chapter 3
. The succeeding
## chapter is on labor costs. The later chapters deal with cost
accounting for special industries. ... The author states that every method and device mentioned in the book is in successful operation in some progressive industrial establishment.”—Engin N
“Probably the most important thing in the whole book, certainly the one about which there has been least written, is what the author calls ‘unearned burden.’ ... The work is to be recommended to managers, accountants, and students of cost accounting, chiefly for the fundamental principles discussed, and the very great number of suggestions offered.” M. M. FitzHugh
+ =Am Econ R= 7:137 Mr ‘17 850w
=A L A Bkl= 13:251 Mr ‘17
“The author would probably feel that his chief contribution lies in his treatment of unearned burden. ... The work at once is both scholarly and practical, and should rank high among the books in this country on the subject.” Spurgeon Bell
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:225 My ‘17 400w
=Engin N= 77:108 Ja 18 ‘17 300w
“Closely related to the absence of accounting forms is the lack of any adequate presentation of the relations between cost accounting and the general accounting system of the business making use of cost accounts. The book falls short of establishing completeness as a treatise on cost accounting by reason of the conscious emphasis upon the order method of production and the corresponding neglect of the process method and of the so called continuous industries. The book contains
## particularly good chapters upon unearned burden, interest as an
element of cost, the verification of burden estimates, and the budget system.”
=J Pol Econ= 25:639 Je ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17
“Author is a specialist in industrial accounting. He is of the modern school. ... The book is not a systematic treatise, suitable for students, but is a logical discussion of general principles. ... It should be read by practical accountants who wish to be informed as to the latest and best theory of their profession.” W: Kent
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:465 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers p369 Ap ‘17)
=R of Rs= 55:221 F ‘17 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 40w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:23 Ja ‘17 60w
=SCUDDER, VIDA DUTTON.= Church and the hour; reflections of a socialist church woman. *$1 Dutton 261 17-10459
This book “attempts a reconciliation between the faith of the church and the ideals of social reform by showing the identity of the two. The author, who is a professor in Wellesley college, looks upon the church as primarily a social organization and social force, and believes that the more the corporate ideal is stressed the nearer the church is to fulfilling its task in society. As to socialism, the author asserts that it is incomplete and impotent unless it take account of the fact that man has a soul. Intensely individualistic Christianity and anti-Christian socialism are believed by Miss Scudder to be powerless half-truths.”—Springf’d Republican
=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 80w
“The great question is, Can a democratic society believe in the Christian God? The question is not settled, but it is one of the most important that we have before us to-day. Any intelligent discussion of it must be of value.” Ward Swain
=Dial= 62:523 Je 14 ‘17 900w
“Miss Scudder is less vague than most others who are lamenting the breakdown of Christianity with a sneer at the parson. Herself a Socialist, she has some ideas as to how the church might enforce principles of social justice and thus ensure international stability.”
+ =Nation= 104:635 My 24 ‘17 220w
=N Y Times= 22:223 Je 10 ‘17 370w
=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 10w
“Anyone who believes that socialism and Christian faith are antagonistic to each other will be interested in Miss Scudder’s argument in the chapter entitled ‘Two letters to The Masses.’ ... The
## book is well written though the material is at times somewhat
fragmentary. Throughout the reader is attracted by the note of mysticism and the faith in humanity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 270w
“Both at its heights of social hope and its depths of religious idealism this volume lacks a practical hold on the unity of a human life. It fails to show just how the church, which cannot be regarded as a separate body, can yet be so separate from the people constituting it that it can dwell apart on a higher level while they themselves must so largely live and labor on the ‘lower range of the natural life.’” Graham Taylor
– + =Survey= 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 650w
=SCUDDER, VIDA DUTTON.=[2] Le morte d’Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory and its sources. *$3.50 Dutton 398.2 17-31449
“The author is professor of English literature in Wellesley college, and the book is the outcome of fifteen years of study with her college classes. The volume is concerned with Arthurian romances intimately connected with England and deals with the sequence leading up to the ‘Morte d’Arthur’ of Malory. The development of the romances through the centuries is studied, with now and then a glance at the form they took on the continent, the author constantly comparing the sources from which Malory drew with his own treatment of characters and incidents and constantly finding in the romances the reflection of life and thought, and feeling during mediaeval times. ... The first half of the book is devoted to a consideration of the sources from which Malory drew his material, but the second part takes up Malory’s work and after a chapter on the man and his book goes on to examine, discuss and interpret the various elements of his ‘Morte d’Arthur.’”—N Y Times
“She has made a brilliant contribution to the subject of mediaeval romance merely by the comprehensiveness with which she has surveyed the results of modern investigation, the thoroughness with which she has mastered and digested them and the very readable style in which she has presented her narrative. Her book is a work of fine scholarship, but it is also written in so interesting a manner that it deserves the popular reading for which it is intended.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:549 D 9 ‘17 600w
“What she has done here is of permanent value and is presented with sincere literary effort.”
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 50w
=SEAMAN, MRS AUGUSTA HUIELL.= Girl next door. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24404
The author of “The boarded-up house” and “The sapphire signet” has written a new story for girls which now appears in book form after serial publication in St Nicholas. The old house next door appears to be deserted, for its shutters are always closed. Marcia and Janet, however, early discover that there are signs of life about it, and their interest, already aroused at the first hint of mystery, is intensified when they learn that the place shelters a young girl. When they succeed in making friends with Cecily they expect the puzzle to solve itself, but they are only more mystified, for Cecily herself does not know why she has been brought to live in the strange house. And, stranger still, Miss Benedict, its veiled mistress, does not know who Cecily is or from where she has come. Genuine love for Cecily takes the place of curiosity as the motive that drives the two girls on to the solution of the mystery.
“An entertaining mystery story for girls.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 20w
“As real a mystery story as ever was written for grown-ups.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 90w
=SEARS, CHARLES HATCH.= Edward Judson, interpreter of God. il $1 Am. Bapt. 17-14394
“One of his friends, the Rev. Charles H. Sears, has sketched the events and the motives of Dr Judson’s public life. Against the background of his childhood in Burma, his orphaned boyhood in America, and his life as student and teacher and pastor of a prosperous suburban church, stands out his heroic venture in founding an institutional church in downtown New York. Like his great father, Adoniram Judson, he had the spirit of the pioneer, and his was one of the first expressions of the social ministry of the modern city church for all sorts and conditions of men.”—Lit D
“Sympathetic portrayal of an unselfish life.”
+ =Lit D= 55:41 N 3 ‘17 160w
“This volume would have been of greater value to the public if its author had not been requested to treat Dr Judson’s life in its public rather than in its personal relations. For Dr Judson’s power was in his personality.”
+ — =Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 300w
=Pratt= p44 Jl ‘17 20w
=SEDGWICK, WILLIAM THOMPSON, and TYLER, HARRY WALTER.=[2] Short history of science. il *$2.50 Macmillan 509 17-31086
Addressed to the student and the general reader this volume goes back to the origin of scientific knowledge, and of the scientific method which has not only revolutionized scientific study but has been widely applied to all kinds of human activity. The writers begin with the ancient Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians and Phoenicians whose monuments and inscriptions have furnished the material for the beginnings of scientific study. The development of the science of mathematics, astronomy and medicine and the contribution made by different nations occupies nine chapters. The second half of the text starts with the quickening influences of the age of discovery at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century and traces the progress of modern national, physical and mathematical science to the beginning of the twentieth century.
=Boston Transcript= p3 D 15 ‘17 300w
“A vast subject is treated with breadth of view and keenness of insight in this book. It strikes a happy balance between the technical works that are meant for the special student and the works that deal so largely with abstract theories that they fail to grip the general reader. A good example of the work of specialists who know how to make their subject interesting to non-specialists.”
+ =Outlook= 118:68 Ja 9 ‘18 70w
=SEEBACH, JULIUS FREDERICK, and SEEBACH, MRS MARGARET REBECCA (HIMES).= Singing weaver, and other stories. il *$1 (2c) Lutheran pub. soc. 17-21643
These “hero tales” for young people have been brought together in honor of the four-hundredth anniversary of the reformation. The authors say that they are true stories of some of the obscure, but none the less real heroes of that time. Contents: The singing weaver; Her little Bible; At the king’s bidding; The good little hen; Lady Philippine’s Easter gift; At the turn of the tide; His majesty’s potter; The price of a book; The courage of Grizel; The glorious return. The book has an effective frontispiece in color by Jessie Gillespie.
=SEEGER, ALAN.= Letters and diary. il *$1.25 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-14031
Alan Seeger, the young American poet who, at the beginning of the war enlisted in the Foreign legion of France and died in a charge at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916, tells of his service in the trenches, in the rear, and on the field, in fragments of a diary and in letters home and to the New York Sun, covering the period from September 27, 1914, to June 28, 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17
“It is for America as well as for France that these letters speak. They come to the public eye at a most propitious moment. ... Alan Seeger was a fore-runner of the hundreds of Americans who will join hands with France and with all the allies of France for the salvation of humanity.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 1350w
=Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 50w
“The greater portion of the book is ordinary, quite like the many books from the hands of mere journalists. There is another, smaller, but far more important part of the volume that is also disappointing, and in inverse ratio to its size; it is the part, or parts, where the poet does write and where, therefore, his philosophy of life appears. Alan Seeger was narrow-minded. Seeger’s [view] is so largely a mere expression of his emotions that, annoyance becomes the dominant reaction as one reads. He was tired of ordinary existence, that existence which demands the best powers of mind and soul. Victor Chapman, in his ‘letters from France,’ says: ‘Remember Alan Seeger was an appalling wreck before the war.’” B. I. Kinne
– + =Dial= 63:206 S 13 ‘17 1250w
“Perhaps nearer to literature than anything that has come to us from the trenches. ... His pages are extraordinarily vivid and human and yet curiously impersonal. There is hardly an anecdote, hardly a mention of an individual. Idiosyncrasies of character, incidents of trench life were not his interest and yet you live trench life with him, and you breathe the very spirit of the war.”
+ =Ind= 90:514 Je 16 ‘17 1000w
“The real interest of this little book is in the psychological conditions which threw this young American into the war and made him glory in his experiences.”
=Nation= 104:758 Je 28 ‘17 1350w
“Throughout the record there is manifest a grace of mind and character that is both touching in its appeal and prohibitive of false sentiment. Sad as it is, the book is inspiriting.”
+ =No Am= 206:137 Jl ‘17 650w
=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 20w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 D 13 ‘17 620w
=SEEGER, ALAN.= Poems: with an introd. by W: Archer. *$1.25 Scribner 811 16-24961
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“A large part of the poems in this volume can reasonably well stand on their strictly literary merits. ... We like to think that if Rupert Brooke had lived he would have eliminated from his final volume some of the unnecessary gaucheries of expression, as well as some of the unworthy compositions which were rushed into print under the impulse of the sudden fame brought about by his death. The same thought occurs in the case of Alan Seeger.” H. F. Armstrong
+ — =Dial= 62:243 Mr 22 ‘17 750w
+ =Ind= 89:270 F 12 ‘17 220w
“Of his artistic capacity there can be no question. At twenty-eight he was master of a rich and flexible technique which I hesitate to call exceptional only because in our dædal and prodigious age exceptions are turning into rules before our eyes. The strains are Lydian, Lydian even in the rifle-pits; and to his ideals, which include Sidney, Byron, Napoleon, and Roosevelt, I am impelled to add, as analogue if not as exemplar, Sardanapalus.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Nation= 104:710 Je 14 ‘17 270w
=Pittsburgh= 22:507 Je ‘17 20w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p251 My 24 ‘17 120w
=SEELY, HERMAN GASTRELL.= Son of the city. il *$1.35 (2c) McClurg 17-25592
Sketches of boyhood, as maturity remembers it. Of stories of child life in the country there are many. The activities and interests of the city boy are more rarely pictured. But in this story of the city, apparently Chicago, the essential characteristics of boy nature are shown to vary little with the environment. Sport, love, and adventure are the matters that occupy this boy’s mind much as they did that of Tom Sawyer.
“The particular hero of Mr Seely’s telling holds the reader’s interest from start to finish.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ‘17 150w
“The book is strongly reminiscent of the sentiments which inspire Briggs’s cartoons. ... There are quite a few passages where action lags and interest wanes. But the chief charm, and one that pervades the volume, is that older than Aristotle—recognition. Youth comes back with all its fond impulsiveness and sudden bitternesses, but still vivid and happily refreshing.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 300w
=SEGAR, MARY G.=, comp. Some minor poems of the middle ages; glossary by Emmeline Paxton. *$1 Longmans 821 17-13422
“This is complementary to Miss Segar’s recent ‘Mediæval anthology,’ and should help to fill in the background against which the greater and better-known works stand out. ... Some of these pieces are widely known; others, and not least interesting, are unfamiliar. These do, as the preface claims, ‘Illustrate the mind and deeds of the time, and its manners and customs.’ Miss Segar writes an excellent introduction, and the glossary and notes smooth the way for any intelligent student.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p101 F ‘17 110w
+ =Cath World= 105:404 Je ‘17 110w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:85 Je ‘17
=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17
=SELLARS, ROY WOOD.= Essentials of philosophy. *$1.60 (1½c) Macmillan 102 17-22306
This book, intended as an introduction to philosophy, concerns itself with those “general problems which confront all knowledge.” “He who has wrestled with these,” says the author, “can face the more empirical questions of the secondary philosophical subjects with equanimity.” He takes up first the problems of the theory of knowledge, second those of metaphysics or ontology. He says, “We shall, I believe, become convinced that the answer to ontological problems depends in a larger measure than has been acknowledged upon the answer given to epistemological problems. Only the final chapter will concern itself with values. The method we shall use may be called the genetic for want of a better name. ... The history of philosophy will always be kept subordinate to the main purpose, that of a clear and consistent statement of problems and their solutions, so far as solutions are realizable.” (