Chapter 5
deals with the adaptability of wrought iron and alloy steels as materials of construction.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 20w
“Mr Del Mar’s book is worth placing in every mill-man’s library, where it will serve as a ready reference for the tube-mill operator.”
+ =Engineering and Mining Journal= 103:1083 Je 16 ‘17 100w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p18 Jl ‘17 70w
=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w
=DENCH, ERNEST ALFRED.= Advertising by motion pictures. *$1.50 Standard pub. co. 659 16-25184
“The use of motion pictures as an advertising medium is not confined to any one business or profession. It is adapted to wholesale as well as to retail business. Moreover, it possesses unique ‘business-pulling’ properties. It has, however, like all methods, limitations. These as well as its far greater number of advantages, Mr Dench sets forth with admirable brevity and candor.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 13:295 Ap ‘17
“Extremely up-to-date book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 250w
“Despite a curious belief in the value of slang as a medium for imparting information and ideas, the subject is comprehensively and authoritatively treated.”
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17
Deportation of women and girls from Lille. *50c Doran 940.91 A17-371
A volume containing a translation of “the note addressed by the French government to the governments of neutral powers on the conduct of the German authorities toward the population of the French departments in the occupation of the enemy,” together with “extracts from other documents, annexed to the note, relating to German breaches of international law during 1914, 1915, 1916.” (Title-page) Both French and German documents are presented; also private letters. The title is inexact since the deportations included men and boys as well as women and girls.
=A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17
“The chief value of this collection lies in the fact that it presents original data with little or no comment. Unlike the many books which have been published on this phase of the war, it is not sensational but aims to be a plain statement of fact.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:363 My ‘17 150w
=Cleveland= p58 Ap ‘17 40w
“In the letters it is more than once stated that German officers and soldiers refused to carry out the deportation order and were confined for disobedience within the fortress of Lille.”
=Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 50w
“The entire compilation comprises one of the most striking illustrations of the horrors of war that has yet been published.” J. W.
=N Y Call= p14 Mr 11 ‘17 330w
=DE SÉLINCOURT, HUGH.= Soldier of life. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-2025
Outwardly this is a pathological study of a crippled soldier’s mental state, but, more deeply, it cuts down into human nature to reveal the eternal conflict between the great constructive force, love, and the destructive forces that find their final and supreme expression in war. This revelation comes to James Wood thru Corinna Combe, and it comes only after he has struggled against the menace of depression and threatened insanity, after he has failed to find consolation in a common-sense view of life, which urged marriage with a cheerful, trivial, common-sense sort of girl, or comfort in religion. War has been to him a horror and a desecration, and his sanity is saved only when, thru Corinna, he comes to understand its basic origin.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:402 Je ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 45:96 Mr ‘17 400w
“It can scarcely hope to find a universal appeal, but will undoubtedly be of interest to those who enjoy the abnormal.” R. W.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 300w
+ =Ind= 90:257 My 5 ‘17 70w
“Whatever weakness the book may have as a story, however, it throws raw light, in its picture of the moral and spiritual disintegration which war may bring to the unhappy warrior, upon a common horror which the belligerent world, waving its flags and chorusing its mottoes, chooses to leave in darkness.”
+ — =Nation= 104:369 Mr 29 ‘17 350w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 140w
“It will not be strange if Mr de Sélincourt’s book turns out to have been one of the most significant of all that come out of the war. ... It is the quintessence of war literature. ... It traces the delicate spiritual effects as no other book has yet succeeded in doing. ... You have only to compare it with Mr Britling to get the contrast of its fineness with Wells’s blowsiness of spirit, that utterly pedestrian and easy way in which the re-discoverer of God dresses up again the rumpled soul of middle-class Britain and sets her decently on parade again. ... Mr de Sélincourt, perhaps unconsciously, has done in the novel what Bertrand Russell is saying impersonally.” Randolph Bourne
+ =New Repub= 11:85 My 19 ‘17 1200w
“One cannot read it without being stirred to deeper thought and higher feeling.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:33 F 4 ‘17 500w
“From the very first, its dramatic and analytical power hold the reader’s attention and carry him thru the hero’s struggles with an interest seldom roused by such a subject. It is more plain human than abnormal. ... This is as deeply thoughtful a book as any the war has inspired, and one, besides, of beautiful texture and style.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 91:587 F 17 ‘17 350w
“‘A soldier of life’ is a thoughtful—almost spiritual—study of the effect of war, and affords food for thought.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 460w
“Perhaps its differentia and its most notable merit are its success in expressing high and difficult matters in terms of a mere man and his human affairs, linked by a carefully forged chain of thought and incident to the complete ‘normality’ of the opening chapters.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 560w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:127 Ap ‘17 90w
=DESSON, GEORGES.=[2] Hostage in Germany; auth. tr. by Lee Holt. il *$1.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-84)
“A graphic account, by a distinguished French engineer, of his detention as a hostage in Germany for eleven months, with a number of his compatriots. The hardships and sufferings endured by the party were exceedingly severe. The pretext for the imprisonment was that some German subjects were alleged to have been ill-treated in Morocco. The illustrations show some of the places of confinement.”—Ath
“He records the suffering and misery of his experiences with the relieving brightness and humor that characterized him and his nine companions in their otherwise unendurable imprisonment.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17
+ =Ath= p258 My ‘17 80w
=Outlook= 117:144 S 26 ‘17 40w
=Pittsburgh= 22:761 N ‘17 60w
=DESTRÉE, JULES.= Britain in arms (French title, L’effort britannique). *$1.50 (3c) Lane 940.91 17-25445
“M. Destrée—a Belgian writer who, during a stay of some months in Italy, came to the conclusion that England’s efforts in the war were not sufficiently realized by our Italian allies, and was thus led to lay the facts before them—has written a French version of ‘Cio che hanno fatto gli Inglesi.’ The translation, by Mr J. Lewis May, is now before us. How England, though anxious for peace, found herself involved in the war; her naval, military, financial, and industrial efforts; the union of kingdom and empire; and the reasons why our Allies should have confidence in England, are some of the topics to which M. Destrée addresses himself.” (Ath) The preface is by Georges Clemenceau.
=A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17
+ =Ath= p475 S ‘17 100w
“If an Englishman had written this book we would regard it as a piece of self-satisfied laudation. Coming from a Frenchman, who has given the widespread patrol work of the British fleet and the astonishing development of the British army careful investigation, the book falls short of overpraise, but is singularly just.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 280w
“The book, by the author’s confession, was hurriedly written; it is propagandist; but its laudable object is to fortify international confidence as ‘a preparation for the better days to come’; and it makes inspiring reading.”
+ =Dial= 63:594 D 6 ‘17 420w
=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 30w
“M. Jules Destrée discovered a suspicion in Italy that England was not ‘pulling her weight’ in the war. It is a suspicion at which we have no right to be angry, for very similar suspicions of Italian slackness have sometimes been entertained in ill-informed circles in England; and this suspicion, in both cases, has been due to misapprehensions arising out of an excusable ignorance. ... He could have got a preface from no more appropriate author than M. Clemenceau, who has frequently insisted, in L’Homme Enchainé, that an estimate of our contribution to the war must take cognizance of work done in the factories as well as in the field.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p302 Je 28 ‘17 750w
=DEWEY, JOHN, and others.= Creative intelligence. *$2 (1½c) Holt 104 17-6640
Eight modern thinkers contribute papers to this volume. The subtitle “Essays in the pragmatic attitude,” indicates that the unity of the work is one of attitude rather than of conclusions. The first essay, by John Dewey, on The need for a recovery of philosophy, serves to introduce those that follow. It is a statement of the pragmatic purpose, to emancipate philosophy from its attachment to traditional problems. “What serious-minded men not engaged in the professional business of philosophy most want to know,” Professor Dewey says, “is what modifications and abandonments of intellectual inheritance are required by the newer industrial, political, and scientific movements.” The remaining essays are concerned with some of the specific applications of philosophy to present-day problems. They are: Reformation of logic, by Addison W. Moore; Intelligence and mathematics, by Harold Chapman Brown; Scientific method and individual thinker, by George H. Mead; Consciousness and psychology, by Boyd H. Bode; The phases of the economic interest, by Henry Waldgrave Stuart; The moral life and the construction of values and standards, by James Hayden Tufts; Value and existence in philosophy, art, and religion, by Horace M. Kallen.
“Some of the essays have appeared in the various philosophical journals.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17
“To the general reader, perhaps the papers on ethics, by Professor Tufts, and economics, by Professor Stuart, will make the widest appeal, though all will enjoy the concluding paper by Dr Kallen.” R. C. Lodge
+ — =Bellman= 22:300 Mr 17 ‘17 470w
“The book is specially noteworthy for its importance as a contribution to American philosophic thought.” F. F. Kelly
+ — =Bookm= 45:181 Ap ‘17 580w
— =Cath World= 105:393 Je ‘17 480w
=Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 40w
Reviewed by M. C. Otto
* =Dial= 62:348 Ap 19 ‘17 2450w
Reviewed by R. B. Perry
* =Int J Ethics= 28:115 O ‘17 3400w
=N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 450w
=Pittsburgh= 22:328 Ap ‘17
=Pratt= p6 O ‘17 20w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 3 ‘17 30w
“There is not an abundance of good philosophy or good writing in this volume. The contributions of Profs. Dewey and Moore are not without interest as statements of method.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 200w
“‘Creative intelligence,’ in spite of its attractive title, is not a treatise for beginners in humanistic philosophy. Yet there are some who like to begin, as it were, at the top of the pyramid and work down—who like the intellectual tussle of difficult beginnings. To these, and to anyone familiar with the concepts of humanism, ‘Creative intelligence’ is to be recommended. ... In spite of these appreciative remarks, one cannot help sighing for that exposition at once vivid as lightning and picturesque as romance, which William James was always able to provide for anything he had to say.” J: Collier
+ — =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 600w
=DE WINDT, HARRY.= Russia as I know it. il *$3 Lippincott 914.7 18-1412
“The author was previously employed by the Russian government to investigate (for the benefit of English-speaking people) the Siberian exile system and reported not unfavorably on it. His findings caused controversy in the London press. His book deals mainly with European Russia, although there are separate and interesting chapters on Siberia, Darker Siberia, Frozen Asia, the Crimea, Finland, and last but not least, the Russian army. Mr De Windt also describes the characteristics and life of the Russian people.”—Springf’d Republican
“If Mr De Windt had made the most of his opportunities what splendid material he had ready to his hand! Instead, we are given a superficial account of men and manners, well flavoured with anecdotes of social life and morals, and strongly redolent of the countless excellent restaurants and menus the author was lucky enough to meet with.”
– + =Ath= p342 Jl ‘17 800w
+ =Ath= p364 Jl ‘17 50w
“Interesting as it is, the material shows every evidence of having been collated with less thought of homogeneity than of producing a book that would sell.”
– + =Dial= 63:526 N 22 ‘17 500w
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 150w
“In telling what he has learned of the Russian character by long-continued observation Mr De Windt helps his readers to a clearer understanding of the problems and perplexities which the new Russia is facing at this moment.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 80w
“His book is no globe-trotter’s journal, but a considered view of the various facets of Russian life.”
+ =Sat R= 124:250 S 29 ‘17 320w
“We could wish that there had been less about Russia as a playground and more about her political, artistic, and intellectual qualities, but only one who knows Russia as a man of the world could have written this book, and it can therefore be safely recommended as valuable of its kind.”
+ — =Spec= 119:12 Jl 7 ‘17 1500w
“Although the author may be congratulated on having produced a readable work, one questions whether it has its permanent historical value.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 230w
“He can tell as readable a story as anybody could wish to read.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p266 Je 7 ‘17 400w
=DIBBLEE, GEORGE BINNEY.= Germany’s economic position and England’s commercial and industrial policy after the war. *1s Heinemann, London
“This is one of the publications of the Central committee for national patriotic organizations. ... His analysis (to which the first four chapters are devoted) in headed paragraphs, of German industrial expansion, of the influence of the German government and character on industry, and the dangers of German aggression, is impartial and instructive. Mr Dibblee deals with our economic policy after the war in a cautious spirit. He foresees a tariff, but a strictly moderate one, and a moderate duty on corn. ... Among ‘internal measures of defence’ he urges the establishment of a foreign trade office and a system of licenses for employment, transfer of land, company promotion, export of raw material, &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“This very shrewd and able little book deserves attention.”
+ =Spec= 118:209 F 17 ‘17 380w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 28 ‘16 160w
=DICK, JOHN HARRISON=, ed. Garden guide; the amateur gardener’s handbook. il 75c; pa 50c De La Mare 710 17-11482
The publishers claim for this book a larger aim than that indicated by the title. They hope “through its medium to win thousands from crowded city homes to the free air of the open country.” Among the contributors are F. F. Rockwell, A. J. Loveless, and Charles Livingston Bull. The subjects taken up include: Planning the home grounds; Lawns and grass plots; Hedges and fences; Trees and shrubs; The rose garden; Among the hardy flowers; Annuals and biennials; Garden furniture; Fruit for the small garden; Vegetable garden; Pruning, etc. There are numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables.
“Its twenty-four chapters deal in a way easily understood with the many perplexing problems which confront the beginner and often the professional as well. A calendar of operations contains much useful information, while the chapters on garden furniture and accessories will be eagerly absorbed by the reader who is mechanically inclined.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 140w
=DICKINSON, ASA DON, and DICKINSON, HELEN WINSLOW=, eds. Children’s book of patriotic stories; the spirit of ‘76. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 17-25380
Among the stories selected for this volume are: Jabez Rockwell’s powderhorn, by Ralph D. Paine; Old Esther Dudley, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The battle of Bunker’s Hill, by Washington Irving; The little fifer, by Helen M. Winslow; Paul Revere’s ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; A venture in 1777, by S. Weir Mitchell; The little minute-man, by H. G. Paine; Washington and the spy, by James Fenimore Cooper. For each story there is a brief introductory note and the table of contents indicates the stories suitable for older and for younger children.
“Good reference material for any children’s library.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:172 F ‘18
“A book confessedly more patriotic than historical, since the seeker of sober truth does not interpret the year ‘76 quite in the spirit of ‘76.” J: Walcott
— =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 60w
“These are good stories for the children of 1917 to read, both because they are good stories and because, later, the spirit of ‘76 and the spirit of ‘17 will have much in common.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w
“The work of selection has been well done, and the book may be recommended for juvenile libraries, public or private.”
+ =Cath World= 106:551 Ja ‘18 100w
=DICKINSON, GOLDSWORTHY LOWES.= Choice before us. *$2 Dodd (*6s Allen & Unwin, London) 172.4 17-29207
“The author’s purpose is to describe briefly the prospect before the world if the armed international anarchy is to continue, and to be extended and exasperated, after the war. The origin of the war, and our participation in it, are not discussed; though the author is of opinion that we could do ‘no other.’ He seeks to analyse and discuss the presuppositions which underlie militarism, and arguing both that international war as it will be conducted in the future implies the ruin of civilisation, and that it is not ‘inevitable,’ he sketches the kind of reorganization that is both possible and essential if war is not to destroy mankind.” (Ath) “Mr Dickinson nurses the belief, not very strongly it seems to us, that wars may be prevented by a system of international leagues and international councils of conciliation. ... He is quite clear that internationalism can effect nothing unless all the great powers are members of the league. He says plainly that if Germany and Austria are to be left out of this league the thing is hopeless, and there is a vista of wars before us. He also argues with much force that if the Entente powers persist in waging an economic war against the Central European powers, then the economic must be followed by a military war.” (Sat R)
=A L A Bkl= 14:111 Ja ‘18
=Ath= p355 Jl ‘17 110w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 150w
+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 60w
“With regard to militarism in England, Mr Lowes Dickinson lays undue stress on an entirely uninfluential and forgotten book by Captain Ross in his attempt to find evidences of militarism in countries other than Germany. The value of the book lies in its appeal to realities; its criticism of unreal standards and ideals.” M. J.
+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:287 Ja ‘18 330w
“On the whole, Mr Dickinson presents a strong case against the militarists. A valuable service performed by the author is his collection of scattered statements made by prominent representatives of the allied nations into a formidable body of militaristic doctrine. It is a dangerous plant in whatever soil it may be rooted.”
+ =Nation= 106:19 Ja 3 ‘18 520w
“All who respect clear thinking, large-hearted zeal, and generous common sense must respect his expression of his views.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 1200w
“Every thinking man and woman should read Mr Dickinson’s book, which is a series of powerful arguments, written by a most accomplished disputant, in favour of a combined endeavour by the civilised world to put an end to war. There is, however, one indispensable condition to the success of Mr Dickinson’s ideas—international leagues must be in the hands of responsible statesmen, and not under the control of the secret societies or led by cosmopolitan anarchists.”
=Sat R= 124:129 Ag 18 ‘17 1050w
“We find these books exceedingly exasperating. ... Their theory of joint responsibility, with Germany as the worst sinner because the most completely militarized, ignores the whole history of Prussia as a predatory Power. ... Books like these should be read—for even in the worst of them there is much good sense—though their tone and the attitude of the writers towards the mass of their countrymen make the reading rather repulsive.”
=Spec= 119:189 Ag 25 ‘17 1200w
“The case against militarism—obvious militarism, and the militarism which stalks under the guise of imperialistic policy—has seldom been thought out with keener analysis and closer logic.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 25 ‘17 1150w
“His purpose is so manifestly good, his temper is so reasonable, he is so desirous to see things as they are that even those who differ from some of his conclusions, and the many others who miss in his volume a sense of true proportion, will listen attentively to his argument and agree with much of it. There are many pages in this volume which express admirably the opinions of calm, clear-thinking men as to the outlook and our duties as a nation. ... But the reader who lays down the volume with the sense that he has learned much from it, and who agrees that ‘there are in all countries traditions, interests, prejudices, and illusions making for war,’ may very likely think that there is a want of perspective in the treatment of the subject, and that certain facts, fit to be noted in season, are pushed into undue prominence.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p303 Je 28 ‘17 1800w
=DICKINSON, THOMAS HERBERT.= Contemporary drama of England. (Contemporary drama ser.) *$1.25 (2c) Little 822 17-7563
Beginning with a chapter on The early Victorian theatre, the author covers the whole field from the beginning of the second quarter of the nineteenth century to the present. The chapters following the first are: The decline of the romantic tradition; Adaptation and experiment; Toward a new English theatre; Dramatists of transition; Henry Arthur Jones; Arthur Wing Pinero; The busy nineties; New organization; George Bernard Shaw; Dramatists of the free theatre; The challenge of the future. There is a bibliographical appendix. The author is professor of English in the University of Wisconsin and author of “The case of American drama.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17
“A book of quite extraordinary merit.” Clayton Hamilton
* + =Bookm= 45:538 Jl ‘17 470w
“In a comprehensive bibliographical appendix is given an index of English plays of the past eighty years, arranged alphabetically by authors, and a list of books and magazine articles on the drama.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 F 17 ‘17 750w
=Pittsburgh= 22:312 Ap ‘17
“The eleventh chapter, on the ‘Free theater,’ and the twelfth, which estimates the dramatic labors of Galsworthy, Hankin, Barrie, Craig, and Barker, will assist both the average theater-patron and the dramatic student in discerning the trend of modern plays and give them a better idea of the aims of modern stage producers.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:662 Je ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:182 Je ‘17
“Its historical information is interestingly presented, and it is much more meaty and detailed than many works of the kind. There are a few surprising mistakes. ... In interpretation and criticism Mr Dickinson, while sometimes shrewd and apt, is less satisfactory. He is frequently too abstract, and finespun in his characterizations. ... This is Mr Dickinson at his vaguest, and it would be unfair to judge the book by such instances of strained and pointless criticism. Yet one fears that these sentences are typical of the instruction which Drama league audiences and literary clubs are getting in this country.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 26 ‘17 400w
=DICKINSON, THOMAS HERBERT.= Insurgent theatre. *$1.25 (2½c) Huebsch 792 17-30696
A concise, comprehensive discussion of the artistic and practical sides of the non-commercial theatre. At the outset the point of agreement taken for granted is the conviction on the part of workers that the things of the old theatre must be destroyed and a new theatre be built up in its stead. Without censure against the older order, the writer confines himself to the struggle for the new theatre,—the purposes of those who have started out in revolt; its problems of financial support including experiments in subsidy; the responsibility of audiences to support a theatre intelligently; early experiments showing that the machinery was not ready to carry out the new enterprises; the little theatre; laws that affect management of theatres, for instance, laws against Sunday performances and child-labor; dramatic laboratories; the children’s theatre; some of the pioneers of the insurgent theatre, and a closing chapter on the “Art and outlook of the insurgent theatre.”
Reviewed by Algernon Tassin
=Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 250w
“It is interesting to compare the attitudes of Professor Dickinson and Cheney. The two volumes make an admirable combination for the theaterlover. ... The question of subsidy, direct and through subscription audiences, is ably handled by Professor Dickinson, as is the relationship of the college to dramatics in the matter of experimentation.” L: Gardy
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ja 12 ‘18 250w
“The book is, perhaps, the most comprehensive exposition that has yet been made of what is generally known as the ‘modern movement.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 160w
+ =R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 110w
“Mr Dickinson is so familiar not only with the subject of the community theater, but also with the ordinary commercial enterprise and the lore and philosophy of the drama, that he has a background for understanding what he is talking about. No wild beliefs in the efficacy of new amateur theaters to build up a new social stratum in America tinge his views.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 6 ‘17 950w
“But this is more than a chronicle of the pioneers and their ventures; it is a clear, balanced and broadminded critique, helpful alike to the play-lover, the actor, the playwright and the producer. The responsibility of the audience is well-defined, the artistic devotion of those who are working out little theaters in town and country is keenly appreciated, and an encouraging outlook for the future is entertained.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ =Survey= 39:447 Ja 19 ‘18 310w
=DICKSON, HARRIS.= Unpopular history of the United States by Uncle Sam himself; as recorded in Uncle Sam’s own words. il *75c (3c) Stokes 355 17-25097
The manuscript of Upton’s “Military policy of the United States,” based on Civil war experience, lay filed and forgotten amongst millions of documents in the archives of the War department for twenty-five years. Then it saw the light. It was published by Mr Dickson. He says, “Every word that I have spoken here you will find in there; it has my official endorsement, printed on my presses, franked thru my mails, and sent free to my people. It’s true gospel, but folks say it doesn’t taste good.” Uncle Sam does the talking and he spares no forcible language to take the brag and bluster out of Americans who complaisantly think our war system is equal to the emergency of today. It is an arraignment of the volunteer service idea underlying military policy and a plea for universal, compulsory military service for both war and peace.
=A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w
“It is poorly written; the writer, making Uncle Sam the speaker, rips out regular gosh-ding stuff. But the facts are interesting. For one who thrills at military victories, and is ashamed of military defeats, this book is a bit of a tonic. But for one whose interest is in the welfare of the people of the nation, rather than their Prussian prowess, this work is but an interesting sidelight into national psychology.” W: M. Feigenbaum
+ — =N Y Call= p14 O 14 ‘17 500w
“The general effect of having these facts known to the people should be wholesome and in every way stimulating to patriotism and efficiency.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:104 Ja ‘18 70w
=DIDEROT, DENIS.= Early philosophical works; tr. and ed. by Margaret Jourdain. (Open court ser. of classics of science and philosophy) il *$1.25 (2½c) Open ct. 194
This little volume includes the “Philosophic thoughts,” the “Letter on the blind,” together with its “Addition,” and the “Letter on the deaf and dumb,” published with notes and an appendix. In the “Philosophic thoughts” Diderot “still figures as a deist.” The “Letter on the blind” treats both of the theory of vision and of the argument from design, while the “Letter on the deaf and dumb” deals largely with esthetics. The introduction of twenty-five pages is by the translator and editor.
“Diderot’s range is extraordinary, as within this small volume he breaks ground in ethics and aesthetics, in the criticism of religion and of art. ... The ‘Letter on the deaf and dumb’ is full of interesting speculations upon aesthetics, which Lessing afterwards turned to account, and the ‘Philosophic thoughts,’ burnt by the Parliament of Paris in 1746, has still its interest as a breviary of philosophic scepticism.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:538 Jl ‘17 220w
“The main philosophical point treated in the volume is the relation between mental development and sensuous endowment, a point on which some diversity of opinion is still maintained. His conclusion is that ‘the state of our organs and our senses has a great influence upon our metaphysics and our morality.’ ... To most modern psychologists Diderot’s principle will seem so manifestly true as scarcely to admit of discussion. Nevertheless, the principle has been called into question recently by the new realists, who argue that the human mind is in immediate contact with objective truth. For the confutation of such views Diderot’s acute observations upon a blind man and a deaf-mute of his acquaintance are not without value at the present time.”
=Nature= 99:343 Je 28 ‘17 230w
“This collection of Diderot’s ‘Early works’ is worthy to be studied in connection with Morley’s book on ‘Diderot and the Encyclopedists,’ but it will be found interesting for its religious and esthetic speculations by all readers of intellectual tastes.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 23 ‘17 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p136 Mr 22 ‘17 1250w
=DILNOT, FRANK.= Lloyd George: the man and his story. il *$1 (2c) Harper 17-10671
The author has written of the career of the man who now rules England “with an absoluteness granted to no man, king or statesman, since the British became a nation,” as he himself has watched it. Among the chapters are: The village cobbler who helped the British empire; How Lloyd George became famous at twenty-five; Fighting the lone hand; The daredevil statesman; The first great task; How Lloyd George broke the House of lords; At home and in Downing Street; A champion of war; The alliance with Northcliffe; At high pressure; His inconsistencies; How he became prime minister; The future of Lloyd George. Lloyd George’s Lincoln day message is reprinted in an appendix.
=A L A Bkl= 14:23 O ‘17
“The book will well repay perusal.”
+ =Ath= p473 S ‘17 50w
“Mr Dilnot has given us, not a critical estimate of the great English leader, for that is, at a time when men feel rather than think, impossible, but a clear, journalistic, if you will, and sympathetic account of the man as he appears to a newspaper writer who has had an unusual opportunity for following his career and a capacity for its interpretation. He is frankly an enthusiastic believer in the man and his policies.” J. T. Gerould
=Bellman= 22:438 Ap 21 ‘17 700w
“Our thanks are due to Mr Dilnot for the most plausible picture yet given us of the most extraordinary man of the epoch.” G. I. Colbron
+ =Bookm= 45:415 Je ‘17 1900w
“Mr Dilnot has had first-hand acquaintance with British politics and political leaders for two or three decades, and he has written a substantial book on the dramatic contest over the Lloyd George budget of 1909. The present biography is a simple chronicle, highly laudatory, yet hardly more than the subject seems to demand.”
+ =Dial= 62:529 Je 14 ‘17 300w
“The Prime minister of the British empire has had a career so meteoric and possesses a personality so unusual that biographers are likely to swarm about his story for many a day. Mr Dilnot’s, which is one of the best thus far, is brief, less than 200 pages, but graphic, and aims less to give a conventional account of his life than to present a picture of him that will make understandable his character and career.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:140 Ap 15 ‘17 1100w
“Lloyd George will be chiefly known, we believe, as the friend of the poor, and this is the thread which runs through the volume, especially accentuated as to labor influence.”
+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 220w
=Pittsburgh= 22:526 Je ‘17 50w
+ =R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17
“He writes as a candid friend, and devotes a whole chapter to Mr Lloyd George’s ‘inconsistencies,’ but for all that he contrives to suggest that the history of England for the last ten years has centred in his hero. The future historian will, we think, take a different view.”
– + =Spec= 119:192 Ag 25 ‘17 120w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 550w
=DITCHFIELD, PETER HAMPSON.= England of Shakespeare. il *$2 Dutton (*6s Methuen & co., London) 822.3 (Eng ed 17-17653)
“Mr Ditchfield has provided here a series of pen-sketches depicting in a popular and readable way the England that was Shakespeare’s, its religion, the court, the capital, the poet’s home, travelling, the great country-houses, the navy and army, agriculture and trade, dress, literature, and the drama, the people’s games and sports, the prevalent roguery, vagabondage, and punishments, and the current superstitions, such as beliefs in necromancy, astrology, and witchcraft. The book includes twelve illustrations.”—Ath
=Ath= p201 Ap ‘17 80w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 7 ‘17 550w
“Every student of Shakespeare, and, indeed, every student of Elizabethan literature, should read this book. It contains much rare and curious information helpful for the interpretation of the literature of the time. We hope that the author, in a second edition, will expurge the offensive expression ‘papists’ which constantly disfigures the pages of his book, and substitute the true appellation ‘Catholic’ instead.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:396 D ‘17 410w
“The kindly country clergyman shows his real quality when he describes what he calls the country of ‘leafy Warwickshire,’ as typical of the rest of rural England in Shakespeare’s time. ‘The England of Shakespeare’ is a book that no lover of Shakespeare can afford not to read.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 550w
“Making all due allowances for the exigencies of war time, we must still consider Mr Ditchfield curiously careless in small details. Any Latin scholar could make obvious emendations in the lines on p. 200, and there are several misquotations of passages and names that should be familiar as household words. His selections from representative views of the period are the strong point of his book.”
+ — =Sat R= 123:257 Mr 17 ‘17 1250w
“All the main facts are well known already. But Mr Ditchfield retells them with such enthusiasm and in a setting of such pleasant anecdote and quotation that they must make an appeal of freshness even to the mind saturated in seventeenth-century history.”
+ =Spec= 118:415 Ap 7 ‘17 1900w
“Especially graphic are the pen pictures which the author gives of the famous queen herself.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p83 F 15 ‘17 100w
=DIVER, MRS KATHERINE HELEN MAUD (MARSHALL).= Unconquered; a romance. il *$1.50 (1½c) Putnam 17-23756
Mrs Diver has written in “Unconquered” a war novel of conventional type. It tells the story of Sir Mark Forsyth’s infatuation for Bel Alison, a selfish young beauty, his return from the war with an injured spine, the exit of the beauty from the scene and the entrance of Sheila Melrose, the sweet young girl who has always loved Sir Mark and who is his mother’s choice for him.
=A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18
“As a love-story the book, despite its wordiness, should prove of interest to those who like their war literature flavoured with romance. As an indictment of democratic government it has too much the air of being wise after the event.”
– + =Ath= p596 N ‘17 90w
“Mrs Diver has done this part of her story especially well, for it requires skill to make so vivid and yet so restrained a drawing of those early war days.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 16 ‘18 1450w
=Nation= 106:95 Ja 24 ‘18 170w
“The novel is too long, and the latter part of its drags more than a little, but it is written with sincerity.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 500w
“In spite of the thin motif, the book has merits. ... Moreover, in an age overgiven to revolt against anything which makes for a standard or for discipline, it is refreshing to find an advocate of ‘the brave old wisdom of acceptance’ as a philosophy of life.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:311 O 20 ‘17 280w
“As we read the book we live through once again those summer and autumn months of 1914. It is a true picture of the early phases of public opinion in regard to the war, as well as a good love-story.”
+ =Spec= 119:451 O 27 ‘17 750w
“The only touch of individuality anywhere is Bel’s pacifism. The other characters are just puppets trained to make a continual call upon the admiration of the reader. What is still more unfortunate is that Mrs Diver has bespattered her pages with serious discussion in the manner of the most commonplace leading articles of three years ago. ... We are treated by these solemn talkers to all the old truths which have now become truisms, and the old clichés which have become banalities.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p494 O 11 ‘17 250w
=DIXON, ROYAL.= Human side of birds. il *$1.60 (3½c) Stokes 598.2 17-29555
An original study of birds which characterizes them according to their
## activities. Some are artists, cliff-dwellers and mound-builders,
policemen, dancers, athletes and musicians; while others are scavengers and street cleaners, aviators, fishermen, mimics, ventriloquists and actors. The bird court of justice and the bird beauty parlor also come in for a share of novel treatment. Mr Dixon says, “It should be remembered that birds have a life, a point of view, and a destiny of their own, and that our failure to comprehend them in no way justifies us in concluding that they are in every sense below us in the scale of existence. ... There are birds of as many shades of character and disposition as there are types of people. There are the gay, the sad; the sociable, the reserved; the trustful, the shy; the frank, the deceitful; the honest, the dishonest; the gentle, the violent; the peaceful, the quarrelsome; and so on. However, it should be emphasized that the prevailing note of birddom is one of happiness and good cheer.”
“Mr Dixon has a fertile imagination, but he also has a wide knowledge of nature and he is very enthusiastic.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p3 D 15 ‘17 950w
“It contains much curious information, scientific and historic, and some that is neither, in a strict sense, but is none the less readable.”
+ =Dial= 63:537 N 22 ‘17 180w
“Colored plates and many photographs add to the attractiveness of the pleasantly chatty and at times quaintly imaginative papers.”
+ =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 30w
“It is a very interesting book and one which ought to open the eyes and sharpen the perceptions of most people to whom a tree is just a tree. The last chapter, on ‘Trees and civilization,’ is full of facts, eloquently presented, to show how great is the necessity that the human world and the tree world should co-operate for the good of civilization.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:289 Ag 5 ‘17 450w
“The book has a unique interest. The pictures are excellent.”
+ =Outlook= 117:577 D 5 ‘17 50w
+ =Pratt= p19 O ‘17 20w
=DIXON, ROYAL, and FITCH, FRANKLYN EVERETT.= Human side of trees; wonders of the tree world. il *$1.60 (4c) Stokes 582 17-10453
“Man is the highest form of animal life and the trees are the highest form of vegetable life. They have much in common,” say the authors of this book. It is a companion volume to “The human side of plants” and its purpose is “to present the trees as living, lovable personalities—working and playing in a world quite as real and vital as our own; and possessing many habits and attributes which we often imagine are exclusively human.” Among the chapters are: Trees that build cities; Trees with a personality; Tree physiology; Trees that are fashionable; Trees with a college education; Trees and their business methods. There are over thirty illustrations, some of them in color.
“The illustrations are good and facts are authentic, but scientists may take exception to the method of presentation.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:381 Je ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 380w
=N Y Br Lib News= 5:76 My ‘17
+ =Outlook= 115:761 Ap 25 ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 55:665 Je ‘17 230w
“The book is, of course, rather entertaining than scientific, but the devices which it employs are legitimate apart from their object in interesting the student in a further pursuit of the science of dendrology.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 4 ‘17 130w
=DIXON, WILLIAM MACNEILE.= British navy at war. il *75c (3c) Houghton 940.91 18-1524
The professor of English language and literature in the University of Glasgow has given a graphic account of the work of the British navy during the war. He considers The war at sea—New problems—German tactics; tells of The ocean battles—Coronel and the Falkland Isles; of the North sea battles—the Dogger Bank and Jutland; of the work of the Submarines; of Blockade and bombardment; pays a tribute to the Grand fleet and ends with a summary of What the British navy has done for the world. The author acknowledges his indebtedness to the correspondence columns of the Times and to the Cornhill and other magazines for a number of descriptive quotations.
“Before the United States entered the great war we heard now and then that question of unpardonable ignorance: ‘What is the British fleet doing?’ ... The author has with remarkable brevity and brilliancy told the real story of the British navy in the recent war. It thrills the reader, and it is as authentic as it is inspiring.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 700w
“Every word of it makes interesting reading; and not a small part of the pleasure the book imparts, is due to the author’s clear and flowing style.”
+ =Cath World= 106:265 N ‘17 250w
+ =Ind= 92:301 N 10 ‘17 70w
“As a chronology of events it is of considerable value.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 170w
=N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 300w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 20w
=R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 40w
“This is a handy little book for the general reader who finds it hard to keep in mind a connected account of British naval operations simply from reading the papers. But if one is looking for a critical analysis of these operations, one must turn elsewhere. As history it is simply a hymn of praise.” W: O. Stevens
– + =Yale R= n s 7:418 Ja ‘18 950w
=DOBBS, ELLA VICTORIA.= Illustrative handwork for elementary school subjects. il *$1.10 Macmillan 371.3 17-13974
This desk manual discusses “the use of sand tables, pictures, and construction work in developing a clear understanding of history, geography and literature.” (Ind) “There are about twenty selected projects in detail besides lists of projects carried out by fifth, sixth and seventh grades.” (School Arts Magazine)
+ =Ind= 91:294 Ag 25 ‘17 70w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:103 Jl ‘17
“Every classroom teacher should have this manual on her desk.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:44 S ‘17 120w
=DODGE, HENRY IRVING.= Skinner’s baby. *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 17-25433
The Skinners had distinctly “arrived” since the first dress-suit was bought but husband and wife are still dividing “fifty-fifty.” How would it be over the baby? Would he be Skinner’s or Honey’s? He was to be a “regular boy.” So much was agreed. And a “regular boy” must have “a clean mind, a stout heart, and a strong body.” Could they make him one by working together or must each do a separate part? It took some adjusting but in the end it was “fifty-fifty” still. For his mother taught him to pray while his father showed him the way to the old swimming-pool and to the use of the boxing-gloves. And together husband and wife solved the puzzles that will fall to the share of, if not every reader, at least to every reader’s neighbor.
=A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18
“The little tale is amusing, and the account of Skinner’s dreams before the baby came at once funny and pathetic. Baby Skinner himself is no supernaturally virtuous cherub, but a sturdy youngster, energetic, inquisitive, and possessed of that appalling logic which some children wield, to the utter dismay of those who endeavor to cope with them.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 210w
=DODGE, LOUIS.= Children of the desert. *$1.35 (2½c) Scribner 17-7927
This is the story of Harboro and Sylvia. Harboro was forty when he met Sylvia. He had led the adventurous life of a railroad man in the Southwest and in Mexico. He was solid and substantial, a very rock of firmness and integrity. Sylvia was—there is no other word for her—a light woman. Harboro married her, knowing nothing of her past, and the men who did know and the woman who suspected kept silent out of respect for Harboro. Out of such a situation tragedy must inevitably come. The amazing thing about the story is the appealing sweetness of Sylvia. As the author draws her character, it is impossible wholly to condemn her. The action is played out in two towns that face one another across the Rio Grande.
“Mr Dodge makes both the woman and the man wholly plausible, and it is obvious that he seeks to present them as the victims of an inexorable fate.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 21 ‘17 350w
“A work of intense concentration and elimination. ... The author has shown in this latest novel an underlying strength and determination that ought to carry him a long way, and that should also lead him to overcome the looseness of writing that is such a blot upon his careful structure.”
+ — =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 330w
“The author of ‘Bonnie May’ has written another book. And a greater difference can scarcely be imagined than that which exists between Louis Dodge’s first published novel and this second book which has just appeared. ‘Children of the desert’ is a study of character and of a problem which has been studied before and which will probably be studied for many a long year to come; it is set in the crudity and the wildness of Mexican border life; it is profoundly simple; and it is sheer tragedy.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:83 Mr 11 ‘17 700w
“While it is remarkably restrained in tone, free from gunfire and all traces of flashiness, some of its vital features belong to melodrama, and its dénouement, tho tragic in Hardy’s second best manner, is brought about by a potently melodramatic device. On the one hand the
## book inspires serious comparisons; and on the other it makes one
wonder whether it is justified beyond the furnishing of an evening’s excitement.” Joseph Mosher
=Pub W= 91:972 Mr 17 ‘17 500w
“Louis Dodge’s purpose in portraying the type of woman whose behavior is the central thread of ‘Children of the desert’ is not clear. Her portrayal proves nothing more valuable than it is possible for a human being to be without moral sense. Mr Dodge handles his theme with considerable skill, but his instinct to drown the novelist in the essayist will not down.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 220w
Domestic service, by an old servant; with a preface by Mrs George Wemyss. il *$1 (4½c) Houghton 647 17-24417
“This is not a manual of domestic service, but recollections, reflections, and advice to young servants by an old servant who has been in nineteen situations—nine in Scotland, and ten in England—covering a period of fifty-two years.” (Ath) “It gives a realistic picture of life as it is lived and thought about by the typical well-behaved, well-treated servant of the old school, rather prosily contented in the lot whereto God has called her, happy to be remembered in the blessings of a considerate master or mistress.” (Springf’d Republican)
“The ‘old servant’s’ account, which is carefully edited, is a pleasing record of good feeling on the side both of employers and employed.”
=Ath= p411 Ag ‘17 60w
“It is a delight to read this simple, moving record. There is emphasis in each chapter on the enduring value of loyalty in every walk of life.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 40w
“With all proper respect for the virtue of contentment there is genuine pathos in the sheeplike quality of the nameless author’s devotion to duty. The editor of the book has shown doubtful wisdom or kindness in leaving the author’s English at its original loose ends.”
=Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 160w
=DOMINIAN, LEON.= Frontiers of language and nationality in Europe. il *$3 Holt 940 17-15963
“This book is submitted as a study in applied geography. Its preparation grew out of a desire to trace the connection existing between linguistic areas in Europe and the subdivision of the continent into nations. The endeavor has been made to show that language exerts a strong formative influence on nationality because words express thoughts and ideals. But underlying the currents of national feeling, or of speech, is found the persistent action of the land, or geography. ... Upon these foundations, linguistic frontiers deserve recognition as the symbol of the divide between distinct sets of economic and social conditions.” (Preface) The author is a graduate of Robert college, Constantinople, and he has given particular attention to the Turkish situation because of its importance in the whole European entanglement. The book is an outgrowth of a series of articles written for the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. The several colored maps of the book have been prepared under the direction of the American geographical society, and Dr Madison Grant, its president, has written the introduction.
“Seems qualified to become a standard source of information on the topics in the field it covers.” C. D.
+ =Am Econ R= 7:841 D ‘17 60w
“A full linguistic atlas of Europe is a desideratum, and the author has come so near to supplying it that one regrets he did not go further and include many more of the available but scattered linguistic maps of different sections. In matters touching the character, history, and relationship of languages, there are not a few remarks which savor of uncritical popular philology, some merely naïve in expression, some positively erroneous. But these do not seriously affect the main purpose and value of the book.” C. D. Buck
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:171 O ‘17 900w
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17
“When the author leaves the task of analysis to outline the application of what racial and linguistic conditions he considers the proper bases for boundary-making and their application to present-day political problems, his discussion becomes less convincing.” C. L. Jones
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:238 S ‘17 450w
Reviewed by Albert Schinz
+ =Bookm= 46:293 N ‘17 550w
“Excellent maps, showing in colors the distribution of peoples, and also showing-languages having political significance, greatly aid in presenting the results of the author’s study. ... In size, type, illustrations and mechanical work the book is excellent.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 450w
+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 30w
“The author is decidedly at his best in treating of the racial situation in Turkey.”
+ =Ind= 91:265 Ag 18 ‘17 120w
“The material here gathered is of great value to the student of history, diplomacy, and language, and this service does not depend upon the author’s theories and solutions.”
+ =Lit D= 55:43 O 13 ‘17 370w
“Mr Dominian is well-fitted to perform his task because of his familiarity with European languages, geography, and politics; and his work is a valuable contribution to that large mass of data, literary and otherwise, which undoubtedly will play an important part in the readjustment of national boundaries in Europe at the termination of the war.”
+ =Nation= 105:637 D 6 ‘17 850w
“Supplies a pressing need. In any circumstances the appearance of this book would have been an event of importance to scholars since it is by far the most competent work on the subject available in English. Just now its practical value is so great that it ought not to become a scholar’s monopoly.” A. J.
+ =New Repub= 11:337 Jl 21 ‘17 1050w
“The author deserves a special word of commendation for the impartial attitude of mind with which he has faced his facts and endeavored to give to each one its full significance.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:256 Jl 8 ‘17 430w
+ =Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:760 N ‘17 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 700w
“Anyone who thinks it will be quite easy to adjust boundaries after this war so as to insure stable equilibrium through any simple formula like ‘respect for the rights of small nationalities’ should read this careful and scholarly study.” K. H. Claghorn
+ =Survey= 38:553 S 22 ‘17 500w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p599 D 6 ‘17 130w
“The book is full of learning interestingly expressed, cleverly arranged, and adequately illustrated with typical photographs and careful maps, in one of which he is at pains to leave uncoloured the uninhabited areas, a lesson in accuracy to be learned by many ethnographical cartographers. East of the Aegean, however, Mr Dominian’s work is more open to criticism than when he deals with Europe.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p611 D 13 ‘17 2000w
=DONHAM, S. AGNES.= Marketing and housework manual. il *$1.50 Little 640 17-31012
Here is offered the benefit of twenty years of study and experiment in scientific household management. The instruction covers the following phases of home activity: General rules for marketing; Marketing charts; Menu making; Menu and order sheets; How to select foods—what the body needs; Food inventory; The cellar and laundry; The kitchen and kitchen pantry; The dining room, pantry and dish washing; The dining room and table service; The living room; The chambers and bed making; The bathroom and storage closets; General cleaning—sweeping, dusting; To open and close a house; House inspections; Small repairs, plumbing troubles; The reading of gas and electric meters; Program of work; Household pests.
=DORLAND, WILLIAM ALEXANDER NEWMAN.=[2] Sum of feminine achievement. *$1.50 Stratford co. 396 17-24822
A critical and analytical study of woman’s contribution to the intellectual progress of the world. This is “the century of the women,” the writer avers, “The course of development of the education of women has been by cycles, and at the present time there appears to have been reached an unusual wave, sweeping on the movement with unusual force and energy.” The chapter headings suggest the scope of the volume: Genius and femininity; A galaxy of talent; The mentality of famous men and women compared; The achievements of women in youth and old age; The sum of feminine achievement; Woman’s contribution to science; The feminine side of art; Woman in literature; The intellectual correlation of the sexes. An alphabetical table is appended of the famous women of modern times.
=Pittsburgh= 22:765 N ‘17 80w
=DORR, MRS RHETA (CHILDE).=[2] Inside the Russian revolution. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 947 17-31172
A clearly written, popular, first hand account of the dramatic happenings in Russia, during the past few months of revolution and upheaval. Liberal, democratic inclinations furnish the writer standards of measurement and criticism. She points out the underlying aims of the Bolsheviki or Maximalists and comments upon their unfitness for leadership. Among the events which she reviews are the July revolution, the striking activities of Mareea Botchkareva, the modern Joan d’Arc who commanded the Battalion of death, the treachery of Rasputin and his tragic death, the part that Anna Virubova played in the revolutionary drama, the passing of the Romanoffs and the leadership of Kerensky. The closing chapters consider Russia’s greatest needs—leadership, education, wholesome popular amusements, soda fountains—and venture a conjecture or two concerning what could happen in Russia next. At the moment when the Bolsheviki are attracting favorable notice many of Mrs Dorr’s statements and prophecies seem obsolete.
“Does not reflect the changed conditions.”
– + =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 240w
“An important book of the Russian situation and events leading to it.”
+ =Ind= 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 30w
“It furnishes most excellent reading for the host of half-baked reformers who imagine that the world can be created anew overnight, and deserves a wide circulation both among these and among readers who take a saner point of view.”
+ =Outlook= 118:68 Ja 9 ‘18 100w
=R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 100w
“Vivid and most instructive narrative. Mrs Dorr’s book is an excellent piece of reporting.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 4 ‘18 730w
=DORSEY, GEORGE AMOS.= Young Low. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-18356
It is for the most part the life of an average young American under average conditions that the author describes. Young Low spends his boyhood and youth in a small town in Ohio. His home is the commonplace, middle-class home, his parents are not without understanding of boy nature, and his childhood is on the whole happy. Yet in two matters, religion and sex, the handicap of his early training remains with him for many years, if not for life. Much of the latter half of the story has to do with the agencies that were helpful in overcoming the effects of his narrow training in religion and his utter lack of training in regard to sex. The person who helped clarify his ideas on this question was Alexandra Lanflere. This woman, who stood in a relation to him that his early standards would have condemned, is represented as the best and finest influence that had come into his life.
“The publishers announce that ‘you have never read a book like this. You have never read so frank a revelation of a young man’s life—a boyhood and youth intensely American, both in ancestry and surroundings.’ This exaggerates matters a little, since we may recall a number of stories of recent years which approach this one in realism of setting and ‘frankness,’ not to say grossness, of detail. Part 1 of this book gives an uncommonly vivid picture of certain aspects of childhood and boyhood in a small Ohio community. We have already had such a picture, frank without grossness, in Mr Howells’s ‘A boy’s town,’ and the two pictures might well be compared as illustrating the difference between protestant and catholic methods of literary art.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 45:646 Ag ‘17 450w
“There is nothing more remarkable in the story than the way in which the author gets under the mental attitude of Young Low and makes us see its naturalness and its inevitability.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 22 ‘17 850w
“It is unfortunate that the really excellent presentation of matter should be marred by a vast amount of modern Freudian dogma, which has not yet worked down to reasonable proportions.”
+ — =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 200w
“Here, for a recent American example, is the ‘Young Low’ of a ‘new’ writer who essays to be extremely American in the continental manner—or, it is more just to say, in the continental mood. It refreshingly lacks the Russo-Gallic accent which our bold young ‘realists’ so frequently affect. It has an excellent autobiographical style, free from bookishness on the one hand and from the conventionalized vernacular of the magazines on the other.”
– + =Nation= 105:177 Ag 16 ‘17 600w
“The story has the faults that are inherent in its method. ... Nevertheless, it is an interesting tale, written with vigor and sincerity and a wide and varied knowledge of American life. ... The author’s sense of character is stronger than his ability in its portrayal. ... He writes with plainness of language upon the sexual impulses, inhibitions, experiences, and knowledge of the boy, the adolescent, and the young man, but there is in all his pages no taint of the lascivious. ... Artistically the finest feature of the book is the sense of the urge of dynamic forces in American life, in both society in general and in the individual.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 750w
=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Eternal husband, and other stories. (Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, v. 8) *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 17-17080
Three stories newly translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett are included in this volume: The eternal husband; The double; A gentle spirit. In the first story a woman is characterized as “one of those women who are born to be unfaithful wives.” The woman herself is dead at the opening of the story, which thereafter has to do chiefly with a man who had once been her lover and his relations with her husband. The husband is he who is characterized in the title, a man who all his life is a husband and nothing more. He is the complementary type to the woman referred to.
“Confused, occasionally incoherent in style.”
— =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 30w
“All of Dostoevsky’s qualities are in this latest volume, ‘The eternal husband.’ But so concentrated are they that the Dostoevsky novice would better begin with that poignant, but less extravagant, story, ‘The insulted and injured,’ or that epic of frustrated aspiration, ‘The brothers Karamazov.’ ... Such stories as in ‘The eternal husband’, however fantastic the problems of the soul, get deeply into us. We cannot ignore them, we cannot take them irresponsibly. We cannot read them for amusement, or even in detachment, as we can our classics. We forget our categories, our standards, our notions of human nature. All we feel is that we are tracing the current of life itself. ... If we are strong enough to hear him, this is the decisive force we need on our American creative outlook.” Randolph Bourne
+ =Dial= 63:24 Je 28 ‘17 1500w
“‘The eternal husband’ and ‘The double’ are over long, and loosely constructed. They are both excellent studies of the abnormal, as is usual Dostoevsky; but they possess one quality which is not at all usual with him, or indeed with any other Russian novelist—the quality of humor. An ironic and rather sneering humor, to be sure, but still undoubtedly humor.”
+ — =Ind= 93:150 Ja 26 ‘18 150w
+ =R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 150w
“The three long short-stories that make up this volume hardly rank with the best of Dostoevsky’s work—although they belong to the greatest period of his genius—but they are interesting as illustrating his methods. ... ‘The eternal husband’ is a powerful psychological study of a man of unpleasant type. ... The second story in the volume. ‘The double,’ is the least successful, but the last, ‘The gentle spirit,’ which deals with a man’s sensations after his wife’s death, is unforgettable.”
+ =Sat R= 123:343 Ap 14 ‘17 600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 22 ‘17 1750w
“‘The double,’ was published the same year as ‘Poor folk,’ but not even Mrs Garnett and Dostoievski together can make it worth reading. ‘The eternal husband’ is a later work, and the exceedingly powerful close atones for much indifferent matter in the course of the story.” W: L. Phelps
– + =Yale R= n s 7:188 O ‘17 190w
=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Gambler, and other stories; from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$1.50 (lc) Macmillan
The ninth volume of Mrs Garnett’s translation of the works of Dostoevsky. It contains three stories, “The gambler,” “Poor people,” and “The landlady.” The title story follows the fortunes of a poor Russian tutor at a German resort where the roulette table furnished the main diversion—nay more, obsession. The best of him is his love of Polina. Under his eye she debases herself. Disillusionment leaves him easy prey for the fitful caprice of the roulette board. He is drawn into the vortex when the reader leaves him. “Poor people” portrays the struggles of folk of humble life. The story is told in a series of letters between an elderly clerk and a young girl who turns from him to marry a prosperous tradesman. The third tale, “The landlady,” tells the symbolic story of a luckless student who was baffled in liberating the girl he loved from the prison house that bound her.
+ =Ind= 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 220w
“Had Dostoevsky never written anything else these stories would suffice to give him rank among the great writers. They are not ‘pleasant’ tales, they are tales of the kind described by the quotation which heads ‘Poor people,’ tales that ‘unearth all sorts of unpleasant things,’ and therefore the lovers of sugary fiction will do well to avoid them. But those who care for human nature and for the art of writing will find them distinctly fascinating.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:516 D 2 ‘17 1300w
“The first story in particular seems to us to have a sharpness and clearness of outline which is sometimes lacking in the author’s more elaborate works.”
+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 80w
“Mrs Garnett is one of the two best translators from the Russian that live to-day, but even she cannot make ‘The gambler, and other stories’ anything but dull. It is at least pleasant to have in our hands a trustworthy and complete translation of the tales.”
– + =Sat R= 124:311 O 20 ‘17 70w
“‘The gambler’ is evidently based on a French model, and the humor is forced and metallic, as if the author were not really interested in his theme. The best story in the book is Dostoevsky’s first work, ‘Poor people.’”
– + =Spec= 119:359 O 6 ‘17 920w
“‘The gambler’ will throw a good deal of light upon the processes of the mind whose powers seem almost beyond analysis in such works as ‘The idiot’ and ‘The brothers Karamazov.’ If we call it second rate compared with these, we mean chiefly that it impresses us as a sketch flung off at tremendous and almost inarticulate speed by a writer of such abundant power that even into this trifle, this scribbled and dashed-off fragment, the fire of genius has been breathed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p489 O 11 ‘17 1100w
=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Pages from the journal of an author; tr. by S. Koteliansky and J. Middleton Murry. (Modern Russian library) *$1.25 (5c) Luce, J: W. 891.7 (Eng ed 17-20968)
This book contains two selections. Of the first, “The dream of a queer fellow,” Mr Murry in his introduction says, “It is an epitome of the problems which tormented him.” With this dream allegory is included the speech on Pushkin, delivered on June 8, 1880 at the meeting of the Society of lovers of Russian literature, with additional notes.
=Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 70w
“The little story or essay of sombre intensity is a key to Dostoevsky’s works.” Nellie Poorman
=Dial= 62:481 My 31 ‘17 800w
“In the beatific vision described with such felicitous simplicity in ‘The dream of a queer fellow,’ the quintessence of Dostoevsky’s questionings, desolation, strivings and mental sufferings is revealed. One gets the strange feeling that he is telling truths beyond which there are no others.” D: Rosenstein
+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 29 ‘17 2300w
=DOTY, ALVAH HUNT.= Good health; how to get it and how to keep it. il *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 613 17-19827
This book by the former health officer of the port of New York tells the layman, in simple terms, how to get well and how to keep well. “It has been the aim of the author to include in this book the essential and salient points in the construction of the body and function of its various parts; also to discuss public health problems, the maintenance of individual physical well-being, the means by which infectious diseases are transmitted and how they may be prevented, the importance of pure air, good water and nourishing food, as well as other matters connected with the subject of hygiene.” (Preface) The last chapter deals with “Prompt aid to the injured.”
“No better or more authoritative book of this sort has appeared. It is thorough in its treatment of the subject, accurate in its statements and considers with much detail every phase of the question. Dr Doty takes nothing for granted as to how much his readers may know already.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:541 D 9 ‘17 470w
=R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 50w
=DOTY, MADELEINE ZABRISKIE.= Short rations: an American woman in Germany, 1915-1916. il *$1.50 (3c) Century 940.91 17-8352
An account of two visits to the warring countries. “It is the story of what happens at home when men go to war,” says the author. She adds a significant paragraph in explanation of her title: “While the men at the front slaughter one another, at home the mothers and children, the sick, the aged, the prisoners, are starved spiritually, intellectually, and physically. Life becomes a fight for existence, a struggle for one’s self and not for humanity.” The first visit was made at the time of the Woman’s peace conference at The Hague. The second was made in 1916. Of particular interest is the account of the second visit to Germany.
“A popular and moving appeal for a speedy cessation of war.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:345 My ‘17
=Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 200w
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 4 ‘17 550w
“An emotional book, obviously overdrawn, but moving in the extreme.”
=Cleveland= p82 Je ‘17 70w
“By means of a very feminine degree of intuition, a journalistic sense of observation, a telegraphic style, and a purely American sense of humor, Miss Doty has achieved one of the most suggestive reports of conditions inside the German empire that it has been our fortune to see.”
+ =Dial= 62:484 My 31 ‘17 370w
“If Miss Doty had entered Germany less prejudiced against the government and the people and with some knowledge of the German language—she was entirely dependent upon interpreters—her book would have gained much in authority. At the same time her experiences are interesting, often exciting, and they are told with eagerness and zest.”
+ — =Nation= 105:129 Ag 2 ‘17 200w
“In spite of the false vividness and fore-shortening of reality that is at a premium in American newspaper offices, in spite of occasional ‘worked up’ sentimentalism and a rather cheap-jewelry style, in spite of trivialities fused with basic interpretations in a common amalgam, ‘Short rations’ is a moving book. Miss Doty has a real passion for life, the woman’s horror at wasted flesh and broken bodies.”
+ – — =New Repub= 10:sup3 Ap 21 ‘17 400w
“It is, so far as we know, the best account yet written by any woman on the subjects dealt with.” Joshua Wanhope
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 350w
+ =N Y Times= 22:98 Mr 18 ‘17 380w
– + =Spec= 119:390 O 13 ‘17 80w
“Her views are not official. Therein lies their value. But the danger is that, moving largely among the people who have suffered most acutely from the war, she has given a one-sided picture. ... Miss Doty’s treatment of details is so incisive and vivid that the reader seems to share her experiences. Possibly in the long run her tone may strike one as slightly high-pitched.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 27 ‘17 1000w
“The present volume belongs to that category of books whose chief raison d’etre is the reluctance of many educated persons to throw away notes made during travel and copies of letters written home. ... Not knowing the German language well, Miss Doty got a good many false impressions, and hands on some hearsay of doubtful authenticity.” B. L.
— =Survey= 38:174 My 19 ‘17 280w
“She writes vivaciously, and observes shrewdly where minor matters are concerned; but her vision of the larger issues is sadly blurred by sentimental tears.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p308 Je 28 ‘17 670w
=DOUBLEDAY, NELTJE BLANCHAN (DE GRAFF) (MRS FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY) (NELTJE BLANCHAN, pseud.).= Birds worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2½c) Doubleday 598.2 17-13205
The author has made selections from four of her previous books, “Bird neighbors,” “Birds that hunt and are hunted,” “How to attract the birds,” and “Birds every child should know.” Her aim has been to include in this single volume the “birds most worth knowing.” There are forty-eight illustrations in color, provided by the National association of Audubon societies.
“The descriptive tables make the book more useful for bird study than ‘Birds every child should know,’ although, because the birds are grouped under families rather than colors, it has more worth as general interesting information than as an aid to identification. Illustrations are colored but are not as good as those of the other books. Color key and index.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:457 Jl ‘17
+ =Ind= 91:109 Jl 21 ‘17 60w
“There is a very interesting and informing introductory chapter on ‘What birds do for us,’ that tells concisely their many activities in insect destruction and their consequent commercial value to man.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 140w
“Compact, but not skeletonized, condensation of a book that has already won its place.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 8 ‘17 110w
=DOUBLEDAY, NELTJE BLANCHAN (DE GRAFF) (MRS FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY) (NELTJE BLANCHAN, pseud.).= Wild flowers worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2½c) Doubleday 580 17-13204
This volume of the Little nature library has been adapted from the author’s “Nature’s garden” by Asa Don Dickinson. The flowers are arranged in families, the nomenclature and classification of Gray’s “New manual of botany” as revised by Professors Robinson and Fernald, being used. There are over forty illustrations in color.
=A L A Bkl= 13:457 Jl ‘17
“Well printed, well illustrated, and admirably adapted for home and school use.”
+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 30w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 8 ‘17 110w
=DOUBLEDAY, ROMAN.= Green Tree mystery, il *$1.40 Appleton 17-24164
“Upon the body of a man found dead by the roadside is a notebook in which is written a confession that he has killed the deservedly unpopular rich man of the village. The search for an adequate motive opens up so many possibilities that the daughter of the murdered man employs a detective to discover the truth. The solution will come as a surprise to most readers.”—Cleveland
“The interest is well sustained.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:94 D ‘17
“A conventional detective story, following its tangled clues with indifference to anything but the pursuit in hand, and making a very pretty chase of it.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 30w
+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w
“Its interest is largely due to the skill with which the author keeps the reader guessing as to the outcome.”
+ =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 30w
“The little tale is entertaining and sufficiently baffling.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 250w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 160w
=DOVER, ALFRED T.= Electric traction; a treatise on the application of electric power to tramways and railways. il *$5.50 Macmillan 621.3 17-19497
“The author of this book is a lecturer on electric traction at the Battersea Polytechnic, London, and the text is about what one would expect to find in a comprehensive course of lectures on electric traction. The style is appropriate to such a lecture course. In preparing the material for a wider audience Mr Dover had in mind that the book would be useful to engineers as well as to advanced students. A considerable number of illustrations of present practice are naturally drawn from that of Great Britain and the Continent, but American railways have by no means been neglected. The fundamental principles are, of course, applicable everywhere. The author has treated the main subject with the following topics as subdivisions: Mechanics of train movement; motors; control; auxiliary apparatus; rolling stock; detailed study of train movement; track and overhead construction, and distributing systems and substations. He has not tried to cover generating stations and transmission lines. ... The
## book is profusely illustrated with pictures and diagrams, covers
direct-current and alternating-current railways, contains a great deal of comment as well as descriptive matter, and should prove a valuable reference work.”—Elec World
“Noteworthy are the line drawings especially those showing the details of electric locomotives.”
=Bul N Y Pub Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p93 Jl ‘17 60w
+ =Elec World= 70:216 Ag 4 ‘17 480w
“We congratulate the author on having succeeded in writing a treatise which engineers and advanced students will find most useful. He is evidently well read in the literature of the subject, most of which is published in the Proceedings of various engineering societies and technical journals, both in this country and abroad, and is therefore inaccessible to many. ... We have satisfactorily checked some of the calculations, and the book is laudably free from misprints. ... The numerous references form a useful feature of the book.” A. Russell
+ =Nature= 99:341 Je 28 ‘17 1200w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:105 Jl ‘17
“Noteworthy are the line drawings, especially those showing the details of electric locomotives.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 Ap ‘17 100w
=Pittsburgh= 22:658 O ‘17 20w
=DOWD, EMMA C.= Polly and the princess. il [2] *$1.35 (1½c) Houghton 17-29865
The June Holiday home is a sort of glorified old ladies’ home. Little Polly is a young philanthropist who, because she is Dr Dudley’s daughter, is a privileged visitor at the home. She interests herself in the group of women, singling out for special attention, Juanita Sterling, a sweet, neurotic woman of forty-one, whose youth and charm were still with her in spite of the loveless loneliness that had tried to rob her of both. Polly must have been born with the reformer’s spirit and more than average tact. She was too young to have developed them. She puts to shame many an institution manager and makes a substantial contribution to desirable constructive methods on the human side of institution management. And what of her Miss Nita? Polly caps the program of happiness which she puts into action in the home by a real romance. She sees a prince overcome the dragon superintendent of the home and carry off the princess. What better ending could her lively imagination picture?
=DOWDEN, EDWARD; GARNETT, RICHARD, and ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL.= Letters about Shelley; interchanged by three friends; ed., with an introd., by R. S. Garnett. *$2 (3c) Doran (Eng ed 17-30909)
“The three friends were brought together by their common interest in Shelley, an interest not merely in his poetry, but in every detail of his life. Mr Rossetti and Professor Dowden both wrote lives of Shelley. Dr Garnett meant to write one, and was always collecting materials for it; but he was too busy in the British museum ever to do so. Still, to the other two he was the great authority on Shelley, always ready to help them with his knowledge.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The letters, the first of which is dated 1869 and the last 1906, have been brought together by the cooperation of Mr W. M. Rossetti, Mrs Dowden, and the editor, the eldest son of third correspondent. The introduction, by R. S. and M. Garnett, gives brief biographies of the three letter-writers.
“Although in recent years we have had many books about Shelley, it is doubtful if we have had any at all comparable to the compilation of letters made from the correspondence of these three Shelley workers and enthusiasts. ... In its way, their book is a revelation of the art of biography making.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 1500w
=Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 70w
“It comprises the greater part of the correspondence of three notable authorities on the poet, and reflects the broad-minded interest of each in literature and life in general. The most important general fact to be elicited from them is that of Dowden’s independence of the poet’s family. These letters show clearly that he followed his own opinion in essentials.”
+ =Dial= 63:645 D 20 ‘17 400w
“The letters interchanged by Dowden, Garnett and Rossetti communicate something that a biography can hardly communicate; they tell something of the spirit in which such work ought to be done; they make the reader collaborate in imagination with the biographer—make him an apprentice to a master.”
+ =No Am= 206:956 D ‘17 670w
“They contain some interesting matter in regard to Shelley, as well as speculations on the meaning of Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnets’ and other literary problems.”
+ =Spec= 119:145 Ag 11 ‘17 90w
“An interest which produces relations so charming must be good in itself; and the record of it puts one in love with human nature, even though it may sometimes set one smiling at the minute labours of the scholar and his mysterious, incorporeal passions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p331 Jl 12 ‘17 980w
=DOWNER, EARL BISHOP.= Highway of death. il *$1.50 Davis 940.91 16-21959
“When the last battle of the war is fought and the casualties are figured up it is not likely that the doctors, nurses and hospital assistants who have sacrificed their lives will be forgotten. ... Dr Downer gives many enlightening facts about them. Among other things he describes the makeshift accommodations where, with inadequate help, the doctors have been forced to undertake almost impossible tasks. ... Dr Downer had unusual facilities of studying this momentous conflict. During a nine-months’ stay in Belgrade he saw the varied changes of occupation of that embattled city.”—Springf’d Republican
=Cleveland= p159 D ‘16 40w
=St Louis= 15:3 Ja ‘17
“The book, which is unusually interesting as a record of real experiences, is illustrated with many photographs taken by the author himself.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 25 ‘17 200w
=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= His last bow; a reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes. *$1.35 (2c) Doran 17-28603
The inventor of Mr Sherlock Holmes and of Dr Watson has again given us a series of sketches relating their detective experiences. Seven of the eight sketches have, however, as Dr Watson states in his preface, lain long in his portfolio. The incidents narrated date back to 1892. The last adventure, from which the book takes its title, occurred on August 2, 1914. In it Sherlock Holmes has placed his genius at the service of his country for the undoing of the agents of the Kaiser. Contents: The adventure of Wisteria Lodge; The adventure of the cardboard box; The adventure of the red circle; The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans; The adventure of the dying detective; The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; The adventure of the devil’s foot; His last bow.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17
“Every story is told with the author’s admirable mastery of the narrative art; but it cannot be said that all the riddles worked out by the great detective are, intellectually, worthy of his immense reputation.”
+ — =Ath= p680 D ‘17 180w
“‘The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax’ and ‘The adventure of the devil’s foot’ reveal Sir Arthur at his best, although this cannot be said of the opening stories in the collection. But the detective story writer must have his ups and downs, and the creator of Sherlock Holmes can easily stand ahead of any of his rivals or imitators.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 1550w
=Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 30w
+ =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 70w
+ =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 100w
“It is a good curtain for our hero, and we are not sure that Sir Conan would not be wise to leave him ‘at that.’”
+ =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 200w
“These new stories are written with as much vigor and spontaneity as if they had been composed in the first flush of the author’s delight in his creation of that notable character. The formula in accordance with which the tales are written, of course, varies little, but the tales themselves are as interesting, as full of ingenuity and unexpected developments, as were the earliest of the adventures in which Dr Watson assisted Mr Sherlock Holmes.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:433 O 28 ‘17 1050w
“The story of the European war that gives the volume its title is quite the weakest and most obviously forced of the whole lot. ... The sheer horror and yet convincing explanation of the apparently inexplicable in ‘The adventure of the devil’s foot’ has not been matched by Doyle since ‘The adventure of the speckled band.’” Fremont Rider
+ =Pub W= 92:2026 D 8 ‘17 270w
“As for the stories, their impressiveness is somewhat impaired by the frequency with which they end in a confession. The best of them, to our way of thinking, is the tale of the abstraction and recovery of some important documents from the admiralty.”
+ — =Spec= 119:718 D 15 ‘17 600w
“Notwithstanding that the episodes comprising the volume have something of a common atmosphere and a predetermined course of development, the situations are sufficiently diverse to give a keen edge to the reader’s anticipation. The author shows wisdom in not placing the action in the present and giving Holmes a hand in ferreting out war plots.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 260w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p516 O 25 ‘17 500w
=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= History of the great war. v 2 *$2 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-21928
=v 2= The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1915.
“This second volume of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s history of the war relates exclusively to the campaign of 1915. The author roughly divides the three years of war into ‘the year of defence, the year of equilibrium, and the year of attack’; and the events of the second were naturally less dramatic than those which more nearly followed the outbreak of war. Nevertheless the present volume comprises narratives of the engagements at Neuve Chapelle and Hill 60; the second battle of Ypres; the conflicts at Richebourg, Festubert, and in the trenches of Hooge; and the long-drawn-out fighting at Loos. The occasions are described when the Germans first used poison gas and the flame of burning petrol, and there is incidental reference to the torpedoing of the Lusitania. From beginning to end the volume is an unadorned but impressive record of gallantry and ‘grit’ on the part of the troops engaged.”—Ath
=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
+ =Ath= p420 Ag ‘17 150w
“This is an important book. It bears evidence of much research and has an authoritative tone. So far as is possible at this stage, it is real history. Such a work will be read with more interest in England than in America. The evolutions of the Durham light infantry and the First royal Irish will naturally appeal more to those who know them than to us who do not. But the book as a whole leaves a powerful impression hardly to be obtained from any other work thus far published.”
+ =Dial= 63:592 D 6 ‘17 300w
=Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 150w
“While the events of the year 1915, in view of all that has happened since, seem nowadays rather like ancient history, it is only by the careful reading in cold blood of such painstakingly written accounts of what actually took place that we can arrive at a correct estimate of the great struggle in its earlier stages.”
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 370w
“It is somewhat of a pity that more illuminating maps have not been provided for an otherwise important and notable historical volume.”
+ — =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 180w
+ =R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 50w
“In his first volume the author described the doings of the British Army in France and Flanders during 1914, and he is able to say in the preface to his second volume which is before us that no serious correction has been made of any of the facts in the first volume. That is a proud statement for any writer to be able to make in the circumstances. We can premise that Sir A. Conan Doyle will be able to say the same thing of his second volume, and be able to say it in an even higher degree, because when an author has established his reputation for correctness, and for a safe and just handling of his material, information flows into him. That is his proper reward. We imagine that Sir A. Conan Doyle has been freely given official information, and certainly we have read nothing about the second battle of Ypres and Loos which can compare for completeness with the narratives in the second volume.”
+ =Spec= 118:88 Jl 28 ‘17 1350w
“The narrative reduces itself to a catalogue of the doings of battalions, of the names of the individuals who principally distinguished themselves, and of the casualties of different units. Probably Sir Arthur, knowing the limitations of his material, attempted no more than this; and we may say at once that he has been successful in weaving his scanty matter into a lively and spirited story.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p338 Jl 19 ‘17 1600w
=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.= Handbook of the new thought. *$1.25 (3c) Putnam 131 17-13214
In his exposition of new thought, which forms the first chapter, the author differentiates it from Christian science, the Emmanuel movement, etc. The author says, “The ‘old’ thought against which the ‘new’ reacts is any form of authority, whether medical or ecclesiastical, in so far as physicians and churches keep people in subjection to creeds.” The second chapter gives a historical sketch of the movement. This is followed by chapters on: The silent method; Estimate; The mental theory of disease; Reconstruction; Practical suggestions.
=A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17
“Will, no doubt, be helpful to many readers but it is a baffling attempt to show that theories do not matter, so long as one has the right ‘point of view.’ Its logic is distressingly confusing to one who has been contaminated by materialist science; but there must be something in it, since Mr Dresser’s books—more than a dozen of them—are widely read by all sorts and conditions of men and women.”
– + =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 80w
“Is to be especially commended to those who desire a brief but comprehensive view of the nature, history, and aims of the movement. No one is better qualified than Dr Dresser to present an authoritative account of the new thought, both because of his long association with it and also because of his very reasonable and even empirical way of looking at the whole subject.”
+ =Nation= 105:698 D 20 ‘17 400w
“Does away with misunderstanding.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p432 S 6 ‘17 80w
=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS=, ed. Spirit of the new thought. *$1.25 (2½c) Crowell 131 17-14165
Twenty-two messages from original leaders of new thought. The editor contributes an introduction which traces the movement from its beginning, showing that the term was first used in 1895 as the name of a little periodical issued in Melrose, Mass., and later by the adherents who practiced mental healing. The influence of Quinby upon the movement is traced and the essential difference between new thought and Christian science is pointed out. Some of the essays are: The gospel of healing; Can disease be entirely destroyed? The disease of apprehensiveness; Concentration; Is mental science enough? Criticisms of the new thought; The metaphysical movement; The new thought today; The laws of divine healing.
=Nation= 105:698 D 20 ‘17 230w
“This greatly needed volume should dispel a widely prevalent misunderstanding and neglect of the revival of primitive Christianity now advancing under the banner of new thought.”
+ =Outlook= 117:144 S 26 ‘17 150w
“Nearly all of the essays have a bearing on the life of everyday and are vivified by a spirit of helpfulness and optimism.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 60w
=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.= Victorious faith; moral ideals in war time. *$1 (2c) Harper 172.4 17-24116
A helpful analysis of the modification of duties which the changing order of the things in the world today makes imperative. Some old philosophies must be scrapped according to the Shavian method and created new; while others must be readjusted to meet new conditions. We need a new method of thought to face new conditions with efficient hope. The mind must be alert to seek amidst present confusion new signs of the eternal values. The discussion offers constructive suggestions for meeting the new problems of the day which demand poise as a basis for service and an inner life that will be efficient. Contents: The sources of faith; Tendencies of the age; The psychology of war; The higher resistance; The moral values; The new idea of God; Christianity in war-time; The pathway of faith; Spiritual democracy.
“The author offers a constructive faith which may help the world work its way to a final spiritual democracy.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:73 D ‘17
=Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 20w
“The viewpoints of the essays are finely optimistic. Strength-giving to those whose faith in Christianity needs strengthening. Splendidly vivifying to those Americans who ‘creditably or discreditably’ felt they had no share in the world war, before April, 1917.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 340w
+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 150w
=DROWN, EDWARD STAPLES.= Apostles’ creed to-day. (Church principles for lay people) *$1 (4c) Macmillan 238 17-3743
In his first chapter the author asks the question: Is a creed a restraint on religious liberty? His consideration of the nature of freedom leads him to the conclusion that “Freedom exists in proportion as the community has come to a true realisation of itself, and has expressed itself in true laws. Freedom consists in fight relation to law.” He finds the Apostles’ creed a true expression of man’s relation to God and therefore a guarantee to religious freedom. The five chapters of the book are: Creeds and liberty; The origin and character of the Apostles’ creed; The creed and the Bible; The interpretation of the Apostles’ creed to-day; The value and use of the creed to-day.
“The author summarizes Dr McGiffert’s theory of the origin of the creed; and then seeks to reinterpret its clauses in terms of modern thought.”
=Ind= 90:474 Je 9 ‘17 50w
“The book is an earnest contribution from the Episcopal church to conservative theological thought.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 16 ‘17 520w
=DRUMMOND, HAMILTON.= Greater than the greatest. *$1.50 Dutton A17-1641
“A tale of the thirteenth century struggle between emperor and pope. It is not a story of men and women whose lives merely touched the great events of the time, but of those great events themselves and of the people who actually played the leading parts therein. Across the stage of Mr Drummond’s book go pope and emperor, cardinal and warrior of mediaeval Rome. ... The heroine of the novel is Bianca Pandone, a beautiful girl of the Marches, whose uncle, risen to eminence as a cardinal, forgets her and her poverty until he needs a tool for his ambitious schemes.”—N Y Times
+ =Boston Transcript= p12 Ap 7 ‘17 200w
“A harmless romance. ... It lacks imaginative power, and so makes no deep impression.”
=Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 50w
+ =Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 200w
“The story has the prime characteristic of a good historical novel; it presents an atmosphere. And it has a quality, besides, that is not always found in stories of adventures—its characters are exceedingly well-drawn.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:178 My 6 ‘17 350w
“A workmanlike historical tale.”
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 10w
=DRYDEN, JAMES.= Poultry breeding and management, il *$1.60 (1½c) Judd 636.5 16-23156
The author teaches poultry husbandry in the Oregon agricultural college. The book is planned for the student and for the practical poultry farmer. Contents: Historical aspect; Evolution of modern fowl; Modern development of industry; Classification of breeds; Origin and description of breeds; Principles of poultry breeding; Problem of higher fecundity; Systems of poultry farming; Housing of poultry; Kind of house to build; Fundamentals of feeding; Common poultry foods; Methods of feeding; Methods of hatching chickens; Artificial brooding; Marketing eggs and poultry; Diseases and parasites of fowls. The book is fully illustrated.
“A reliable, popular yet scientific treatment.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:295 Ap ‘17
=DUBNOV, SEMEN MARKOVICH.= History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the earliest times until the present day; tr. from the Russian by I. Friedlaender. 2v v 1 $1.50 (1c) Jewish pub. 296 (16-16352)
=v 1= This is the first of two volumes covering the history of the Jews in Russia and Poland. The Russian work of which it is a translation was prepared, Mr Friedlaender says, especially for the Jewish publication society of America. The author had treated the subject earlier in a general history of the Jewish people in three volumes, and that work has been drawn on in preparing the present work. Volume one carries the history down to the death of Alexander I in 1825 with chapters on: The Jewish Diaspora in eastern Europe; The Jewish colonies in Poland and Lithuania; The autonomous center in Poland at its zenith (1501-1648); The inner life of Polish Jewry at its zenith; The autonomous center in Poland during its decline (1648-1772); The inner life of Polish Jewry during the period of decline; The Russian quarantine against the Jews (till 1772); Polish Jewry during the period of the partitions; The beginnings of the Russian regime; The “enlightened absolutism” of Alexander I; The inner life of Russian Jewry during the period of ‘enlightened absolutism’; The last years of Alexander I.
“It is surprising and disappointing that in a work of this kind there is no attempt made to discuss in an impartial and in an intelligent manner the Jewish problem, which is neither simple nor one-sided. ... Although authorities are not always quoted there is no reason to question the author’s accuracy and honesty and one may accept his statements of fact. The work is valuable so far as it goes; but the reader cannot help wishing that the author had gone deeper and had given something more than mere information. The translator seems to have done his work well, and it is probably not his fault that the
## book does not read more easily.”
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:626 Ap ‘17 500w
“A full account, by the best authority on the subject, of the political conditions under which the Jews have lived. ... It is much more detailed than Friedlaender’s ‘Jews of Russia and Poland’ and is valuable to anyone interested in the subject.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:329 My ‘17
+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:167 N ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 21:516 N ‘16
+ =R of Rs= 54:458 O ‘16 100w
=DUBOIS, JAMES T., AND MATHEWS, GERTRUDE SINGLETON.= Galusha A. Grow, father of the homestead law. il *$1.75 Houghton 17-11003
“Galusha A. Grow, while never occupying a place in the front rank of American statesmen, was yet a prominent man during the Civil war—he was speaker of the national House of representatives in 1861 and 1862—and the years immediately preceding it. ... Before the passage of Mr Grow’s ‘Homestead act,’ the public lands had been sold by the government to speculators, who disposed of them, sometimes at extortionate profits, to the needy settlers. ... After years of setbacks and disappointments, Mr Grow’s measure finally passed in 1861. Before that time, however, it had become inextricably mixed up with the Kansas-Nebraska and slavery questions. In the opinion of President Lincoln, the ‘Homestead’ act was the most beneficent legislation ever passed by a law-making body.”—Springf’d Republican
“As a life of Grow this book will hardly justify itself, for its basis is too slight; but as a sketch of a portion of the history of the public domain it will have a use.” F: L. Paxson
– + =Am Hist R= 23:221 O ‘17 500w
+ =Lit D= 54:1423 My 12 ‘17 700w
=Pittsburgh= 22:525 Je ‘17 40w
“An important contribution to American biography, and a highly readable book as well. ... Not the least interesting part of this readable volume is that relating to the services of Mr Grow as speaker in Congress during the troublous days of the Civil war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 21 ‘17 400w
=DUFF, JAMES DUFF=, ed. Russian realities and problems. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 914.7 (Eng ed 17-13746)
“This very able and illuminating little book contains six lectures delivered at the last Cambridge summer meeting by Paul Milyoukov, New Russia’s foreign minister; Peter Struve, the economist; Roman Dmowski, the Polish leader; Lappo-Danilevsky, the historian; and Dr Harold Williams, the Daily Chronicle’s correspondent, whose knowledge of Russian languages and manners is unsurpassed by any native. ... Mr Struve’s parallel between Russia and America as two vast and but
## partly developed countries in the colonial stage is extremely
suggestive.”—Spec
“We have never read anything half so good, on ‘The nationalities of Russia,’ as Dr Williams’s clear and impartial statement of a stupendous problem, of which the Finnish and Polish questions are but fragments. ... Every one who wants to understand Russia should make a point of reading this remarkable book.”
+ =Spec= 118:493 Ap 28 ‘17 320w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p171 Ap 12 ‘17 1000w
=DUFFERIN AND AVA, HARIOT GEORGINA (HAMILTON) HAMILTON-TEMPLE-BLACKWOOD, dowager marchioness of.= My Russian and Turkish journals. il *$3.75 Scribner (*10s 6d Murray, London) 17-2676
“The author’s letters to her mother, written in the years 1879-84, are the material of which this book is composed. The late Lord Dufferin during the period in question was at first ambassador to Russia, and later at Constantinople; but the letters relate only to the social life in the embassies and to the writer’s personal experiences in the countries visited. Germany was one of these; and accounts are given of visits to the Emperor William I and the late Prince Bismarck. Lord and Lady Dufferin were in Petrograd at the time of the assassination of the Emperor Alexander II, whose funeral obsequies are described.”—Ath
“Lady Dufferin would feel either amused or horrified to think that these journals were to be submitted to critical review; or that they were to be estimated for anything other than what they really are: a casual record of the trivial commonplaces of an ambassador’s household. ... We are quite disposed to take this book in the spirit in which it is offered, as a somewhat unusual memento for a war subscription.” C. E. Fryer
=Am Hist R= 22:901 Jl ‘17 330w
“The letters are quite pleasant reading, and many celebrities figure in the volume: among them, Sir Richard Francis (then Mr) Burton, George Augustus Sala, Sir Archibald Alison, Baker Pasha, and Madame Schliemann, wife of the archæologist and explorer.”
+ =Ath= p49 Ja ‘17 220w
“The portions of the journals visualizing Turkish life give a succession of pictures seldom presented; visits to various harems, Turkish dinner parties, weddings, etc. which few foreigners see.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 9 ‘17 800w
“Pleasant accounts of personal experiences and social life.”
+ =Cleveland= p116 S ‘17 40w
“It is difficult to convey an adequate idea of the delicately archaic flavor of these letters from a period presenting such a sharp contrast to the present one in Russia and Turkey. Their chief interest, however, is in the brightly reflected personality of a gracious lady.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:378 O 7 ‘17 570w
“Particularly valuable for its detailed but interesting information concerning the customs and ceremonies of ‘high life’ in these countries.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:670 O ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p46 O ‘17 20w
+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 130w
“Lady Dufferin has deliberately confined herself to the externals of ambassadorial life.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p570 N 30 ‘16 1600w
“Her journals, though entirely without intellectual distinction, are filled with agreeable gossip, and portraits of world-figures; her detailed account of dining with Bismarck is well worth reading.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Yale R= n s 7:187 O ‘17 120w
=DUGARD, HENRY.= Battle of Verdun; tr. by F. Appleby Holt. il *$1.50 (3c) Dodd 940.91 (Eng ed 17-8208)
The time covered in this account of the battle of Verdun is from February 21 to May 7. As an introduction to the battle proper there are two brief chapters on Verdun and its past and Verdun during the war. These are followed by The Crown prince’s battle; The choice of ground; The battlefield; The French positions; The assaulting army; Before the battle; The first shock; etc. The closing chapter, The German attitude, gives a poll of the German press. There is a folding map as frontispiece.
=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
“A complete and on the whole dispassionate history of the battle.”
+ =Cleveland= p86 Jl ‘17 40w
+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 140w
=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 10w
=St Louis= 15:314 S ‘17 10w
+ =Spec= 118:105 Ja 27 ‘17 50w
=DUNBAR, CHARLES FRANKLIN.=[2] Theory and history of banking *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 332 17-31428
A third edition, revised and enlarged by Oliver M. W. Sprague. It contains three new chapters, those on Foreign exchange, Central banks and The Federal reserve banking system. Two chapters of the former edition have been dropped, the one on Combined reserves and that on the Bank of Amsterdam. The chapter on Daily redemption has been merged with the chapter on Bank-notes. The writer states that emphasis on the interdependence of all the banks of a country in the regular conduct of business of banking is the most fundamental difference between this and the earlier editions.
=DUNCAN, FRANCES (MRS JOHN LEROY MANNING).= Joyous art of gardening. il *$1.75 (3½c) Scribner 716 17-12144
“This little book is designed to serve as first aid to the beginning gardener. It is arranged to be of use especially to the owner of the small place who plans and makes his own garden, and whose means and time are not unlimited. ... Therefore, only those plants which are surest to grow are properly within the compass of this book.” (Preface) Parts of the book are reprinted from the Century Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, Country Life in America, and other periodicals. Among the chapters are: In praise of gardening; Suburban gardening; Fitting the garden to the house; The garden in town; The back-yard fence; The use and abuse of the pergola; Why gardens go wrong; The old-fashioned garden. The author is a member of the council of the Woman’s national farm and garden association.
“It will be particularly useful to the owner of a small place whose means and time are not unlimited.”
+ =Agricultural Digest= 2:505 Je ‘17 200w
“Besides good advice on operation and cultivation, it gives information on pergolas, lattices, and trellises, cold frames, hotbeds and garden seats and their arrangement.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17
“Clear and reliable working directions for the beginning amateur whose ground, means, and time are alike limited.”
+ =Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 50w
+ =Dial= 63:68 Jl 19 ‘17 300w
“The feature of the book is its treatment of details often overlooked or mistreated, and its emphasis on the unpretentious, restful qualities that lie within the compass of any plot, be it small or large.”
+ =Ind= 90:554 Je 23 ‘17 130w
“Frankly a handbook. ... It is practical, it does not presuppose a great amount of knowledge on the part of the gardener; it assumes only the love of plants and the desire for them. It is detailed; it gives actual concrete directions, outlines a garden calendar, takes up the fine points of many a specific inquiry. It is admirably inclusive. ... It is a most excellent book.”
+ + =N Y Times= 22:187 My 13 ‘17 350w
=Pratt= p29 O ‘17 10w
“It has a literary quality that puts it rather outside the class of ordinary gardening manuals or handbooks. Miss Duncan has adopted a certain informality of treatment that makes her book doubly interesting to the amateur for whom it was written.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 130w
=St Louis= 15:176 Je ‘17
“A book of first-aid to the amateur. ... While it is but one of many such volumes it is sure to be one of the most popular.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 250w
=DUNCAN-JONES, ARTHUR STUART.= Ordered liberty; or, An Englishman’s belief in his church. *$1.25 (4c) Longmans 283 A17-1509
Based upon the Hulsean lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1916-1917. It is a forward looking justification of the church and Christianity in which the writer reviews the true character of the Anglican communion. He considers the question under various aspects: as sharing in the Divine foundation and continuous life of the people of God; as part of that great priesthood of humanity which is the Catholic church; as emerging from the Roman government of western Christendom and making a bold national experiment in the way of religion; as adhering to its ideals of faith; and as developing, in the face of difficulties, out of the origins of the past, a permanent stronghold of truth and righteousness for the union and triumph of the people of God. A very modern note is struck in the author’s linking socialism in its broadly spiritual aspect with Christianity as the two great “driving powers which can turn the ideal for which the world longs into faith.”
“A timely little book. It is interesting, clear and thoughtful. The temperate tone and the evident desire to understand differences and contribute a constructive program give it a message that many will read with profit.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 550w
=DUNHAM, MELBOURNE KEITH.= Automobile welding with the oxy-acetylene flame. il $1 (3c) Henley 682 16-22111
“A practical treatise, covering the repairing of automobiles by welding, with a non-technical explanation of the principles to be guided by in the successful welding of the various metals.” (Title-page) The preface says further, “The workman who can successfully weld all automobile parts is capable of welding anything, since in the construction of the automobile practically every commercial metal is used. The principles of automobile welding are applicable to all kinds of welding.” Contents: Apparatus knowledge; Shop equipment and initial procedure; Cast iron; Aluminum; Steel; Malleable iron, copper, brass, bronze; Carbon burning and other uses of oxygen and acetylene; How to figure cost of welding.
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p11 Jl ‘17 50w
“Practical, simply written work, of wider application than to automobile welding.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:321 Ap ‘17 30w
=DUNN, BYRON ARCHIBALD.= Boy scouts of the Shenandoah. (Young Virginians ser.) il *$1.10 McClurg 16-20109
“‘The Boy scouts of the Shenandoah’ is the first of a new series of Civil war stories for boys. ... The volume follows the adventures of Robert Hunter, who represents the Virginian aristocracy and Jim Kidder, a young mountaineer. The two boys are independent scouts with the Union army, and their adventures are many and thrilling.”—Springf’d Republican
“This is the type of book that contains much information, and evidently the author’s desire has been to verify his historical statements, for there are many foot-notes throughout the book.”
+ =Lit D= 53:1561 D 9 ‘16 110w
=R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 20w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 11 ‘17 80w
=DUNN, WALDO HILARY.= English biography. (Channels of English literature) *$1.50 Dutton 920 17-4579
“Prof. Dunn considers his subject both chronologically and analytically. His conclusion regarding ‘true biography’ is that its aims ‘include a record of facts combined with some portrayal of character.’ Biography, he says, ‘may be said to develop in proportion to the degree of accuracy attained in the presentation of mere facts; the measure of its detachment from panegyric, or other didactic intention, and the extent to which it recognizes truth of character portrayal as its first duty.’ ... Prof. Dunn wisely takes a broad view of his subject matter, even if he is somewhat rigid in his definitions. He notes that the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn must be reckoned as biographical, as, of course, must the journals of Wesley, Fox and Scott. Fiction’s debt to biography is considered.”—Springf’d Republican
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:399 Je ‘17
“In general, Professor Dunn’s survey of the entire course of English biography is thorough and unprejudiced.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 630w
“The treatment is not only historical, but includes some valuable definitions of the function and place of biography in letters, and its relation to other subjects, notably fiction and also some excellent critical material on specific biographies. The unattractive make-up and fine print of the book will affect its popularity.”
+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 100w
“It does for English biography what another pioneer work of a few years ago did for autobiography; we mean Mrs Burr’s treatise on that theme. ... In its appended matter and its index the book maintains the scholarly system with which it begins. It is a useful manual.”
+ =Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 200w
“It is no mere chronicle of names, but rather a thoughtful and interesting analysis of the true function of biography as a literary art. ... It is a book which has much matter for reflection both for the critic and for the composer of biography, fiction, and history.”
+ =Nation= 104:554 My 3 ‘17 100w
“Professor Dunn is to be congratulated for his able work, done with no previously written volumes to serve as standards. Indeed, with his skillful scholarship, interesting writing, and careful organization of his material, he may well be said to have established such a standard. ‘English biography’ stands the test of comparison with the best scholarly work yet done by American or foreign writers.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 550w
“Prof. Dunn’s book affords proof of the richness and large extent of English biographical works, and should encourage the public to enlarge its reading in an entertaining and highly profitable department of letters.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 780w
=DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th baron.= Plays of gods and men. *$1.50 Luce, J: W. 822 17-13749
Four of Lord Dunsany’s plays are included in this volume: The tents of the Arabs; The laughter of the gods; The queen’s enemies; and A night at an inn. The first of these, Edward Bierstadt in his recent study of Lord Dunsany says, is the only one of his plays that contains anything nearly approaching a love story. It appeared in the Smart Set for March, 1915 and was produced at the Arts and crafts theater in Detroit in 1916. “A night at an inn” was published by The Sun-Wise Turn, inc., in 1916 and has been played, as has “The queen’s enemies,” by the Neighborhood Players of New York city.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:49 N ‘17
“‘A night at an inn’ is the only one that does not seem too poetical to be in prose. The ideality which is the basis demands, at least in part, a metrical form for the others. Prose belongs to realism.”
+ — =Ath= p412 Ag ‘17 250w
“‘A night at an inn’ is the climax of terror in the collection, but for sheer beauty there is none of these plays to compare with the poetic charm of ‘The tents of the Arabs,’ which is one of the most beautiful things which Lord Dunsany has ever written.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 1250w
“Reading these plays, one marvels at the simplicity of their action and wonders if Lord Dunsany will be able much longer to follow the vein that has proved so golden, with results so large and, it may be said, so monotonous.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 160w
“‘The laughter of the gods’ is written with the delicate satire characteristic of the author, and the subtle horror in ‘A night at an inn’ will, we think, make it difficult for the reader to put it aside until the last word has been read.”
+ =Spec= 119:222 S 1 ‘17 80w
“We do not know that ‘A night at an inn’ has ever been acted in England, and we hardly like to say that we wish it could be, because to see it would inevitably mean a sleepless night to follow. Nothing since ‘The ghost stories of an antiquary’ has frightened us quite so uncannily. ‘The queen’s enemies’ is not among his best plays. The
## scene might be effective on the stage: in the book all seems too
carefully arranged.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p343 Jl 19 ‘17 1450w
=DU PLESSIS, JOHANNES.= Thrice through the Dark continent. il *$4.50 (3c) Longmans 916 17-27663
The author is a professor in the theological seminary of the Dutch Reformed church in Stellenbosch, South Africa. This “record of journeyings across Africa during the years 1913-1916” is largely an account of his travels between mission stations and of the work among the natives carried on by the various societies and institutions. Two journeys across Central Africa form the basis of the narrative. Among the chapters are: Kumasi and its heroes; Along the Gold coast; Ten days in South Kamerun; Travels in the two Nigerias; In the French sphere of influence; From the Shari to the Ubangi; In north Congoland; The Nile and its reservoirs; Through British East Africa; To the Mountains of the Moon. The book is fully illustrated and there is a folding map.
“The author says little of politics or the war, but describes the country and the natives in a fresh and interesting way.”
+ =Spec= 119:529 N 10 ‘17 200w
“He has, indeed, gathered into one volume a mass of information about very many missions which cannot be got elsewhere. He may be credited with a fair degree of impartiality, quite as much as any man of strong theological convictions can be expected to exercise. ... For the rest, he presents many details of African travel in wild regions which, if the type is not novel, are always full of variety and incident. In spite of a stilted pomposity of style which he is never able to abandon, Mr du Plessis reveals himself most engagingly in his pages as a ‘voortrekker’ of the real old sturdy Dutch stock.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p449 S 20 ‘17 1500w
=DURAND, WILLIAM FREDERICK.= Practical marine engineering for marine engineers and students; with aids for applicants for marine engineers’ licenses; 4th ed., rev. and enl., by C: W. Dyson. il $6 Van Nostrand; for sale by Marine engineering, 461 8th av., N.Y. 621.12
“The first edition of this book was written by Prof. W. F. Durand. ... A second and then a third part were subsequently added. In the present edition Captain Dyson has combined the three independent parts into a consecutive whole, besides adding new material. The book is devoted mostly to marine engines and their many auxiliaries for driving ships and making them habitable. There are also chapters on engineering materials, fuels and computations for engineers.”—Engin News-Rec
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:153 Ap 19 ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:106 Jl ‘17
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:450 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from International Marine Engineering p190 Ap ‘17)
“Excellent book for the engineer or novice who may be preparing for examination for a marine engineer’s license. The treatment is as plain and non-mathematical as possible. The greatly increased interest in marine engineering renders this new edition of the best American practical book on the subject particularly timely.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ‘18 70w
=DURANT, WILLIAM JAMES.= Philosophy and the social problem. *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 301 17-24304
The author is an instructor in philosophy connected with Columbia university. “The purpose of this essay is to show: first, that the social problem has been the basic concern of many of the greater philosophers; second, that an approach to the social problem through philosophy is the first condition of even a moderately successful treatment of this problem; and third, that an approach to philosophy through the social problem is indispensable to the revitalization of philosophy. By ‘philosophy’ we shall understand a study of experience as a whole, or of a portion of experience in relation to the whole. By the ‘social problem’ we shall understand, simply and very broadly, the problem of reducing human misery by modifying social institutions.” (Introd.) In Part 1, “Historical approach,” Mr Durant considers Socrates, Plato, Bacon, Spinoza and Nietzsche in order to see what there is in their views on the social problem “that can help us to understand our own situation today.” Part 2 is entitled “Suggestions,” but the author states that he is “proposing no solutions.”
Reviewed by C. E. Ayres
=Am J Soc= 23:544 Ja ‘18 470w
=A L A Bkl= 14:112 Ja ‘18
“Accurate, concise and very disappointing book. The author writes with a crisp, effective style; he seems to possess a gift for summary. ... In this somewhat futile Socratic discussion the pros too accurately balance the cons; there is little left to go on with.” Archibald Henderson
– + =Bookm= 46:277 N ‘17 230w
“The author says things that need repeating, and he says them eloquently and earnestly. ... I fear, however, that his plan of campaign, if followed, would only get philosophy the reputation of being a gadding busy-body, meddling in everybody’s business, having none of her own.” M. C. Otto
– + =Dial= 63:449 N 8 ‘17 1800w
“Dr Durant has an earnestness of manner, a flowing vigor of expression and a skill in summary which makes his book readable even for the man who has never turned his attention to problems of philosophy.”
+ =Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 100w
“Dr Will Durant, though an instructor in philosophy, holds philosophy in very low esteem indeed—this being, in fact, one of the amusing phenomena that have sprung from the Deweyesque brand of pragmatism.”
— =Nation= 105:490 N 1 ‘17 500w
“Part 1 of Dr Durant’s volume is so well done that there cannot be but regret for its brevity. For a little space he has shown these masterly thinkers as kin to us, and, had he pursued this part of the work farther, he would have given us a most significant volume.”
+ =N Y Call= p14 N 11 ‘17 450w
“The chief value of the book lies in its call to rescue philosophy from the calm death of social ineffectiveness. It is to be feared, however, that in order to make out his case, Mr Durant has in some instances made his philosophers a bit too modern. It is rather a strained interpretation, for example, to read into the Socratic ‘virtue of wisdom’ an endorsement of psychoanalysis.” H: Neumann
+ — =Survey= 39:445 Ja 19 ‘18 300w
=DURELL, A. J. V.= Principles and practice of the system of control over parliamentary grants. *21s John Hogg, London 351.72
“This work, by the chief paymaster at the War office, with a foreword by Sir Charles Harris, assistant financial secretary, War office, deals authoritatively with the important subject of the control of public expenditure. The main divisions of the book are concerned with the House of commons, the parliamentary standing committees, the comptroller and auditor-general, the treasury, and the accounting department. ... There are copious references throughout the book to parliamentary papers containing reports of the public accounts committee and estimates committee, and to authorities dealing with public finance and kindred matters.”—Ath
“The author has presented the facts in such a manner that the volume is likely to become a standard work of reference upon the expenditure of public money.”
+ =Ath= p464 S ‘17 120w
“The book opens with its only weak section—a sketch of the constitutional aspect of the financial system, derived from secondary authorities that are somewhat out of date. When Colonel Durell turns to review the present financial system he is clearly in his own element. With the detailed analysis in the last two chapters of the control exercised by the treasury and the function of the accounting department, nothing comparable has yet appeared publicly in print.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:209 S 15 ‘17 1500w
“Colonel Durell sets out in detail the steps taken during the nineteenth century to secure effective machinery for parliamentary control.”
* + =Spec= 119:219 S 1 ‘17 930w
=DURET, THEODORE.= Whistler. il *$3.75 Lippincott 17-12506
“Theodore Duret’s book on Whistler, which appeared a number of years ago in the original French edition, has been translated by Frank Rutter, and makes a welcome addition to the mass of literature that has been forming for the last thirty years about the salient figure of the American master. Duret knew Whistler well, and adds to his natural carefulness in statement the lively note of personal adventure. ... Duret brought to his task, however, more than the mere data of a conscientious reporter or the pleasant gossip of an acquaintance; he is initiated in the craftsmanship of which he writes, and is an appreciative critic of the painter’s achievement.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 13:436 Jl ‘17
“The great merit of this biographical study is its terse and orderly presentation of the essentials and the omission of all those superfluities which so often obscure the really important features of a biography. ... The translation is accompanied by [32] capital reproductions of many of Whistler’s most important works.”
+ =Int Studio= 61:99 Ap ‘17 150w
+ =N Y Times= 22:95 Mr 18 ‘17 230w
“Naturally M. Duret writes somewhat in the vein of a second at a duel. Whistler’s career was so much a progress of deliberate pugnacity that any record of it is inevitably one of blows, given and courted. As these encounters so often centred upon the artist’s work there is a certain piquancy in the opportunity of refreshing our individual judgments upon this, furnished by the many and wholly admirable reproductions with which the volume is illustrated.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:366 My ‘17 170w (Reprinted from English Review ‘17)
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:512 Je ‘17 50w
“M. Duret, who was a lifelong friend, steers a mid-course between those who, like Mr Menpes, record with gusto every incident of mud-slinging and vanity, and the large and detailed volumes of Mr Pennell, in which everything is recorded and the hero can do no wrong.”
=Spec= 118:391 Mr 31 ‘17 400w
“As a sketch of Whistler’s chequered history, with its struggles, attacks, financial hardships, and final success, this book is fairly adequate, and certainly makes interesting reading. ... But those who wish to follow and understand Whistler’s technique in painting and etching, and to realize the amount of hard honest labour that underlay those performances of his that seem so slight and easy, will do well, when they read M. Duret, to turn back to the more precise volume of Mr and Mrs Pennell.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p77 F 15 ‘17 700w
=DURHAM, HARRY WILLIAM.= Saws: their care and treatment. il *$2.50 (4c) Van Nostrand 621.93 A17-1554
The object of this work is “to provide a reliable book of reference for those who are learning the art of saw fitting, or who may be interested in the proper methods of sharpening and keeping saws in order.” (Preface) The author states that he has found no modern work in English treating of the subject with the exception of certain trade publications. He has attempted to select the best methods from among the many he has observed in practice, but has been careful not to lay down hard and fast rules. Among the topics covered are: Particulars of reciprocating saws; Particulars of circular saws; Sharpening saws by hand filing; Saw-sharpening machines; Setting the teeth of saws; The saw-sharpening room.
=DWIGHT, HARRY GRISWOLD.= Persian miniatures. il *$3 (3c) Doubleday 915.5 17-26877
A travel book by the author of “Stamboul nights” which touches lightly and whimsically the things of Persia that draw the traveler thither,—its cities, its structures, its scenery, its peoples and its indefinable oriental magic. “About rug books” is an interesting and encouraging chapter for those who think despairingly that the Persian rug is passing. The writer believes that there is no more danger of the Persian rug becoming a thing of the past than the oil painting. He says that under mud roofs, not available for the department store buyer, there are being woven carpets quite as good as came from the looms of Abbas the Great. “Social life in Hamadan, descriptions of home apparatus, humorous appreciation of personality, of every kindred, every tribe, sly Pepys-like analysis of high local and imported dignitaries, merry, human, homey stories of everyday life of foreigners in Persia, incidents of adventure and misadventure, make up most of this volume.” (Boston Transcript)
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:91 D ‘17
“An amazingly modern book of travel. No roses and nightingales, no bulbuls nor tropical scents and sounds, no humbug of any kind does Mr Dwight deceive us with in his descriptions of Iran. He does impart the beauty of the treeless land, he does make real and recognizable even for an unimaginative reader, the joy to be found in strange appearances of life, and in the different and admirable in architecture. The quality of the book cries in the market place to be imparted, to be shared, to be read aloud with a mutual enjoyer, even its last learned chapter on Avicenna.” M. C. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 720w
“The present volume has all the atmosphere of charm and oriental coloring that its title would lead one to expect. The intimate description of the author’s sojourn in a Persian town will go far toward making us familiar with an ancient and engaging people.”
+ =Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 130w
“It would be a grave belittling, however, of a book that has in it much of valuable information, the fruit of careful research, to emphasize only its charm of style and its vividness of description. ... The author is blest with the ability to offer a great deal of information, nay more, to correct mistakes in less well-informed writings, without a trace of pedantry.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 850w
“Mr Dwight brings to his new work the ability to be graphic, whimsical, and always readable.”
+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 40w
=DYER, WALTER ALDEN.= Creators of decorative styles. il *$3 (8½c) Doubleday 749 17-28460
A survey of the decorative periods in England from 1600 to 1800. It is the plan of the writer to consider the lives and personalities of the leaders of artistic thought in England, tracing, at the same time, the contemporary development of styles in the cognate arts. These leaders are: Inigo Jones; Daniel Marot; Sir Christopher Wren; Grinling Gibbons; Jean Tijou; Thomas Chippendale; Sir William Chambers; Robert Adam; Josiah Wedgwood; George Hepplewhite; and Thomas Sheraton. Illustrations reproduce many original pieces of furniture to be found in the Metropolitan museum of art.
“The trouble with the book before us, so far as trouble exists, is that Mr Dyer has not succeeded altogether in a vital synthesis of his critical and biographical material. It is only fair to say that the data available on the personal side seems prevailingly very scant. Especially worth while are the chapters on Tijou, the little-known French master of ironwork, a domesticated English worker, and Wedgwood, the famed creator of designs in pottery.” R: Burton
+ — =Bookm= 46:479 D ‘17 320w
“Mr Dyer, who has of late made a specialty of writing upon this attractive subject and who has undoubtedly done much in the formation of a revived taste for the beautiful has produced here a work of superior excellence. A large number of well executed illustrations adds to the value of the work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 21 ‘17 500w
“A thoro knowledge of just such facts as this book presents will go a long way towards giving to your house that ‘indefinable air’ of charm and culture and a still more desirable quality—restfulness.” Ruth Stanley-Brown
+ =Pub W= 92:1389 O 20 ‘17 330w
=DYER, WALTER ALDEN.= Five Babbitts at Bonnyacres. il *$1.30 (2c) Holt 17-25085
A very up-to-date country-life story in which Farmers’ bulletins play an important part. It is written for young folks, but older people who are interested in farming and in rural problems will also enjoy it. The Babbitts are a city family who go back-to-the-land. The story carries them thru two years of their experiment on a Massachusetts farm, and leaves them satisfied and happy, and well started on the road to success. There are four Babbitts to begin with; the fifth member, who is added to the family later, is a young boy who comes to them as a state ward. His development under a more fortunate environment than he has before known is an interesting study.
“The Babbitts never accomplish superhuman deeds on the soil; their crops are not abnormal. The story goes through two seasons, and there is a steady increase in results, due to the pluck and splendid spirit of the family.”
+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 160w
“Mr Dyer evidently means his story to be a practical handbook of how such a farm should be treated in order to make it a moderately paying investment. ... The fictional interest with which he has invested it by means of the Babbitt family makes it an entertaining yarn, for Mr Dyer writes always with charm and humor and sanity.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 250w
=DYSON, G.= Grenade fighting. il *50c Doran 355 17-29564
A small manual on the training and tactics of grenadiers. The author is late brigade grenadier officer of the British expeditionary force.
## Part 1 of the book gives Preliminary notes; Part 2, Notes on training
and organisation. There are seven diagrams by way of illustration.
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=EARLE, RALPH.= Life at the U.S. naval academy; the making of the American naval officer. il *$2 (4c) Putnam 355.07 17-10208
The purpose of this book is “to explain the methods adopted at the United States naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland, to give the midshipmen of our navy a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in the knowledge of the many subjects that the naval profession demands.” (Preface) Contents: Historical sketch; The candidate; The new midshipman; Organization; Academic work; Examinations; Practical instruction and drills; Religion, discipline, morale; Physical training and medical care; Athletics; Recreation; The practice cruises; The postgraduate; Grounds and buildings; The ensign. Courses of study, etc. are outlined in appendixes. The author is head of the Department of ordnance and gunnery in the Naval academy, and the book has an introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:375 Je ‘17
“An interesting, graphic, and well-illustrated account.”
+ =Ath= p464 S ‘17 100w
“Clear and accurate, but not calculated to arouse in boys an enthusiasm for this arm of the service.”
+ — =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 30w
“The parent or guardian will be particularly impressed by