Chapter 1
on The wisdom of physical efficiency has been revised to include the results of statistical studies made by the author. A section on dancing, with plates and description of simple steps, has been added.
=A L A Bkl= 13:273 Mr ‘17
=GALE, ZONA.= Daughter of the morning. il *$1.40 (2½c) Bobbs 17-28848
“Cosma Wakely was a village girl of twenty years, in speech, manner, and environment the antipodes of everything that culture stands for. Her story, told by herself, begins as ungrammatically and crudely as the character demands. But during a morning’s walk she meets a stranger whose talk with her changes at once all her personal ideals and her entire outlook upon life. Obeying the hint he has given her in regard to seeking wider horizons, she breaks her engagement with a country lover, and, taking with her the wife and child of a drunken brute, seeks employment in the city. There her great beauty subjects her to the usual peril from predacious man, but, saving herself by her quick wits, she soon enters a career of triumph, and is sent to school. ... She becomes secretary to the very man who first planted within her the seeds of ambition; and of course, of course—we easily guess the rest.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18
“‘A daughter of the morning’ must be set down as a ‘fact story,’ good enough for those that like their sociology, as well as their advertising, in tract form, but not to be considered from the viewpoint of fiction.”
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+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 50w
“The superficial philosophy and the weak love interest may appeal to the sentimental high school girl. But the note of protest against the sterility and lack of promise that country life offers to a girl redeems the book from many of its faults.”
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“All the details of this impossible story are as far removed from things as they are as is the history of its heroine. Miss Gale scores, in that, despite the unrealities of her tale, and its being somewhat overloaded with her theories, she has made it interesting.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:517 D 2 ‘17 460w
“With the gentle simplicity and sincerity so characteristic of Miss Gale’s work, she has said here many fundamental truths. She has clothed them with a gently appealing human touch that will carry the lesson far.” G. I. Colbron
+ =Pub W= 92:1375 O 20 ‘17 460w
“As a novel the book holds its reader closely; as a novel with a purpose it is to be classed among the worth-while books of 1917.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 300w
=GALLATIN, ALBERT EUGENE.= Paul Manship; a critical essay on his sculpture and an iconography. il *$5 Lane 735 17-12503
“The future of sculpture [in America] at present lies in the hands of some half dozen acknowledged artists and many others who are gradually winning a reputation. One of the few who has gone ‘over the top’ although quite a young man, is Paul Manship. ... In clear, concise terms, the author has summed up the art of Manship and placed him where he belongs. That is an art in itself. Further than this the dainty little volume contains a very complete iconography, accompanied by eight full-page illustrations, thoroughly representative pieces of sculpture having been selected for the purpose.” (Int Studio) The book, which is of a few pages only other than the illustrations, was printed at the Merrymount press, Boston, in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies.
“The author is a past master in iconography, and employs a terse epigrammatic phraseology which clothes well his very individual views upon the artists of his choice.”
+ =Int Studio= 62:65 S ‘17 230w
=Pittsburgh= 22:512 Je ‘17
=GALLICHAN, CATHERINE GASQUOINE (HARTLEY) (MRS WALTER M. GALLICHAN).= Motherhood and the relationships of the sexes. *$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 176 17-14556
This book, which the author had had in mind for some time, has been written and published during the war, because she believes that it has a vital bearing on present conditions in England. On the one hand, she sees the need of building up the population of a decimated country, on the other, she sees women crowding into occupations that are inimical to motherhood. She says, “The object of my book is two-fold. First, to put forward a fresh plea for assigning that high value to motherhood in practice which at present it receives only in words. ... In the second place, I wish to set forth what seem to be the chief causes that hitherto have hindered motherhood and bound my sex from the full enjoyment of life; and to suggest that the reason ... is due to women’s own actions, to their absurdly wrong education and entire misunderstanding of the sexual life.” The four parts of the book following the Introduction, which treats of the effects of the war, are: The maternal instinct in the making; The primitive family; Motherhood and the relationships of the sexes; Sexual education. There is a bibliography of several pages at the close.
=A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17
“The whole book is an impassioned plea for enlightened motherhood, a reverence for and conservation of human life by women such as men and governments have never given it. It is a terrific indictment, not of the individual mother, but of the evils of civilisation.” Edna Kenton
+ =Bookm= 46:345 N ‘17 600w
=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 70w
“She represents the older, motherly feminism with its rather self-conscious responsibility and its weakness in referring to criteria of biological science where only an artistic sense of personal relations should rule. Much unity and sanctity, the psychologists are discovering, could pass from the family without hurting it. Mrs Gallichan’s book moves too much in the realm of conventionalized emotions.” Randolph Bourne
+ — =Dial= 63:103 Ag 16 ‘17 450w
“In this new book she brings her very thorough equipment as a scholar and a thinker to bear upon the conditions which the world must face as the result of the effects of the great war upon the race. Her work, therefore, is very timely and, although it is written with reference only to the British Isles, almost all that she says is quite as applicable to the United States.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 550w
=Pittsburgh= 22:700 O ‘17 20w
“Child welfare workers who believe that ‘the welfare of the child is the one consideration that matters,’ will find much to interest them in this volume, especially the discussion of infant mortality, its relation to the employment of mothers and other prenatal conditions.” B. F. Johnson, M.D.
+ =Survey= 38:371 Jl 28 ‘17 370w
“Readers of it will find that on a good many sides of the question she has something cogent to say; but they will get a little impatient with the large amount of space devoted to the sex life of animals and of primitive man. The lessons of war are at the moment much more interesting than any theories drawn from biology or anthropology.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p300 Je 21 ‘17 550w
=GALLISHAW, JOHN, and LYNCH, WILLIAM.= Man in the ranks. *$1 (8c) Houghton 355 17-24714
This book of advice for new recruits is written by a soldier who was at Gallipoli in 1915 and a sergeant instructor of the Plattsburg training camp. The advice is given under the headings: Getting started right; The first days in camp; Marksmanship; Keeping fit; A successful soldier; A talk on personal conduct; Tips from the trenches. There is a list of “Things to remember not to forget.” A number of pages at the end are left blank to be used as a diary, and a place is provided for addresses.
=GALSWORTHY, JOHN.= Beyond. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-22092
When “Gyp” Winton was flowering into womanhood she overheard it said that Major Winton, her straight-thinking, straight-riding guardian was indeed her father. That knowledge influenced her attitude toward the world of society she was about to enter. He had answered her question about it simply and directly: “Yes, Gyp; your mother and I loved each other.” To Gyp, then, honesty, her music, and love were the three things needful. Against her father’s wishes she married Fiorsen, the gifted, moody, intemperate, wholly selfish Swedish violinist, only to discover later that their union was founded on passion on his side and a mistaken infatuation on hers. With all her strength she tried to keep the bargain she had made, but when he broke his marriage vow and in a fit of ungovernable temper maltreated their child, she left him and went back to her father and that simpler outdoor life to which she had been bred. Dreading the English divorce court, she did not legally free herself, and, when later, Bryan Summerhay came into her life and won her passionate affection she gave herself to him, believing that to her had come such undying love as she had seen her father hold for the mother who had died at her child’s birth. The weight of the past and oncoming tragedy in the book is relieved only by Gyp’s love for her daughter and Major Winton’s unquestioned, unflinching devotion to them both.
“Mr Galsworthy’s latest novel is quite readable—and disappointing, because we expected something which we could strongly praise or severely criticize.”
– + =Ath= p527 O ‘17 60w
“Half concealed by his cold and reserved manner lurks, to put it frankly, the sex obsession of the sceptical bachelor.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 46:339 N ‘17 180w
“Although problems of sex have been utilized by Mr Galsworthy in the making of his novels, never before has he been so obsessed by them as in ‘Beyond.’ But for the graces of its style, ‘Beyond’ would be utterly negligible.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ‘17 1600w
“Those who see in the story only a sensational appeal to our sexual emotions miss the theme. It is the gospel according to Browning. Stake everything and pocket your losses without whimpering. Stoicism is an old philosophy, often enough repeated in abstract terms. The novelist here has shown real people, dominated by passion, terribly hurt by it, then dominant over their sorrow, and not so small as to indulge in regrets. It is a superb piece of work.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 63:272 S 27 ‘17 1600w
“It is an inconclusive book, and for that reason lacks the greatness that compels the reader’s sympathy for the actors in the tragedy.”
+ — =Ind= 91:473 S 22 ‘17 160w
“Mr Galsworthy is not a treader in the gross and miry ways of sex; if he were, ‘The dark flower’ would have seemed to some of us a book less damnable. He is that more insidious influence, an eloquent and honest pleader from false premises.”
— =Nation= 105:292 S 13 ‘17 700w
“‘Beyond’ shows his usual firmness of structure and grace of style, but it adds nothing to his interpretation of life, does nothing to broaden or sweeten it.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 110w
“As a Galsworthy performance, a novel out of the man who wrote ‘The island Pharisees’ and ‘Fraternity’ and ‘Strife’ and ‘Justice’ and ‘The mob’ and ‘A commentary’ and ‘The silver box,’ it is one of the most extraordinary bits of degeneracy, literary degeneracy, that was ever exposed. It is more facile than his other stories. It is quick and neat and fluent. It is dramatic. But its texture shows a complacency and flabbiness so amazing that one who sees the dedication to Thomas Hardy is inclined to look the other way.” F. H.
— =New Repub= 12:194 S 15 ‘17 1750w
“Poor fare from the author of ‘Justice’ and the ‘Man of property.’ One leaves the book with a feeling of futility.” F. J. K.
— =N Y Call= p15 N 18 ‘17 950w
“The story carries the reader on by the tense interest of its conflict of souls, their struggles to harmonize themselves with one another, and the breaking out from the self-imposed bonds now of one and now of another.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:310 Ag 26 ‘17 1300w
“Of the essential indecency of Gyp’s course, its human and spiritual malfeasance, its blend of sentimentality and obtuseness, Mr Galsworthy reveals no consciousness. One has small affection for Fiorsen. But even the unlovable may justifiably resent betrayal; and it is our main quarrel with Mr Galsworthy that he seems to have no perception of the case that might be made out—that must be made out—for Fiorsen. Mr Galsworthy used to have a shrewd and vibrant sense of humor. It would not formerly have been easy to impeach him for artless banalities, for economy of thought, for undistinguished writing.” Lawrence Gilman
— =No Am= 206:628 O ‘17 1700w
“In quality and literary texture and in the apparently easy but really artful way in which the interest is sustained this novel has not been excelled by anything Mr Galsworthy has done. It is hard, however, to see what social conclusion is suggested or intended.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:64 S 12 ‘17 150w
“The book is inferior to the author’s best work.”
— =Pittsburgh= 22:749 N ‘17 40w
“We confess to having been perfectly bored by Mr John Galsworthy’s last novel.”
— =Sat R= 124:208 S 15 ‘17 650w
“We wish that he would widen his view of life in his fiction as he has done in his plays, but we gladly recognize the high literary merit, the skilful construction, the play of humour and fancy, the adroit management of the chief situations in this new novel, which is in some respects the best that he has produced.”
+ — =Spec= 119:272 S 15 ‘17 520w
“In Mr Galsworthy’s new novel the people fill us with alarm, because they appear all more or less under the influence of the great narcotic and therefore not quite responsible for their actions. They have been out hunting all day for so many generations that they are now perpetually in this evening condition of physical well-being and spiritual simplicity. This of course, is an exaggeration, but some theory of the kind must be fabricated to explain this rather queer book, ‘Beyond.’”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Ag 30 ‘17 1450w
=GAMEWELL, MRS MARY NINDE (PORTER).= Gateway to China; pictures of Shanghai. il *$1.50 Revell 915.1 17-206
“‘The gateway to China’ is a descriptive work on Shanghai. The idea of a gateway comes from the investment of the city by France and Great Britain and the cosmopolitan character of its population. Each feature of the city’s history, from the time that Great Britain opened it as a port by treaty in 1842 to the present, passes in review. Police department, shops, schools, rickshas, streets, houses, hospitals, sanitation, press, factories, customs, present and ancient, are described from the standpoint of a resident rather than a visitor.”—Springf’d Republican
“An uncommonly vivid piece of descriptive writing.”
+ =Ind= 88:410 D 4 ‘16 70w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 6 ‘17 130w
“The book is decidedly interesting and entertaining.” Gertrude Seymour
+ =Survey= 37:614 F 24 ‘17 250w
=GANONG, WILLIAM FRANCIS.= Textbook of botany for colleges. il *$2.50 Macmillan 580 17-22350
“The course outlined in this book is specifically designed as ‘an introductory course in botany,’ as ‘a part of a general education, and not as a preparation for a professional botanical career.’ ... Professor Ganong has not felt responsible for telling all known botanical facts about each topic discussed, since he has attempted rather to present major truths with enough morphological details to give a clear setting to the major truth.”—School R
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:295 Ap ‘17
+ =Bot Gaz= 63:323 Ap ‘17 300w
“Prof. Ganong’s treatment is somewhat unconventional. The text makes easy reading, and is facilitated by a large number of good figures; but there is sometimes a suggestion of scrappiness.”
+ =Nature= 99:261 My 31 ‘17 550w
“The book is an excellent contribution to our rapidly growing list of available texts for college botany and is the outcome of years of successful experience in teaching botany in a college [Smith] whose general courses in that science have become well known because of their effectiveness and attractiveness.” O. W. Caldwell
+ =School R= 24:778 D ‘16 600w
=GARDINER, ALFRED G. (ALPHA OF THE PLOUGH, pseud.).= Pebbles on the shore. (Wayfarer’s library) *50c Dutton 824
A series of essays first published in England. “Contents: On choosing a name; On letter-writing; On reading in bed; On cats and dogs; On seeing visions; On black sheep; The village and the war; On umbrella morals; On talking to one’s self; On Boswell and his miracle; On seeing ourselves; On the English spirit; On falling in love; On living again; On points of view; On the guinea stamp; On the dislike of lawyers; On the cheerfulness of the blind; On thoughts at fifty; On the philosophy of hats; On seeing London; On the intelligent golf ball; On a prisoner of war; On the world we live in; In praise of walking, etc.” (N Y Br Lib News)
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
=Ath= p675 D ‘17 30w
=Boston Transcript= p7 Je 30 ‘17 750w
+ =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:123 Ag ‘17
+ =Spec= 119:sup549 N 17 ‘17 30w
“He has a knack of being genially discursive without being trivial and of bringing a certain elevation of mind to bear upon his subject that shows his similarity to E. V. Lucas. The charm, the gentle modulated style is there. ... There is something to give pleasure on every page.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 21 ‘17 1050w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 20 ‘17 950w
“Papers by a writer who has to the full the gift of ‘causerie.’ ... Mr Brock’s excellent pen and ink and head and tail pieces are a great addition.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p519 O 25 ‘17 40w
=GARDNER, LUCY=, ed. Hope for society; essays on social reconstruction after the war. *3s G. Bell & sons, London 330.4 (Eng ed 17-18995)
“These twelve essays were delivered as lectures at the Interdenominational summer school held at Swanwick, Derbyshire, from June 24 to July 3, 1916. The Bishop of Oxford contributes an essay on ‘The hope for society.’; and there are papers by Mr J. St G. Heath (’The new social conscience as to use of income’), Mr J. A. Hobson (’Industrial and financial conditions after the war’), Mr C. Roden Buxton (’The land question after the war’), Sir Hugh Bell (’Trade-union regulations: the employer’s point of view’), Mrs Pethick Lawrence (’The new outlook of the woman’s movement’), Miss Margaret Bondfield (’The position of women in industry’), and others.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p95 F ‘17 130w
“Mr Christopher Turnor’s paper on the development of English life is especially valuable. On the social side, the papers contain many suggestions which deserve consideration in the reconstruction period.” M. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:539 Jl ‘17 100w
+ =Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 200w
“The real educational value of these lectures is that they do not deal solely with collective measures of amelioration. ... Mr Clutton Brock, in his denunciation of the trash of civilization passed off as art—‘hankering after Bondstreet’ he calls it—goes to the heart of the matter when, with silence as to big legislative measures, he says, ‘If you want to make anybody good, make yourself.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p278 Je 14 ‘17 1350w
=GAREY, ENOCH BARTON, and ELLIS, OLIN O.= Junior Plattsburg manual. il *$1.50 Century 355 17-26655
The authors of the “Plattsburg manual,” captains in the United States infantry who were instructors in the Plattsburg training camp in 1916, have prepared this textbook on physical and military training for the use of the preparatory, public, and high schools of the United States. “Its further purpose is to assist in developing all young men of this country into good, efficient and patriotic citizens.” (Preface) Major-general John F. O’Ryan, chairman of the military training commission of the State of New York, draws attention in a foreword to the military and physical drill now legally required in the New York state schools and especially commends the clear style of the authors in setting forth the schools of the soldier, squads, and company, and the arrangement of the 250 illustrations by which it is shown how to do and how not to do the essential things. The chapter on Physical development can be of use to all. The chapters on Marching and camping and First aid to the injured with their practical directions will be widely read. The large type and clear printing are to be especially commended.
“Well illustrated.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:5 O ‘17
“Many excellent illustrations and diagrams make the directions in the text easy to follow.”
+ =Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 20w
=Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 110w
=N Y P L New Tech= Bks p14 Jl ‘17 20w
+ =N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 170w
=Pittsburgh= 22:695 O ‘17 50w
=Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 30w
=GARIS, HOWARD ROGER.= Venture boys afloat; or, The wreck of the Fausta. il *$1.25 (2c) Harper 17-28657
Tom Ware, Dick Parker and Harry Nolan, three boys who live in a Hudson river town, are saving money to buy a motor boat. Their plan is to cruise up and down the river. But an invitation from Tom’s uncle, a seaman, takes them on a much more ambitious voyage, down the Atlantic coast. This trip is taken for pleasure, but in Tom’s heart is the hope that they may overtake his father’s wrecked schooner, the “Fausta,” now derelict somewhere in southern waters, and his hope is rewarded after an exciting race with a government derelict destroyer. Incidentally the boys learn something of American history. The book is the first of a series.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
=Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 80w
=N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 150w
=GARLAND, HAMLIN.= Son of the middle border. il *$1.60 Macmillan 17-22272
“‘A son of the middle border’ is Mr Garland’s view of himself and of the life he encountered along a vista that has seen one era after another of American progress give place to its successor. It is, moreover, a story of the advance of an American boy which is none the less miraculous because it has been repeated so often in our history. ... He was born in 1860 and his infancy and early childhood coincided with the most critical period in American history. His father, who had come to Wisconsin from Maine, after three years of work in Boston, enlisted in the Union army in 1863, and among the boy’s earliest recollections is the memory of his return. ... Scene after scene of his childhood, face after face out of a past rich in recollections, Mr Garland brings before us, as his father restlessly moved westward from Wisconsin to Minnesota, from Minnesota to Iowa, and from Iowa to Dakota. ... With his brother Franklin he went on his adventure into the east. ... This was in 1883, when Mr Garland was twenty-three years of age. His real invasion of Boston came a little later. ... For nearly ten years he was a Bostonian, winning his way against obstacles that would have daunted many a less ambitious young man. ... Finally he became a professional man of letters.”—Boston Transcript
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:57 N ‘17
“So understanding and skilful a portrayal of characteristic spiritual values gives the book added importance, makes it a contribution to our social history that is well worth while. As autobiography, it is an original and distinctive piece of work and illustrates the possibilities of varied and unique treatment to be found in the writing of American biography.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:327 N ‘17 430w
“‘A son of the middle border’ has all the charm of the novels and short stories by Mr Garland and other writers which have depicted the valiant struggles of the ambitious boy who is able to look beyond the border of the world of his upbringing. ... Valuable and encouraging is his story, but it is more than that. It is a contribution to American autobiographical literature,” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 1750w
“Mr Garland is unusually successful in his portraits of his father and mother. A notable memorial of a bygone phase of American life.”
+ =Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 90w
“A biography must necessarily be a life seen thru a temperament and experiences that would have been a matter of course or even interesting to a ‘born farmer,’ or a biologist revolted the bookish lad whose tastes were cultural and never agricultural. And the man with a real love for the farm does not write books about it. With this reservation ‘A son of the middle border’ seems to us a great and a true book; a contribution to our annals of the settlement of our country.”
+ =Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 830w
“There are hardly enough life and inspiration in the narrative to warrant its being so long, but its directness and honest purpose deserve a reading, altho it is a life much like many other lives.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:42 O 27 ‘17 120w
+ =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 140w
“The autobiographer is a rarer bird than the novelist; and we believe that this record may take its place among the handful of American classics of its kind.”
+ — =Nation= 105:719 D 27 ‘17 1650w
“Mr Garland’s best work, like ‘Main-travelled roads,’ was built directly out of the stones of his autobiographical quarry. But how much more vivid and alluring is the quarry than the constructed short stories and novels. The inventive writer, after long struggling with stiff fictional forms, suddenly discovers himself as his own best artistic form and material and bursts out into the freshest of self-revelations, without self-consciousness and yet with an insight that makes silly the legend that the American has no talent for introspection and resents its expression.” R. B.
+ =New Repub= 12:333 O 20 ‘17 2900w
“In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr Garland’s story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. ... As you read it you realize it the memorial of a generation, of a whole order of American experience; as you review it you perceive it an epic of such mood and make as has not been imagined before.” W: D. Howells
+ =N Y Times= 22:309 Ag 26 ‘17 3200w
“Nothing could be more American than the mingling of practicality and idealism that is felt everywhere in the story. Nothing could be more wholesome in these times than the lesson of intellectual honesty and large sympathy which is implicit in it.”
+ =No Am= 206:796 N ‘17 480w
“An autobiography with the fascination of romance, and in a measure the form of fiction. ... It is a book well worth reading and rereading.”
+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 50w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:743 N ‘17 60w
“Those who lived in rural Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas during those days will remark the striking fidelity of the picture. There were so many Garland families in the border movement of the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s of the last century!”
+ =R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 140w
“Mr Garland has written a book deserving of a wide reading, and likely to get it by virtue of the style in which it is written. The narrative flows easily—a little diffusely, in fact—with a great fund of incidents, keen observations and incisive, albeit idealized portraits of character. Perhaps the best work in the last of those categories is the picture of his mother. She represents a memorable type of American womanhood—tender mother, brave, uncomplaining pioneer woman and splendid wife.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 3600w
=GARRISON, MRS THEODOSIA (PICKERING).= Dreamers, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 811 17-28183
This is a collection of lyrical poems previously printed in seventeen different periodicals. Seven Irish poems are given at the end of the book, under the title “Songs of himself.”
“The verse of Theodosia Garrison is restful; it is a retreat, a haven from the tumult of today’s singing. She invites you to partake of her quiet dreams and unpretentious fancies, much as a friend invites you to the hearthside to pass a tranquil evening. If one is not thrilled, one is at least soothed by her hospitality. Little by little you become aware of something in the experience that has a fineness and distinction of its own.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 630w
Reviewed by Conrad Aiken
— =Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 400w
“In her ‘Dreamers, and other poems’ Theodosia Garrison has given us some of her best work.”
+ =Lit D= 56:34 Ja 5 ‘18 200w
=GARVIN, JOHN WILLIAM=, ed. Canadian poets and poetry. il *$3 Stokes 811.08 17-10982
An anthology of Canadian verse with brief biographical sketches of the fifty-one authors represented. The editor says of these authors: “Many of their poems are indigenous to the soil,—vitally, healthfully Canadian; others are tinged with the legendary and mythical lore of older lands; but all are of Canada, inasmuch as the writers have lived in this country, and have been influenced by its history and atmosphere at a formative period of their lives.” Among those whose names are somewhat widely known outside their own country are: Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, William Henry Drummond, Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Arthur Stringer and Robert W. Service.
“About twenty of these poets are not included in the ‘Oxford book of Canadian verse’ (Booklist 10:385 Je ‘14), which includes the work of one hundred poets from earliest colonial days down to the present. Libraries having the ‘Oxford book’ will not need this unless there is special interest.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:390 Je ‘17
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17 140w
+ =N Y Times= 22:124 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
=GATES, ELEANOR (MRS FREDERICK FERDINAND MOORE).= Apron-strings. *$1.35 (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-29731
The two central figures in this story are Mrs Milo and her daughter Sue. Mrs Milo is the type of mother described by the author in a prefatory note: “The kind that does not plan for, or want, a child, but, having borne one, invariably takes the high air of martyrdom feeling that she has rendered the supreme service, and that, henceforth, nothing is too good for her.” Her demands on her daughter have kept the girl from marriage, and as a woman of forty-five, Sue is finding what satisfaction she can in mothering an orphanage. In the end she finds a more intimate happiness in adopting one of the children for her own.
“As a character study, built around the leading character, the book presents reasonable claim to favorable notice. Mrs Milo, the managing and domineering mother, is a real literary creation.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 260w
“Miss Gates’s theme is an interesting one, but she treats it sentimentally and thereby fails to give it the effectiveness which is its due.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:490 N 25 ‘17 470w
=GATES, HERBERT WRIGHT.=[2] Recreation and the church. (Principles and methods of religious education) il *$1 (3c) Univ. of Chicago press 261 17-15665
There has been started a strong movement in the direction of making churches social centers. The experiments enlarged upon in this volume show the value of the wider use of churches. The writer who is director of religious education in the Brick church institute, Rochester, N.Y., contends that there is no more potent influence or favorable approach to the inner life of childhood and youth than is found in recreational interests and activities. He shows the religious educational value of play, shows how to go about studying the recreational needs of a community, offers a constructive recreational program, gives some typical church programs and devotes a chapter to equipment and organization.
=A L A Bkl= 14:156 F ‘18
“A bibliography of play and recreation enhances the value of this very useful handbook, which cannot fail to increase the efficiency of educational and recreational workers in the church and elsewhere.” G. T.
+ =Survey= 39:327 D 15 ‘17 240w
=GAUTIER, JUDITH.= Memoirs of a white elephant; tr. from the French by S. A. B. Harvey. il *$1.50 (3½c) Duffield 16-23442
Judith Gautier, who was joint author with Pierre Loti of “The daughter of heaven,” is an authority on oriental lore. She has written this book for children, allowing “Iravata,” the white elephant, to tell his own story.
“Well told and unaffected.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:269 Mr ‘17
+ =Lit D= 53:1562 D 9 ‘16 100w
“The excellent illustrations are the work of L. H. Smith and S. B. Kite.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:102 Ja ‘17 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 2 ‘16 160w
=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS.=[2] Shakespeare and the founders of liberty in America. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 822.3 18-3
The writer says: “In this period of conflict, the sternest that the world has known, when we have joined heart and hand with Great Britain, it may profit Americans to recall how essentially at one with Englishmen we have always been in everything that counts. That the speech, the poetry, of the race are ours and theirs in common, we know—they are Shakespeare. But that the institutions, the law and the liberty, the democracy administered by the fittest, are not only theirs and ours in common, but are derived from Shakespeare’s England, and are Shakespeare, too, we do not generally know or, if we have known, we do not always remember.” The chapter headings suggest how the writer has pursued his novel idea: The foundations of liberty in America; Shakespeare and the liberals of the Virginia company; The tempest and an unpublished letter from Virginia; The leader of the liberal movement—Sir Edwin Sandys; Richard Hooker and the principles of American liberty; Shakespeare’s views of the individual in relation to the state; Shakespeare and Hooker; The heritage in common: England, America, France; The meaning for us today.
“His association of Shakspeare with these ideas [suggested by chapter headings] of course takes it for granted that whenever any of his characters speak in the plays, there speak also the inmost thoughts and beliefs of the dramatist. This is a supposition too often made to prove that a dramatist or a poet is first of all a propagandist or a preacher when as a matter of fact he is neither. It overlooks the first principles of imaginative writing—that a poem, a play or a novel is a work written to present a certain phase of life in artistic form and not to promulgate a theory. If Shakspeare was preaching democracy in his plays then so much the less Shakspeare he. Despite the undoubted ingenuity and historical interest of Professor Gayley’s arguments there are many of us who will remain perfectly willing to look upon Shakspeare as a man who wrote his plays with no other thought than to have them receive the approval and applause of the Elizabethan public.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p11 D 12 ‘17 830w
=R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 90w
=GEARY, BLANCHE.= Handbook of the association cafeteria. il pa 50c Y.W.C.A. 642 17-20661
This handbook gives the purpose of a Y.W.C.A. cafeteria and outlines its organization, including committees, selection of premises, general equipment, staff and employees, menu, service and cleaning. It treats of business administration and under the heading Points in policy advises on such subjects as Emergency fund, Eight hour day, Outside business, etc. The book is compiled by those who know the needs of the workers whom the cafeteria is to serve and can detail clearly methods for meeting them.
=GEHRS, JOHN HENRY.= Productive agriculture. il *$1 Macmillan 630 17-14154
“The purpose of this book is to meet the need and the demand for a text that will standardize seventh- and eighth-grade agriculture. ... Topics relating to productive agriculture and not topics about agriculture are given chief consideration. ... The book contains a section of from four to eight chapters in length on each of the following big topics: ‘Farm crops,’ ‘Animal husbandry,’ ‘Soils,’ ‘Horticulture,’ and ‘Farm management.’ There is also a brief bibliography of material relating to each of these large topics. The laboratory exercises at the end of each chapter ... can be done with a minimum amount of schoolroom equipment, the farm itself furnishing the requisite laboratory.” (School R) The author is associate professor of agriculture of the Warrensburg State normal school, Warrensburg, Mo.
+ =Ind= 91:265 Ag 16 ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:330 S ‘17
“Anyone interested in texts in agriculture adapted to grades seven and eight or to the junior high school will be well paid for the time and effort required to give this book a careful consideration.”
+ =School R= 25:532 S ‘17 180w
=GEIKIE, SIR ARCHIBALD.= Birds of Shakespeare. il *$1.25 Macmillan 822.3 (Eng ed 17-13372)
“In this charming essay the veteran geologist collects Shakespeare’s references to birds, of which he names at least fifty species, and shows once more how intimate a knowledge of wild nature he had acquired in the woods and lanes of leafy Warwickshire.”—Spec
=Ath= p432 S ‘16 90w
“It is all that it claims to be, and will fill a vacant place on the shelves of those who do not possess Mr J. E. Harting’s standard work.”
+ =Nature= 98:147 O 28 ‘16 480w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:40 Mr ‘17
=Sat R= 123:sup10 Mr 31 ‘17 120w
“Twenty excellent woodcuts from Saunders’s ‘Manual of British birds’ illustrate the book.”
+ =Spec= 117:419 O 7 ‘16 70w
“This little book is enticing; one to be read by all who love either birds or Shakespeare or both.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 S 7 ‘16 1300w
=GEIL, WILLIAM EDGAR.= Adventures in the African jungle hunting pigmies. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-8202
This book for boys is one of the volumes of “The true adventure series.” The author is an explorer of note and the story is based on first-hand acquaintance with Africa. Billy Benson, a boy of about sixteen, accompanies his uncle on an exploring expedition into the heart of Africa. Their object is to discover a band of pigmies, supposed to inhabit a part of the jungle. Lions, leopards, elephants and other natives of the African forest play a part in their adventures. The young hero is refreshingly boyish. No feats of impossible prowess are attributed to him, and never does he outdo his uncle, the noted explorer, in sagacity or achievement.
=GENEVOIX, MAURICE.= ‘Neath Verdun; tr. by H. Grahame Richards. *$1.60 (2½c) Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-26253)
The author of this book was a second-year student at the École normale, Paris, in 1914. His book is a day-by-day account of the first months of the war, from August to October, 1914. Ernest Lavisse says in his introduction: “He supplies us with an invaluable picture of the war. In the first place, the writer is endowed with astonishing powers of observation; he sees all in a glance, he hears everything. The intense power of concentration he possesses enables him instantly to seize upon all essentials of a particular incident or scene, and so to harmonize them as to produce a picture true to life.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:306 Ap ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 250w
“His book is one of the real contributions of the war’s writing. For here, for us to read and learn from, is something of the war itself.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:34 F 4 ‘17 600w
“Perhaps it is well that the ghastly side of the war should not be tucked away as though it did not exist. Horror is treated here with a French power of rhetoric and insistence.”
+ =Spec= 118:105 Ja 27 ‘17 150w
=GEORGE, HEREFORD BROOKE.= Genealogical tables illustrative of modern history. 5th ed, rev and enl *$2.50 Oxford 929.7 16-22139
“The ‘Genealogical tables illustrative of modern history’ first published by the late Rev. Hereford B. George more than forty years ago have long acquired and deserved an established position as a work of reference. They now appear in a fifth edition, revised and enlarged by Mr J. R. H. Weaver. The enlargement consists mainly in the continuation of the reigning houses down to their last changes and the insertion of their younger members; there is also added a list of the presidents of the United States of America.”—Eng Hist R
“The size of the print and the general openness of the tables make them easy to consult and the book should enter upon a further career of usefulness.”
+ =Am Hist R= 22:435 Ja ‘17 200w
“The work of correction has been carefully done: we have looked for facts omitted in the earlier editions and have found them duly inserted. ... In the first three editions the tables were folded and mounted on guards, and the book was easy to handle; now that the tables are bound up flat and the book requires 2 ft. 8 in. of space to open out, it cannot be described as convenient for practical use.” R. L. P.
* + =Eng Hist R= 31:660 O ‘16 450w
=GEPHART, WILLIAM FRANKLIN.= Principles of insurance. 2v ea *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 368 17-2500
“A discussion of life and fire insurance offered for classroom use in schools and colleges. ... The author has had experience in the insurance business and in association with insurance organizations, as well as in teaching.” (R of Rs) “There are two volumes, devoted, respectively, to Life insurance and Fire insurance, the former replacing the author’s well-known earlier work, devoted mainly to life insurance, which has now been thoroughly revised, amplified, and brought down to date. The volume on fire insurance contains twelve chapters in which are treated such pertinent topics as the economics and business organization of fire insurance, hazards, rates and rating problems, the nature of the contract, adjustment of losses, fire protection, and the relation of the state to insurance.” (Nation)
“Mr Gephart has well met the problem. His book is simple and readable and yet broad, and adequate to give not only an understanding of the fundamental principles but a great deal of the practical business side. The book avoids a difficulty which sometimes occurs when those outside of the business attempt to write about it: namely, the difficulty of supporting theories which, for practical reasons, are unworkable. The arrangement is a little unfortunate.” W. M. Strong
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:670 S ‘17 1100w (Review of v 1)
“It would be too much to claim that the author has entirely mastered a subject of which the depths have by no means been sounded by those who spend their lives in the work or that all of his statements would pass without challenge from underwriters, but it is certain that he has written a clear, interesting, and admirably balanced study of the principles of fire insurance.” W. E. Mallalieu
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:672 S ‘17 900w (Review of v 2)
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:376 Je ‘17
“The volume on life insurance is on the whole a contribution to the subject, the various topics being carefully arranged and the exposition clear. One may seriously object, however, to the issuance of a revised edition which does not follow the progress in the business in certain directions. The volume on fire insurance appears to possess certain serious defects as well as commendable features. The strongest criticism which can be advanced, viewing it in the light of a text, is its seeming lack of plan and arrangement of chapters. Prior to his work no adequate description of some of the more recent developments of the business was available. He has therefore rendered a service in producing a relatively up-to-date textbook. Secondly, he has incorporated to a greater degree than any other writer a discussion of fire insurance from the social viewpoint.” Robert Riegel
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:296 N ‘17 400w
“Though adapted to the purposes of the general reader, the business man, and the student, the volumes will, in all probability, find their chief use as textbooks, for which they seem excellently adapted. At the close of the various chapters are lists of references covering the main topics treated, and each volume contains a carefully selected general bibliography, including the standard works on both life and fire insurance.”
+ =Nation= 104:245 Mr 1 ‘17 230w
“Those seeking and those selling insurance would profit by this conservative statement of principles which fit the reader for his individual decision of moot points, which are frankly indicated and argued fairly.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 180w
“Heretofore it has been difficult to obtain material on this subject in convenient form for educational purposes. Most of it has been confined to government documents, official reports of insurance companies, published addresses, and pamphlets.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 70w
“The author is professor of economics in Washington university.”
=St Louis= 15:139 My ‘17 9w
“There are interesting chapters on the economics, business organization and, last but not least, the immense historic development of the insurance business.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ‘17 110w
=GÉRALDY, PAUL.= The war, Madame ...; tr. by Barton Blake. *75c (5c) Scribner 17-8886
This little story is merely an account of one day in the life of a French soldier who, after thirteen months of service, returns to Paris. His sensations on again finding himself in his loved city are described, and in conversations with two of his women friends scenes from the front are pictured.
“A lively, graceful, quite irresponsible and unreflecting narrative of a young soldier’s last day of leave in Paris before returning to the front to be killed.” C. M. Francis
+ =Bookm= 46:451 D ‘17 140w
“As we read his pages, we understand more clearly than ever before how it is possible for men to go through the ghastly struggle and not come out thoroughly embittered. ... This account seems to approach nearer to the probable mean of reality than any of the many war books that have already been written.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 770w
“So different is it from the France and the Paris of which correspondents and returning war-workers of one sort or another have told us that, since it is written by a Frenchman, one marvels and wonders whether he is a better observer and a truer reporter than they.”
=N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:314 S 17 30w
=GERARD, JAMES WATSON.= My four years in Germany. il *$2 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-25143
The late ambassador to the German imperial court has written this account of his four years experience to prove to America that “we are in this war because we were forced into it,” and that “unless Germany is beaten the whole world will be compelled to turn itself into an armed camp, until the German autocracy either brings every nation under its dominion or is forever wiped out as a form of government.” (Foreword) Mr Gerard tells us about the political system in Germany, German militarism, German commerce, the Kaiser, the Crown prince, and various high officials of the government, and about his own diplomatic work, though he is necessarily silent on many things connected with this work. Some of the chapters are: Psychology and causes which prepared the nation for war; At Kiel just before the war; Prisoners of war; War charities; and The German people in war. There are a number of illustrations and several facsimile reproductions of documents, among them one of the much discussed telegram which the Kaiser gave Ambassador Gerard for transmission to President Wilson. The material of the book has appeared in the Philadelphia Ledger and the New York American.
“One must remember that the author has written for a large audience. From this point of view, Mr Gerard’s light treatment is quite justified, as are also the journalistic, popular style, the frequent use of the personal pronoun, and perhaps even the reproductions of court invitations. For such a presentation will appeal to millions who would ignore a more formidable treatise. Unfortunately the mechanics of the book are poorly handled.” B. E. Schmitt
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:398 Ja ‘18 1650w
=A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17
“His book is a candid, unadorned, and convincing account of what has been going on in Germany during the war. His record is welcome in this permanent form.”
+ =Ath= p683 D ‘17 190w
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 50w
+ — =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 140w
+ =Dial= 63:460 N 8 ‘17 230w
“From a literary point of view the book is a queer mixture, much of it the sort of thing that ordinary tourists turn out by the volume, part of diplomatic secrets of the highest importance which nobody else could have known. The book is poorly composed and carelessly revised, but that does not detract from its importance as a historical document of the first order.”
+ — =Ind= 92:486 D 8 ‘17 1250w
“It is in every respect an important historical document, despite the chatty and easy style in which it is written, and throws an illuminating light upon many dark places in European diplomacy and modes of thought. His book will furnish convincing proof, if any American still feels the need of proof, of the sinister intentions of the ruling powers in Germany, and of their utter disregard of all recognized conventions, ethical or political, in an effort to attain their ambitions.”
+ =Lit D= 55:34 O 27 ‘17 1800w
+ =Lit D= 55:43 D 8 ‘17 250w
“We think the telling of this story was a service to the American people; and at a time when there is so much to be read that this is distinctly one of the books to be chosen. The description of German government and institutions is excellent; it would be difficult for the ordinary reader to find anywhere a better popular account. The most important chapters relate to diplomatic affairs, and to the attitude of Germany towards the American people.”
+ =Nation= 105:484 N 1 ‘17 1750w
“In Mr Gerard’s remarkable book there is an enlightening chapter which reveals, to some extent, how organised capital in Germany, aided by the state, is still seeking to dominate the world.” T. E. Thorpe
+ =Nature= 100:361 Ja 10 ‘18 1900w
“All this variety gives the book, inevitably, a certain scrappiness of effect, but vastly increases its interest and value as a report upon another nation. Its report, by necessity, is one of superficial observation. Mr Gerard nowhere makes pretense of profound study of the German people or their affairs.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:378 O 7 ‘17 1000w
=Pittsburgh= 22:762 N ‘17 50w
“Considering its source and timeliness, such a book would in any event have real significance, but there is a danger that the general reading public will seek that significance in the wrong place. The real value of what Mr Gerard has to tell us lies entirely aside from the personal equation. ... Spicy as this book is, it leaves a somewhat tantalizing impression that the author has reserved a good deal of his most piquant matter for publication some time in the dim future.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 92:1383 O 20 ‘17 600w
“The volume carries with it its own justification. ... There is a straightforward sincerity about this book that must impress all readers. While it condemns Germany, it does not appeal to the spirit of hatred.” A. S.
+ =R of Rs= 56:528 N ‘17 800w
+ =Spec= 119:572 N 17 ‘17 170w
“The book is of more value from a historical viewpoint than as mere literature. The author has something to tell that the public wants to know and in such case substance takes precedence of form.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 800w
“To English readers the most interesting pages in the book will probably be those in which the ambassador relates his efforts to alleviate the lot of British prisoners.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 N 15 ‘17 950w
German deserter’s war experience; tr. by J. Koettgen. *$1 (1½c) Huebsch 940.91 17-13674
The author is a German Socialist and anti-militarist, who after fourteen months of fighting in Belgium and France escaped into Holland and came to America. His story was first published in the New Yorker Volkszeitung. He describes the entry into Belgium, the advance and retreat at the Marne, the beginning of trench warfare, the famous Christmas truce, etc. The translator says, “The chief value of this soldier’s narrative lies in his destructive, annihilating criticism of the romance and fabled virtues of war.” The author, in concluding, says, “Today I have recovered sufficiently to take up again in the ranks of the American Socialists the fight against capitalism. ... A relentless struggle to the bitter end is necessary to show the ruling war-provoking caste who is the stronger, so that it no longer may be in the power of that class to provoke such a murderous war as that in which the working-class of Europe is now bleeding to death.”
“Written with a strong anti-militarist and socialist bias.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:443 Jl ‘17
“The writer’s deep hatred of war and all its works, not only the actual bloodshed and cruelty, but also the unnatural and humiliating relations of men to officers in the German army itself, speaks in every page. The whole story is told with the vividness that comes of recent deep and indelible impressions of soul-stirring experiences.”
+ =Dial= 63:401 O 25 ‘17 160w
“He accuses his officers of both deliberate cruelty and cowardice, giving instances in the advance on the Marne, and flight from it, to sustain his charges. This part of his book is an astounding revelation. He asserts on several occasions the men refused to obey orders to shoot wounded enemy soldiers and helpless civilians, and were more tortured than punished for such insubordination.”
+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 200w
“It will rekindle our determination not to become swamped in the war to the point where we forget our chief purpose—not defeat of Germany so much as defeat of war as an institution. ... ‘A German deserter’s war experience,’ with its directness and almost clumsy sincerity, is a chastening and thrilling book for all of us, but it is as a symbol of revolt that one will not wish to forget it.” H. S.
+ =New Repub= 11:193 Je 16 ‘17 1050w
“The volume is the output of a very keen observer, a man who kept his wits about him in every possible situation and was able to recount what he saw afterwards. ... The volume is one of the best descriptive works that we have yet seen on this subject. ... Much praise is due the translator, Comrade J. Koettgen, for a careful and yet spirited account of war as seen through the eyes of a Socialist participant.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 1050w
=N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 120w
=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p40 O ‘17 40w
“The writer is a man of the people, a foreman miner, and tells his story straightforwardly, intelligently and without conscious art. ... Of widest interest are the detailed descriptions of the advance thru Belgium, the battle of the Marne and the retreat. There have been numerous accounts of these events by French witnesses and by newspaper men who have repeated the tales of participants, but, except for the official German account, this book is the first to come from that side.”
+ =Pub W= 91:210 Ja 20 ‘17 150w
=R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 80w
“Whether true or not—and the balance swings in favor of the affirmative, it is an absorbing story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 13 ‘17 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p596 D 6 ‘17 650w
=GEROULD, GORDON HALL.= Peter Sanders, retired. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-11709
When his gambling house in New York was closed down, Peter Sanders became a wanderer. He was a gentleman of quiet tastes, and a lover of books, with a leaning toward the classics. He meets adventures in various parts of Europe, but his inclinations call him back to America, even tho his return means the hiding of his identity under a false name. Accompanied by his faithful servant, Henry, he becomes familiar with corners of his native land before unknown to him. He makes new friends too and comes to think better of his fellow men than he had in the old days when he saw them only thru a gambler’s eyes. Finally when he is reinstated in New York, it is to find that he has become a new man and that the old ways no longer hold any charm for him.
“A leisurely tale ‘gay without vapidity and adventurous without sensationalism.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
“What we assist at is a gradual change in point of view and emphasis rather than a radical change of character.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:410 Je ‘17 650w
“This Mr Silcox is a very credible old gentleman. ... The thing that is not quite believable is Peter Sanders. ... We feel sure that, although many a novelist has done worse, Mr Gerould could have done far better.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 300w
“Thoroughly to enjoy it, one should know that Mr Gerould is a college professor; his interest in ex-gamblers gains piquancy from this fact.”
+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 330w
“The story (which is not, we suspect, without its foundation in fact) is in its way a romance, and long before we are done with him we have formed a proper romantic affection for its stout and aging hero.”
+ =Nation= 104:580 My 10 ‘17 350w
“The novel is written with a sense of irony which gives it a certain pungency.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:163 Ap 22 ‘17 300w
“The story is well written and gently humorous. The resemblance of Mr Sanders to a noted New York gambler lately deceased is striking.”
+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 8 ‘17 400w
=GEROULD, KATHARINE (FULLERTON) (MRS GORDON HALL GEROULD).= Change of air. il *$1.25 Scribner 17-25861
“The book opens with a scene in the drawing rooms of Miss Cordelia Wheaton. Miss Wheaton, a rich woman, had a very large number of poor friends, and she had sent for them all to come to her house on a certain day. There they sit at the beginning of the first chapter; ‘and they waited, unprotesting; for they were all poor.’ At last, when the rooms are full, Miss Wheaton appears and makes the surprising announcement that she has decided to divide the greater part of her fortune among them at once, instead of doing it in her will. Each is to receive a certain sum—how much no one of the others will ever know. She carries out her plan, and the effect of this ‘windfall’ upon the lives and characters of some few of her beneficiaries, and ultimately upon Miss Wheaton herself, form the theme—or perhaps it would be better to say the themes—of the book.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18
“To Walter Leaven we owe the story’s rescue from bitter comedy to a finale of exquisite romance. It is his figure, treading devotedly towards its goal of self-realisation through self-devotion, that makes a story out of what might otherwise have been a mere group of satirical episodes.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:691 F ‘18 590w
+ =Nation= 105:695 D 20 ‘17 220w
“Though there are frequent fine penetrations in her account of people, and a sharp wit to clinch the penetration, she has a constant tendency to substitute the values of polite society for the values that a genuine artist would discern. Her bristling smartness, her complaisance, her snobbishness, are difficult traits to tolerate in a novelist of manners.”
+ — =New Repub= 13:223 D 22 ‘17 650w
“The book is very short, very clever, very cynical.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:394 O 14 ‘17 800w
“A good story idea only moderately well carried out.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 50w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:749 N ‘17 30w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 92:2028 D 8 ‘17 280w
“It is all very brilliant, but one shudders to see life chiseled with such delicate scalpels and with so sure and unashamed a pagan touch.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 480w
=GERRISH, FREDERIC HENRY.= Sex-hygiene; a talk to college boys. (Present day problems ser.) *60c (8c) Badger, R: G. 612.6 17-13326
“In 1911 there was given to Bowdoin college a fund the income of which was to be devoted to the instruction of the students in the proper relations of the sexes. As a part of this instruction the following lecture has been given to the freshman class of each succeeding year. It has been given, also, in a number of other institutions for the education of young men and boys.” (Preface) The lecturer is professor emeritus of surgery at Bowdoin college, and author of several standard medical books.
=Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 50w
“One of the most useful books of its kind. ... It is plain and direct and is without an excess of detail. ... Bowdoin college has announced that it is going to give a copy to every member of each freshman class from now on.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 130w
=GERSTENBERG, CHARLES W., and JOHNSON, WALTER SEELY.= Organization and control. (Modern business, v. 3) il Alexander Hamilton inst. 658 17-1816
“‘Organization and control’ deals not with the internal management and control of business units, but rather with the external organization and ownership of industrial enterprises and the control of their business policies. In other words, this is not a work on business management, but on the structure of the business unit. ... The book approaches the subject largely from the legal standpoint, although there is nothing of a technical legal nature in the content. ... The closing chapters deal with the questions growing out of concentration and combination in business. In them the author examines the causes that have led up to the present high degree of centralized control, traces the evolution of the ‘trust’ through the various forms which it has taken and outlines the advantages resulting from industrial consolidation. Illegal combinations are discussed and the book closes with a history of the law of monopolies and an analysis of recent legislation on the trust question.”—Am Econ R
“It presents the subject in a remarkably clear and readable manner, illuminates the material with a number of well-selected business forms, and arouses interest by suggestive questions on hypothetical corporate problems.” F. E. Armstrong
+ =Am Econ R= 7:648 S ‘17 380w
=Pratt= p23 Jl ‘17
=GERSTER, ARPAD GEYZA CHARLES.=[2] Recollections of a New York surgeon. il $3.50 Hoeber 17-29633
“Born in Hungary in 1848, Dr Gerster came to this country in 1873 and settled for practice in New York city. His family origin was Swiss and his forebears were sturdy peasants or burghers, who did not fail to do their part in freeing Europe from the feudal subjection to the Hapsburg and Burgundian overlords. ... He writes of the public service of his ancestors—of John Gerster of Kaufbeuren who held various offices in the Basel city government prior to 1532, when he was pensioned, of Ottmar Gerster, who commanded the peasant army in the war waged against Abbot Ulrich VIII of Sankt Gallen to gain liberation from the overlordship of the monastery. ... In 1866 Gerster entered the University of Vienna as a medical student. There he remained seven years and went through all the experiences of student life, including the duel requirements. ... His surgical practice in New York began in a very humble way, and for some years was confined to work among the very poor. Later he won renown and wealth. The closing section of his
## book is devoted to ‘diversions.’”—Boston Transcript
“And he writes delightfully of music, sketching, wood-carving and etching.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 650w
“Throughout the book there is evident a genial, eager personality whose keen interest in the world and all its people, in nature and all her manifestations, has filled the days of his life with enjoyment.
## Particularly wholesome reading will the book be for young medical
students and practitioners.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:573 D 23 ‘17 480w
=GIBBONS, MRS HELEN DAVENPORT (BROWN).= Red rugs of Tarsus. *$1.25 (3c) Century 956 17-10364
An account of the Armenian massacre of 1909. The author, with her husband, Herbert Adams Gibbons, was spending the year 1909 in Tarsus and teaching in a mission school. Since then she has tried to put the experience of that year out of her mind. “But,” she says, “recent events in Armenia brought it all back again. My indignation, and a sense of duty and of pity, transcended all personal feelings. I lived again that night in Tarsus, when we—seven defenseless women, our one foreign man ... and 4,800 Armenians waited our turn at the hands of the Kurds.” The story is told from the letters written at that time to her mother in America.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:22 O ‘17
“She gives bright and humorous descriptions of her new experiences, which, however, soon cease to be merely amusing. The horror of an Armenian massacre converts the airy narrative into a grim recital of terrible deeds.”
+ =Dial= 62:447 My 17 ‘17 200w
“Unfortunately many of these letters to Mrs Gibbons’ mother contain information which must have interested her mother greatly, but which will seem irrelevant to the public, or trivial, when thought of in relation to such great happenings.”
=Ind= 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 70w
+ =Lit D= 54:2006 Je 30 ‘17 150w
“A fine and significant book. ... Of the moments of her own peril Mrs Gibbons has written with a simplicity, almost an unconsciousness, that is magnificently fine and dramatic to read, now that it is all over, and she and her husband were saved. But the record as a whole, including those terrible hours with the rest, is one of stark, close, immediate realities, known and faced. The book will give the American reader food for more than one kind of thought.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 500w
“A very vital, realistic, graphic portrayal of one of the terrible tragedies of modern history.”
+ =Outlook= 116:627 Ag 22 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:527 Je ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17
“The deposition of Abdul Hamid and the triumph of the Young Turks occurred while the family was at Mersina, and the popular impression that the new régime was more tolerant is contradicted by what Mrs Gibbons writes of the early days of its intolerance.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 450w
=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Reconstruction of Poland and the Near East; problems of peace. *$1 (3c) Century 940.91 17-21742
“These chapters were written as a series of articles for the Century Magazine. At the time of the Russian revolution and the intervention of the United States, the chapters on Poland and Constantinople had already been published and the others were in print.” (Foreword) Mr Gibbons treats some events in outline only, and makes references that assume the reader’s knowledge of modern European history. His chapters all deal with the wrongs of small nations, whom he shows to have been ill-treated by the Entente allies as well as by Germany, and with the way the small nations should be treated to secure a durable peace. Despite his “horrors and detestation of what Jews and Poles and Armenians and Belgians and Serbians are being made to suffer,” he does not think that the punishment of and a change in the political status of Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Austria-Hungary would prevent the renewal in the very near future of wrongs inflicted upon small and weak nations, but believes the formula for the readjustment of the world to be “government by the consent of the governed.” He therefore argues that the reconstituted Polish state must not be subject in any way to either Germany or Russia and that its boundaries must be determined by ethnological, economic and political, rather than historical, considerations; that Constantinople must be considered “in the light of principle and not as a pawn”; that the peace conference must prove the intention of Europe to put “local Mohammedan interests ahead of European interest in Mohammedan countries”; and that the Entente powers must “guarantee the Balkan peninsula to the Balkan peoples,” as otherwise “Germany will keep the hegemony in the Balkans that she has already won.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17
“The book interprets for us the passionate racial desires for freedom, and the inalienable right to enjoy that freedom, of all the minor weaker states now in the whirlpool of war.” S. A.
=Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 410w
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w
“The author writes from long and intimate knowledge of eastern European politics, and his suggestions are worthy of the earnest attention of statesmen and diplomats.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Dial= 63:583 D 6 ‘17 520w
=Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 250w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 370w
“The attitude of the writer is rather that of a thoughtful observer than an incisive critic. He has no definite solution to offer for any of the problems which are sure to plague mankind after peace negotiations shall have begun.”
+ — =Nation= 105:609 N 29 ‘17 500w
“Mr Gibbons is the author of two recent and very valuable works, ‘The new map of Africa’ and ‘The new map of Europe.’ In the present work he departs from his special forte of describing what has happened in the way of territorial changes to suggest changes that may happen in the future. ... The value of the work consists far more in the information given regarding the past status of these countries than in what he suggests for the future. ... In his past work he was on sure ground, in this it is unavoidably different.” J. W.
+ — =N Y Call= p15 S 2 ‘17 400w
“Mr Gibbons gives a lucid and vigorous presentation of the issues at stake in Poland and the Near East, pointing out that if the war is to continue in the character of a struggle for democracy against autocracy, the issues must be defined to meet the requirements of democracy. .... In his point of view he is accurately representative of American nationalism.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 540w
“A useful work of historical reference and suggestion. It should have an index.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 360w
=Pittsburgh= 22:825 D ‘17 90w
“An important contribution to the literature on American foreign relations emphasizes that the principles of American policy concerning the Near East are fundamentally and necessarily different from those of our allies. ... The author sets right misled public opinion in this country concerning the nature of Panislamism and the Islam conception of the state.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:550 S 22 ‘17 720w
=GIBBONS, JAMES, cardinal.= Retrospect of fifty years. 2v *$2 (1½c) Murphy, J: 282 17-88
These two volumes contain a selection from the essays and sermons of Cardinal Gibbons. His introduction expresses the belief that they may be of historical importance as a record of the times in which he has lived. He says “I have lived a long time, and I have lived through a very critical time. Not only have I held office many years, but I have held office during a time of transition, when the old order was changed.” A large part of the first volume is devoted to the Vatican council (1869-1870), of which Cardinal Gibbons is the last surviving member. Other miscellaneous papers of general interest included in the two volumes are: The Knights of labor; The church and the republic; Irish immigration to the United States; Patriotism and politics; Will the American republic endure?
“The reader will not find in this book any aids to an exact knowledge of historic facts, nor will the non-Catholic find any arguments to persuade him to join the church, but he will feel that the country has been very fortunate to have had a man of broad sympathies, of generous temper, of great patience and Christian charity at the head of the Catholic church in America during the last fifty years.” H: D. Sedgwick
=Am Hist R= 22:887 Jl ‘17 1050w
“Of interest to both Catholics and Protestants alike.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:285 Ap ‘17
“He was already a priest during the Civil war, followed Abraham Lincoln’s body in procession when it was brought to Baltimore, and has been personally acquainted with most of the American presidents since Lincoln’s death.”
+ =Ath= p255 My ‘17 120w
“The essay on the Knights of labour is one of the most important, as the part played by Cardinal Gibbons in their behalf is one of his noblest achievements. ... In every essay, the character of the man is unconsciously made clear. And one arises from such reading with the conviction that this man is greater than any of his writings or deeds, and that such a man is one of the greatest assets of a nation or a church.” F. P. Lyons, C. S. P.
+ =Bookm= 45:193 Ap ‘17 1000w
“Many of the papers and addresses embraced in the ‘Retrospect’ deal with civic affairs. .... In these we get an ineffaceable impression of the distinguished author as the type of the militant citizen who rebukes the wrong and defends the right, and yet through all retains an unshakable faith in his country and its institutions which glows like a torch to guide all who call themselves Americans.”
+ =Cath World= 104:689 F ‘17 800w
+ =Lit D= 54:911 Mr 31 ‘17 950w
=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 80w
=GIBBS, GEORGE FORT.= Secret witness. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-22296
“The author, in an explanatory final chapter, seems to claim that some evidence exists of the truth of the incidents described in the novel as preceding the assassination of the Austrian archduke at Sarajevo. According to this theory, the German Kaiser and the Archduke had formed a secret alliance in which, after the death of Emperor Francis Joseph, they were to divide between them Austria, Serbia, Poland, and other territory, the Archduke to hold the eastern section and to found a dynasty through his children, whose right to succeed him was denied by Austria. The story gives an Austrian origin to the plot and assassination. The secret interview between the Kaiser and Archduke is overheard by a young Austrian countess and a young English diplomat who are in love with each other and who conceive it to be their duty to report the matter—one to the Austrian emperor, the other to the English ambassador. Out of this naturally come plots and counterplots and adventures of startling character.”—Outlook
=A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 6 ‘17 300w
“Not so skillfully written as Buchan’s ‘Greenmantle,’ but of similar interest.”
+ — =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w
=Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 60w
“A technically adroit, plausible and attractively written story.”
+ =New Repub= 12:226 S 22 ‘17 200w
“There is plenty of variety in the scenes which are laid in many and very different places, including a Turkish harem and an ancient, supposedly abandoned castle high up in the Tatra range of the Carpathians. ... A swift-moving, entertaining story with an ingenious plot.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 320w
=Outlook= 117:142 S 26 ‘17 160w
=Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w
“A second ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ in its headlong pace, picturesque situations, adventure and love interest.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:556 N ‘17 200w
=GIBBS, PHILIP.= Battles of the Somme. *$2 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-3464
This is Mr Gibbs’s second war book. “The soul of the war” was written while he was a free-lance journalist in France and Belgium. He is now an officially accredited correspondent with the British armies in the field. In this book he has brought together articles written in the three months following July 1, 1916. He is one of the most brilliant men writing from the front. He kept close to the fighting forces, and makes the daily life of the men in action very vivid. There are two folding maps.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:345 My ‘17
“Mr Gibbs’s book is the war. ... The reader sees and senses the horror and the nastiness and the incredible folly of it all; but, shining through the sombreness, the glory of those golden lads who, knowing the war and hating it like the hell it is, went steadfastly forward into the flames with smiling eyes and a jest on their lips.” A. R. Dodd
+ =Bookm= 45:196 Ap ‘17 600w
“No man who writes from the front writes more sensitively than does Philip Gibbs. ... His best pictures are of men.” W. A. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 950w
+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 140w
+ =Lit D= 54:1708 Je 2 ‘17 550w
+ =New Repub= 10:sup16 Ap 21 ‘17 550w
“If Mr Gibbs can see the saving humors in the warring days, he can see the hideousness, too, and the fineness, and the tenderness that so often goes hand in hand with the heroism. It is because he can see all of these things—and makes us see them—that his book is so good.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:57 F 18 ‘17 500w
+ =Outlook= 116:75 My 9 ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p40 O ‘17 20w
+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 600w
“The two excellent maps appended to the book, while they fulfil the purpose of their insertion by recording the progress made in the early weeks of the battle, are of no use in following the present movement. The Germans have been backed clean off them.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 13 ‘17 550w
“His record appeared from day to day, in either the Daily Telegraph or the Daily Chronicle. ... On the tanks Mr Gibbs speaks with a certain guarded enthusiasm. ... ‘If we had enough of them—and it would be a big number—trench warfare would go for ever and machine-gun redoubts would lose their terror.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p38 Ja 25 ‘17 700w
=GIBBS, WINIFRED STUART.= Minimum cost of living. *$1 Macmillan 331.83 17-10221
“This work is based on a methodical study of the food habits, as compared with the scientifically-estimated food requirements, of a number of New York families cared for by the Association for improving the condition of the poor; this study seems to have succeeded in multiplying the effectiveness of the money spent in relieving want, and as an unintentional byproduct food economies are suggested which are undoubtedly feasible on a larger scale. The contribution of the book to present needs lies in these statistics of food use and food needs.”—Springf’d Republican
“An accurate laboratory contribution to family budget literature, of use to every student of social conditions. Further, it demonstrates the practicability of using the family budget as a lever to raise the living standards both of dependent and of independent families, and will, therefore, be of service to every social worker.” W. E. Clark
+ =Am Econ R= 7:665 S ‘17 500w
Reviewed by Florence Nesbitt
=Am J Soc= 23:277 S ‘17 60w
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
“It must be kept in mind, however, in reading this book that the budgets given are not to be set up as standards for the cost of living. The clothing estimate is admittedly inadequate even when eked out by gifts of clothing from relations.” N. D. H.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:237 Jl ‘17 90w
“While primarily a book for charity visitors and district nurses, it should interest all social workers for it records with modesty a fine piece of constructive work to help families left without an adult male wage-earner, to spend their incomes wisely.”
+ =Cleveland= p77 Je ‘17 60w
=Dial= 63:351 O 11 ‘17 120w
=J Pol Econ= 25:1059 D ‘17 60w
“Of peculiar interest, now that the war has given prominence to the question of food-economy.”
+ =Nation= 105:272 S 6 ‘17 360w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:90 Je ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 20w
Reviewed by Graham Lusk
+ =Science= n s 46:18 Jl 6 ‘17 230w
“The explanatory text is rather incoherently assembled, but there are enough figures in handy form to give the amateur economist a good working basis.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 3 ‘17 440w
“It gives concrete evidence for the philanthropist, the law-maker, and the employer regarding the now undeniable interrelation between human progress and the minimum wage.” L. B. Mendel
+ =Survey= 38:531 S 15 ‘17 200w
=GIBSON, CHARLES R.= War inventions and how they were invented. il *$1 Lippincott 355 (Eng ed 17-1948)
“An attractive book which answers a good many of the questions—about guns and shells and range-finding, for instance—which the layman is always asking himself or others equally ignorant.” (Spec) “Contents: How guns were invented; How guns were made to shoot straight; Guns that fire 1,000 shots per minute; Giant guns; What is an explosive? How shells were invented; How we came to make iron ships; Ships that go under the sea; Some questions about submarines; About the deadly torpedo; How torpedoes and mines are exploded; A very dangerous occupation; The eye of the submarine; Measuring the distance to the enemy; Ships that go up in the air; War in the air.” (Pittsburgh)
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:434 My ‘17 80w
“Mr Gibson is not afraid to begin at the beginning and explain the very elements of gunnery and torpedo-work, and he has a clear and pleasant style.”
+ =Spec= 117:sup685 D 2 ‘16 60w
=GIBSON, HUGH.= Journal from our legation in Belgium. il *$2.50 (2½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-29362
This volume is the private journal of the first secretary to the American legation in Brussels “jotted down hastily from day to day in odd moments, when more pressing duties would permit.” (Introd.) It runs from July 4 to December 31, 1914. Appended to it as a final
## chapter is an article on the case of Miss Cavell, which has appeared
in the World’s Work. “Much material has been eliminated as of little interest. Other material of interest has been left out because it cannot be published at this time.” (Introd.) Most of the matter about the early history of the Commission for relief in Belgium has been eliminated, because Mr Gibson felt that his record of it was inadequate and knew that Dr Vernon Kellogg was to publish an authoritative account of the Commission’s work. There are numerous illustrations from photographs. Among these are portraits of Edith Cavell, Herbert C. Hoover and Cardinal Mercier. There is no index.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 100w
“This is one of the best books which the war has given us. The writing is not beautiful or fine, but the story is so surpassingly good that it never is tiresome or dull.”
+ =Nation= 105:665 D 13 ‘17 2350w
“What one gleans from this book, even more than the sensations of Belgium invaded—amplified as they are by numerous photographs and proclamations—is a pronounced impression of the Germany that invaded her, the Germans that went to make up that formidable force which Mr Gibson observes so sensibly, with such disintegrating critical gaze.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 13:101 N 24 ‘17 1750w
“In this long and absorbing record of early war days there is much to clear up perplexities and to give us new facts and new light on old knowledge. ... Simple, vivid, concrete, informative, it is to repeat, a book that every American ought to read.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:439 O 28 ‘17 1500w
“His knowledge of the mind and spirit of the invaded, coupled with his power to portray the Germans, renders his narrative unusually absorbing and convincing.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:826 D ‘17 80w
“This is one of those exceptionally privileged volumes which make the great mass of current war literature seem tame and commonplace.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 92:2025 D 8 ‘17 450w
“It forms a vivid and convincing story of what went on in Belgium during the first year of the war. It should be read by all who have any remaining doubts as to the spirit and intent of the German administration in Belgium.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 170w
“The poignant merit of this book consists, not in the novelty of the facts, which are but too familiar, but in the authority of the writer.”
+ =Sat R= 124:506 D 22 ‘17 1300w
=GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.= Livelihood; dramatic reveries. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 17-1621
Mr Gibson has brought together twenty of his recent poems. They are narratives of humble life, stories of men and women who, “in spite of everything,” have learned “to take their luck through life and find it good.” They bring out some of those imperishable qualities in human nature which neither hardship nor poverty nor war has power wholly to destroy.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:391 Je ‘17
+ =Ath= p200 Ap ‘17 270w
“He is truly a poet of the people. ... To be a poet of the people, the people must understand you; they must do more, they must know you understand them.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 20 ‘17 1600w
“The muse of Mr Gibson drowses in ‘Livelihood.’ ... Equally unfortunate is the lapse of that faculty of enlargement which gave compass and vista to those low-life themes which cramp the unsympathetic or unimaginative mind. Comparatively speaking, the persons in ‘Livelihood’ are passive, and their sorrows oppress rather than excite us. Exceptions occur, or the volume would hardly be Mr Gibson’s. ‘The news’ is an affecting though dilated story, and ‘The old nail shop’ illustrates the resurgence of vigor.” O. W. Firkins
– + =Nation= 105:66 Jl 19 ‘17 350w
“Not that Gibson is faultless; he has at times a distressing tendency to take the phrase or word that comes first into his head; he does not always labor until he has secured the inevitable and creative phrase, as, for instance, Robert Frost usually does. But this does not detract from the beauty he often achieves, or his significance as a poet of labor.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ap 29 ‘17 660w
“Very tender and gentle is Mr Gibson’s touch upon life in these poems, wherein he sees only the solemn glory in each humble soul and has no eyes for its baseness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:14 Ja 14 ‘17 900w
+ =R of Rs= 55:211 F ‘17 50w
“Though these tales in verse are not poetry in the fullest and highest sense, though they are too merely individual and too photographic for that, yet they are what every one may well be grateful for. ... There is not a dull page in them; the book is a compound of constant cleverness, much sympathy, some imagination, scarcely any music of speech.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p79 F 15 ‘17 1300w
“The chief defect in the book is a want of the joy of life; there is a sombreness over it all; there is resignation rather than happiness. The chief delight of his men and women is in the remembering of past days. It may be that ‘Between the lines’ gives a clue to this: the shadow of the war has not yet fallen upon us.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 6:862 Jl ‘17 150w
=GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.= Poems (1904-1917). il *$2.25 Macmillan 821 17-24679
The publishers state that “here is brought together in one volume all of Mr Gibson’s writings which he wishes to preserve.” Contents: Akra the slave; Stonefolds; Daily bread; Womenkind; Fires; Thoroughfares; Borderlands; Battle; Friends; Livelihood.
=A L A Bkl= 14:66 N ‘17
“His work is simple, rough-hewn and frequently unbeautiful, but his sympathies penetrate to the innermost heart of humble life.”
+ =Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 60w
“It is, of course, too early to attempt a placing of Mr Gibson. For the present it is enough to say that he has developed a style peculiarly effective, and valuable too for its influence on contemporary poetry. Mr Gibson has clearly proved that poetry can deal with the commonplaces of daily life,—with the bitter and trivial and powerful and universal commonplaces of human consciousness,—and do it with force and beauty.” Conrad Aiken
+ =Dial= 63:453 N 8 ‘17 700w
“Such sketches of the individual soldier in the trenches as make up the section ‘Battle’ are so brief, so compact, so single in their purpose that every lyric suggests the flight of a bullet. And, like bullets, these war poems either hit altogether or not at all. They are all perfect; tho three or four of them are perfect failures. ... In war and peace alike, Gibson selects by preference the themes that are commonplace or even disagreeable and makes them splendid by revealing the heroism and kindliness which lie deep in the hearts of common folk.”
+ — =Ind= 92:62 O 6 ‘17 250w
=Lit D= 55:32 N 3 ‘17 120w
“He has diction, but hardly phrase; he has passion, but hardly drama; he has humanity, but hardly character. He is concise, but is prodigal of concision. A master of point when he wills, he keeps that mastery in habitual abeyance. Yet so abounding, so dominating, are his diction, his passion, his humanity, that the negations, in the hour of contact, are scarcely credible or visible.” O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 106:89 Ja 24 ‘18 730w
“Wilfrid Wilson Gibson gets into these idylls the kindliness of the English folk. Through his work we see England, not as a great imperial system, but as a not too prosperous nationality where a laborious, poorly rewarded folk love their soil and love their kind.” Padraic Colum
+ =New Repub= 13:sup11 N 17 ‘17 1000w
“What he has done, here grouped together, makes him one of labor’s strongest voices; we are justly proud of him.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 650w
“Like Wordsworth, Mr Gibson has a plain, severe way of writing which degenerates only too often into aridity and baldness; ... like Wordsworth, too, he is almost exclusively interested in the lives of the simple and the poor. There, unfortunately, the resemblance stops.”
— =N Y Times= 22:383 O 7 ‘17 450w
=GIDDINGS, HOWARD ANDREW=, comp.[2] Handbook of military signaling. il *60c Appleton 623.7 17-28811
A revised edition of a handbook published in 1896 with the title “Instructions in military signaling.” The preface says, “The changes in codes and signaling systems have been so extensive that the handbook is in effect a new one. The signal codes, conventional signals, letter codes, emergency signals, etc., are taken from the Signal book, U.S. army, 1916.”
“Useful, compact little volume.”
+ =Nation= 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 40w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:187 D ‘17 10w
=R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 20w
=GILBERT, ARTHUR WITTER=, and others. Potato. (Rural science ser.) il *$1.50 Macmillan 635 17-10445
“The author states in his preface that the book is intended to give brief and practical suggestions on the growing, breeding and marketing of potatoes.” (Science) “Mr Dean is a grower of potatoes on a large scale and has studied the business of potato growing in all parts of the United States. His chapters in the book deal with the practical work of planting and cultivating, Dr Barrus’s with the diseases of the potato and how to treat them, and Dr Gilbert’s with the different varieties and what each needs in the way of soil and care.” (N Y Times)
“Unquestionably one of the most important agricultural books of the year.”
+ =Agricultural Digest= 2:504 Je ‘17 60w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:433 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 30w
“Has the usual solid merits of the volumes in Professor Bailey’s Rural science series. Of timely value is the chapter on the problems of marketing and storage.”
+ =Nation= 105:154 Ag 9 ‘17 550w
+ =N Y Times= 22:165 Ap 29 ‘17 130w
=Pratt= p21 Jl ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
“This publication, in addition to being up-to-date in its cultural directions, devotes considerably more attention to the subject of potato breeding than any of our preceding American treatises on the potato. ... The discussion of potato diseases and their control is clear and convincing and should prove very helpful to both the farmer and the student. A chapter on ‘Markets, marketing and storage’ is both suggestive and helpful, as is also that on the cost of growing potatoes.” W: Stuart
+ =Science= n s 45:462 My 11 ‘17 300w
=GILBERT, GEORGE HOLLEY.= Jesus for the men of today; when science aids religion. *$1 Doran 232 17-17183
“‘Jesus: for the men of today,’ by Prof. George H. Gilbert, is a life of Christ in story form. The main facts of the gospel narrative are made to live again amid the homely human surroundings of Galilee and Judea.”—Ind
“It reveals the human and lovely character of Jesus with the power of a poet’s interpretation; it discloses the soul of the writer as well, and the vision is most beautiful. The book must have been written originally more or less in blank verse or else the writer unconsciously pens prose that admits scanning.”
+ — =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 210w
“The ample historical and archeological knowledge of the author guarantee the accuracy of the picture, and the characters are sketched with the modern touches of realism.”
+ =Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 70w
=GILBERTSON, HENRY STIMSON.= County—the “dark continent” of American politics. $2 National short ballot organization 352 17-12496
“Since 1910, when the American political science association gave the county a place on the program of its annual meeting, a number of valuable studies of the county have been made. ... The work under review by H. S. Gilbertson, secretary of the New York short ballot organization, is the first attempt to set forth within the covers of a single book ‘the outlines of a very real and important “county problem.”’ The purpose of the work, as stated in the preface, is to stimulate a ‘much wider and more thorough research into the subject than has yet been attempted’ and ‘to throw a new light upon the “democratic experiment” in America.’ Within the first 119 pages the author presents his ‘indictment of the county.’ This is followed (86 pages) by a constructive program of county reform. An appendix of 77 pages contains a number of valuable constitutional and legislative documents relating to county government. ... A comprehensive bibliography and an adequate index enhance the value of the book.”—Am Pol Sci R
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
Reviewed by O. C. Hormell
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:587 Ag ‘17 650w
+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 20w
“The political student and worker will find this book truly useful, the more so if he keep in mind how easy it is whenever a bad spot is found in officialdom to assault the governmental system.”
+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 80w
=Pratt= p9 O ‘17 40w
“Since Mr Gilbertson began the inquiry, something has been done here and there towards untangling the county knot, for example, the work of the Public efficiency society of Cook county, Ill., the Westchester research bureau of New York, and the Tax association of Alameda county in California—and the results of his work justify a degree of optimism for the future.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 210w
=St Louis= 15:170 Je ‘17
=GILMAN, STEPHEN.= Principles of accounting. $3 LaSalle extension univ. 657 16-15136
“‘Principles of accounting,’ for trained bookkeepers, is a complete discussion, made clearer by careful illustration, of the forms and values of accurate accounting in its modern meaning where the aim of the business man is not merely a balancing of accounts, but such a comparison of facts and values as will give him the truest estimate of his business transactions.”—Ind
“On the whole, it may be said that the book does not undertake to advance new theories but to present clearly the principles underlying the best accounting practice. The point of view is modern, the treatment comprehensive and usually adequate, and the style simple and clear. Effective use is made of charts, examples, problems, and summaries. ... The author’s acquaintance with accounting theory, however, is evidently not equalled by his knowledge of economic theory, else why say: ‘In a natural state, water may be obtained without effort; hence it has no utility?’” C. C. Huntington
+ =Am Econ R= 7:133 Mr ‘17 1500w
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:228 Jl ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 87:242 Ag 14 ‘16 60w
=GIRAULT, ARTHUR.= Colonial tariff policy of France; ed. by C: Gide. *$2.50 Oxford 337 (Eng ed 16-23596)
“This is one of the two initial publications issued by the Division of economics and history of the Carnegie endowment for international peace; the other being Grunzel’s ‘Economic protectionism.’ ... The book gives a narrative and critical account of the colonial policy of France. A first part, comprising about half the contents, gives a historical sketch of that policy. The second and concluding part takes up the present colonies one by one—the small colonies, Indo-China, Madagascar and dependencies, West Africa, Equatorial Africa, Algeria, Tunis, and Morocco—and describes and discusses their present relations with the mother country.”—Am Econ R
“In style and arrangement it is a typical and creditable example of French scholarly work. It is fluently and clearly written, well arranged, supplied with convenient introductions and summaries; and there is a good index. The passages that involve criticism and reasoning are sensible, but cannot be said to show a thorough grasp of general economic theory or of the principles of international trade.” F. W. Taussig
+ =Am Econ R= 7:155 Mr ‘17 900w
“Professor Girault is at his best in the historical and descriptive parts of the work. A certain looseness and inconsistency characterizes his generalizations and his deductions as well as his reasoning as to the policy which France of to-day should pursue towards some of her colonies. ... The real merit of this work lies in the analysis of the causes of the colonial tariff policies under the changing governments of France and in a careful presentation of the effect of these policies upon the economic status of each colony; as such it forms an important contribution to the study of the subject.” Simon Litman
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:904 Jl ‘17 600w
Reviewed by R. S. MacElwee
=Ann Am Acad= 71:234 My ‘17 470w
=St Louis= 15:357 O ‘17 60w
“The severity and lucidity of the main argument, the incontrovertibility of the historical facts built into the exposition, and the wealth of the statistical evidence certainly establish its title to be a work of reference for historians, economists, and the public; but it would require more than one expert thoroughly to sift the premises and test the conclusions stated with moderation but with an impressive conviction by the author. Professor Girault is handling a subject the general principles of which he had worked out in his ‘Principles de colonisation et de legislation coloniale’; and he is careful to correlate the specific analysis of the French system with the wider principles of colonial policy in general. ... Professor Girault has provided the French delegates at the future conference with an indispensable dossier.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p59 Ja 25 ‘17 1900w
=GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART.= Speeches; descriptive index and bibliography; with a preface by Viscount Bryce. *12s 6d Methuen & co., London 308 (Eng ed 17-14978)
“Mr Bassett has compiled an invaluable supplement to Lord Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone,’ comprising an index to his speeches from June 3rd, 1833, to May 4th, 1897, and a bibliography of his writings. ... The index is briefly annotated and gives the length of each speech. Fourteen of the most notable orations are reprinted in full, with useful introductions by Mr Herbert Paul. They include his attack on Palmerston’s foreign policy (1850), his denunciation of the treaty of Berlin (1878), and his famous opening speech in the Midlothian campaign of 1879, expressing a detestation of the Turk. His first Budget speech and his speech introducing the first Home rule bill are of much historic interest.”—Spec
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:88 Je ‘17 80w
+ =Spec= 118:417 Ap 7 ‘17 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p569 N 30 ‘16 650w
=GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER.=[2] Beggar and king. *$1 Yale univ. press 811 17-29491
Contains among its best pieces “Masters of earth,” “Sure, it’s fun!” “The golden plover,” “Measure for measure,” and “April’s fool.” A handful among the sheaf are steeped in orientalism. Others sing loud and exultantly, drowning “sneers of humankind.” Some are war songs. One of the latter, “The new beatitude,” with a few strokes sets ruined Picardy and Poland before the eye, where “rasps through the reek this whisper raucous and low, Blessed are they which died a year ago!”
“Mr Glaenzer’s volume is somewhat of a disappointment. With a few exceptions the works he has chosen to include are of ordinary significance. It is his workmanship rather than theme or conception that does him the greater credit. ‘Sure, it’s fun!’ one of the recent flashing bits of verse brought forth by the war shows how well Mr Glaenzer can succeed in being poetical; and the charming poem ‘To a vireo’ ... proves that when he abandons himself to light moods he can sing effectively and graciously. It is when he strives to be more ambitious, to sound the vague and complex depths of human experience that he fails to satisfy and merely irritates the reader by producing clever workmanship.” W. S. B.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 250w
“The workmanship is thorough, but the volume seems somewhat to lack the freshness that makes much of today’s poetry interesting.”
– + =N Y Times= 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 140w
“He is thoroughly original in everything he writes, with the possible exception of lyrics which only in notable cases differ radically in the year 1917. Mr Glaenzer delights in cynicism. His lyrics are tinged and also tarnished by this trait. Try as he may to climb to the subjective hights of lyricists, there is always some repelling incident to make him slip. For this reason he never effervesces nor thrills with emotional ecstasy. The coquette amuses him. There is always some regret or failing in his theme to dull the brilliance of the glittering peak.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 650w
=GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.= Inside the British Isles. *$2 (2c) Century 942.08 17-14222
A series of papers on Great Britain in wartime, arranged in four groups: Labor; Women; Ireland; Social studies, followed by a study of Lloyd-George and a conclusion. In concluding the author says, “I have sought to show the passing of England,—Little England, Old England,—the crumbling of its caste system, and the emergence of the England of John Bull and Cromwell’s soldiers from inarticulateness into power. And a yet greater thing has come—the advent of the new British commonwealth.” He adds further, “I am convinced that our own future is bound up with that of England, that together with England and France we can face the world with security, and gradually and painfully make the democratic principle prevail.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 280w
“The impression he creates is of a mind previously made up, and using only those facts which will support his thesis. ... In other words, Mr Gleason is a special pleader rather than a philosophic investigator, and it is only a philosophic investigator who could convincingly treat such a subject as that of the present book.”
— =Cath World= 106:261 N ‘17 510w
=Cleveland= p99 Jl ‘17 70w
“Everyone is there—Mr Lansbury, Mr Zimmern, Mr Lionel Curtis, Mr Webb. Labels of identification are attached to them all. An ordinary Englishman like myself may again and again have real difficulty in recognizing some of the portraits. Mr Gleason works rapidly, and he is a little naïve. But his book has a real interim value as a cinematograph and it is extraordinarily pleasant reading.” H. J. Laski
=Dial= 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 80w
“Contains uncommonly keen analyses of certain aspects of the national characteristics. Thus, his grasp on the Irish problem in relation to the gulf of feeling and sentiment separating the Irish from the English people goes true to the very bone of the difficulty.”
+ =Ind= 90:553 Je 23 ‘17 300w
“Mr Gleason writes with a rush and a whirl. He offers a minimum of specific data and a maximum of generalization. Yet we feel sure that no one will put down Mr Gleason’s book without a clear impression that England is today in revolution. His account is, beyond question, the most comprehensive and the most stimulating that has thus far appeared.”
+ — =Nation= 105:246 S 6 ‘17 1100w
“Mr Gleason is to be complimented in his piecing together of all the fragmentary information, heretofore available only from time to time in the hurriedly read columns of the press, and furnishing a fairly synthetic picture of all that has taken place. ... He is careful to tell us that ‘Marxian socialism’ is ‘obsolete.’ And this is the only thing in the volume that he doesn’t apparently know anything about.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 3 ‘17 570w
“Sometimes one wonders if perhaps Mr Gleason in his enthusiasm exaggerates the importance of the changes he observes going on, thinks them significant of deeper forces than they represent, mistakes the temporary adjustment to suit temporary conditions for permanent evolution. ... Nevertheless, whether one agrees or not, the book has peculiar interest and high importance. ... But the volume contains a half dozen or more pages on ‘The new Americanism’ which might very well have been omitted because they are utterly irrelevant to the subject of the book and because they amazingly misunderstand and misinterpret facts and conditions in this country.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:231 Je 17 ‘17 800w
=Pittsburgh= 22:674 O ‘17 30w
+ =Pratt= p46 O ‘17 30w
“The advantage possessed by Arthur Gleason as an interpreter of English life for Americans is that he has a fresh and active mind and knows what aspects of England American readers would like to hear about. The disadvantage is that his familiarity with British affairs—if familiarity is the proper word—is apparently a very recent growth. ... Having a keen and alert eye and a facile habit of deduction, he seldom fails to be interesting, though he frequently does fail to be significant.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 1100w
“The primary value of this book to the student of contemporary events is its description of tendencies, accompanied in nearly all cases by sufficient evidence to allow the reader to judge for himself what amount of intended or unconscious exaggeration there may be in the predictions made.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:548 S 22 ‘17 850w
=GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.= Our part in the great war. il *$1.35 (2c) Stokes 940.91 17-13604
This book is made up of four sections. Section 1, Americans who helped, consists of accounts of relief work in France, based on the author’s experience with an ambulance corps. Section 2, Why some Americans are neutral, has chapters on: Neutrality: an interpretation of the Middle West; Social workers and the war; Forgetting the American tradition, etc. Section 3, The Germans that rose from the dead, is based largely on gleanings from German war diaries. Section 4, The peasants, is a series of sketches, drawn from the author’s experience in Belgium and France. In addition there are two letters in an appendix addressed To the reader and To neutral critics.
=A L A Bkl= 13:443 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p86 Jl ‘17 90w
+ =Dial= 63:349 O 11 ‘17 200w
“So rapidly have events moved that Mr Gleason’s book has become, in ways, somewhat out of date even by the day of its publication. And that is a pity, for it contains so much valuable contribution to our knowledge of the war and is written in a spirit so earnest and, in the best sense, so patriotic that the reading of it ought still to have a tonic effect.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 550w
+ =R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 130w
=GLOVER, TERROT REAVELEY.= Jesus of history; with a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury. *$1 (1c) Assn. press 232 17-9479
This work was prepared for the British Student Christian movement and published in Great Britain by that organization. It is based, however, on lectures given in India in the winter of 1915-16 by the author, who is fellow of St John’s college, Cambridge, and university lecturer in ancient history. The aim of the book, the author says “is, after all, not to achieve a final presentment of the historical Jesus, but to suggest lines of study that will deepen our interest in him and our love of him.” Contents: The study of the gospels; Childhood and youth; The man and his mind; The teacher and the disciples; The teaching of Jesus upon God; Jesus and man; Jesus’ teaching upon sin; The choice of the cross; The Christian church in the Roman empire; Jesus in Christian thought.
=A L A Bkl= 13:424 Jl ‘17
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“Will appeal to those who find experience and life a guide to the understanding of the gospels rather than technical theology.” James Moffatt
+ =Hibbert J= 15:679 Jl ‘17 100w
“The prolix and involved presentation, however, make the argument difficult to follow; and one lays down the work with a sigh of disappointment, at the little this eminent scholar has contributed to our knowledge or understanding of Jesus.”
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+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 190w
Reviewed by M. K. Reely
=Pub W= 91:1323 Ap 21 ‘17 350w
“In the foreword which the Archbishop of Canterbury contributes to this book he speaks of its author’s ‘rare power of reverently handling familiar truths or facts in such manner as to make them seem to be almost new.’ In saying that he expresses what every one will feel to be the chief distinction of the book.”
+ =Spec= 119:143 Ag 11 ‘17 620w
“Dr Glover’s gifts of vivid description and graphic exposition have enabled him to provide a study of the central figure of the synoptic gospels which must evoke and retain the interest of even the least sympathetic readers. ... It is certainly unconventional and sometimes daring in its interpretations, but it is always reverent and full of the force of a man who has a strong personal grasp of what he believes to be ‘the fact of Christ.’”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p80 F 15 ‘17 500w
=GODFREY, THOMAS.= Prince of Parthia. il *$2.50 Little 812 17-14983
This book is a reprint of “the first tragedy ever composed by a native American and produced on the professional stage in the United States.” (R of Rs) It has heretofore been available only in the original edition of 1765, and “is now published in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its production [in Philadelphia], without variation from the original, and accompanied by a biography and historical and critical introduction by Archibald Henderson.” (R of Rs) Only 550 copies were printed for sale.
Reviewed by Algernon Tassin
=Bookm= 46:346 N ‘17 350w
“Godfrey was in no sense a great poet, not even a poet of great promise; but he was remarkable for the number and the variety of the English masters whom he was able, at the age of twenty-three, to echo in a way that showed appreciation if not originality. ... Many known facts go to show that his real importance in the history of eighteenth-century American literature has not been adequately recognized.”
=Dial= 63:215 S 13 ‘17 500w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17
“The tragedy has many passages of great beauty. ... This is the first adequate account of Thomas Godfrey, and one that presents a picture drawn from historical data, of the literary and cultural conditions of American society in Philadelphia and Wilmington 1750-67.”
=R of Rs= 56:443 O ‘17 250w
=GOGOL, NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH.= Inspector-general; a comedy in five acts; tr. from the Russian by T: Seltzer. (Borzoi plays) *$1 Knopf 891.7 17-78
“In this satire (written in the third decade of the last century) Gogol takes you to a little town of provincial Russia and introduces you to conditions there. Great excitement prevails in the town; for news of the coming of a government inspector has reached the town officials, and they tremble at the prospect of an investigation. ... In their panic fear they take the first man who arrives in town for the dreaded ‘Revizor.’ He happens to be a penniless adventurer from Petrograd, and to him each of the local officials, from the governor down, comes to reveal the venality of the others. ... The play is an unsparing castigation of ‘official’ incompetence, dishonesty and baseness.”—N Y Call
“It is theatrical, it is obvious. ... But it is irresistible fun.” O. M. Sayler
+ =Dial= 62:142 F 22 ‘17 120w
Reviewed by L. S. Friedland
=N Y Call= p15 F 25 ‘17 350w
“A Russian critic writes: ‘Russia possesses only one comedy, “The inspector general.”’ This volume is a new and complete version of Gogol’s four-act play written in 1835, which, by holding up to ridicule the officials of a typical municipality, struck a definite blow at the tyrannous bureaucracy of the Russian government.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:440 Ap ‘17 50w
“Means very much more to the Russian than even ‘The school for scandal’ or ‘She stoops to conquer’ does to the English-speaking world. ... Also known by its more literal title of ‘The revizor.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 22 ‘17 70w
=GOLDMAN, MAYER C.= Public defender; a necessary factor in the administration of justice. *$1 (7c) Putnam 343 17-7209
The author bases his plea for the establishment of the office of public defender on two principles: “(1) That it is as much the function of the state to shield the innocent as to convict the guilty; (2) That the ‘presumption of innocence’ requires the state to defend as well as to prosecute accused persons.” He discusses the subject in eight chapters: The public defender idea; The injustice of the “assigned counsel” system; Public prosecution and prosecutors; Analysis of the public defender; The ancient conception of crime; Specific objections considered; Other remedies inadequate; The march of the movement. The author is a member of the New York bar and the book has a foreword by Justice Wesley O. Howard of the Appellate division, New York Supreme court.
“‘The author has approached the subject from many angles and we believe has presented an exceptionally able brief in support of his premise and has answered in full, all criticisms and objections which have been raised.’”
+ =Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 110w (Reprinted from American Law Review)
“A valuable feature of the book is an appendix giving the chronology of the movement in this country and setting forth the most important facts regarding its present employment.”
+ =Dial= 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 330w
=New Repub= 11:142 Je 2 ‘17 160w
“The author is an attorney who drew both the bills for a public defender which were introduced into the New York legislature in 1915.”
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17 60w
+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 18 ‘17 200w
=N Y Times= 22:386 O 7 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:769 N ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 80w
“The public defender idea has met opposition from bar associations, judges, newspapers and others who have believed that accused persons are sufficiently protected in our courts under existing safeguards. Meanwhile, it has won increasing attention from the public generally.” W. D. Lane
=Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 520w
=GOLDSMITH, ROBERT.= League to enforce peace; with a special introduction by A. Lawrence Lowell. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 341.1 17-6558
The “League to enforce peace,” organized in June, 1915, with ex-President Taft, A. Lawrence Lowell, and others as its promoters, is one of the associations that are trying to work out a practical program for the insurance of peace. A discussion of this program is the substance of the present work. It is divided into three parts. In
## part 1, the author considers The forces that failed, examining some of
the agencies that broke down in 1914. Part 2 is devoted to an exposition of the principles and platform of the League to enforce peace. Part 3 is an examination of The creed of militarism, with a refutation of the militarist arguments. Endorsements of the League, etc., are given in an appendix. There is a bibliography and an index.
=A L A Bkl= 13:330 My ‘17
=Ann Am Acad= 74:301 N ‘17 260w
“The author of this comprehensive discussion of the subject is a working member of the League and his book has had the examination and approval of several of its officials.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 45:183 Ap ‘17 400w
“An unusually thin mess of intellectual porridge. ... The book slides along from easy platitude to easy platitude, without any genuine criticism or even analysis of the idea it professes to expound.” Randolph Bourne
— =Dial= 62:387 My 3 ‘17 1050w
“The book, tho rather diffuse in thought and arrangement, is nevertheless sound in principle, comprehensive, and well written. It should do much, especially in schools and colleges, to spread the idea that the coöperation of nations and not the competition of nations will alone insure eternal peace when the war ends.”
+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 120w
“An excellent bibliography of books on the war and reconstruction is appended to a volume which does its admirable ‘bit’ towards making an old idea fresh and alive.”
+ =New Repub= 10:sup20 Ap 21 ‘17 250w
— =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 500w
“Throughout the book, both in his exposition of the league’s proposals and in his discussion of conditions out of which it has grown and of opinions concerning those conditions, Mr Goldsmith never loses sight either of the ideal that is aimed at nor of the practical steps by which it can be attained.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:64 F 25 ‘17 800w
+ =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 90w
=Pittsburgh= 22:701 O ‘17 10w
“A ‘League to enforce peace’ ought to do much toward keeping us in intellectual equilibrium, not so much perhaps because of the startling or unusual in its pages as for the simplicity with which oft-expressed ideas are set forth.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 6 ‘17 480w
=GOLTZ, HORST VON DER.= My adventures as a German secret agent. il *$1.50 (2½c) McBride 940.91 17-29598
Chance slipped the young von der Goltz into the hands of the Prussian intelligence bureau and after years of shaping he was turned out a finished secret diplomatic agent. His adventures as secret agent in Russia, France, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, the United States and England came to an abrupt end when England caught him and put him in prison. In this autobiographical volume he betrays Germany and divulges the entire structure and workings of her efficient spy system as it has been operative among the Allies. Of the United States he says: “Let me repeat again that Germany has installed in this country thousands of men, whose nationality and habits are such as to protect them from suspicion, who work silently and alone, because they know that their very lives depend upon their silence, and who are in communication with no central spy organization, for the very simple reason that no such organization exists. ... Eternal vigilance, here as elsewhere, is the price of security.”
“He makes an exciting tale, though it may be hard to believe everything he says, and most of the intrigues have already been exposed in the papers.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18
“Interesting as is Baron von der Goltz’s exposure of German character, it yet fails in the appeal to our sympathies that its author evidently intended. Like every German he supposes that the average human mind works as the German mind works. He builds the whole structure of his book about his ridiculous slander against the late Empress Frederick. The American is accordingly prepared to believe nothing. Nevertheless, the rest of the narrative rings true.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 D 8 ‘17 430w
=Dial= 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 90w
“The volume is interesting, however the reader may regard it. If it is considered as fiction, it has its merits; and equally so if it is considered as fact.” Joshua Wanhope
+ =N Y Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 700w
=N Y Times= 22:435 O 28 ‘17 880w
=St Louis= 15:419 D ‘17 30w
=GOODMAN, PAUL, and LEWIS, ARTHUR D.=, eds. Zionism; problems and views. *$1.50 Bloch 296 17-4978
“This book consists of twenty-three papers by as many Anglo-Jewish contributors, with an introduction by Dr Max Nordau, the present leader of the movement of Zionism. ... What the capacities of the Jews are for national life, what they have done in Palestine already, may be read in this book. It is a study of the Jews, full of information little known to the Gentile, which appeals at least to intellectual curiosity, and very considerably to the sympathies of all educated readers.”—Sat R
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:13 Ja ‘17 70w
=Pittsburgh= 22:53 Ja ‘17 5w
+ =Sat R= 122:137 Ag 5 ‘16 1200w
=GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER.= Appeal of the nation. *75c (4½c) Pilgrim press 172 17-13744
Five patriotic addresses by the minister of Old South church, Boston. Contents: American freedom; The foreign-born American citizen; Christian and citizen; American loyalty; The nation and humanity.
“These lecture-sermons are as Christian as they are patriotic.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 300w
“Of the five stirring addresses that make Dr George A. Gordon’s ‘Appeal of the nation,’ all are worth reading, but that on our foreign-born citizens preaches an understanding sympathy that it were well if all native Americans could feel.”
+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 40w
=GORDON, JAN.= Balkan freebooter. il *$3 Dutton (Eng ed 17-9486)
“‘A Balkan freebooter’ is a picturesque account, for whose truth the author vouches, of a Servian outlaw and comitaj whose career, still unfinished, is a compound of those of Robin Hood and Raffles. His name is Petko Moritch, and his biographer has had his story from Petko’s own lips, altering only the names of the principals, including Petko’s.”—Springf’d Republican
“The story of his eventful life rings with the romance that only truth, that strangest thing in the universe, is able to supply. It shows the fighting character of the modern Serb, who, like Petko, has tramped the plain of Kossovo, fleeing mountainwards, and by some miracle of survival, by some quality of superhuman strength, is winning his way back into freedom. Mr Gordon’s narrative is
## particularly timely and interesting.” R. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 600w
“A fascinating book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 11 ‘17 250w
=GORDON, KATE.= Educational psychology. il *$1.35 (2c) Holt 370.1 17-25490
“The course of study which this book presents is designed for students of pedagogy in colleges and normal schools. It presupposes an elementary knowledge of psychology. In the earlier chapters ... a certain amount of child psychology has been included. ... In later chapters, as on memory and reasoning, the procedure of certain class experiments has been reported in some detail. ... The last three chapters take up some of the concrete questions of teaching in three quite dissimilar school subjects. They are intended to illustrate the way in which psychological applications can be made.” (Preface) The three subjects referred to are Language teaching, Drawing and Arithmetic. An eight-page list of references and an index complete the work. The author is assistant professor of psychology in the Carnegie institute of technology.
“While the book does present a rather useful collection of experimental facts with reference to certain phases of psychology as related to education, it is defective as a text in educational psychology because of its too great emphasis upon the psychological aspect of the subject, because of its style, which is unsuited to relatively immature students, and because of its uneven emphasis upon different topics.” F. N. Freeman
– + =El School J= 18:236 N ‘17 800w
=Pittsburgh= 22:839 D ‘17 50w
=GORELL, RONALD GORELL BARNES, 3d baron.= In the night. *$1.25 (3c) Longmans 17-29538
This detective story was planned by Lord Gorell in a base-hospital in France, and written during recovery at home. The author who has been irritated by writers of detective stories that do not take the reader into their confidence, states that in his tale, “every essential fact is related as it is discovered and readers are, as far as possible, given the eyes of the investigators and equal opportunities with them of arriving at the truth.” Sir Roger Penterton is found by his secretary, in the middle of the night, lying dead in the hall of his country home. The house is occupied by the dead man’s wife, their daughter, another young woman, the daughter’s most intimate friend, Sir Roger’s secretary, and the servants. Miss Temple, the friend, working on lines of her own, is able to give some assistance to Inspector Humblethorne. Various theories are developed to account for the crime, all of which prove wrong in the end when the mystery is finally solved.
“The author has worked out his theme ingeniously, developing various theories to account for the crime and find the guilty person, and finally, when he nears the end, providing a double climax of surprises before the mystery is finally solved.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:279 Jl 29 ‘17 330w
+ =Spec= 118:732 Je 30 ‘17 30w
“It is an exciting tale. It seems to be straightening itself out, and all of a sudden it is in a tangle again. During the short hour or two that the reading of it takes, the size of a shoe becomes of more importance than the Hindenburg line. We come back, blinking, to a world which we are grateful to the author for helping us to forget.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p236 My 17 ‘17 300w
=GORKY, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVITCH PYESHKOFF).= In the world. *$2 (1½c) Century 17-21677
“A year after ‘My childhood’ comes ‘In the world,’ a record of Gorky’s experiences whose closing pages find him still a boy. It purports to relate the true story of his early life, and it does narrate with an extraordinary particularity the scenes he saw, the people he encountered and the events of which he was a part during a few of his boyhood years. He drifts hither and thither through Russia, inevitably returning again and again to the wonderful old grandmother with whom he first made us acquainted in ‘My childhood.’ He is a veritable jack-at-all-trades, becoming at intervals a shoe-store boy, an assistant in an ikon shop, an architect’s helper and a cook’s assistant on a Volga steamboat. And during the greater part of this period he read many books, and began to make attempts at the writing of prose and verse.” (Boston Transcript) The translation is by Mrs Gertrude M. Foakes.
=A L A Bkl= 14:23 O ‘17
“The book contains many sayings embodying a deep-rooted philosophy of common life.”
+ =Ath= p675 D ‘17 160w
“He wrote fiction as if it were autobiography; he writes autobiography as if it were fiction. ... The result is essentially a novel, with himself as its hero.” E. F. E.
* + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 1400w
“Everywhere in this, the second, volume of his life, one finds the shining virtues of brevity, concreteness, vigor—always unfailing vigor. That there is also a moving sincerity goes without saying, since Gorky is in the great Russian tradition. ... The volume gives us two or three years only of his life in the world. ... Thus it is still almost a child’s world in which we are moving—a world seen with that fascinating mixture of sophistication and simplicity which his genius made possible.” G: B. Donlin
* + =Dial= 63:154 Ag 30 ‘17 1800w
+ =Ind= 92:68 O 6 ‘17 340w
“It is difficult to understand wherein lies any fascination in these pages, which chronicle cruelty, brutality, and a life of coarse and often loathsome surroundings, but fascinating they are, grippingly interesting, brutally frank, and full of a faith in the Russian race.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 290w
“Out of the rubble of human existence his genius is building up one of the great life-stories in literature.” R. B.
+ =New Repub= 13:26 N 3 ‘17 1200w
“There is much in the book that is terrible; there is no little beauty, too; and there is a vast amount of fascinating portraiture. Gorky’s grandmother is here again, with her strength, her idealism, her superstitions, her sympathy. ... The book is crowded with people, each sharply individualized, hauntingly alive, fascinating.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 1450w
+ =Outlook= 116:626 Ag 22 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:743 N ‘17 70w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 10 ‘17 440w
“It is a wonderfully penetrating piece of self-analysis. It displays every great literary quality except charm. But charm is lacking. One feels very sorry for the ugly duckling of the steppes whose mental fumblings are so elaborately portrayed; but one is never drawn to like him, and one never gets away from the painful impression of a world full of people whom it would be very unpleasant to associate with.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 O 25 ‘17 1050w
=GORKY, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVITCH PYESHKOFF); ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH; and SOLOGUB, FEODOR, pseud. (FEDOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV)=, eds. The shield; with a foreword by W: English Walling; tr. from the Russian by A. Yarmolinsky. *$1.25 (4c) Knopf 296 17-14798
The original work from which the selections translated for this volume are taken was published last year in Petrograd. It consists of studies, essays, stories and poems bearing on the Jewish problem in Russia. The editor of the English edition says, “In making a selection for the present volume, I have thought it advisable to give decided preference to the publicistic articles of the original collection. [It] contains practically all the various important studies and essays of the Russian ‘Shield,’ while most of the stories have been omitted, without great detriment to the book.” Among the contributors are Maxim Gorky, writing of Russia and the Jews; Leonid Andreyev, The first step; Paul Milyukov, The Jewish question in Russia; M. Bernatzky, The Jews and Russian economic life; Prince Paul Dolgorukov, The war and the status of the Jew; Fyodor Sologub, The fatherland for all. William English Walling in commending the book says that the rebirth in Russia cannot be understood apart from the Jewish problem.
“A truly remarkable revelation of the spirit and purpose of the best elements of that New Russia which is now in the making.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ =Bookm= 46:484 D ‘17 160w
=Ind= 91:30 Jl 7 ‘17 80w
“The work is not a defense of the Jews,—praise be! ‘The shield’ has the historic interest of a great and noble document, not only because of the prominence of the contributors to the volume, but also because it is a voluntary and free recognition of human rights, a sort of Magna charta to all those who are downtrodden and humiliated.” L: S. Friedland
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 600w
“The viewpoint of the Russian educated class is nowhere so clearly presented as in ‘The shield,’ a volume published in Russia by the Society for the study of Jewish life (in which no Jews are allowed membership) and now offered in an English translation. ‘The shield’ is significant in that fifteen men of letters, publicists, and scientists unite in demanding the abrogation of Jewish disabilities in Russia.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:419 D ‘17 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 1150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p600 D 6 ‘17 80w
“Apart from the foreword, the book deserves recognition as a striking indication of the fact that before the revolution the leading Russian writers were overwhelmingly in favour of the total abolition of the shocking disabilities to which the Jews had long been subject in Russia. Unfortunately neither Mr Walling nor any one of the distinguished Russian editors has thought of informing us when the various articles that make up this little book were written. The book gives us no word as to the actual position today.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p606 D 13 ‘17 970w
=GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM.= Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne. il *$3.50 Macmillan 17-12487
The only memoir of Swinburne that had been published before the appearance of this volume was the sketch contributed by Mr Gosse to the “Dictionary of national biography” in 1912. This sketch has been used as the basis for this more complete work. Much new material has come to the author’s hands however, and he says, “My narrative is therefore not merely much fuller than it would have been in 1912, but in various respects more accurate.” Contents: Childhood—Eton (1837-1853); Oxford (1853-1859); Early life in London (1859-1865); “Atalanta in Calydon,” “Chastelard”; “Poems and ballads” (1866); Songs of the republic (1867-1870); The middle years (1870-1879); Putney (1879-1909); Personal characteristics. Additional letters are given in appendixes. The illustrations are worthy of special note.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:57 N ‘17
“Mr Gosse has written a discriminating and worthy biography of a great poet, and has created a strikingly vivid picture of one who might truthfully be described, without irreverence, as an illustrious oddity. ... The book is biography, not criticism; but we are given
## particulars relating to ‘Atalanta in Calydon,’ ‘Chastelard,’ ‘Poems
and ballads,’ ‘Songs before sunrise,’ ‘Tristram of Lyonesse,’ and much of Swinburne’s other work, which will be read with interest by every admirer of the poet.”
+ =Ath= p256 My ‘17 170w
“Excellent as is his very careful and most interesting account of Swinburne’s life and character and work, there are in it here and there such evidences of personal bias and even of bitterness as are, at least, surprising. This is the more deplorable since there was no one so well equipped as Mr Gosse for the writing of a full and authoritative biography of Swinburne.” G. I. Colbron
+ — =Bookm= 45:290 My ‘17 450w
“The reader will receive from Mr Gosse’s biography a clear series of impressions of both Swinburne and his work. But it leaves so much unsaid, it refers so vaguely to so many significant episodes in Swinburne’s career, that the real and complete biography of him remains to be written.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 2250w
“Will probably remain the standard life of Swinburne.”
+ =Cath World= 106:259 N ‘17 600w
“An extraordinarily vivid and many-sided characterization, with some tantalizing reticences and many features of unique interest, such as the chapters on Swinburne as a parodist and as a poet of children.”
+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 80w
“Mr Gosse’s volume is chronological and anecdotal, there is hardly a page that is not enriched by some delightful incident or jest concerning Swinburne’s time and associates. ... The work speaks from the atmosphere of intimacy, and in that position one can sympathetically understand the instinctive ‘reticence, tact and diplomacy’ for which the English reviewers are so heartily praising him. But as an ‘authentication’ of the sacred legend the volume is not wholly successful. For, in spite of biographer and reviewers, Swinburne wrote and was unashamed of that unique volume, the first series of ‘Poems and ballads.’” B. I. Kinne
=Dial= 63:21 Je 28 ‘17 1800w
=Ind= 92:65 O 6 ‘17 300w
“The biographer has succeeded in presenting a substantially truthful as well as a vivid picture. He succeeds in conveying the right impression, that is to say, the impression which seems to have been formed by nearly every one who knew Swinburne intimately, that he was a sort of ‘lusus naturæ.’ ... The record of his life which has now been given to us does not seem likely to be superseded.”
+ =Nation= 105:201 Ag 23 ‘17 2050w
“One of the most interesting volumes of biography to come from the presses in a long time. ... Mr Gosse’s attitude toward Theodore Watts-Dunton, with whom Swinburne spent the last thirty years of his life, seems unfair, at the very least.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:181 My 6 ‘17 1700w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:745 N ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 320w
“Mr Gosse’s ‘Life of Swinburne’ is a brilliant affair in which the results of long and careful study come out as easily as if he had been at no pains to delve here and there to clear up the difficulties which usually attend the careers of men of letters, and to put casual misconceptions straight. ... He has not found room to supply an estimate of Swinburne’s comparative place in literature, and
## particularly in the history of poetry, but his comments on the various
poems as they pass under review are usually sound and always neat. The volume includes some excellent portraits.”
+ =Sat R= 124:sup3 Jl 7 ‘17 1350w
“As a friend of thirty years’ standing, a poet, and an accomplished critic and man of letters, Mr Edmund Gosse comes to his difficult task with an equipment which raises high expectations, largely fulfilled by the result. He has given us an extremely interesting and skilful memoir of an extraordinary man, and though the limitations necessarily imposed on him prevent it from being a complete picture, it is not likely to be superseded for a good many years to come. These limitations are due to a regard for the living as well as the dead.”
* + =Spec= 118:462 Ap 21 ‘17 1800w
* + =Spec= 118:490 Ap 28 ‘17 1900w
“A concrete, well-balanced portrait, the more entertaining for the judiciously selected anecdotes and incidents, and the more valuable for the authentic glimpses of contacts with other very interesting people.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 4 ‘17 1200w
“You cannot glance at this book without reading it through; and having read it you will wish to read the poems again. ... There is in his book that real reverence which does not fear to tell the affectionate truth.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p169 Ap 12 ‘17 1500w
“Mr Gosse has condensed the last thirty years of the poet’s life into a single chapter, and has devoted the bulk of his volume to the years before 1879. He has made his hero a vital if not a very admirable figure. He has given us clear sight, though not always full sympathy. This vitality of portraiture is likely to be the abiding value of Mr Gosse’s book. Faults it has: it is quite too fragmentary to be a definite biography; it leaves too much unsaid; there are many passages in the life of the poet which are obviously glossed over.” C. B. Tinker
+ — =Yale R= n s 7:195 O ‘17 900w
=GOUDGE, HENRY LEIGHTON=, and others. Place of women in the church. (Handbooks of Catholic faith and practice) *$1.15 Young ch. 396 A17-1510
The American edition of a volume which was brought out in England and to which eight men and women have contributed chapters strongly opposing the right of women to exercise any official ministry in the churches. Contents: The teaching of St Paul as to the position of women; Ministrations of women in church; The ministry of women and the tradition of the church; The claim of the priesthood for women; The ordination of women; The medical ministry of women; The religious life for women; Younger women and the church.
“The longest and most important is from the pen of Canon Goudge, who deals with ‘The teaching of St Paul on the position of women.’ It is an instructive exposition of the Apostle’s teaching, but it scarcely does justice to the plea of those who urge that the Apostle’s arguments and directions deal with circumstances altogether different from those of the twentieth century. This volume will be welcomed by those who desire to know how it is proposed to meet the arguments of Canon Streeter and Miss Picton-Turberville and Mr Allworthy in which they plead for some extension, under proper safeguards, of the ministry of women in the church.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p329 Jl 12 ‘17 540w
=GOUDIE, WILLIAM JOHN.= Steam turbines. il *$4 Longmans 621.1 17-14113
“A text-book for engineering students [which] describes clearly the various types of land and marine types now on the market (including the Ljungström); expounds the theory underlying design and action; gives calculations on consumption, efficiency, and the various sources of loss; and the design of typical turbines of the various classes, including a set of marine turbines of 18,000 shaft horse-power. The allied subjects of condensers and condensing plants, however, are not included. Clearly illustrated, also well supplied with mathematical and steam tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
=A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 30w
“‘Altogether this is an excellent treatise, well gotten up, and published at a very reasonable price, and although it is described as a text-book for engineering students, it should prove of great value to the marine engineer, to whom a knowledge of the steam turbine is becoming of increasing importance. We can recommend it with the utmost confidence.’”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Ap ‘17 130w (Reprinted from Shipbuilding and Shipping Record F 22 ‘17)
=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
=GOUGH, GEORGE W.= Yeoman adventurer. il *$1.40 (1c) Putnam 17-26322
A tale of adventure in the days of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Master Oliver Wheatman is a young Staffordshire farmer who, in spite of
## bookish tastes, yearns for a life of action. The fate that keeps him
tied down to his ancestral acres, while his chum Jack Dobson goes off to fight for the king, seems most unkindly. Then the adventure for which he longs is brought into his life most unexpectedly with the advent of Mistress Margaret Waynflete, and he finds himself enlisted in the Jacobite cause. Exciting incidents follow thick and fast and Master Oliver, the yeoman turned soldier, has no longer cause to complain of inactivity, and when at the end, he returns to his home, he does not come alone.
=A L A Bkl= 13:353 My ‘17
“The characters are all delightfully modern, both in speech and in
## action; consequently they are thoroughly lifelike, the bad as well as
the good, instead of being mere puppets dressed in the costumes of 1745.”
+ =Ath= p195 Ap ‘16 80w
“The author has been unusually fortunate in the way in which he has succeeded in making the period real to his readers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 250w
“Told with an unflagging zest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 320w
“A rather commonplace tale in which youth and beauty play the leading parts. ... As a narrative it is neither better nor worse than most of its sort.”
=Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 90w
“A costume story, if you like, an affair of pleasant superficial illusion, but of illusion which, one feels, the author himself cheerfully and spontaneously shares.”
+ =Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 150w
+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 250w
“An unusually good specimen of the old-fashioned semi-historical romance.”
+ =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 30w
“As this is a first novel and is of remarkable promise, we may perhaps be allowed to advise the author to avoid making use of ‘types’ in his characters, and to describe rather ‘hungering, thirsting men.’”
+ — =Spec= 116:555 Ap 29 ‘16 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 120w
“Mr Gough is so intent on his tale that he has little time to spare for much artistry, but he keeps Oliver’s view-point steadily before him and merits a big share of the praise due to his hero’s robust and tireless efforts.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p164 Ap 6 ‘16 350w
=GOURVITCH, PAUL PENSAC.= How Germany does business. *$1 (4½c) Huebsch 382 17-31429
An exposition of Germany’s methods of export and finance, with chapters on: Politics and economics; Banking facilities; Credits; Germany’s merchant marine; Export articles; Reducing the buyer’s effort to the minimum; Germany’s economic expansion as a beneficial factor in international development; The export of men; Imitation and counterfeiting; The cost of labor; etc. The author writes with
## particular reference to the business relations of Germany and Russia.
The book has a preface by Dr B. E. Shatsky, of Petrograd.
“It is written with a manifest prejudice against Germany, and hence cannot be taken as an entirely reliable survey of German business methods in foreign trade. ... This book should be of interest to American exporters. However much we may disagree with Germany’s motives in trade development and with certain of her export practices we acknowledge that she built up a remarkable foreign trade and we may profit by the adoption of many of the principles here briefly set forth.” H. T. Collings
+ — =J Pol Econ= 26:102 Ja ‘18 710w
+ =New Repub= 13:258 D 29 ‘17 450w
“Outside of trifles which we dare say will be corrected in future editions, the work is on the whole well written, and both interesting and instructive.” J. W.
+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 540w
“The author of ‘How Germany does business’ appears sometimes to be disingenuous—or, at least, if he is not that, he is either lacking in information (which seems improbable) or takes the complaisant view that whatever succeeds is right. ... Especially blind, ethically, is the opening chapter on the general question of Germany’s commercial expansion in recent years.”
– — =N Y Times= 22:574 D 23 ‘17 650w
=R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 70w
=GRABO, CARL HENRY.= Amateur philosopher. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 204 17-7480
“As introduction to his book the author says: ‘Because I believe the construction of a philosophy to be the chief end of man, I have made bold to write the following pages.’ ... ‘The amateur philosopher’ is the personal record of one man’s search for a philosophy of life in this present complex day. Dr Grabo was born and brought up in a middle western town, conservative, comfortable, orthodox. He was educated at an American college. He is now a professor in an American university. It is highly probable that thousands of Americans, reading his book, will chuckle or sigh over moments of what amounts to pure reminiscence from their own lives. ... The writer is old enough, too, to possess both perspective and tolerance, while he is essentially young in the sense of being, not an eager youth who thinks the world can be set right by the wish for upheaval, but an active, forward-thinking worker, ‘in the prime of life,’ in the world of today.”—N Y Times
“It has been criticized as being ‘destructive in tone, without the substitution of anything better.’”
=A L A Bkl= 13:391 Je ‘17
“Most of the deep emotional experiences of life were unknown to him. And so the value of the book is in the author’s account of the way he found a place for the spiritual realities in his scheme of things.”
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 600w
+ =Cleveland= p66 My ‘17 80w
“His critique of the college is forceful and true. ... In these first chapters full of charm, Mr Grabo details his universal experience. Then suddenly, as if stung with modesty, he slips into an impersonal outline of his matured philosophy. The result is not happy.” R. B.
+ — =New Repub= 10:383 Ap 28 ‘17 450w
“It is in response to the average American’s need that his book is unique and valuable. ... In all the fourteen chapters of ‘The amateur philosopher’ there is not a word of dogmatism, intolerance, arrogance of thought or faith. The book is written with a freshness, a sanity, a sympathetic understanding of human need that give it a well-nigh universal quality.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:67 F 25 ‘17 900w
=Pratt= p37 O ‘17 10w
Reviewed by Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 91:592 F 17 ‘17 600w
“Mr Grabo is a trifle disappointing in that he fails to live up to his interesting title. Still for one unfamiliar with the terminology of philosophers, Mr Grabo’s book will be very welcome. His style is simple and clear.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 210w
=GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.= William Penn. il *$2.50 Stokes
“The present work, by the principal of Dalton Hall, Manchester, is adapted for the English reader; and no ‘Life’ in the usual sense has, so Mr Graham states, ever been written by an English Friend.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The book comprises extracts from Penn’s voluminous writings, controversial and other; an interesting description of the trial of Penn and Mead at the Old Bailey, where the accused gloriously defended and asserted the liberties of Englishmen; an account of the foundation of Pennsylvania; a sketch of the enlightened system of government established in the province, and of Penn’s delightfully humane relations with the Indians; and many details of the anxieties, trials, and misfortunes which beset the founder in his later years.” (Ath) “It is not a book which represents original research, but it is a well-written, sympathetic biography, and one of moderate scope; with bibliography and many illustrations, notes about which are given in an appendix.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ =Ath= p365 Jl ‘17 290w
“Having access to all available material and possessing a strong biographical sense, the author has presented interestingly and concisely one of the best stories of the Quaker colonizer extant.” F. P. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 5 ‘17 780w
“In style the book is a trifle disconcerting, but it offers an ample reward to the reader that approaches it with an open mind.”
+ — =N Y Times= 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 500w
“Mr Graham’s style is fluent and unpretentious. He arranges his narrative clearly and tells it vividly. He lets his hero speak for himself where possible, and where he has to summarize or assign motives, we have no doubt he correctly interprets Penn’s attitude.”
+ =Spec= 118:91 Jl 28 ‘17 1400w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p250 My 24 ‘17 140w
“The writer, indeed, is at home with his reader and addresses to him many asides bearing upon the interests of the present hour, as for example upon the Society for psychical research and the maxims of George Bernard Shaw. But the interest of the book will centre for most readers in the account of the ‘Holy experiment’ in Pennsylvania, where an attempt was made to order a society on the generous and humane principles which Penn laid down.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p269 Je 7 ‘17 1500W
=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Priest of the ideal. *$1.60 (1½c) Macmillan 17-25855
A piece of fiction that has drawn largely upon the imagination of the writer rather than upon the world of facts. It represents the clash between modern material greed and early church mysticism. An American, representing a syndicate with some billions of dollars to spend, approaches the English in this state of mind: “As a result of the expense of war you English are now much poorer, we Americans are rich. You must be ready to sell certain things to raise money.” His hope is to buy out of England’s superfluity of castles, abbeys, monuments, historical buildings, etc., enough to serve as a much needed background for the new American race. In company with a wandering priest the American visits objects of his quest, learning meantime from the lips of this idealist that “there is nothing in England which has been outlived and which, therefore, could be sold or given away; that it was futile to covet the spiritual background of England, the only way to acquire material things that symbolize ideals is to fight for the ideals.”
“We hardly think the author has hit upon the literary form appropriate to his idea or his own capacities.”
— =Ath= p596 N ‘17 80w
“In a sense, Mr Graham’s ‘priest of the ideal’ is merely another of those pseudo-Christs whom every modern novelist seems to feel free to create in his own image; and the action in which he is concerned is very tenuous and impalpable indeed.” H. W. Boynton
– — =Bookm= 46:600 Ja ‘18 700w
“In Mr Graham, there is a voice as fearless if not as exceptional as Tolstoy’s. His book is, in fact, a review of England through Russian eyes, in Russian terms.”
+ =Dial= 64:115 Ja 31 ‘18 470w
“Some of the descriptions are well done, but the book as a whole is tiresome, and its religious mysticism is more than slightly touched with hysteria. There is not a single character in it who is real for an instant, and while there are a few interesting bits of comment, they are not numerous.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:442 O 28 ‘17 370w
“The romance repays perusal if only for the exquisite delicacy of style and the high level of its spiritual perception.”
+ =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 60w
“The strength of the book lies, not in the actuality of its characters or in any exciting stir of incident, but in its handling of the vital problem which is ever present and never completely solved—the conduct of our daily lives. We have one very minor and incidental point to urge against Mr Graham before we finish: he owes it to himself to pay more attention to the rhythm of his style. Some of his most impressive passages are spoiled by the suggested lilt of a verse metre.”
+ — =Spec= 119:sup623 D 1 ‘17 1500w
“In its sluggish, eventless speculativeness, it is a Russian kind of a book. Only a Russian would have done it far better. It is Mr Graham’s first novel—if, indeed, it can be classified as a novel—and, one believes, his first complete failure.”
– — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 700w
“A book into which the author has poured his thoughts and feelings as they came to him, with more care for their immediate expression than for the form of the whole. Yet the reader may fairly ask himself how much of his dissatisfaction—his sense of having looked up and not been fed, but swollen with wind and mist—may be due to some lack of time and opportunity which compelled Mr Graham to be careless of the whole. ... If it is inconsistent, self-contradictory, vague, and here and there (doubtless owing to that lack of time and opportunity at which we have hinted) nothing else than flabby, it is bright with beautiful thoughts and warm with a passion for beautiful living.”
+ – — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 O 18’17 820w
=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Russia in 1916. il *$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 914.7 17-6752
The author believes that the people of the two allied countries, Great Britain and Russia, should keep in touch with one another, and publishes this little book of impressions in the interests of a better understanding. He writes of: A journey to Ekaterina; The dark haven; The new Archangel; The cost of living; Life in the country; A Russian countess; Russian literature in 1916: Without vodka, beer, or wine, etc.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:349 My ‘17
“There is neither insight nor foresight in this ‘little book of the hour.’” Abraham Yarmolinsky
– — =Bookm= 46:482 D ‘17 160w
“A slender volume of less than two hundred pages, but it reveals, as always in everything Mr Graham writes, the ability to understand Russia and a skill at making her understood by the people of other nations.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 1350w
“The information contained is of precisely the sort that the average reader is most eager for.”
+ =Cath World= 105:536 Jl ‘17 470w
Reviewed by L: S. Friedland
=Dial= 63:265 S 27 ‘17 500w
“Slight, but based on three seasons’ personal observations.”
+ =Ind= 90:269 My 12 ‘17 30w
“There is nevertheless much here which the practical reader will find of uncommon interest. The descriptions of Ekaterina and Archangel are admirable. The world has been waiting for just the kind of knowledge regarding Russia’s new Arctic port that Mr Graham gives us.”
+ =Nation= 104:430 Ap 12 ‘17 1550w
“Discount the politics and the war prophecies, and much that is genuinely revelatory and illuminating does emerge. ... His picture of the mood in which Russia accepts the war will endure. Even at the risk of displeasing the western political radicals Mr Graham should not be frightened from his attempts to convey to us the religious background of Russia. He can bring out the shadows and spiritual chiaroscuro of the thrilling panorama of revolution.” H. S.
+ — =New Repub= 11:165 Je 9 ‘17 950w
“When Stephen Graham splutters: ‘The Russia which Gorky attacks is just that which is spiritually interesting to us in England—the mystical and impractical Russia,’ he reveals himself a downright dilettante, an epicurean, an ‘intellectual’ gourmand.” D: Rosenstein
— =N Y Call= p15 Ag 12 ‘17 1450w
+ =N Y Times= 22:108 Mr 25 ‘17 850w
“An entertaining record of his experiences, although naturally it is hardly a work of permanent value.”
+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p46 O ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 130w
=St Louis= 15:374 O ‘17 30w
+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 110w
“He belongs to that class of English writers who took it upon themselves to whitewash the Russian autocracy and so misrepresent all those who had fought against it for more than half a century. I do not believe that anybody cares to know now anything about the devotion of the Russian people to Czar Nicholas II, or about his angelic disposition and his artistic soul.” H.
— =Survey= 38:76 Ap 21 ‘17 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p99 Mr 1 ‘17 420w
“Mr Graham’s style, often slipshod and careless, occasionally, under the inspiration of deep feeling, rises to a height of real beauty.” W: L. Phelps
+ — =Yale R= n s 7:187 O ‘17 200w
=GRAHAME-WHITE, CLAUDE, and HARPER, HARRY.= Air power; naval, military, commercial, il *$3 Stokes 623.7 (Eng ed War17-85)
“The authors regard the greatest lesson of the war as being that in the future a nation which dominates the aerial highways will dominate also those of the land and sea, and that a dominion of the air must mean, ultimately, the dominion of the world. They illustrate this view in a series of chapters dealing with the war in the air, problems in construction, after-war policy, factors of safety (the phrase is used in more than the engineering sense), popularizing travel by air, laws of the air, and the commercial era of flight. They draw an alluring picture of the time when a man will be able to dine one evening in New York and the next in London, and when aerial excursions will be possible at rates which will put them within the reach of all.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17
“The programme outlined is scarcely ever outside the bounds of possibility, but views on aviation will have changed greatly long before the programme is completed.”
+ — =Nature= 99:481 Ag 16 ‘17 670w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Jl ‘17 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p192 Ap 19 ‘17 130w
=GRANT, ARTHUR.=[2] On the wings of the morning. *$2 Dutton 828
“Echoes of George Borrow, of Gilbert White, of Richard Jefferies sound forth from the pages of Mr Grant’s book of essays. As he journeys ‘On the wings of the morning’ into the heart of historic Britain he sees there the glory of her past and the beauty of her present. ... Every corner of the island whence has arisen a mighty empire contains its historic scenes, and in every hill and valley is to be found something quaint, something picturesque and something of alluring grandeur. Much of all this Mr Grant has witnessed and much of it he records in his book. And through it all runs an undercurrent of thought that reflects the spirit of the day in which it is written, that reveals how constantly in all our minds is the present fighting of Britain and her many Allies ‘for God and the right, for a world-peace that can only come through sacrifice.’”—Boston Transcript
“His book should be received with appreciation by those familiar with the places named and their literary associations, and attract many others to enjoy them.”
+ =Ath= p524 O ‘17 90w
“The linking of people with places, and of places with people, gives to Mr Grant’s essays one of their principal charms.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 1200w
=GRANT, MADISON.= Passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history, maps *$2 (4c) Scribner 572 16-22372
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The book contains much solid scientific and historical truth set forth with dignity and clearness, although often with a lack of coherence. It affords evidence of minute and careful study, even though the author never cites his authority for particular statements and supplies but a limited bibliography in the appendix. ... But the ‘Passing of the great race’ is not so much an objective scientific treatise as a carefully reasoned argument in support of preconceived convictions. ... The argument of the book must stand for what it is worth. To the present reviewer it is unconvincing, partly because it rests on debatable assumptions, partly because the method of the argument seems itself unsound. ... His determinations often rest on the most questionable evidence. ... Mr Grant’s book can hardly be regarded as an important contribution to historical science. Its dogmatic assurance and its partizanship impair its value to learning. Its main thesis is not established, and, in the present state of scholarship, is not capable of establishment. For guidance in matters relating to European race problems American students of history will continue to depend, as they have done for nearly twenty years, on Ripley’s solid and discriminating ‘Races of Europe.’” A. B. S.
– + =Am Hist R= 22:842 Jl ‘17 850w
“Brevity often forces a more dogmatic opinion than the author probably holds, but so many extreme statements are made that the reader often wonders what evidence there is. Little mention is made of other writers, and even in the bibliography the names of Ammon, Lapouge, Reibmayr, Schallmaier, who have advocated similar claims, and opponents like Finot and Novicow, are omitted. In spite of many defects the position of the author has much to commend it. The volume should be studied by all who are interested in the future of our own country and in democracy at large.” C. K.
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 70:330 Mr ‘17 180w
“The migrations of the three races during different periods are illustrated by a series of striking maps.”
=Ath= p250 My ‘17 190w
“We had thought that this species of race ecstasy, this enthusiasm for laying stress on the racial basis of European history, with which the name of Houston Stewart Chamberlain is associated, was going out of fashion, even in Germany. But that a writer in democratic America should give currency to these doctrines is passing strange.”
— =Ath= p347 Jl ‘17 650w
“Mr Madison Grant echoes the absurdities of Mr Houston Chamberlain.” H. M. Kallen
— =Dial= 62:432 My 17 ‘17 920w
“Mr Grant’s account of the distribution of the different races is interesting and no doubt as accurate as such speculations can be made, but the superstructure of theory and policy which he builds thereon must be judged by each reader for himself.”
– + =Ind= 89:362 F 26 ‘17 180w
+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:295 Ja ‘18 160w
“We do not recall any other single work which presents, within the limited space of one volume, so comprehensive a survey of heredity, eugenics, racial characteristics, ruling dynasties, and the steady elimination of the unfit.”
+ =Lit D= 54:2000 Je 30 ‘17 450w
“Three brief chapters present a résumé of our knowledge of prehistoric man in the stone and bronze ages. It is interesting to note that the detailed treatment begins where Professor Osborn’s recent monumental work on ‘Men of the old stone age’ leaves off, and in certain ways may be regarded as directly supplemental. ... Slight reference is made to the European war, but the application of all the data which Mr Grant has assembled to the causes, psychology, and ultimate results of this conflict is plainly evident. This and the intelligent attention which is directed to the unparalleled mixing of races in our own country are the two most potent memories of a perusal of this volume. ... A bibliography and thorough index round out a volume of marked originality and considerable interest.”
+ =Nation= 104:466 Ap 19 ‘17 770w
=Nature= 99:502 Ag 23 ‘17 620w
“For our part, we should like to have the facts examined with much more care than Mr Grant has paid them before accepting his doleful predictions as true, or even probable.”
— =Spec= 119:385 O 13 ‘17 1550w
Reviewed by E. G. Balch
— =Survey= 39:262 D 1 ‘17 550w
“All that can be said of some of the statements brought forward by Mr Grant as scientific evidence of his thesis is that they are incorrect.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p209 My 3 ‘17 1450w
“Many readers will question Grant’s conclusions, and some will resent them. ... Yet his statement of the problem demands serious consideration, and his sketch of the development and expansion of the Nordic races is an excellent historical résumé. ... The whole lesson of biology is that America is seriously endangering her future by making fetishes of equality, democracy, and universal education. They are of great value, but only when they have good hereditary material upon which to work. The books of Morgan, Conklin, and Grant all show that we must drastically revise our immigration policy and must strive even more diligently to perpetuate the rapidly diminishing type of strong-willed idealists who have been the country’s chief leaders.” Ellsworth Huntington
+ =Yale R= n s 6:670 Ap ‘17 400w
=GRAY, VIOLET GORDON.=[2] Margery Morris. il *$1.25 (1½c) Penn 17-29733
Margery Morris, the young heroine of this story for girls, comes from California to spend a summer with her grandfather in a small Quaker village in New Jersey. An unknown boy cousin meets her at the train and tells her that her grandfather is away. Margery, who is something of a little snob, finds it necessary to adapt herself to the simple living of a plain old-fashioned farm house. She learns to like the two boys who call themselves her cousins; makes friends with two jolly girls, and only later learns that thru confusion of names she has come to visit in the wrong house. Other books in the series are promised.
=N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 70w
=GREEN, JOHN RICHARD.= Short history of the English people; rev. and enl., with epilogue by Alice S. Green. maps *$2 Am. bk. 942 16-18300
“The present one-volume edition now given to the public contains all the material except the illustrations in the four-volume edition of 1887 and, in addition, some modifications in the history of Ireland which Mrs Green believes her husband would have incorporated had he been living. They are due to new material discovered in the last thirty-five years since the ‘Short history’ was published.”—Outlook
“The ‘Epilogue’ is a summary written with a fervid eloquence which makes it in its own way singularly attractive. But the fervour sometimes leaves the facts obscure; for instance, no one who did not know the sequence of events could extract the truth from the summary of the Crimean war; whilst an account of the mutiny which does not mention John Lawrence and has but a bare reference to his brother can only be described as a curiosity. The ‘Epilogue’ is not indeed a ‘history,’ and as a review it is written with a definite outlook, which if stimulating and suggestive, makes it hardly suitable for instruction to those who are not already fairly familiar with the facts.” A.
=Eng Hist R= 32:149 Ja ‘17 250w
+ =Outlook= 115:208 Ja 31 ‘17 200w
“In the latest reprint Mrs J. R. Green has added an epilogue of one hundred and seventy-two pages covering the century from 1815 to 1914. A spirited sketch of the social changes and of the imperial and foreign problems which have confronted us, it is as dogmatic, as biassed, and almost as entertaining as J. R. Green’s own work, though he might not have given so much prominence to the so-called Celtic influence in British politics. He would certainly have described the causes of the war more clearly and more accurately, instead of veiling Germany’s direct responsibility for the conflict. An historian of the English people ought, we think, to be perfectly definite about this important matter. Mrs Green handles it gingerly, as if she doubted our good faith and our intense desire to keep the peace.”
=Spec= 117:348 S 23 ‘16 140w
“The keenest-eyed literary critic would find it difficult to determine from internal evidence where J. R. Green laid down the pen and Mrs Green has taken it up. There is the same picturesque style, the same gift of epigrammatic expression and faculty for seizing the essential detail, the same command of apt quotation, the same imaginative intuition, broad outlook on human affairs, and sympathy with national and democratic movements.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p365 Ag 3 ‘16 600w
=GREEN, LILIAN (BAYLISS) (MRS ALBERT RANDOLPH GREEN).= Effective small home. il *$1.50 McBride 640 17-8603
The author was formerly editor of the Little house department of the Ladies’ Home Journal. To help those who live on small incomes and in small quarters is her aim in this book. Part 1 is personal. In it she writes of her own varied experiences in housekeeping. Part 2 is amplified from material prepared for the Ladies’ Home Journal, and has chapters on: Suggestions for furnishing, Lighting fixtures, The hanging of curtains, Floor coverings, etc. In addition there are appendixes giving suggestions for cleaning, recipes, etc. There is a short bibliography and an index.
“The book is full of personality, has some charm and many suggestive ideas. It makes a contribution in regard to the treatment of apartments and very small rooms. It contains no principles or standards by which to decorate, and is a record of ingenuity and taste rather than of principles and artistic standards.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:387 Je ‘17
“A practical book for young housekeepers of moderate means.”
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 60w
“A pleasantly personal tone pervades Mrs Green’s contribution.”
+ =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17 80w
+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:666 O ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 10w
“The work points out many short cuts for women who are anxiously striving for beauty in the home.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 27 ‘17 110w
=GREEN, MARY, pseud. (MRS MARIETTA [MCPHERSON] GREENOUGH).= Better meals for less money. *$1.25 Holt 641.5 17-13798
“It is the plan of this book,” says the author, “to include a variety of (1) recipes which require only a small amount of meat; (2) recipes for vegetable dishes which can take the place of meat; (3) recipes for the economical use of cereals, dairy products, and other common inexpensive foods; (4) recipes for breads, cakes, and desserts requiring only a small amount of butter and eggs; and (5) recipes for a few relishes, condiments, and other accessories which lend variety and interest.” The first chapter is devoted to General suggestions for economy.
“The general suggestions for economy are useful but the title is rather misleading as no meals are planned and the book is just another good cook book of selected recipes, well indexed, with an appendix which gives tables of weights and measures, temperature, caloric values, time tables for cooking and a list (2p.) of government publications on foods and cooking.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:434 Jl ‘17
+ =Cath World= 105:412 Je ‘17 110w
=Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 90w
“Not intended as a complete guide to cookery, this new book, so admirable in form and contents, presupposes an elementary knowledge of the care and preparation of food, and imparts much knowledge that is not elementary.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 3 ‘17 120w
“Altogether this little book is indispensable for owners of small kitchens.”
+ =Nation= 105:347 S 27 ‘17 330w
“We have personally tested many of the recipes for salads and puddings and found them excellent. The author preaches a sort of sensible economy which the housewife can practice with much profit.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 120w
+ =N Y Times= 22:173 Ap 29 ‘17 80w
=Pratt= p26 O ‘17 40w
“The preface gives general suggestions for economy—the kind a sensible housewife can really practise.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 90w
“Another good point about the book is the binding, which is of the practical kind that may be handled without soiling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 14 ‘17 250w
=GREENE, CARLETON.= Wharves and piers; their design, construction and equipment. il *$3 McGraw 627 17-9604
“The book is frankly a catalog of standard designs. There appears little attempt to expand theory, but as a catalog, using that word in its best sense, there is little to be wished for. The main section, is devoted to the structure of the piers and wharves themselves. The following and less exhaustive part takes up the design of sheds for wharves and piers and a final and still less ambitious section is devoted to cargo-handling machinery. Finally, a number of detail costs afford some general information on that important subject.”—Engin News-Rec
=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 20w
“In no branch of engineering have there been so many strides forward in the past decade as in the design and construction of wharves and piers for harbors. ... In spite of this great advance, or perhaps because of it, the literature on the subject is most meager. Practically everything that can be found on recent wharf and pier construction must be sought in the files of technical magazines and society publications. Mr Greene has, therefore, done a considerable service for the profession in collecting the many types which appear in his new book.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:325 Ag 16 ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17
“The drawings, most of them dimensioned, are clearly executed.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ap ‘17 70w
“‘The subject of pile-driving has not been treated at length in this book.’”
=Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of the Western Society of Engineers p122 F ‘17)
=Pratt= p19 Jl ‘17 40w
=GREENE, FREDERICK STUART=, ed. Grim thirteen. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-23978
Edward J. O’Brien, editor of “The best short stories of 1916,” in his introduction, tells us that six people, four writers, two critics and a publisher, talking over the short story became convinced that “a grim story, no matter whether it was a literary masterpiece or not, was hoodooed.” They then decided to select and publish in book form thirteen good stories that had been repeatedly rejected by American magazines. All of these stories were praised by editors who rejected them. Contents: The day of Daheimus, by Vance Thompson; Rain, by Dana Burnet; Old fags, by Stacy Aumonier; The head of his house, by Conrad Richter; The Abigail Sheriff memorial, by Vincent O’Sullivan; Easy, by Ethel Watts Mumford; The draw-keeper, by Wadsworth Camp; The razor of Pedro Dutel, by Richard Matthews Hallet; Knute Ericson’s celebration, by Robert Alexander Wason; The parcel, by Mrs Belloc Lowndes; Back o’ the yards, by Will Levington Comfort and H. A. Sturtzel; The end of the game, by William Ashley Anderson; The black pool, by Frederick Stuart Greene.
“They form a protest against the commercial standards which have shown these writers that ‘some of their finest imaginative work could not achieve magazine publication without sensible modification.’ Not written for immature minds.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
“Capt. Greene has proved all he has undertaken to prove and suggested very potent reasons for the freeing of our creative literature from the shackles at present imposed upon it.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 26 ‘18 1000w
“There is not one story in the volume that is mechanical, mediocre, or of the merely competent order that suffices for our monthly fiction. And what is similarly surprising is the distinguished style, the poetic perception, the high literary quality revealed in most of the rejected thirteen.” L: Untermeyer
+ — =Dial= 64:70 Ja 17 ‘18 1150w
“There is not a story with the indubitable touch of genius to lift it from the ‘grim’ to the tragic. Half of them are written in the same style, the American Magazine or, let us say, Saturday Evening Post style, and might have been written by the same brisk, ingenious hand.”
— =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 370w
“The circumstances under which the book is spun out at the public over the heads of the rejecting editors are an indictment of the magazine editors of the whole country. ... And it is a mighty good thing that somebody has had the spirit and the confidence in the American public to make such a test of its intelligence. ... Some of the thirteen stories reach a much higher level of literary quality than do others. For it is easy to see, with some of them, that gruesome theme or unhappy ending was not the sole reason for their untoward fate in magazine offices. But some of them are so true in their picturing of life, so fine in their artistry, and so high in their literary quality that one marvels at their continued rejection.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:329 S 9 ‘17 1800w
“In tone and atmosphere the stories must be classified with that grimly imaginative school of which Poe was the master. Still each plot is distinctly original. Each one is vivid, thrilling and direct, and many of them display a keen intuition and a sense of psychological values.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 360w
=GREENE, HARRY PLUNKET.= Pilot, and other stories. il *$2 (5c) Macmillan 16-22978
“Pilot,” the longest of the six stories in this book, is the story of a dog. Pilot is an English dog with a fondness for poaching, and his adventures are many and amusing. The remaining stories are about children and animals; among them there is one story for fishermen. Bight of the illustrations are in color.
+ =N Y Times= 22:41 F 4 ‘17 80w
“Our notice must not end without a few words of praise for the admirable illustrations of Mr H. J. Ford, so long and honourably associated with the fairy books of the late Andrew Lang. Here, however, he shows a range and versatility for which we were hardly prepared, and has collaborated with the author with most delightful results, whether his aim has been realistic, grotesque, or fantastic.”
+ =Spec= 117:706 D 2 ‘16 700w
“The story of his doings is so entertainingly and humorously told that the book should prove interesting to readers of all ages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 2 ‘16 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 D 14 ‘16 350w
=GREENE, HOMER.= Flag. il *$1.25 (2c) Jacobs 17-22701
In a school-boy snowball battle, one of the two leaders wraps himself in the American flag as a means of protection in an assault, but his opponent, Penfield Butler, tears it from him and it is trampled and torn under their feet. Made to feel that his act was unpardonable, called “Benedict Arnold” by his companions, Penfield is forced to leave school. Thereafter he goes branded, is refused admission to the national guard, but finally takes part in the European war and thereby regains his good name.
“Marred by sentimentality.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18
=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:840 D ‘17 50w
“A wholesome story of military patriotism for boys told in a manly, straightforward style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 80w
=GREENE, KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM.= Little boy out of the wood, and other dream plays. *75c Lane 822 16-23242
A collection of fanciful little plays for reading. The titles are: The little boy out of the wood; Night watch; The poppy seller; The first Christmas eve; The vision splendid; The princess on the road; The two bad fairies. A note says, “Of the plays that form this book only one—‘The two bad fairies’—was written for a stage. The other six are dreams.”
“Recalling in the delicate allegory Olive Schreiner’s ‘Dreams’ comes ‘The little boy out of the wood.’ These are ‘dream plays,’ tragic and comic, and exquisite in workmanship.”
+ =Ind= 89:274 F 12 ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:21 F ‘17 30w
“Arranged for reading aloud.”
=R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 70w
=GREENOUGH, CHESTER NOYES, and HERSEY, FRANK WILSON CHENEY.= English composition. il *$1.40 Macmillan 808 17-15557
“Professor Greenough and Mr Hersey have prepared a most interesting text-book on ‘English composition,’ What they term ‘mechanics,’ that is troublesome points of grammar, punctuation, spelling are touched in short final chapters. The main chapters are on exposition, argument, description, narration, structure, with clear and suggestive discussion of the topics, and fine examples. The first chapter on gathering and weighing of material is especially to be noted, for it gives the pupil all sorts of practical, helpful hints that students must usually work out for themselves slowly at great waste of time or never work out at all.” (Ind) Dr Greenough is professor of English at Harvard university.
“Occasionally a volume appears which from its preface onward towers above the jumble of its competitors. Such a volume is this ‘English composition.’ The arrangement of the contents is unexceptionable. Better even than the arrangement, however, is the excellence of the presentation.”
+ =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 120w
+ =Ind= 91:235 Ag 11 ‘17 100w
“If a criticism were to be made it would be that the authors treat composition as chiefly an exhibition of cleverness. They send a chiel out into the world notebook in hand and eye alert chiefly for the technical tricks of the trade. ... Beyond such technical matters a book on composition is perhaps not bound to go: within this field it would be difficult to find one that functions more efficiently; it makes one cast about at once for a sharp pencil. An interesting concession to the present interest in the spoken word, the book contains a rather prim little chapter on pronunciation.”
+ =Nation= 105:260 S 6 ‘17 220w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:124 Ag ‘17
“The first work of its kind to bring the student ample descriptive extracts from famous writers illustrated with photographs of the actual scenes described by them.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:216 Ag ‘17 290w
=GREGOR, ELMER RUSSELL.= White Otter. il *$1.35 (2c) Appleton 17-8586
A sequel to “The red arrow.” White Otter is the young Sioux who was the hero of that tale. In this story he is again pitted against his tribal enemies, the Pawnees. In a great battle his grandfather, the Sioux chieftain, is taken prisoner and White Otter, following on the enemy’s trail, sets him free. It is a story of Indian life before the coming of the white man.
=A L A Bkl= 13:453 Jl ‘17
=N Y Times= 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w
=GREGOROVITSH, DIMITRY.= Fishermen. *$1.50 (1½c) McBride
Dimitry Gregorovitsh was a contemporary of Tourgeniev. Angelo S. Rappoport, in the introduction to this novel, says that he is rightly considered one of the best exponents of the life of the Russian working people. The present story, here translated into English for the first time, centers about the family of Glyeb Savinitsh, a fisherman. Vania, Glyeb’s youngest son, and Grishka, an adopted child, are boys of the same age who grow up together, sharing alike in the family fortunes. Indeed, in spite of his shortcomings, Grishka seems to hold first place in the affections of the father. Knowing that Dounia, the girl both young men come to love, has given herself to Grishka, Vania takes his foster brother’s place as conscript in the army. Grishka, left free, marries Dounia and wrecks her happiness as he does that of the family that has sheltered him. An evil influence in the story is that of Zakhar, a product of the factory system, which, at the time that the book was written, was only beginning to invade the rural villages of Russia.
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w
“Grigorovich lacked deep psychological insight; he was more of a careful landscapist and an ethnographic observer than a vivisector of the human soul. Only in exceptional cases did he succeed in depicting a boldly outstanding character, as, for instance; in the old fisherman Glyeb.”
+ — =Nation= 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 330w
“Though ‘The fishermen’ has a slightly oldfashioned air about it, it is an air of sentiment rather than of sentimentality, and gives to realism the balance necessary to save it from becoming naturalism. ‘The fishermen’ reminds one of George Sand’s pastoral tales; it possesses a charm which is not glamour and a truth which is not all ugliness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:570 D 23 ‘17 600w
=Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w
“The author stands only in the second or third rank of Russian literature, has no life-message as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy have, and the picture which he gives of Russian life is not distinctive. ... The patriarchal life of Glyeb’s family ought to be interesting, but one never gets into the midst of it, and evidently the author himself is an outsider, having only a partial sympathy. ... The translation is without charm, and if the author is prolix the translator emphasizes the defect.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p42 Ja 25 ‘17 850w
=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Wolf breed. il *$1.40 (2c) Dodd 17-25854
The North woods provide the setting of a tale of avarice, jealousy and passion among men who, for greed of gold or refuge from the law, collect there in strange ill-assortment. Among the habitues of a frontier settlement house is No Luck Drennen who had grown hard, cynical, and evil-minded thru loss of faith in men he had trusted. He knows where to find gold; others know that he knows. Drennen becomes suspicious that every body is trying to pry into his secret and wrest from him his prospects. He includes in his suspicions a southern girl who mysteriously appears at the settlement. Woman hater tho he be and sharp of tongue he finds a match in Ygerne Bellaire whose clever fencing wins the admiration and love of the “lone wolf.” Treachery and misunderstanding make their romance a difficult one but they find a way out to happiness.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 190w
“It may be summed up as a tale of red blood pumped up by machine.”
— =Nation= 105:667 D 13 ‘17 90w
“The tale of these fights and entanglements, the thrill and the zest of it, is well told. It is like nothing so much as the novelization of one of the famous ballads of Robert W. Service.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 250w
“It is a lively and quite impossible tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 320w
=GREGORY, RICHARD ARMAN.= Discovery; or, The spirit and service of science. il *$1.75 Macmillan 504 (Eng ed A16-1381)
“The spirit in which men of science devote themselves to the investigation and understanding of nature, the results of their discoveries in the increase of man’s power—these are the themes of the book.” (Sat R) “In his references to the life and work of men like Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Huxley, Kelvin, and Pasteur, the author illustrates the spirit of the discoverer—his fanaticism for the sanctity of truth, his disinterestedness and impersonal detachment, his delight in his work, and his cautious yet alert recognition of the possibility of error. ... Much of the book is an eloquent commentary on the text: ‘The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.’” (Nature)
“The essays, twelve in number, are readable, concrete in their treatment, and meant for the layman.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:382 Je ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p149 D ‘16 40w
Reviewed by J. A. Thomson
+ =Nature= 97:438 Jl 27 ‘16 950w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:154 O ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 22:239 Mr ‘17
=Pratt= p15 Ap ‘17 20w
+ =Sat R= 122:89 Jl 22 ‘16 1000w
“The appearance of this book could not well have been more timely.” T. B. Robertson
+ =Science= n s 45:143 F 9 ‘17 300w
=GREW, EDWIN SHARPE, and others.= Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener; his life and work for the empire. 3v il *25s 6d Gresham pub. co., London
A life of Lord Kitchener complete in three volumes. “The first volume deals with Kitchener’s early years, his work in Palestine, and the Egyptian campaign. The second volume begins with the Fashoda incident, and then deals with the Boer war.” (Ath) “The third volume treats of the present war, of Lord Kitchener’s magnificent work in raising the new armies, and of his death in the ‘Hampshire’ on June 5th last.” (Spec)
“A useful and careful piece of work. ... At the same time we should welcome a little more biography and a little less history.”
+ =Ath= p599 D ‘16 70w (Review of v 1 and 2)
“Carefully written and contains a good deal of new matter.”
+ =Spec= 117:448 O 14 ‘16 80w (Review of v 1)
+ =Spec= 118:368 Mr 24 ‘17 70w (Review of v 2 and 3)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p454 S 21 ‘16 80w (Review of v 1)
“Cooperative biography is not an ideal arrangement, but in this case the chapters blend surprisingly well, and the whole narrative flows with an ease which makes it a pleasure to read throughout.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 D 14 ‘16 450w (Review of v 1 and 2)
=GREY, ZANE.= Wildfire. il *$1.35 (1½c) Harper 17-2028
Wildfire, an untamed red stallion, is the hero of this story. Lucy Bostil, the pride of her father’s heart and a girl who doesn’t know the meaning of fear, is its heroine. Lin Slone, who tracks Wildfire up from Utah and captures him, is the horse’s nominal owner, but Lucy is the real owner, for it is to her the beautiful wild horse gives his heart. Lucy rides him once in a race against her father’s favorite, Sage King. She rides him again in a race for life against prairie fire. It is an exciting story of the days when Colorado was less settled and civilized than it is today.
“More sensational than some of his other stories.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
“The story would make an excellent foundation for a moving-picture scenario. But still, ‘Wildfire’ possesses certain virtues of its own—the virtue of being straight, clean, and exciting, and the virtue of lacking the psychological sickliness and the maunderings of much of our third-rate fiction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 17 ‘17 230w
“After one has followed the story even with intensity, it fades a little in the mind in the days that come after, while one still remembers the atmosphere of the book or the characters.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:105 F 8 ‘17 500w
“Will add nothing to the author’s reputation. It lacks the atmosphere of his early novels and falls short of their restrained power. It is a shallow and sensational story.”
— =Ind= 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 50w
+ =N Y Times= 22:21 Ja 21 ‘17 350w
“It is not like other books. It’s a horse story and—actually—unique.” M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 91:210 Ja 20 ‘17 350w
“Compares favorably with Mr Grey’s best stories.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 11 ‘17 200w
=GRIBBLE, FRANCIS HENRY.= Women in war. *$2.75 Dutton 920.7 (Eng ed 16-23097)
“This book, so eminently topical, was yet written, Mr Gribble tells us, before the world-war was talked of. It is an interesting account of individual women or groups of women noted for deeds of bravery, adventurous exploits, or for some special association with war from the time of Boadicea to that of Florence Nightingale. In an epilogue, in which Mr Gribble endeavours to bring the record somewhat up to date, he tells us that he was interned in Germany, and has something to say of German women in war time. ... The epilogue also records the experiences of some of the women who have served in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian armies—‘no fewer than twenty of them in the Voluntary Ukraine legion alone’—and of the women doctors and nurses who went through the Serbian campaign.”—Spec
“Mr Gribble writes of Jeanne d’Arc in detail, and with an open mind attempts to give her a proper place in history, conceding neither to M. Anatole France that she was merely the tool of the clergy, nor to Andrew Lang that she was the great military leader he thought her. His searching desire for fairness toward Jeanne d’Arc gives one confidence in the author’s estimate of other women warriors with whose reputation the reviewer is less familiar.”
+ =Dial= 63:166 Ag 30 ‘17 230w
“It sketches in a light superficial manner the heroic or eccentric doings of a motley group of thirty or forty women, ranging in point of time from Countess Matilda of Tuscany to Miss Edith Cavell. The only nexus among them all is that each was in some way connected with war, either leading it like Jeanne D’Arc, or in supposedly causing it like the Empress Eugénie, or in suffering from it like Lady Sale, or in some other more or less remote fashion.”
=Nation= 105:204 Ag 23 ‘17 350w
“Mr Gribble has made for himself more or less of a reputation as an entertaining but superficial writer on some of the intimate phases of history, especially those connected, and too often scandalously, with women. In this book he has collected with great industry an immense amount of information about what specific women have done in war and in the influencing of countries or individuals in times of war and as companions of warriors.”
=N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 140w
“Reading Mr Gribble’s pages, one can hardly realize that they record historical facts. The stories that he relates have all the fascination of fiction.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 120w
+ =Spec= 117:632 N 18 ‘16 210w
Reviewed by L. A. Mead
=Survey= 38:553 S 22 ‘17 230w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p532 N 9 ‘16 1000w
=GRIERSON, RONALD.= Some modern methods of ventilation. il *$3 Van Nostrand 697 17-12836
“The author’s expressed purpose is to present, in as simple and concise a form as possible, the general principles and practice of design of a modern ventilating plant. This is accomplished as fully as could be expected in a book of less than 200 pages. ... Although based upon English practice, it presents American practices more fully and correctly than any other British book on this subject known to the reviewer. Many of its 40 tables are from American authorities, and all are in accordance with the most modern practice. A similar statement would apply to the illustrations.”—Engin News-Rec
=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 30w
“Although the book will scarcely meet the needs of the student beginner in this subject, nor completely satisfy the needs of the well-informed engineer, yet it may well interest both and it is a desirable addition to any library on the subject of ventilation. The descriptions and definitions are models of conciseness and clearness. ... As a whole, the book appears to be the product of one who is thoroughly versed in the theory and practice of modern ventilating work.” D. D. Kimball
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:602 Je 21 ‘17 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:106 Jl ‘17
“‘The author of this contribution to a literature which is admittedly scanty has not attempted an exhaustive theoretical treatise. He has sifted with a good deal of skill bred of intimate knowledge of the practical side of his subject. Moreover the plant, instruments and methods of which he treats are up-to-date and fairly comprehensive, so that the result is a satisfactory and useful statement of things as they are.’”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Ironmonger p186 Mr 24 ‘17)
=Pittsburgh= 22:518 Je ‘17
=GRIFFITH, IRA SAMUEL.= Carpentry. il $1 Manual arts press 694 17-1599
“This is really the complete story of the building of a modern house, from surveying and staking out to hanging the windows and doors.”—School Arts Magazine
“A textbook for use by trade apprentices, students in vocational and trade schools and students of manual arts. It is a clear treatise on the every-day problems of the carpenter and house builder. As a textbook on carpentry, it meets every requirement of the student. No other publication has ever undertaken to cover the essentials of house building in a manner adapted for school use as this book on ‘Carpentry.’”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 100w (Reprinted from Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan p139 Mr ‘17)
“Author is an experienced carpenter and is chairman of the Manual arts department, University of Missouri. He has written several excellent elementary books on woodworking, which are recommended.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 70w
“There are more than 150 illustrations. It is a book for apprentices, trade school students, and anybody who wants to know how houses are built.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 60w
“One of the best textbooks for students beginning a study of this subject.” F. M. Leavitt and Margaret Taylor
+ =School R= 26:63 Ja ‘18 120w
=GRIFFITH, WILLIAM.= Loves and losses of Pierrot. il *$1 Shores 811 16-22429
“In his ‘Loves and losses of Pierrot,’ William Griffith again proves the validity of his poet-gifts and the great charm of a suggestive sketch-book manner of using the old meters. ... Aside from the origins of the Pierrot legend, there are many suggestions that Mr Griffith has gone deep into the study of eighteenth-century France.”—N Y Times
+ =Dial= 61:543 D 14 ‘16 90w
“A slender book of delicately alluring lyrics finely and gracefully wrought.”
+ =Ind= 89:235 F 5 ‘17 40w
+ =Lit D= 54:209 Ja 27 ‘17 130w
“‘Spring life and spring sadness,’ is Mr Le Gallienne’s deft characterization of these songs, and little more is to be said.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:55 F 18 ‘17 150w
=GRIMM, MINERVA E.=, comp. Translations of foreign novels: a selected list. (Useful reference ser.) *$1 Boston bk. 016.8
This bibliography aims to bring together in convenient form some of the translations of foreign fiction. The general arrangement is by language. French and German first, these being the largest divisions. Then follow in alphabetical order: Belgian; Chinese; Danish; Dutch; Egyptian; Flemish; Greek; Hungarian; Italian; Norwegian; Polish; Roumanian; Russian; Spanish; Swedish; Yiddish. Under each language there is an alphabetical arrangement by author. The title index is arranged alphabetically according to title, with the language designated after each author and with cross references from other titles for the same book. The list was originally compiled as a bibliography presented for graduation in the New York library school in 1914, and was brought up-to-date before publication. “Each book in the list was examined at the time of compilation. It was available either in the reference department, the circulation department, or in the Library school of the New York public library. Some of the earlier publications are probably out of print, but entries were made for every book in fair condition, with a reasonable length of life before it.” (Preface)
=GRISAR, HARTMANN.= Luther; authorized tr. from the German, by E. M. Lamond; ed. by Luigi Cappadelta. v 6 *$3.25 Herder 15-12670
The final volume of Father Grisar’s study of Luther comes from the press in the year of the 400th anniversary of the reformation. In conclusion the author says that his constant endeavor has been “to get as close as possible to the real Luther and not to present a painted or fictitious one.” The volume contains the index for the entire work.
“The sixth volume of Prof. Grisar’s biography of the reformer displays, equally with the previous volumes, the author’s scholarship, industry, and endeavour to write with impartiality.”
+ =Ath= p418 Ag ‘17 50w
“The readers of these six volumes of Father Grisar must indeed recognize that he has written the most objective, the most thorough and most unprejudiced life of Luther.”
+ =Cath World= 106:247 N ‘17 600w
“As a Jesuit, the author has no sympathy for Luther, but he has spared no pains to state the facts about the reformer, and his general estimate of Luther’s character, especially in its mystical and its intolerant phases, is well worth reading.”
+ =Spec= 119:16 Jl 7 ‘17 100w
“Perhaps it is in the nature of the case impossible that a man who is so identified with the Roman system as an earnest and able Jesuit must needs be should be able to appreciate the motive force of its most deadly opponent. He is so absorbed in his psychological theories, and in minute points of historical accuracy, that he fails to grasp and to describe the great currents of Luther’s thought and action. Professor Grisar does not give a living history, but an elaborate and critical commentary on the history.”
* – + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p521 N 1 ‘17 3750w
=GRONER, AUGUSTA.= Joe Muller, detective; tr. by Grace Isabel Colbron. *$1.25 Duffield
“A little, mild-looking, meek-mannered, gentle-voiced man—and the best, most famous detective attached to the Secret service of the Austrian police; such is Joe Muller, the hero and principal figure in the five ingenious tales which make up this little book. The first and longest, a novelette, in fact, rather than a short story, is the one entitled ‘The lamp that went out.’ One of those murder cases which seem so simple and obvious, and are really so very complicated, is this tale of the man whose dead body was found in a lonely road.” (N Y Times) The other titles are: The case of the registered letter; The case of the pocket diary found in the snow; The case of the pool of blood in the pastor’s study; The case of the golden bullet.
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:131 S ‘17 30w
+ =N Y Times= 22:276 Jl 22 ‘17 230w
=GROSVENOR, JOHNSTON.= Strange stories of the great valley. il *$1 (2½c) Harper 17-12138
A story of the Ohio valley one hundred years ago. The young hero, Obadiah Holman, a New England boy, floats down the Ohio river, with his parents, to find a new home in Indiana. He meets and makes friends with many of the great men of the time and with one boy who was to become a great man, Abraham Lincoln. Of the incidents of the book, the author says, “They are almost true. ... In substance they are a faithful picture of the sort of adventures that helped pioneer lads of the great valley to grow into the full measure of men.”
“A really good, human book for children.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 70w
“Each story is complete in itself, but they fit together and are all the better for it; and Mr Grosvenor is a capital story teller.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 190w
=GROTIUS, HUGO.= Freedom of the seas; or, The right which belongs to the Dutch to take part in the East Indian trade. *$1 Oxford 341 16-10705
“A translation of Grotius’s famous treatise, one of the foundations and sources of international law. The book contains the Latin text of 1633, revised and an English translation by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin, associate in Greek and Roman history, and Roman archaeology in the Johns Hopkins university. There is an introductory note by James Brown Scott, director of the division of international law of Carnegie endowment. Grotius’s treatise was naturally not altogether popular in England in the 17th century because he denied to any nation the right to claim large tracts of the open sea for its own particular use. The work was not, however, directed against England. It was written to make good the right of the Dutch to continue trading with the East Indies.”—Springf’d Republican
=Springf’d Republican= p6 O 15 ‘17 200w
“The work is singularly unsuggestive as to present or probable future controversies.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p86 F 22 ‘17 1250w
=GRUMBACH, S.=[2] Germany’s annexationist aims; tr., abbreviated and introduced by J. Ellis Barker. *$1.50 Dutton 327.43 17-29849
“Mr Barker is familiar with the politics, language, and literature of Germany, and held international rank as an authority in regard thereto before war began. In his introduction to this book he says that ‘Germany’s war-aims are not sufficiently known in this country’; and he proceeds to speak of ‘Herr S. Grumbach’s monumental volume. “Das annexionistische Deutschland,” published by Payot & Co., at Lausanne, in 1917,’ as affording the information not hitherto accessible here. To render it so has been his wish, as translator and abbreviator. It is his conviction, well based, as his numerous quotations and excerpts prove, that German annexationists, belonging to all classes of society, have formed almost boundless plans of conquest in Europe and on the continents beyond.’”—Lit D
=Ath= p671 D ‘17 110w
=Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 250w
+ =Spec= 119:sup474 N 3 ‘17 100w
“On some points his book shows the result of haste in its compilation, but none the less it is a very useful piece of work, which should be widely known.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p522 N 1 ‘17 850w
=GRUNSKY, CARL EWALD, and GRUNSKY, CARL EWALD, jr.= Valuation, depreciation and the rate-base. diags *$4 Wiley 338 17-1339
“This volume is a notable addition to the small number of books that treat at all fully the subject of valuation and related problems. It contains an introductory discussion; carefully written definitions of many of the terms used; a statement of fundamental principles; a full discussion of the various matters that effect valuation and rate making; chapters relating to the value of real estate, water rights and reservoir and watershed lands; a special chapter by Carl Ewald Grunsky, jr., on the valuation of mines and oil properties ... tables giving the probable useful life of various articles and expectancy of life and remaining value upon a given theoretical basis; and a series of tables relating to compound interest, present worth, annuities, amortization and depreciation.”—Engin N
“Less a comprehensive and systematic discussion of valuation and rate making in accordance with present procedure than the presentation of
## particular views based on personal experience and study. There is
commendable omission of numerous elementary commonplaces, but unfortunately particular points are uselessly repeated over and over and, in general, material, much of it irrelevant, is presented in a very disorganized fashion.” J: Bauer
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:634 S ‘17 1000w
+ =American Gas Engineering Journal= p302 Mr 24 ‘17
=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 10w
“While, as indicated above, the book in some of its main features seems not to make recommendations along practical and progressive lines, it is the result of personal contact, long experience and much study of the valuation problem, has been written with much care and contains many valuable ideas, so that it should have a place in the library of all those interested in valuation.” F: P. Stearns
+ =Engin N= 77:434 Mr 15 ‘17 1100w
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