Chapter nineteen
, on ‘The potato,’ is the only one with a title suggestive of living things. The book has many good features. It attempts drill in the scientific method of thinking, and some of the exercises are in problem form, though most of them are demonstrations of facts stated in the text and afford little opportunity for reflective thinking. The
## book impresses one as an attempt on the part of an enthusiastic
chemist to pre-empt some time in the first year science for his favorite subject.”
+ – — =School R= 26:67 Ja ‘18 550w
Fall of the Romanoffs.[2] il *$5 Dutton 947 (Eng ed 18-540)
“This new volume, by the anonymous author of the remarkably opportune ‘Russian court memoirs, 1914-16,’ published last March on the morrow of the revolution, purports to show how the ex-Empress and Rasputin between them were responsible for the downfall of the autocracy.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “Believing that the weakness of the Czar and the evil influence of the Czarina made the downfall of the royal family inevitable, the writer still holds that a greater effort should have been made to avoid actual abdication, and that even if the Romanoffs themselves were banished a reformed monarchy would be the proper and wise form of government for Russia. ... The writer deplores the fall of Milukoff and laments the rise of the Social Democrats with Kerensky—although expressing admiration of that leader himself.” (N Y Times)
“Written frankly from the monarchist’s point of view, the book offers none the less most interesting information, and no little food for thought. The book devotes a good deal of space to the recital of superstitions, and it is impossible to avoid suspicion that the anonymous author is markedly prejudiced. No one could call the volume authoritative. But it is exceedingly interesting from beginning to end.”
+ — =N Y Times= 23:2 Ja 6 ‘18 1300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 N 15 ‘17 130w
=FALLON, JOHN TIERNAN=, ed.[2] How to make concrete garden furniture and accessories. il *$1.50 (5c) McBride 693 17-17213
The preface traces the history of concrete as a building material, showing that its use dates from early antiquity. The seven chapters of the book are devoted to: The selection and testing of material; How to proportion and mix the materials; Making forms and placing the concrete; How to make garden walks, steps and other simple utilities; How to make sundials, benches and swimming pools; Bird baths, lanterns, pottery and water gardens; Making concrete garden frames and garden rollers. There are nineteen half-tone plates and numerous illustrations in the text.
“Deals in general with more elaborate construction than most other books on the subject.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:755 N ‘17 40w
=FALLS, DE WITT CLINTON.= Army and navy information. il *$1 Dutton 355 17-29353
The author, an officer of the New York national guard, has brought together information relating to the uniforms, organization, arms and equipment of the warring powers. The book is illustrated with six colored plates and thirty line cuts by the author.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:112 Ja ‘18
“This timely and useful little reference book is something no one can afford to do without today.”
+ =Cath World= 106:555 Ja ‘18 40w
“As a handy reference, this book will be found serviceable to civilians as well as soldiers, and all those who write about the war.”
+ =Ind= 92:343 N 17 ‘17 50w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ‘18 50w
+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 60w
=FANNING, CLARA ELIZABETH=, comp. Selected articles on capital punishment. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 3d and rev ed *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 016.343 17-12266
This is the third edition of a debaters’ handbook published first in 1909. The second edition was issued in 1913. The explanatory note says, “The third edition varies from the second in two parts. The bibliography has had references inserted in all its divisions to bring it up to date. New pages have been added at the end of the book with selected articles grouped as general, affirmative and negative. Since the arguments have undergone no material change in three years, the chief service of this section is in making accessible several magazine articles and pamphlets not found in the average library.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:457 Jl ‘17
+ =R of Rs= 56:109 Jl ‘17 180w
+ =Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 50w
=FARIS, JOHN THOMSON.= Old roads out of Philadelphia. il *$4 Lippincott 917.48 17-28890
“It would be hard to find anywhere in America roads richer in historical interest than those that lead out from Philadelphia, and John T. Faris in his book has told the story of them well. He takes his readers along the King’s highway to Wilmington, over the Baltimore turnpike, the Gulph road, the turnpikes to Westchester and Lancaster, the old Germantown road, the road to Bethlehem, the Ridge road to Perkiomen, the old York road, and that to Bristol and Trenton. On each one he tells about the famous historical events that happened along its way, the important men and women who have traversed it, points out the features of local interest both now and during former times, and mentions its beauties of landscape.” (N Y Times) “A photographer went with him on many of his journeys of exploration, providing the illustrations, one hundred and seventeen in number, which accompany the text.” (Lit D)
“So far as relates to the eleven roads and their surroundings, Mr Faris has done his work well. The writer of this review has lived in part of this territory since his boyhood and can testify to the substantial accuracy and, in general, the judiciousness of the selection of material for his descriptions.” I: Sharpless
+ =Am Hist R= 23:439 Ja ‘18 430w
=A L A Bkl= 14:91 D ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 350w
“With much curious lore has the subject been enriched, showing diligence and no little original research in the treatment.”
+ =Dial= 63:528 N 22 ‘17 160w
“The book will add immensely to the pleasure and interest of Philadelphians who motor and walk in the neighborhood of their city, and it will have its appeal also for lovers of the historical and the picturesque everywhere.”
+ =Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 160w
+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 200w
+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 40w
=Pittsburgh= 22:824 D ‘17 30w
“A good companion volume to Mr Lippincott’s book [’Early Philadelphia’].”
+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 90w
“There are many pleasant discoveries for the traveler along these roads out of Philadelphia with Mr Faris as guide.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 700w
=FARMER, FRANK MALCOLM.= Electrical measurements in practice. il *$4 McGraw 537.7 17-17201
“The author is the head of one of the best-known commercial testing staffs in the country, and throughout the book the topics are presented from the practical standpoint of the tester. Descriptions of instruments and methods of employment alternate.” (Engin News-Rec) “The book is divided into sixteen chapters dealing with the following subjects: Introductory, galvanometers, continuous emf. measurements, continuous-current measurements, alternating emf. measurements, alternating-current measurements, resistance reactance and impedance measurements, power measurements, energy measurements, maximum-demand instruments, inductance measurements, capacitance measurements, frequency and slip measurements, wave-form determinations, magnetic measurements, curve-drawing instruments.” (Elec World) The book has 230 illustrations and diagrams.
“Mr Farmer’s descriptions are concise and clear, but he does not compare the several methods of making any one of the numerous electrical measurements as fully as might be desired. The book will, however, be useful to anyone who has electrical testing to do, in furnishing him with several practical plans for making any desired measurement.”
+ — =Electric Railway Journal= 50:44 Jl 7 ‘17 140w
“This is an excellent and timely text and reference book on electrical measurements from the industrial viewpoint. There are various excellent treatises available on the principles and physical relations of electrical measurements, but there are very few which deal with electrical measurements as they have to be made in electrical engineering laboratories for the purposes of the industry. ... The treatment is clear, thorough, practical and up to date. The chapter on maximum demand instruments is particularly timely.”
+ =Elec World= 70:312 Ag 18 ‘17 140w
“The particular audience addressed by Mr Farmer is of course largely composed of electrical engineers. But his book is of considerable use in the libraries of a larger group of engineers, particularly those dealing with hydroelectric work, because ultimately the performance of their generating and transmission installations have to be tested by well-tried instruments and practices of the electrical test laboratory, more or less modified to suit field conditions. ... The sections on power and energy measurements and on maximum-demand and curve-drawing instruments are of conspicuous merit.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:128 Jl 19 ‘17 130w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p7 Jl ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:658 O ‘17
=Pratt= p22 O ‘17 40w
=FARNOL, JEFFERY.= Definite object; a romance of New York. il *$1.50 (1½c) Little 17-15972
Geoffrey Ravenslee was suffering from the boredom of too much money. Life offered him a variety of diversions but no definite object. A young amateur burglar, attempting to break into his house, brings the needed change. Geoffrey decides that instead of turning young Spike over to the authorities, he will accompany him to his home in lower New York and see something of life from another angle. He finds all that he has been looking for,—adventure, of course, and with it romance; for Spike, the would-be burglar, proves to be the adored younger brother of a very lovely sister.
=A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17
+ — =Ath= p527 O ‘17 130w
“Nothing could be more unreal in the midst of realities than Mr Farnol’s latest novel. Although its scene is New York, although its characters are New Yorkers, although its time is the present, its atmosphere is the atmosphere of ‘The broad highway,’ ‘The amateur gentleman’ and ‘Beltane the smith.’ ... It need not, however, be imagined for an instant that ‘The definite object’ is any the less diverting because we cannot believe a word of it. ... But readers will not be disappointed, for they will find in it a romantic world of the same element and variety that have made the appealing charm of all his other novels.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 1250w
“Some of the character drawing—the pompous butler Brimberly, the loquacious Old ‘Un, and the shrewish Mrs Ann Angelina Trapes—is as good as Dickens at his best.”
+ =Cath World= 105:837 S ‘17 160w
=Ind= 91:35 Jl 7 ‘17 40w
“Mr Farnol, his publishers inform us, knew the New York slum life at first hand, during the time of his obscure activities as a scene-painter, ere fame found him. One may say enough of this book, perhaps, in saying that it shows the sort of fidelity to detail and falsity of color and perspective which are still to be found upon the flies and backdrops of melodrama.”
— =Nation= 105:15 Jl 5 ‘17 330w
“The book is romance, not realism, and very delightful and entertaining romance, too, with plenty of incident, any amount of ardent lovemaking, more than one hairbreadth escape, and several fist fights of the most energetic, not to say violent character.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 750w
“Mr Farnol’s knowledge of New York slang is astonishingly accurate and up to date. Frankly, his characters would be more agreeable if they were not so voluble—one cannot see the story for the words. But Mr Farnol has a large following of readers, and they will find fun and
## action in this romance, despite this criticism.”
=Outlook= 116:198 My 30 ‘17 60w
=Sat R= 124:373 N 10 ‘17 400w
=Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p430 S 6 ‘17 400w
=FARRAR, GILBERT POWDERLY.= Typography of advertisements that pay. il *$2.25 Appleton 659 17-18351
This book “discusses type and combinations of type, blank spaces in which cuts and text appear as islands or peninsulas, the various kinds of effective illustrations, serious and comic, and it reproduces dozens of more or less effective examples, ... distributed according to a general classification as the Forceful educational, the Passive educational, the Hand-lettered, the Poster, the Character and the Comic, the Small space, the Mail order and the Department store.”—Boston Transcript
“Takes up the mechanical side of advertising and goes into more detail than Sherbow’s ‘Making type work’ in that it discusses the picture and engraving side, hand lettering and borders. Has many more examples than Sherbow.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17
“Mr Farrar’s book is admirably adapted to classroom work because of its good arrangement, well-chosen illustrations, and its simple manner of presenting technical material. A peculiar virtue of the book is that the type faces are placed in close relationship to the advertisements that employ them. An excellent chapter is that entitled Putting the advertisement together. The chapter on Making the message quick and sure is a most excellent treatment of the employment of types for the essential purpose of making clear what you have to say.” J. W. Piercy
+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:295 N ‘17 250w
“Full of excellent suggestions, wise advice, and practical help.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 10w
“There are few firms that could not improve their advertising—and their sales—by observing some of the principles of lettering and type set forth in this useful book.”
+ =Ind= 91:441 S 15 ‘17 120w
“This useful volume supplies a very definite need among advertising men and printers.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:366 O ‘17 30w
=FARRER, JAMES ANSON.= Monarchy in politics. *$3 (3c) Dodd 942.07 (Eng ed 18-388)
“An impartial inquiry into the actual practical working of constitutional monarchy in England during the reigns of George III, George IV, William IV, and Queen Victoria, as illustrated by the evidence of the letters, memoirs, diaries, and speeches of contemporary statesmen, and especially of the letters of those sovereigns themselves to their ministers, or others, in respect of the chief foreign and domestic problems of their reigns. The writer’s endeavour has been to glean from as wide a field as possible of the best contemporary sources the chief evidence that bears on the position of the crown in our system of government.” (Publisher’s note) A three-page bibliography of the chief works consulted is included in the front of the volume, following the table of contents.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18
+ =Ath= p671 D ‘17 360w
“Mr Farrer has demonstrated to foreign students of British government a fact which they are too prone to disregard, namely, that while the legal powers of the monarch may have dwindled down to almost nothing, the personal influence of a strong-willed sovereign may still prove to be a factor of great consequence. No student of modern European history or of English government can afford to overlook this volume.”
+ — =Nation= 106:93 Ja 24 ‘18 800w
“There are one or two inaccuracies of names and dates; but we can recommend the book to serious readers, who wish to examine historically the exercise of kingly power by the house of Hanover. The part of Mr Farrer’s book to which most readers will turn with greatest attention is his account of the intervention in politics of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.”
+ =Sat R= 124:483 D 15 ‘17 1550w
“Mr Farrer has chosen the method of telling an almost consecutive story out of the letters and memoirs of the chief actors, and done it with no little skill, for his book contains a quantity of information which, though not new, was well worth bringing together, while it is at the same time quite entertaining.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p548 N 15 ‘17 850w
=FARRÈRE, CLAUDE, pseud. (CHARLES BARGONE).= Man who killed; tr. by Magdalen C. Schuyler. *$1.50 Brentano’s 17-29736
“Pera, where the Orient apes European streets and shops and manners, ... and across the Golden Horn, Stamboul, its minarets and domes rising like white bubbles over the grass-grown Turkish cemeteries. In this curious setting is enacted the little drama, whose principal characters are a French military attaché, an English ‘Director of the Ottoman debt,’ his wife, his Scotch mistress, and a secretary of the Russian embassy. ... M. Farrère has written his narrative as though it were a group of notes from the journal of the attaché, the chief protagonist. ... His journal presents both his fascinating personal adventure and his reaction to the apparently placid and actually fermenting life about him.”—N Y Times
“M. Farrère has what so many of our contemporary writers lack—intellectual sophistication and good taste. Dramatic reserve, intelligent characterization, and an exotic background, painted with beauty and understanding, make a strange tale plausible and worth the reading.”
+ =Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 180w
“The impressiveness of the story is created not so much by the plausibility of the situation as by a style which even translation does not destroy. The title alone seems unfortunate, for it might be the caption for any cheap thriller, but the novel is the work of a clever technician and a well-informed teller of tales.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:452 N 4 ‘17 350w
=FAULKNER, HAROLD UNDERWOOD.= Chartism and the churches; a study in democracy. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$1.25 Longmans 16-25225
This work “is a study of the attitude of the churches to Chartism, and of the attitude of the Chartists toward the churches, particularly toward the Established Church of England, which in the early days of the Chartist movement was, as a national institution intended primarily for the service of the people, at its lowest ebb. ... Mr Faulkner’s book is a venture into a field that hitherto had been quite unexplored either by English or American writers.”—Ind
“The work reveals most extensive use of the voluminous literature of the subject, is interesting and free from bias. The indexing is inadequate. The chief defect of this study is in its failure to make connection with anti-ecclesiastic and anti-clerical influences which in the period preceding Chartism had come to be widespread through Owenism.” H. E. Mills
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:607 S ‘17 250w
“A book of which the full value is not stated when it has been said that it is an excellent, almost indispensable companion volume to those of Messrs Rosenblatt and Slosson. It is a distinct contribution also to the history of the Established church, the Roman Catholic church, and the Nonconformist or free churches of England and Scotland in the first ten or fifteen years of Queen Victoria’s reign. It deals with an aspect of organized Christianity in Great Britain which has been generally ignored by church historians, and scarcely mentioned by the general historians of the nineteenth century.” E: Porritt
+ =Am Hist R= 22:651 Ap ‘17 250w
“There can be no complete understanding of the unbroken success of the trade union movement, the coöperative movement, and the friendly societies movement in England, or even a full realization of the causes which have combined to give England the most politically independent and the best politically educated working-class of any country in the world, without some knowledge of the Chartist movement, of the type of men who were its leaders, and of the influences—political, social and industrial—that were bred of the long working-class agitation of the middle years of the nineteenth century.” E: Porritt
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:340 My ‘17 650w
“A book that is more than a contribution to political history. It is a book that has its value and its obvious lesson for organized Christianity in the United States and Canada as well as in England.” E: Porritt
+ =Ind= 89:232 F 5 ‘17 120w
=J Pol Econ= 25:635 Je ‘17 190w
“Gives a lively picture of the give-and-take of the free-thinking Chartists and the ultra-conservative middle-class churchmen. How the ‘Christian socialists’—Frederick Denison Maurice, Charles Kingsley, Archdeacon Hare, Thomas Hughes and their associates—put a sort of bridge over the chasm by encouraging popular education and practical philanthropy is interestingly told.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 220w
“It may confidently be asserted that no serious student of the social and economic history of Great Britain during the nineteenth century can afford to miss any one of these three books [on Chartism].” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 38:288 Je 30 ‘17 200w
=FAULKNER, HERBERT WALDRON.= Mysteries of the flowers. il *$2 (4½c) Stokes 581 17-12041
In simple, untechnical language the author explains blossom structure, using the wild flowers of the eastern United States as his examples. The adaptation of structure to cross fertilization by means of insects is his central theme. There are chapters on: Pistillate flowers and staminate flowers; Perfect flowers; Floral mechanisms; Orchids; The wind and the flowers; Self-fertilised flowers; Effort and accomplishment; Seed sowing. The illustrations are from drawings and paintings by the author. A number of them are in color.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:10 O ‘17
“His study is, however, deeper than merely botanical and presents the flowers as being living, breathing personalities, striving as do human beings to attain what is to each the ultimate of life. Through his sympathetic study and rare insight, we also see their ‘intimate daily life,’” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 600w
+ =Ind= 90:381 My 26 ‘17 130w
“It is the intimate relation between author and subject that attracts the reader in this vivified botany, which is as good for the lay reader as for the student and interesting to both.”
+ =Lit D= 56:42 Ja 12 ‘18 150w
“The ‘study’ is made so attractive, and the book is so thoroughly readable, that both children and grown folk will delight in the pages that have in them so much, not only of botanical lore, but of the actual vitality of the plants’ being.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 80w
+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 90w
=FAXON, FREDERICK WINTHROP=, ed. Annual magazine subject-index, 1916; including as pt. 2, The dramatic index, 1916. *$8.50 Boston bk. 050
“This, the tenth volume of the Magazine subject-index, follows the same plan as the previous annuals, and furnishes a subject-index to the less common American and English periodicals.” (Preface) New periodicals added are: American-Irish Historical Society Journal; International Review of Missions; Trail and Timberline, and Biblical Review. The magazine index constitutes part 1 of the volume. Part 2 contains the Dramatic index for 1916, to which is added an appendix giving a list of Dramatic books and plays (in English) published during 1916.
=FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA.= Library of Christian cooperation. 6v *$5; ea *$1 Missionary education movement 206 17-10987
The reports of the third quadrennial meeting of the Federal council of the churches of Christ in America, held in St Louis in December, 1916, are presented in these six volumes. Volume 1, The churches of Christ in council, prepared by Charles S. Macfarland, general secretary, is a general report, giving the official record of the proceedings of the Council. Volumes 2 and 3, prepared by Mr Macfarland and Sidney L. Gulick are devoted to The church and international relations, presenting the report of the Commission on peace and arbitration. The
## activities of the Commission on peace and arbitration, the independent
peace activities of the constituent bodies and other religious groups, and the activities of the Church peace union and other cooperating bodies are covered, and volume 3 closes with discussions of The duty of the churches of America in the light of national and of world conditions. The subject of international problems is continued in volume 4, with the report of the Commission on relations with Japan. Volume 5 is devoted to Christian cooperation and world redemption and consists of the reports of several special committees. Volume 6, prepared by Henry H. Meyer, deals with Cooperation in Christian education.
“As a record of proceedings the volumes are cumbered with much matter which is of little interest to the ordinary reader, or even to the student of social and ecclesiastical movements. Volume 5 carries the largest measure of value to the ordinary Christian worker and the church.” A. W. Anthony
+ — =Am J Theol= 21:623 O ‘17 500w
=A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17
“Any comparison of the relative importance of the books would be unfair, for each has its own remarkable value. As unique and significant as any is the report on Christian education. The set makes a permanent contribution to the history of American Christianity.”
+ =Bib World= 50:125 Ag ‘17 200w
“The fourth volume [on Japan] is a very able and frank discussion of a delicate question.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 330w
“The second, third and fourth volumes contain a splendid summary of the peculiar problems facing the American church because of the war in Europe, and are a thrilling call to the proclamation of the gospel of peace.”
+ =Ind= 91:513 S 29 ‘17 240w
=FENOLLOSA, ERNEST FRANCISCO, and POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.= Noh; or, Accomplishment; a study of the classical stage of Japan. *$2.75 Knopf 895
This volume includes translations of fifteen examples of the “Noh” or classical drama of Japan, which arose in the fifteenth century of our era, came near to perishing at the revolution of 1868, and is now “the pride and pleasure of the cultivated element of Japan.” “In a prefatory note the English author states that the ‘vision and the plan’ are the late Ernest Fenollosa’s, that in the prose portion of the book he (Mr Ezra Pound) has ‘had but the part of literary executor,’ and that in the plays his work has been ‘that of translator who has found all the heavy work done for him, and who has had but the pleasure of arranging beauty into the words.’” (Ath) Mr Fenollosa, who served as Imperial commissioner of arts in Japan and was in close touch with Mr Umèwaka Minoru, the official hereditary master of Noh ceremonies in the Shogun’s household, contributes a concise essay on the origins and development of the Noh drama. “In the appendixes and elsewhere are numerous details concerning the care and selection of costumes, the masks used, and the like; and at the end of the book is an attempt to record some of the music of one of the plays.” (Ath)
=Ath= p100 F ‘17 250w
“Mr Pound, in his notes and comments, writes with his usual unceremonious directness. ... And as the volume is made by the Clarks, of Edinburgh, a ‘serious’ house, one notes, with gratification, an almost complete suppression of Mr Pound’s tendency toward typographical willfulnesses and eccentricities.” H: B. Fuller
=Dial= 63:209 S 13 ‘17 900w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:135 S ‘17 50w
“When we have read ‘Noh; or, Accomplishment,’ our first feeling is that of gratitude to Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound for bringing this remote but serious and beautiful art so close to us. On Fenollosa’s
## part it meant the devoted labor of more than twenty years. Ezra Pound
has given a shorter term of labor, but he is one with Fenollosa in his loyalty to the spirit of ‘Noh.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:576 D 23 ‘17 850w
=Pittsburgh= 22:747 N ‘17 100w
“A curious thing about the plays is their diction. We know not if it be because Mr Pound is steeped in the works of Maeterlinck, the school of Synge, and the poetry of Mr Yeats, but certain it is that in phraseology and dialogue they continually remind one of these authors. ... We in the West are not in a position, with the data available, to arrive at a full appreciation of ‘Noh.’ ... But we may gain some perception at least of the delicacy, the lofty idealism, and the noble hopefulness which are among the essential qualities of an art that, in Fenollosa’s words, ‘has been a purification of the Japanese soul for 400 years.’”
* =Sat R= 123:527 Je 9 ‘17 1350w
“Mr Pound describes the Japanese classical drama as in form approaching most nearly to the Greek plays. But it is, we think, a very slight resemblance, and certainly in spirit and expression it is peculiarly individual. There is about it a simplicity such as is to be found in a Hans Andersen fairy-tale, a wealth of imagery reminding us of the Celtic drama, and again a dignity of imagination which is like nothing so much as some of the work of the Hebrew poets. ... Mr Pound’s translation is admirable in most respects, but we wish that he did not show a tendency to be influenced by the vocabulary of the Celtic drama.”
+ — =Spec= 118:543 My 12 ‘17 750w
“The uninitiated foreigner is enabled by Mr Pound’s mastery of beautiful diction to appreciate the alternately wistful and proud appeal of these ghostly masterpieces. ... Two points of cardinal interest are emphasized and driven home by this vivacious rendering of archaic compositions—their intense humanity and their indifference to realism.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p41 Ja 25 ‘17 1550w
=FERBER, EDNA.= Fanny herself. il *$1.40 (1½c) Stokes 17-25431
Fanny Brandeis, like Miss Ferber’s Emma McChesney, was a successful business woman. Her mother, Molly Brandeis, who, after her husband’s death, ran Brandeis’ Bazaar in the little middle western town of Winnebago, was also a good business woman, but she died of pneumonia, brought on by overwork, when Fanny was twenty-four. Then Fanny, swayed by “a bitter sorrow, and ambition, and resentment” made up her mind to crush out sympathy and unselfishness and the artistic impulse in herself, and to mold herself into “a hard, keen-eyed resolute woman, whose godhead was to be success, and to whom success would mean money and position.” She went to work in the Haynes-Cooper mail order house, where she made good, and in a few years was earning her $10,000. Then she had to choose between a still greater business success with Michael Fenger, former manager of the Haynes-Cooper concern, and a chance to develop her talent as a cartoonist and to marry Clarence Heyl, who had loved her for years, and who did not see the real values of life in terms of cash. Other characters are Father Fitzpatrick, the Catholic priest in Winnebago; Ella Monahan, buyer for the glove department of Haynes-Cooper; and Fanny’s brother, Theodore, the young violinist, to secure whose musical education Mrs Brandeis and her daughter had made such sacrifices. Emma McChesney also plays a very slight part in the story.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 70w
“An element in the story which we are seldom allowed to forget is the racial one. With all the recent emphasis upon the Jew in literature, it is hard to call to mind a story which so fully developed those distinctly higher attributes of the Jew. ... Fanny Brandeis becomes, as we read the story, something more than an individual character. She becomes typical of that slaying of the ideal for the material which is going on day after day in thousands of Fanny Brandeises all over the United States.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ‘17 1000w
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 50w
“The most serious, extended and dignified of Miss Ferber’s books. Its first half, in particular, is quite the best work that the creator of Emma McChesney has done.”
+ =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 260w
=Nation= 105:431 O 18 ‘17 400w
“It is Molly Brandeis who, with the little town of Winnebago, Wis., makes this story of ‘Fanny herself’ worth while.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 800w
“A notable advance in the author’s previous fiction work.”
+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 70w
“Yet there were here and there discerning readers who failed to find in them [the Emma McChesney stories] a fulfilment of the promise offered in ‘Dawn O’Hara.’ For this reason there should be much rejoicing over Miss Ferber’s new volume and second novel. And the fact that she has produced her effects out of practically the same well-worn, almost shabby stage properties of her earlier stories, is perhaps the most conclusive evidence that she has this time arisen from mere talent to something containing a lurking spark of what, for lack of a better word one may call genius.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 93:208 Ja 19 ‘18 360w
“Fanny’s mother is a striking creation, and her personality goes a long way toward lifting the story above the commonplace.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 450w
=FERGUSON, JOHN DE LANCEY.= American literature in Spain. (Columbia univ. studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (2c) Columbia univ. press 810 17-263
“Systematic study of the European reputations of American authors is a thing of recent date,” says the author. His purpose in this book is to make such a study with respect to Spain. The chief source of knowledge of American literature in Spain, he finds, has been France. There have been a few exceptions in which communication between the literatures of the two countries has been direct, notable among them the case of Irving, whose relations with Spain were personal. Another way of entry has been thru Spanish America. Chapters of the book are devoted to Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Prescott, Emerson, Whitman. The bibliography is pronounced by the author the most important part of the work.
+ =Cath World= 105:107 Ap ‘17 350w
“Regarding his work as a dissertation for the doctorate, one is disposed to be severe upon this contribution to scholarship: it deals chiefly with the exuberant and bombastic opinions of men whose words are without value; it is devoid of philosophical conclusions; further, we do not recall reading a dissertation whose body was so compactly made up of quotation.”
— =Nation= 104:552 My 3 ‘17 400w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 450w
=FERNALD, ROBERT HEYWOOD, and ORROK, GEORGE ALEXANDER.= Engineering of power plants. il *$4 McGraw 621 16-24435
“To the worthy treatises on power-plant engineering of Gebhardt, Hutton, Hubbard and others, these eminent authors have added an equally worthy volume. The new book is of great interest to industrial-plant owners and engineers, as the treatment is both by description and discussion and introduces specific data at every turn. All kinds of power are touched on, though steam and internal-combustion plants are naturally given the most space.” (Engin News-Rec) Of the two authors, the first is professor of dynamical engineering in the University of Pennsylvania, the second is a consulting engineer in New York city.
“Useful in connection with Gebhardt (4th ed. Booklist 10:80 O ‘13) but will not replace that standard work.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:204 F ‘17
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:363 My 17 ‘17 70w
“Is a happy medium of practice and theory that has been greatly lacking in books of this nature. ... Does not cover details of design or operation of the different parts of power plant equipment ... but considers the power plant as a whole from the standpoint of economical power production.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:451 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from National Engineer p149 Ap ‘17)
=FERNAU, HERMANN.= Coming democracy. *$2 (2c) Button 940.91 17-24321
Herr Fernau, a German democrat and pacifist and author of “Because I am a German,” published the original German version of his present
## book in Berne, Switzerland, under the title “Durch!... zur
demokratie,” before the Russian revolution and the entry of the United States into the war. “The whole of this new book is devoted to the thesis that war now, as always, springs from a false and perverted form of internal government—a form of government to which he gives the name of a ‘dynasty’; the form under which the whole welfare of the people is subordinated to a small ruling caste or family; external war has always been and will always remain the chief weapon by which the dynasty maintains authority over its own people, and the only means by which it can be overthrown is defeat in war.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Herr Fernau preaches “Germany for the Germans,” and hopes for a defeat of the German arms as the best way of realizing this. “For what would happen if we Germans emerged victorious from this war? Our victory would only mean a strengthening of the dynastic principle of arbitrary power all along the line. Those of us who bewail the political backwardness of our Fatherland must realize that a ‘German’ victory would prolong this backward condition for centuries. And not only Germany but the whole of Europe would have to suffer the consequences.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18
“He writes rather in anger than in sorrow; and, since he is a German, he would be more conciliating and convincing if he were less vehement and intemperate in his language.”
– + =Ath= p517 O ‘17 250w
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 30w
“The author clearly shows what indeed only a native German could show, the very strong differences and opposition between the German people and their rulers.”
+ =Cath World= 106:389 D ‘17 400w
“He sincerely believes, in common with many Americans, that wars will cease with the disappearance of dynasties. If his book will enforce this illusion, its present value is questionable.” V. T. Thayer
— =Dial= 63:515 N 22 ‘17 1050w
+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 130w
“There is little that is new, in these bitter and even cynical pages, for the reader who has kept moderately well abreast of the anti-German literature of the war. Moreover, destructive criticism, especially when forged in great heat, may easily go too far. Indeed, a reading of the book suggests the extremely useful service that would be rendered if some one who knows Germany and its people as well as Mr Fernau does would point out just what the Germans could do, under their existing constitution, to bring about the régime of popular government which President Wilson, for example, believes to be a prerequisite to peace.”
– + =Nation= 105:516 N 8 ‘17 330w
“Herr Fernau has given us a most remarkable work, a most powerful and convincing analysis of past German history.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 700w
“‘The coming democracy’ is an astounding book, so unexpected is it to find such clear, keen insight into German conditions, such fearless presentation of facts, such merciless, sardonic, biting humor in statements coming from a German source.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:396 O 14 ‘17 1050w
+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 90w
“For the most part, Fernau’s logic is inexorable, but here and there he is guilty of a curious fallacy, as when, for instance, he holds dynasties exclusively responsible for the horrors of war, and also declares that the ideal of fighting for a fatherland perished with the Greeks.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:229 S 22 ‘17 1050w
“Hermann Fernau is a true patriot, a passionate lover of the German people and of the old German fatherland. ... A considerable part of his book is given up to showing, as only a German brought up under the system can appreciate and show, how a small ambitious group of men may, by means of it, control absolutely the souls, minds, and bodies of a great nation. ... His analysis of the German constitution should be studied by those who still believe that the German people have any
## active share in the government of their country.”
+ =Spec= 119:217 S 1 ‘17 1850w
“The book is one of the most important contributions to the literature of the war. The subject and matter, is, indeed, not new, but it is put in a new light. ... The translation is excellent.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p398 Ag 23 ‘17 2050w
=FERRI, ENRICO.= Criminal sociology. (Modern-criminal science ser.) *$5 Little 364 17-13931
This book by “the first of living criminal sociologists,” is divided into four parts: Data of criminal anthropology; Data of criminal statistics; Positive theory of penal responsibility; Practical reforms. “Signor Ferri, who belongs to the so-called positive school of criminology, is a scientific socialist; moreover, he utterly demolishes the orthodox theory of freedom of the will. He regards all crime as a social disease which must be treated as every other disease is treated: clinically. Mild forms need only a change of diet or environment with very little if any medicine of the law; the contagious cases must be isolated as we isolate smallpox and diphtheria until there is a perfect cure or until it is proved that there is no cure possible. He recognizes that many criminals are insane, hopelessly insane. His own belief is that the penalty of death is advisable in the instances where an insane criminal is dangerous to society; but that is immaterial. Protection of the community in which criminals are found is the one vital thing.” (Boston Transcript) The book, first published in Italian in 1880, is translated by Joseph I. Kelly and John Lisle; edited by William W. Smithers; and has introductions by Charles A. Ellwood and Quincy A. Myers.
“An important book for college and special reference libraries.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17
“This volume gives one of the best pictures of the changes through which criminal sociology has passed in the last half century.” W: B. Bailey
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:772 N ‘17 240w
“No one today can make a pretense of familiarity with the modern sciences of criminology who has not read this work. If criticisms are to be made of the Italian school, they should be made on the basis of the ideas here set forth. The American institute has rendered a great service to English civilization by the translation of this book.” J. P. Lichtenberger
+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:303 N ‘17 380w
“It may be that the author of this volume is (as certainly he makes it abundantly evident that he thinks he is) the greatest living authority on criminology, but he is so rambunctiously controversial that he overloads his treatise with a vast mass of perfectly unnecessary arguments directed against every person who has ever dared to enter this great field. ... It is much to be desired that a greatly shortened summary of Signor Ferri’s constructive philosophy of crime might be extricated from his bulky volume, eliminating entirely the controversial portions and leaving only the pure gold of his admirable doctrine, based on his actual observations.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 1150w
“Enrico Ferri, is a positivist of the Italian school, who holds that crime is a biologic and social abnormality, produced in part at least by extra-social forces. ... His hatred of religion breathes on every page. ... We regret very much that the American institute cannot find American scholars to write on these topics objectively, instead of translating works nearly forty years old of anti-Christian bigots.”
— =Cath World= 105:548 Jl ‘17 300w
“This book still remains the most distinguished general contribution to the subject of criminology, though much of its data and some of its conclusions are now out of date.” L. L. Bernard
+ =Dial= 63:338 O 11 ‘17 1000w
+ =Lit D= 55:45 O 13 ‘17 500w
=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 70w
“One of the most valuable volumes in a useful series. Ferri’s classification of criminals appears to us now somewhat overlapping and difficult to establish in given cases by practicable tests.” K. H. Claghorn
+ — =Survey= 39:47 O 13 ‘17 350w
=FETTER, FRANK ALBERT.= Economics. 2v v 2 *$1.75 Century 330
=v 2= Modern economic problems.
“A year ago there appeared a book by Professor Fetter dealing with the broader economic principles of value and distribution. This is now followed by a volume entirely devoted to the treatment of practical problems which furnish concrete illustrations and applications of the principles developed in the earlier volume. These are grouped under the following heads: Resources and economic organization; Money and prices; Banking and insurance; Tariff and taxation; Problems of the wage system, and Problems of industrial organization. The two books are intended to cover a complete course in economics, but they are so arranged that they may be used separately.”—R of Rs
“The sentiment of the book is thoroughly modern and progressive, but the policies advocated are based upon scientific principles throughout rather than upon the popular reform policies of the hour. The wisdom of confining references to other works, and bibliographical material in general, to a separate manual, may be questioned. Many readers of the text will, presumably, never see the ‘Manual’ but still will need guidance to further study of those problems in which they are
## particularly interested.” W. I. K.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:234 My ‘17 230w
“The reviewer knows of no other economic text book where the application of principles to practical problems is more successfully made. The result is that much merely confusing descriptive material is eliminated, and what remains is solid and stimulating. From this point of view, the book will probably make a strong appeal to the teacher, to the student and to the general reader.” E. E. Agger
+ =Educ R= 54:90 Je ‘17 780w
“This work is, in a sense, a sequel to a book published by the same author a year ago. ... It will repay careful study because it dispels a number of popular fallacies and because, as has been said, it offers an excellent introduction to the more modern method of dealing with economic phenomena.”
+ =Ind= 89:507 Mr 19 ‘17 180w
“Professor Fetter’s discussion is clear and well-informed, and his conclusions are temperate and suggestive.”
+ =Nation= 104:557 My 3 ‘17 100w
=R of Rs= 55:220 F ‘17 100w
=FICKE, ARTHUR DAVISON.= April elegy. *$1.25 Kennerley 811 17-12484
“An April elegy,” the poem that fills the first half of this book, is a verse narrative, telling the story of two lovers who fail ever to recapture the passionate beauty of their first meeting. The remainder of the book is taken up with three groups of poems: Seven Japanese paintings; Lyrics; Café sketches. Some of the poems have appeared in the Little Review, Poetry, Century, Midland, and other magazines.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:439 Jl ‘17
“Unlike some of his fellow poets of the new school, however, Mr Ficke has a genuine gift of poetic expression; he has, too, a disciplined metrical skill that shows to advantage in his handling both of the ordered verse forms and of free verse; finally, he always has something to say and says it intelligibly. ... In all his work it is when Mr Ficke is most purely lyrical that he is most delightful.” R. T. T.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 1000w
“The poems mingle bald realism and free verse with imaginative and lyric beauty. In intellectual content, they are subtle and at times difficult of interpretation. Mr Ficke is best known from his ‘Sonnets of a portrait painter’ and as an interpreter of Japanese art.”
=Cleveland= p74 Je ‘17 80w
“The whole-hearted sentimentalism of ‘An April elegy’ will certainly recommend it to many, though scarcely to those readers whom Mr Ficke’s real powers and previous performance fit him to address.” Odell Shepard
– + =Dial= 63:341 O 11 ‘17 380w
“In eight sonnets of his new volume the proud and sombre note of Mr Ficke’s ‘Sonnets of a portrait-painter’ is audible in renewed vigor and beauty. Next in merit to these poems, I should place, I think, ‘Seven Japanese paintings.’ ‘An April elegy’ is equally unworthy of its associates and its parentage.” O. W. Firkins
+ – — =Nation= 105:245 S 6 ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17 60w
“Full of impassioned beauty, rich restraint, and romantic appeal.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 300w
+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 80w
“Verily, this is a book for a diverse public or for a single reader with very catholic taste. Mr Ficke at times reaches the Pierian hights of the old school, and at times approaches the gutter depths of much of the new.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 450w
=FIELD, CLIFTON COUTARD.= Retail buying. (Harper’s retail business ser.) *$1.25 (2½c) Harper 658 17-21788
The author, recently instructor in merchandizing in the University of Wisconsin, has also held positions with Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, and James McCreery & Co., of New York. His book aims to give “a simple and readable explanation of what is best to-day in buying principles and practice.” (Editor’s introd.) Contents: The merchant as a buyer; Merchandise; Buying practice; Stock systems.
“A book list of descriptive material issued by manufacturers will be suggestive to librarians who wish to build up a working trade collection.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17
=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 20w
“Gives many convenient hints as to kinds and qualities of commodities, especially in the clothing trades.”
+ =Ind= 91:441 S 15 ‘17 60w
“The style is matter of fact, almost laconic. There is an element of stiffness and bluntness in it that appears to arise from lack of practice in writing. The discussion, however, is clear and usually simple. The real contribution in this book is to be found in part 3, entitled ‘Buying practice.’ It is just here that an undeveloped field was entered.” C. S. Duncan
+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:1053 D ‘17 1200w
=Pittsburgh= 22:758 N ‘17 40w
“Instructive reading for any one connected with retail buying or selling.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 90w
=FIELD, LOUISE MAUNSELL.= Little gods laugh. il *$1.40 (2c) Little 17-23975
In this story of New York society Miss Field has given us a picture of the development of a high-minded young woman of good family, who, bred to position and ease, finds herself obliged to make her own way in the world. The refreshing side of the story is in its normality. Nita Wynne, through the interest of friends, uses and develops her natural abilities and though she, of course, loses leisure, she does not in any way lose her proper position. But her experiences do teach her to view life whole rather than from the narrow angle of her girlhood.
“The story is told with dignity and charm.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 31 ‘17 150w
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w
“There is some clever characterization, but that is not a sufficient excuse for the addition of one more novel to the already overlong list of American mediocrities.”
– + =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 50w
“It is a real achievement of the author that Nita is never a prig. In her most intolerant moments there is something likeable, and very human, about her. The characters and incidents of the book are interesting and its theme is thoroughly wholesome and sane.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:333 S 9 ‘17 450w
Fifes and drums; a collection of poems of America at war. (Vigilantes books) *$1 Doran 811.08 17-18155
“The Vigilantes’ headquarters are in New York, its members are authors, artists and other professional workers, and its purposes are thus described: ‘To arouse the country to a realization of the importance of the problems confronting the American people. To awaken and cultivate in the youth of the country a sense of public service and an intelligent interest in citizenship and national problems. To work vigorously for preparedness, mental, moral, and physical.’” (Boston Transcript) “These poems, written under the immediate stress of great events by the Vigilantes, furnish a striking record of the emotional reactions of the American people during the fortnight preceding and the six weeks following the declaration of war.” (Foreword) Some of the contributors are Amelia Josephine Burr, Don Marquis, Clinton Scollard, Wallace Irwin, Edith M. Thomas, George E. Woodberry, Cale Young Rice, Theodosia Garrison, Percy MacKaye and Hermann Hagedorn.
“Their literary excellence is very high. It would be easy to forgive much under the circumstances, but there is nothing to forgive. ... To single out a single poem in any collection as superlatively the best is usually futile and an invitation to violent argument, but we have no reluctance to place Miss Garrison’s ‘April 2nd’ at the head.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 1000w
“The whole anthology carries a glowing atmosphere of enthusiasm, every page breathing the wide range of high human emotion which is brought into being during the stress of wartime.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:287 Ag 5 ‘17 260w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 180w
=FIGGIS, JOHN NEVILLE.= Some defects in English religion, and other sermons. (Handbooks of Catholic faith and practice) *$1 (3½c) Young ch. 252
The defects in English religion to which the author devotes the first four sermons in this book are Sentimentalism, Legalism, Cowardice, and Complacency. This series of sermons was preached in Grosvenor chapel, Mayfair, in August, 1916. Among the other sermons in the volume is a group on The mysteries of love, preached as a Lenten series.
“A master of the philosophic ideas of history, and equally at home with Bernard Shaw or Nietzsche and the significant movements of today in letters, Dr Figgis is a preacher of an unusual sort.”
+ =Sat R= 123:260 Mr 17 ‘17 370w
=FIGGIS, JOHN NEVILLE.= Will to freedom; or, The gospel of Nietzsche and the gospel of Christ. *$1.25 Scribner 193 17-15172
“Dr Figgis, who is a member of the Community of the Resurrection, a religious order of the Church of England, was invited to deliver the Gov. Bross lectures at Lake Forest university in Illinois in 1915, and made the German philosopher his subject.” (Springf’d Republican) “In the lectures he aims at correcting some prevalent misconceptions as to Nietzsche and his influence in Germany. The six lectures deal in turn with ‘Nietzsche the man,’ ‘The gospel of Nietzsche,’ ‘Nietzsche and Christianity,’ ‘Nietzsche’s originality,’ ‘The charm of Nietzsche,’ and ‘The danger and the significance of Nietzsche.’ In particular Dr Figgis insists that, unlike Stirner, Nietzsche did not teach egotism, but rather a religion of valour involving the sacrifice of immediate desire to an ideal of nobility; egotism being, indeed, in direct opposition to some of Nietzche’s most important principles, such as natural asceticism, the sacrifice of ages in order to speed the superman, the raising of the type of man. But while endeavouring to set before us a reconsideration of much of Nietzsche’s position in a more favourable light than the controversialists of recent years generally allow, Dr Figgis protests equally against those who argue that because Nietzsche in his later years held and loudly expressed anti-Russian views therefore modern Germany was not deeply influenced by him.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
Reviewed by W. C. A. Wallar
=Am J Theol= 22:150 Ja ‘18 650w
=A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17
+ =Ath= p462 S ‘17 180w
“There may be, however, some doubt whether many who call themselves Christian would accept Dr Figgis’s statement that they ‘assert the will to freedom.’ That is the weakness of the book; for it is only too easy to make out that anything that is true or good is Christian.”
+ — =Ath= p508 O ‘17 550w
“For the reader who has not time for the writings of Nietzsche but who would like to know what it is all about, this is the book.”
+ =Bib World= 50:254 O ‘17 700w
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
+ =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 30w
+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 50w
“The discussion is pitched in a key so much lower than Nietzsche’s own writing, and is conducted in such obvious and pedestrian terms that the many quotations blaze across the page with a heat that seems almost to shrivel the unfortunate commentator. What Dr Figgis has done here is to make the common mistake of confusing a diagnosis with an ethics. The common mind seems unable to keep from confounding Nietzsche’s analysis of what is with his ideal of what ought to be. ... The book must be credited, however, with what is perhaps the best short sketch of Nietzsche’s life to be found in English.” Randolph Bourne
– + =Dial= 63:389 O 25 ‘17 1200w
“A book of real weight and of philosophic power.”
+ =Educ R= 54:528 D ‘17 100w
“The relation of Nietzsche to contemporary thought and particularly to Christianity, as well as to the prevailing ideals in Germany, is well brought out in Dr Figgis’ book.”
+ =Ind= 92:109 O 13 ‘17 380w
“His study of Nietzsche is able, fresh and sympathetic. Perhaps because he is under Nietzsche’s charm, he does not quite come to grips with his subject.” M. J.
+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:287 Ja ‘18 280w
“We can not praise too highly this exposition. It is unbiased, fair, and square. No debatable characterization of the subject lacks chapter and verse from Nietzsche’s writings.”
+ =Lit D= 55:39 S 15 ‘17 430w
“The title gives a sufficient intimation of Dr Figgis’s purpose, but one could wish that he had followed this purpose a little more tenaciously. As a matter of fact, the best part of the book is the exposition of Nietzsche’s philosophy before the author enters upon his critical comparison.”
+ =Nation= 105:323 S 20 ‘17 350w
“It would be difficult for any Christian reviewer to excel Dr Figgis in combining just criticism of an iconoclastic atheist with so impartial an appreciation of his merits.”
+ =Outlook= 117:260 O 17 ‘17 160w
=Pittsburgh= 22:699 O ‘17 20w
=Pratt= p6 O ‘17
“Dr Figgis’s books have an unusual circulation, which they deserve. Christianity has few apologists of equal power, for he is not only learned in divinity, he is also an historian and a philosopher who keeps in touch with the spirit of his time. He knows the latest book of Mr Bernard Shaw as well as of the Modernists. ... Nietzsche is much more talked about than read, and Dr Figgis does well in adding to his lectures typical specimens of his writings and the views of the best critics on them.”
+ =Sat R= 124:188 S 8 ‘17 1300w
“The analysis Dr Figgis offers in these lectures is at once the most painstaking and the most convincing we have seen.”
+ =Spec= 119:270 S 15 ‘17 1450w
“Dr Figgis approaches his subject fairly and judiciously, though hardly with the freedom from preoccupation which is essential to a complete comprehension of Nietzsche. ... He devotes much space to the progress of Nietzschian ideas in modern German.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 650w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Ag 9 ‘17 170w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p388 Ag 16 ‘17 1450w
=FILLEBROWN, CHARLES BOWDOIN.= Principles of natural taxation; showing the origin and progress of plans for the payment of all public expenses from economic rent. il $1.50 McClurg 336.2 17-5160
Of part 1 of this book Mr Fillebrown is compiler; of part 2, author.
## Part 1 is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the
metamorphosis of the land question into the rent question; of the equal right to land into the joint right to the rent of land, etc.” The authors represented in this progression are, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Patrick Edward Dove, Edwin Burgess, Sir John Macdonell, Henry George, Rev Edward McGlynn and Thomas G. Shearman. For each of these a biographical sketch with an estimate of the man’s importance to the single tax movement is provided. Part 2 has chapters on: A burdenless tax; Land; Taxation and housing, etc. The preface says, “While this volume is a revision and enlargement of ‘A single tax handbook for 1913,’ which it was thought might reappear at intervals, it is issued with the idea of permanence, as representing the best authorities, early and late, upon the development of the idea.”
“The book will prove a very useful single-tax document, and Mr Fillebrown has performed a real service to economists in calling attention to the need for a redistribution of emphasis in discussing certain aspects of the single tax. As is perhaps to be expected, where the material has been gathered from scattered sources, an occasional slip in statement has crept in.” R. M. Haig
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:894 D ‘17 350w
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17
=Ann Am Acad= 73:236 S ‘17 240w
“For a full exposition of the subject, we have seen few books equal to Mr Fillebrown’s latest effort.” Alexander MacKendrick
+ =Masses= 9:32 S ‘17 1050w
“The second part of Mr Fillebrown’s book contains the kind of polemic for the single tax with which readers of his former publications, and of single-tax propaganda generally, are familiar. There is much in it that is plausible, much even that is sound; but there is also a great admixture of shallow assumption as well as an ignoring of vital difficulties.”
+ — =Nation= 104:656 My 31 ‘17 1000w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17
=St Louis= 15:169 Je ‘17 30w
“Particularly interesting chapters are ‘The professors and the single tax,’ disclosing incidentally how much the professors are like the man in the street in missing the essential point of the doctrine, and ‘A catechism of natural taxation,’ carefully revised by the best authorities to meet the inquirer’s questions with the best possible answers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 380w
=FILSINGER, ERNST B.= Exporting to Latin America; with a foreword by Leo S. Rowe. *$3 Appleton 382 16-17440
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Two qualities in Mr Filsinger’s book stand out as noteworthy: it is specific and it is comprehensive. When to this statement I add that it is distinctly a business man’s book, written by a business man who still has the student’s knack of covering a subject fully and expressing himself clearly, it may easily be understood that this is one of the best publications on Latin America that has been placed on the American market. ... Among the many writers on Latin American trade Mr Filsinger seems to be almost the discoverer of the effective work being done by the Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, to which he devotes considerable, but by no means excessive, space. ... It would certainly pay every prospective exporter to have a copy not in his library but on his desk for constant reference and study.” E. E. Pratt
* + =Am Econ R= 7:122 Mr ‘17 1050w
“An especially interesting chapter is that on Export commission houses and agents. ... Mr Filsinger’s outline of the function of the export commission house is followed with the chapter on Traveling salesmen, general and local agents, which is of particular interest to manufacturers desiring to market their product by direct representation overseas. This includes suggestions as to obtaining foreign agents by correspondence. ... This book is a valuable addition to a quite substantial bibliography developed by the painstaking work of Hough, Aughinbaugh and other students of Latin-American trade problems.” R. H. Patchin
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:227 My ‘17 650w
“Of unusual practical value is the appendix. This contains, besides other important information, a detailed description of each of the Latin American countries, including language, newspapers, currency, with American equivalents, weights and measures, postage, location, area, and physical characteristics, population, purchasing power, railways and transportation, resources, industries, mines, principal cities, best methods of canvassing the country and the articles most needed. In another part of the appendix he gives the typical advertising rates in Latin American export journals, the principal directories of the Latin American republics, and the principal banks of the large cities.”
+ =Nation= 104:369 Mr 29 ‘17 1350w
“Manufacturers and merchants anxious to discover and improve foreign trade opportunities will find of particular interest the chapters on Latin-American correspondence, Banking documents, Credits, Catalogues and quotations, Parcel post and mail order business, but the subjects covered extend to practically all the questions that business men are compelled to ask in advertising new lines.”
+ =New Repub= 11:167 Je 9 ‘17 400w
“The work of a man who is president of the Filsinger-Boette shoe company and consul of Costa Rica and Ecuador in St Louis, and who was formerly president and commissioner to Latin-America of the Latin-American foreign trade association. Incidentally Mr Filsinger is the husband of Sara Teasdale, the poet. ... The book is plainly the most valuable of its kind that has yet been published.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 23 ‘17 200w
=FINCK, HENRY THEOPHILUS.= Richard Strauss; the man and his works. il *$2.50 (3c) Little 17-26876
A carefully prepared life of the first great realist in music who “has done for programme music what Wagner did for the opera.” Besides the story of Strauss’s life and a number of reliable anecdotes, there is an estimate of his place in the history of music, and a full description, with critical comments, of his more important compositions including all the tone poems and operas which have been launched with so much interest and success. A sympathetic appreciation of “Richard Strauss: seer and idealist” is contributed by Percy Grainger who sees the inborn effortless greatness of a man who is a genius of the purely inspirational order.
“Stimulating to musicians who do understand Strauss; and, for mere bewildered music lovers who do not, it will serve to foster at least an ‘intelligent ignorance.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:83 D ‘17
“This is a useful survey of the external facts touching the life and musical compositions of Richard Strauss. But it does not, on the whole, suggest that it has been a labor of love. Mr Finck makes it abundantly clear that his reason for writing the book was rather the fact that Strauss is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of living composers than that he himself considers him to be such. And the general tone of Mr Finck’s book is blasé, sometimes yawningly so.” E: Sapir
+ – — =Dial= 63:584 D 6 ‘17 1900w
“Not only the biggest but also the most interesting and the most valuable work on this composer yet produced in English. If the book contained only this sort of intensely personal dislike, paraded as an attempt to determine Strauss’s place in the history of music, it would be of small worth. But it contains a deal of more profitable matter.”
+ — =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 350w
+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 8 ‘17 240w
“It is a big book in more senses than one. ... To be sure, all the thrice-familiar Finckian critical stigmata are present; his Wagner worship and the clamorous praise of Rubinstein, Grieg, Paderewski, Liszt, MacDowell, and Percy Grainger. ... Mr Finck’s musical enthusiasms are always exhilarating, and while his study of Strauss is not as significant as his ‘Life of Wagner’—the best biography in English—we must remember the difference in the career of the two men. Wagner’s life, like his music, was dramatic. The life thus far of Strauss has been almost commonplace.” J. G. Huneker
+ — =Nation= 105:462 O 25 ‘17 1550w
“This biography of Strauss the composer has the quality of sprightliness to an exceptional degree—partly, no doubt, because of its subject.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 150w
=FINDLATER, MARY, and FINDLATER, JANE HELEN.= Seen and heard before and after 1914. *$1.50 Dutton 17-26479
“There are six stories in this book—the stories of Scottish life that the Misses Findlater know so well how to tell—and the coming of the war divides them square in half. This in itself gives the book added value as a picture of the conflict’s far reactions. For the war came to the Scotch villages of the Highlands and changed the face of life for the village folk. And the things that were ‘seen and heard’ after Aug. 1, 1914, were very different from the Highland happenings of the hills and villages in the months before. ... The first story is of the wandering tinkers of the Highlands, and of the claim of their gypsy life upon all the tinker ‘clan.’ ... The second story is a strange bit of Highland pathos. ‘When Johnny comes marching home’ is a human little tale of a village ne’er-do-well, who lost his chance of manhood, but the second war story is full of whimsical humor and sweetness. Jane Findlater has written all the tales but one—the last, ‘Real estate,’ longer than most of the others, and rich in human understanding and charm.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:449 Jl ‘17
“The stories are written with the same feeling for words and situations which has previously distinguished the work of these two authors. They show life within a very narrow radius, but the stamp of truth is on all they write.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 2 ‘17 1250w
+ =Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 150w
+ =Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 60w
“Jane Findlater’s writing has the charm of an older time. ... What we really get in ‘The little tinker’ is more like the scene of a Dutch master, incident and atmosphere and character projected upon a tiny canvas, with sympathy but without sentimentalism. The stories written after the war are less happy.”
+ =Nation= 104:632 My 24 ‘17 180w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17 30w
“A lovable, human book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:186 My 13 ‘17 300w
+ =Spec= 118:175 F 10 ‘17 1600w
“As always with these writers, it is not the story in itself but the shrewd and intuitive handling of its elements which gives marked individuality to the work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p572 N 30 ‘16 570w
=FIRTH, JOHN BENJAMIN.= Highways and byways in Nottinghamshire. (Highways and byways ser.) il *$2 Macmillan 914.2 (Eng ed 17-7460)
“To an excellent series this is a most readable addition. Mr Firth writes well and has accumulated a mass of curious information. The chapters on Nottingham and Newark and the parts they played on opposite sides in the civil war, the account of Southwell and its ancient minster, the elaborate description of the dukeries—Welbeck, Clumber, and Thoresby, all set in the remains of Sherwood Forest—are the chief features. Robin Hood is cautiously handled. Byron in poverty at Southwell and in transient splendour at Newstead is another picturesque figure.”—Spec
“Gives fewer descriptions of scenery than other books in this series.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:397 Je ‘17
+ =Dial= 62:531 Je 14 ‘17 130w
“The book is crammed with information, yet it is written with an ease and grace that any novelist might envy.”
+ =Nation= 104:373 Mr 29 ‘17 190w
“The book is profusely and beautifully illustrated, and the large-scale maps will be invaluable to the explorer of the byways of Nottinghamshire.”
+ =Nature= 99:4 Mr 1 ‘17 300w
“Especially interesting in its relation to several of the best-known families of England.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:556 My ‘17 40w
“There has scarcely been a better book in the series, and one can often dip into his ‘Nottinghamshire’ with pleasure and relief. It is a book to enjoy, and the hours given to it will not be wasted. Mr Griggs’s illustrations are often delightful too. Some of his drawings of domestic architecture—notably of old houses in the city of Nottingham—are very nearly as good as Prout, and we much like his Southwell minster, west front.”
+ =Sat R= 123:sup10 Mr 31 ‘17 150w
=Spec= 118:141 F 3 ‘17 140w
“For Americans no other town of Nottinghamshire can have so great appeal as Scrooby. For Scrooby was the home of William Brewster, the Pilgrim father, and the little band of Brownists met usually at Brewster’s house. ... Mr Firth’s spirited pen traces the features of Nottinghamshire towns, and revives much entertaining local history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 1350w
“A book like this brings strongly home to the reader the tides of change which have helped to mould the most placid English landscapes.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p53 F 1 ‘17 1300w
=FISH, ADA Z.= American Red cross text-book on home dietetics. il *$1 Blakiston 641.5 17-6350
“The author of ‘Home dietetics’ has emphasized the means of avoiding illness rather than the ways of catering to it. She has suggested very concisely the important principles involved in the cooking of food, and so far as possible has illustrated these principles by directions for the preparation of common articles of diet.”—Survey
=A L A Bkl= 13:336 My ‘17
“A unique and valuable feature of the book is the emphasis placed on the importance of hygiene which should be observed in the handling of food to prevent the spread of disease.” L. H. G.
+ =Survey= 38:75 Ap 21 ‘17 120w
=FISHER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.= Francis Thompson; essays. il $1 (15c) Franklin pub. co., Canton, O. 821 17-17070
A short sketch of the life and an appreciation of the poetry of a rare spirit whose genius is the nacre covering the grains of hardship as a pearl was produced for poetry. While after years were kinder to him than the early period of cruel hardship, he was broken in health and died at the age of forty-eight. The late Benjamin Fisher was a sympathetic student of Thompson’s poetry and hoped thru his essays to interest many in the clear quality of Thompson’s poetical gifts.
“Students of Francis Thompson’s poetry will find interest in this attractively bound little book.”
+ =Dial= 63:409 O 25 ‘17 170w
“Of flowery and figurative language, this tiny book possesses real critical grasp, and has itself real beauties of phrase that make us curious to see that earlier work, ‘Life harmonies,’ praised of Alice Meynell.”
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 50w
=FISHER, DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) (MRS JOHN REDWOOD FISHER).= Understood Betsy. il *$1.30 (3c) Holt 17-23050
“Betsy has been brought up from infancy by her Aunt Frances, a maiden lady past her first youth who has deluged the child with love and anxiety and determination to ‘understand’ her. And so at the age of nine she has been ‘understood’ into an anaemic, morbid, neurotic, egotistic condition that saps her rightful enjoyment of childhood and undermines the promise of useful womanhood. ... A sudden upheaval in Aunt Frances’s family makes it necessary for Betsy to be sent along to relatives who live on a farm in Vermont. And there life takes on a very different complexion. Nobody tries to ‘understand’ her, nobody pays attention to any of the things that caused Aunt Frances to cuddle and care for her as if she were an infant. Instead, they put responsibilities upon her for herself and others, expect her to amuse herself and in general to be an upstanding, self-reliant little girl.”—N Y Times
“Published in St Nicholas.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17
“The one girls’ story of the season which seems to have the qualities that make for permanence—Miss Alcott’s qualities, say, of warm feeling, golden common sense, and ease and simplicity of style.” J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 120w
“Betsy is the concrete example of so much that Mrs Fisher has written on child training, that we are obliged once again to remark the skill with which a true story teller can reveal her morals while she is telling a thoroughly interesting story.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 1250w
“The book is intended primarily for children, but Mrs Fisher with her usual insight has touched upon a modern tendency in education with an irony that will be appreciated by their elders.”
+ =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w
“It is a story for a child—or for the child-lover with many suggestions in child-development and training quite suited to a teacher.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 210w
“Dorothy Canfield is always extraordinarily likable, even if she has grown troublingly wistful, and doubtful about cities. ... Her wistfulness for pioneer conditions saps a necessary confidence in cities in a way her Montessori mother did not. But is it, after all, a book for children? Would it not be, of itself, just a little bit of an Aunt Frances?”
+ =New Repub= 12:166 S 8 ‘17 300w
“It has ostensibly been written for children, but we should be sorry for any adult who could not enjoy it. ... As a gift to a little nine or ten year old girl who reads easily, we cannot recommend anything more charming and worth while than ‘Understood Betsy.’” M. G. S.
+ + =N Y Call= p15 S 30 ‘17 340w
“This story about a little girl will be read with pleasure by people who are small and young, while people who are larger and older also will read it with pleasure combined, if they have humor and sense, with profit. ... The scene is that section of New England where Mrs Fisher has made her home for a number of years, and the people are the same sturdy Vermonters whom she has put into her short stories about ‘Hillsboro people.’ She interprets the New England character with truth and verve.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 800w
“A charming and entertaining little story.”
+ =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 170w
“As a story pure and simple, it is delightful, a mine of fun, wisdom and common sense.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 150w
“A most delightful narrative. The reader feels an impulsive affection for Aunt Abigail, Uncle Henry and Cousin Ann.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 230w
=FISHER, GEORGE JOHN, and BERRY, ELMER.= Physical effects of smoking; preliminary experimental studies. *$1 Assn. press 613 17-12837
Dr Fisher is connected with the International committee of the Y. M. C. A., and Professor Berry is professor of physiology in the International Y. M. C. A. college at Springfield, Mass. Professor Berry states that “the material here brought together represents an effort to secure definite experimental data regarding the effects of smoking,” that the work, covering researches conducted 1914-16, has been done as graduation theses under his direction, and that it is presented as “entirely preliminary and tentative.” The subjects were “normal, healthy, athletic fellows between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-five.” The experimenters returned results remarkable for their uniformity and general consistency, showing that smoking raises the heart rate and blood pressure, that it markedly delays the return of the heart rate to normal after exercise, and that it impairs the neuro-muscular control as indicated by delicate finger exercises and gross muscular coordinations. There is a bibliography of eight pages.
=A L A Bkl= 13:433 Jl ‘17
“With rare good judgment the authors refrain from conclusions, and rest their case upon a simple statement of recorded facts, not claiming infallibility but presenting their results so that the reader arrives at his own conclusions. The book is an excellent short story to put into the hands of school teachers and high-school boys.” Haven Emerson, M.D.
+ =Survey= 39:370 D 29 ‘17 400w
=FISHER, MARY.= The Treloars. *$1.35 (1c) Crowell 17-13953
“The scene is California. The Treloars, who live in the country near Berkeley, are a family of high cultivation and of warm humanity. The father is a brilliant man who has ceased to be a parson because he can no longer conform to the creed of the church. ... Hard by lives his friend, who is also a detached philosopher—of another school. Their chief recreation is in controversy. Treloar has three grown children. One of the daughters, Catherine, has brains enough only for the hard and selfish part of the modern feminist practice. Margaret, the other, is a woman of intellect and character. Her brother Dick holds the centre of her stage, and responds to her devotion. We meet her at the moment when Dick is about to try his fledgling wings at journalism. In the city he presently meets an enchantress, an actress of none too savoury past. The wrecking of his sister’s happiness and a luckless marriage are the result. He is released before the total crippling of his life, and after an illuminating experience [at] the war-front, achieves a real union with the girl he should have married in the first place; to Margaret also the chances of war have brought a fitting mate.”—Bookm
“A book of scope and power by a hand fresh at story-making. Readers who like swift action may find the conduct of the narrative too leisurely. By others, the digressions and discussions which fill so many of these pages may be regarded as the cream of the book.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:209 O ‘17 370w
“What a godsend the war has been to lazy or unimaginative novelists! With it they can cut every Gordian knot.”
— =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 140w
“The book’s fault is talk, tho much of it is Interesting enough and clever. But there is too much of it.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:39 O 27 ‘17 240w
“A book of uncommon flavor: to begin with, its style instead of falling in with modern fashions of briskness or nonchalance, takes its own time and goes its own way, with a faint suggestiveness, perhaps, of George Eliot rather than any later writer. It is the medium of an intelligence both sympathetic and scholarly, interpreting character in the light of present conditions.”
+ =Nation= 105:371 O 4 ‘17 350w
“‘The Treloars’ belongs to a class of novels written not because the author has a story to tell, but because he has views to ventilate, theories to expound, a fund of information of which to disburden himself. ... Although well written, showing wide reading, and expressing forcible opinions upon nearly all the subjects now agitating the public mind, ‘The Treloars’ does not take hold of the reader. The characters seem to have been created to hold long conversations upon every conceivable topic, ... while certain of the situations are almost amusing in their improbability.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w
=FISK, EUGENE LYMAN.= Alcohol. *$1 Funk 178 17-20843
“A non-scientific discussion for the general reader of the deleterious effect of alcohol. Divided into three parts, it discusses its relation to life insurance, to physiology, and human efficiency. Supplementary notes give views of Great Britain, Russia and France and the attitude of the American medical profession.” (A L A Bkl) The contents appeared first in the form of articles in the Atlantic Monthly.
=A L A Bkl= 14:73 D ‘17
“Modest and yet most important volume. It would be a good thing for America and the world if his pages could be carried in the knapsack of every soldier, at home and abroad, and studied by every citizen of our country.”
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 1 ‘17 280w
“It is too slight, too dogmatic, and too evidently written to maintain a theory.”
— =Outlook= 117:285 O 24 ‘17 60w
=FISKE, MINNIE MADDERN (MRS HARRISON GREY FISKE).= Mrs Fiske; her views on actors, acting, and the problems of production; recorded by Alexander Woolcott. il *$2 (6c) Century 792 17-29247
Witty, spontaneous, unconventional bits of theatre wisdom dropped over the tea cups by one of the foremost producers, directors and actresses of the present day and recorded out of the long memory of the dramatic critic of the New York Times. The seven chapters set forth Mrs Fiske’s theory of the theatre,—a theory which has been evolving thru years of honest, sincere progress towards the goal which the world has seen her brilliantly achieve. Deductions are interpolated with interesting comment on the portrayal of certain of her well known rôles. The book is full of inspiration and food for thought and study for young actors, while for the theatre goer who never misses a Fiske play it will serve as a review of her successes.
“Expensive for its value to the average library.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:118 Ja ‘18
“Mr Woolcott is an adept prompter; he usually sets the scene piquantly; fills the pauses neatly; gives Mrs Fiske her head, as it were, while his memory sits elastic in the saddle; and generally conducts himself as a beaming Boswell, save for a tendency to the simpering and airy phrases of literary and artistic youth at tea in the college across the Charles. As for Mrs Fiske herself, she courses through the conversations like Delilah in Milton’s chorus, ‘bedecked, ornate, and gay.’”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p12 O 24 ‘17 2800w
“No one could doubt the authenticity of these repeated conversations, for they are so consistent with her life and seem so possessed of her personality as to make one see the lift of her head, the whimsical light in her eye, and visualize the touch and gesture of her personality.”
+ =Lit D= 55:50 D 1 ‘17 170w
“Woolcott expresses the hope that some day Mrs Fiske will write her own book. It is here seconded, for it must be admitted that there is a feeling, especially in the opening chapters, that just when the actress is about to say something really vital, the writer interrupts her train of thought.” L: Gardy
+ — =NY Call= p15 D 29 ‘17 580w
“The book is full of interesting exposition, nuggets of wisdom, conclusions clearly thought out and forcibly presented. No one who is in the least interested in the theatre can fail to find the book fascinating and stimulating.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 360w
+ =R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 110w
“The public needs not be told that Mrs Fiske is no ordinary theatrical celebrity, and there will be general expectation that a book of her views, if authentically reproduced, will be an individual and entertaining book. It is.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 550w
=FITCH, GEORGE.= Twenty-four; where I took them and what they did to me. il *$1.25 (5c) Little 17-1930
George Fitch once went to Europe with twenty-four girls, winners in a newspaper circulation contest, in his charge. As he puts it, “Some reporters go to war, some have to jump out of balloons in patent parachutes, and some have to take parties of young and beautiful girls to Europe. It’s all in the game.” In this book he has given his own humorous version of the expedition.
“Appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
“As a ‘cheer-up’ story to amuse girls of sixteen, we recommend the book heartily. For older readers it is a little too thin, and the situation is a bit overworked. ... The end drags.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 120w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17
“Very amusing.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:13 Ja 14 ‘17 300w
“The story emphasizes the loss sustained in the death of the kindly humorist.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 200w
=FITZMAURICE, GEORGE.= Five plays. *$1.25 Little 822 (Eng ed 15-5685)
“‘Five plays,’ by George Fitzmaurice, the Irish folk-dramatist, carry one into the midst of life in the Irish countryside. They are ‘The pie-dish,’ the story of an old Irishman who worked twenty years molding a fine pie dish and died cursing God because he wouldn’t let him live long enough to finish it; ‘The country dressmaker,’ ‘The magic glasses,’ ‘The dandy dolls,’ and a strong play, ‘The moonlighter,’ which pictures the peculiar conditions that nurture violence and revolutions in Ireland. The scene is the period of the agrarian revolt. Peter Guerin, the leading character, is a splendid type of an old Fenian.” (R of Rs) The book was first published by Maunsel (London and Dublin) in 1914.
=A L A Bkl= 14:49 N ‘17
“Mr Fitzmaurice is a connecting link between the earlier and the later writers of the Irish dramatic movement. In his technique, he is a contemporary Irish dramatist; in his simpler point of view and freer imagination, he is a true son of the pioneers. His vivid dialogue and character-drawing surpass most contemporary work. For sheer beauty, either of thought or expression, he does not equal his predecessors. As a realist, he writes in the modern vein; as a fantast, in the spirit of the earlier men. ... These ‘Five plays’ justify the hope that, if only the Abbey theatre will cease trying to be a Hibernian branch of Drury Lane, it can still produce real Irish dramatists.” Williams Haynes
+ — =Dial= 63:208 S 13 ‘17 820w
+ =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 50w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17
“Fitzmaurice’s dialect has a richness of idiom that surpasses the familiar and monotonous Kiltartan, a gusty blowing freshness that is typically Irish, yet unlike that of Synge, or Colum, or the work of any other Irish folk-dramatist.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:662 Je ‘17 140w
=FLANDRAU, GRACE HODGSON.= Cousin Julia. *$1.40 (1½c) Appleton 17-22295
This is the story of a family in a middle western town. “Cousin Julia,” wife of a successful business man, is a social climber with two beautiful daughters, Virginia and Louise. Virginia, the finer and cleverer of the two, is, though she herself is ignorant of the fact for many years, an adopted daughter. Other characters are Félix de Lorme, a French marquis, who marries Louise, but falls in love with Virginia; Tom Collingsworth, a rich and rather commonplace young business man, who is Virginia’s other lover; Frau von Ernst, Virginia’s elderly friend; and Bob Tillinghurst, in the United States diplomatic service, and his wife Violet.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17
“A painstaking care for details of characterization distinguishes ‘Cousin Julia.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 21 ‘17 700w
“Yet the book is more than readable; its charming pictures of the Middle West and its sardonic understanding of the Cinderella background of ‘les nouveaux’ help to point a shrewd moral.”
+ — =Dial= 63:353 O 11 ‘17 150w
“Written with sincerity. ... Interesting, principally because of the well-drawn figure of Julia. The Frenchman, Félix de Lorme, ‘an amateur of everything, of letters, of science, of love’ is also well done, and so is the small-natured and commonplace Louise. ... The picture of middle western society is amusingly presented.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 320w
=FLEAGLE, FRED K.= Social problems in Porto Rico. $1 (3c) Heath 917.29 17-17543
A collection of data on the social problems of Porto Rico which the author brought together in the course of his work in rural sociology in the University of Porto Rico. Contents: Population; The jíbaro; Overpopulation; The family; Rural housing conditions; Woman and child labor; Industries; The land problem and unemployment; Poverty; Sickness and disease; Crime; Intemperance; Juvenile delinquents; Rural schools; The school and the community; Relation of the teacher to the community; Present-day rural school movements; Physical development and longevity.
=Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 40w
“This book is a specific and not a general picture, and by no means an attractive one. But it satisfies a thirst for information that has been growing with those who hear constantly of the great poverty in Porto Rico. ... It may also assist some in a position to do so to set their shoulders to the task of amelioration—a task that needs more American shoulders.”
+ =Nation= 105:430 O 18 ‘17 1300w
+ =R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 140w
“‘Social problems in Porto Rico’ is short and to the point, almost to the extent of being dogmatic. It is well worth reading.” S. B. Grubbs
+ =Survey= 39:202 N 24 ‘17 400w
=FLECKER, JAMES ELROY.= Collected poems. il *$2 Doubleday 821 17-26316
James Elroy Flecker was a young English poet who died in 1915. J. C. Squire, who was with him at Oxford has edited his poems, contributing a biographical introduction to the volume. He had published four books of verse: “The bridge of fire,” 1907; “Forty-two poems,” 1911; “The golden journey to Samarkand,” 1913; “The old ships,” 1915. It is from these volumes that the present collection is reprinted, with twenty new poems added. The poems are arranged in two groups, Juvenilia, and Later poems, and they follow roughly a chronological order.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:341 My ‘17
“It has been the fate, and perhaps the happy fate, of many English poets to die young. ... Great as was the promise of Middleton and Brooke, it is the death of Flecker that is perhaps our most grievous loss.”
+ =Ath= p527 N ‘16 1300w
=Boston Transcript= p7 F 24 ‘17 300w
“Poems of a young Englishman who died in 1915 at the age of thirty, and who belonged to the so-called Parnassian school—a group of seekers after perfection of form and the objective interpretation of beauty, represented in France by de Heredia and Leconte de Lisle.”
+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 210w
“His achievement in verse is consistently high, but no single poem stands out as specially memorable.” Odell Shepard
+ =Dial= 63:19 Je 28 ‘17 180w
“He is almost the only upholder of art for art’s sake who can justify his practice to the unbeliever.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Nation= 106:90 Ja 24 ‘18 450w
“His family was Austrian, and perhaps it was because of such affiliation that he was attracted to eastern romance. ... He did a thing more difficult than the bringing back of an eastern glamour—(the glamour is there in The ballad of Iskander, and The golden journey to Samarkand)—he brought into contemporary poetry metres that suggest and may actually be derived from oriental verse. ... Except James Clarence Mangan no other poet has been able to weave English into such exotic patterns.” Padraic Colum
* + =New Repub= 10:sup12 Ap 21 ‘17 1250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17
“There are a hundred interesting aspects of the man and his work which space forbids us to attempt. Like Rupert Brooke, he greatened to the last.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:77 Mr 4 ‘17 850w
+ =Sat R= 122:485 N 18 ‘16 1400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 22 ‘17 800w
“His achievement is unlikely to occupy the industrious commentator, or to become the esoteric nucleus of a learned society. If it live, it will be because beauty created in words cannot easily die.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p457 S 28 ‘16 3600w
=FLEMING, GUY.= Diplomat. *$1.50 Longmans
“A picture of early 19th-century social and political life as seen in the family of a Yorkshire squire rich in sons who follow various careers, and a daughter who becomes a countess. But Guy Fleming, a novelist of considerable gifts, concentrates mainly on the career of the fourth son, which culminates in a long residence in a foreign capital. Upon his journals the story is supposed to be based.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Written in the leisurely Trollope manner.”
+ =Dial= 62:482 My 31 ‘17 120w
=Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 40w
“There are sundry crimes, all vividly depicted, but leaving the reader disposed to wonder why it was worth while to write—and to write so well—a novel containing no character enlisting much sympathy and with but one scene that really touches the heart; a novel which, with all its merits, leaves the reader cold.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p626 D 21 ‘16 70w
“Mr Fleming is so interesting that it is a pity his unweeded rhythmless style should make him so difficult to read.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p5 Ja 4 ‘17 580w
=FLEMING, GUY.= Off with the old love; a war story. *$1.50 (2c) Longmans 17-21972
“Though toward the end the scene of the story is shifted to France, to the trenches, and the hospitals, it is at Ravenscroft [in England] that most of the action takes place, and very many of the numerous characters live. ... The plot is an intricate one, with a lost daughter, a murder, an elopement, and no less than three love stories, not to mention several past romances, to increase its complications.”—N Y Times
“There are touches of comedy and two or three amusing characters in the book ... while the author’s intermittent comments are usually clever, often pungent, sometimes satiric, and always entertaining. The quiet restrained style has a good deal of charm. ... There is too much of the pleasantness and placidity in the book; at the end, one feels that persons such as the author has drawn, placed in situations such as those in which he has chosen to place them, would have been a good deal less comfortable than his various characters finally were.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:303 Ag 19 ‘17 580w
“Mr Fleming makes all the people in his new book subject to a great variety of coincidences, and when it is all over one feels that they and their surroundings have been a good deal wrenched to make them fit his little stage. ... The war does little to influence the course of the plays except that it provides a fanciful background for a series of coincidences and a target at which Mr Fleming aims a number of rather inapposite and bitter sayings.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p316 Jl 5 ‘17 450w
=FLETCHER, ALFRED CHARLES BENSON.= From job to job around the world. il *$2 (3c) Dodd 910 17-25257
Mr Fletcher, a graduate of the University of California, tells in this book how he started with his fare paid from San Francisco to Honolulu and a five dollar gold piece in his pocket, and worked his way around the world in three years. He visited Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Europe, England, Norway, Spitzbergen, Sweden, and finally crossed the Atlantic to America. Mr Ralph J. Richardson, who was equally short of funds, was the author’s traveling companion on part of the trip, and took the photographs from which the book is illustrated. The narrative was originally published in the Wide World Magazine.
“A buoyant, high-spirited account of personal adventure, with graphic pictures of places and people. Illustrated with good photographs.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“A very entertaining story he spins, not only about the world, or such considerable portions as he visited, but also about the calm assurance and readiness of American boys to make themselves at home in strange places and under remarkable conditions.” A. M. Chase
+ =Bookm= 46:334 N ‘17 90w
“His account of his adventures comes, in vivacity and shrewd observation and humorous description, a close second to Mark Twain’s Innocents abroad.’” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 520w
“Boyishly light-hearted but rather crude narrative.”
+ — =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 70w
=N Y Evening Post= p1 O 13 ‘17 1800w
“Most of the traveling was done third class or steerage, a fact that affords interesting reading because so few American travelers choose to go in this fashion.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:574 D 23 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:430 D ‘17 10w
=FLETCHER, CHARLES BRUNSDON.= New Pacific; British policy and German aims; with a preface by Viscount Bryce, and a foreword by the Right Hon. W. M. Hughes. *$3 Macmillan 325.3
“‘The new Pacific’ is an Australian’s review of British and German dealings in the Pacific ocean, a lucid exposure of German methods and German designs, a statement of Pacific problems present and future, and an account of some representative Britons who have shaped history in those southern seas. The author, Mr Brunsdon Fletcher, is a leading journalist in Australia, associate editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“In this volume, to which Lord Bryce and the Prime minister of Australia have contributed some introductory pages, the author gives a clear and interesting exposition of German policy and aims in the Pacific, and of the long-growing misgivings on the part of Australians respecting the aggressive tendencies of their German neighbours.”
+ =Ath= p247 My ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p99 Jl ‘17 70w
“His indictment of German aims amounts to very little. ... None the less, the book deserves the attention of American students of the whole political situation. The United States has large interests in the Pacific.”
+ — =Nation= 105:42 Jl 12 ‘17 750w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:109 Jl ‘17
“We advise every one who wants to understand what Australia looks for in the terms of peace to read this book.”
+ =Spec= 118:590 My 26 ‘17 1300w
“Mr Brunsdon Fletcher has had access to first-hand information, written and oral, from the best sources; he has presented and arranged his facts with practised skill, grouping them round well-known characters; and the result is a book of singular interest and substantial value. ... If ‘The new Pacific’ had no other recommendation, it would be valuable as illustrating very forcibly and with much picturesqueness the great and much underrated influence which missionaries have had upon the onward movement of the British empire.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 29 ‘17 2100w
=FLOURNOY, THÉODORE.= Philosophy of William James; auth. tr. by Edwin B. Holt and W: James, jr. il *$1.30 (3c) Holt 191 17-6639
The author of this interpretation of William James’s philosophy is a professor in the faculty of sciences at the University of Geneva. The
## book itself is based on lectures which, delivered in 1910, were
intended, in a way, as a memorial. In his first chapter the author makes some interesting observations on the importance of James’s artistic temperament. “He was a born psychologist and a psychologist of genius precisely because of this artistic insight, which in him, by a rare exception, was combined with the exact scientific spirit.” The chapters that follow take up in turn: Early environment; Rejection of monism; Pragmatism; Radical empiricism; Pluralism; Tychism; Meliorism and moralism; Theism; The will to believe; Summary and conclusion. A review of “The varieties of religious experience,” from the Revue Philosophique, is reprinted in an appendix.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:373 Je ‘17
“This study of the philosophy of James is admitted by many to be the best that has been written upon the philosopher and is now translated into English by two men who personally and professionally are especially well fitted to be just both to James and to Professor Flournoy. ... It reminds us of the work of James himself in its very readable character.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 350w
“It is clearly and simply written and furnishes an admirable introduction to the study of William James—quite the best that we have seen. And it is, moreover, a book that will be read with equal pleasure and profit by those already familiar with his work.”
+ =Nation= 104:462 Ap 19 ‘17 1000w
“Written in so simple a style that even those unversed in philosophical technology need not feel doubtful concerning it.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 270w
=St Louis= 15:135 My ‘17 14w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 290w
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Ag 9 ‘17 1750w
=FLOWERS, MONTAVILLE.= Japanese conquest of American opinion. *$1.50 (2c) Doran 325.7 17-3170
The author believes that the Japanese are carrying on a systematic campaign to win over American public opinion. The objects to be gained are: “The removal of restrictions on immigration; the rights of naturalisation, American citizenship, and of intermarriage with the white race; the overthrow of all anti-Asiatic land legislation in western states; the rapid acquisition of those lands; and all that follows.” The book is issued as a warning to America and as an offset to the writings of Sidney Gulick, H. A. Millis and others, deemed by the author vicious. The book consists of three parts: The Japanese problem; Forces and methods of the Japanese conquest; Bases of opinion, old and new.
“Will be useful in debate work.”
=Cleveland= p53 Ap ‘17 30w
“The temper of Mr Flowers is not altogether admirable. He is sometimes narrow and often vituperative; but he is, as we have noted, sincere and his contribution to the discussion of the ‘Japanese problem’ is worthy the careful attention of those who differ most widely from him.”
=N Y Times= 22:36 F 4 ‘17 650w
“His discussion is valuable solely as a presentation of an extreme point of view held by a number which, it may be supposed, increases geometrically as the Pacific coast draws nearer.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 130w
“We have heard much of Mr Flowers and his diatribes against the Japanese and his dreadful arraignment of such men as Sidney L. Gulick, Hamilton Holt, the late H. W. Mabie, the present reviewer and others. ... The pith of Mr Flowers’ argument is in an outcry against amalgamation. His peculiar ideas as to philosophy, history and ethnology are largely his own. ... He should have furnished an index for students of his closely printed and rather bulky work, so rich in fallacies.” W: E. Griffis
— =Survey= 37:699 Mr 17 ‘17 200w
=FOERSTER, NORMAN, and PIERSON, WILLIAM WHATLEY=, eds. American ideals. *$1.25 Houghton 815 17-25284
Under the heads of Liberty and union, State and nation, American democracy, American foreign policy, and Foreign opinion of the United States, are brought together certain essays, addresses and state papers that express ideals of statesmen and of men of letters from Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Alfred J. Balfour. The authors refer to the collection as “expressions of our national and international conscience” on ideals, policies and political tendencies of our country.
=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
“Ushered in by Mr Woodbury’s splendid sonnet, ‘Our first century,’ these selections challenge as well as inspire.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 270w
“The purpose of the volume is evident and praiseworthy. It might well be adopted as a school reader. But for the public at large, outside the schools, it is valuable, for it brings together the finest utterances on a theme of vital importance, many of them not easily accessible.” J. B. Landfield
+ =Educ R= 55:75 Ja ‘18 600w
“The selections are judiciously made and we believe that the book should prove useful in the inculcation of a thoughtful and intelligent patriotism among the rising generation.”
+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 70w
=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 60w
=FOGARTY, KATE HAMMOND.= Story of Montana. il *$1 (1½c) Barnes 978.6 16-16737
This story of Montana was written “to meet the demand for a suitable textbook for schools, and also for the many lovers of Montana who wish to become familiar with the main facts of its early as well as present-day history without having to consult many separate volumes.” (Preface) The book is made up of ten chapters: Early explorers in Montana; The Indians; The fur trade; Visitors to the posts; The missionaries to the Indians; The first settlers; The soldiers in Montana; Development of the state; Transformation of the Indians; National problems in Montana. The national problems treated in this last chapter are Irrigation, Dry-land farming and Forestry.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 110w
“Intended as a text-book for the public schools, ‘The story of Montana’ also makes its appeal to the adult reader.”
+ =R of Rs= 54:683 D ‘16 50w
=FOOTE, JOHN TAINTOR.= Dumb-Bell of Brookfield. il *$1.35 Appleton 17-6535
“One need not be an enthusiast about hunting dogs or dogs in general to appreciate and thoroughly enjoy half a dozen stories, all related, that are grouped in this volume. Dumb-Bell appears first as a runt of a puppy, the son of the late champion setter, but so insignificant as to be ‘a stone despised by the builders, that is made the head of the corner.’ His anonymous triumph puts him instantly on the throne of his father, as told in the first story. Later chapters have to do partly with his own career and partly with his owners and other people and dogs at Brookfield.”—Springf’d Republican
“Full of pathos and humor, they show a complete understanding of dogs without making them in the least human. Good for reading aloud.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 150w
“Somewhat out of the ordinary. Appeared in American Magazine.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 20w
=FOOTE, MRS MARY (HALLOCK).= Edith Bonham. *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 17-8582
The friendship between two women is the foundation of this story. One of them marries and goes out into the unknown West. (The time of the story is fully a generation ago.) Here the other, Edith Bonham, follows her some years later, intending to make her home there and to help in caring for her friend’s children. She arrives just in time to learn of Anne’s death. For the sake of the children, she remains, resolved to make up as best she can for their loss. She at first wholly misunderstands her friend’s husband, a quiet man of deep feeling and few words. But in time a sympathetic understanding breaks down the barriers and they are drawn together.
“Distinctly a woman’s book, one of the few which interpret the best American types.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:402 Je ‘17
“The reader may find himself (if not herself) in a rather impatient mood before all the misapprehensions and mystifications of a fairly simple situation are permitted to be cleared up. Mrs Foote’s style, as always, with its quiet clarity, offers grateful refreshment to ears which may be a trifle weary of the din and ‘punch’ of the current literary mode.” H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 45:648 Ag ‘17 350w
“Will probably be considered her most appealing novel. Mrs Foote writes with the method of the great novelists of an earlier generation. There is nothing of sketchiness in her literary product. Her characters are limned with delightful attention to details.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 21 ‘17 550w
“A detailed leisurely story with a few excellent characterizations but with what seems to be a wilful and superfluous piling up of barriers between the two chief characters.”
+ — =Cleveland= p63 My ‘17 50w
“Mrs Foote is one of our veteran novelists and she knows her business. I ask, however, with due respect whether the book should not end on page 321, whether the postscript is not superfluous.” J: Macy
+ — =Dial= 63:113 Ag 16 ‘17 100w
“So much for the crude substance of the book: its merit lies elsewhere, in the quiet and sure rendering of that substance by a delicate womanly hand.”
+ =Nation= 105:40 Jl 12 ‘17 500w
“The story has the human appeal and sure touch in dealing with life found always in Mrs Foote’s work.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 50w
For France; ed. by C: Hanson Towne. il *$2.50 Doubleday 940.91 17-29466
Tributes to France in story, poem and song, from the hearts of a notable group of America’s authors, painters, musicians, sculptors and actors. The offerings are all short, with a note of deep loyalty and affection for the people who from ‘76-‘83 sent us their money and their men under the leadership of their Lafayette and Rochambeau. The chapters, full of sympathy, and of the sense of debt we owe, have a heartening message for the heroic, dry-eyed patriots who have been shaken to the depths with sorrow; while for Americans they serve as a new spur to fight the harder for justice, humanity, liberty, democracy.
Reviewed by Albert Schinz
+ =Bookm= 46:292 N ‘17 150w
“While there is much repetition of sentiment in it, and while some of the writers are so emotional and temperamentally strung that they are unable to give vision to their words, there are, nevertheless, a number of notable and significant contributions. Such, for example, is Mr Owen Wister’s address in French. But from the standpoint of literary permanence the volume is sorely lacking.”
+ — =Ind= 92:561 D 22 ‘17 140w
“It is amazing simply as a collection of names, if nothing more. The volume strikes a lofty note as a work of art—art with a purpose, certainly. A peculiarly rich and beautiful tribute to France.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:476 N 18 ‘17 850w
“It appears to us that the theme has appealed to the writers and artists and that there is little or nothing in the volume that is not inspired by very genuine feeling.”
+ =Outlook= 117:521 N 28 ‘17 90w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 23 ‘17 410w
For the right; essays and addresses by members of the “Fight for right movement.” *$1.50 Putnam (*5s T. Fisher Unwin, London) 940.91 (Eng ed 17-3139)
“A series of addresses, which were delivered at King’s college, London, to explain the principles for which the Allies are fighting and to show how they may be established in the life of nations when the peace settlement has been made. The aim of the Fight for right movement is to keep these ideals before the nation, and prevent it from being diverted by ‘minor questions of trade and territory and retaliation.’ The authors of the papers included in the present volume are Lord Bryce, Sir Henry Newbolt, Mr Maurice Hewlett, Mr Wilfrid Ward, Dr Robert Bridges, Dr L. P. Jacks, Prof. Gilbert Murray, Prof. Ramsay Muir, Sir Frederick Pollock, Mr Philip Kerr, Mr A. F. Whyte, Mr H. Wickham Steed, the Rev. W. Temple, Evelyn Underbill, Mr Arthur Boutwood, and M. Painlevé.” (Ath) There is a three-page bibliography for Mr A. F. Whyte’s lecture, “The outlook of a good European.”
=Ath= p584 D ‘16 130w
“We, too, have learned, ever since the second of April last, how much harder is the task, how much greater is the sacrifice we have undertaken than we at first supposed. So it comes about that the words of this book, which were meant for England, seem made for us.”
+ =Nation= 105:228 Ag 30 ‘17 380w
“‘For the right’ would make uncomfortable reading for the German Chancellor; it would cause him to search his conscience. Our publicists, now busy with the stale and futile ‘barbarian’ whipper-up of public feeling, might learn from this even-tempered volume how to put democratic driving-force behind the complex realities of a liberal peace.”
+ =New Repub= 10:303 Ap 7 ‘17 400w
=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 130w
=FORBES, JOHN MAXWELL.= Doubloons—and the girl. il *$1.25 (1½c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-10668
A tale of treasure hunting. The discovery of an old Spanish pirate’s chart has the usual effect on the imagination of the finders. No one who has a pirate’s chart in his possession can rest easy until he is aboard ship and on his way after the treasure. In this case the search party consists of two old men, one of them the captain, two young men, and one girl, the captain’s daughter. The mate, a one-eyed seaman who has discovered the purpose of the expedition, is the villain who all but destroys the success of the expedition. The island on which the treasure is buried is volcanic, and eruptions and earthquakes are added to mutiny to give color to the tale.
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 200w
“The tale is related with some spirit, and is not unentertaining.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 200w
“A lively, though conventional tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 200w
=FORBES, NEVILL.= Russian grammar. 2d ed rev and enl *$2 Oxford 491.7 17-13555
“Dr Forbes’s ‘Russian grammar’ is timely. ... Dr Forbes seems to have made a point of omitting those rules which, although accepted in standard grammars, are nevertheless subject to numerous exceptions. Russian grammar can safely undergo this process of simplification to a considerable extent. ... Perhaps the greatest difficulty presented by the Russian language lies in the aspects of the verb. ... The author’s treatment of this part of the subject is particularly thorough.”—Ath
“The book is intended for the use of students working with a teacher or those who, working alone, wish to learn to read. It seems to us admirably suited for its purpose. ... We believe that those who have already an elementary knowledge of the subject will find the ‘Grammar’ excellent.”
+ =Ath= 1915, 1:161 F 20 480w
“The interest in Russia that has grown up during the present war has produced a large number of grammars and handbooks to the Russian language. The fullest and most scientific of these books is Mr Nevill Forbes’s.”
+ =St Louis= 15:140 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Modern Language Review)
=FORBES, NEVILL=, ed. Third Russian book. *$1 Oxford 491.7 (Eng ed 18-383)
A reader of selections, supplementing the language teaching of the “First Russian book” and the “Second Russian book.” “Four notable men of letters are represented in Mr Forbes’s ‘Third Russian book’: Aksakov, aristocrat, naturalist, sportsman, and author: Grigorovitch, painter, novelist, and art-critic; Herzen, philosopher, historian, reformer, and exile; and Saltykov, satirist. The text is clear, and plentifully provided with foot-notes.” (Ath)
=Ath= p305 Je ‘17 40w
“The notes are good, though somewhat needlessly full on the simpler passages and scanty on those more difficult; the vocabulary is adequate and carefully prepared. The weak point of the volume is in the choice of material. ... No one of the authors represented is of the very first rank, and of the five selections two are the opening chapters of novels. It is a model of neat, careful printing.”
– + =Nation= 105:266 S 6 ‘17 150w
=FORBES, WALDO EMERSON.= Cycles of personal belief. *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 121 17-10884
The cycle of personal belief which the author traces comprises a process of illusion, disillusion, and reillusion. Disillusion cannot be permanent because of the soul’s craving for positive elements. “Thought, phoenix-like, begins perpetually to create new beliefs, to build, to affirm, and to renew the world.” But belief, after all, plays little practical part in our lives, for we discover that a perception of truth does not guarantee an obedience to truth. There is another cycle, growing out of experience, that follows the cycle of belief. The stages of this the author terms generation, degeneration and regeneration. But he does not imply that, even with regeneration, a permanent goal is reached: “Our moments of peace are given for the reception of new visions, and these, however gently the hint at first is given, are each and all incentive to action. Human life embosomed in paradise at one pole plunges into turmoil at the other. The struggle is not over, the problems are not solved.”
“Mr Waldo Emerson Forbes has succeeded in cultivating something of the style both of thought and of expression which one finds in the writings of the great essayist, his grandfather, whom his name brings to mind.”
+ =Nation= 105:152 Ag 9 ‘17 230w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
=Pratt= p6 O ‘17 10w
+ =St Louis= 15:167 Je ‘17 10w
=FORD, SEWELL.= Wilt thou, Torchy. il *$1.35 (2c) Clode, E: J. 17-5451
Sewell Ford’s clever stories, told in the latest up-to-the-minute vernacular, seem to lose none of their popularity and Torchy is a hero who rivals Shorty McCabe in public favor. This book contains seventeen new stories, reprinted from Every Week. Torchy relates his own adventures, telling of his progress upward in the Corrugated trust company, and of his mishaps and final success in courtship under the keen and not encouraging eye of “Auntie.”
“Will be popular.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:353 My ‘17
“Torchy is still the unique creation of Mr Ford’s brain and it is to be hoped that the advancing years will not materially change him, it being taken for granted that more of his delightfully humorous tales will soon be forthcoming to give pleasure to young and old.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 230w
+ =N Y Times= 22:80 Mr 4 ‘17 150w
Reviewed by E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 91:968 Mr 17 ‘17 450w
=FORDYCE, CLAUDE POWELL.= Touring afoot. (Outing handbooks) il *80c (3c) Outing pub. 796 17-4213
A three mile walk daily in the interests of health is the author’s advice, given in the first chapter. The man who has kept himself in trim thru this daily exercise will be ready for the longer tramps discussed in the remainder of the book. The author writes of: Hitting the trail; Going in “light”; Woods walking with a pack; Map reading; Packs and packing; Footwear; Efficient cruising shelters; Camp making; The outdoor bed question; Choosing the light weight mess kit; The ration list; Health hints for hikers; Winter travel afoot.
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:218 Jl ‘17 50w
=FORNARO, CARLO DE.=[2] Modern purgatory. *$1.25 (4c) Kennerley 365 17-31926
“This book is a record of the prison experiences of Carlo de Fornaro, artist, writer, editor, revolutionary. It is a record of experiences in the famous Tombs prison, in New York city, and in the New York city penitentiary on Blackwell’s Island.” (Introd.) The offense against the laws of the state of New York on which the author was convicted was criminal libel against Diaz, then president of Mexico. If the reader does not see the relation between facts and consequences as set forth in the introduction, he must accept the situation as another evidence of the strange and wonderful ways of justice in our land. The book itself is a narrative of daily prison life told without bitterness and with only unspoken condemnation of a heartless and futile system.
“Mr Fornaro’s is not what the Puritan calls a pleasant book. But it possesses the rare degree of truth that one finds more often in Russian than in American writing. His is the most vivid, concrete description of the mediaeval survival in the heart of our modern cities, and the most realistic illustration of the need for such reform as Mr Osborne has instituted that has yet appeared.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 15 ‘17 380w
“The book is interesting, but neither subtle nor detailed enough to rank as literature. He paints at all times with the artist’s love of a picture, never with the scientist’s love of accurate statement.” W. D. Lane
+ — =Survey= 39:469 Ja 26 ‘18 450w
=FORSTNER, GEORG GÜNTHER, freiherr von.= Journal of submarine commander von Forstner; tr. by Mrs Russell Codman. il *$1 (5½c) Houghton 940.91 18-8
This translation of the journal of a German submarine commander appears in book form with an introduction by John Hays Hammond, jr., who writes of “The challenge to naval supremacy.” In her foreword the translator says, “The following pages form an abridged translation of a book published in 1916 by freiherr von Forstner, commander of the first German U-boat. ... Many repetitions and trivial incidents have been omitted in this translation; but, in order to express the personality of the author, the rendering has been as literal as possible, and it shows the strange mixture of sentimentality and ferocity peculiar to the psychology of the Germans.” In part the work is a personal account, in part a technical description of the
## activities of a submarine. There are seven illustrations from
photographs.
“Gives American readers a good opportunity to get the German conception of the deadly efficiency of their favorite sea weapon.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 70w
=FORSYTH, PETER TAYLOR.= Justification of God. (Studies in theology) *90c (1c) Scribner 231 17-9816
“Lectures for war-time on a Christian theodicy” is the sub-title of this book, and the unfamiliar word is defined as “the attempt to adjust the ways of God to conscience.” Contents: Overture and outline; The expectations of popular religion and their fate; The problems: revelation and teleology; Metaphysic and redemption; What is redemption? Salvation theological but not systematic; The failure of the church as an international authority; Teleology acute in a theodicy; Philosophical theodicy; The eternal cruciality of the cross for destiny; Saving judgment; History and judgment; The conquest of time by eternity; Bibliography.
“It is a pity the book could not have been written in simpler style. To understand it will be far beyond the average layman, and parts of it will puzzle the theologian. Taken as a whole, however, the purpose of the author is clear and his reasoning conclusive.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 180w
=N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 50w
=FORTESCUE, GRANVILLE ROLAND.=[2] France bears the burden. il *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 940.91 17-30748
This book devoted to France and her part in the war consists of chapters on: The glory of France; Monsieur Poilu of Paris; Verdun, the battle epic; In the Argonne; In the stream of the Somme fighting; The business of war; The flying fighters; Thoughts on shrapnel and tanks; Who pays for the war? The burden France has borne. In a letter, reprinted as a foreword, M. André Tardieu says to the author: “That which, in my opinion, gives special value to your book on France in war time, is that you have not been content only to gather therein the excellent articles sent by you from Paris and the front to the Washington Post, but you also, from your observations and experiences, develop a picture of the whole subject. Yours is the work of the historian.” Major Fortescue is author of “At the front with three armies,” and other works.
“Full appreciation of France is revealed on every page of Mr Fortescue’s book. One might almost complain that his praise of France and her brave men implies a discrimination against the British and American troops.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 200w
“Much above the average level of the descriptive war books now appearing.” Joshua Wanhope
+ =N Y Call= p14 D 29 ‘17 320w
+ =Outlook= 118:32 Ja 2 ‘18 50w
=FOSDICK, HARRY EMERSON.= Challenge of the present crisis. *50c (3c) Assn. press 172.4 17-28192
A message for all who are asking these questions: In what mood shall a Christian, or for that matter an idealist of any kind, face the catastrophe? With what considerations and insights can he support his faith and hope? How can he harmonize his ideals with his necessities of action in a time of war? His answer gives reasons for accepting the present crisis as a challenge and concludes with: “The present war is an appalling commentary upon our failure to fulfil or even to acknowledge our obligations. We have seen our duty in too little terms; we have but dimly understood what the Master wanted of us. We are challenged to understand it now; the call is written in lines of fire on the map of the world; and we shall be renegade, indeed, if we do not now accept before it is too late the opportunity for international service which this war reveals.”
“A sane and thoughtful consideration of the relations of war and Christianity.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17
=FOSTER, MAXIMILIAN.= Shoestrings. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-6533
“It is concerned primarily with the ambitions and the adventures of J. Lester Tams, who began his career as a bundle boy in a San Francisco department store and after many years of struggle had achieved eminence as a floorwalker. ... Mr Tams’s purpose in life was to become a gentleman. To that end he toiled, to that end he studied—books of etiquette were the subjects of his mental effort, and to that end he had in sixteen years succeeded in saving the sum of $1,700. Then came a lucky plunge—a splashing bucket shop plunge, it was—in war stocks; and Mr Tams and every one else in Mrs Tams’s boarding house got rich.”—N Y Times
“Full of funny character sketches, and good for reading aloud. Appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 120w
“Emphatically a tale to amuse an idle hour. And a most amusing tale it is.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 200w
=FOSTER, ROBERT FREDERICK.= Foster’s pirate bridge; the latest development of auction bridge, with the full code of the official laws. il *$1.50 (3½c) Dutton 795 17-4824
The aim of this book is “to set before the reader a complete description and exposition of the latest candidate for public favor in the realm of cards, without assuming on the reader’s part any previous knowledge of similar games, although it is naturally expected that the largest appeal will be to those who are already familiar with auction bridge. The author has endeavored to explain the logic of the bidding as clearly as possible, illustrating the more interesting situations by hands from actual play.” (Preface) The author is an authority who has issued a number of other works on bridge.
“The first book to describe this latest development of auction bridge.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:339 My ‘17
“In addition to a clear setting-forth of this new development in auction and its laws, Mr Foster has included in ‘Pirate bridge’ many chapters of great use to all auction players, his skill at play and his ability to teach being equally well-established in the card-loving world.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 390w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17
=R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 15:150 My ‘17 14w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 31 ‘17 130w
“Written with all the skill and thoroughness and lucidity of style which we should expect from one of the ‘old masters.’ ... Mr Foster, in his chapters on tactics, proves, we think, that the game contains some interesting new opportunities for cleverness alike in the declarations, the acceptances, and the play of the hand; but at the same time we also think that, in proportion to their offering themselves to the clever player only, they spoil the game, and make it distinctly inferior to auction for nine people out of ten.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p504 O 18 ‘17 1650w
=FOSTER, ROBERT FREDERICK=, ed. Hoyle up-to-date; the official rules of card games. *$1 (1c) Sully & Kleinteich 795 A17-393
This work was first copyrighted in 1897 and it has run thru many editions. The whist rules are by Walter H. Barney; the poker rules by David A. Curtis.
“Formerly published in paper binding at 25c, by the United States playing card company. While the paper is poor and the type small, it is useful as containing the official rules of all card games, revised to date.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:363 My ‘17
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17
=St Louis= 15:181 Je ‘17 10w
“While the new edition in the main is singularly complete, one fails to note in the discussion of stud poker the generally accepted rule that four-flush beats a pair, although otherwise the poker section presents an admirable survey of the American game.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 60w
=FOSTER, WILLIAM TRUFANT.= Argumentation and debating. rev ed *$1.40 Houghton 808.5 17-23795
A revised edition whose changes have been based upon suggestions from more than a hundred college teachers who have used the book as a textbook. “The aim of the revised edition is to present the essentials of argumentation and debating as simply as possible, following the order in which the difficulties arise in actual practice. The order is psychological rather than logical. The point of view is that of the student rather than that of the instructor.” (Preface)
=A L A Bkl= 14:66 N ‘17
“Fresh and timely illustrations bring the book down to date. Moreover, the Houghton Mifflin Co. has produced a book well-nigh mechanically perfect in form and appearance.” E. F. Guyer and R. L. Lyman
+ =School R= 25:611 O ‘17 50w
=FOSTER, WILLIAM TRUFANT.= Should students study? *50c (3c) Harper 378 17-9712
The president of Reed college questions the time-old assertion that it is the “college life” that counts. Is there any relation between a high grade of scholarship in college and success in after-life? He brings forward some interesting statistics that bear on the question. Contents: College life; Differences—east and west; College life and college studies; Promise and performance; Success in studies and in life; Genius as a substitute for study; Thinking by proxy; Should specialists specialize? Ultimately practical studies.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:376 Je ‘17
“It would be interesting to hear what so skilful a pleader as Mr Foster might say on the subject of adapting colleges more closely than now to the manifold needs of the time. But it would be unfair to imply that this book is not a stimulating one. It carries its points with force, and it is written in a style that is pungent and at times brilliant.”
+ =Dial= 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 280w
“A telling little review, excellent to put in the hands of careless freshmen and indifferent parents.”
+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:140 My ‘17 9w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 24 ‘17 500w
=FOWLER, HENRY THATCHER.= Origin and growth of the Hebrew religion. (Handbooks of ethics and religion) *$1 Univ. of Chicago press 296 16-25219
“A book written for the general student. The author says: ‘The present volume is designed to offer a guide for study rather than simply a new essay or treatise upon the history of Israel’s religion.’ The principal source book for this field of investigation is the Old Testament. He gives a very brief chronological outline of Hebrew history; and a similar outline of the Hebrew literature from the beginnings ‘before 1040 B. C.’ to the Mishnah, about 200 A. D. Preceding the text of each chapter are given the references to the biblical materials, and at the close of each chapter are given the names of books for supplementary reading.”—Boston Transcript
“The main themes of the book are allowed to stand out clearly so that they can be grasped without difficulty, and the summary at the close gathers up the results of the previous studies succinctly and forcibly. A definite impression is thus left upon the reader’s mind, and this is most desirable. This impression will enable him to proceed farther into biblical studies with a correct sense of direction.” Kemper Fullerton
+ =Am J Theol= 21:610 O ‘17 680w
“The present writer belongs to the progressive group, and has a vital sympathy for religious ideals and struggles of the true prophets of the Hebrews. ... For a clear and concise exposition and guide for the general student of Israel’s religion this is one of the best works published.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 28 ‘17 450w
“One of the best hand books on the subject for college classes or other groups of advanced Bible students. It is especially to be commended for its readableness and clear presentation of the various stages thru which the Old Testament religion advanced to its final expression in Judaism.”
+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 60w
“His discrimination between the higher and lower sides of Old Testament ideas enables him to express distinctly his sympathy with the better thought of the prophets and psalmists, and so to guide the student into an intelligent view of the development of the Israelitish conscience.”
+ =Nation= 105:725 D 27 ‘17 130w
“While Prof. Fowler applies the results of higher criticism and research he does it so wisely and unobtrusively that the story is enriched, instead of erased.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 9 ‘17 270w
=FOWLER, NATHANIEL CLARK, jr.= Grasping opportunity. *75c (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 174 17-10888
“Mr Fowler has had considerable experience in training young people for positions in the business world, and in the course of his experience has analyzed the major reasons for success or failure. These he gives in his book, which is largely written in conversational form.”—Springf’d Republican
“Of value to inexperienced young people.”
+ =Cleveland= p76 Je ‘17 50w
“Admirable, straight-from-the-shoulder advice to young people who are, or are about to be associated with the business world.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 150w
=FOWLER, WILLIAM WARDE.= Essays in brief for war-time. *90c Longmans 824 (Eng ed 17-13920)
“Papers, ‘nearly all written during the early stress of the battle at Verdun,’ dealing with topics as diverse as ‘Birds at the front in France,’ ‘An old-fashioned recreation,’ ‘Civis Germanus sum,’ and ‘Two ideal school-masters.’”—Ath
+ =Ath= p43 Ja ‘17 80w
=Pratt= p37 O ‘17 20w
“They are just what one wants for an odd half-hour. The first essay recalls old Fuller’s ‘Good thoughts in bad times,’ which he wrote to soothe his troubled spirit during the civil war; it ought to be reprinted now.”
+ =Spec= 117:589 N 11 ‘16 170w
“The essayist, with his mellow wisdom and kindly humor, is a master of his art.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p475 O 5 ‘16 1050w
=FOX, EDWARD LYELL.= New Gethsemane. il *60c (9c) McBride 17-25121
This is the story of Anhalt, the cobbler of Oberammergau and the Christus of the Passion play, who, believing it wrong to kill, refused to answer the call to the colors, and was shot. The episode is pure fiction. The story was first published in 1916 in the Woman’s World.
“An excellent little story for Christians who happen to be pacifists. It is fiction, of course, but exceedingly well used to point a moral and adorn a tale.” Joshua Wanhope
+ =N Y Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 320w
“It is regrettable that the author should deal so largely with Anhalt’s conduct, with the obvious action rather than with the complexities of Anhalt’s dreadful struggle with himself. It is a simple tale, told with the simplicity due rather to omission than to careful pruning.”
=N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 110w
=FOX, EDWARD LYELL.= Wilhelm Hohenzollern & co. il *$1.50 (2½c) McBride 940.91 17-15168
Mr Fox is an American newspaper correspondent and author of “Behind the scenes in warring Germany.” He has made three trips to Germany during the war and seems to have been afforded opportunity for gathering a good deal of information. He gives a gossipy account of the Kaiser, the Crown prince, and the men who surround them, followed by a chapter entitled “Inside the iron ring,” which deals with the supply of food and of materials needed in war industries, and a final chapter entitled “Why we are fighting Germany.” The chapter on “The Kaiser and the Big Three,” (Bethmann-Hollweg, Hindenburg, and Ludendorff) is of special interest at present.
“His book gains value more from the fact that his opportunity was unique than that his writing is good. It is not good; it is sensational, imaginative (to speak mildly), but amazingly interesting. ... In spite of his flights of fancy, his judgment of people is fairly correct. Much of what he says is a repetition of previous surmises and rumors and commonplace observations, but his outlook is in the main fresh and original.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 520w
“Character sketches, somewhat in Sunday supplement style. The author’s estimate of the Kaiser will seem to many to err on the side of leniency.”
+ — =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 50w
“All the way he is, or tries to be, the cool, calm, impartial investigator. And he is rewarded for this admirable attitude by having produced an admirable book.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 500w
=Pittsburgh= 22:672 O ‘17 50w
=FOX, JOHN (WILLIAM).= In Happy Valley. il *$1.35 (5c) Scribner 17-25585
Ten short stories of the Kentucky mountaineers, six of which appeared in Scribner’s Magazine in 1917. Contents: The courtship of Allaphair; The compact of Christopher; The Lord’s own level; The Marquise of Queensberry; His last Christmas gift; The angel from Viper; The pope of the Big Sandy; The goddess of Happy Valley; The battle-prayer of Parson Small; The Christmas tree on Pigeon.
=A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17
“These are good stories and affecting stories, with the advantage of a quaint setting and atmosphere; they are, I suppose, less true to ‘life’ than to that wistful dream of life which is called sentiment.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 120w
“In these stories we have Mr Fox at his best.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 21 ‘17 510w
“The best story in the collection is ‘His last Christmas gift,’ a grim little masterpiece softened by a touch that almost brings tears. The other tales lack somewhat in compactness and unity, but there is enough interesting material, warmly and humanly presented, to make them all very good reading.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:694 F ‘18 100w
“The inspiration that he seemed to draw from those earlier days at the Gap, when the mountains were really what one imagines the mountains to be, is somewhat dimmed. But the point is that he sees below the surface into the real lives of his people, and that he enriches mere incident with the warmth that comes from an appreciation of the values from which it springs.”
+ — =Dial= 63:464 N 8 ‘17 280w
“Mr Fox knows how to capture the sometimes primitive instinct and passions of the hard-working, impoverished lives of the people of Happy Valley. Mr Fox has made these people lovable in this happy addition to his work.”
+ =New Repub= 13:56 N 10 ‘17 110w
+ =N Y Times= 22:366 S 30 ‘17 400w
“It is his first book for some years and, altho collected from the magazines, a re-reading is merely like greeting old friends, not like being bored by tiresome acquaintances. You get much the same pleasure out of re-reading the story of the fight between Ham Cage and King Camp, refereed by the little school teacher according to what she could remember of the Marquis of Queensberry rules, that you do from re-reading a favorite bit of Thackeray.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 92:1376 O 20 ‘17 330w
“But whatever its tone, each story graphically pictures some phase of life, habit or scene in this well-nigh alien colony in the backwater of American life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 220w
=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES ANATOLE THIBAULT).= Human tragedy; a tr. by Alfred Allinson. il *$3 (11½c) Lane 17-29339
A holiday edition of the translation of a story contained in the series “Le puits de Sainte-Claire.” The translation was previously published in Chapman’s English edition of the Works of Anatole France, 1909. It is the story of Fra Giovanni, who, inspired by the example of St Francis, took the vows of poverty and lived “humble and despised, his soul a garden of flowers fenced about with walls.” As did Adam of old he eats of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil offered to him by the adversary. The evil spirit subtly appears in many guises, drawing his net tight about his victim until Giovanni cries out: “Thru you it is I suffer, and I love you. I love you because you are my misery and my pride, my joy and my sorrow, the splendour and the cruelty of things created, because you are desire and speculation, and because you have made me like unto yourself.” The story becomes a parable of the universal human tragedy of thought.
“The illustrations are extremely original and well suited to M. France’s deeply satirical imitation of a saint’s chronicle. It is a delectable book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 9 ‘18 400w
“Will probably be welcomed chiefly for the excellent English into which it has been rendered and for the interesting full-color illustrations by the Russian artist Michel Sevier, whose style suggests Bakst and the Moscow art theatre.”
+ =Dial= 63:531 N 22 ‘17 190w
“Besides the involved picturesque, and highly poetic thought and expression of Mr France, we have the unusual colored illustrations of Sevier, which are also mystical. They add much to the book’s attractiveness.”
+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 8 ‘17 160w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17
“This well-translated fanciful tale, superbly illustrated, shows Anatole France in a characteristic mood.”
+ =Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 10w
“The volume may appeal to people of artistic temperament; both text and paintings are bizarre.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 110w
=FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON.= Vagabonding down the Andes. il *$4 (1½c) Century 918 17-25452
The author of “A vagabond journey around the world,” etc., spent four years traveling in Mexico, Central and South America. A considerable portion of this journey was made on foot. The present book deals with the author’s tramp down the ridge of the Andes to Buenos Aires. He tells us that his purpose “was primarily to study the ways of the common people,” that too many of the books on Latin America have whitewashed everything and that he is interested “only in giving as faithful a picture as possible.” He warns us that he has “taken for granted in the reader a certain basic knowledge of South America,” and also that “this is no tale of adventures.” The numerous illustrations are from photographs by the author and there is a map showing the route.
“Not so gay as his former books, but contains an immense amount of useful information.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“Although the author refers to his journey as vagabonding and to himself as a vagabond, his book reveals him as a keen-eyed, observant traveller with a fund of dry Yankee humour and common sense. The volume therefore is not only a rare record of endurance and adventure in out-of-the-way places, but in addition is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the Andes and the Andeans.” A. M. Chase
+ =Bookm= 46:334 N ‘17 450w
“Not a tale of adventure but unwhitewashed pictures of the fantastic everyday life of Latin Americans.”
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 70w
+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 8 ‘17 190w
“Franck’s books justify the day-to-day diary form; he is a master of detail, of local vignettes, of discriminate minutiæ. The photographs taken by this literary vagabond are excellent and appropriate to the text. The omission of an index is quite inexcusable, and reduces the value of the book to that derived from a mere casual reading.”
+ — =Nation= 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 290w
“The book makes a fine antidote to the top-hat, frock-coat style of grandiloquence about South America, favored by chambers of commerce and explorers who keep within a five minutes’ radius of the best hotels in Buenos Aires, Valparaiso and Rio de Janeiro.”
+ =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 220w
“There are two particulars in which the volume might easily be improved; one is the addition of an index, the other is the omission of the illustrations, or most of them. They add little except bulk. Those who delight in real adventure will find it here in plenty. Those who want social information of a kind studiously omitted from most volumes will find much of it scattered through more than 600 pages.” F. M.
+ — =N Y Call= p15 D 2 ‘17 550w
“Mr Franck has written a book of immense value. The reader soon comes to trust his report of conditions, so far as he saw them. ... His reports of chance conversations alone are worth reading the book for.”
+ =N Y Sun= p6 O 6 ‘17 1350w
“A brilliant, colorful, enthralling story of adventure this volume is beyond doubt the most entertaining work on South America that has yet appeared in the English language—or in any other, for that matter.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:460 N 11 ‘17 1850w
“He tells, as charitably as possible, how he found the Latin American, and if in the telling many praiseworthy things are overshadowed by the less laudable, his impressions at least have the virtue of frankness.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:759 N ‘17 100w
“The present reviewer would not have missed this book for a whole week’s salary and he’s going to turn right around and read it again.” Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 92:810 S 15 ‘17 500w
+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 150w
“A most entertaining book, full of color, adventure and incident.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:431 D ‘17 20w
“He has made a book full of interest, one filled with vivid pictures of life and scenery for which we are indebted to both his pen and his camera. Text and picture supplement each other admirably.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 1450w
=FRANK, WALDO DAVID.= Unwelcome man. *$1.50 (1½c) Little 17-2340
He was an unwelcome child. Born the fifth son in a family of eight, he was wanted by nobody. His father openly disliked him. His brothers and sisters never made a place for him. His mother, tho she loved him with a fierce maternal tenderness that tried to atone for her lack of joy at his birth, never understood him. He was a sensitive child, always conscious of his anomalous position in the family life. The story is a study of his childhood and youth. In college as in his home, he is out of place. He leaves before the end of his senior year to go into business, where he loses himself in the stream of mediocrity.
“The style of ‘The unwelcome man’, like its philosophy, is a thing to be consciously accepted or surmounted if one is to read the book at all. It is pretentious, formal, often inflated, sometimes turgid. ... The book with all its realism of scene and episode is less a story than a parable; and it is a parable based upon despair.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 45:205 Ap ‘17 470w
“The story naturally is not a happy one. Indeed, its situation of selfish introspection comes perilously near being wearisome if not actually depressing at times. But technically, as an analysis of character, it is distinctly admirable.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 13 ‘17 550w
“The vitality of Mr Frank’s conception is shown by the fact that it provides a concrete touchstone for most of the problems of our contemporary civilization. ... Is it a successful work of art? Rather an extremely interesting than a successful one.” Van Wyck Brooks
+ — =Dial= 62:244 Mr 22 ‘17 1000w
“Philosophizing pessimism.”
=Nation= 104:269 Mr 8 ‘17 450w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17
“The book contains a good many ideas, is somewhat out of the ordinary, and has evidently been written for its own sake.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:89 Mr 11 ‘17 410w
“An unusually able first novel by an author whom America should note carefully. American to the core, it challenges comparison with the work of such men as Theodore Dreiser and Ernest Poole. In fact, from its relentless realism, one easily guesses that Mr Frank is a close student of Dreiser—tho he has not copied that writer’s sexual obsession.” Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 91:204 Ja 20 ‘17 550w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 330w
=FRANKLIN, WILLIAM SUDDARDS, and MACNUTT, BARRY.= General physics; an elementary treatise on natural philosophy. il *$2.75 McGraw 530 17-7555
“The subtitle of this book is the key to the contents. It is intentionally a somewhat dilute philosophical discussion of those natural phenomena whose study we commonly include under ‘physics.’ ... The book runs the whole gamut of classical physics, covering mechanics, dynamics, hydraulics, heat, electricity, magnetism, light and sound. There is nothing particularly strange encountered, except in the discussion on thermodynamics, where great attention is paid to entropy.” (Engin N) “Little space is given to the atomic theory. There are excellent bibliographies and an explanatory chapter on mathematics.” (Ind)
“The authors endeavor to show that entropy is a measurable property of a substance and that the different values of such measured property, before and after a thermodynamic degeneration, measure the sweeping process. The authors’ approach is very acceptable indeed to people who have a considerable knowledge of physics and an inherent and sustained interest in the science, but it will be an extremely difficult, if not an impossible, task to try to make young students absorb this line of reasoning.”
+ =Engin N= 77:435 Mr 15 ‘17 350w
“An unusually good elementary textbook for colleges and technical schools. The authors have the power of clear, concise statement.”
+ =Ind= 90:382 My 26 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:335 Ap ‘17 40w
=FRANKS, THETTA (QUAY) (MRS ROBERT A. FRANKS).= Household organization for war service. *$1 (8c) Putnam 640 17-14701
The author has written books on “Efficiency in the household,” “The reward of thrift,” etc. This small book offers a general discussion of the need for better household organization rather than specific suggestions or plans. A list of helpful books for the household is given at the close.
=A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17
“An excellent and timely little book.”
+ =Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 50w
“American housewives are so used to advice introduced by genial assurances of their ignorance, stupidity and selfishness that the laying of most national defects on their kitchen door stones will not in the least affect their appreciation of these very practical and suggestive pages.”
+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 380w
“Many of these suggestions are as sensible and helpful in peace times as in war.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:331 S ‘17 20w
=FRANKS, THETTA (QUAY) (MRS ROBERT A. FRANKS).= Margin of happiness; the reward of thrift. il *$1.50 (3½c) Putnam 640 17-18488
“This book is the outcome of a series of informal talks which Mrs Franks gave before a large class of women in the Oranges, N. J., organized to study business methods of administering a household, intelligent and economic buying of food, its proper cooking, and the value to health of a balanced ration. [It aims] to set forth woman’s work in the household as a profession which ought to be prepared for as zealously as a man prepares for the profession which is to be his lifework and its duties discharged with as much satisfaction in the ability to do so efficiently and successfully. ... An appendix contains an account of the plan on which the classes mentioned above were carried on, an alphabetical ‘grocery list’ which gives concise information and advice as to each article, and a list of ‘helpful books.’”—N Y Times
=Am Econ R= 7:902 D ‘17 60w
+ =Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 80w
“It is, in effect, a complete manual or guidebook for students on household subjects and written in a style adapted to students of all ages. To be the ideal housewife here described will make necessary cooperation on the part of husbands, for it involves a separate bank-account and a real business partnership.”
+ =Lit D= 55:53 D 1 ‘17 180w
“Mrs Franks writes with eloquence and with that knowledge of her theme that comes from much study, much thought, and much experience.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 350w
“Of great use to all housekeepers and to every one who believes in thrift and in conserving the food supply of the nation.”
=R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 130w
“Similar in purpose to Frederick’s ‘The new housekeeping,’ but less definite in its information and covering a little different field.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:29 Ja ‘18 80w
=FREEMAN, JOHN.= Moderns; essays in literary criticism. *$1.75 Crowell 820.4 (Eng ed 17-26878)
Contents: George Bernard Shaw; H. G. Wells; Thomas Hardy; Maurice Maeterlinck; Henry James; Joseph Conrad; Coventry Patmore and Francis Thompson; Robert Bridges.
“Discerning and readable, the usefulness of the compact discussions of the authors’ works is somewhat lessened because there is no index.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“The author’s survey is acute and well-balanced, showing a sound general knowledge of his material and a well-defined individual standard of taste. His own style inclines to the parenthetical, enlivened with many well-turned phrases.”
=Ath= p43 Ja ‘17 80w
+ — =Ath= p85 F ‘17 350w
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 25 ‘17 1150w
+ =Dial= 63:164 Ag 30 ‘17 300w
“In matters of form and style he is less acute than elsewhere—he speaks, for example, with undue contempt of Mr Shaw’s prose as prose and with extravagant admiration of Mr Hardy’s verse as verse; and he finds poetical felicities in Patmore and Robert Bridges which few will share with him. He is strong in his applications of common-sense and the emotions attendant upon it to the paradox, the bombast, and the sentimental flummery of our fashionable contemporaries. ... Mr Freeman is at his best and happiest in his recognitions of spiritual values.”
+ — =Nation= 105:296 S 13 ‘17 410w
=R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 30w
=FREEMAN, MRS MARY ELEANOR (WILKINS), and KINGSLEY, MRS FLORENCE (MORSE).= Alabaster box. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-9348
“The people of Brookville, a characteristic little New England village, did not recognize how beautiful was the alabaster box when one came bearing it among them and wished to pour all its contents at their feet. ... Miss Lydia Orr is an appealing heroine whose unusual character is realized in a strong and vital but delicate portraiture. All the years of her girlhood she has fed her inner self upon the dream of going back to Brookville with plenty of money wherewith to repay to the villagers in one way or another the money they had once lost through her father. And at last it becomes possible. But she finds his memory so hated and all the villagers still dwelling so angrily upon the wrong he had done them that she has difficulty in carrying out her scheme.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17
“It is a pity that Mrs Freeman should lend her name and her left hand to work so shallow and perfunctory as this.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:93 S ‘17 380w
“Miss Wilkins needs to reëstablish her reputation after this. ‘An alabaster box’ will satisfy only those who do not know her past work. Except for those bits in it that signify a familiar skill that lingers in the memory, it is unworthy of the name it bears on its title-page. Certainly Miss Wilkins should henceforth get along without a collaborator.” E. F. E.
– + =H Boston Transcript= p12 Ap 7 ‘17 1200w
+ =Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 120w
“Two love stories add to the real interest we feel in very real fictional personalities. A healthy American story.”
+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 110w
“Mrs Freeman’s delicate touch in the limning of character is often in evidence, especially in the portrayal of the heroine, but the general effect of the story is more suggestive of Mrs Kingsley’s work than of Mrs Freeman’s.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 420w
Reviewed by Frank O’Neil
+ =Pub W= 91:970 Mr 17 ‘17 520w
“The story is highly interesting, and the several characters are delightfully portrayed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 22 ‘17 330w
“The moral is made palatable by the cleverly drawn village life and characters, and two stories of young love.”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 50w
=FREESE, JOHN HENRY=, comp. New pocket dictionary of the English and Russian languages; English-Russian. *$2 Dutton 491.7
“The dictionary is preceded by an introduction explaining the use of the prepositional prefixes and giving valuable lists of the nominal and adjectival suffixes; also by notes on the phonetic laws, the aspects and pronunciation, with a large-type picture of the alphabet.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“When a book represents a distinct advance over any previous work of similar character, it is not altogether pleasant to point out its weaker sides. This is emphatically true of ‘A new pocket dictionary of the English and Russian languages.’”
+ – — =Nation= 105:265 S 6 ‘17 370w
“Cheap, well-printed, and compendious.”
+ =Spec= 117:269 S 2 ‘16 120w
“Admirable in every respect. The dictionary is very full, and no important words seem to have been omitted; moreover, all parts of verbs which are at all different from the infinitive and all parts of nouns which are different from the nominative singular are given, an innovation for which novices will be extremely grateful.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p329 Jl 13 ‘16 280w
=FRENCH, ALLEN.= At Plattsburg. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-13200
The daily life of a Plattsburg recruit is described in a series of letters. The preface states that the letters are based on personal experience and that the author’s purpose in writing them was to give a “general picture of the fun and work at a training camp.” But while based on fact the narrative is thrown into fiction form, with a bit of love interest added for good measure.
“Written with patriotic fervor and with a slight story and a vein of romance.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:376 Je ‘17
“The writer’s style is lively and entertaining.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 130w
“It is a play-time Plattsburg which Mr French has described so agreeably,—a Plattsburg already past,—a stepping-stone toward the universal American army, which in turn will do away with all such effervescences. That old Plattsburg was unique, and a unique success.”
+ =Dial= 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 450w
+ =Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 100w
“It is what the ‘rookie’ does at Plattsburg, and perhaps even more, it is what Plattsburg does in the life and thought of the rookie, that gives the book not only its value but its charm. ... But perhaps its chief value lies in the specific following of the Plattsburg program from the camp’s assembly to its break up at the end of the famous hike. ... A book which many Americans will want to read just now.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:178 My 6 ‘17 730w
“Mr French puts into Private Godwin’s letters enough of the philosophy of preparedness as it unfolds to Plattsburg students to make the book as valuable from such an angle as it is interesting as a story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 10 ‘17 500w
=FRENCH, ALLEN.= Golden Eagle. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24399
A book that will be popular with boys and girls who understand sail boats. The “Golden Eagle” is a trophy that goes to the winner of a boat race. Three young people, Howard Winslow, his sister Ruth, and Fred Barnes are tied for first place and a third race, which is to decide the matter, is pending when the trophy disappears. The search for it and its recovery, a rescue from a wrecked boat, and the great race itself are the main incidents of the story.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:100 D ‘17
“It has a good ethical tone. The illustrations are appropriate.”
+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 30w
“Allen French has proved himself ere this a popular writer of breezy stories for young folks, and ‘The Golden Eagle’ will increase his popularity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 140w
=FRENCH, ALLEN.= Hiding-places. *$1.35 (1½c) Scribner 17-8201
Great wealth of treasure lay hidden somewhere on the two farms. An old buccaneer ancestor, seventy years earlier, had taken this method of leaving his wealth to his descendants. In the form of precious gems, he had concealed it in various hiding places. His will gave faint clues and stated clearly that finders were to be keepers. In order that the finders should always be members of the family, it became imperative that trespassing should be forbidden, that hired labor should be dispensed with and that guests should be chosen with care. At the time of this story the farms are in the possession of two cousins. Not for forty years has there been any discovery of treasure. Then Binney Hartwell, son of one of the cousins, finds one of the hidden boxes. Unhappiness, ill-luck and family dissension follow, but the disclosure of the final hiding place restores harmony.
=A L A Bkl= 13:358 My ‘17
“A kind of romance which would be contemptible if it were done cheaply; but it is done very well indeed, with, for good measure, some touches of genuine characterisation—a thing which cannot fairly be demanded of the pure romancer.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:313 My ‘17 350w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 300w
“To say that the tale is exciting is to pay slight tribute to a novel containing so clever a plot and such excellent characterizations as those of the hero, his mother, and his cousin. Mr French has set out to write a story, but in accomplishing his end he has shown respect for his public and himself.”
+ =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 200w
“A good story, well contrived and well told, and it shows that its author, whose first novel it is, has the story-teller’s instinct.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:94 Mr 18 ‘17 450w
“A tale worth reading.”
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 450w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 60w
=FRENCH, GEORGE.= How to advertise; a guide to designing, laying out, and composing advertisements; pub. for the Associated advertising clubs of the world. il *$2 (4c) Doubleday 659 17-6656
“The object of this book is to suggest how advertising may be made more effective by making it more attractive—giving it more ‘attention value.’” (Preface) Contents: What the advertisement must do; The personal equation; The human interest appeal; Advertising display; The appeal of the display; “What has art got to do with advertising?” What is art? The all-type advertisement; Type; The illustrated advertisement; Illustrations; The decorative advertisement; Decorations; Optics and the advertisement; The form of the advertisement; Getting the copy ready; Assembling the units; In conclusion. The book is well illustrated, with twenty-six halftone plates and numerous line drawings.
=A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17
“Its general spirit is to develop the critical factor of the advertiser himself. The book will have a worthy place in every business man’s library.” H. W. H.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:231 S ‘17 160w
“What he says of advertising as a business force is both authoritative and helpful. The citation of concrete examples, good and bad, increases the book’s value.”
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 70w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:523 Je ‘17
“The author is editor of the Advertising News.”
=St Louis= 15:144 My ‘17 30w
“The book is meant for a particular class of readers rather than the public, but in its own field it is bound to rank high.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 250w
=FREUND, ERNST.= Standards of American legislation; an estimate of restrictive and constructive factors. *$1.50 Univ. of Chicago press 342.7 17-10698
“On its concrete side, the present work may be said to be a continuation of the standard treatise, ‘Police power,’ by the same author. It is an expansion of a series of lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins university. ... The object sought ‘is to suggest the possibility of supplementing the established doctrine of constitutional law which enforces legislative norms through ex post facto review and negation, by a system of positive principles that should guide and control the making of statutes, and give a more definite meaning and content to the concept of due process of law.’” (Int J Ethics) The table of contents is followed by a summary of the contents. The introduction cites a number of cases that illustrate the changed attitude of the courts toward social legislation, and touches on the movement for judicial recall. The chapters then take up: Historic changes of policy and the modern concept of social legislation; The common law and public policy; The tasks and hazards of legislation; Constitutional provisions; Judicial doctrines; The meaning of principle in legislation; Constructive factors. The author is professor of jurisprudence and public law in the University of Chicago.
Reviewed by A. B. Hall
+ =Am J Soc= 23:540 Ja ‘18 1150w
“Professor Freund’s purpose is to estimate the factors by the aid of which a system of constructive principles of legislation may be built up. This purpose distinguishes his book at once from such an excellent treatise as Jethro Brown’s ‘The underlying principles of modern legislation,’ which deals, not with principles of legislation as Professor Freund defines the term, but with policy, and from Chester Lloyd Jones’s valuable ‘Statute law making in the United States,’ which deals exclusively with legislative practice.” A. N. Holcombe
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:580 Ag ‘17 620w
“A book which, in a lucid and uninvolved manner traces the development of the policies of modern legislation in the exercise of what must be recognized as ‘a political and not strictly judicial function.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 210w
“The field occupied by Professor Freund is a new one in nearly all its avenues of approach; and it is extremely fortunate that a writer of his wide professorial experience, and interest, in the subject, has undertaken to publish the results of his research and reflection. ... From the adverse side, we believe the title does not accurately represent the matters treated, and yet we would have great difficulty in suggesting another. The index is not altogether satisfactory. ... This defect is in part relieved by a chapter summary.” Albert Kocourek
* + — =Int J Ethics= 28:123 O ‘17 1600w
Reviewed by H. W. Ballantine
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:1050 D ‘17 1000w
=Pittsburgh= 22:765 N ‘17 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 28 ‘17 550w
“It stimulates thought and suggests further studies. It is a work which jurists and constitutional lawyers will read with profit; however, it will also interest the layman who appreciates the increasing importance of statute law.” E. E. Witte
+ =Survey= 39:45 O 13 ‘17 330w
=FREYTAG, GUSTAV.= Doctor Luther; tr. by G. C. L. Riemer. il *$1 (3c) Lutheran pub. soc. 16-16678
Freytag’s work on Martin Luther is one of his “Pictures of the German past,” five historical volumes written and published between 1859 and 1867. The work consists of four chapters: At the beginning of the 16th century; Struggles in the soul of a young man and his entrance into the monastery; Out of monastic confinement into battle; Doctor Luther. These are followed by biographic and geographic notes and a table of dates. A brief sketch of the author is included by way of preface.
+ =Ind= 89:274 F 12 ‘17 40w
From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles. (Soldiers’ tales of the great war) *60c (2c) Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-3142)
The Dartmouth of the title is the British naval training college of that name. The young cadet whose story is told here was a boy of barely sixteen. His narrative was written while at home on sick leave in December, 1915, and has been edited for publication by his mother, who has made the necessary alterations in names of officers, ships, etc., leaving the boy’s story as nearly as possible as he wrote it. His experiences included rescue from death after his ship had been sunk.
+ =Cath World= 105:697 Ag ‘17 230w
+ =Ind= 90:297 My 12 ‘17 50w
“Full of interest, simply but vividly told.”
+ =Nation= 104:412 Ap 5 ‘17 260w
“The reader cannot fail to note in the book the strange gradual maturity that came in that year to this child of fifteen. ‘From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles’ is one of the unique personal records from this war.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 550w
=Pratt= p42 Ap ‘17 10w
=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 40w
“Make-up and binding very poor.”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 50w
=FROTHINGHAM, EUGENIA BROOKS.= Way of the wind. *$1.40 (3c) Houghton 17-6326
An unusual love story, the theme of which is the attachment between an older woman and a man who is little more than a boy. Janet Eversly is past thirty when she first meets Edgar Chilworth, a boy in the early twenties. She is the guest of his sister in the New Hampshire hills, and it is Fanny Chilworth’s harshness in her treatment of the wayward, reckless youth that first draws Janet toward him. He is touched by Janet’s pity, and before they are aware, tenderness on the one side and gratitude on the other have merged into love. The situation is worked out slowly, with many failures on Edgar’s part and sorely-tried faith on Janet’s.
“Not necessary, seems to be founded on false psychology.”
— =A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17
“The author has accomplished something very much worth while when she has drawn this portrait of Edgar Chilworth. ... On account of this character study the story is exceptionally praiseworthy as well as being psychologically interesting.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ‘17 950w
— =New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
+ =N Y Times= 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 340w
=FROTHINGHAM, PAUL REVERE.= Confusion of tongues. *$1.25 Houghton 170 17-10441
“A volume of essay-sermons that deal not directly with the great war, but that touch various aspects of life affected by it. None of the discourses would be the same except for the colossal tragedy across the sea. They represent an attempt to ease a little the present mental strain, to restore the confidence of people, and to lead the mind back to the everlasting verities of life and duty. The title of the book is intended to symbolize the far-reaching effect of the European camps along the battlefront.” (Boston Transcript) “Contents: A confusion of tongues; The conduct of life; A motto; The little book; Making the best of things; How to choose; The ‘if’ and ‘though’ of faith; Extra pennies; The departure into Egypt; Unshaken things.” (N Y Br Lib News) The author has been the minister of the Arlington Street church (Unitarian), Boston, since 1900.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 170w
+ =Dial= 63:535 N 22 ‘17 150w
“There is something a little out of the ordinary in the quiet sanity of Paul Revere Frothingham’s volume of essay-sermons.”
+ =Nation= 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 280w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
+ =R of Rs= 56:330 S ‘17 80w
“Wholesome and helpful as these brief essays are in encouraging the cultivation of personal rectitude and hopefulness, they fall far short of measuring the shock which faith has suffered under the heel of war in Christendom.” G. T.
– + =Survey= 38:574 S 29 ‘17 140w
=FRYER, EUGÉNIE MARY.= Hill-towns of France. il *$2.50 Dutton 914.4 17-30063
“This book is a story of wanderings among the picturesque hill-towns of France in times of peace. These hill-towns, the traveller-author tells us, are of four distinct types: first, the large town, commanded and protected by the turrets and massive towers of its walls and citadel; second, the feudal castle, the residence of some great lord about whose walls a straggling town has grown up; third, the fortified town, communal in character, which, governed by no over-lord and possessed of no castle, yet protects itself from invasion by fortifying its houses and its churches also; and fourth, the monastic hill-town, its defences built primarily to defend a shrine. ... In tracing the history of these four types of hill towns in France, the writer has traced the welding of these divergent strands into a united whole, which comprises the French nation of today.”—Boston Transcript
“A pleasant book, with fine illustrations of some of the most picturesque spots of France, such illustrations as would almost provide an excuse for dispensing with reading the text.” Albert Schinz
+ =Bookm= 46:292 N ‘17 230w
“The descriptive style of the narrative is picturesque and vigorous.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 1 ‘17 320w
“Most of the articles are reprints of papers from former publications, but the collection makes a handy reference volume.”
+ =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 150w
“Her book furnishes a new viewpoint from which to approach France and French life and history.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 200w
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 70w
+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 100w
=FRYER, MRS JANE (EAYRE).= Mary Frances first aid book. (Mary Frances story instruction handbook ser.) il *$1 Winston 614 16-24933
“‘The Mary Frances first aid book,’ is a combination of story with information. ... It is printed in colors with fifty colored illustrations and has a ready reference list of ordinary accidents and illnesses, with approved home remedies, alphabetically arranged. ... The children who are the chief characters are entrusted with a group of doll patients on whom they practice what they learn about bandages and liniments, and the cure for burns and other injuries.”—Springf’d Republican
“Of use to smaller Camp fire girls.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:407 Je ‘17
“It is to be regretted that the author, a member of the New Jersey Women’s division, National preparedness association, has by much of her context infused the pages with the spirit of militarism and ‘flag waving.’ Otherwise the book has many valuable points and may be commended, especially for its illustrations and generally fine make-up.” M. G. S.
+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 120w
“At the present moment a practical first-aid book like this should be very popular.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 120w
=FUESS, CLAUDE MOORE.= Old New England school. il *$4 (3c) Houghton 373 17-13971
A history of Phillips academy, Andover, founded in 1778. Among the chapters are: A Puritan family; The founders; The founding of a school; An eighteenth-century pedagogue; The founding of Andover theological seminary; The School and the Hill in the mid-century; Student societies and enterprises; Some baseball stories; Football and its heroes; Phillips academy in the twentieth century. The volume is well illustrated.
“More feasible for libraries if it had been condensed and sold at half the price.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17
“The mere fact that Oliver Wendell Holmes was there fitted for college, as we know from his own pen, is enough to make the academy and its history objects of unfailing interest.”
+ =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 70w
“For those not directly interested in the academy it affords a glimpse into those pioneer days of American institutions of learning that were over full of history ‘in the making.’”
+ =Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 600w
“The institution stands today as about the best known and perhaps without exception the most effectively equipped secondary school of America. ... We cannot avoid the feeling that Mr Fuess falls somewhat short of the proper degree of sympathy and understanding in dealing with the earlier history of the school, and especially with such a character as that of Principal Samuel H. Taylor. ... Aside from reservations which some may feel inclined to make on the point just mentioned, the author has done his work well and has written a chapter in the history of American education which should have a wide reading.”
+ =Nation= 105:68 Jl 19 ‘17 1250w
+ =N Y Times= 22:582 D 30 ‘17 340w
=Pittsburgh= 22:692 O ‘17
“Much of what he has brought to light is of significance not merely as the record of a school but as New England social history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 14 ‘17 1100w
=FULLER, SIR BAMPFYLDE.= Man as he is; essays in a new psychology. *$2.50 Stokes 150 (Eng ed 17-13409)
“Retired from a distinguished career in India, Sir Bampfylde Fuller has devoted himself to psychological studies and has already published (in addition to two books on India) a work of value called ‘Life and human nature.’ He now gives us what may be called a contribution to the study of human impulses; for in these developing into rational choice and based on memory—the excellences of memory being the chief mark of man’s predominance over other animals—he finds the key to the human mind and conduct.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ =Ath= p473 O ‘16 80w
“The first chapter, however, is too brief a statement of principles to form a really adequate introduction to the ambitiously planned inquiry.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:402 O 14 ‘17 500w
“His treatment of man in these essays is wholly as ‘the paragon of animals.’ Nothing turns on any specific difference, any spiritual element which distinguishes man from animal. But there is no tone of brutality in the book, no cynicism, no Nietzsche nonsense, and we mark frequently with a certain amusement the conventional and even commonplace morality which pervades its rigid realistic and positive analysis of man purely as a terrestrial creature.”
=Sat R= 123:322 Ap 7 ‘17 500w
“The book contains much acute analysis based not only on reflection, but on a singularly wide acquaintance with men and affairs.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p491 O 12 ‘16 110w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p555 N 23 ‘16 1050w
=FULLER, HENRY BLAKE.= Lines long and short. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-4572
A volume of “biographical sketches in various rhythms.” Mr Fuller has told twenty stories in free verse, analyzing motives and exposing shams with something of the keen satire of the “Spoon River anthology” but with less of its sordidness. Some of the poems are reprinted from Poetry, the Chicago Tribune and the New Republic.
“Without Edgar Lee Masters’s power to burn to the quick with the caustic of satire, he has yet the trained, clear-seeing eyes of the psychologist, the sense of human values of the novelist, and his people are real and unforgettable. The man who put off living until life would have none of him, stands out in particular relief.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ — =Bookm= 46:439 D ‘17 110w
“Mr Fuller is more rhythmical than Mr Masters. But though he has a spice of cynicism, his work is tempered with wit, and while he makes fun not only of his subjects and of himself, he has something worth telling and not one of his ‘little stories’ lacks zest. They are well worth reading.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 7 ‘17 550w
+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 60w
Reviewed by R. M. Lovett
=Dial= 62:300 Ap 5 ‘17 1200w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17
=FULTON, MAURICE GARLAND=, ed. Southern life in southern literature. il 80c Ginn 810.8 17-6667
Selections from southern literature, arranged in three parts: The old South in literature; Poetry of the Civil war; The new South in literature. The editor says, “My attempt has been not merely to show the value of literary effort in the South as absolute achievement but also to emphasize its importance as a record of southern life and character.” Essayists, poets, story writers and humorists are included. In selecting from recent novelists and story writers the author has limited himself, with one exception, “to the five pioneers in the new development of fiction in the eighties.” These are George W. Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Mary N. Murfree, Thomas Nelson Page and James Lane Allen. The exception is O. Henry.
+ =School R= 25:302 Ap ‘17 30w
“Should be an acceptable book for supplementary reading in any high school, but particularly in the South, where its historical element would naturally make the greatest appeal and would serve as an excellent approach to the book. As a whole, the book is well organized, satisfactory in the point of notes, both explanatory and biographical, and commendable for the selection of subject-matter.” E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman
+ =School R= 25:609 O ‘17 90w
=FURNISS, HENRY SANDERSON=, ed. Industrial outlook. *3s 6d Chatto & Windus, London (Eng ed 17-4219)
“A collection of nine essays, edited by the principal of Ruskin college, who speaks of ‘the control of industry’ as the keynote of the book, so far as it has one. ... The contributors are G. W. Daniels, lecturer on economics in the University of Manchester; H. Clay; J. R. Taylor, lecturer in the University of Leeds; W. Piercy and T. E. Gregory, both lecturers at the London school of economics; A. W. Ashby, assistant in the Institute for research in agricultural economics at Oxford; and W. H. Pringle. Assistance has been received in the preparation of the book from Professor E. Cannan and Mr A. E. Zimmern.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The writers have not a common point of view or a common terminology or a common way of approach. ... A book such as this cannot be judged as a book—each essay must be taken separately and judged for what it is in itself without reference to the rest. There are at least two essays which are really admirable; that of Mr Henry Clay on ‘The war and the status of the wage-earner,’ and that of Mr J. R. Taylor on ‘Labour organization.’ ... These two chapters should be read by everybody who really desires to understand the labour movement and the point of view of the trade unionist of to-day. Mr Ashby’s chapter on ‘The rural problem’ is also excellent, ... and should be an excellent tonic for all those who still have sentimental aspirations after the small holding or the peasant proprietor.”
+ — =Ath= p347 Jl ‘17 780w
“Mr Taylor’s account of the new tendencies in trade unionism and the rise of the great industrial union, like the National union of railwaymen, as contrasted with the older craft unions, is especially interesting and valuable.”
+ =Spec= 119:193 Ag 25 ‘17 150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p34 Ja 18 ‘17 170w
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=GADE, JOHN ALLYNE.= Charles the Twelfth, king of Sweden. il *$3 (2½c) Houghton 16-22250
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Hitherto Voltaire’s ‘Charles XII,’ of unstated literary charm, and the late R. Nisbet Bain’s useful sketch in the Heroes of the nations series have been the only attempts to write, in a non-Scandinavian tongue, the story career of one of the most picturesque and striking figures in modern history. Now comes Mr Gade, ... who has assumed the role of translator of the contemporaneous manuscripts of one Carl Gustafson Klingspor, devoted follower and companion in arms of the king. While the ‘translator’ provides an index and a very considerable bibliography, abounding in Scandinavian titles, his manner of writing, his soaring enthusiasm, and his penchant for dramatic effect suggest the historical novelist rather than the orthodox historical biographer. ... Those who, in spite of the grim realities of the present conflict, still yearn for a true tale of military adventure, in the main well told, will welcome this book; but it still leaves the way open for an exhaustive critical biography. The volume is handsomely bound and printed, while of errors there are comparatively few, though 1588 should be 1688 (p. 22).” A. L. C.
=Am Hist R= 22:705 Ap ‘17 400w
“Charles XII of Sweden has ever furnished an inspiring theme to writers of the most different stamp—from the keen contemporary Voltaire to the manly and tender Verner V. Heidenstam in our own days. Mr John A. Gade has hit upon the device of writing a book purporting to be a translation of the manuscript of one Colonel Klingspor. ... In most other respects Mr Gade is credible enough, fortified and enlivened as his account is with the contemporary observations and anecdotes now accessible in a number of published journals of the Carolines. The recently published five volumes of memoirs of soldiers under Charles, edited by Quennerstadäd, seem to have been especially drawn upon. ... In but one respect does there appear to be uncertainty of planning. For whom in particular was this eloquent account written? For youths to be fired with a noble emulation of a great character, so one would judge from the general tone of the book, which lays the greatest stress on the Spartan virtues. But if so, why the salacious anecdotes, e.g., about August the Strong, told in contrast though they be?... The book is well illustrated with portraits and plates. There is one altogether unserviceable map.”
=Nation= 104:495 Ap 26 ‘17 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 26 ‘17 400w
=GAGER, CHARLES STUART.= Fundamentals of botany. il *$1.50 Blakiston 581 16-19673
“Gager’s text is evidently intended as a guide for an introductory, cultural course for college students, which shall at the same time serve as a foundational one for students who are to pursue the subject further. ... Part I (Introduction) deals with the organs of the cormophyte and the structure of the cell. Part 2 (The vegetative functions of plants) includes chapters on the loss of water, absorption of water, the path of liquids in the plant, nutrition, fermentation, respiration, growth, and adjustment to surroundings. ... The 26 chapters of part 3 (Structure and life histories) include discussions of the life histories of a considerable number of types, especially of the mosses, ferns, and flowering plants.”—Bot Gaz
“The book is abundantly illustrated with 434 figures, a good share of which are original drawings or halftones. While the appearance, for example, of such illustrations as figs. 127, 198, 263, and 286 is to be welcomed, the same cannot justly be said of some others.”
+ =Bot Gaz= 63:324 Ap ‘17 400w
“Excellent text-book by director of the Brooklyn botanic garden. Presents some original ideas in the teaching of botany. Very fully illustrated.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:41 Ja ‘17 20w
“It will be noted that although a physiologist in outlook, he has properly emphasized the historical and structural point of view so often and so deplorably neglected by the cultivators of disembodied plant physiology. The author obviously considers that living matter is to be studied ‘in vita’ rather than ‘in vitro’ (whether in glass models or merely in chemical glass-ware).” F. C. Jeffrey
+ =Science= n s 46:617 D 21 ‘17 750w
=GAINES, RUTH LOUISE, and READ, GEORGIA WILLIS.= Village shield. il *$1.50 (3½c) Dutton 17-13622
Florence Converse, editor of the “Little schoolmates” series, writes an introductory “Letter to the one who reads this book” in which she says that this present day story of Porfiria and Ramon is a story of “real Mexicans; not the fierce and noisy men who are fighting and quarreling among themselves and sometimes with us ... but the Indians of pure blood, descendants or successors of the Aztec people.” Translations and explanations of terms used in the text are not given in footnotes but in eight pages of “Notes” at the end of the story.
“Well illustrated with historic pictures taken from old books of travel. Will interest older children.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:29 O ‘17
“It is rich in local color and rather too rich in Spanish phrases inserted to enhance that color.”
+ — =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 40w
“It is a weaker and feminine story of the type popular in the Rover series, the Boy scout books, and the like. The illustrations, too, taken outright from Mexican books of travel of the early forties and fifties, are quite untrue to Mexican life today. And yet it is harmless enough, and might be absorbing to a child.” C. W.
=N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 180w
“The story is told with skill. ... The illustrations, of which four are colored plates, deserve a word of mention because of their historic and artistic interest. The twelve full-page pictures are from famous books of travel in Mexico of more than half a century ago, while more than a score of tailpieces and medallions have been redrawn from the picture-writings of the Mexican Indians, some of them antedating the Spanish conquest.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:249 Jl 1 ‘17 800w
“While written for children, has interest for the older reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 290w
=GAIRDNER, WILLIAM HENRY TEMPLE.= Egyptian colloquial Arabic; a conversation grammar and reader. il *12s 6d Heffer, Cambridge, England 492.7
“Mr Gairdner, of the Church missionary society, who is the superintendent of Arabic studies at the Cairo study centre, has done a great service ... by preparing this practical conversation grammar and reader of the spoken language of the people. He discards the Arabic symbols for a modified Roman alphabet.” (Spec) “He has endeavoured to apply to Egyptian Arabic some of the modern methods used in teaching languages. Disconnected sentences, verb conjugations and paradigms, and grammatical rules preceding each exercise, have been omitted. For the last-named Mr Gairdner has substituted leading questions, which will enable students themselves to deduce the grammar illustrated by the subject-matter of each section. An advocate of direct methods, Mr Gairdner from the outset uses Arabic as the medium of instruction; and he gives good reasons for the particular system of Romic symbols adopted. The book contains tables of Egyptian-Arabic sounds, and of the consonants, vowels, and diphthongs; exercises in sound-drill and practice in reading; and a vocabulary of the chief words occurring in the reader.” (Ath) Mr Gairdner has been assisted by Sheikh Kurayyim Sallam.
+ =Ath= p409 Ag ‘17 130w
“The book is, in its way, almost as epoch-making as that of Spitta; it shows, for all its modernity, very careful scholarship and it may be thoroughly recommended. The home-staying Arabist will probably get good results by combining it with Spitta’s ‘Contes Arabes.’”
+ =Nation= 105:491 N 1 ‘17 350w
+ =Spec= 118:94 Jl 28 ‘17 90w
=GALBRAITH, ANNA MARY.= Personal hygiene and physical training for women. 2d ed rev il *$2.25 (2c) Saunders 613 17-2511
For this second edition the chapter on Digestion and nutrition has been rewritten to bring it into conformity with present day knowledge of the nutritive value of foods, etc.