Chapter 6

on the constitutionality of compensation legislation is a good example of the author’s ability to present clearly within a brief compass all the important elements of a complex situation.”

+ =Cath World= 106:256 N ‘17 260w

=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 30w

“The book is carefully documented in relation to legal decisions.”

+ =Ind= 92:109 O 13 ‘17 40w

Reviewed by E. S. Gray

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:1049 D ‘17 380w

“The book is a most timely contribution to the literature of workmen’s compensation, and will be welcomed by a wide range of readers, including business men, students, and teachers of insurance, and intelligent general readers, as well.”

+ =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 420w

“The book can be heartily recommended to any serious minded wage-worker who wants to get a clear idea of the possibilities of social legislation as demonstrated in one, perhaps narrow, branch of it.” R.

+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 700w

“One valuable chapter deals with the social aspects. This will appeal to the non-technical reader by its method of treatment.”

+ =Outlook= 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 50w

=R of Rs= 56:441 O ‘17 150w

“Mr Rhodes takes an extremely broad subject and skilfully condenses it into compact form.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 360w

“Mr Rhodes has filled a timely need. ... However, in valuing his discussion of state and stock company insurance, the author’s insurance connections must be borne in mind.” Irene Sylvester

+ — =Survey= 39:46 O 13 ‘17 300w

=RHODES, JAMES FORD.= History of the Civil war, 1861-1865. *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 973.7 17-30046

Not a condensation of the author’s three volumes on the Civil war in his “History of the United States” but a fresh study which makes use of the large amount of material on that period which has come to light in recent years. Good maps and an index are included with the text.

“An excellent and readable history.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18

“The student of war politics and of mid-century American diplomacy will find much to interest him in several of the chapters, for the volume is not, as its title might imply, a mere narrative of military operations. It is a discussion of national life in all its phases during a great and critical period of American history.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:158 F ‘18 100w

“Like its predecessors, it is unusually well provided with a list of the best authorities, an ample table of contents, and a very complete index. In general, Mr Rhodes’s historical work has the distinction of frequent citations from the sources interwoven with his text, and a style uniformly clear, dignified and familiar.” L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:592 Ja ‘18 1750w

“Dr Rhodes here and there writes of certain episodes in greater detail than before; but in other places his lack of such detail is disappointing.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p4 D 15 ‘17 570w

“The necessity of compression in putting the history of the Civil war into a single volume has made impossible the extensive use of [the method employed in his larger work]. But the author’s notable faculty of summarizing without leaving out the spirit, the life, and the color of events, and the fact that he wrote out of a reservoir of knowledge of just such intimate revelations of the life of the time infuse his narrative with unusual power to re-create the time of which he writes.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:494 N 25 ‘17 1350w

“We now have in one volume of moderate compass, handsomely printed, a work on the Civil war which contains precisely what every American should know, presented with scholarship and yet always in readable style and manner.”

+ =Outlook= 117:653 D 19 ‘17 110w

“The author everywhere shows the most absolute impartiality. ... Mr Rhodes writes in his usual clear and pleasing style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 14 ‘17 500w

=RICE, ALICE CALDWELL (HEGAN) (MRS CALE YOUNG RICE).= Calvary alley. il *$1.35 (1½c) Century 17-26784

Nance Molloy lived with Mr and Mrs Snawdor, her step-father and step-mother, in Calvary alley, near the cathedral. The book tells how she grew up, how she became successively a “finisher” of pants, a factory hand, a companion to an old lady, a chorus girl, a stenographer, and a trained nurse, and how she fell in love with one of the two men who cared most for her—Dan Lewis, the factory hand, and “Mac” Clarke, whose father owned the bottle factory. Two older men who influence her life are Uncle Jed, her self-appointed guardian, and old Mr Demorest, who played the violin and taught Nance to dance.

“A pleasing story, with nice human touches that will make it popular.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 40w

“Not since Mrs Wiggs has Mrs Rice given us a book so rich in her warm humanity, her whimsicality and her catholic fondness for varieties of types as we find ‘Calvary alley.’ Yet it hints of bigger things than did Mrs Wiggs.” D. L. M.

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

“The story is interesting, wholesome, and very likable.”

+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 270w

“While ‘Calvary Alley’ has no very serious pretensions and is written in a light and entertaining style, it does sincerely reflect a certain phase of American life.” M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p15 F 9 ‘18 270w

“Mildly humorous, less crude, in its optimism than is most of its author’s work, and has quite a good deal of variety in its scenes and characters. Mrs Snawdor, Nancy’s stepmother, is a real and entertaining person.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:366 S 30 ‘17 600w

“Once in a great while one runs across a truly vital heroine in fiction—a girl who lives and moves like a real being. Such a heroine is Nance Molloy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 360w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 130w

=RICE, CALE YOUNG.= Trails sunward. *$1.25 Century 811 17-10356

This new volume of poems has a brief preface in which Mr Rice discusses recent trends in poetry. “Never has poetry tried so hard to be prose as at the present time in America,” he says, and he adds that the apparent revival of interest in poetry may be of brief duration. “No poetic public will long give attention to a realism which makes the mistake, common to all shallow realism, of neglecting passion, imagination, charm and nearly all the permanent qualities of any true poetry.” Among the poems included in the collection are: The trail from the sea; The chant of the Colorado; Mountains in the Grand Canyon; Hafiz at forty; a group of Songs to A.H.R., and a group of “Metaphysical sonnets.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17

=Ind= 91:108 Jl 21 ‘17 170w

“Even in our day Mr Rice has the eccentricity of writing like a gentleman. ... I rarely use the term ‘sublimity,’ yet in touches of ‘The foreseers,’ particularly in its cavern-set opening, I should say that Mr Rice had scaled that eminence.” O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:401 O 11 ‘17 380w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 470w

“The years have increased his power to write exceptionally beautiful lyrics of perfect melody.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17

“In a day of petty heresies, Mr Rice stands forth as a declared champion of orthodoxy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 200w

=RICE, GRANTLAND=, ed. Boys’ book of sports. il *$2 (1½c) Century 796 17-25763

The selections in this volume have been chosen “from the best sporting stories that St Nicholas has produced in the last twenty years.” They include descriptive articles, among them a series on baseball by Billy Evans, a special article on pitching by Christy Mathewson, articles on football by Parke H. Davis, golf by Francis Ouimet, and tennis by J. Parmly Paret. In addition there are short stories by Leslie W. Quirk, Ralph Henry Barbour and others.

=A L A Bkl= 14:174 F ‘18

“Boys of ten to any age will enjoy this collection.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 40w

“It is an encyclopedia, a treasury of outdoor tactics and accomplishment. Everything you want to know about things in the open, from fishing to aeroplaning, is here.”

+ =Lit D= 55:57 D 8 ‘17 100w

Reviewed by H. B. Nagler

+ =N Y Call= p14 D 8 ‘17 290w

=RICE, GRANTLAND.=[2] Songs of the stalwart. *$1 Appleton 811 17-29998

The author who is known as a writer on outdoor sports appears in this book of poems in a new guise. Songs of somewhere back; Songs of courage; Songs of the off-trail; Songs of the game; and Songs above the drumfire, compose the contents. There is an appreciative foreword by Irvin S. Cobb.

“One would almost say that his art, simple, glowing and precise as it is, was altogether too fine for some of his themes and subjects; but this is not so, because nothing is too common for the spirit of poetry to light and reveal. This book is literature, an honor to the man who made it, and a delight to the reader who receives it. And Mr Rice stands quite alone in his achievement.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 430w

+ =Lit D= 55:30 D 22 ‘17 140w

“Irvin Cobb writes: ‘One of these days they are going to elect a successor to the late James Whitcomb Riley as the most typical writer of homely, gentle American verse. I have my candidate picked out. His name is Grantland Rice.’”

+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 130w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 11 ‘18 350w

=RICE, WILLIAM NORTH.= Return to faith, and other addresses. *75c Abingdon press 16-23597

“This slim little book, five addresses in all, taking title from the first, [does not present] the return to faith as due to many remarkable verifications in newly found records, of old traditions, nor to geological evidence that the biblical order of creation, interpreting a ‘day’ as this or that number of thousands of years, is now found scientific, nor to any similar finding of pseudo-scientific abracadabra. The return to faith is due to a belief in the man Jesus.”—Dial

“Dr Rice represents the higher religious convictions of most liberal Christians. His book is remarkable for the unconditional and intelligent acceptance of science with all its implications. There is no string either to his science or to his religion.”

+ =Dial= 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 240w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 130w

=RICHARD, PAUL.= To the nations. *$1 (8c) Pond 172.4 17-10558

This little book, translated from the French, with an introduction by Rabindranath Tagore, sets forth a view of the war as a conflict which the old social order is waging against itself. “The war has a purpose, even if the belligerents have none. It has a purpose to which none of them would care to attain, but which all will be forced to realize at last. This purpose is very simple: the old evil must be destroyed down to its root, the old foundations of the life of the people must be torn up, and replaced by the foundations of a better and truer civilization.” Revolutions are predicted for every country in Europe, altho the author hesitated to say which would be first. In the second part of the book he discusses the new ideals that must guide the reorganized nations.

=RICHARDS, H. GRAHAME.= Shadows. *$1.40 (1½c) Dodd

The novel ends under the shadow of the war, and the later chapters are in striking contrast to the peaceful scenes of the beginning. A quiet neighborhood in Wales is the setting. A small group of children, with Hilda and Gwaine Brennan and Ronald Clinton as its center, are the characters. Hilda is the beautiful one of the two, but Ronald never wavers in his devotion to Gwaine, his little comrade. There is a long separation, however, when, after a disagreement with his grandfather, he goes to London to earn his living as a writer. The war comes and he enlists as a private and the reconciliation with his grandfather and his return to Gwaine come only after the fierce and bitter experiences of the first months of the war. These scenes are made very real, and Hilda’s fate, a minor incident in the tragedy, helps bring home the far-reaching consequences of war.

“In later chapters of the book we have some of the most vivid descriptions of battle which have found their way into fiction. It is first hand description, we imagine.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 Je 16 ‘17 250w

“One of those books which just fail to attain excellence—and only just. A few improvements and it would become a really notable novel. There is in it much of charm, of feeling, of human quality. ... But every now and then comes a false note, a note which jangles, jarring upon the reader’s every nerve.”

=N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 500w

=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).=[2] Abigail Adams and her times. il *$1.35 Appleton 17-30245

“Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, and hence the first mistress of the White House. But even if she had never had a part in official life, she was one of the most interesting women of her time and well deserves a biography. Mrs Richards tells the story of her childhood and later life from the diaries and letters that were written by her, and which deal with much of the real history of the period. Mrs Richards is a daughter of the late Julia Ward Howe.”—R of Rs

=Lit D= 56:35 Ja 12 ‘18 270w

+ =Lit D= 56:38 Ja 26 ‘18 80w

“A fascinating story of colonial times; fascinating to those who are interested in the details which make up the major part of all human lives, but are absent from most histories. The author has shown both skill and discretion in keeping herself in the background and composing her story mostly of the diary of the husband and the letters of the wife. The biography is almost an autobiography.”

+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 80w

=R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 80w

“The book is offered as of special interest to girls; it surely has the qualities of a successful appeal to a far larger constituency.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 1 ‘18 290w

=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Elizabeth Fry—the angel of the prisons. il *$1.25 Appleton 16-19822

“How Elizabeth Fry by the simplest beginnings wakened England at the commencement of the last century to the horrors of the prison system is told by Laura A. Richards in a short life written for girls. The ‘angel of the prisons’ was one of a noted family, the Gurneys of Earlham, ‘gay Quakers’ whose household of young folk was a merry one.” (Ind) “The book is largely composed of extracts from the journals of Elizabeth Fry and her sisters, which account for the vividness of the picture it gives.” (Survey)

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:270 Mr ‘17

“The pleasant style of the connecting narrative and the vitality and humor of the original material will establish this biography as a rival of the author’s ‘Florence Nightingale’ in its interest for young people.”

+ =Cleveland= p160 D ‘16 50w

“An inspiring book.”

+ =Ind= 88:405 D 4 ‘16 70w

=Pittsburgh= 22:670 O ‘17 40w

=St Louis= 14:441 D ‘16

“The utter inability of the reader to tell how much of this book is fact and how much is Mrs Richards’ is its chief defect. My guess is that it will entrance many a child and tell him absorbing things that he will not learn in his school history.” W. D. L.

+ — =Survey= 38:76 Ap 21 ‘17 230w

“A popular, entertainingly written biography, designed for young girls. It is, however, less suitable for the youthful than for the adult mind because of the introspective nature of Mrs Fry’s journals, and the unfamiliar people and customs to which there is frequent reference.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:125 Ap ‘17 30w

=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Pippin, a wandering flame. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-9251

“Pippin is, indeed, a queer name for a boy, but, inasmuch as he has never known any other, that is the only one he is called. His story is the unusual one of an orphan boy, brought up in the underworld, instructed in all its vices by expert teachers, and his ultimate imprisonment for three years. The larger part of the book is concerned mostly with Pippin after his release from prison, where he has gotten religion and ‘found the Lord.’ His genial personality, brought out by the humane and intelligent prison chaplain, and his beautiful singing voice win for him many kind, helpful friends and a lovely bride. The story ends just as it should, with Pippin and his bride sitting down with friends to a merry wedding breakfast.”—N Y Call

“Pleasant and harmless.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17

“Of Mrs Richards’s many charming stories none is more so than this. Its unquenchable optimism and sincerity warms one’s heart.”

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

“While this book may be read and appreciated by adults, we feel reasonably sure that it will appeal greatly to thirteen or fourteen year old youngsters, who will follow the experiences and successes of the hero, Pippin, with much interest.” M. G. S.

+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 190w

“The book is cheery and sweet without being sentimentalized. It is a ‘story,’ of course—not a piece of ‘gripping realism.’ But as a story it is wholesome and often unusual, and it is thoroughly readable.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 420w

“The spirit of moral uplift runs riot in ‘Pippin.’ The story is told in a partly illiterate jargon that frequently wearies the reader, and with an excess of sentimentality. But Pippin’s adventures have a measure of interest, and his optimism is engaging.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 280w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 70w

=RICHARDSON, DOROTHY M.= Pilgrimage: Backwater. *$1.35 Knopf

“In ‘Backwater’ Miss Dorothy Richardson continues the life story of a young English girl which she began in ‘Pointed roofs.’ Miriam Henderson was then—many years before the war—a teacher in a German school in Hanover. She is now home in England. She is just eighteen, ‘has put up her hair to-day’ in preparation for her career as a resident governess in a school for the daughters of gentlemen. ... Miriam’s is not a very large world, with its family of sisters, their chaff and slang and raptures, their music and books and friends and lovers. ... Nor is there much incident in it—the last gay little dance before the crash, the few weeks’ seaside holiday at Brighton, the visit to the Crystal palace on firework night, and the raw, noisy, suburban routine at Wordsworth house. ... Miss Richardson’s tacit but essential assumption is that life is an intensely real and rich, a desperately complex and wonderful, experience, however commonplace its circumstances may be.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Miss Richardson promises to be a writer of unusual power, a little too consciously clever, perhaps, but one to whom we may look for work of real value.”

+ =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 200w

“Our interest in the book, which is considerable, would be increased if it were more coherent. The author has a curious gift of vision, and it is this that makes her heroine real and attractive, in spite of whimsies. ... The author’s subtlety is over-strained now and again, but it includes some acute criticism of life.”

+ — =Sat R= 122:138 Ag 5 ‘16 320w

“This novel is a piece of the purest and, in a sense, barest impressionism. If in its steady obedience to its chosen truth it fails, as we think it will sometimes fail, to convince its readers of its verisimilitude, then so far that impressionism has defeated itself. ... But such systematic sincerity as Miss Richardson’s is a profound and affecting thing to share in.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p358 Jl 27 ‘16 500w

=RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL, pseud. (MRS JOHN G. ROBERTSON).= Fortunes of Richard Mahony. *$1.50 (1c) Holt 17-23332

“This is a study of a man of reserved, though lovable disposition. We first meet him as a storekeeper in Ballarat [Australia] during the gold craze. Later he makes a success as a doctor; and finally we leave him on his way to England, still in search of an environment suited to his character.” (Ath) “The English edition, issued by William Heinemann, who has evident and steadfast faith in this writer, indicates that Henry Handel Richardson is the author of ‘Maurice Guest’ and ‘The getting of wisdom,’ and that ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ is only the first novel in a series; Book 1 of ‘Australia Felix.’” (Bookm)

“Good descriptions of Australia sixty years ago.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18

=Ath= p47 Ja ‘18 60w

“‘Maurice Guest’ and ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ are two books that discriminating readers should know, and ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ is a name that, long since known on the continent, through the various translations of ‘Maurice Guest,’ should not any longer be unknown to America.” Edna Kenton

+ =Bookm= 46:580 Ja ‘18 1850w

“The faults and merits of ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony,’ are so evenly balanced that it is not nearly so distinguished as if it were a little better or a little worse. ... There are few stories beyond those of the ‘Boy bush-ranger’ type which deal with life on the Ballarat goldfields in the ‘50s; so Mr Richardson’s treatment of this subject in the manner of the twentieth century realist is by no means unacceptable on the score of novelty. Richard Mahony is himself a creation to be proud of, a character but never a caricature.” J. F. S.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 700w

“As a satire, in historical perspective, on the pedestrian soul of the mid-Victorian young gentleman, it would be fairly amusing. But its author is not satirical.”

– + =Dial= 63:596 D 6 ‘17 480w

“It is a strictly realistic piece of work, conscientious, carefully wrought; of plot it has very little, and there is no very especial drama of character. ... They are real people who move through Mr Richardson’s pages, and the events which occur are simple and natural. ... It must be admitted that at the end one has the feeling of having traveled a long way without getting anywhere in particular. But the road has its attractions.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:360 S 23 ‘17 480w

“The author reminds us again and again of the late William de Morgan, with his inconsequence, his eye for the apparently trivial that counts for so much in life, his flashes of humour, and his occasional fragments of excellent narrative. ... He shows wonderful insight into character, and he describes the Australian scenery and the rude conditions of those days as vividly as if, like Richard Mahony, he hated them. ... In Mahony’s circle Mr Richardson gives free rein to his comic sense.”

+ =Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 900w

“Takes one or two daring plunges into the slough of naturalism. These spots remain red on the memory of the reader in rather unpleasant contrast to the sleepy flatness of the rest of the tale. ... As a series of character sketches, ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ is excellent. Indeed, Mr Richardson is often successful in arousing that sense of exasperation which is the test of good character drawing.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 530w

“Very long, never for a moment exciting, and continuously interesting. ... The novel gives the impression of a large grasp on life and a steady hand.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p416 Ag 30 ‘17 480w

=RICHARDSON, ROBERT CHARLWOOD.= West Point. il *$2 (3c) Putnam 355.07 17-25795

This “intimate picture of the National military academy and of the life of the cadet” is by the late assistant professor of English at West Point, now a captain in the United States army. The first two chapters give a brief history of the academy. The appendix, which is reprinted from the Official register of the United States military academy, 1916, gives information relative to the appointment and admission of cadets. There is a foreword by Major-General Hugh L. Scott.

=ALA Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18

“Mr Richardson does not give all his pages to war. The peculiar charm of life at West Point is not forgotten, and traditions and customs receive ample space. The beauty of the buildings, the loveliness of the setting, are competently handled. The illustrations are many and well chosen.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 20 ‘17 450w

“Exactly the book for the boy seeking an appointment.”

+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 30w

=Ind= 92:61 O 6 ‘17 100w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 130w

“This interpretation, drawn from the author’s own experience and from many conversations with cadets of to-day, is exceedingly well done, and makes the book valuable to all loyal Americans.”

+ =Outlook= 117:476 N 21 ‘17 130w

“It is regrettable that the author makes no mention of the important contribution of West Point to engineering and scientific education. It is perhaps not generally known that for twenty-two years (1802-24), the Military academy was the only technical school in this country. ... Its graduates, in civil life or in the army, built most of our early railroads, ran our surveys, constructed our canals, lighthouses, and public buildings. ... A more intangible want will be felt in reading the book by those who know the academy well. ... The graduate will not quite feel that it breathes the living, exultant, fighting spirit of his Alma mater.” S. C. Godfrey, Major, Corps of engineers

+ — =Pub= W 92:813 S 15 ‘17 670w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 380w

=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Brown study. il *$1.25 (4c) Doubleday 17-11704

The minister of a rich and aristocratic church, ordered to take a rest, does so in an out of the way corner of the city, where he can live in close neighborliness to the poor and lowly. The story tells of his life among his new friends, of his decision to remain with them, and of the choice a beautiful girl makes between her love for him and a worldly career.

=A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17

“A pretty and measurably conventional romance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 30 ‘17 110w

“The little story is told in rather a disjointed way, and lacks the charm and the suggestion of homelike, everyday life which made certain of Mrs Richmond’s books such pleasant reading. The whole thing seems forced. ... However, it has some agreeable touches.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 250w

=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Red Pepper’s patients; with an account of Anne Linton’s case in particular. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-24403

The masterful, quick-tempered, kindly, red-headed doctor who figured in “Red Pepper Burns” and “Mrs Red Pepper” has become the most popular physician and surgeon in a small suburban town. Some of the patients whose stories are interwoven with his are his old friend, Gardner Coolidge, a starving young Hungarian violinist; Anne Linton, the book-agent with hair to match “Red” Pepper’s own, who has a bad attack of typhoid fever, and about whom clings a mystery; Jordan King, badly hurt in an automobile accident; and “Red’s” old enemy, Dr Van Horn.

=A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 70w

“As usual, Mrs Richmond makes all her people handsome and interesting and angelic, such paragons of beauty and behavior that they seem hardly to belong in the naughty world that most of us know.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:361 S 23 ‘17 360w

“Romantic and likely to be popular.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =Pub W= 92:802 S 15 ‘17 330w

“This is the third volume Mrs Richmond has devoted to the far-reaching services of the auburn-haired doctor, but as yet the tone of artificiality which so often appears when a single character is made the center of a series of stories is conspicuously absent.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 300w

=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Whistling mother. il *50c (11½c) Doubleday 17-22303

“Mrs Richmond puts her little tale into the mouth of a boy who has enlisted in the army. He tells in engaging boyish style just what happened when, having decided he must go, he left college, where he was in his junior year, and went home for twenty-four hours to say good-bye. ... And through all the trial of the visit home and the last good-by his mother was ‘a thorough sport.’ ... He was in the habit of calling her his ‘whistling mother’ because she could whistle ‘like a blackbird,’ and they had a whistling call for each other of which the music and the words form the heading of the little story.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 30w

“Exceedingly well written.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 250w

“Artistically, it is the best thing Mrs Richmond has ever done.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 220w

=RICHMOND, MARY ELLEN.= Social diagnosis. *$2 Russell Sage foundation 361 17-13224

This book for social workers is a study of methods of case work as applied by various charity organization societies. The author’s aim has been to make some advance toward a professional standard. She believes also that the methods devised in social work, as here set forth, will be of value in other fields, such as medicine, education and industry. Part 1 deals with Social evidence, with chapters on: Beginnings, The nature and uses of social evidence, Testimonial evidence, etc. Part 2 takes up The processes leading to diagnosis, considering The first interview, The family group, Outside sources, etc. Part 3 is devoted to Variations in the processes, with chapters given to certain special cases, the blind, the feebleminded, etc. Special tables have been prepared for the volume, and there is a bibliography and a good index.

“The questionnaires [part 3] represent the experiences of many experts and will probably set the standard for a great deal of such work in the future.” W. H. Heck

+ + =Am Econ R= 7:899 D ‘17 970w

“It is the only comprehensive textbook on social work in relation to the individual or family ever written. The book dignifies all social work and marks its first steps on the road to becoming a profession.” Amelia Sears

+ + =Am J Soc= 23:261 S ‘17 680w

“It should form the basis for intelligent study even in small communities and will be invaluable to the individual engaged in case work.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17

“Some workers would be spurred to greater efforts from reading this book. Others, and particularly beginners, might throw up their hands in despair. There is no case worker who could not be helped from the reading of this book. He will realize how far he still has to travel.” W: B. Bailey

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:771 N ‘17 440w

“A valuable contribution to social literature. It is rich with suggestions but is too long drawn out. It could have been just as ‘meaty’ with fewer pages and certainly it would have been more readable and more read.” G. F.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 450w

=Cleveland= p93 Jl ‘17 90w

“She has produced a book remarkable for the accuracy of the methods outlined for the social worker and for the detail and thoroughness with which she has gone into the subject of measurements in one phase of life,—the pathology of social adjustment.”

+ =Dial= 63:458 N 8 ‘17 260w

“The author is remarkably successful in holding a proper balance between generalization and example. But it is a thousand pities that the most valuable of these examples are tucked away in pages of type so small that a considerable body of readers will probably skip them altogether. ... Miss Richmond has felt it best to exclude a study of the client’s religious life. She has felt that one could adequately diagnose and serve the needs of a human being without knowing just what his religion or irreligion means to him. In my opinion this is an impossible attempt.” R: C. Cabot

+ — =Ind= 91:348 S 1 ‘17 1000w

“With this book social welfare work has ceased to be a mere body of traditional practices and is in a way to become a science. Although it was written primarily for a special class of social workers, ‘Social diagnosis’ will interest every student of the social sciences who believes that sociology is ever to be anything more than a philosophy of history or an appanage of social psychology.” R. E. Park

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:952 N ‘17 960w

“No social worker who hopes to rise in the profession ought to be without this book; and no student of applied sociology should fail to pore over it.”

+ =Nation=104:717 Je 14 ‘17 330w

“Miss Richmond has given authoritative and exhaustive treatment to a vexed problem in its fundamental aspects.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:217 Je 3 ‘17 450w

=Pittsburgh= 22:688 O ‘17 20w

=Pratt= p12 O ‘17 30w

+ =R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 60w

“The book is nothing if not concrete, and in the preliminary fields to which it has confined itself it is exceedingly comprehensive.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 4 ‘17 280w

“This is an admirable book, which deserves to be read and pondered far outside of the circle for which it was immediately intended.” Roscoe Pound

* + =Survey= 39:254 D 1 ‘17 1000w

“Every social worker in towns of 10,000 should either own it or be able to consult it in the library.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:215 Jl ‘17 60w

=RIDDELL, WALTER ALEXANDER.= Rise of ecclesiastical control in Quebec. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$1.75 Longmans 277.1 16-22304

“The book tells how the economic, ethnic, and political conditions which have prevailed in the province of Quebec led up to and made possible the strategic position of the Roman Catholic church in Canada. The aim of the author, to use his own words, is ‘to present sufficient source material to afford the general reader a basis upon which to form an adequate judgment of the sociological and historical origins in Quebec which have been responsible in a large part for the present racial situation in Canada as a whole ... and to show their relation to the growth of the church itself.’”—J Pol Econ

“The author has examined the marriage registers in more than eighteen hundred cases and finds that the colonists, so far as these records give indication, came with a fair degree of evenness from all over France. This is data which the historian of the future cannot afford to overlook. The real service of the book is performed in the last two chapters, where there is more attention to history and less to sociology. The early rise of church influence in the affairs of New France and its later decline during the first half of the eighteenth century are traced out with care and clearness. The position of the church when Quebec passed into British hands ... all these things are explained fully and with judicious temper. While Dr Riddell has used good materials, the tendency to be inaccurate in little things is a serious blemish.” W: B. Munro

+ — =Am Hist R= 22:720 Ap ‘17 650w

“This book throws much light on the present socio-political situation in Canada. The barrier that has grown up between the English- and French-speaking people, largely through the instrumentality of the church, promises to be one of the most serious control problems which the dominion government has to face.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:636 Je ‘17 500w

“Even in a field adorned by the brilliant pens of Parkman and Fiske the work before us must take a very high place from its sound scholarship, abundant references to authorities, and good writing. ... Dr Riddell’s book can never be ignored by any serious student of the history of this continent.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 38:575 S 29 ‘17 280w

=RIDDELL, WILLIAM RENWICK.= Constitution of Canada in its history and practical working. (Yale lectures on the responsibilities of citizenship) *$1.25 Yale univ. press 342 17-15183

“An interesting study of the constitution of Canada in its historical and practical aspects. ... A full comparison of the Canadian constitution with that of the United States shows very clearly the differences between the two systems. The book is written with as little technical language as the nature of the study permits.” (Ontario Library Review) “Each of the four lectures has a full and valuable appendix, containing much material which the requirements of the lecture platform apparently prevented from being included in the body of the work.” (Springf’d Republican)

=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17

“So far as his own land is concerned the author is on sure ground; but his knowledge of constitutional law as administered by the courts in this country is by no means of the same high order.” W: B. Munro

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:781 N ‘17 480w

“The brevity of the book is such that only an outline of historical development is possible. Furthermore, the subject is treated with a nonlegal audience always in mind. The student of history and government, as well as the student of law, will gain little from the volume. Generalizations are indulged in with much freedom, and some are open to question.”

+ — =Dial= 63:276 S 27 ‘17 180w

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:109 My ‘17 50w

“Justice Riddell is to be thanked for his painstaking and highly simplified summary of Canada’s history and present government. It begins where the majority of educated Americans will find a beginning desirable—at very elementary facts. Students of jurisprudence will be

## particularly interested in Justice Riddell’s views on the decision of

the Supreme court in the Dartmouth college case, which are quoted in full in an appendix.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 2 ‘17 830w

=RIDER, BERTHA CARR.= Greek house; its history and development from the Neolithic period to the Hellenistic age. il *$3.25 Putnam 722 16-24977

“The excavations of recent years in Crete, Asia Minor, Delos and other islands, and the Greek mainland, have brought to light a wealth of material for the study of house-planning in Greece both prehistoric and historic. Unfortunately, this material is least abundant for the period when we most of all desire it—the classical epoch of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. On the other hand, it is remarkably copious in the period which begins with the dawn of civilization in the Aegean, and ends on the threshold of the Homeric age. ... Miss Rider has endeavoured to embrace within her grasp the whole of this material, and to bridge the central gap by means of literary evidence.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =Dial= 61:482 N 30 ‘16 130w

“The chapter on Homeric palaces is of especial value to the student, with its discussion of Homeric terms and phrases.”

=Lit D= 54:204 Ja 27 ‘17 250w

“The principal value of the book lies not in its advocacy of a theory, but in the excellent summary which it presents of a large special literature, mostly scattered in periodicals. ... Miss Rider shows the specialist’s fondness for technical terms, which may occasionally prove an obstacle to the non-professional reader. On the whole, however, the book is extremely well written. ... We must register one protest—against the price of the book, which seems excessive for a volume of this size, illustrated only with line cuts.”

* + =Nation= 104:191 F 15 ‘17 600w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:169 N ‘16

=Pittsburgh= 22:316 Ap ‘17

=Pratt= p32 Jl ‘17 20w

“By no possibility can it ever be a popular book; it is far too specialized and technical in its scope and treatment. ... There can be no question about the research and scholarship that have gone to its making. ... Miss Rider is doubtless writing for fellow archæologists as learned as herself—for the already converted, to whom her unadorned statements of fact will seem more excellent than any charm of style.”

+ =Spec= 117:sup607 N 18 ‘16 400w

“Her presentation of the facts is clear and accurate, and the plans with which her text is illustrated are well chosen, nothing essential being omitted.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p424 S 7 ‘16 850w

=RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT.= Madame Prince. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 16-24204

Madame Prince is a dressmaker in a London suburb. She is a capable and level-headed business woman and the mother of four children. We are told something of her early struggles, but these are past when the story opens. The three girls are old enough to act as their mother’s assistants in the shop and Richard, the boy, is finishing school. The cares that meet Madame Prince as the story progresses are those of the mother of grown-up children, and they spring largely from the unconscious selfishness of youth. But there are joys that compensate.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:357 My ‘17

“A superfluity of detail is noticeable, and there are some trivial incidents; but a bright tone predominates, and much of the book is true to life. The novel is amusing, and a good example of the author’s style.”

+ =Ath= p481 O ‘16 70w

“Quiet as the humor of the book is, it is also compelling.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ‘17 400w

“Mme Prince wins and holds the reader’s sympathy, holds it from the first page to the last. ... The story is related with a good deal of humor and charm. ... It is life as a very, very great number of people—the majority, perhaps—know it, which is portrayed so deftly and so veraciously in these pages.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:54 F 18 ‘17 450w

“We see Madame Prince clearly, she is the mother woman existing only for her children. The children exist only for her, but in another sense; we do not see them clearly, because the author confines himself to describing such actions of theirs as throw light on the mother’s character, without confining himself further to such as are mutually consistent. ... Mr Pett Ridge has another bait in addition to his story, and that is his gift for writing crisp dialogue.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p500 O 19 ‘16 400w

=RIHBANY, ABRAHAM MITRIE.=[2] Militant America and Jesus Christ. *65c (8c) Houghton 172.4 17-31542

The author of “The Syrian Christ” has written this book to show that Jesus Christ would not have been a non-resistant in the present war. He says, “I do not so know Christ. I do not believe the New Testament presents such a hopelessly and helplessly neutral Christ.” Such pacific sentiments as “Blessed are the peacemakers” were the utterances of normal times and are no more to be taken as an expression of an attitude toward war than were the pacific sermons and baccalaureate addresses common in America a decade ago. These later authors have now been put to a test which Jesus was never called on to face, since no such crisis as the present arose in his day. The author feels that after an examination of other New Testament passages, “even a pacifist must see that while our gospel is a message of peace, it is not a message of helpless submission to rapacious aggressors.”

“A vigorous answer to those pacifists who seek to entrench themselves behind the teachings of Jesus.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 15 ‘17 110w

“It bears eloquent evidence of the value of much in little. Mr Rihbany’s book is eloquent and convincing. If converts are possible, it will make them.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 1600w

“In his eagerness to make our divine Saviour the more human and the more understandable to others, Mr Rihbany appears to have thrown up a lot of Syrian dust through which it is not always easy to see clearly the Christ who is divine. His interpretation of Christ lacks authority; the Christ he pictures for his readers lacks authority. And of what use to soldiers or to anyone else, to men seeking the light, is a Christ who lacks authority, who cannot lead or command.”

— =Cath World= 106:687 F ‘18 160w

“One of the most convincing answers that has been made to the belief that Jesus was a pacifist.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 360w

=RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB.= Name of Old Glory. il *$1.25 Bobbs 811 17-17072

A collection of James Whitcomb Riley’s poems of patriotism, with an appreciation of the poet by Booth Tarkington. Only three of the twenty selections are in the familiar Indiana dialect—“The old man and Jim,” “Thoughts on the late war,” and “Decoration day on the place.”

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17

=RILEY, W.= Way of the winepress. *$1.50 (2c) Putnam

“This is the story of the firm of Messrs Middleton, weavers, in a Yorkshire town and in a village of the Dales; but, though the vicissitudes of the business are vividly told as from a personal experience, yet the core of the chronicle is in the inner vicissitudes of David Middleton and those who by fate or his own impulse have been gathered round him. Chief amongst these are the story teller, Louis, and the slum girl, Victoria Smith, both of whom are characters well worth studying, and both form contrasts not only to each other but to the stern impetuosity of David. ... David, tender and even quixotic at heart, accepts every reverse as a direct discipline from God. ... ‘The way of the winepress’ must be passed unaided and alone, and no human counsel of affection dare soften it. Contrasted with this disciple of the wrath of God is the unorthodox disciple of the love of God, Truman, who opens the doors of learning to Louis and Victoria, and in the end opens the door of love to David.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The action takes place more than thirty years ago.

“‘The way of the winepress is the way of loving sacrifice,’ and it becomes, if the author is to be believed, a way of joy for all who tread it.”

=N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 270w

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:120 My ‘17 70w

“The background of the book, wherein a number of simple and some very delightful characters have their place, is full of reflection. The plot is small and at times almost oddly simple, but there is an unstrained human interest in the characters and their setting which gives to the whole some of that gentle dignity which the writer has found amongst the ample hills and woods and streams where his scenes are laid.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 500w

=RINDER, FRANK=, comp. Royal Scottish academy, 1826-1916. il *42s Maclehose & sons, Glasgow 708.2

“The chief part of this massive volume consists of a complete list of works by Raeburn and by members (honorary included) and associates of the Royal Scottish academy exhibited between the years 1808 and 1916 at the exhibitions held by the institutions which preceded the academy and those of the academy itself from 1827 onwards, and in this list a special note is made of any works that have passed into public galleries. The list has been compiled under the direction of Mr Frank Rinder with the sanction of the president and council, and a narrative filling nearly a hundred pages, tracing the origin and development of the academy, is contributed by Mr W. D. McKay, one of its principal officers.” (Int Studio) Mr Rinder also contributes an essay.

“If Mr Rinder’s task does not evoke from the living all the gratitude which its accomplishment deserves, he may be sure that in years to come there will always be some who in profiting by his labours will not fail to acknowledge their indebtedness.”

=Int Studio= 61:144 My ‘17 300w

“It is a pity that this useful book could not have been produced in a more convenient form. A quarto of nearly 500 pages is difficult to handle.”

* =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p116 Mr 8 ‘17 600w

=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Altar of freedom. *50c (12c) Houghton 355.7 17-14707

An appeal to mothers to sacrifice their sons willingly on “the altar of freedom.” “Personal service,” the author says, “is not rolling bandages for the other woman’s son.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17

“She has herself been to the war countries and was allowed to see far more than most Americans have seen of what war has meant. ... She writes emphatically of the necessity of proper training for the soldier.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 250w

“Mary Roberts Rinehart writes whereof she knows when in ‘The altar of freedom’ she tells the mothers of this land why and how their sons must enter this war. One of her sons has gone, the other two will go if, when they are old enough, they are needed. She has seen the war close at hand and her unflinching words are born not of theory and imagination, but of facts.”

+ =Ind= 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 70w

“The book is very direct, very quiet, very moving. And it is simple and patriotic and brave.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:197 My 20 ‘17 270w

“Article in the Saturday Evening Post April 21, but more usable in this little book form.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:213 Jl ‘17 50w

=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Bab: a sub-deb. il *$1.40 (2c) Doran 17-14952

Bab, the sub-debutante, tells her own story, describing most touchingly the sorrows of a girl whose family still looks on her as a child. Coming home for her Christmas holidays, Bab, who is seventeen, realizes the tragic position of a younger sister. She is snubbed and patronized, until, moved by desperation and a desire to make herself seem of importance, she invents a lover and a love affair, with violets addressed to herself and a photograph of an unknown young man to give a touch of reality to the fiction. The results are all that she desires, and more. This is the first episode of the book. There are five in all, including extracts from Bab’s diary.

“Some have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Read a little at a time.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17

“An attempt to picture in a humorous manner the young American girl of the same age as Mr Tarkington’s hero. But it is not nearly so simple, so subtle or so true to life as its prototype, and the pleasant domestic charm of ‘Seventeen’ is absent from its pages. ... You feel the lack of a pleasant attitude.” J. F. S.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 470w

“The stilted English in which she expresses her ‘lofty thoughts’ while amusing lends a touch of artificiality to the stories.”

+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w

+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 70w

“This is a book that mothers and fathers of girls ought to read, for it will help to enlighten them. Also, they, and all others, will find it the most clever and amusing of all Mrs Rinehart’s books.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 670w

=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 30w

“A lively and often humorous, but artificial picture of the adolescent school girl.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 250w

=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Long live the king! il *$1.50 (1c) Houghton 17-24814

This romantic tale reminds the reader both of Hope’s “Prisoner of Zenda” and of Mrs Burnett’s “Lost prince.” Prince Ferdinand William Otto, the ten year old hero, is a dear little boy, whose three great desires when he becomes king are that he may have a dog, that his cousin Hedwig may marry the man she loves, and that he, Ferdinand William Otto, may be “a good king like Abraham Lincoln.” The love interest in the story is supplied by the Princess Hedwig, Lieutenant Nikky Larisch, and Karl, king of Karnia. A mild revolutionary flavor is given by the “Committee of ten.”

“Exciting, wholesome and will be popular.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 40w

“The essential touch which makes the charm of the story lies in the character of the little Otto.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 630w

+ =Cath World= 106:552 Ja ‘18 130w

=Dial= 63:598 D 6 ‘17 110w

“There has never been a better picture of the cruel contrast between court life and the heart of youth than this tale of a prince in a petty European monarchy who tries to extract a little boyish fun from a choking atmosphere of foreign intrigue, Nihilist conspiracy, ceremonious etiquet and cold-blooded statecraft. ... All of the characters of the book are real human beings.”

+ =Ind= 92:108 O 13 ‘17 340w

“It may be described as a Zenda story ‘with a difference.’ It lacks the usual conquering Anglo-Saxon, his nearest representative being a small American boy who inadvertently gives a happy turn to affairs at the critical moment. Here is a tale of humor as well as sentiment: towards the end it imposes a somewhat larger burden upon the good-humored credulity of the reader than the traffic need be called upon to bear.”

+ — =Nation= 105:486 N 1 ‘17 340w

“The tale is highly romantic, it possesses a complicated plot, there is much and constant action, and if there is little humor, its loss is made good by much sentiment. ... The author has written a story that is different from any of the others of that sort, and has made it plausible, interesting, and appealing. The figure of the Crown Prince is particularly appealing in its wistfulness, its lovableness, and its real manliness.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:361 S 23 ‘17 710w

“Otto is a natural and friendly chap even if he is a prince, and his adventures with his American boy acquaintance are jolly.”

+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 50w

“An engaging but rather pathetic story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 270w

=RIVES, HALLIE ERMINIE (MRS POST WHEELER).= Long lane’s turning. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-22567

Henry Sevier, the brilliant young southern lawyer, knew that his besetting sin was his dependence upon stimulants at times of crisis. Only one other knew this—Cameron Craig, the head of the liquor trust and Sevier’s rival for the hand of Echo Allen. Craig had another weapon—an old letter, the publication of which could bring scandal upon the Allen family. How Craig trades upon these two secrets and enmeshes Sevier in a net, how Sevier wins out both from his own weakness and the ruthlessness of his rival, is told in a series of vivid chapters.

“Published in the Red Book under title, ‘The heart of a man.’”

=A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17

“Drink is the theme underlying the somewhat artificial structure of ‘The long lane’s turning.’ It is a story of romantic contrivance based upon the working out of a preconceived idea. ... Yet whatever flimsiness may be discerned in the plot there is none in the style.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:98 S ‘17 300w

“A melodramatic temperance novel, so far as its style and characterization are concerned. ... The story moves at a brisk pace, and is entertaining.”

=N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 220w

“Melodrama with a vengeance.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 290w

=ROBBINS, EDWARD J.=, comp. Universal drill manual. il *$1 Sherwood co. 355 17-16555

A complete résumé of the really necessary and important points which should be the common knowledge of every private, compiled from strictly official sources by a captain in the Major officers reserve corps, with illustrations from the same sources.

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Jl ‘17 50w

=ROBERTSON, ERIC SUTHERLAND.= Bible’s prose epic of Eve and her sons. *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam 222 (Eng ed A17-80)

The author has made a study of those parts of Genesis attributed to the authorship of “J.” The opening of Genesis is the work of “P.” J’s narrative breaks in with the fourth verse of the second chapter. Mr Robertson says, “The writer known as J has a narrower outlook on the cosmos than P, but it is a more human, a more sunny outlook. This writer or editor is, like Herodotus, a gatherer of legends at old shrines.” The text of the “J” narrative is given in an appendix.

“What we know is that the book tells us what would have been Mr Robertson’s mind if he himself had written the ‘J’ document. And that is enough to make the book like a charming work of fiction.” G. LaP.

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 900w

“On reading the book, one gets the impression that all this paraphernalia of scholarship is merely a passport to recommend the book to modern readers, while the author’s real interest lies in moralizing and exegesis of the time-honored variety which allows one to deduce anything under the sun from no matter what text.”

– + =Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 500w

“There is no doubt that the book is very good reading, partly, we think, because Mr Robertson writes so very well. The story as he tells it reminds us very much of the Bible, partly again because of the identity of the names.”

=Spec= 118:20 Ja 6 ‘17 650w

“Mr Robertson brings to bear on his task an alert and unconventional intelligence.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p323 Jl 6 ‘16 180w

“Literary criticism should welcome in this book an original, gallant, and successful attempt to turn to the account of poetry some of the results of scholarship in a field where it has been said science was destroying everything spiritual and inspiring. ... Mr Robertson brings out the inherent romance and the inherent primitive theology in these old tales. We get from his book a sense of geographical values which readers of the Bible too seldom feel. ... He has based his speculations upon sound scholarship.” G: M. Harper

+ =Yale R= n s 6:415 Ja ‘17 700w

=ROBERTSON, LIONEL, and O’DONNELL, THOMAS CLAY.= Healthful house. il $2 Good health pub. co. 640 17-16902

“The authors of this book have not confined themselves to details of hygiene and sanitation, as these terms are commonly understood. They have attempted rather to emphasize ‘the health importance of beautiful colors and beautiful lines and masses, beautiful wall and floor coverings, equally with fresh air and light—in short, to present to the reader a house that is healthful because it satisfies the demands of hygienic and esthetic sense alike.’”—R of Rs

“The discussion of interior fitments is sane and informative.”

+ =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 220w

=R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 70w

+ =St Louis= 15:369 O ‘17 20w

=ROBINSON, CYRIL EDWARD.= Days of Alkibiades; with a foreword by Prof. C. W. Oman. il *$1.50 Longmans 913.38 (Eng ed 17-26255)

“One of the criticisms most frequently made on the teaching of Greek and Latin is that it teaches the pupil to deal very cleverly with words, but tells him nothing about things. ... Mr Robinson’s book represents an attempt—and a surprisingly successful attempt—to provide the modern schoolboy and general reader with the background of things, for lack of which classical teaching in the past has so often been dull and dead. ... The result is a series of sketches of the various phases of Greek life which are not only lightly and charmingly written, but also embody on innumerable points of detail the result of the latest researches.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=A L A Bkl= 13:311 Ap ‘17

“The book is an entertaining mixture of known facts and acknowledged romance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ‘17 250w

“The book reads like a romance. A boy will learn more from these sketches, as the author modestly styles them, than from many a ponderous, old-fashioned textbook.”

+ =Cath World= 105:410 Je ‘17 200w

+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w

“Gilds the pill of Greek antiquities more attractively, than does Bekker’s ‘Charikles’ or the ‘Alkibiades’ of C. H. Bromely. Out of actual or possible scenes from the life of Alcibiades he has composed a sequence of readable chapters that covers the chief topics of Athenian private and public life strung on a thread of story that adds interest without distracting the reader’s attention. ... Many of the descriptions are admirably clear and vivid. ... The illustrations based on the author’s sketches, whatever their artistic merits, are well adapted to the purpose of visualizing and schematizing precisely the information that the reader needs and the student may remember. They cannot, of course, take the place of the two-hundred and sixty-three authentic reproductions from the monuments in Professor Gulick’s ‘Greek antiquities.’ The book is one of the best companions to the reading of the Greek classics that we have met in many a day. It makes Greek life ‘seem real.’”

+ =Nation= 105:266 S 6 ‘17 500w

=Pratt= p32 Jl ‘17 40w

“He is sound in scholarship; he bases his scenes on actual events and anecdotes. ... His style is agreeable, but a little elaborate.”

+ =Sat R= 122:420 O 28 ‘16 220w

“Our only serious criticism of his book is that, while unconventional in his scheme, he is almost too conscientious in the use of his material.”

* + =Spec= 117:478 O 21 ‘16 1100w

“Mr Robinson is not only a very careful and well-read scholar, but he has made the rare imaginative effort to realize his knowledge; and he has laid the reader under an additional obligation by being modest enough not to flaunt it. ... A volume like this is a challenge, not a ‘work of reference.’ The value of the book is enhanced by some skilful pieces of translation and a series of drawings.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 11 ‘17 450w

=ROBINSON, EDGAR EUGENE, and WEST, VICTOR J.=[2] Foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1917. *$1.75 Macmillan 327.73 17-31893

The aim of the authors has been “to present an account of the development of the policy followed by Woodrow Wilson in dealing with the foreign relations of the United States during the years 1913-1917, and to provide in convenient form the more important statements of the president and his secretaries of state in announcing and carrying forward that policy.” The authors point to a fuller understanding of the president’s policy to be gained from an examination of the earlier period of his administration and furnish ample excerpts from his speeches and messages. The three divisions of the subject treated are: The development of the policy; More important events in American foreign relations; More important utterances of the administration.

“The treatment of the subject is both comprehensive and detailed. It is also clearly reasoned and judicially presented. For the book is in no sense the work of uncritical, enthusiastic admiration. ... The book must be especially recommended to those casual readers and superficial thinkers who allow themselves to be unduly influenced by headlines in newspapers and the flippant comment of ‘the man in the street.’ The work deserves every praise, also, for the clear succinct logical manner in which its analytical discussion is carried on. Every help is afforded the reader for intelligent investigation of the subject.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:1 Ja 6 ‘18 1950w

“The work is an admirable piece of bookmaking, and its reference value is great.”

+ =Outlook= 118:114 Ja 16 ‘18 100w

=ROBINSON, EDWARD LEVI.= 1816-1916; one hundred years of savings banking. 50c Am. bankers’ assn. 332 17-13470

“This little volume, comprising twenty-nine pages of text and sixty pages of bibliography, has been prepared under the direction of the Savings bank section of the American bankers’ association. The text is written by Mr Edward L. Robinson, vice-president of a savings bank in Baltimore, and the bibliography prepared by Marian A. Glenn, librarian of the American bankers’ association [and Ina Clement]. ... The topics covered by the bibliography are as follows: Thrift and savings; Individual thrift; Domestic thrift; Evidences of thriftlessness; Economics of thrift; Industrial thrift; Business thrift; Banking thrift; National thrift; International thrift; Thrift agencies; Nation-wide thrift movement inaugurated to celebrate centennial anniversary of savings banks in America.”—J Pol Econ

“The volume is chiefly valuable for the extensive bibliography.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:760 Jl ‘17 160w

“This is a timely little book. The bibliography, covering the whole subject of thrift and a number of allied topics, is not altogether successful.” B. L.

+ — =Survey= 39:74 O 20 ‘17 360w

=ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON.= Merlin. *$1.25 Macmillan 811 17-8576

Mr Robinson has retold the story of Arthur, Merlin and Vivian, altering the outlines of the traditional tale very little, but reading new meanings into the situation. He has chosen for the time of his narrative, the eve of the downfall of Arthur’s court. Merlin, after the ten years spent with Vivian in Broceliande, has returned with the purpose of again lending Arthur his counsel, but in thinking out the problem he comes to see that he must turn back without seeing the king, leaving him to the fate he has prepared for himself.

=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18

“His people are as strongly individualized and speak as naturally as though their author had been putting them into a novel instead of into a narrative poem of mediæval setting. This brings their problems much closer to the reader. ... Mr Robinson has always deservedly been placed by critics among the few of our really great poets. He is a very complete master of his art.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 31 ‘17 550w

“On the whole, in spite of Mr Robinson’s literary power, we prefer the terrors of ‘mid-Victorian morality’ and the symbolism of the ‘Idylls of the king.’”

+ — =Cath World= 106:255 N ‘17 400w

“One must feel it was a malicious elf that suggested Arthurian romance as a subject for Mr Robinson’s pen. The subject is new to him, but his method and manner are unchanged. Subject and method do not harmonize. Upon a style which has shaped itself in the delineation of modern types of mind—complex, eccentric, intensely individualized—is laid the task of depicting certain very unmodern characters which throughout a long and august tradition have been treated as simple, conventional, naïve. The result, in less skilful hands, would have been burlesque. ... Mr Robinson resembles his own Merlin, who has much to say about what he has seen and known without giving much notion of what it is, and who seems to rely upon our remembrance that he has been impressive in other scenes.” Odell Shepard

– + =Dial= 63:339 O 11 ‘17 1500w

“It is pleasant to take up Merlin and read as one reads mere poetry. ... Mr Robinson in ‘Merlin’ has plainly felt his work in Tennyson’s quality. It is clear at once that the style, and often the quality, are very like Tennyson’s. In ‘Merlin’ there is more smoothness, more expected proportions, leisure and fluency [than in much of Mr Robinson’s] previous work and less of that effect of rather trenchant rhythm, of brusque acumen and passionate shrewdness, and of a kind of analytical excitement for the mind, that have made a distinguishing quality in his poetry.” S. Y.

+ =New Repub= 12:250 S 29 ‘17 1650w

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:78 My ‘17

“It is not a great poem, though its failure is not intrinsic in its subject. The subject simply betrays more openly than a modern one certain defects in the author. He has neither the singing magic of the old school nor the swift, egotistic vitality of the new. He is a respectable poet, but he is heavy.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 490w

“The state of the modern world is subtly symbolized in this fine poem, which has amazing beauty of texture and ventures a new philosophy.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 90w

“Of all our modern writers, Mr Robinson most resembles Meredith, never in his technique or in his choice of subjects, but in the solidity of his work and in the sense of intellectual force. Much of our contemporary verse is painfully thin; here the foundations are dug deep. ... Each volume of Mr Robinson’s deepens the conviction that he is our foremost American poet.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 6:863 Jl ‘17 350w

=ROBINSON, HARRY PERRY.= Turning point; the battle of the Somme. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 940.91 17-18381

“This account of the battle of the Somme is written by the official correspondent of the London Times. In preparing it he has used his dispatches to his paper as a basis, and so has made a consecutive narrative of the operations of the British troops in that action. He explains that he has made only incidental reference to the co-operation of the French troops because he was not sufficiently familiar with their share of the battle to write about it. His narrative covers the four and a half months from the 1st of July, 1916, to the middle of November.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18

“Mr Robinson has here told the story of the British part in it as well as it has yet been done.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:399 O 14 ‘17 260w

“He strikes his own note, which is a more matter-of-fact note than that sounded by Mr Gibbs. ... He can tell either a plain or an exciting story lucidly, picturesquely, eloquently, and thrillingly when the need is; and where he has to speak of the larger issues, he judges soberly. ... The book is full of good stories in all veins, and will take its place as a most satisfactory popular history of one of the most important episodes of the war.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p208 My 3 ‘17 700w

=ROBINSON, LAWRENCE EUGENE.= Domestic architecture. il *$1.50 Macmillan 728 17-12502

This book tells how to plan, build and furnish a house and how to arrange the grounds. It is illustrated with diagrams, gives a glossary of architectural terms, and at the end of each chapter, references for further reading.

=A L A Bkl= 13:437 Jl ‘17

=Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 60w

“A non-technical, well-balanced treatment.”

+ =Ind= 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 50w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:110 Jl ‘17 50w

“An elementary book, useful to those building or remodeling their own homes.”

+ =Pratt= p29 O ‘17 10w

“This book has to do almost altogether with the simple, every-day things about the house, and its suggestions are meant as much for the owner and builder as for the professional architect.”

=R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 90w

=St Louis= 15:332 S ‘17 10w

=ROCHE, ARTHUR SOMERS.= Plunder. il *$1.35 (2c) Bobbs 17-9706

The three richest men in the United States meet together in one room. One controls coal, one transportation, one the food supply. An agreement is drawn up and their signatures are added. A gust of wind flips the paper out of the window! By chance it falls first in

“The tale is more commonplace and not nearly so ingenious or interesting as are ‘Loot’ and ‘Plunder,’ but it is entertaining.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 320w

“A sensational story, exciting, but not as carefully wrought out as one or two of the author’s previous books.”

+ — =Outlook= 117:64 S 12 ‘17 40w

“Mr Roche displays much intimacy with the technic of the track and the betting ring, and ingeniously bares the methods that may be employed in turning racing and betting into dishonest channels. Altogether, it is one of the best racing stories that have appeared in a long time.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 320w

=ROCKWELL, FREDERICK FRYE.= Around the year in the garden. il *$1.75 (1½c) Macmillan 635 17-24266

“A seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass.” (Sub-title) Altho the author begins with the first of January and follows the year around, week by week, he insists very strongly that gardening can not be done according to any such set scheme and warns the reader against following the directions of the book blindly. “Let the gardener, then, read this book with a diligent eye for such advice and suggestions as he can apply to his own problems; ... for the real work, like the profit there may be and the pleasure there is sure to be, must belong to the gardener, and cannot be put between the covers of a book.” (Introd.) The book is designed for the busy man and woman who garden in the spare time afforded between other occupations.

=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 10w

“The clearest and most helpful kind of information for the busy man or woman who wants to get ready for next year’s gardening.”

+ =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 70w

=ROGERS, ALLEN=, ed. Elements of industrial chemistry. il *$3 Van Nostrand 660 16-23460

“This volume is an abridgment of a larger book entitled ‘Manual of industrial chemistry,’ a work which was written by forty eminent specialists in chemical engineering. In its almost 500 pages of text it covers widely, but perhaps not deeply, the whole field of industrial chemistry.”—Coal Age

=A L A Bkl= 13:277 Mr ‘17

“The book will be of value chiefly to those who have not affiliated themselves with any particular industry and who want a generalized view of the whole field.”

+ =Coal Age= 11:641 Ap 7 ‘17 350w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 30w

“The matter is descriptive and not detailed enough to be of value to the works chemist, but would be understandable to the average reader interested in the subject. ... Dr Rogers is in charge of industrial chemistry, Pratt institute, Brooklyn.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 90w

=ROGERS, ALLEN.= Laboratory guide of industrial chemistry. 2d ed il *$2 Van Nostrand 660 17-25806

“In presenting this thoroughly revised edition, the author has endeavored to make the laboratory experiments touch more closely upon present-day problems than was possible in the first edition. ... In many instances, it will be noticed that the methods are those in common use at the present time, and, whenever possible, actual factory practice has been followed.” (Preface) Contents: General processes; Inorganic preparations; Organic preparations; Dyeing of textile fibers; Pigments and lakes; Driers, varnishes, paints and stains; Soap and allied products; Leather manufacture; Wood fiber, pulp and paper; Useful data.

=ROGERS, JULIA ELLEN.= Trees worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday 582 17-13206

The introduction is addressed directly to the beginner in tree study, for whom this book has been prepared. Part 1 is a discussion of The life of the trees, and the remainder of the book is devoted to descriptions for purposes of identification. There are sixteen illustrations in color and numerous others in black and white.

“A compromise between the author’s comprehensive ‘Tree book’ and her small ‘Tree Guide,’ recently published. Of a convenient size to carry about for purposes of identification.”

+ =Dial= 64:82 Ja 17 ‘18 80w

+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 200w

=ROGERS, LINDSAY.= America’s case against Germany. *$1.50 Dutton 940.91 17-19161

“A good, brief account of the origin and development of the controversy which became the immediate cause of war between the United States and Germany. The author furnishes in this book a chronological record of the Wilson policy. His method is narrative and explanatory, not critical or defensive. ... He treats the points of international law involved, briefly and untechnically, particularly with regard to the submarine as a new weapon, the status of armed merchant ships, the problem of munition exports, and the difference between the English and the German ‘blockade.’”—R of Rs

“Clear and non-technical, it explains many misjudged and misrepresented points at issue.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17

“The author of this volume is convinced that there is a real need for the average loyal American to understand that the legal grounds of our contentions with Germany are as much of the code of international law as the moral grounds are of the ethical code of Christendom. ... The

## book is written in untechnical language, but the case is argued with

the care of one who has mastered international law, and the result that our position is legally correct is fully proved.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 580w

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 40w

=N Y Call= p15 S 2 ‘17 400w

+ =N Y Times= 22:305 Ag 19 ‘17 800w

=Pittsburgh= 22:764 N ‘17 40w

+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 110w

=ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).= Hand of Fu-Manchu (Eng title, Si-Fan mysteries). *$1.35 (2c) McBride 17-14178

Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie again take the field against the terrible Dr Fu-Manchu. They are enforced by the Scotland Yard police; he by the mysterious and far-reaching organization known as the Si-Fan. The field is London, from its foreign embassies to its lowest underworld. The weapons employed by the Asiatics in their machinations range from animal magnetism to the crudest of missiles. The peril that threatens is the wholesale slaughter of the white race and the domination of the world by the yellow. The book is the fourth of a series of which the first “The insidious Dr Fu-Manchu” was followed by “The yellow claw,” and “The return of Dr Fu-Manchu.”

“Of the experience they go through in these and other places, it would be unfair to give the reader even the faintest hint. Suffice it to say, that if he be a reader with a liking for thrills and able to put an extinguisher on his sense of probabilities, he will do well to choose a comfortable chair, make sure that there is plenty of oil in his lamp, and plunge forthwith into the mysterious occurrences and deadly perils brought about by ‘The hand of Fu-Manchu.’”

=N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 320w

“The story comprises a succession of episodes which could be easily adapted to a thrilling movie serial. ... The author is skilful in creating a state of suspense, even though neglectful of the rule that the miraculous should be fortified by plausibility.”

=Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 250w

“The reader gallops through a number of rather inconsequent scenes in which poisonous flowers, kidnapped surgeons, hypnotic mandarins, marmosets, disguised assassins, treacherous Greeks, and secret passages play slightly unconvincing parts, aided largely by an easy incapacity on the part of the hero which is unrivalled by the most fatuous efforts of Dr Watson.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 120w

=ROLAND, pseud.= Future of militarism. *2s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91

(Eng ed 16-23382)

“In this volume ‘Roland’ counters Oliver’s ‘Ordeal by battle,’ a denunciation of British unpreparedness, by arguing that preparedness could have had but one of two immediate goals—either war against Germany or an alliance with her. From this he contends that preparedness for war must inevitably lead to war sooner or later ... and that the sole means to secure an enduring peace is a league of the allied nations to found among themselves an absolute pacifist policy, and until such time as Germany becomes sane enough to accept it whole-heartily, to enforce this policy upon her.”—Ind

=Ind= 91:109 Jl 21 ‘17 170w

“It does not clearly state its case or present its arguments. Instead, it heaps scorn and irony upon Mr Frederick Scott Oliver and turns what might be a reasonable and readable counter-argument into a silly and vituperative personal attack. ... Aside from the irrelevant question of one’s sympathy with them or with what he calls ‘the Oliverians,’ this book is good where the author states impersonally and coherently what he believes, and bad where he does not. Which is to say that a small part of ‘The failure of militarism’ is definite and readable.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:35 F 4 ‘17 550w

“We should have gladly parted with scores of controversial pages, not wanting in acrimony, for the fulfillment of that which the chapters ‘The way out of militarism’ and ‘The psychology of militarism’ promise but do not carry out. ... The whole book, or over-grown pamphlet, written with no small ability, leaves an impression of wasted or misapplied labour. ... ‘Roland’ can give us something better.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p458 S 28 ‘16 730w

=ROLFE, AMY LUCILE.= Interior decoration for the small home. il *$1.25 (5c) Macmillan 747 17-9832

A book on house decoration and furnishing for people of moderate means. The house planned by the professional decorator does not meet with the author’s approval, for it cannot have individuality, but she realizes that the amateur who is to do his own decorating must be guided by general principles and it is for him that this book has been prepared. There are chapters on: Walls and ceilings; Windows and their decorative treatment; The finishing of floors; Domestic rugs and carpets; A brief history of furniture; Modern period furniture and its use; Furniture of modern design, etc. The author is instructor in home economics in the University of Montana.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17

“A simply schemed and simply expressed book like this, that is also sound, comprehensive and sufficiently detailed, should fall in fertile ground.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 250w

=Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 20w

“A neat summary of such parts of several works on interior decoration as apply to the small house is the substance of Miss Rolfe’s unpretentious but useful little book. Her expositions read like college lectures revised for a larger audience. They will help to bring many middle-class Americans to the next plane of appreciation.”

+ =Nation= 105:607 N 29 ‘17 210w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:652 O ‘17 10w

+ =R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 70w

=St Louis= 15:333 S ‘17 30w

“A good supplement to Quinn’s ‘Planning and furnishing the home’ and Daniels’ ‘Furnishing of a modest home.’ Good illustrations taken from Good Furniture.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 60w

=ROLLAND, ROMAIN.= Beethoven, tr. by B. Constance Hull. il *$1.50 (3½c) Holt 17-12724

“I do not give the name hero to those who have triumphed by infinite thought or by sheer physical strength—but only to those made great by goodness of heart,” says Romain Rolland, and it is in this spirit that he writes of Beethoven, “the most heroic soul in modern art.” The book includes in addition to M. Rolland’s account of Beethoven’s life, a selection from his letters, a copy of his will, and an analysis of his symphonies and sonatas made by A. Eaglefield Hull. There is also an introduction by Edward Carpenter.

“Contains a bibliography (10p.), a classification of pianoforte sonatas, and a complete list of Beethoven’s works (12p.).”

+ =A L A= Bkl 13:388 Je ‘17

+ =Ath= p104 F ‘17 40w

“Altogether one of the most valuable works in music of the present year.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 350w

“The present volume is rather a disappointment; of its 244 pages only 54 are given to M. Rolland’s sketch of the composer’s life. As a character study it is far from satisfying, containing nothing new in fact or interpretation. ... The chief value of the book is as an introduction to the study of Beethoven, and in this respect the copy of his will, a selection of his letters, a bibliography, and the complete list of his compositions are useful.”

– + =Dial= 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 150w

+ =Lit D= 54:1710 Je 2 ‘17 250w

Reviewed by H: T. Finck

+ — =Nation= 105:546 N 15 ‘17 90w

Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld

=New Repub= 11:57 My 12 ‘17 2600w

=Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 30w

“The intimate quality of the work is unusual. Rolland brings us the living Beethoven. The philosophic basis of the musician’s life is brought out in order to explain his profound and spiritualized music.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:445 O ‘17 100w

“The title-page reveals its composite character, and an examination of its contents shows that M. Romain Rolland’s contribution only occupies about a quarter of the whole. This is his charmingly enthusiastic but somewhat uncritical essay on Beethoven, which has been competently translated by Miss B. Constance Hull. ... The new matter is thus confined to Dr. Eaglefield Hull’s analyses, which have the merit of brevity and sum up the outstanding qualities of some works pleasantly enough. Unfortunately the editor’s style is undistinguished, and at times not even grammatical.”

+ =Spec= 118:138 F 3 ‘17 1400w

“M. Rolland writes as a worshiper, but his worship is discreet. He paints a true picture, even though he leaves out details of Beethoven’s eccentricity, and the reader receives an inspiration from the glowing pages, and this in spite of infelicities in the translation, which, nevertheless, is not without spirit.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 400w

“We become absorbed in this book mainly because of the author’s driving power, the way he arrays his facts and uses them to impel his argument. ... The second half of the book consists of a Baedeker to the symphonies, sonatas, violin sonatas, and quartets. A good many points of interest are touched upon, and the writer has looked well round his subject. But as a plan it falls between two stools.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 11 ‘17 750w

=ROLLINS, MONTGOMERY.= Village pest. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 17-23754

This story of a lively boy of thirty years ago has many of the marks of autobiography, and the author tells us that the incidents are drawn from life. David is the young son of a United States senator and his time is divided between Washington and a New England village, either place affording him a fruitful field for mischief. David has two intimate friends, one a village boy, one a Washington chum who spends a joyous summer with him in New England. David has another friend, also, a yellow mongrel dog named Alfred.

“Founded on fact the escapades will amuse this generation of elders as much as they must have exasperated and entertained David’s elders.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ‘17 350w

“The pictures in ‘The village pest’ are almost as funny as the story itself. Young people will enjoy Montgomery Rollins’ account of David’s pranks.”

+ =Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 24w

“Although one rather wonders how his longsuffering parents managed to keep out of the insane asylum, David’s pranks are very amusing—to read about.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 250w

=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Boy with the U.S. weather men. (U.S. service ser.) il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 551 17-24855

This story, dealing with blizzard, tornado and flood, is not the least exciting of this series for boys. As the author truly says, “There is no battle greater than the battle with the weather, which is both our enemy and our ally.” The story opens with a Mississippi flood. Ross and Anton, two boy chums who barely escape from the dangers of the flood, become interested in the work of the weather bureau in forecasting storms and enlist as volunteer observers. Like some of the other books of the series this one is a call to service: “High, high in the atmosphere, is a world all unexplored, where no man can dwell; where, as yet, no human-made instrument has reached. This unknown world calls for explorers, it calls for adventure, it calls for daring and patient work.” It is the author’s hope that some of the boys who read the book will answer the call.

+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 50w

“The illustrations are authoritative photographs.”

+ =Lit D= 55:57 D 8 ‘17 90w

“A story full of thrills and appealing interest told in a way to be of great educational value.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 120w

=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Polar hunters. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 17-13187

This is the second volume in the Museum series. The author describes life within the Arctic circle and gives an account of Peary’s discovery of the pole. The boy hero, who is called Kood-shoo, appears at first to be an Eskimo. He has grown up as a member of the Smith Sound tribe, and his ways are their ways, but when the Peary expedition comes to the region, the white men recognize in the boy traits that are not characteristic of the Eskimo. Eventually the two “magics” in Kood-shoo’s possession lead to his identification.

=Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 20w

=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w

“No boy can read the story without having his imagination fired.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 130w

=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.=[2] Wonder of war in the air. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 623.7 17-30275

“To give the boys of the United States a fair idea of what an aviator must learn, how an aviator must live, in what appalling perils an aviator must risk his life, to build up in our boys a still greater admiration for the men who hold the honor of the nation in their hands, and to urge the heroic and high-spirited young Americans to a higher love for their country and eagerness to serve it, is the aim and purpose of the author.” (Preface) As usual in his books, he has devised a story of more or less definite plot as a means for conveying his information.

“Packed with information, mostly accurate and brought down to within a very few months.”

+ — =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 250w

“The author is doing a useful work by making his books accurately instructive as well as entertaining.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 160w

=ROOF, KATHARINE METCALF.=[2] Life and art of William Merritt Chase. il *$4 Scribner 17-30892

“For many years before his death last year, William Merritt Chase was regarded as perhaps the most characteristic of American painters; and Miss Roof was appointed by him to write the story of his life. This she has done in cordial cooperation and with the assistance of the artist’s family. With the inclusion of many letters and personal reminiscences and much illustrative material she tells the romantic story of Chase’s discontented boyhood in the West, his escape to Paris, and apprenticeship to art, and his subsequent crowded and picturesque career in New York. The work contains an introduction by Alice Gerson Chase and many reproductions of the artist’s works.”—Lit D

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:167 F ‘18

“Her book abounds in piquant anecdotes. Somewhere she speaks with scorn of the inadequacy of the literary man to understand art; this is perhaps a sort of boomerang; for her style is far from literary. The volume will be prized by all art-students and especially by those who remember the genial artist.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 16 ‘18 1700W

“This authorized biography, therefore, is much more than the life of a man; it is in many ways a history of the American spirit in art during the last generation.”

+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 170w

“Very entertaining and well balanced book. Its pleasant, straightforward style is not at all inconsistent with the fact that Mr Chase chose Miss Roof because she had a painter’s and not a writer’s attitude toward art.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:31 Ja 27 ‘18 1050w

“Though clogged with unimportant and unnecessary detail, the text will be read with interest for the sake of the pictures of the painter’s early struggles and later achievements. Some of the anecdotes relative to Chase’s experiences with Whistler are delicious.”

+ — =Outlook= 118:194 Ja 30 ‘18 110w

“A sympathetic but hardly adequate biography. Though a considerably larger volume than the Inness, it fails to give as clear a picture of the man or as definite an idea of his art. The author was at one time a pupil, and she gives an interesting account of his methods of teaching.”

+ — =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 880w

Rookie rhymes. il *75c Harper 811.08 17-25361

“A collection of rhymes, parodies, jingles and songs written by members of the 1st and 2d Provisional training regiments for officers, at Plattsburg, N. Y., during their encampment from May 15th to August 15th, 1917, accompanied by line drawings. ... About one-third of the verse is written to be sung to familiar tunes.”—R of Rs

“More pep than poetry is contained in this volume of songs and parodies. As the expression of the mental attitude of men torn away from the ordinary vocations of peace and in training for sanguinary conflict, it has a certain psychological interest. Two or three are real poems.” N. H. D.

– + =Boston Transcript= p8 N 17 ‘17 390w

“Interesting chiefly for their high spirits and fun.”

+ — =Cleveland= p5 Ja ‘18 60w

“The Plattsburg rhymes are, in the main, mediocre. ... A few of the verses, such as ‘The Plattsburg code’ rise distinctly out of the mediocre rut; but too often the motif is nothing more important than the relative superiority of company A over company B.” Clement Wood

— =NY Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 100w

“Well worth the attention of our army and navy students and their friends.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:371 S 30 ‘17 420w

=Pittsburgh= 22:647 O ‘17

“As a bit of fun to drive away homesickness, it will undoubtedly find its way into many soldiers’ kits.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 90w

=ROOSEVELT, THEODORE.= Foes of our own household. *$1.50 (2½c) Doran 304 17-25965

Mr Roosevelt thinks that “in the long run we have less to fear from foes without than from foes within. The men who oppose preparedness in our military and our industrial life; the business or political corruptionist or reactionary and the reckless demagogue who is his nominal opponent; the man of wealth and greed who cares for nothing but profits, and the sinister creature who plays upon and inflames the passions of envy and violence: the hard materialist, the self-indulgent lover of ease and pleasure, and the silly sentimentalist—all these are the permanent foes of our own household.” (Foreword) Contents: The instant need; and the ultimate need; Must we be brayed in a mortar before our folly depart from us?; The children of the crucible; Washington and Lincoln; A square deal in law enforcement; Industrial justice; Social justice; Socialism versus social reform; The farmer; The word of Micah; The parasite woman; Birth reform. “Chapters 2, 7, 10 and 11 are based on articles that have appeared in the Metropolitan; chapter 8 on an article that has appeared in the Outlook;