Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 11)

+ – — Nation 105:610 N 29 ‘17 180w

“An indispensable guide for the amateur gardener and home-builder, equally suited to the needs of those who have a large acreage at their disposal and for the person with the modest backyard or the narrow window-box.”

+ R of Rs 56:221 Ag ‘17 70w

+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 25 ‘17 60w

CROY, MAE SAVELL. 1000 hints on vegetable gardening. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 635 17-18609

Uniform with “1000 shorter ways around the house,” and “1000 things a mother should know.” There is a chapter whose tabulation is alphabetical which groups under each vegetable the hints for the planting, care, cooking and preservation of that vegetable. There are chapters on: Soil and fertilization; The hotbed and cold-frame; Seed; Planting; Thinning and transplanting; Cultivation; Watering; Weeds; Insects and sprays; Fruit; Small fruits; Nuts; Trees; Miscellaneous hints; List of agricultural experiment stations; Plan for a family garden; Table denoting how much space should be devoted to various vegetables; Convenient lists for gardeners; Index.

CROY, MAE SAVELL. 1000 things a mother should know. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 649 17-13344

The suggestions the author has brought together have reference “to tiny babies and growing children; their clothes, their care, their food, their training, and their entertainment.” As in her earlier book, “1000 shorter ways around the house,” she has arranged a large amount of miscellaneous material under convenient subject headings. Contents: Pregnancy; Clothing; The nursery; Health rules and medical care; Hygiene and sick-room suggestions; Food; Habits and training; Amusements; Miscellaneous.

Cleveland p110 S ‘17 30w

“A large amount of miscellaneous information conveniently arranged.”

+ Pratt p25 O ‘17 20w

CRUMP, IRVING. Boys’ book of policemen. il *$1.35 (2½c) Dodd 352 17-13226

A companion volume to “The boys’ book of firemen,” by the same author. It will give a new idea of the policeman’s duties and of the wide variety of the opportunities offered by the calling. Contents: The call of adventure; “Pounding the pavement” with the patrolman; The six-foot guards of traffic; In action with the mounted men; Mile-a-minute motor patrol; The four-footed police of the dog patrol; The pirate fighting marine division; The sleuths of the secret service; The riot call and other police signals; Police preparedness; Policemen in the making; Your big brother—the cop.

+ A L A Bkl 13:453 Jl ‘17

“Besides all the practical information, stories are told of many adventures and thrilling incidents.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 27 ‘17 90w

+ Cleveland p127 N ‘17 30w

+ Pratt p9 O ‘17 20w

CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON, and others. School organization and administration. (Educational survey ser.) il $1.50 World bk. co. 371 16-17381

The report of a school survey conducted by Dr Cubberley in Salt Lake City in 1915. “The survey concerned itself especially with the form or organization and administration under which the schools were operated, the system of supervisory control by means of which the superintendent of schools worked, the progress in the fundamental subjects being made by the children in the schools, and the problem of adequate finance. ... The report contained, in addition, a number of features which were quite distinctive. ... Among these should be mentioned the detailed explanation of the tests made and the results obtained, the study of the instruction of retarded pupils, the work in health control, the school building and site problem, and the peculiar financial problem, presented by this city.” (Preface) The first edition published by the Board of education of Salt Lake City was early exhausted and this second edition is now printed with some revisions and additions by the author.

“A great mass of educational literature is accumulating, some of it of dubious value, which may or may not be useful hereafter as material or sources for students in educational administration and practise. A painstaking example of a work of this type is ‘School organization and administration.’”

Educ R 53:199 F ‘17 70w

“Will be useful to any school officer or parent who wishes to work out an intelligent view of his own school situation.”

+ Ind 89:196 Ja 29 ‘17 70w

Reviewed by B: C. Gruenberg

N Y Call p12 F 4 ‘17 430w

CUMBERLAND, WILLIAM WILSON. Cooperative marketing. *$1.50 Princeton univ. press 334 17-28662

“In ‘Cooperative marketing: its advantages as exemplified in the California fruit growers exchange’ Prof. W. W. Cumberland has written the history of the exchange since its beginnings in the early nineties, outlined its methods of work, summarized its benefits, and said a few words of its pertinence to cooperative marketing in other fields. ... It consists, essentially, of 8,000 orchardists united into 117 local packing exchanges, each handling fruit on a cost basis; of 17 district selling exchanges, or clearing-houses; and of the central exchange, which, under president and directors, provides market facilities, issues daily bulletins of market information, advertises, owns the ‘Sunkist’ trade-mark, handles litigation, and maintains an organized selling force of 75 offices and 200 salesmen in the principal European, Canadian, and American markets.”—Nation

“Comprehensive, suggestive, candid and rational. This book should give a great stimulus to the one phase of cooperation.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 D 8 ‘17 150w

“Professor Cumberland tells his story lucidly and comprehensively.”

+ Nation 105:571 N 22 ‘17 470w

CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM. Progress of capitalism in England. *90c (3c) Putnam 330.9 (Eng ed 17-15935)

This book contains the substance of lectures delivered in the London school of economics and political science in 1915, and is “published in the hope that it may prove a useful appendix to the author’s ‘Growth of English industry and commerce.’” (Preface) The book is divided into three sections: Economic history and empirical economic science; The development of the body economic in England: Lessons from experience. “One-third of it is devoted to the general philosophy of the subject. ... The development of industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is touched upon only by a brief 133discussion of ‘laisser-faire.’ A contribution to the economic problems of the future is offered in the final chapter on ‘Lessons from experience.’” (Eng Hist R)

“Much material of great interest to students of economic history is presented in brief compass, particularly in the second part of the book which deals with ‘The progress of capitalism in mediaeval cities.’”

+ Am Pol Sci R 11:597 Ag ‘17 80w

“The many students of Archdeacon Cunningham’s ‘Growth of English industry and commerce’ will not find anything new in his lectures on ‘The progress of capitalism in England’ but those who desire a very brief summary of his views on this aspect of economic history will find this little book helpful.” G. U.

+ Eng Hist R 32:316 Ag ‘17 170w

“Besides an instructive summary of our economic development, this little book contains an earnest plea for the study of economic history.”

+ Spec 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 80w

CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, ROBERT BONTINE.^[2] Brought forward; Charity; Faith; Hope; Progress; Success. ea *$1.35 Stokes (Eng ed 17-11795)

“Of the six volumes which are now being brought out in a uniform edition in this country, one, ‘Brought forward,’ is published for the first time. The other books, although they have been appearing one by one in England since the early years of the century, have never before been issued here. The present edition amounts, therefore, to an introduction, for American leaders, to a large part of a well-known British writer’s work. Of the fifteen stories in the new volume, three are Scotch, three English, one a story of the Arabs, one a story of Spain; the others take the reader to scenes past and present in Latin America. ... The name of the volume ‘Charity’ is taken from the initial story of the book, but nearly all the tales have charity, sometimes in an odd form, as motif. ... ‘Faith’ and ‘Hope’ form the keynotes of the volumes of those titles, though sometimes faith and hope show themselves, and play their parts in men’s and women’s lives, in strange and sad ways. ... ‘Progress,’ a long story in the book of that name, is a horrible record of the putting down of a rebellion in Mexico. ... His sympathies are always with the simple people, the oppressed, the misunderstood.”—N Y Times

“Keen as is the sympathy that marks his pictures of simple folk in England and Scotland, his stories of Latin America are really the most interesting in the book, with a few brief sketches of Spaniards and Moors following close behind. Yet the whole book is a series of delightful portraits, both of men and of horses. The earlier volumes show the same understanding that marks ‘Brought forward.’”

+ N Y Times 22:393 O 14 ‘17 1000w

“He has irony, pity, and wit. He is the master of the telling phrase, and can produce a convincing picture with the utmost economy of words. Our delight in this book is tempered only by the fear that it is to be, according to rumour, Mr Cunninghame Graham’s last.”

+ Sat R 122:417 O 28 ‘16 470w (Review of “Brought forward”)

“We need only say that they are as attractive as ever—especially ‘El tango Argentino’—and commend them to his many faithful readers, who will be grieved to learn from the preface that the author will write no more.”

+ Spec 117:sup609 N 18 ‘16 70w (Review of “Brought forward”)

The Times [London] Lit Sup p511 O 26 ‘16 1200w (Review of “Brought forward”)

CURLE, RICHARD. Echo of voices. *$1.50 (2c) Knopf 17-13448

Richard Curle is author of a critical study of Joseph Conrad, and Conrad has stood sponsor for this book of short stories. “I think your taking him up is a good move,” he wrote to the publisher. “He has brains; he has also a writer’s temperament.” The short stories that compose the book are serious studies of life and character. Most of them have a commonplace London setting. One, His kingdom, is a story of South Africa; another, Nineteen, of the South seas. The other titles are: The two dependants; Midnight: The would-be friends; General service; Monsieur Clavel; Deep down.

“The book is, it is easily apparent, not strikingly of the ‘wholesome’ breed. It is not likely to please those who lack a relish for the eccentric and somewhat bitter. But the tales, for all their lack of the conventionalities of structure and content, have a certain power and self-sufficiency.” F. I.

Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ‘17 550w

“There is perhaps more than a suggestion of Mr Conrad’s own method, and more than a trace of the influence of the great Russians, especially Dostoevsky. But what then? These are no bad models for a young writer with a temperament, and Mr Curie has had the strength to put his individual stamp on all but one of these tales.”

+ — Dial 63:353 O 11 ‘17 530w

CURRAN, WILLIAM TEES, and CALKINS, HAROLD A. In Canada’s wonderful northland. il *$2.50 (2c) Putnam 917.1 17-5856

A book devoted to the northern part of the province of Quebec, a country now being opened to settlement by the construction of a railroad to Hudson bay. It is an account of eight months of travel by canoe, motorboat and dog-team. The authors were continuing studies made earlier by Mr Curran and summed up in “Glimpses of northern Canada, a land of hidden treasure,” a work issued by the Canadian government. The book is well illustrated and supplied with maps.

“An unassuming and interestingly written record of a trip taken by the authors in 1912.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:349 My ‘17

“The book prefigures, in all likelihood, a remarkable expansion northward in the near future.”

+ Dial 62:531 Je 14 ‘17 270w

+ Nation 105:323 S 20 ‘17 350w

“From the intimate manner in which the narrative is set forth, the reader seems to live in the region through which he passes. The sixty illustrations and maps are illuminating and well chosen.”

+ N Y Times 22:196 My 20 ‘17 170w

“It is not as well written as it might have been; the illustrations are exceptionally good and, on the whole, the book is one of the best volumes of Canadian travel in some time.”

+ — Ontario Library Review 1:112 My ‘17 50w

R of Rs 55:555 My ‘17 50w

+ Spec 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 80w

“Those who wish a true and vivid picture of the vast region known as northern Canada cannot do better than read ‘In Canada’s wonderful northland.’”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 My 29 ‘17 270w

“This being a book for the general reader, Mr Curran does not give details about his technical work. It contains an appendix giving new and valuable information about the harbours discovered.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p398 Ag 23 ‘17 600w

“Covers some of the ground of Leith’s ‘Summer and winter on Hudson bay.’”

Wis Lib Bul 13:183 Je ‘17 80w

CURRIE, BARTON WOOD. Tractor and its influence upon the agricultural implement Industry. il *$1 (2c) Curtis pub. co., Independence square, Philadelphia 631 16-15374

A series of papers on the development and use of farm implements, with particular reference to the tractor, reprinted from the Country Gentleman. Part 1 consists of a miscellaneous collection in which the author deplores the “senseless diversification” of farm machinery and argues for standardization. Part 2 is devoted to the tractor and its place in agriculture.

R of Rs 54:459 O ‘16 50w

134CURRIE, JOHN ALLISTER. Red watch; with the first Canadian division in Flanders. il *$1.50 Button 940.91 (Eng ed A17-370)

“Colonel Currie’s book deals concretely with but one regiment of the many that have gone out from Canada. But in its careful and representative detail it offers us much information about the part played in the war by Canada as a whole.” (N Y Times) “The ‘Red watch’ is the term applied to the 48th Highlanders. After the battle of Langemarck only 212 out of the 1034 members of this regiment responded to the muster call.” (R of Rs)

+ A L A Bkl 13:394 Je ‘17

Cleveland p102 S ‘17 50w

“The men under his command were certainly a band of heroes, and the story of their heroism stirs the blood. The pictorial feature is prominent.” P. F. Bicknell

+ Dial 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 130w

“Colonel Currie is particularly emphatic in praising the temperance and careful living of his men, and denying reports that British, French, or Canadian soldiers are given rum or drugs ‘to keep up their courage.’ ... There is much that is thrilling in this clean-cut soldier’s chronicle, much that is inspiriting and fine. It is a soldier’s record, through and through.”

+ N Y Times 22:57 F 18 ‘17 330w

R of Rs 55:445 Ap ‘17 40w

CURTIN, DANIEL THOMAS. Land of deepening shadow; Germany-at-war. il *$1.50 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-13672

The author is a young American war correspondent who went to Germany late in 1915. His purpose in the book is to give a general picture of conditions in that country under the stress of war. In the early chapters he aims to show how all Germans were “made to think as one man,” in other words, “how the German government creates unity.” It is done by utilizing all the forces that mold public opinion, schools, pulpit, theatre, and press. In the later chapters he describes “the forces tending to disintegrate that wonderful unity.” Among the chapters are: A Land of substitutes; The gagging of Liebknecht; Spies and semi-spies; The iron hand in Alsace-Lorraine; The war slaves of Essen; Germany’s human resources; In the deepening shadow.

“Evidently authentic, it gives many informing and probably unique experiences.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:443 Jl ‘17

“Some books dealing with the internal condition of Germany convey an impression that the colours are too liberally spread upon the palette. The supply of horrifying and sensational facts occasionally forces on the reader the suspicion that the authors have kept the probable demand rather too prominently in view. Mr Curtin’s book is free from that sort of thing.”

+ Ath p258 My ‘17 280w

Ath p346 Jl ‘17 320w

“Mr Curtin is one of Lord Northcliffe’s young men; and he has his patron’s faculty of making our flesh creep with quite exceptional hideousness. The book he has written will tell any reader what Mr Curtin says he saw inside the German empire; but I think that he will conclude that his author has still to learn the value of historic and psychological light and shade.” H. J. Laski

Dial 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 60w

Ind 90:470 Je 9 ‘17 280w

Lit D 55:42 O 13 ‘17 300w

“A frank, well-informed, and brightly written, though egotistical, book by a Germano-phobe Irish newspaper reporter for the Northcliffe press.”

+ Nation 105:204 Ag 23 ‘17 500w

“Under the disguise of a seemingly frank and dispassionate analysis of conditions, the facts are carefully selected and presented with true journalistic cunning in contrast and climax. One hesitates to term this technique dishonest even in a minor sense, for the chances are that it results more from an unconscious bias than from any deliberate attempt to deceive. ... The whole force of Mr Curtin’s book comes from making vivid the truth of the chancellor’s utterance in the Reichstag when he said, apropos of the complete blockade of Great Britain by submarines, ‘We are staking all on this throw.’”

+ — New Repub 12:54 Ag 11 ‘17 650w

“It is a depressing or inspiring picture, just as the inclinations of the reader are ‘pro-Ally’ or ‘pro-German.’ But it is well written, and seems to be the work of a trained observer, even if his impartiality be questioned.” J. W.

+ — N Y Call p14 S 16 ‘17 750w

“Since thorough knowledge of an enemy is the first essential of efficient warfare, the intimate, first-hand view which he offers ought to have wide reading.”

+ N Y Times 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 800w

“The reader will find the information collected and classified; he will find the facts reported in an impartial and historical spirit; and he will find the reports characterized by a degree of reality and authority not always, perhaps not often, to be found in newspaper correspondence. The author reports, not what he was given every facility to see, but what was often carefully hidden from him.”

+ Outlook 117:102 S 19 ‘17 340w

Pratt p39 O ‘17 10w

“Of special interest are his chapters on educational and publicity methods employed by the government.”

+ R of Rs 55:668 Je ‘17 120w

“It gives the most complete account at present procurable of the internal conditions of [Germany]. ... The fact that the author’s country was not involved in the conflict enabled him not only to see more than an Englishman would have been allowed to see, but also to take a more objective view of the phenomena which he observed.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p134 Mr 22 ‘17 900w

CURTIS, LIONEL, ed. Commonwealth of nations. pt 1 *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 325.3 (17-1660)

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The lay-reader, despite the clearness of style, the auxiliary plans, and the handsome appearance of the book will hardly be attracted to the seven hundred pages of solid matter. Nor will the scholar be apt to find it of great use. It is essentially an edition of reports, lengthy but marked by serious omissions, made by industrious and intelligent laymen, and drawn from familiar secondary material. The purpose of the work is warmly to be commended but its value to historical scholars is at least questionable.” C: Seymour

Am Hist R 22:644 Ap ‘17 700w

“There is great ability in his statement, and a very wide knowledge is implied in his treatment of imperial history. Given the limitations he has himself imposed, the development of the present situation is truly rendered; and the volume is one which no intelligent British citizen can afford to neglect. ... The fundamental fault of Mr Curtis is provincialism. ... His geography would have to be revised for an American edition of his book; and perhaps even his history is tainted with the same provincialism of outlook. ... The sum of our criticism is this: there is ability in the marshalling of facts and the urging of a political programme, but the moral attitude implied is ingenuously primitive.” C. D. Burns

+ — Hibbert J 15:344 Ja ‘17 1650w

“The real significance of the present study is that it is to be regarded as a counterblast to such writers as Jebb and others who believe in Britannic alliance and conceive the future of Britain to be an alliance between the mother-country and the self-governing dominions. ... Indeed, the completeness with which it collates such material and the convenient form in which it presents it make the volume a handy treatise on the failure of contract or 135treaty to insure permanency of political relationships. At this time, too, the subject is of wider interest than its immediate problem; the volume might be read as a sufficient antidote to a good bit of the literature put forth by the League to enforce peace. On the other hand, the study suffers from a failure to look at the history and evolution of the self-governing dominions. The American colonies, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States are treated, but the history of Canada and Australia is almost completely ignored. ... In the background of these ideas is Treitschke rather than T. H. Green. They go with a temper rather out of style at present—too little in sympathy with the common people.” D. A. MacGibbon

J Pol Econ 25:512 My ‘17 1150w

“The chapters on the American revolution (from the British point of view) and the relations between England and Ireland are specially interesting. The book is weighty, and may be recommended to students of history and imperial politics. It is liberally supplied with elaborate maps and diagrams.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 1 ‘17 170w

CUSHMAN, ROBERT EUGENE. Excess condemnation. *$2 (2½c) Appleton 336.1 17-21830

Mr Cushman, who is instructor in political science in the University of Illinois, treats his subject from the standpoint of the American city, the experience of European cities being introduced merely for illustrative and comparative purposes. He defines excess condemnation as, “‘the policy, on the part of the state or city, of taking by right of eminent domain more property than is actually necessary for the creation of a public improvement, and of subsequently selling or leasing this surplus.’” (Engin News-Rec) He discusses the three main objects of excess condemnation: “(1) to solve the vexing problems of remnants of land; (2) for the protection of improvements against the prejudicial use of adjacent land; (3) to take for the benefit of the city the increase in values of land adjacent to public improvements, due to the improvements themselves, and thus pay or help pay for the cost of the improvements. ... He then takes up ‘gains and risks’ administration, and the constitutionality of excess condemnation. A few bibliographical references and a list of cases cited are given.” (Engin News-Rec) The editor of the National municipal league series, in which this is the third volume, states in his introduction that this is the first work in the English language on the subject.

“It presents ample data on the many perplexing phases of the subject and discusses in a judicial spirit the evidence on both sides of controverted questions. ... The book deserves the careful attention of engineers and other city officials concerned in planning, financing and protecting municipal improvements, broadminded real estate men and all who are interested in helping on the orderly and economical growth of municipal improvements.”

+ Engin News-Rec 79:751 O 18 ‘17 500w

+ — Nation 106:69 Ja 17 ‘18 210w

“With its historical and illustrative material and general citation of cases the book will prove helpful to all students of the subject. ... The slow movement of our cities towards fundamental improvements is primarily because of the expense involved. The volume will by many be considered lacking in its handling of this.” E: T. Hartman

+ — Survey 39:202 N 24 ‘17 400w

CUTLER, FREDERICK MORSE. Old First Massachusetts coast artillery in war and peace. il *$1 (2c) Pilgrim press 353.9 17-12948

Lieutenant Cutler gives the history of the “Old First” from its origin in 1784 to January, 1917. There are many pictures showing the changes in uniform and in artillery with the passing generations. The first appendix gives the Genealogy of the coast artillery; the second a bibliography.

“No Massachusetts militia unit has enjoyed a more interesting history, or has been more actively engaged in the country’s defence, than the Old First.”

Boston Transcript p6 Jl 18 ‘17 250w

“It will be news to many to find that in 1784 the general apathy toward military affairs in the United States was so marked that the total regular army was comprized within a single company, now Battery F of the field artillery.”

Ind 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 100w

“Lieut. Cutler, who, by the way, is pastor of the Congregational church of Wenham, has told his story with a wealth of anecdote and in a style that will commend the volume beyond its particular clientele.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 27 ‘17 200w

CUTLER, ROBERT. Louisburg square. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-10857

First of all this novel is a picture of Boston society. Old Boston names, Cabot, Quincy, and Copley, appear in its pages. Secondarily, it is a story. Rosalind Copley, the heroine, is a beautiful and popular young girl who interests herself in charities, acting as a volunteer worker in a settlement house. She has entered into a tentative engagement with Ben Cary, a promising young lawyer, when she meets Eric Rolland. Love between the two springs up quickly, but Rosalind feels that Ben has claims on her. Circumstances solve her problem.

“Mr Cutler knows whereof he writes. But the value of his novel does not rest on a knowledge of Beacon street and Commonwealth avenue. ... ‘Louisburg square’ starts where many of its unsuccessful competitors stop. Its universal elements bring it to the goal they miss.” R. W.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 11 ‘17 770w

“The author makes some attempt at characterization, but the result is not very convincing. The whole with its irritating self-immolation is somewhat too suggestive of an ‘Elsie’ book to be pleasant.”

– + Dial 62:483 My 31 ‘17 120w

+ — Ind 81:188 Ag 4 ‘17 70w

“All the old ingredients are here; there is a certain vigor about the telling, but why waste it on this trivial skeleton of an unreality?” C. W.

– + N Y Call p13 Ap 22 ‘17 120w

“A first novel and the product of an author so young that he was graduated from Harvard only last year, ‘Louisburg square’ shows a great deal of promise and a quite commendable present achievement.”

+ N Y Times 22:125 Ap 8 ‘17 570w

+ Outlook 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w

“There is quite enough in ‘Louisburg square’ of the quiet insight into and keen appreciation of that Boston culture which Mr Cutler understands well to make us hope for his early return from soldiering to writing—for him, evidently a field of promise.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 29 ‘17 700w

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DALE, ROBERT BURDETTE. Drawing for builders. (Wiley technical ser. for vocational and industrial schools) il *$1.50 Wiley 692 16-20746

“This book is intended to serve as a basis for a problem course in elementary architectural drawing, and to be especially useful to the practical builder and to the ambitious young man who wishes to become an architect’s draftsman. ... Its aim is not only to teach the student to make drawings, but to instruct him to read and use them. It is written for use in home-study instruction, either with or without assistance, and it is hoped that it may find a place in high schools, vocational schools, night schools and industrial classes.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction; Drawing instruments and materials; How to make a drawing; Architectural 136free-hand lettering; Straight-line projection; The problems. These problems take up about one-half of the book. The author is assistant professor in charge of vocational courses in engineering at Iowa state college.

“The same author’s ‘Arithmetic for carpenters and builders’ is an excellent book for the same type of reader.”

+ Quar List New Tech Bks Ap ‘17 50w

DALRYMPLE, LEONA. Kenny. il *$1.35 (2c) Reilly & B. 17-21645

This story is by the author of the $10,000 prize novel, “Diane of the green van.” “Kennicott O’Neill is [the hero’s] full name, and he is a famous painter and as richly endowed with temperament as he is entitled to be by his double birthright of Celt and artist. Nevertheless, every one calls him ‘Kenny,’ even to his 23-year-old son, Brian. ... It all begins because Kenny, being more impecunious than usual, has taken Brian’s shotgun out and sold it, and Brian, being much annoyed, has thrown his paint brush across the studio and smashed a statuette.” (N Y Times) The two quarrel and Brian leaves his father “to tramp off into God’s green world of spring.” Kenny, homesick for the boy, follows him later, and they both find Joan, the girl in gold brocade, and her young brother, Don. Many things happen, and “finally Kenny realizes that the time has come for him to be 44 years old and for Brian, at last, to be 23 years young.” (N Y Times)

“Entertaining, sentimental, and in parts delightfully humorous.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:59 N ‘17

“If, not being too particular about facts, one likes occasionally a bit of Irish blarney and a bit of a romance with fairies lurking around the corner, then one should most certainly read about Kenny, artist, lover, and father to his son.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 S 26 ‘17 200w

+ Cleveland p132 D ‘17 100w

“Leona Dalrymple has written an American E. Temple Thurston novel; and although the comparison between the two may not be wholly in her favor, it is not meant to be derogatory. For nothing is so difficult—for an American writer, so relentlessly difficult—as the expression of charm in personality. Mr Merwin has given us his interpretation of New York’s bohemia; Miss Dalrymple now gives us hers, and, to tell the truth, it pleases us more.”

+ Dial 63:281 S 27 ‘17 140w

“A slight, wind-woven, gay story, with a touch of pathos toward the end.”

+ N Y Times 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 600w

“Miss Dalrymple tells her very light story with zest, and there are pleasant bits of outdoor description. As a picture of Irish character it is highly conventional.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p15 D 23 ‘17 250w

D’ALTON, J. F. Horace and his age. *$2 (3c) Longmans 874

A study in historical background intended to encourage consideration of the character of the age in which Horace lived and wrote. The writer says, “I have tried to view him in the light of the various movements of his time, to recapture, as it were, the atmosphere in which he moved, to estimate a portion at least of the influences under which many of his thoughts were bodied forth.” Contents: Horace and Roman politics; The Augustan revival; Horace in religion and philosophy; The period of the Epistles; Horace and social problems; Horace and popular beliefs; Literary criticism.

“Prof. D’Alton, with a careful endeavour to steer clear of Procrustean-ism, and from evidence mainly derived from the poet’s writings, has in considerable measure succeeded in placing before us, not indeed a new Horace, but one whose mentality is perhaps a little easier to understand than was previously the case.”

+ Ath p594 N ‘17 130w

“It is a particular pleasure to call attention to a genuinely distinguished contribution to the understanding of Horace.”

+ Educ R 55:77 Ja ‘18 140w

“To a certain extent he is successful, for he has great knowledge and great love of his subject, he writes admirably, and throws light on many particular points; but the total effect is that he presents the reader rather with an excellent book of reference than with an effective portrait.”

+ — Spec 119:647 D 1 ‘17 1650w

“It displays industry, accuracy, and temperate judgment. It does not go wandering after paradoxes like that which ensnared so brilliant a scholar and so keen a critic as Verrall. And by its seriousness it is a good corrective to the superficial view of Horace as an elegant trifler, a preacher of pleasure, one whose ideals of life were low. The defect of these qualities ... is that the book is rather useful than stimulating, and leaves no clear total impression.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p484 O 11 ‘17 2000w

DALY, JOSEPH FRANCIS. Life of Augustin Daly. il *$4 (2½c) Macmillan 17-25827

The brother of Augustin Daly has written this intimate biography which is not only a full record of the life and work of America’s greatest theatrical manager but is an important contribution to the history of the American stage. During his early years, Mr Daly was dramatic critic for several of the New York papers. In this field he developed taste and genius not only for theater management but for play writing. In 1869 he entered the theatrical business when he leased the Fifth avenue theater for a term of two years and advertised to produce “whatever is novel, original, entertaining and unobjectionable,” and to revive “whatever is rare and worthy in the legitimate drama.” Mr Daly’s sincere, unflagging devotion to the cause of establishing the theater on a successful basis of high excellence furnishes the theme of the larger part of the work which cannot fail to find a large audience among producers, managers, playwrights, actors and, as well, the general public.

“Augustin Daly did a great service for the American stage, a service made all the more important by the influence of his own sterling character and single-eyed purpose, and this account of it deserves to have a place among the interesting records of American achievements.” F. F. Kelly

+ Bookm 46:328 N ‘17 270w

“A sympathetic appreciation by a brother. The reader is therefore offered a mass of interesting personalia, in lieu of any profound critical estimate of Augustin Daly’s influence on the American theater.”

+ Lit D 55:39 N 17 ‘17 350w

“The author has succeeded in rearing a notable monument of fraternal affection. But, though a respected and capable judge, he had little skill in bookmaking. The legal habit of his mind is betrayed in the accumulation of the smallest details, rather than in orderly and discriminating use of them. His relation, especially in some of the earlier chapters, is often exceedingly confused and rambling.” J. R. Towse

+ — Nation 106:71 Ja 17 ‘18 1300w

“So broad, indeed, is the book’s scope that it becomes almost a history of the New York stage through the middle and later decades of the nineteenth century. And there are numbers of photographs of the stars of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, pictures which will arouse a flood of recollections in the breasts of middle-aged theatregoers.”

+ N Y Times 23:13 Ja 13 ‘18 1150w

“An admirable biography. The author has used his ample material with tact and taste.”

+ Outlook 117:432 N 14 ‘17 50w

Pittsburgh 22:803 D ‘17 90w

“The book singularly and regrettably fails to give the intimate view we expect in biography. ... He has made a ship-shape lucid 137biography with the personal equation of both brothers left out. To this end he seems to have deliberately foregone the abundant anecdotal charm of theatrical books. But he has made a valuable statistical contribution to the history of the American stage.” Algernon Tassin

+ — Pub W 92:1383 O 20 ‘17 720w

DAMPIERRE, LÉON MICHEL MARIE JACQUES DE, marquis. German imperialism and international law; based upon German authorities and the archives of the French government. il *$3.50 Scribner 940.91 (Eng ed 17-15316)

“In the first chapters M. de Dampierre devotes himself to an investigation of the theories which have gone to build up the principles of German imperialism, contrasting them with the opposed doctrines which have found their expression in the attempts to build up a system of international law.’ ... He then proceeds to show how all that has happened in this war. ... is the logical and inevitable consequence of the teaching of German writers before the war. ... He has read widely and ... his illustrations from the works of German writers are always supported by full references. ... The two last chapters, ‘The German war and spoliation’ and ‘German terrorism,’ are almost entirely occupied with a discussion of the diaries of German soldiers, which afford irrefutable evidence regarding what took place during the months of August and September, 1914.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“M. de Dampierre proves quite conclusively that the annexation of Belgium was the direct objective of the war.”

+ Sat R 123:601 Je 30 ‘17 1000w

“Ably and temperately written book, fortified throughout by the evidence of enemy literature and documents.”

+ Spec 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 130w

“He writes as one who brings to the study of contemporary history the habits formed in the great school which has grown up round the study of the French archives, and his work is as scientific, as documenté, as that of any German. ... It is much to be regretted that there is no index to the book.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p99 Mr 1 ‘17 1250w

DANA, MARVIN. Perfect memory. *$1 (7c) Clode. E: J. 154 17-24845

How to have and keep a perfect memory is the thesis of Dr Dana’s hundred forty pages of practical instruction. He believes that whether a memory is good or bad anyone can improve it one thousand per cent, or more, by following the methods set forth in these pages. The scheme of mental control upon which he bases his instruction stresses concentration, visualization, necessity for the concrete, association of ideas and avoidance of the abstract. He points out the best results, and way to secure them, from memorizing lists, dates, names and faces. He says that the right kind of memory “means a mind in the plenitude of its vigor, growing, serene, energized, competent to every task; a mind that compels the respect of others, and, what is of deeper worth, maintains to the full one’s own self-respect, which is the foundation-stone whereon content is builded.”

DANE, CLEMENCE. Regiment of women. *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 17-3574

This book by a new writer recalls Hugh Walpole’s early novel “The gods and Mr. Perrin.” It is a study of the unwholesome conditions that may exist in a large school where pupils and teachers are so isolated from the active life of the world that emotional reactions are intensified to a dangerous degree. In this case it is a girls’ school and the teachers are women. Clare Hartill, a brilliant, selfish woman, who attracts girls to her, accepts their devotion for a time and then casts them off, is the central figure. One of the younger teachers, Alwynne Durand, becomes attached to her in much the same way that the sentimental schoolgirls do. The unnatural friendship is fortunately brought to an end by the intrusion of a more healthful outside influence. In an unobtrusive way the story offers an argument for co-education.

“A detailed, well written study. ... Interesting, shows a real danger and suggests a remedy.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:266 Mr ‘17

“The unsound morale of girls’ schools is caught powerfully. The morbid, unhealthy association of women among themselves, the strong affections, the intrigue, the jealousies, and the influence of the mistresses on the immature pupils, are admirably suggested. The atmosphere is heady. The reader longs for a man.”

Boston Transcript p8 F 7 ‘17 350w

“The book’s striking merit lies in the extraordinary fidelity of its picture. It does for the English girls’ school much what Mr Walpole’s ‘The gods and Mr Perrin’ did for the English boys’ school. The theme in both instances is the life of the teachers, rather than of the pupils.”

+ Nation 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 650w

“In a larger way, the book interprets the ingrowing emotionalism and moral sterility to which any community lacking the leaven of the opposite sex is prone.” H. W. Boynton

+ Nation 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w

“Miss Dane does not make manifest to the American reader sufficient reason for the fascination which her Miss Hartill is able to exercise over her associates in the school. Otherwise, it is a noteworthy picture of a scheming, clever, selfish, vain woman who has become, temperately, more or less abnormal. ... The book takes its title, in which ‘regiment’ is used in its old English sense of ‘rule,’ from John Knox’s ‘First blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women.’”

+ — N Y Times 22:33 F 4 ‘17 400w

+ R of Rs 55:555 My ‘17 80w

“It is hard to believe that ‘Regiment of women’ is the first novel that its author, Clemence Dane, has written. ... This power of ‘creating’ and expressing character is usually the reward of nothing but long labour. ... The chief impression is one of wisdom: a shrewd penetration into human minds and the circumstances that mould or fix them, combined with an admirable ‘all-roundness’ of outlook upon human life.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p44 Ja 25 ‘17 550W

DANILEVSKII, GRIGORII PETROVICH.^[2] Moscow in flames; tr. from the Russian by Dr A. S. Rappoport. *$1.40 Brentano’s 17-31035

“This is not, as the translator states, the first novel by this author to appear in English. Danilevskii (1829-90), already known in English by a novel dealing with Pougachev’s rebellion, called ‘The Princess Tarakanova,’ here presents the French invasion from the Russian point of view. The story covers the period 1812-53, and follows the fortunes of a young nobleman and his betrothed, a society beauty.”—Ath

“It is vivid, full of historical detail, and a good specimen of its class, and is, of course, crammed with historic names.”

+ Ath p471 S ‘17 90w

“The characters in ‘Moscow in flames’ are drawn with the flatness and remoteness of fresco; its incidents are strikingly unoriginal. But his comments on Russian life and character are not without shrewdness and piquancy.”

+ — N Y Times 22:570 D 23 ‘17 450w

“Allowing for the difficulties of translation, the author’s style is a little crude, judging by severe standards, and his character sketches weak. On the whole, however, the book is interesting, typifying, as it does, a popular Russian novel.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p15 Ja 13 ‘18 160w

138DARBISHIRE, ARTHUR DUKINFIELD. Introduction to a biology, and other papers. il *$2.50 Funk 17-15695

“The late Mr Darbishire, an accomplished young Oxford biologist, died of illness contracted in camp before he could complete his book. He had written a lively criticism of the materialistic theory of life, and just as he came to face the constructive side of his essay—‘Is the soul a mere aggregate symptom of a mechanism—the body? Or is the body not rather the instrument of the soul?’—he had to lay his pen aside. The scattered papers which have been collected by his sister, with a brief memoir, hint at the answer which he would have given. He was strongly influenced by Samuel Butler and by M. Bergson, but he was an original and fearless thinker and inquirer whom English science could ill spare.”—Spec

Boston Transcript p7 Ap 11 ‘17 550w

“Unhappily the work is but a fragment. ... The essay, however unconvincing, is brightly written, for the author had a style of candid freshness and a gift of investing even trivial things with humorous interest. The charm of his personality is well brought out in the brief biographical sketch by his sister.”

+ — Nature 99:304 Je 14 ‘17 320w

+ Spec 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 120w

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p65 F 8 ‘17 1600w

DARÍO, RUBÉN. Eleven poems; tr. by T: Walsh and Salomón de la Selva; introd. by Pedro Henríquez Ureña. (Pub. of Hispanic soc. of Am.) pa *75c Putnam 861 16-22622

Rubén Darío was born near León in the republic of Nicaragua in 1867, and died in that city in 1916. The introduction to this small book of poems says, “With the death of Rubén Darío, the Spanish language loses its greatest poet of to-day,—the greatest because of the æsthetic value and the historical significance of his work.” He visited the United States twice, and in 1915 was awarded the honorary medal of the Hispanic society of America. In this volume of poems the original Spanish text and the English translation are given on alternate pages.

“They have that downpour of imagery, that cascade of beauties, of which the northern temper is slightly distrustful. Eleven poems, however, cannot embrace or test a man, particularly when the reader hesitates between the rush-light of his own imperfect Spanish and the charity of English renderings which are sometimes of real worth, sometimes bad beyond credence or pardon.” O. W. Firkins

+ — Nation 105:176 Ag 16 ‘17 170w

Reviewed by Clement Wood

+ N Y Call p14 Mr 4 ‘17 150w

Pittsburgh 22:408 My ‘17

DARK, SIDNEY. Afraid. *$1.35 (1½c) Lane 17-2344

“Courage is so common a quality,” says the author in one of the early chapters of this story, “that experience justifies us in believing that every one possesses it.” The story is a study of a boy who seemed born without it. From childhood Jasper Sedley had been afraid. Moral courage and intellectual honesty were his to a high degree, but the thought of physical suffering made him weak and helpless. His life at home and at school was made miserable. He made no friends and at a critical moment lost the woman he loved because he failed to go to her aid. One is made to feel that sympathetic treatment in childhood might have overcome the obsession, but it is left for the war to call out the latent courage in the boy’s soul.

A L A Bkl 13:315 Ap ‘17

“Real as may be his idea, I feel a lack of reality in the way he presents it. His people are too much the characters needed to enforce his idea, too little actual personalities with whom Jasper Sedley chanced to come in contact. ... More important than all this, the final event seems suggested by sentiment rather than a knowledge of what life actually is.” E: E. Hale

Dial 62:145 F 22 ‘17 550w

+ N Y Times 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 350w

“We doubt if Mr Dark has solved his own problem, for his coward turns out to be no coward. The question really is whether it is a right instinct which leads society to ostracize the coward without considering his character as a whole.”

The Times [London] Lit Sup p560 N 23 ‘16 350w

DASENT, SIR GEORGE WEBBE. East o’ the sun and west o’ the moon, and other Norse fairy tales. il *$1.25 (1½c) Putnam 17-11576

Thirty and more Norse fairy tales are brought together in this book. Gnomes and trolls and other figures of northern fancy appear in the tales. Some of them are new, others are variations of the familiar themes, among them the story of Snow-white and Rose-red.

“These quaint tales will prove of interest to older readers as well as to the children for whom they were written. For some of them are reminiscent of ‘fairy stories’ of other lands, and prove again the common origin of the folk-lore of the European nations.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 420w

“Altogether charming.”

+ N Y Times 22:233 Je 17 ‘17 220w

“Short, easily memorized fairy tales that will prove treasures to persons who have a knack of telling stories to children.”

+ R of Rs 55:664 Je ‘17 40w

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 15 ‘17 180w

“The tales themselves are delightfully old world in flavor and of appealing quaintness. This characteristic is occasionally marred by colloquialisms in which the translator indulges in order to make his meaning clear to young readers. The striking feature of the book consists of the bizarre illustrations by Kay Nielsen, a Danish artist, who, by going back to the original source of the stories, the Norske Folkeeventyr of Asbjornsen and Moe, has been able to get the utmost significance of the original rendering.”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 D 21 ‘17 350w

DAVIES, GEORGE REGINALD. Social environment. (National social science ser.) *50c (2c) McClurg 301 17-10388

“How far does the accumulated knowledge and experience of the world modify the individual and give him control over biological factors?” is the question considered by the author of this book. He feels that the biological factor, with its emphasis on struggle and the survival of the fittest, has been too strongly stressed in reading the story of human development. His purpose is to set forth the importance of the spiritual factors, using the term spiritual to cover “the intellectual, artistic, and moral achievements of civilization.” Contents: The biological point of view; The evolution of the theory of evolution; The nature of society; Social environment and eugenics; The outlook for social organization. The author is assistant professor of history and sociology in the University of North Dakota and the book is published in a series of which Frank L. McVey, president of the University, is general editor.

Reviewed by U. G. Weatherly

Am J Soc 23:558 Ja ‘18 280w

A L A Bkl 14:5 O ‘17

“Professor Davies has hardly been fair to biology, while his emphasis on the ‘spiritual’ forces of society contributes nothing essentially new.” R. T. B.

+ — Ann Am Acad 73:245 S ‘17 130w

“Hitherto there has been a dearth of literature emphasizing environmental forces in society. This little book should be welcome for its contribution to that neglected field.”

+ Dial 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 180w

R of Rs 56:440 O ‘17 70w

St Louis 15:169 Je ‘17

Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 20 ‘17 90w

139DAVIES, GERALD STANLEY.^[2] Renascence tombs of Rome. il *$6 Dutton 718

“An unusual field, indeed one never before explored, is covered by this sumptuous volume, written by the master of Charterhouse school and published originally in England [in 1910].” (Boston Transcript) “The volume is divided into two parts, of which the first is given to discussion and criticism of the tombs and the artists who worked on them, with vivid biographical and historical comment, and the second to alphabetical and chronological lists of the churches and tombs; brief histories of the men in whose honor the monuments were designed, and the special and general indexes. The illustrations are half-tone reproductions from photographs, sufficient in number and, of course, indispensable as reference.” (N Y Times)

“The beautiful illustrations add much to the descriptive nature of the text. Mr Davies writes with enthusiasm and with rare critical perception of values in this decidedly unusual field of examination.” E. J. C.

+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 31 ‘17 880w

“Mr Davies has broken what is practically new ground with his valuable book, which, in addition to cautiously authenticated information, contains art criticism of the most brilliant and original character.”

+ N Y Times 22:357 S 23 ‘17 420w

R of Rs 56:219 Ag ‘17 110w

DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY. Autobiography of a super-tramp; with a pref. by Bernard Shaw. *$2.50 Knopf 17-13447

“The simple and quiet chronicle of a young man who tramped and begged—and now and then worked for a few weeks at a time—in America and England for many years. ... He tells us how tramps live, how they talk, what their ideals and their habits are. He has pictures of American ‘living conditions’—as the somewhat sententious phrase goes—that are nothing short of astonishing. He has had adventures, to boot. He has much to tell of cattlemen, of berry-pickers, of longshore labor camps on the Mississippi, of tramping and working and begging in city and country and summer resort through most of the eastern half of the United States and on into Canada, of remarkable beggars and expert thieves. Strange characters live in his pages. And his own life story is itself most strange.”—N Y Times

A L A Bkl 13:399 Je ‘17

“A human document in the best sense of that much abused phrase. Not a phrase of it is overdone, not a word in it is egotistical, not a letter in it but spells the truthful story of a life that the world wants to know about.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 18 ‘17 1100w

“A rather colorless narrative of unimpeachable verbal propriety relating the day-by-day experiences of the Welshman, who seems to have been an ordinary tramp until he began at thirty-four to write in really exquisite verse. The preface by Bernard Shaw, while it reveals still further the genial tolerance of that author, is not a particularly illuminating commentary on Mr Davies’ work or psychology.”

Cleveland p83 Je ‘17 70w

“Mr Davies is now an established poet, who no longer has to hawk his verses from door to door. His reputation, indeed, is considerable, and it may seem unfair to consider his first book of prose quite apart from his poetry. But if ‘The autobiography of a super-tramp’ has special interest, it is precisely because it shows how completely an unfamiliar medium may refract and distort the image of himself which a writer would convey. It is another lesson in sticking to one’s last.” G: B. Donlin

— Dial 62:398 My 3 ‘17 1200w

“His account is so casual that you would think he was living a regular, conventional life instead of that of a hobo. The book is unique.”

+ Lit D 56:42 Ja 12 ‘18 240w

“He never grew into much of a Socialist; he has too much of the pure poet, yet reading his strong and simple picture of the incredible life of the poor, we become reconfirmed in our faith that the world must be set free, and society made friendly to the life or the tenderest and most innocent temperaments.” Irwin Granich

+ Masses 9:29 O ‘17 1650w

“Mr Davies’s simplicity stands out delightfully with Bernard Shaw as sponsor. ... He will be read, and reread, for the sheer charm of his style. Yet, withal, he has so much to say that is of absorbing interest.”

+ N Y Times 22:159 Ap 22 ‘17 650w

“His experiences are told realistically, but would be better for judicious condensation.”

+ — Outlook 116:32 My 2 ‘17 40w

Pittsburgh 22:670 O ‘17 80w

St Louis 15:153 My ‘17 20w

“‘All I have to say by way of recommendation of this book,’ says Mr Shaw (and his conclusion shall be mine), ‘is that I have read it from beginning to end, and would have read more of it had there been more to read.’” L: Untermeyer

+ Yale R n s 7:199 O ‘17 750w

DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY. Collected poems. il *$1.25 Knopf 811 16-23556

“This is not a complete edition of the poems of Mr Davies, as many people would gather from its title. It is what is probably a better thing: a book of poems selected by the poet from all the volumes he has published. He tells us in the prefatory note that it contains ‘what I believe to be my best pieces.’ A poet is not always the best judge of what is finest in his own work. But no one can know so well as he what best represents his own mind and mood, what gave him at the time of writing, and gives him still, the greatest pleasure, what is, if not his best, at least his most characteristic, poetry. That is what we get here from Mr Davies.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ A L A Bkl 13:256 Mr ‘17

“Mr Davies has learnt much from Herrick, and uses his learning well—not in the least In the sense of plagiarizing, but by his clever choice and treatment of his subjects. The book is well worthy of a place in the library of any lover of poetry.”

+ Ath p592 D ‘16 50w

“Mr Davies’s ‘Collected poems’ has the same magical expression as Mr de la Mare’s art, but with a firmer background in experience. ... The best critical opinion admits that the poems of William H. Davies are as likely to live as those of any English poet of his day.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ Bookm 45:436 Je ‘17 190w

“The ‘Collected poems’ of William H. Davies will give pleasure to lovers of the lyric. Mr Davies, who tramped over most of this country and Canada as hungry and thriftless as other tramps, established confidential relations with birds and beasts, with flowers and trees on ‘the open road.’ Perhaps this is why his lyrics celebrate the minute, beautiful things of the ancient out of doors with effervescent joy.”

+ Ind 89:556 Mr 26 ‘17 150w

+ Lit D 54:134 Ja 20 ‘17 400w

“Some of his little songs catch the charm of Herrick and Lovelace. ... His ‘The sleepers,’ ‘The little ones,’ ‘Whom I know,’ and other poems, show a deep sympathy with suffering humanity; but the intellectual understanding is not here. Davies is a delight; but the stuff is slight and echoey.” Clement Wood

+ — N Y Call p12 F 4 ‘17 400w

+ R of Rs 55:438 Ap ‘17 250w

“This truly lyrical poet has everywhere a definite utterance. It is rarely complex, but it is always beautiful. ... Mr Davies, by the way, who is not so well known in this country as he deserves to be, will soon have an opportunity to broaden his acquaintance when a contemplated trip to America becomes a reality.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 5 ‘17 300w

“A book of the most companionable poetry that any living man has given us. Mr Davies has not the energy, the eloquence, or the passion of Mr Masefield; he has not the scholarly 140workmanship which half adorns and half conceals the true imagination of Mr Binyon; he has not that magical charm, as of some singularly gifted and beautiful child, which is the special secret of Mr de la Mare. But none of these, nor anyone else, perhaps, manages to convert so much of ordinary life into poetry as Mr Davies. And that is the essence of poetic companionship.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p7 Ja 4 ‘17 1500W

“Here is one of the most truly lyric voices in the world to-day. Lacking the sudden magic or the individuality of either Walter de la Mare or Ralph Hodgson, he shares with them an unstudied and always singing beauty.” L: Untermeyer

+ Yale R n s 7:201 O ‘17 480w

DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON. Heart’s kingdom. il *$1.35 (1½c) Reilly & B. 17-25432

Charlotte Powers, a beautiful agnostic with a gift for leadership, returned from a winter in New York to her home in Harpeth Valley to find that a Methodist minister, Rev. Gregory Goodloe, who “resembled one of the big gold-colored lions that lived in the wilds of the Harpeth mountains,” had brought her circle of friends under his spell, so that they had taken to attending prayer meetings instead of dances, and had started to reform her father, for twenty years a drunkard. The book gives the story of her attempted marriage to Nickols Powers, his death, her conversion, and her conquest by the “Harpeth Jaguar” (as she called the Rev. Gregory) with the “jeweled eyes” to whom she “gave back a betrothal kiss that was as complete as a great red flower.”

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

Bookm 46:340 N ‘17 30w

“A doubtful mixture of poor theology and insipid romance.”

— Boston Transcript p6 O 24 ‘17 190w

“The best thing in the book is the sketch of the youthful Charlotte, the heroine’s ‘name-daughter,’ and her child companions.”

– + N Y Times 22:373 S 30 ‘17 260w

Reviewed by Doris Webb

Pub W 92:806 S 15 ‘17 250w

DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON. Out of a clear sky. il *$1 (3c) Harper 17-13185

With a beautiful Belgian countess lost in the Tennessee forests, a very good looking young Tennessee farmer ready at hand to act as rescuer, and a search party, with authority from the Kaiser, in pursuit, you have the material for a modern romance. Céleste, countess of Berseck and Krymn, had fled to America after the fall of Louvain. The young prince, Louis Augustus, whom she had seemed fated to marry, was not at all a bad sort, but he was a German, and the marriage had been arranged by the hated Kaiser who had robbed her of all she loved. So the Countess fled—with a wicked uncle and other enemies following after. To evade them she drops off the train into an unknown world, which happens to be Tennessee, and there she finds Mr Bob Lawrence, his horse and his dog, all equally willing to serve her.

“A charming little tale, bearing little apparent relation to the everyday affairs of reality, but full of tenderness and romance, and told with a very pretty naïve quality in its careful foreign English.”

+ N Y Times 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 230w

“A romantic, improbable, modern fairy tale.”

+ Pratt p50 O ‘17 6w

DAVIS, ARTHUR POWELL. Irrigation works constructed by the United States government. il *$4.50 Wiley 626.8 17-14071

“Within less than fifteen years after the date of the first enabling legislation, the U.S. reclamation service expended about $100,000,000 on the construction of numerous irrigation systems scattered over our vast western domain. ... Arthur P. Davis, chief engineer of the U.S. reclamation service, has described twenty-one of the twenty-five projects in the volume under consideration. ... Except for a brief introduction and a short final chapter summing up the achievements of the Reclamation service in terms of ultimate aim—‘Settlement and cultivation’—the entire book is devoted to descriptions of the various projects. The plan followed is to give the history and a general description of each project in a few sentences, and then to describe the works in their natural order, from dam and storage reservoir to water delivery to each farm unit. Besides the descriptions of structural works, the volume contains information on a variety of special topics.”—Engin News-Rec

“Besides its value as an account of governmental enterprise in the reclamation of land, the book is a welcome addition to the literature of irrigation, and of dams, canals, pipe lines, and other structures common to hydraulic works.”

+ Engin News-Rec 79:939 N 15 ‘17 500w

Pittsburgh 22:662 O ‘17 20w

DAVIS, CALVIN OLIN. Public secondary education. $1 Rand 379.774 17-11119

“The correct title of this book is ‘Public secondary education in Michigan.’ After devoting three chapters to the colonial Latin school, the middle period, and the early Northwest, the author begins his discussion with a chapter on early Michigan. Five chapters follow this one, the three most significant being one each on the academy movement, the union schools, and the high schools. It is in these chapters that one finds the explanation of current practices in secondary education in Michigan and to a certain extent in the nation at large.” (School R) “There is no attempt to bring the story down to date, contemporary tendencies being left to another book to be published later.” (El School J)

“The first two chapters contain a short statement largely abstracted from Brown’s ‘The making of our middle schools.’ One is impressed with the fact that, in order to get a background for the detailed story of secondary education in Michigan, Professor Davis has felt obliged to condense an already available and almost classic discussion of the development of our secondary schools. The hurried reader, however, will find in these preliminary chapters a clear, fairly concise, and interestingly written background story which will orient him in his consideration of the problem of secondary education in Michigan.”

+ El School J 17:690 My ‘17 400w

+ School R 25:462 Je ‘17 200w

DAVIS, CHARLES BELMONT. Her own sort, and others. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-7925

Ten stories reprinted from Scribner’s, Collier’s and other magazines. The first is the story of a society girl who, deciding to earn her own living, becomes a moving picture actress. She is quite happy in her work till chance throws her in with her old associates. The old lure of the idle life calls her and she goes back to her own sort. Many of the others are stories of society, or at least of city life. Contents: Her own sort; The octopus; God’s material; The joy of dying; When Johnny came marching home; The professor; The twenty-first reason; Side-tracked; The men who would “die” for her; Her man.

“Mr Davis has the gift of seeing the humorous situations in every day life.”

Boston Transcript p6 Ap 11 ‘17 400w

“The make-up is always there; the puppets never become quite human. In the light of the author’s imagination ‘The octopus’ and ‘The professor’ may seem real, but to the rest of us they are stagy and do not arrive; they merely grimace and gesticulate.’ Exception may be made to ‘The joy of dying.’ It is a pathetic and gruesome little tragedy.”

— Dial 62:484 My 31 ‘17 150w

N Y Br Lib News 5:73 My ‘17 30w

141“They are human and interesting stories, for all the cynicism in their picture of ‘the pleasure world.’”

+ — N Y Times 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 320w

“Short stories worth reading.”

+ Outlook 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 4w

DAVIS, GEORGE BRECKENRIDGE. Elements of international law with an account of its origin, sources, and historical development. 4th ed *$3 Harper 341 16-16751

The fourth edition of this work has been prepared for publication by Gordon E. Sherman, formerly assistant professor of comparative and international law at Yale. Changes in the text have been slight. New matter added to the book is contained in appendixes. The extradition treaty between the United States and the Dominican republic, and the text of the Declaration of London are among the documents included. A supplementary bibliography is also added.

“Professor Sherman found it necessary to rewrite important parts of the first two chapters. This he has done with discrimination and good judgment. In printing the Declaration of London he has added notes, referring to the bearing of its dispositions on the present war, as wrought out in practice. One could wish that his annotations of this nature had been more numerous, if not more extended.”

+ — Am Hist R 23:128 O ‘17 650w

A L A Bkl 13:188 Ja ‘17

“The most valuable additions are those in the appendix.” D. G. M.

+ Ann Am Acad 71:236 My ‘17 200w

+ Educ R 52:529 D ‘16 30w

“The treatise of the late judge advocate general of the United States, and its representative abroad upon several occasions, is an authoritative and systematic statement of the best international practice of nations during both war and peace.”

+ N Y Times 21:406 O 8 ‘16 300w

DAVIS, J. MERLE. Davis, soldier missionary. il *$1.50 (1½c) Pilgrim press 16-24706

Jerome D. Davis, the subject of this biography was a lieutenant-colonel of volunteers in the Civil war and for thirty-nine years a missionary in Japan. This story of his life is written by his son, who is secretary of the International committee of Young men’s Christian associations in Tokio. In Japan Dr Davis was one of the founders of Doshisha university and the book gives a full account of the development and achievements of this institution.

+ Bib World 49:187 Mr ‘17 300w

“Mr Davis has succeeded admirably. His father becomes to the reader a living person, the soldier who had the missionary spirit, the missionary who never lacked a soldier’s valor, a true man, of heroic temper shown in great deeds.”

+ Boston Transcript p12 Ap 7 ‘17 480w

“A substantial volume of 350 pages, well illustrated and of compelling interest. ... Incidentally one gets in these chapters a history of the famous Doshisha controversy.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 4 ‘17 400w

DAVIS, JOSEPH STANCLIFFE. Essays in the earlier history of American corporations. 2v ea *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 338.8 17-12885

“This group of studies is presented as a modest contribution to the economic and social history of the United States before 1800, especially for the last decade or two of the eighteenth century.” (Preface) Volume 1 contains three studies: Corporations in the American colonies; William Duer, entrepreneur, 1747-99; The “S. U. M.”: the first New Jersey business corporation. Volume 2 is devoted to Eighteenth century business corporations in the United States. The author is instructor in economics in Harvard university and the work is published as volume 16 of the Harvard economic studies.

“The work bears evidence of large and minute investigations of original sources. It is not taken for granted that standard authors are always accurate in their statements or conclusions. Errors in the dates assigned in complications of high authority to some important papers are fearlessly corrected.” S. E. Baldwin

+ — Am Hist R 23:185 O ‘17 1150w

“In each volume there are appendices of useful illustrative material, and the second volume has an extensive bibliography. The work as a whole represents a comprehensive, if not an exhaustive, treatment of the topics considered; and should form an authoritative source of information.” J. A. F.

+ Am Pol Sci R 11:589 Ag ‘17 420w

“The author has done his work well. These volumes make a distinct and welcome contribution to American economic history.” F. R. J.

+ Ann Am Acad 74:299 N ‘17 150w

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 29 ‘17 700w

Cleveland p107 S ‘17 30w

“Mr Davis’s treatment of these subjects is such as to merit the gratitude of students both of economics and of history. Of the four essays of which the work is composed, the second and third, though not the most valuable, are certainly the most interesting. In these two essays we are brought face to face with many of the leading characters of the period. They are as valuable for the sidelights which they cast upon the politics of the day as for the economic information which they impart.”

+ Nation 105:511 N 8 ‘17 1550w

“Two very interesting volumes which are based on statute books, letters, financial records, newspapers, reports, etc. The work is, indeed, an important contribution to the industrial and social history of the United States before 1800, and it should have a lasting and well-deserved reputation. ... There is a complete bibliography at the end of the second volume.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Je 11 ‘17 220w

DAVIS, KARY CADMUS. Productive plant husbandry. (Farm life text ser.) il *$1.75 Lippincott 630 17-19170

A text-book for high schools into more than 4,600 of whose curricula have been introduced courses in agriculture. The first six chapters are devoted to plant life and growth, and methods of improving plants; the next four, to soils and their improvement and maintenance; the body of the text deals with the various farm crops including fruits, vegetables, field crops and forestry; then follow three chapters on the enemies of crops—weeds, insects and diseases. In conclusion the writer discusses the business of farming and the rural community.

Pittsburgh 22:664 O ‘17 30w

“From the standpoint of its pedagogical merits the book is rather superior. ... The illustrations are numerous and clear and really illustrate the text. Teachers interested in texts in agriculture providing material for a one-year course will do well to examine Professor Davis’ book with some care before they select a text for their course.”

+ School R 25:612 O ‘17 220w

DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING. Adventures and letters of Richard Harding Davis; ed. by C: B. Davis. il *$2.50 Scribner 17-30256

“Richard Harding Davis was almost a legendary figure from his boyhood, and certainly no American has ever known how to extract so much adventure from life. As newspaper man, war-correspondent, soldier of fortune, and storyteller he had an unfailing knack of being on the spot where the greatest possible interest and excitement were going forward. But few of his readers, perhaps, knew that he was also an inveterate and a capital letter-writer. His brother, Charles Belmont Davis, has now collected his correspondence and woven it about the personal narrative of the author’s life. The book is copiously illustrated with portraits and photographs, many of them taken in various parts of the world by Davis himself.”—Lit D

142“They form a very interesting biography.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:127 Ja ‘18

Boston Transcript p10 N 28 ‘17 1700w

Lit D 55:41 D 8 ‘17 130w

“His letters present an array of delightful, amusing, exciting adventures. The book is excellently edited, with a running narrative that is altogether readable and informative, and the photographs are really vivid illustrations of the matter of the book. We know few books more interesting.”

+ N Y Times 22:495 N 25 ‘17 1100w

“Unconventional, lively letters.”

+ Outlook 117:614 D 12 ‘17 110w

“Readers will lay down the book with the feeling that they have become personally acquainted with an interesting man. The explanation of this feeling of intimacy with the subject of the book is that his letters, a large portion of them written to his mother, reveal him as a likable man who loved human companionship, who made friends easily and who possessed many of the attractive and worth-while qualities which have made the heroes of fiction so deservedly popular.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 17 ‘17 1000w

DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING. Boy scout, and other stories for boys. il *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 17-24696

Five stories that “go with especial directness to a boy’s heart and sympathies” have been chosen for inclusion in this book. They are: The boy scout; The boy who cried wolf; Gallegher; Blood will tell; and The bar sinister. “Gallegher” is an old favorite. “The bar sinister” has also had a number of years of popularity. The other stories are of later date.

A L A Bkl 14:135 Ja ‘18

“They are for readers of any age, boys included.” J: Walcott

+ Bookm 46:498 D ‘17 140w

“One cannot be too enthusiastic in recommending the story-telling power of Mr Davis. His dog story, ‘The bar sinister,’ is an ideal tale for boys who love a good and spirited account of animal nature.”

+ Lit D 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w

Outlook 117:219 O 10 ‘17 20w

DAVISON, THOMAS RAFFLES. Port Sunlight. il *$2 Scribner 710 17-14401

“Port Sunlight is a model village established in England in 1888. As students of sociology are already familiar with its great practical and economic success, it is the purpose of this book ‘to emphasize the artistic and picturesque qualities of the village.’ To this end the book includes a little descriptive matter and a great many illustrations, photographs, sketches and plans. These show most conclusively the charming old English type of village which has been attained, a pleasure to the eye, an uplift to the spirit, without decreasing, but rather enhancing the practical value of the town.”—Boston Transcript

A L A Bkl 14:48 N ‘17

“We are extremely sorry that the author limited himself to a record of the artistic and pictorial aspect of Port Sunlight, a subject so closely associated with the economic aspect of the place as to leave the reader unsatisfied if this also is not described.”

+ — Boston Transcript p6 Ap 18 ‘17 180w

+ Int Studio 61:145 My ‘17 200w

DAVRAY, HENRY D. Lord Kitchener: his work and his prestige; with a prefatory letter by Paul Cambon. 2s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London (Eng ed 17-20979)

“The well-known French littérateur gives us a graphic and effective portrayal of Kitchener’s work—a hastening, in some half dozen pages, over his earlier military career, and getting on page 29 to the outbreak of the European war and appointment of Kitchener to the war office. ... Appendices reproduce speeches by Lord Kitchener, memorial speeches in the House of commons, etc.”—Ontario Library Review

“H. G. Croser’s ‘Lord Kitchener’ contains more biographical facts of his earlier career; Harold Begbie’s ‘Kitchener, organizer of victory,’ is more popular, but, like this, only a sketch.”

+ Cleveland p126 N ‘17 60w

+ Ind 91:293 Ag 25 ‘17 110w

“M. Davray followed events in England closely and on the spot; he has a keen eye and a gift of making the most of what he sees, and he applies these gifts successfully to Kitchener’s achievement in organizing the British military force.”

+ Ontario Library Review 1:115 My ‘17 100w

+ R of Rs 57:221 F ‘18 30w

“It is probable that one object of this life of Kitchener was to reassure the people of France in regard to Britain’s part in the war and Lord Kitchener’s ability and devotion at a time when the war minister was being violently assailed by Lord Northcliffe’s press.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 My 6 ‘17 400w

DAWSON, ALEC JOHN.^[2] For France (“C’est pour la France”); some English impressions of the French front. il *$2 (6c) Doran 940.91

“No other claim is made for the pictures, drawn and written, which are presented than that they record a few of the entirely independent and unbiased impressions formed by two English officers who were very kindly permitted by the French authorities to see something of the French army in the field.” (Preface) Captain Bairnsfather’s sketches of the “poilu” deal with him “often with a slight touch of caricature and always with humor and tenderness.” (N Y Times) The spirit of the French army is well brought out as is also the spirit of what Capt. Dawson calls “the reserved fighting line that is so finely held by the women of France.” One chapter, “The joyous ones” describes a battalion “recruited entirely as regards its rank and file, from the ranks of convicted criminals.” Some other chapters are: Paul Dupont, grocer; Paris; Dogs of war; One trench and another, and Verdun.

+ Ind 91:474 S 22 ‘17 150w

+ Lit D 55:48 O 13 ‘17 260w

+ N Y Times 22:261 Jl 15 ‘17 170w

+ Pittsburgh 22:680 O ‘17 50w

St Louis 15:385 N ‘17 30w

“The chapter on the war dogs is capital, as might be expected, since the author is an expert in that line. ... Captain Bairnsfather has made an effort to restrain his gift for comic types of a special English kind, and his best pictures are better, we think, than his English caricatures.”

+ Sat R 123:504 Je 2 ‘17 330w

“While in the preface both disclaim any pretension at more than a cursory glimpse of a ‘few aspects of France in war time, as seen through uninformed English eyes,’ yet the reader will feel that much of the real spirit of the land and her people has been caught by these sympathetic visitors.”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 O 26 ‘17 600w

DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM). Carry on; letters in war-time; with an introd. and notes by his father, W. J. Dawson. il *$1 (4c) Lane 940.91 17-15170

The author is a graduate of Oxford university who, after one year at Union theological seminary, New York, decided to be novelist rather than a preacher, a decision which resulted in the publication in 1913 of his “Garden without walls.” But in 1916 after the publication of “Slaves of freedom,” he left his home in Taunton, Mass., for the trenches, accepting a commission in the Canadian field artillery. The letters, which are most intimate and personal, were written to his family 143from dugouts on the Somme battlefront in the intervals of artillery fire. Their general point of view is well expressed by the Canadian slogan “Carry on” which the novelist’s father, W. J. Dawson, has used as the title of the book. “We’ve got to win,” writes Lieutenant Dawson, “so that men may never again be tortured by the ingenious inquisition of modern warfare.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:18 O ‘17

+ — Cleveland p130 D ‘17 140w

“He is particularly effectual in putting himself on paper, and his book affords a clear view into the theological soul. The best part of it is that his letters are so full of incident that unless you are particularly interested, you need not bother with the theological interpretation at all.”

+ — Dial 64:31 Ja 3 ‘18 650w

— New Repub 11:340 Jl 21 ‘17 600w

“From a literary point of view these intimate letters, written in dugouts by the light of a single candle and without thought of publication, are far and away the best work that Mr Dawson has ever done.”

+ N Y Times 22:257 Jl 8 ‘17 500w

“They are characterized by vividness of impression, reality, sympathetic insight, and literary grace, and breathe the spirit of heroism, and are a challenge to heroism in others.”

+ Ontario Library Review 1:114 My ‘17 40w

+ Outlook 116:376 Jl 4 ‘17 40w

Pittsburgh 22:681 O ‘17 30w

Pratt p39 O ‘17 10w

+ R of Rs 56:325 S ‘17 40w

+ St Louis 15:314 S ‘17 30w

“His letters are those of a serious, full-hearted young man, devoted to his own family, and endowed with a natural gift for writing.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p479 O 4 ‘17 90w

DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM). Pincher Martin, O. D.; a story of the inner life of the Royal navy. il *$1.50 Houghton (Eng ed 17-22561)

“The cryptic—at least, to an American—letters after Pincher Martin’s name are English navy slang for ordinary seamen, and this book, by the author who prefers to be known as ‘Taffrail,’ is an entertaining account of navy life in peace and war, as experienced by an ordinary bluejacket. The story opens about a year or two before the outbreak of the war, and we meet Martin at the moment when he joins his first ship, the predreadnought battleship Belligerent. He remains on her until she is torpedoed and sunk, then serves on board a torpedo boat destroyer, the Mariner. As one of the Mariner’s crew he takes part in the Jutland fight, but before that occurs he has quite a number of adventures.”—N Y Times

“There is, however, more comedy than tragedy in this tale of Pincher Martin, and some of it is very amusing.”

+ N Y Times 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 330w

“The book is a welcome tribute to our navy, and bears everywhere the signs of intimate knowledge.”

+ Sat R 122:sup6 D 9 ‘16 350w

+ Spec 117:809 D 23 ‘16 850w

“Makes good its claim to be ‘a story of the inner life of the Royal navy.’”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p572 N 30 ‘16 450w

DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM). Seventh Christmas. il *50c (8c) Holt 17-29180

This is the story of the seventh birthday of Jesus. His mother Mary tells him the story of his birth, and the golden caskets given him by the Three wise men of the East are opened.

— N Y Call p18 D 15 ‘17 180w

“Coningsby Dawson’s ‘The seventh Christmas’ is so sweet a little legend that it has a value beyond the celebration of any particular feast.”

+ N Y Times 22:563 D 16 ‘17 410w

“The delicate style of Coningsby Dawson, compact of feeling and fancy, would seem to have a congenial field in a legend about the boyhood of Jesus, but ‘The seventh Christmas,’ while it presents a pathetic picture of Joseph’s poverty-stricken home, does not rise to that imaginative ‘saturation’ essential to the undertaking.”

– + Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 140w

DAWSON, WILLIAM HARBUTT, ed. After-war problems. *$2.50 Macmillan 304 17-24513

“The four main sections of this important volume—‘Empire and citizenship,’ ‘National efficiency,’ ‘Social reform,’ and ‘National finance and taxation’—are headed, respectively, by chapters on ‘Imperial federation,’ by the late Lord Cromer; ‘National education,’ by Lord Haldane; ‘The rehabilitation of rural life,’ by the Bishop of Exeter; and ‘National taxation after the war,’ by Prof. Alfred Marshall. The remaining fifteen chapters, which deal with a variety of topics, are by recognized authorities on the several subjects. Thus the two chapters treating of the relations between capital and labour are contributed by Mr G. H. Roberts, who writes from the standpoint of labour, and by Sir Benjamin C. Browne, who states the capitalist’s view; Mrs Fawcett writes on the position of women in economic life, Miss Margaret McMillan on the care of child life, Lord Meath on the cultivation of patriotism, Mr W. Joynson-Hicks on the land question; and so on. The introduction is contributed by the editor.”—Ath

“The general impression left on the mind is that the essayists are satisfied with the ‘status quo ante’ in its main outlines, but seek for improvements in it. There is no deep analysis of the social and industrial system, and no questioning of its fundamentals. The book is, however, much more comprehensive in its scope than any that has previously appeared, and many of its chapters are worth careful reading.”

– + Ath p341 Jl ‘17 1400w

“These essays are weighty pronouncements, and the volume in its entirety demands careful study.”

+ Ath p355 Jl ‘17 180w

“One receives from the reading of these candid, revelatory documents a feeling of pride in England’s willingness to learn, to adopt new methods, to look to the future with undaunted courage.” S. A.

+ Boston Transcript p8 O 27 ‘17 500w

“While the book presents a constructive national policy for England, it seems addressed to Englishmen not vitally interested in securing a vision of the needs of the British empire as a whole, or really concerned with international welfare. The spirit is, a world safe for England. But one raises the question, if each nation at the conclusion of war deliberately embarks upon a policy of national efficiency prompted solely by the desire to acquire foreign markets and to attain self-sufficiency at home, what will become of the fruits of the war to end wars, and will such a world be safe for anybody?” V. T. Thayer

– + Dial 63:391 O 25 ‘17 1800w

“Of particular interest is the study of imperial federation by the late Earl of Cromer, altho it comes to no particular conclusion.”

+ — Ind 92:58 O 6 ‘17 130w

“We can do no more than commend the book to all who would understand the momentous social changes with which England is confronted, and what is being thought and planned regarding them. A survey on similar lines of our own after-the-war problems would be a task well worth undertaking.”

+ Nation 106:67 Ja 17 ‘18 750w

“A certain lack of definiteness can be charged against some of the contributors; indeed, the book as a whole does not attain high importance. But changes are coming, and those who will be responsible for these changes will profit by the spirit of some chapters of the book, even if they are not always illuminated by the proposals. ... Among the most valuable 144chapters in the book because the most concrete is that of Viscount Haldane, whose subject is ‘National education.’”

* + – Springf’d Republican p15 S 16 ‘17 1550w

“All of them are full of suggestions, most of them directed towards immediate practical ends. Perhaps that is regrettable; for it gives to the program as a whole too conservative a tone. National progress may be sustained for a time by various elements in the nation uniting upon the eradication of old and obvious evils; but a more sweeping flight of the imagination is required, a more prophetic vision of the future, if the magnificent mutual loyalty of the people shown during the war is to be translated into deeds for lasting human betterment. Margaret McMillan, for so many years ridiculed as a dreamer, until she proved by her work that vision and practical achievement go together, alone ‘unveils new horizons.’” Bruno Lasker

+ — Survey 39:255 D 1 ‘17 720w

“Of the many publications dealing with after-war problems this volume is the fullest and most comprehensive that has yet appeared. Its scope is, of course, limited. ... The most serious omission is the absence of any reference to the development and utilization of the resources of the Empire. ... In the first group Lord Cromer’s examination of the relations between the United Kingdom and the other component parts of the Empire has the most actual value and interest. No man was better qualified to form a sound judgment on the subject.”

* + The Times [London] Lit Sup p266 Je 7 ‘17 1850w

DAWSON, WILLIAM JAMES. Robert Shenstone. *$1.50 (1c) Lane 17-24210

“In the midst of horrors, I have written this tale of joyous and adventurous youth.” The author is the father of Coningsby Dawson, now at the front, who wrote “Carry on.” Robert Shenstone, son of a country school-master, destined by his father for a clergyman, but preferring to be a poet, tells his own story. At sixteen, he is master in a boy’s school on the outskirts of London; later, he becomes secretary to a Mr Heron, an eccentric and a recluse, with a fine taste in literature and art. Shenstone perseveres with his own writing and finally has a play accepted by Henry Irving. Other characters are Robert’s father, who never realizes his own ambitions; his mother, who believes that “the life that gives is so much more than the life that gets”; his widowed aunt, Mrs Tabitha Shanley, to whom “the great thing in life is never to lose the spirit of adventure”; the other masters in the school; Edith Hopper, “lineal descendant of Lilith and Cleopatra,” who tries her wiles on them all; and Lucille Overberg, the beautiful girl, who tempted to renounce life thru fear, because of her mother’s expiation of a crime, finally decides “to accept thankfully the joy of the common day.”

A L A Bkl 14:94 D ‘17

“‘Robert Shenstone’ is good. It is good—item one—as the pleasant and leisurely tale of a man’s young life. And it is good—item two—because, in addition to that, it is a mystery story of unusual plot.”

+ N Y Times 22:412 O 21 ‘17 1250w

DAY, HOLMAN FRANCIS. Where your treasure is; being the personal narrative of Ross Sidney, diver. il *$1.50 (2c) Harper 17-17284

A story of adventure by land and sea. It opens in the small eastern village where Ross Sidney spends his boyhood. He is a poor boy with little prospect in life, and he gives all his youthful adoration to Celene Kingsley, the daughter of the one wealthy man of the community. Circumstances drive him from home and he joins a wrecking crew along the Atlantic coast. When he returns to his home town it is to find Judge Kingsley in a difficulty from which he helps to extricate him. A misunderstanding with Celene, which her father might have explained away, again sends him on his wanderings. This time he goes to the Pacific coast where he ships as a deep sea diver. Here he meets another girl, who proves to be his real treasure, and he sees that his feeling for Celene was only a boyish fancy.

Boston Transcript p6 Ag 11 ‘17 380w

+ Cleveland p103 S ‘17 50w

“The masculine sort of nonsense, the ‘rattling’ sort. As usual, Mr Day makes spirited work with his men, and tame and perfunctory work with his women. It is a long yarn, somewhat too long to rattle freely from start to finish. ... What one has to complain of is that so much of the fantastic tale is set ashore; for Mr Day’s illusion, his glamour at least, is soaked in salt water.”

+ Nation 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 200w

“It is a full-blooded, hot-headed story, told with all the naïve zest of youth, filled with the slang and the expletives and the picturesque similes of many kinds of hustling life, both honest and dishonest. There are graphic accounts of the diver’s work.”

+ N Y Times 22:245 Jl 1 ‘17 570w

“The vigorous language of his sea faring folk is always amusing and in depicting their pursuits, whether ashore or afloat, he is faithfully realistic.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 15 ‘17 420w

DEAN, RUTH. Livable house—its garden. (Livable house ser.) il *$2.50 Moffat 716 17-16081

“A companion work to Aymar Embury’s ‘Livable house’ is provided by Ruth Dean in ‘The livable house, its garden.’ In sympathy with the spirit of efficiency, the author aims to combat indifference or ignorance in the development of grounds about the home. A secondary purpose is to aid the amateur landscape architect in avoiding the mistakes into which his ignorance of plant life and values are likely to lead him. ... One hundred photogravures effectively illustrate the results for which the author gives the fullest directions. The book is divided into five sections: The garden as a whole; General planting; The flower garden; Times and seasons, and Garden architecture.”—Springf’d Republican

+ Cleveland p113 S ‘17 20w

“Miss Dean is a landscape architect of experience, and her suggestions are invariably practical.”

+ N Y Times 22:331 S 9 ‘17 270w

Pittsburgh 22:651 O ‘17 20w

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Je 3 ‘17 500w

DEANE, RICHARD BURTON. Mounted police life in Canada. il *$1.50 Funk 971.2 17-1608

“From an experience of thirty-one years in the mounted police service, the author gives an account of pioneer days in the great Canadian Northwest and of the feats of daring which invested the force with the glamor of romance.” (A L A Bkl) “A long account is given of the trial of Louis Riel for treason.” (Ath)

“A vigorous, manly style makes the book very readable.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:394 Je ‘17

+ Ath p483 O ‘16 20w

Pratt p44 O ‘17 30w

+ Spec 117:480 O 21 ‘16 160w

“A document which will be invaluable to the historian that is to come of the Last West. It is full of episodes and thronged with personalities, introduced in a soldier style with an occasional touch of the parade rasp, which would help a modern variant of Francis Parkman to many a stirring, significant passage.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p463 S 28 ‘16 600w

DEEPING, WARWICK. Martin Valliant. *$1.40 (1½c) McBride 17-10202

A historical romance of the time of Richard III. Martin Valliant is a monk. The son of a notorious old fighter, young and full of life and 145strong of arm, Martin spends his days in a priory, telling his beads and mortifying the flesh to save the soul. His monkish companions, holy men in name only, have laid a plot to try Martin’s virtue. He puts temptation away from him. Then Mellis Dale comes his way. She is a girl, tho a brave one, and alone and beset by enemies, and in taking her part, Martin comes out of his cell and throws off his monk’s robe to become a man.

“Lovers of realism and of nothing but realism will not be pleased with this story. It is not for them. But to those who have the zest of adventure in their souls, to those who believe in the brave old school of fiction that leads man and woman onward through the old world of imminent dangers, it will make an intimate appeal. It is a story without a problem and with no mission but to entertain. And what better mission could it have?” E. F. E.