Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 16)

“A sane and thoughtful consideration of the relations of war and Christianity.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:74 D ‘17

FOSTER, MAXIMILIAN. Shoestrings. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-6533

“It is concerned primarily with the ambitions and the adventures of J. Lester Tams, who began his career as a bundle boy in a San Francisco department store and after many years of struggle had achieved eminence as a floorwalker. ... Mr Tams’s purpose in life was to become a gentleman. To that end he toiled, to that end he studied—books of etiquette were the subjects of his mental effort, and to that end he had in sixteen years succeeded in saving the sum of $1,700. Then came a lucky plunge—a splashing bucket shop plunge, it was—in war stocks; and Mr Tams and every one else in Mrs Tams’s boarding house got rich.”—N Y Times

“Full of funny character sketches, and good for reading aloud. Appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:315 Ap ‘17

Boston Transcript p6 Ag 1 ‘17 120w

“Emphatically a tale to amuse an idle hour. And a most amusing tale it is.”

+ N Y Times 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 200w

198FOSTER, ROBERT FREDERICK. Foster’s pirate bridge; the latest development of auction bridge, with the full code of the official laws. il *$1.50 (3½c) Dutton 795 17-4824

The aim of this book is “to set before the reader a complete description and exposition of the latest candidate for public favor in the realm of cards, without assuming on the reader’s part any previous knowledge of similar games, although it is naturally expected that the largest appeal will be to those who are already familiar with auction bridge. The author has endeavored to explain the logic of the bidding as clearly as possible, illustrating the more interesting situations by hands from actual play.” (Preface) The author is an authority who has issued a number of other works on bridge.

“The first book to describe this latest development of auction bridge.”

A L A Bkl 13:339 My ‘17

“In addition to a clear setting-forth of this new development in auction and its laws, Mr Foster has included in ‘Pirate bridge’ many chapters of great use to all auction players, his skill at play and his ability to teach being equally well-established in the card-loving world.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 16 ‘17 390w

N Y Br Lib News 4:75 My ‘17

R of Rs 56:332 S ‘17 60w

St Louis 15:150 My ‘17 14w

Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 31 ‘17 130w

“Written with all the skill and thoroughness and lucidity of style which we should expect from one of the ‘old masters.’ ... Mr Foster, in his chapters on tactics, proves, we think, that the game contains some interesting new opportunities for cleverness alike in the declarations, the acceptances, and the play of the hand; but at the same time we also think that, in proportion to their offering themselves to the clever player only, they spoil the game, and make it distinctly inferior to auction for nine people out of ten.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p504 O 18 ‘17 1650w

FOSTER, ROBERT FREDERICK, ed. Hoyle up-to-date; the official rules of card games. *$1 (1c) Sully & Kleinteich 795 A17-393

This work was first copyrighted in 1897 and it has run thru many editions. The whist rules are by Walter H. Barney; the poker rules by David A. Curtis.

“Formerly published in paper binding at 25c, by the United States playing card company. While the paper is poor and the type small, it is useful as containing the official rules of all card games, revised to date.”

A L A Bkl 13:363 My ‘17

N Y Br Lib News 4:75 My ‘17

St Louis 15:181 Je ‘17 10w

“While the new edition in the main is singularly complete, one fails to note in the discussion of stud poker the generally accepted rule that four-flush beats a pair, although otherwise the poker section presents an admirable survey of the American game.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 15 ‘17 60w

FOSTER, WILLIAM TRUFANT. Argumentation and debating. rev ed *$1.40 Houghton 808.5 17-23795

A revised edition whose changes have been based upon suggestions from more than a hundred college teachers who have used the book as a textbook. “The aim of the revised edition is to present the essentials of argumentation and debating as simply as possible, following the order in which the difficulties arise in actual practice. The order is psychological rather than logical. The point of view is that of the student rather than that of the instructor.” (Preface)

A L A Bkl 14:66 N ‘17

“Fresh and timely illustrations bring the book down to date. Moreover, the Houghton Mifflin Co. has produced a book well-nigh mechanically perfect in form and appearance.” E. F. Guyer and R. L. Lyman

+ School R 25:611 O ‘17 50w

FOSTER, WILLIAM TRUFANT. Should students study? *50c (3c) Harper 378 17-9712

The president of Reed college questions the time-old assertion that it is the “college life” that counts. Is there any relation between a high grade of scholarship in college and success in after-life? He brings forward some interesting statistics that bear on the question. Contents: College life; Differences—east and west; College life and college studies; Promise and performance; Success in studies and in life; Genius as a substitute for study; Thinking by proxy; Should specialists specialize? Ultimately practical studies.

+ A L A Bkl 13:376 Je ‘17

“It would be interesting to hear what so skilful a pleader as Mr Foster might say on the subject of adapting colleges more closely than now to the manifold needs of the time. But it would be unfair to imply that this book is not a stimulating one. It carries its points with force, and it is written in a style that is pungent and at times brilliant.”

+ Dial 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 280w

“A telling little review, excellent to put in the hands of careless freshmen and indifferent parents.”

+ Ind 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 40w

St Louis 15:140 My ‘17 9w

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 24 ‘17 500w

FOWLER, HENRY THATCHER. Origin and growth of the Hebrew religion. (Handbooks of ethics and religion) *$1 Univ. of Chicago press 296 16-25219

“A book written for the general student. The author says: ‘The present volume is designed to offer a guide for study rather than simply a new essay or treatise upon the history of Israel’s religion.’ The principal source book for this field of investigation is the Old Testament. He gives a very brief chronological outline of Hebrew history; and a similar outline of the Hebrew literature from the beginnings ‘before 1040 B. C.’ to the Mishnah, about 200 A. D. Preceding the text of each chapter are given the references to the biblical materials, and at the close of each chapter are given the names of books for supplementary reading.”—Boston Transcript

“The main themes of the book are allowed to stand out clearly so that they can be grasped without difficulty, and the summary at the close gathers up the results of the previous studies succinctly and forcibly. A definite impression is thus left upon the reader’s mind, and this is most desirable. This impression will enable him to proceed farther into biblical studies with a correct sense of direction.” Kemper Fullerton

+ Am J Theol 21:610 O ‘17 680w

“The present writer belongs to the progressive group, and has a vital sympathy for religious ideals and struggles of the true prophets of the Hebrews. ... For a clear and concise exposition and guide for the general student of Israel’s religion this is one of the best works published.”

+ Boston Transcript p9 Mr 28 ‘17 450w

“One of the best hand books on the subject for college classes or other groups of advanced Bible students. It is especially to be commended for its readableness and clear presentation of the various stages thru which the Old Testament religion advanced to its final expression in Judaism.”

+ Ind 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 60w

“His discrimination between the higher and lower sides of Old Testament ideas enables him to express distinctly his sympathy with the better thought of the prophets and psalmists, and 199so to guide the student into an intelligent view of the development of the Israelitish conscience.”

+ Nation 105:725 D 27 ‘17 130w

“While Prof. Fowler applies the results of higher criticism and research he does it so wisely and unobtrusively that the story is enriched, instead of erased.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 9 ‘17 270w

FOWLER, NATHANIEL CLARK, jr. Grasping opportunity. *75c (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 174 17-10888

“Mr Fowler has had considerable experience in training young people for positions in the business world, and in the course of his experience has analyzed the major reasons for success or failure. These he gives in his book, which is largely written in conversational form.”—Springf’d Republican

“Of value to inexperienced young people.”

+ Cleveland p76 Je ‘17 50w

“Admirable, straight-from-the-shoulder advice to young people who are, or are about to be associated with the business world.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Jl 8 ‘17 150w

FOWLER, WILLIAM WARDE. Essays in brief for war-time. *90c Longmans 824 (Eng ed 17-13920)

“Papers, ‘nearly all written during the early stress of the battle at Verdun,’ dealing with topics as diverse as ‘Birds at the front in France,’ ‘An old-fashioned recreation,’ ‘Civis Germanus sum,’ and ‘Two ideal school-masters.’”—Ath

+ Ath p43 Ja ‘17 80w

Pratt p37 O ‘17 20w

“They are just what one wants for an odd half-hour. The first essay recalls old Fuller’s ‘Good thoughts in bad times,’ which he wrote to soothe his troubled spirit during the civil war; it ought to be reprinted now.”

+ Spec 117:589 N 11 ‘16 170w

“The essayist, with his mellow wisdom and kindly humor, is a master of his art.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p475 O 5 ‘16 1050w

FOX, EDWARD LYELL. New Gethsemane. il *60c (9c) McBride 17-25121

This is the story of Anhalt, the cobbler of Oberammergau and the Christus of the Passion play, who, believing it wrong to kill, refused to answer the call to the colors, and was shot. The episode is pure fiction. The story was first published in 1916 in the Woman’s World.

“An excellent little story for Christians who happen to be pacifists. It is fiction, of course, but exceedingly well used to point a moral and adorn a tale.” Joshua Wanhope

+ N Y Call p14 O 28 ‘17 320w

“It is regrettable that the author should deal so largely with Anhalt’s conduct, with the obvious action rather than with the complexities of Anhalt’s dreadful struggle with himself. It is a simple tale, told with the simplicity due rather to omission than to careful pruning.”

N Y Times 22:414 O 21 ‘17 110w

FOX, EDWARD LYELL. Wilhelm Hohenzollern & co. il *$1.50 (2½c) McBride 940.91 17-15168

Mr Fox is an American newspaper correspondent and author of “Behind the scenes in warring Germany.” He has made three trips to Germany during the war and seems to have been afforded opportunity for gathering a good deal of information. He gives a gossipy account of the Kaiser, the Crown prince, and the men who surround them, followed by a chapter entitled “Inside the iron ring,” which deals with the supply of food and of materials needed in war industries, and a final chapter entitled “Why we are fighting Germany.” The chapter on “The Kaiser and the Big Three,” (Bethmann-Hollweg, Hindenburg, and Ludendorff) is of special interest at present.

“His book gains value more from the fact that his opportunity was unique than that his writing is good. It is not good; it is sensational, imaginative (to speak mildly), but amazingly interesting. ... In spite of his flights of fancy, his judgment of people is fairly correct. Much of what he says is a repetition of previous surmises and rumors and commonplace observations, but his outlook is in the main fresh and original.”

+ — Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ‘17 520w

“Character sketches, somewhat in Sunday supplement style. The author’s estimate of the Kaiser will seem to many to err on the side of leniency.”

+ — Cleveland p101 S ‘17 50w

“All the way he is, or tries to be, the cool, calm, impartial investigator. And he is rewarded for this admirable attitude by having produced an admirable book.” J. W.

+ N Y Call p15 Ag 19 ‘17 500w

Pittsburgh 22:672 O ‘17 50w

FOX, JOHN (WILLIAM). In Happy Valley. il *$1.35 (5c) Scribner 17-25585

Ten short stories of the Kentucky mountaineers, six of which appeared in Scribner’s Magazine in 1917. Contents: The courtship of Allaphair; The compact of Christopher; The Lord’s own level; The Marquise of Queensberry; His last Christmas gift; The angel from Viper; The pope of the Big Sandy; The goddess of Happy Valley; The battle-prayer of Parson Small; The Christmas tree on Pigeon.

A L A Bkl 14:95 D ‘17

“These are good stories and affecting stories, with the advantage of a quaint setting and atmosphere; they are, I suppose, less true to ‘life’ than to that wistful dream of life which is called sentiment.” H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 46:341 N ‘17 120w

“In these stories we have Mr Fox at his best.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p9 N 21 ‘17 510w

“The best story in the collection is ‘His last Christmas gift,’ a grim little masterpiece softened by a touch that almost brings tears. The other tales lack somewhat in compactness and unity, but there is enough interesting material, warmly and humanly presented, to make them all very good reading.”

+ — Cath World 106:694 F ‘18 100w

“The inspiration that he seemed to draw from those earlier days at the Gap, when the mountains were really what one imagines the mountains to be, is somewhat dimmed. But the point is that he sees below the surface into the real lives of his people, and that he enriches mere incident with the warmth that comes from an appreciation of the values from which it springs.”

+ — Dial 63:464 N 8 ‘17 280w

“Mr Fox knows how to capture the sometimes primitive instinct and passions of the hard-working, impoverished lives of the people of Happy Valley. Mr Fox has made these people lovable in this happy addition to his work.”

+ New Repub 13:56 N 10 ‘17 110w

+ N Y Times 22:366 S 30 ‘17 400w

“It is his first book for some years and, altho collected from the magazines, a re-reading is merely like greeting old friends, not like being bored by tiresome acquaintances. You get much the same pleasure out of re-reading the story of the fight between Ham Cage and King Camp, refereed by the little school teacher according to what she could remember of the Marquis of Queensberry rules, that you do from re-reading a favorite bit of Thackeray.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ Pub W 92:1376 O 20 ‘17 330w

“But whatever its tone, each story graphically pictures some phase of life, habit or scene in this well-nigh alien colony in the backwater of American life.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 220w

200FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES ANATOLE THIBAULT). Human tragedy; a tr. by Alfred Allinson. il *$3 (11½c) Lane 17-29339

A holiday edition of the translation of a story contained in the series “Le puits de Sainte-Claire.” The translation was previously published in Chapman’s English edition of the Works of Anatole France, 1909. It is the story of Fra Giovanni, who, inspired by the example of St Francis, took the vows of poverty and lived “humble and despised, his soul a garden of flowers fenced about with walls.” As did Adam of old he eats of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil offered to him by the adversary. The evil spirit subtly appears in many guises, drawing his net tight about his victim until Giovanni cries out: “Thru you it is I suffer, and I love you. I love you because you are my misery and my pride, my joy and my sorrow, the splendour and the cruelty of things created, because you are desire and speculation, and because you have made me like unto yourself.” The story becomes a parable of the universal human tragedy of thought.

“The illustrations are extremely original and well suited to M. France’s deeply satirical imitation of a saint’s chronicle. It is a delectable book.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 9 ‘18 400w

“Will probably be welcomed chiefly for the excellent English into which it has been rendered and for the interesting full-color illustrations by the Russian artist Michel Sevier, whose style suggests Bakst and the Moscow art theatre.”

+ Dial 63:531 N 22 ‘17 190w

“Besides the involved picturesque, and highly poetic thought and expression of Mr France, we have the unusual colored illustrations of Sevier, which are also mystical. They add much to the book’s attractiveness.”

+ Lit D 55:42 D 8 ‘17 160w

N Y Br Lib News 4:74 My ‘17

“This well-translated fanciful tale, superbly illustrated, shows Anatole France in a characteristic mood.”

+ Outlook 117:510 N 28 ‘17 10w

“The volume may appeal to people of artistic temperament; both text and paintings are bizarre.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p15 D 1 ‘17 110w

FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON. Vagabonding down the Andes. il *$4 (1½c) Century 918 17-25452

The author of “A vagabond journey around the world,” etc., spent four years traveling in Mexico, Central and South America. A considerable portion of this journey was made on foot. The present book deals with the author’s tramp down the ridge of the Andes to Buenos Aires. He tells us that his purpose “was primarily to study the ways of the common people,” that too many of the books on Latin America have whitewashed everything and that he is interested “only in giving as faithful a picture as possible.” He warns us that he has “taken for granted in the reader a certain basic knowledge of South America,” and also that “this is no tale of adventures.” The numerous illustrations are from photographs by the author and there is a map showing the route.

“Not so gay as his former books, but contains an immense amount of useful information.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:92 D ‘17

“Although the author refers to his journey as vagabonding and to himself as a vagabond, his book reveals him as a keen-eyed, observant traveller with a fund of dry Yankee humour and common sense. The volume therefore is not only a rare record of endurance and adventure in out-of-the-way places, but in addition is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the Andes and the Andeans.” A. M. Chase

+ Bookm 46:334 N ‘17 450w

“Not a tale of adventure but unwhitewashed pictures of the fantastic everyday life of Latin Americans.”

+ Cleveland p138 D ‘17 70w

+ Lit D 55:42 D 8 ‘17 190w

“Franck’s books justify the day-to-day diary form; he is a master of detail, of local vignettes, of discriminate minutiæ. The photographs taken by this literary vagabond are excellent and appropriate to the text. The omission of an index is quite inexcusable, and reduces the value of the book to that derived from a mere casual reading.”

+ — Nation 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 290w

“The book makes a fine antidote to the top-hat, frock-coat style of grandiloquence about South America, favored by chambers of commerce and explorers who keep within a five minutes’ radius of the best hotels in Buenos Aires, Valparaiso and Rio de Janeiro.”

+ New Repub 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 220w

“There are two particulars in which the volume might easily be improved; one is the addition of an index, the other is the omission of the illustrations, or most of them. They add little except bulk. Those who delight in real adventure will find it here in plenty. Those who want social information of a kind studiously omitted from most volumes will find much of it scattered through more than 600 pages.” F. M.

+ — N Y Call p15 D 2 ‘17 550w

“Mr Franck has written a book of immense value. The reader soon comes to trust his report of conditions, so far as he saw them. ... His reports of chance conversations alone are worth reading the book for.”

+ N Y Sun p6 O 6 ‘17 1350w

“A brilliant, colorful, enthralling story of adventure this volume is beyond doubt the most entertaining work on South America that has yet appeared in the English language—or in any other, for that matter.”

+ N Y Times 22:460 N 11 ‘17 1850w

“He tells, as charitably as possible, how he found the Latin American, and if in the telling many praiseworthy things are overshadowed by the less laudable, his impressions at least have the virtue of frankness.”

+ Pittsburgh 22:759 N ‘17 100w

“The present reviewer would not have missed this book for a whole week’s salary and he’s going to turn right around and read it again.” Robert Lynd

+ Pub W 92:810 S 15 ‘17 500w

+ R of Rs 56:551 N ‘17 150w

“A most entertaining book, full of color, adventure and incident.” P. B.

+ St Louis 15:431 D ‘17 20w

“He has made a book full of interest, one filled with vivid pictures of life and scenery for which we are indebted to both his pen and his camera. Text and picture supplement each other admirably.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 8 ‘17 1450w

FRANK, WALDO DAVID. Unwelcome man. *$1.50 (1½c) Little 17-2340

He was an unwelcome child. Born the fifth son in a family of eight, he was wanted by nobody. His father openly disliked him. His brothers and sisters never made a place for him. His mother, tho she loved him with a fierce maternal tenderness that tried to atone for her lack of joy at his birth, never understood him. He was a sensitive child, always conscious of his anomalous position in the family life. The story is a study of his childhood and youth. In college as in his home, he is out of place. He leaves before the end of his senior year to go into business, where he loses himself in the stream of mediocrity.

“The style of ‘The unwelcome man’, like its philosophy, is a thing to be consciously accepted or surmounted if one is to read the book at all. It is pretentious, formal, often inflated, sometimes turgid. ... The book with all its realism of scene and episode is less a story than a parable; and it is a parable based upon despair.” H. W. Boynton

– + Bookm 45:205 Ap ‘17 470w

201“The story naturally is not a happy one. Indeed, its situation of selfish introspection comes perilously near being wearisome if not actually depressing at times. But technically, as an analysis of character, it is distinctly admirable.” F. B.

+ Boston Transcript p7 Ja 13 ‘17 550w

“The vitality of Mr Frank’s conception is shown by the fact that it provides a concrete touchstone for most of the problems of our contemporary civilization. ... Is it a successful work of art? Rather an extremely interesting than a successful one.” Van Wyck Brooks

+ — Dial 62:244 Mr 22 ‘17 1000w

“Philosophizing pessimism.”

Nation 104:269 Mr 8 ‘17 450w

N Y Br Lib News 4:24 F ‘17

“The book contains a good many ideas, is somewhat out of the ordinary, and has evidently been written for its own sake.”

+ — N Y Times 22:89 Mr 11 ‘17 410w

“An unusually able first novel by an author whom America should note carefully. American to the core, it challenges comparison with the work of such men as Theodore Dreiser and Ernest Poole. In fact, from its relentless realism, one easily guesses that Mr Frank is a close student of Dreiser—tho he has not copied that writer’s sexual obsession.” Robert Lynd

+ Pub W 91:204 Ja 20 ‘17 550w

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Mr 18 ‘17 330w

FRANKLIN, WILLIAM SUDDARDS, and MACNUTT, BARRY. General physics; an elementary treatise on natural philosophy. il *$2.75 McGraw 530 17-7555

“The subtitle of this book is the key to the contents. It is intentionally a somewhat dilute philosophical discussion of those natural phenomena whose study we commonly include under ‘physics.’ ... The book runs the whole gamut of classical physics, covering mechanics, dynamics, hydraulics, heat, electricity, magnetism, light and sound. There is nothing particularly strange encountered, except in the discussion on thermodynamics, where great attention is paid to entropy.” (Engin N) “Little space is given to the atomic theory. There are excellent bibliographies and an explanatory chapter on mathematics.” (Ind)

“The authors endeavor to show that entropy is a measurable property of a substance and that the different values of such measured property, before and after a thermodynamic degeneration, measure the sweeping process. The authors’ approach is very acceptable indeed to people who have a considerable knowledge of physics and an inherent and sustained interest in the science, but it will be an extremely difficult, if not an impossible, task to try to make young students absorb this line of reasoning.”

+ Engin N 77:435 Mr 15 ‘17 350w

“An unusually good elementary textbook for colleges and technical schools. The authors have the power of clear, concise statement.”

+ Ind 90:382 My 26 ‘17 50w

Pittsburgh 22:335 Ap ‘17 40w

FRANKS, THETTA (QUAY) (MRS ROBERT A. FRANKS). Household organization for war service. *$1 (8c) Putnam 640 17-14701

The author has written books on “Efficiency in the household,” “The reward of thrift,” etc. This small book offers a general discussion of the need for better household organization rather than specific suggestions or plans. A list of helpful books for the household is given at the close.

A L A Bkl 14:45 N ‘17

“An excellent and timely little book.”

+ Cleveland p87 Jl ‘17 50w

“American housewives are so used to advice introduced by genial assurances of their ignorance, stupidity and selfishness that the laying of most national defects on their kitchen door stones will not in the least affect their appreciation of these very practical and suggestive pages.”

+ Ind 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w

+ N Y Times 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 380w

“Many of these suggestions are as sensible and helpful in peace times as in war.”

+ R of Rs 56:214 Ag ‘17 30w

St Louis 15:331 S ‘17 20w

FRANKS, THETTA (QUAY) (MRS ROBERT A. FRANKS). Margin of happiness; the reward of thrift. il *$1.50 (3½c) Putnam 640 17-18488

“This book is the outcome of a series of informal talks which Mrs Franks gave before a large class of women in the Oranges, N. J., organized to study business methods of administering a household, intelligent and economic buying of food, its proper cooking, and the value to health of a balanced ration. [It aims] to set forth woman’s work in the household as a profession which ought to be prepared for as zealously as a man prepares for the profession which is to be his lifework and its duties discharged with as much satisfaction in the ability to do so efficiently and successfully. ... An appendix contains an account of the plan on which the classes mentioned above were carried on, an alphabetical ‘grocery list’ which gives concise information and advice as to each article, and a list of ‘helpful books.’”—N Y Times

Am Econ R 7:902 D ‘17 60w

+ Ind 91:353 S 1 ‘17 80w

“It is, in effect, a complete manual or guidebook for students on household subjects and written in a style adapted to students of all ages. To be the ideal housewife here described will make necessary cooperation on the part of husbands, for it involves a separate bank-account and a real business partnership.”

+ Lit D 55:53 D 1 ‘17 180w

“Mrs Franks writes with eloquence and with that knowledge of her theme that comes from much study, much thought, and much experience.”

+ N Y Times 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 350w

“Of great use to all housekeepers and to every one who believes in thrift and in conserving the food supply of the nation.”

R of Rs 56:331 S ‘17 130w

“Similar in purpose to Frederick’s ‘The new housekeeping,’ but less definite in its information and covering a little different field.”

+ Wis Lib Bul 14:29 Ja ‘18 80w

FREEMAN, JOHN. Moderns; essays in literary criticism. *$1.75 Crowell 820.4 (Eng ed 17-26878)

Contents: George Bernard Shaw; H. G. Wells; Thomas Hardy; Maurice Maeterlinck; Henry James; Joseph Conrad; Coventry Patmore and Francis Thompson; Robert Bridges.

“Discerning and readable, the usefulness of the compact discussions of the authors’ works is somewhat lessened because there is no index.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:86 D ‘17

“The author’s survey is acute and well-balanced, showing a sound general knowledge of his material and a well-defined individual standard of taste. His own style inclines to the parenthetical, enlivened with many well-turned phrases.”

Ath p43 Ja ‘17 80w

+ — Ath p85 F ‘17 350w

Boston Transcript p7 Jl 25 ‘17 1150w

+ Dial 63:164 Ag 30 ‘17 300w

“In matters of form and style he is less acute than elsewhere—he speaks, for example, with undue contempt of Mr Shaw’s prose as prose and with extravagant admiration of Mr Hardy’s verse as verse; and he finds poetical felicities in Patmore and Robert Bridges which few will share with him. He is strong in his applications of common-sense and the emotions attendant 202upon it to the paradox, the bombast, and the sentimental flummery of our fashionable contemporaries. ... Mr Freeman is at his best and happiest in his recognitions of spiritual values.”

+ — Nation 105:296 S 13 ‘17 410w

R of Rs 56:553 N ‘17 30w

FREEMAN, MRS MARY ELEANOR (WILKINS), and KINGSLEY, MRS FLORENCE (MORSE). Alabaster box. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-9348

“The people of Brookville, a characteristic little New England village, did not recognize how beautiful was the alabaster box when one came bearing it among them and wished to pour all its contents at their feet. ... Miss Lydia Orr is an appealing heroine whose unusual character is realized in a strong and vital but delicate portraiture. All the years of her girlhood she has fed her inner self upon the dream of going back to Brookville with plenty of money wherewith to repay to the villagers in one way or another the money they had once lost through her father. And at last it becomes possible. But she finds his memory so hated and all the villagers still dwelling so angrily upon the wrong he had done them that she has difficulty in carrying out her scheme.”—N Y Times

+ A L A Bkl 13:403 Je ‘17

“It is a pity that Mrs Freeman should lend her name and her left hand to work so shallow and perfunctory as this.” H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 46:93 S ‘17 380w

“Miss Wilkins needs to reëstablish her reputation after this. ‘An alabaster box’ will satisfy only those who do not know her past work. Except for those bits in it that signify a familiar skill that lingers in the memory, it is unworthy of the name it bears on its title-page. Certainly Miss Wilkins should henceforth get along without a collaborator.” E. F. E.

– + H Boston Transcript p12 Ap 7 ‘17 1200w

+ Dial 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 120w

“Two love stories add to the real interest we feel in very real fictional personalities. A healthy American story.”

+ Ind 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 110w

“Mrs Freeman’s delicate touch in the limning of character is often in evidence, especially in the portrayal of the heroine, but the general effect of the story is more suggestive of Mrs Kingsley’s work than of Mrs Freeman’s.”

+ N Y Times 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 420w

Reviewed by Frank O’Neil

+ Pub W 91:970 Mr 17 ‘17 520w

“The story is highly interesting, and the several characters are delightfully portrayed.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 22 ‘17 330w

“The moral is made palatable by the cleverly drawn village life and characters, and two stories of young love.”

Wis Lib Bul 13:158 My ‘17 50w

FREESE, JOHN HENRY, comp. New pocket dictionary of the English and Russian languages; English-Russian. *$2 Dutton 491.7

“The dictionary is preceded by an introduction explaining the use of the prepositional prefixes and giving valuable lists of the nominal and adjectival suffixes; also by notes on the phonetic laws, the aspects and pronunciation, with a large-type picture of the alphabet.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“When a book represents a distinct advance over any previous work of similar character, it is not altogether pleasant to point out its weaker sides. This is emphatically true of ‘A new pocket dictionary of the English and Russian languages.’”

+ – — Nation 105:265 S 6 ‘17 370w

“Cheap, well-printed, and compendious.”

+ Spec 117:269 S 2 ‘16 120w

“Admirable in every respect. The dictionary is very full, and no important words seem to have been omitted; moreover, all parts of verbs which are at all different from the infinitive and all parts of nouns which are different from the nominative singular are given, an innovation for which novices will be extremely grateful.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p329 Jl 13 ‘16 280w

FRENCH, ALLEN. At Plattsburg. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-13200

The daily life of a Plattsburg recruit is described in a series of letters. The preface states that the letters are based on personal experience and that the author’s purpose in writing them was to give a “general picture of the fun and work at a training camp.” But while based on fact the narrative is thrown into fiction form, with a bit of love interest added for good measure.

“Written with patriotic fervor and with a slight story and a vein of romance.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:376 Je ‘17

“The writer’s style is lively and entertaining.”

+ Boston Transcript p8 My 19 ‘17 130w

“It is a play-time Plattsburg which Mr French has described so agreeably,—a Plattsburg already past,—a stepping-stone toward the universal American army, which in turn will do away with all such effervescences. That old Plattsburg was unique, and a unique success.”

+ Dial 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 450w

+ Ind 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 100w

“It is what the ‘rookie’ does at Plattsburg, and perhaps even more, it is what Plattsburg does in the life and thought of the rookie, that gives the book not only its value but its charm. ... But perhaps its chief value lies in the specific following of the Plattsburg program from the camp’s assembly to its break up at the end of the famous hike. ... A book which many Americans will want to read just now.”

+ N Y Times 22:178 My 6 ‘17 730w

“Mr French puts into Private Godwin’s letters enough of the philosophy of preparedness as it unfolds to Plattsburg students to make the book as valuable from such an angle as it is interesting as a story.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 10 ‘17 500w

FRENCH, ALLEN. Golden Eagle. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24399

A book that will be popular with boys and girls who understand sail boats. The “Golden Eagle” is a trophy that goes to the winner of a boat race. Three young people, Howard Winslow, his sister Ruth, and Fred Barnes are tied for first place and a third race, which is to decide the matter, is pending when the trophy disappears. The search for it and its recovery, a rescue from a wrecked boat, and the great race itself are the main incidents of the story.

+ A L A Bkl 14:100 D ‘17

“It has a good ethical tone. The illustrations are appropriate.”

+ Ind 92:447 D 1 ‘17 30w

“Allen French has proved himself ere this a popular writer of breezy stories for young folks, and ‘The Golden Eagle’ will increase his popularity.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 11 ‘17 140w

FRENCH, ALLEN. Hiding-places. *$1.35 (1½c) Scribner 17-8201

Great wealth of treasure lay hidden somewhere on the two farms. An old buccaneer ancestor, seventy years earlier, had taken this method of leaving his wealth to his descendants. In the form of precious gems, he had concealed it in various hiding places. His will gave faint clues and stated clearly that finders were to be keepers. In order that the finders should always be members of the family, it became imperative that trespassing should be forbidden, that hired labor should be dispensed with and that guests should be chosen with care. At the time of this story the farms are in the possession of two cousins. Not for forty years has there been any discovery of treasure. Then Binney Hartwell, son of one of the cousins, finds 203one of the hidden boxes. Unhappiness, ill-luck and family dissension follow, but the disclosure of the final hiding place restores harmony.

A L A Bkl 13:358 My ‘17

“A kind of romance which would be contemptible if it were done cheaply; but it is done very well indeed, with, for good measure, some touches of genuine characterisation—a thing which cannot fairly be demanded of the pure romancer.” H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 45:313 My ‘17 350w

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 29 ‘17 300w

“To say that the tale is exciting is to pay slight tribute to a novel containing so clever a plot and such excellent characterizations as those of the hero, his mother, and his cousin. Mr French has set out to write a story, but in accomplishing his end he has shown respect for his public and himself.”

+ Dial 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 200w

“A good story, well contrived and well told, and it shows that its author, whose first novel it is, has the story-teller’s instinct.”

+ N Y Times 22:94 Mr 18 ‘17 450w

“A tale worth reading.”

+ Outlook 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 40w

+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 13 ‘17 450w

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:158 My ‘17 60w

FRENCH, GEORGE. How to advertise; a guide to designing, laying out, and composing advertisements; pub. for the Associated advertising clubs of the world. il *$2 (4c) Doubleday 659 17-6656

“The object of this book is to suggest how advertising may be made more effective by making it more attractive—giving it more ‘attention value.’” (Preface) Contents: What the advertisement must do; The personal equation; The human interest appeal; Advertising display; The appeal of the display; “What has art got to do with advertising?” What is art? The all-type advertisement; Type; The illustrated advertisement; Illustrations; The decorative advertisement; Decorations; Optics and the advertisement; The form of the advertisement; Getting the copy ready; Assembling the units; In conclusion. The book is well illustrated, with twenty-six halftone plates and numerous line drawings.

A L A Bkl 14:45 N ‘17

“Its general spirit is to develop the critical factor of the advertiser himself. The book will have a worthy place in every business man’s library.” H. W. H.

+ Ann Am Acad 73:231 S ‘17 160w

“What he says of advertising as a business force is both authoritative and helpful. The citation of concrete examples, good and bad, increases the book’s value.”

+ Ind 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 70w

N Y Br Lib News 4:59 Ap ‘17

Pittsburgh 22:523 Je ‘17

“The author is editor of the Advertising News.”

St Louis 15:144 My ‘17 30w

“The book is meant for a particular class of readers rather than the public, but in its own field it is bound to rank high.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 S 2 ‘17 250w

FREUND, ERNST. Standards of American legislation; an estimate of restrictive and constructive factors. *$1.50 Univ. of Chicago press 342.7 17-10698

“On its concrete side, the present work may be said to be a continuation of the standard treatise, ‘Police power,’ by the same author. It is an expansion of a series of lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins university. ... The object sought ‘is to suggest the possibility of supplementing the established doctrine of constitutional law which enforces legislative norms through ex post facto review and negation, by a system of positive principles that should guide and control the making of statutes, and give a more definite meaning and content to the concept of due process of law.’” (Int J Ethics) The table of contents is followed by a summary of the contents. The introduction cites a number of cases that illustrate the changed attitude of the courts toward social legislation, and touches on the movement for judicial recall. The chapters then take up: Historic changes of policy and the modern concept of social legislation; The common law and public policy; The tasks and hazards of legislation; Constitutional provisions; Judicial doctrines; The meaning of principle in legislation; Constructive factors. The author is professor of jurisprudence and public law in the University of Chicago.

Reviewed by A. B. Hall

+ Am J Soc 23:540 Ja ‘18 1150w

“Professor Freund’s purpose is to estimate the factors by the aid of which a system of constructive principles of legislation may be built up. This purpose distinguishes his book at once from such an excellent treatise as Jethro Brown’s ‘The underlying principles of modern legislation,’ which deals, not with principles of legislation as Professor Freund defines the term, but with policy, and from Chester Lloyd Jones’s valuable ‘Statute law making in the United States,’ which deals exclusively with legislative practice.” A. N. Holcombe

+ Am Pol Sci R 11:580 Ag ‘17 620w

“A book which, in a lucid and uninvolved manner traces the development of the policies of modern legislation in the exercise of what must be recognized as ‘a political and not strictly judicial function.’”

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 23 ‘17 210w

“The field occupied by Professor Freund is a new one in nearly all its avenues of approach; and it is extremely fortunate that a writer of his wide professorial experience, and interest, in the subject, has undertaken to publish the results of his research and reflection. ... From the adverse side, we believe the title does not accurately represent the matters treated, and yet we would have great difficulty in suggesting another. The index is not altogether satisfactory. ... This defect is in part relieved by a chapter summary.” Albert Kocourek

* + — Int J Ethics 28:123 O ‘17 1600w

Reviewed by H. W. Ballantine

+ J Pol Econ 25:1050 D ‘17 1000w

Pittsburgh 22:765 N ‘17 60w

+ Springf’d Republican p8 Je 28 ‘17 550w

“It stimulates thought and suggests further studies. It is a work which jurists and constitutional lawyers will read with profit; however, it will also interest the layman who appreciates the increasing importance of statute law.” E. E. Witte

+ Survey 39:45 O 13 ‘17 330w

FREYTAG, GUSTAV. Doctor Luther; tr. by G. C. L. Riemer. il *$1 (3c) Lutheran pub. soc. 16-16678

Freytag’s work on Martin Luther is one of his “Pictures of the German past,” five historical volumes written and published between 1859 and 1867. The work consists of four chapters: At the beginning of the 16th century; Struggles in the soul of a young man and his entrance into the monastery; Out of monastic confinement into battle; Doctor Luther. These are followed by biographic and geographic notes and a table of dates. A brief sketch of the author is included by way of preface.

+ Ind 89:274 F 12 ‘17 40w

From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles. (Soldiers’ tales of the great war) *60c (2c) Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-3142)

The Dartmouth of the title is the British naval training college of that name. The young cadet whose story is told here was a boy of barely sixteen. His narrative was written while at home on sick leave in December, 1915, and has been edited for publication by his mother, who has made the necessary alterations in names of officers, ships, etc., leaving the boy’s 204story as nearly as possible as he wrote it. His experiences included rescue from death after his ship had been sunk.

+ Cath World 105:697 Ag ‘17 230w

+ Ind 90:297 My 12 ‘17 50w

“Full of interest, simply but vividly told.”

+ Nation 104:412 Ap 5 ‘17 260w

“The reader cannot fail to note in the book the strange gradual maturity that came in that year to this child of fifteen. ‘From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles’ is one of the unique personal records from this war.”

+ N Y Times 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 550w

Pratt p42 Ap ‘17 10w

R of Rs 55:445 Ap ‘17 40w

“Make-up and binding very poor.”

Wis Lib Bul 13:123 Ap ‘17 50w

FROTHINGHAM, EUGENIA BROOKS. Way of the wind. *$1.40 (3c) Houghton 17-6326

An unusual love story, the theme of which is the attachment between an older woman and a man who is little more than a boy. Janet Eversly is past thirty when she first meets Edgar Chilworth, a boy in the early twenties. She is the guest of his sister in the New Hampshire hills, and it is Fanny Chilworth’s harshness in her treatment of the wayward, reckless youth that first draws Janet toward him. He is touched by Janet’s pity, and before they are aware, tenderness on the one side and gratitude on the other have merged into love. The situation is worked out slowly, with many failures on Edgar’s part and sorely-tried faith on Janet’s.

“Not necessary, seems to be founded on false psychology.”

— A L A Bkl 13:403 Je ‘17

“The author has accomplished something very much worth while when she has drawn this portrait of Edgar Chilworth. ... On account of this character study the story is exceptionally praiseworthy as well as being psychologically interesting.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 10 ‘17 950w

— New Repub 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 300w

+ N Y Times 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 340w

FROTHINGHAM, PAUL REVERE. Confusion of tongues. *$1.25 Houghton 170 17-10441

“A volume of essay-sermons that deal not directly with the great war, but that touch various aspects of life affected by it. None of the discourses would be the same except for the colossal tragedy across the sea. They represent an attempt to ease a little the present mental strain, to restore the confidence of people, and to lead the mind back to the everlasting verities of life and duty. The title of the book is intended to symbolize the far-reaching effect of the European camps along the battlefront.” (Boston Transcript) “Contents: A confusion of tongues; The conduct of life; A motto; The little book; Making the best of things; How to choose; The ‘if’ and ‘though’ of faith; Extra pennies; The departure into Egypt; Unshaken things.” (N Y Br Lib News) The author has been the minister of the Arlington Street church (Unitarian), Boston, since 1900.

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 23 ‘17 170w

+ Dial 63:535 N 22 ‘17 150w

“There is something a little out of the ordinary in the quiet sanity of Paul Revere Frothingham’s volume of essay-sermons.”

+ Nation 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 280w

N Y Br Lib News 4:94 Je ‘17

+ R of Rs 56:330 S ‘17 80w

“Wholesome and helpful as these brief essays are in encouraging the cultivation of personal rectitude and hopefulness, they fall far short of measuring the shock which faith has suffered under the heel of war in Christendom.” G. T.

– + Survey 38:574 S 29 ‘17 140w

FRYER, EUGÉNIE MARY. Hill-towns of France. il *$2.50 Dutton 914.4 17-30063

“This book is a story of wanderings among the picturesque hill-towns of France in times of peace. These hill-towns, the traveller-author tells us, are of four distinct types: first, the large town, commanded and protected by the turrets and massive towers of its walls and citadel; second, the feudal castle, the residence of some great lord about whose walls a straggling town has grown up; third, the fortified town, communal in character, which, governed by no over-lord and possessed of no castle, yet protects itself from invasion by fortifying its houses and its churches also; and fourth, the monastic hill-town, its defences built primarily to defend a shrine. ... In tracing the history of these four types of hill towns in France, the writer has traced the welding of these divergent strands into a united whole, which comprises the French nation of today.”—Boston Transcript

“A pleasant book, with fine illustrations of some of the most picturesque spots of France, such illustrations as would almost provide an excuse for dispensing with reading the text.” Albert Schinz

+ Bookm 46:292 N ‘17 230w

“The descriptive style of the narrative is picturesque and vigorous.”

+ Boston Transcript p7 D 1 ‘17 320w

“Most of the articles are reprints of papers from former publications, but the collection makes a handy reference volume.”

+ Lit D 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 150w

“Her book furnishes a new viewpoint from which to approach France and French life and history.”

+ N Y Times 22:579 D 30 ‘17 200w

+ Outlook 117:654 D 19 ‘17 70w

+ R of Rs 57:219 F ‘18 40w

+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 8 ‘17 100w

FRYER, MRS JANE (EAYRE). Mary Frances first aid book. (Mary Frances story instruction handbook ser.) il *$1 Winston 614 16-24933

“‘The Mary Frances first aid book,’ is a combination of story with information. ... It is printed in colors with fifty colored illustrations and has a ready reference list of ordinary accidents and illnesses, with approved home remedies, alphabetically arranged. ... The children who are the chief characters are entrusted with a group of doll patients on whom they practice what they learn about bandages and liniments, and the cure for burns and other injuries.”—Springf’d Republican

“Of use to smaller Camp fire girls.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:407 Je ‘17

“It is to be regretted that the author, a member of the New Jersey Women’s division, National preparedness association, has by much of her context infused the pages with the spirit of militarism and ‘flag waving.’ Otherwise the book has many valuable points and may be commended, especially for its illustrations and generally fine make-up.” M. G. S.

+ — N Y Call p14 Ap 15 ‘17 120w

“At the present moment a practical first-aid book like this should be very popular.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 15 ‘17 120w

FUESS, CLAUDE MOORE. Old New England school. il *$4 (3c) Houghton 373 17-13971

A history of Phillips academy, Andover, founded in 1778. Among the chapters are: A Puritan family; The founders; The founding of a school; An eighteenth-century pedagogue; The founding of Andover theological seminary; The School and the Hill in the mid-century; Student societies and enterprises; Some baseball stories; Football and its heroes; Phillips academy in the twentieth century. The volume is well illustrated.

“More feasible for libraries if it had been condensed and sold at half the price.”

+ — A L A Bkl 14:75 D ‘17

205“The mere fact that Oliver Wendell Holmes was there fitted for college, as we know from his own pen, is enough to make the academy and its history objects of unfailing interest.”

+ Dial 63:408 O 25 ‘17 200w

+ Ind 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 70w

“For those not directly interested in the academy it affords a glimpse into those pioneer days of American institutions of learning that were over full of history ‘in the making.’”

+ Lit D 55:33 S 1 ‘17 600w

“The institution stands today as about the best known and perhaps without exception the most effectively equipped secondary school of America. ... We cannot avoid the feeling that Mr Fuess falls somewhat short of the proper degree of sympathy and understanding in dealing with the earlier history of the school, and especially with such a character as that of Principal Samuel H. Taylor. ... Aside from reservations which some may feel inclined to make on the point just mentioned, the author has done his work well and has written a chapter in the history of American education which should have a wide reading.”

+ Nation 105:68 Jl 19 ‘17 1250w

+ N Y Times 22:582 D 30 ‘17 340w

Pittsburgh 22:692 O ‘17

“Much of what he has brought to light is of significance not merely as the record of a school but as New England social history.”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 Je 14 ‘17 1100w

FULLER, SIR BAMPFYLDE. Man as he is; essays in a new psychology. *$2.50 Stokes 150 (Eng ed 17-13409)

“Retired from a distinguished career in India, Sir Bampfylde Fuller has devoted himself to psychological studies and has already published (in addition to two books on India) a work of value called ‘Life and human nature.’ He now gives us what may be called a contribution to the study of human impulses; for in these developing into rational choice and based on memory—the excellences of memory being the chief mark of man’s predominance over other animals—he finds the key to the human mind and conduct.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ Ath p473 O ‘16 80w

“The first chapter, however, is too brief a statement of principles to form a really adequate introduction to the ambitiously planned inquiry.”

+ — NY Times 22:402 O 14 ‘17 500w

“His treatment of man in these essays is wholly as ‘the paragon of animals.’ Nothing turns on any specific difference, any spiritual element which distinguishes man from animal. But there is no tone of brutality in the book, no cynicism, no Nietzsche nonsense, and we mark frequently with a certain amusement the conventional and even commonplace morality which pervades its rigid realistic and positive analysis of man purely as a terrestrial creature.”

Sat R 123:322 Ap 7 ‘17 500w

“The book contains much acute analysis based not only on reflection, but on a singularly wide acquaintance with men and affairs.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p491 O 12 ‘16 110w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p555 N 23 ‘16 1050w

FULLER, HENRY BLAKE. Lines long and short. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-4572

A volume of “biographical sketches in various rhythms.” Mr Fuller has told twenty stories in free verse, analyzing motives and exposing shams with something of the keen satire of the “Spoon River anthology” but with less of its sordidness. Some of the poems are reprinted from Poetry, the Chicago Tribune and the New Republic.

“Without Edgar Lee Masters’s power to burn to the quick with the caustic of satire, he has yet the trained, clear-seeing eyes of the psychologist, the sense of human values of the novelist, and his people are real and unforgettable. The man who put off living until life would have none of him, stands out in particular relief.” J. B. Rittenhouse

+ — Bookm 46:439 D ‘17 110w

“Mr Fuller is more rhythmical than Mr Masters. But though he has a spice of cynicism, his work is tempered with wit, and while he makes fun not only of his subjects and of himself, he has something worth telling and not one of his ‘little stories’ lacks zest. They are well worth reading.” N. H. D.

+ Boston Transcript p9 Mr 7 ‘17 550w

+ Cleveland p65 My ‘17 60w

Reviewed by R. M. Lovett

Dial 62:300 Ap 5 ‘17 1200w

N Y Br Lib News 4:62 Ap ‘17

FULTON, MAURICE GARLAND, ed. Southern life in southern literature. il 80c Ginn 810.8 17-6667

Selections from southern literature, arranged in three parts: The old South in literature; Poetry of the Civil war; The new South in literature. The editor says, “My attempt has been not merely to show the value of literary effort in the South as absolute achievement but also to emphasize its importance as a record of southern life and character.” Essayists, poets, story writers and humorists are included. In selecting from recent novelists and story writers the author has limited himself, with one exception, “to the five pioneers in the new development of fiction in the eighties.” These are George W. Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Mary N. Murfree, Thomas Nelson Page and James Lane Allen. The exception is O. Henry.

+ School R 25:302 Ap ‘17 30w

“Should be an acceptable book for supplementary reading in any high school, but particularly in the South, where its historical element would naturally make the greatest appeal and would serve as an excellent approach to the book. As a whole, the book is well organized, satisfactory in the point of notes, both explanatory and biographical, and commendable for the selection of subject-matter.” E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman

+ School R 25:609 O ‘17 90w

FURNISS, HENRY SANDERSON, ed. Industrial outlook. *3s 6d Chatto & Windus, London (Eng ed 17-4219)

“A collection of nine essays, edited by the principal of Ruskin college, who speaks of ‘the control of industry’ as the keynote of the book, so far as it has one. ... The contributors are G. W. Daniels, lecturer on economics in the University of Manchester; H. Clay; J. R. Taylor, lecturer in the University of Leeds; W. Piercy and T. E. Gregory, both lecturers at the London school of economics; A. W. Ashby, assistant in the Institute for research in agricultural economics at Oxford; and W. H. Pringle. Assistance has been received in the preparation of the book from Professor E. Cannan and Mr A. E. Zimmern.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“The writers have not a common point of view or a common terminology or a common way of approach. ... A book such as this cannot be judged as a book—each essay must be taken separately and judged for what it is in itself without reference to the rest. There are at least two essays which are really admirable; that of Mr Henry Clay on ‘The war and the status of the wage-earner,’ and that of Mr J. R. Taylor on ‘Labour organization.’ ... These two chapters should be read by everybody who really desires to understand the labour movement and the point of view of the trade unionist of to-day. Mr Ashby’s chapter on ‘The rural problem’ is also excellent, ... and should be an excellent tonic for all those who still have sentimental aspirations after the small holding or the peasant proprietor.”

+ — Ath p347 Jl ‘17 780w

“Mr Taylor’s account of the new tendencies in trade unionism and the rise of the great 206industrial union, like the National union of railwaymen, as contrasted with the older craft unions, is especially interesting and valuable.”

+ Spec 119:193 Ag 25 ‘17 150w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p34 Ja 18 ‘17 170w

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GADE, JOHN ALLYNE. Charles the Twelfth, king of Sweden. il *$3 (2½c) Houghton 16-22250

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“Hitherto Voltaire’s ‘Charles XII,’ of unstated literary charm, and the late R. Nisbet Bain’s useful sketch in the Heroes of the nations series have been the only attempts to write, in a non-Scandinavian tongue, the story career of one of the most picturesque and striking figures in modern history. Now comes Mr Gade, ... who has assumed the role of translator of the contemporaneous manuscripts of one Carl Gustafson Klingspor, devoted follower and companion in arms of the king. While the ‘translator’ provides an index and a very considerable bibliography, abounding in Scandinavian titles, his manner of writing, his soaring enthusiasm, and his penchant for dramatic effect suggest the historical novelist rather than the orthodox historical biographer. ... Those who, in spite of the grim realities of the present conflict, still yearn for a true tale of military adventure, in the main well told, will welcome this book; but it still leaves the way open for an exhaustive critical biography. The volume is handsomely bound and printed, while of errors there are comparatively few, though 1588 should be 1688 (p. 22).” A. L. C.

Am Hist R 22:705 Ap ‘17 400w

“Charles XII of Sweden has ever furnished an inspiring theme to writers of the most different stamp—from the keen contemporary Voltaire to the manly and tender Verner V. Heidenstam in our own days. Mr John A. Gade has hit upon the device of writing a book purporting to be a translation of the manuscript of one Colonel Klingspor. ... In most other respects Mr Gade is credible enough, fortified and enlivened as his account is with the contemporary observations and anecdotes now accessible in a number of published journals of the Carolines. The recently published five volumes of memoirs of soldiers under Charles, edited by Quennerstadäd, seem to have been especially drawn upon. ... In but one respect does there appear to be uncertainty of planning. For whom in particular was this eloquent account written? For youths to be fired with a noble emulation of a great character, so one would judge from the general tone of the book, which lays the greatest stress on the Spartan virtues. But if so, why the salacious anecdotes, e.g., about August the Strong, told in contrast though they be?... The book is well illustrated with portraits and plates. There is one altogether unserviceable map.”

Nation 104:495 Ap 26 ‘17 420w

Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 26 ‘17 400w

GAGER, CHARLES STUART. Fundamentals of botany. il *$1.50 Blakiston 581 16-19673

“Gager’s text is evidently intended as a guide for an introductory, cultural course for college students, which shall at the same time serve as a foundational one for students who are to pursue the subject further. ... Part I (Introduction) deals with the organs of the cormophyte and the structure of the cell. Part 2 (The vegetative functions of plants) includes chapters on the loss of water, absorption of water, the path of liquids in the plant, nutrition, fermentation, respiration, growth, and adjustment to surroundings. ... The 26 chapters of part 3 (Structure and life histories) include discussions of the life histories of a considerable number of types, especially of the mosses, ferns, and flowering plants.”—Bot Gaz

“The book is abundantly illustrated with 434 figures, a good share of which are original drawings or halftones. While the appearance, for example, of such illustrations as figs. 127, 198, 263, and 286 is to be welcomed, the same cannot justly be said of some others.”

+ Bot Gaz 63:324 Ap ‘17 400w

“Excellent text-book by director of the Brooklyn botanic garden. Presents some original ideas in the teaching of botany. Very fully illustrated.”

+ Pittsburgh 22:41 Ja ‘17 20w

“It will be noted that although a physiologist in outlook, he has properly emphasized the historical and structural point of view so often and so deplorably neglected by the cultivators of disembodied plant physiology. The author obviously considers that living matter is to be studied ‘in vita’ rather than ‘in vitro’ (whether in glass models or merely in chemical glass-ware).” F. C. Jeffrey

+ Science n s 46:617 D 21 ‘17 750w

GAINES, RUTH LOUISE, and READ, GEORGIA WILLIS. Village shield. il *$1.50 (3½c) Dutton 17-13622

Florence Converse, editor of the “Little schoolmates” series, writes an introductory “Letter to the one who reads this book” in which she says that this present day story of Porfiria and Ramon is a story of “real Mexicans; not the fierce and noisy men who are fighting and quarreling among themselves and sometimes with us ... but the Indians of pure blood, descendants or successors of the Aztec people.” Translations and explanations of terms used in the text are not given in footnotes but in eight pages of “Notes” at the end of the story.

“Well illustrated with historic pictures taken from old books of travel. Will interest older children.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:29 O ‘17

“It is rich in local color and rather too rich in Spanish phrases inserted to enhance that color.”

+ — Ind 92:260 N 3 ‘17 40w

“It is a weaker and feminine story of the type popular in the Rover series, the Boy scout books, and the like. The illustrations, too, taken outright from Mexican books of travel of the early forties and fifties, are quite untrue to Mexican life today. And yet it is harmless enough, and might be absorbing to a child.” C. W.

N Y Call p15 Je 24 ‘17 180w

“The story is told with skill. ... The illustrations, of which four are colored plates, deserve a word of mention because of their historic and artistic interest. The twelve full-page pictures are from famous books of travel in Mexico of more than half a century ago, while more than a score of tailpieces and medallions have been redrawn from the picture-writings of the Mexican Indians, some of them antedating the Spanish conquest.”

+ N Y Times 22:249 Jl 1 ‘17 800w

“While written for children, has interest for the older reader.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 290w

GAIRDNER, WILLIAM HENRY TEMPLE. Egyptian colloquial Arabic; a conversation grammar and reader. il *12s 6d Heffer, Cambridge, England 492.7

“Mr Gairdner, of the Church missionary society, who is the superintendent of Arabic studies at the Cairo study centre, has done a great service ... by preparing this practical conversation grammar and reader of the spoken language of the people. He discards the Arabic symbols for a modified Roman alphabet.” (Spec) “He has endeavoured to apply to Egyptian Arabic some of the modern methods used in teaching languages. Disconnected sentences, verb conjugations and paradigms, and grammatical rules preceding each exercise, have been omitted. For the last-named Mr Gairdner has substituted leading questions, which will enable students themselves to deduce the grammar illustrated by the subject-matter of each section. 207An advocate of direct methods, Mr Gairdner from the outset uses Arabic as the medium of instruction; and he gives good reasons for the particular system of Romic symbols adopted. The book contains tables of Egyptian-Arabic sounds, and of the consonants, vowels, and diphthongs; exercises in sound-drill and practice in reading; and a vocabulary of the chief words occurring in the reader.” (Ath) Mr Gairdner has been assisted by Sheikh Kurayyim Sallam.

+ Ath p409 Ag ‘17 130w

“The book is, in its way, almost as epoch-making as that of Spitta; it shows, for all its modernity, very careful scholarship and it may be thoroughly recommended. The home-staying Arabist will probably get good results by combining it with Spitta’s ‘Contes Arabes.’”

+ Nation 105:491 N 1 ‘17 350w

+ Spec 118:94 Jl 28 ‘17 90w

GALBRAITH, ANNA MARY. Personal hygiene and physical training for women. 2d ed rev il *$2.25 (2c) Saunders 613 17-2511

For this second edition the chapter on Digestion and nutrition has been rewritten to bring it into conformity with present day knowledge of the nutritive value of foods, etc. Chapter 1 on The wisdom of physical efficiency has been revised to include the results of statistical studies made by the author. A section on dancing, with plates and description of simple steps, has been added.

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GALE, ZONA. Daughter of the morning. il *$1.40 (2½c) Bobbs 17-28848

“Cosma Wakely was a village girl of twenty years, in speech, manner, and environment the antipodes of everything that culture stands for. Her story, told by herself, begins as ungrammatically and crudely as the character demands. But during a morning’s walk she meets a stranger whose talk with her changes at once all her personal ideals and her entire outlook upon life. Obeying the hint he has given her in regard to seeking wider horizons, she breaks her engagement with a country lover, and, taking with her the wife and child of a drunken brute, seeks employment in the city. There her great beauty subjects her to the usual peril from predacious man, but, saving herself by her quick wits, she soon enters a career of triumph, and is sent to school. ... She becomes secretary to the very man who first planted within her the seeds of ambition; and of course, of course—we easily guess the rest.”—N Y Times

A L A Bkl 14:131 Ja ‘18

“‘A daughter of the morning’ must be set down as a ‘fact story,’ good enough for those that like their sociology, as well as their advertising, in tract form, but not to be considered from the viewpoint of fiction.”

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+ Ind 92:604 D 29 ‘17 50w

“The superficial philosophy and the weak love interest may appeal to the sentimental high school girl. But the note of protest against the sterility and lack of promise that country life offers to a girl redeems the book from many of its faults.”

– + New Repub 13:158 D 8 ‘17 100w

“All the details of this impossible story are as far removed from things as they are as is the history of its heroine. Miss Gale scores, in that, despite the unrealities of her tale, and its being somewhat overloaded with her theories, she has made it interesting.”

– + N Y Times 22:517 D 2 ‘17 460w

“With the gentle simplicity and sincerity so characteristic of Miss Gale’s work, she has said here many fundamental truths. She has clothed them with a gently appealing human touch that will carry the lesson far.” G. I. Colbron

+ Pub W 92:1375 O 20 ‘17 460w

“As a novel the book holds its reader closely; as a novel with a purpose it is to be classed among the worth-while books of 1917.”

+ Springf’d Republican p19 D 2 ‘17 300w

GALLATIN, ALBERT EUGENE. Paul Manship; a critical essay on his sculpture and an iconography. il *$5 Lane 735 17-12503

“The future of sculpture [in America] at present lies in the hands of some half dozen acknowledged artists and many others who are gradually winning a reputation. One of the few who has gone ‘over the top’ although quite a young man, is Paul Manship. ... In clear, concise terms, the author has summed up the art of Manship and placed him where he belongs. That is an art in itself. Further than this the dainty little volume contains a very complete iconography, accompanied by eight full-page illustrations, thoroughly representative pieces of sculpture having been selected for the purpose.” (Int Studio) The book, which is of a few pages only other than the illustrations, was printed at the Merrymount press, Boston, in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies.

“The author is a past master in iconography, and employs a terse epigrammatic phraseology which clothes well his very individual views upon the artists of his choice.”

+ Int Studio 62:65 S ‘17 230w

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GALLICHAN, CATHERINE GASQUOINE (HARTLEY) (MRS WALTER M. GALLICHAN). Motherhood and the relationships of the sexes. *$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 176 17-14556

This book, which the author had had in mind for some time, has been written and published during the war, because she believes that it has a vital bearing on present conditions in England. On the one hand, she sees the need of building up the population of a decimated country, on the other, she sees women crowding into occupations that are inimical to motherhood. She says, “The object of my book is two-fold. First, to put forward a fresh plea for assigning that high value to motherhood in practice which at present it receives only in words. ... In the second place, I wish to set forth what seem to be the chief causes that hitherto have hindered motherhood and bound my sex from the full enjoyment of life; and to suggest that the reason ... is due to women’s own actions, to their absurdly wrong education and entire misunderstanding of the sexual life.” The four parts of the book following the Introduction, which treats of the effects of the war, are: The maternal instinct in the making; The primitive family; Motherhood and the relationships of the sexes; Sexual education. There is a bibliography of several pages at the close.

A L A Bkl 14:41 N ‘17

“The whole book is an impassioned plea for enlightened motherhood, a reverence for and conservation of human life by women such as men and governments have never given it. It is a terrific indictment, not of the individual mother, but of the evils of civilisation.” Edna Kenton

+ Bookm 46:345 N ‘17 600w

Cleveland p124 N ‘17 70w

“She represents the older, motherly feminism with its rather self-conscious responsibility and its weakness in referring to criteria of biological science where only an artistic sense of personal relations should rule. Much unity and sanctity, the psychologists are discovering, could pass from the family without hurting it. Mrs Gallichan’s book moves too much in the realm of conventionalized emotions.” Randolph Bourne

+ — Dial 63:103 Ag 16 ‘17 450w

“In this new book she brings her very thorough equipment as a scholar and a thinker to bear upon the conditions which the world must face as the result of the effects of the great war upon the race. Her work, therefore, is very timely and, although it is written with reference only to the British Isles, almost all that she says is quite as applicable to the United States.”

+ N Y Times 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 550w

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208“Child welfare workers who believe that ‘the welfare of the child is the one consideration that matters,’ will find much to interest them in this volume, especially the discussion of infant mortality, its relation to the employment of mothers and other prenatal conditions.” B. F. Johnson, M.D.

+ Survey 38:371 Jl 28 ‘17 370w

“Readers of it will find that on a good many sides of the question she has something cogent to say; but they will get a little impatient with the large amount of space devoted to the sex life of animals and of primitive man. The lessons of war are at the moment much more interesting than any theories drawn from biology or anthropology.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p300 Je 21 ‘17 550w

GALLISHAW, JOHN, and LYNCH, WILLIAM. Man in the ranks. *$1 (8c) Houghton 355 17-24714

This book of advice for new recruits is written by a soldier who was at Gallipoli in 1915 and a sergeant instructor of the Plattsburg training camp. The advice is given under the headings: Getting started right; The first days in camp; Marksmanship; Keeping fit; A successful soldier; A talk on personal conduct; Tips from the trenches. There is a list of “Things to remember not to forget.” A number of pages at the end are left blank to be used as a diary, and a place is provided for addresses.

GALSWORTHY, JOHN. Beyond. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-22092

When “Gyp” Winton was flowering into womanhood she overheard it said that Major Winton, her straight-thinking, straight-riding guardian was indeed her father. That knowledge influenced her attitude toward the world of society she was about to enter. He had answered her question about it simply and directly: “Yes, Gyp; your mother and I loved each other.” To Gyp, then, honesty, her music, and love were the three things needful. Against her father’s wishes she married Fiorsen, the gifted, moody, intemperate, wholly selfish Swedish violinist, only to discover later that their union was founded on passion on his side and a mistaken infatuation on hers. With all her strength she tried to keep the bargain she had made, but when he broke his marriage vow and in a fit of ungovernable temper maltreated their child, she left him and went back to her father and that simpler outdoor life to which she had been bred. Dreading the English divorce court, she did not legally free herself, and, when later, Bryan Summerhay came into her life and won her passionate affection she gave herself to him, believing that to her had come such undying love as she had seen her father hold for the mother who had died at her child’s birth. The weight of the past and oncoming tragedy in the book is relieved only by Gyp’s love for her daughter and Major Winton’s unquestioned, unflinching devotion to them both.

“Mr Galsworthy’s latest novel is quite readable—and disappointing, because we expected something which we could strongly praise or severely criticize.”

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“Half concealed by his cold and reserved manner lurks, to put it frankly, the sex obsession of the sceptical bachelor.” H. W. Boynton

— Bookm 46:339 N ‘17 180w

“Although problems of sex have been utilized by Mr Galsworthy in the making of his novels, never before has he been so obsessed by them as in ‘Beyond.’ But for the graces of its style, ‘Beyond’ would be utterly negligible.” E. F. E.

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“Those who see in the story only a sensational appeal to our sexual emotions miss the theme. It is the gospel according to Browning. Stake everything and pocket your losses without whimpering. Stoicism is an old philosophy, often enough repeated in abstract terms. The novelist here has shown real people, dominated by passion, terribly hurt by it, then dominant over their sorrow, and not so small as to indulge in regrets. It is a superb piece of work.” J: Macy

+ Dial 63:272 S 27 ‘17 1600w

“It is an inconclusive book, and for that reason lacks the greatness that compels the reader’s sympathy for the actors in the tragedy.”

+ — Ind 91:473 S 22 ‘17 160w

“Mr Galsworthy is not a treader in the gross and miry ways of sex; if he were, ‘The dark flower’ would have seemed to some of us a book less damnable. He is that more insidious influence, an eloquent and honest pleader from false premises.”

— Nation 105:292 S 13 ‘17 700w

“‘Beyond’ shows his usual firmness of structure and grace of style, but it adds nothing to his interpretation of life, does nothing to broaden or sweeten it.” H. W. Boynton

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“As a Galsworthy performance, a novel out of the man who wrote ‘The island Pharisees’ and ‘Fraternity’ and ‘Strife’ and ‘Justice’ and ‘The mob’ and ‘A commentary’ and ‘The silver box,’ it is one of the most extraordinary bits of degeneracy, literary degeneracy, that was ever exposed. It is more facile than his other stories. It is quick and neat and fluent. It is dramatic. But its texture shows a complacency and flabbiness so amazing that one who sees the dedication to Thomas Hardy is inclined to look the other way.” F. H.

— New Repub 12:194 S 15 ‘17 1750w

“Poor fare from the author of ‘Justice’ and the ‘Man of property.’ One leaves the book with a feeling of futility.” F. J. K.

— N Y Call p15 N 18 ‘17 950w

“The story carries the reader on by the tense interest of its conflict of souls, their struggles to harmonize themselves with one another, and the breaking out from the self-imposed bonds now of one and now of another.”

+ N Y Times 22:310 Ag 26 ‘17 1300w

“Of the essential indecency of Gyp’s course, its human and spiritual malfeasance, its blend of sentimentality and obtuseness, Mr Galsworthy reveals no consciousness. One has small affection for Fiorsen. But even the unlovable may justifiably resent betrayal; and it is our main quarrel with Mr Galsworthy that he seems to have no perception of the case that might be made out—that must be made out—for Fiorsen. Mr Galsworthy used to have a shrewd and vibrant sense of humor. It would not formerly have been easy to impeach him for artless banalities, for economy of thought, for undistinguished writing.” Lawrence Gilman

— No Am 206:628 O ‘17 1700w

“In quality and literary texture and in the apparently easy but really artful way in which the interest is sustained this novel has not been excelled by anything Mr Galsworthy has done. It is hard, however, to see what social conclusion is suggested or intended.”

+ — Outlook 117:64 S 12 ‘17 150w

“The book is inferior to the author’s best work.”

— Pittsburgh 22:749 N ‘17 40w

“We confess to having been perfectly bored by Mr John Galsworthy’s last novel.”

— Sat R 124:208 S 15 ‘17 650w

“We wish that he would widen his view of life in his fiction as he has done in his plays, but we gladly recognize the high literary merit, the skilful construction, the play of humour and fancy, the adroit management of the chief situations in this new novel, which is in some respects the best that he has produced.”

+ — Spec 119:272 S 15 ‘17 520w

“In Mr Galsworthy’s new novel the people fill us with alarm, because they appear all more or less under the influence of the great narcotic and therefore not quite responsible for their actions. They have been out hunting all day for so many generations that they are now perpetually in this evening condition of physical well-being and spiritual simplicity. This of 209course, is an exaggeration, but some theory of the kind must be fabricated to explain this rather queer book, ‘Beyond.’”

— The Times [London] Lit Sup p415 Ag 30 ‘17 1450w

GAMEWELL, MRS MARY NINDE (PORTER). Gateway to China; pictures of Shanghai. il *$1.50 Revell 915.1 17-206

“‘The gateway to China’ is a descriptive work on Shanghai. The idea of a gateway comes from the investment of the city by France and Great Britain and the cosmopolitan character of its population. Each feature of the city’s history, from the time that Great Britain opened it as a port by treaty in 1842 to the present, passes in review. Police department, shops, schools, rickshas, streets, houses, hospitals, sanitation, press, factories, customs, present and ancient, are described from the standpoint of a resident rather than a visitor.”—Springf’d Republican

“An uncommonly vivid piece of descriptive writing.”

+ Ind 88:410 D 4 ‘16 70w

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“The book is decidedly interesting and entertaining.” Gertrude Seymour

+ Survey 37:614 F 24 ‘17 250w

GANONG, WILLIAM FRANCIS. Textbook of botany for colleges. il *$2.50 Macmillan 580 17-22350

“The course outlined in this book is specifically designed as ‘an introductory course in botany,’ as ‘a part of a general education, and not as a preparation for a professional botanical career.’ ... Professor Ganong has not felt responsible for telling all known botanical facts about each topic discussed, since he has attempted rather to present major truths with enough morphological details to give a clear setting to the major truth.”—School R

+ A L A Bkl 13:295 Ap ‘17

+ Bot Gaz 63:323 Ap ‘17 300w

“Prof. Ganong’s treatment is somewhat unconventional. The text makes easy reading, and is facilitated by a large number of good figures; but there is sometimes a suggestion of scrappiness.”

+ Nature 99:261 My 31 ‘17 550w

“The book is an excellent contribution to our rapidly growing list of available texts for college botany and is the outcome of years of successful experience in teaching botany in a college [Smith] whose general courses in that science have become well known because of their effectiveness and attractiveness.” O. W. Caldwell

+ School R 24:778 D ‘16 600w

GARDINER, ALFRED G. (ALPHA OF THE PLOUGH, pseud.). Pebbles on the shore. (Wayfarer’s library) *50c Dutton 824

A series of essays first published in England. “Contents: On choosing a name; On letter-writing; On reading in bed; On cats and dogs; On seeing visions; On black sheep; The village and the war; On umbrella morals; On talking to one’s self; On Boswell and his miracle; On seeing ourselves; On the English spirit; On falling in love; On living again; On points of view; On the guinea stamp; On the dislike of lawyers; On the cheerfulness of the blind; On thoughts at fifty; On the philosophy of hats; On seeing London; On the intelligent golf ball; On a prisoner of war; On the world we live in; In praise of walking, etc.” (N Y Br Lib News)

+ A L A Bkl 14:121 Ja ‘18

Ath p675 D ‘17 30w

Boston Transcript p7 Je 30 ‘17 750w

+ Ind 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 90w

N Y Br Lib News 4:123 Ag ‘17

+ Spec 119:sup549 N 17 ‘17 30w

“He has a knack of being genially discursive without being trivial and of bringing a certain elevation of mind to bear upon his subject that shows his similarity to E. V. Lucas. The charm, the gentle modulated style is there. ... There is something to give pleasure on every page.”

+ Springf’d Republican p10 Je 21 ‘17 1050w

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 20 ‘17 950w

“Papers by a writer who has to the full the gift of ‘causerie.’ ... Mr Brock’s excellent pen and ink and head and tail pieces are a great addition.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p519 O 25 ‘17 40w

GARDNER, LUCY, ed. Hope for society; essays on social reconstruction after the war. *3s G. Bell & sons, London 330.4 (Eng ed 17-18995)

“These twelve essays were delivered as lectures at the Interdenominational summer school held at Swanwick, Derbyshire, from June 24 to July 3, 1916. The Bishop of Oxford contributes an essay on ‘The hope for society.’; and there are papers by Mr J. St G. Heath (’The new social conscience as to use of income’), Mr J. A. Hobson (’Industrial and financial conditions after the war’), Mr C. Roden Buxton (’The land question after the war’), Sir Hugh Bell (’Trade-union regulations: the employer’s point of view’), Mrs Pethick Lawrence (’The new outlook of the woman’s movement’), Miss Margaret Bondfield (’The position of women in industry’), and others.”—Ath

+ Ath p95 F ‘17 130w

“Mr Christopher Turnor’s paper on the development of English life is especially valuable. On the social side, the papers contain many suggestions which deserve consideration in the reconstruction period.” M. J.

+ Int J Ethics 27:539 Jl ‘17 100w

+ Spec 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 200w

“The real educational value of these lectures is that they do not deal solely with collective measures of amelioration. ... Mr Clutton Brock, in his denunciation of the trash of civilization passed off as art—‘hankering after Bondstreet’ he calls it—goes to the heart of the matter when, with silence as to big legislative measures, he says, ‘If you want to make anybody good, make yourself.’”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p278 Je 14 ‘17 1350w

GAREY, ENOCH BARTON, and ELLIS, OLIN O. Junior Plattsburg manual. il *$1.50 Century 355 17-26655

The authors of the “Plattsburg manual,” captains in the United States infantry who were instructors in the Plattsburg training camp in 1916, have prepared this textbook on physical and military training for the use of the preparatory, public, and high schools of the United States. “Its further purpose is to assist in developing all young men of this country into good, efficient and patriotic citizens.” (Preface) Major-general John F. O’Ryan, chairman of the military training commission of the State of New York, draws attention in a foreword to the military and physical drill now legally required in the New York state schools and especially commends the clear style of the authors in setting forth the schools of the soldier, squads, and company, and the arrangement of the 250 illustrations by which it is shown how to do and how not to do the essential things. The chapter on Physical development can be of use to all. The chapters on Marching and camping and First aid to the injured with their practical directions will be widely read. The large type and clear printing are to be especially commended.

“Well illustrated.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:5 O ‘17

“Many excellent illustrations and diagrams make the directions in the text easy to follow.”

+ Cleveland p119 N ‘17 20w

Lit D 55:54 D 8 ‘17 110w

N Y P L New Tech Bks p14 Jl ‘17 20w

+ N Y Times 22:379 O 7 ‘17 170w

Pittsburgh 22:695 O ‘17 50w

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210GARIS, HOWARD ROGER. Venture boys afloat; or, The wreck of the Fausta. il *$1.25 (2c) Harper 17-28657

Tom Ware, Dick Parker and Harry Nolan, three boys who live in a Hudson river town, are saving money to buy a motor boat. Their plan is to cruise up and down the river. But an invitation from Tom’s uncle, a seaman, takes them on a much more ambitious voyage, down the Atlantic coast. This trip is taken for pleasure, but in Tom’s heart is the hope that they may overtake his father’s wrecked schooner, the “Fausta,” now derelict somewhere in southern waters, and his hope is rewarded after an exciting race with a government derelict destroyer. Incidentally the boys learn something of American history. The book is the first of a series.

Reviewed by J: Walcott

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GARLAND, HAMLIN. Son of the middle border. il *$1.60 Macmillan 17-22272

“‘A son of the middle border’ is Mr Garland’s view of himself and of the life he encountered along a vista that has seen one era after another of American progress give place to its successor. It is, moreover, a story of the advance of an American boy which is none the less miraculous because it has been repeated so often in our history. ... He was born in 1860 and his infancy and early childhood coincided with the most critical period in American history. His father, who had come to Wisconsin from Maine, after three years of work in Boston, enlisted in the Union army in 1863, and among the boy’s earliest recollections is the memory of his return. ... Scene after scene of his childhood, face after face out of a past rich in recollections, Mr Garland brings before us, as his father restlessly moved westward from Wisconsin to Minnesota, from Minnesota to Iowa, and from Iowa to Dakota. ... With his brother Franklin he went on his adventure into the east. ... This was in 1883, when Mr Garland was twenty-three years of age. His real invasion of Boston came a little later. ... For nearly ten years he was a Bostonian, winning his way against obstacles that would have daunted many a less ambitious young man. ... Finally he became a professional man of letters.”—Boston Transcript

+ A L A Bkl 14:57 N ‘17

“So understanding and skilful a portrayal of characteristic spiritual values gives the book added importance, makes it a contribution to our social history that is well worth while. As autobiography, it is an original and distinctive piece of work and illustrates the possibilities of varied and unique treatment to be found in the writing of American biography.” F. F. Kelly

+ Bookm 46:327 N ‘17 430w

“‘A son of the middle border’ has all the charm of the novels and short stories by Mr Garland and other writers which have depicted the valiant struggles of the ambitious boy who is able to look beyond the border of the world of his upbringing. ... Valuable and encouraging is his story, but it is more than that. It is a contribution to American autobiographical literature,” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 29 ‘17 1750w

“Mr Garland is unusually successful in his portraits of his father and mother. A notable memorial of a bygone phase of American life.”

+ Cleveland p126 N ‘17 90w

“A biography must necessarily be a life seen thru a temperament and experiences that would have been a matter of course or even interesting to a ‘born farmer,’ or a biologist revolted the bookish lad whose tastes were cultural and never agricultural. And the man with a real love for the farm does not write books about it. With this reservation ‘A son of the middle border’ seems to us a great and a true book; a contribution to our annals of the settlement of our country.”

+ Ind 92:256 N 3 ‘17 830w

“There are hardly enough life and inspiration in the narrative to warrant its being so long, but its directness and honest purpose deserve a reading, altho it is a life much like many other lives.”

+ — Lit D 55:42 O 27 ‘17 120w

+ Lit D 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 140w

“The autobiographer is a rarer bird than the novelist; and we believe that this record may take its place among the handful of American classics of its kind.”

+ — Nation 105:719 D 27 ‘17 1650w

“Mr Garland’s best work, like ‘Main-travelled roads,’ was built directly out of the stones of his autobiographical quarry. But how much more vivid and alluring is the quarry than the constructed short stories and novels. The inventive writer, after long struggling with stiff fictional forms, suddenly discovers himself as his own best artistic form and material and bursts out into the freshest of self-revelations, without self-consciousness and yet with an insight that makes silly the legend that the American has no talent for introspection and resents its expression.” R. B.

+ New Repub 12:333 O 20 ‘17 2900w

“In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr Garland’s story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. ... As you read it you realize it the memorial of a generation, of a whole order of American experience; as you review it you perceive it an epic of such mood and make as has not been imagined before.” W: D. Howells

+ N Y Times 22:309 Ag 26 ‘17 3200w

“Nothing could be more American than the mingling of practicality and idealism that is felt everywhere in the story. Nothing could be more wholesome in these times than the lesson of intellectual honesty and large sympathy which is implicit in it.”

+ No Am 206:796 N ‘17 480w

“An autobiography with the fascination of romance, and in a measure the form of fiction. ... It is a book well worth reading and rereading.”

+ Outlook 117:100 S 19 ‘17 50w

+ Pittsburgh 22:743 N ‘17 60w

“Those who lived in rural Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas during those days will remark the striking fidelity of the picture. There were so many Garland families in the border movement of the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s of the last century!”

+ R of Rs 56:439 O ‘17 140w

“Mr Garland has written a book deserving of a wide reading, and likely to get it by virtue of the style in which it is written. The narrative flows easily—a little diffusely, in fact—with a great fund of incidents, keen observations and incisive, albeit idealized portraits of character. Perhaps the best work in the last of those categories is the picture of his mother. She represents a memorable type of American womanhood—tender mother, brave, uncomplaining pioneer woman and splendid wife.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 S 23 ‘17 3600w

GARRISON, MRS THEODOSIA (PICKERING). Dreamers, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 811 17-28183

This is a collection of lyrical poems previously printed in seventeen different periodicals. Seven Irish poems are given at the end of the book, under the title “Songs of himself.”

“The verse of Theodosia Garrison is restful; it is a retreat, a haven from the tumult of today’s singing. She invites you to partake of her quiet dreams and unpretentious fancies, much as a friend invites you to the hearthside to pass a tranquil evening. If one is not thrilled, one is at least soothed by her hospitality. Little by little you become aware of something in the experience that has a fineness and distinction of its own.” W. S. B.