”—Engin News-Rec

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:153 Ap 19 ‘17 150w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:463 My ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:176 Je ‘17

+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:396 My ‘17 120w

=REISS, RODOLPHE ARCHIBALD.= Report upon the atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian army during the first invasion of Serbia; English tr. by F. S. Copeland. il 5s Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-20123)

“This is a translation of the report submitted to the Serbian government by Dr R. A. Reiss, of the University of Lausanne. This material is said to have been gathered on the spot during the months of September, October, and November, 1914.”—R of Rs

=Ind= 88:284 N 13 ‘16 80w

=R of Rs= 54:573 N ‘16 40w

“The publication in this country of the work entitled ‘Austro-Hungarian atrocities’ is calculated to give a severe shock to those Englishmen who, whilst condemning and regretting Austrian policy, still preserve feelings of friendship towards the Austrians. It is a chronicle of horrors no less ghastly than that recorded by the responsible authorities of France, Great Britain, and Belgium who have inquired into the conduct pursued elsewhere by the ruthless and treaty-breaking ally of Austria.” [Earl of] Cromer

=Spec= 117:583 N 11 ‘16 2150w

=RELTON, HERBERT M.= Study in Christology; the problem of the relation of the two natures in the person of Christ. *$2.50 Macmillan 232

“In ‘A study in Christology’ Dr H. M. Relton sets out the various ways in which men have attempted to describe the person of Christ, giving prominence to a theory propounded by Leontius of Byzantium in the first half of the sixth century. His contribution to the Christological problem is found in the doctrine of the Enhypostasia. ... Leontius offered the theory that the human nature of Christ was not without hypostasis, but became hypostatic in the person of the Logos. ... Dr Relton sets out the implications of this way of accounting for the person of Christ, and pleads that it answers to the demands of modern thought more successfully than various recent theories. ... The second part of the treatise deals with the analysis of human nature in the light of modern psychology and the analysis of the divine nature as manifested in revelation. The author then considers the relationship between the human and the divine as revealed by religious experience, and shows how this helps us to penetrate deeper into the mystery of the person of Christ. The third division of the book considers various modern attempts at Christological reconstruction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

Reviewed by James Moffat

+ =Hibbert J= 15:679 Jl ‘17 140w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:95 Je ‘17

“As we should expect in a thesis approved for the D.D. degree in the University of London, the work is a learned and technical study in theology; but the problems discussed are stated with precision and clearness, and no reader interested in the subject with which it deals need fear that he may not be able to follow with advantage the arguments of the author.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 Mr 22 ‘17 580w

=RENDALL, VERNON HORACE.= London nights of Belsize. *$1.40 (2½c) Lane 17-20181

This story deals with “the unraveling of mysteries and the detection of crime by the non-professional expert,” but “Christopher Belsize was much more than a criminal investigator. He was a millionaire, to begin with. He was also a scholar, deeply versed in oriental lore; a collector, bibliophile, and a purchaser of libraries, who kept his purchases dark; and, for the rest, a young man who loved to play the part of Haroun-al-Raschid, and was possessed with a faculty of accurate and precise deduction which was indistinguishable from clairvoyance. He was recklessly generous, magnanimous, and (incidentally) benevolent. ... Being destitute of ordinary ambition, Christopher’s motive was rather the desire to ‘live dangerously.’ He asked for trouble, but he was so magnificently equipped that he seldom came to grief. Besides, on the advice of his eccentric uncle, he had practised revolver-shooting to good purpose, and—also on the advice of that mysterious relative—he had made a devoted slave of his body servant, Smith, an ex-burglar and pugilist.” (Spec)

+ — =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 100w

“The good detective story is never out of style, but ‘The London nights of Belsize’ is even better than good, for it is different.”

+ =Dial= 63:593 D 6 ‘17 80w

+ =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 410w

“The author has a wit and originality of his own. His book is ingenious, imaginative, whimsical. Conceived on popular lines, it is written with the fastidious taste of a scholar.”

+ =Sat R= 123:504 Je 2 ‘17 650w

“‘Belsize as a commentator’ is a tour de force of ironic criticism at the expense of Sherlock Holmes. But, on the whole, we like him best when he is most irresponsible, as in the delightful extravaganza of ‘The young man and the “happy” shop’—an admirable satire on the gullibility of the reading public and the methods of reviewers; or ‘The post-prandial peculiars,’ in which Belsize, disguised as a working man, is entertained by a millionaire. ... Mr Rendall has proved that the charm of sensational fiction is greatly enhanced when the author possesses style, scholarship, and wit. The stories in themselves are not above the comprehension of the average reader, but the literary bravura of their presentation will attract an esoteric audience. In fine, Mr Vernon Rendall has killed two birds with one stone.”

+ + =Spec= 118:645 Je 9 ‘17 900w

“He becomes too much of the detective and too little of the adventurer and taster of life. ... Belsize is too good for the work to which Mr Rendall has put him, difficult and dangerous though that may have been.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 My 24 ‘17 460w

=RESSÉGUIER, ROGER MARIA HERMANN BERNARD, graf.= Francis Joseph and his court. il *$2.50 (2½c) Lane 17-30309

The author of the memoirs from which Mr Herbert Vivian has made selections is the son of Francis Joseph’s court chamberlain. His mother had been a lady in waiting to the Empress Sophia, mother of Francis Joseph, and some of her stories of earlier court life are embodied in these memoirs. The tragedy of Maximilian I and the mysterious death of Archduke Rudolph are among the subjects covered.

“Those who had previously retained any optimistic illusions about the high family of Hapsburgs, of which the Emperor Francis Joseph was the decorative head, are doomed to lose them after reading the data Mr Vivian has selected.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 770w

+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 70w

Retreat from Mons. *50c (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-19810

This brief but detailed and somewhat technical account of the “Retreat from Mons” is apparently the first of a series of little books on the Operations of the British army in the present war. Field-Marshal French, in his preface, points out that the demoralization which usually accompanies a retreat was conspicuous by its non-existence.

=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17

“The author has been careful to put down as fact only what has been proved upon reliable authority to be true. In this way he leaves the controversy which rages concerning the early weeks of the war, to the controversial, and his summary of the facts will not be inconsistent with history as it is finally written.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 260w

=Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 50w

“Beneath the superstructure of official facts one glimpses heroism and sacrifice the details of which will never be known, but which distinguish the retreat above many engagements that history will note more carefully.”

+ =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 120w

“The semi-official little volume admits records are still clouded concerning the actions of Maroilles and Le Cateau.”

+ — =Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 100w

“It is solely a military history and so makes no account of picturesque incidents or pathetic or tragic happenings.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 440w

=St Louis= 15:418 D ‘17 10w

=REY, JEAN ALEXANDRE.= Range of electric searchlight projectors; tr. by J. H. Johnson. il $4.50 Van Nostrand 623.731 ES17-91

The translator in his preface points out that there is no modern and original work in English treating the subject covered by this book. The present importance of the subject has induced him to make a translation of this French work for the benefit of English readers. The author’s introduction says, “I have endeavoured to sum up the methods for range measurement, and, with the assistance of much information not previously published, the solution of the problem if not entirely elucidated, is at least advanced from a practical point of view.” The subject is treated in two parts: Illumination by electric searchlight projectors; Range of electric searchlight projectors. The French bibliography is included and the work is indexed.

“The book will not be found particularly easy for the untechnical reader, but the charts and tables are of exceptional value, although their use is not always quite obvious without pretty careful study of the text. The volume is certainly a most timely one and should prove invaluable to students of artillery practice.”

+ — =Elec W= 70:1062 D 1 ‘17 570w

“Altogether this is a very valuable and practical book. ... Mr Johnson has done his work of translation well.”

+ — =Engineer= 124:59 Jl 20 ‘17 1400w

“The work will prove of great value to engineer officers.”

+ — =Nature= 99:402 Jl 19 ‘17 420w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Jl ‘17 80w

=REYNOLDS, GERTRUDE M. (ROBINS) (MRS LOUIS BAILLIE REYNOLDS).= Castle to let. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-23550

A wild and romantic spot in Hungary is the scene of this story. Camiola France, a young English girl, has come to the place to visit a school friend. It is far off the beaten track of travel, and its one tourist hotel had been closed some years before after the inexplicable disappearance of a party of guests. There are weird tales afloat of a dragon—and there is an old prophecy concerning a fair-haired dragon slayer that seems about to be fulfilled. These mysteries fascinate Camiola, and as she is mistress of her own fortune, she promptly leases the ancient mountain castle that has stood empty for years, invites to it a party of her friends, and starts to investigate the mystery. The fair-haired young guide who acts as her companion in her search begins shortly to have for Camiola a personal interest. She is amazed at herself, and ashamed—but all this, as it happens, is part of the working out of the prophecy.

“The book is well written, the descriptions of scenery are good, and there is plenty of interest in the characters.”

+ =Ath= p528 O ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 50w

“It is a book entirely of incident—a thriller for the movie-minded.”

+ — =Dial= 63:598 D 6 ‘17 80w

“A delightfully romantic story.”

+ =Spec= 119:331 S 9 ‘17 30w

“Mrs Reynolds very skilfully balances the reader’s interest between the romance, which is of the conventionally unconventional sort, and the other elements of the situation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 170w

+ – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 110w

=RHODES, JAMES EDWARD.= Workmen’s compensation. *$1.50 Macmillan 331.25 17-18174

“This book sets forth in a style which can be easily understood by any intelligent reader the development, in this country, of the movement for compensating workmen who suffer accident in industry. It describes also the basic principles underlying compensation insurance. Inasmuch as the problems resulting from industrial accidents arose in Europe much earlier than in this country, a summary is presented, at first, of the distinctive features of the English and German methods of handling the question. This is followed by a discussion of the development of the agitation in the United States, covering the first decade of the twentieth century. ... In the appendix is found an outline of the history of the movement which resulted in the laws of New York state, the standards for sound workmen’s compensation laws recommended by the American association for labor legislation, and a brief digest of the various laws in force in each state at the end of 1916. At the close of each chapter there is a list of references covering the literature upon the main topics discussed, and at the end of the volume is a general bibliography of ten pages.” (Nation) “The author is a claim examiner in the compensation and liability department of a large insurance company.” (R of Rs)

“The demand for a concise and logical account of the movement for workmen’s compensation, and of the principles involved, is not adequately met by this volume; though its excellent forward-looking spirit, its satisfactory index, and its pretty full bibliography combine with the presentation of much material of interest and value to offset in a large degree the defects noted.” L. D. Clark

* – + =Am Econ R= 17:908 D ‘17 1150w

“Because of the simple non-technical presentation of the subject the

## book is well suited both for the student who wants a general survey of

the history and principles of workmen’s compensation without too much local and detailed study, and for the special student who needs a guide for further reading and research.” R. W: Foley

+ =Am J Soc= 23:552 Ja ‘18 250w

“No better or more readable summary of the whole subject can be found anywhere than that which this volume places at the disposal of its readers.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:792 N ‘17 110w

“This book presents a careful statement of the background and fundamentals of compensation and of its present status in the United States which should be useful as a basis for more detailed study or for a general survey of the problem. Particularly valuable are the illustrative cases and the brief digest of the essential points of laws now in force.” R. H. B.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:297 N ‘17 110w

“The book will be found extremely useful by the reader who desires to get a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the essentials of workmen’s compensation.