Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 17)
Reading edition
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 7 ‘17 630w
Reviewed by Conrad Aiken
— Dial 63:513 N 22 ‘17 400w
211“In her ‘Dreamers, and other poems’ Theodosia Garrison has given us some of her best work.”
+ Lit D 56:34 Ja 5 ‘18 200w
GARVIN, JOHN WILLIAM, ed. Canadian poets and poetry. il *$3 Stokes 811.08 17-10982
An anthology of Canadian verse with brief biographical sketches of the fifty-one authors represented. The editor says of these authors: “Many of their poems are indigenous to the soil,—vitally, healthfully Canadian; others are tinged with the legendary and mythical lore of older lands; but all are of Canada, inasmuch as the writers have lived in this country, and have been influenced by its history and atmosphere at a formative period of their lives.” Among those whose names are somewhat widely known outside their own country are: Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, William Henry Drummond, Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Arthur Stringer and Robert W. Service.
“About twenty of these poets are not included in the ‘Oxford book of Canadian verse’ (Booklist 10:385 Je ‘14), which includes the work of one hundred poets from earliest colonial days down to the present. Libraries having the ‘Oxford book’ will not need this unless there is special interest.”
A L A Bkl 13:390 Je ‘17
N Y Br Lib News 4:62 Ap ‘17 140w
+ N Y Times 22:124 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
GATES, ELEANOR (MRS FREDERICK FERDINAND MOORE). Apron-strings. *$1.35 (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-29731
The two central figures in this story are Mrs Milo and her daughter Sue. Mrs Milo is the type of mother described by the author in a prefatory note: “The kind that does not plan for, or want, a child, but, having borne one, invariably takes the high air of martyrdom feeling that she has rendered the supreme service, and that, henceforth, nothing is too good for her.” Her demands on her daughter have kept the girl from marriage, and as a woman of forty-five, Sue is finding what satisfaction she can in mothering an orphanage. In the end she finds a more intimate happiness in adopting one of the children for her own.
“As a character study, built around the leading character, the book presents reasonable claim to favorable notice. Mrs Milo, the managing and domineering mother, is a real literary creation.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 2 ‘18 260w
“Miss Gates’s theme is an interesting one, but she treats it sentimentally and thereby fails to give it the effectiveness which is its due.”
– + N Y Times 22:490 N 25 ‘17 470w
GATES, HERBERT WRIGHT.[2] Recreation and the church. (Principles and methods of religious education) il *$1 (3c) Univ. of Chicago press 261 17-15665
There has been started a strong movement in the direction of making churches social centers. The experiments enlarged upon in this volume show the value of the wider use of churches. The writer who is director of religious education in the Brick church institute, Rochester, N.Y., contends that there is no more potent influence or favorable approach to the inner life of childhood and youth than is found in recreational interests and activities. He shows the religious educational value of play, shows how to go about studying the recreational needs of a community, offers a constructive recreational program, gives some typical church programs and devotes a chapter to equipment and organization.
A L A Bkl 14:156 F ‘18
“A bibliography of play and recreation enhances the value of this very useful handbook, which cannot fail to increase the efficiency of educational and recreational workers in the church and elsewhere.” G. T.
+ Survey 39:327 D 15 ‘17 240w
GAUTIER, JUDITH. Memoirs of a white elephant; tr. from the French by S. A. B. Harvey. il *$1.50 (3½c) Duffield 16-23442
Judith Gautier, who was joint author with Pierre Loti of “The daughter of heaven,” is an authority on oriental lore. She has written this book for children, allowing “Iravata,” the white elephant, to tell his own story.
“Well told and unaffected.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:269 Mr ‘17
+ Lit D 53:1562 D 9 ‘16 100w
“The excellent illustrations are the work of L. H. Smith and S. B. Kite.”
+ R of Rs 55:102 Ja ‘17 60w
+ Springf’d Republican p15 D 2 ‘16 160w
GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS.[2] Shakespeare and the founders of liberty in America. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 822.3 18-3
The writer says: “In this period of conflict, the sternest that the world has known, when we have joined heart and hand with Great Britain, it may profit Americans to recall how essentially at one with Englishmen we have always been in everything that counts. That the speech, the poetry, of the race are ours and theirs in common, we know—they are Shakespeare. But that the institutions, the law and the liberty, the democracy administered by the fittest, are not only theirs and ours in common, but are derived from Shakespeare’s England, and are Shakespeare, too, we do not generally know or, if we have known, we do not always remember.” The chapter headings suggest how the writer has pursued his novel idea: The foundations of liberty in America; Shakespeare and the liberals of the Virginia company; The tempest and an unpublished letter from Virginia; The leader of the liberal movement—Sir Edwin Sandys; Richard Hooker and the principles of American liberty; Shakespeare’s views of the individual in relation to the state; Shakespeare and Hooker; The heritage in common: England, America, France; The meaning for us today.
“His association of Shakspeare with these ideas [suggested by chapter headings] of course takes it for granted that whenever any of his characters speak in the plays, there speak also the inmost thoughts and beliefs of the dramatist. This is a supposition too often made to prove that a dramatist or a poet is first of all a propagandist or a preacher when as a matter of fact he is neither. It overlooks the first principles of imaginative writing—that a poem, a play or a novel is a work written to present a certain phase of life in artistic form and not to promulgate a theory. If Shakspeare was preaching democracy in his plays then so much the less Shakspeare he. Despite the undoubted ingenuity and historical interest of Professor Gayley’s arguments there are many of us who will remain perfectly willing to look upon Shakspeare as a man who wrote his plays with no other thought than to have them receive the approval and applause of the Elizabethan public.” E. F. E.
– + Boston Transcript p11 D 12 ‘17 830w
R of Rs 57:216 F ‘18 90w
GEARY, BLANCHE. Handbook of the association cafeteria. il pa 50c Y.W.C.A. 642 17-20661
This handbook gives the purpose of a Y.W.C.A. cafeteria and outlines its organization, including committees, selection of premises, general equipment, staff and employees, menu, service and cleaning. It treats of business administration and under the heading Points in policy advises on such subjects as Emergency fund, Eight hour day, Outside business, etc. The book is compiled by those who know the needs of the workers whom the cafeteria is to serve and can detail clearly methods for meeting them.
GEHRS, JOHN HENRY. Productive agriculture. il *$1 Macmillan 630 17-14154
“The purpose of this book is to meet the need and the demand for a text that will standardize seventh- and eighth-grade agriculture. ... 212Topics relating to productive agriculture and not topics about agriculture are given chief consideration. ... The book contains a section of from four to eight chapters in length on each of the following big topics: ‘Farm crops,’ ‘Animal husbandry,’ ‘Soils,’ ‘Horticulture,’ and ‘Farm management.’ There is also a brief bibliography of material relating to each of these large topics. The laboratory exercises at the end of each chapter ... can be done with a minimum amount of schoolroom equipment, the farm itself furnishing the requisite laboratory.” (School R) The author is associate professor of agriculture of the Warrensburg State normal school, Warrensburg, Mo.
+ Ind 91:265 Ag 16 ‘17 40w
St Louis 15:330 S ‘17
“Anyone interested in texts in agriculture adapted to grades seven and eight or to the junior high school will be well paid for the time and effort required to give this book a careful consideration.”
+ School R 25:532 S ‘17 180w
GEIKIE, SIR ARCHIBALD. Birds of Shakespeare. il *$1.25 Macmillan 822.3 (Eng ed 17-13372)
“In this charming essay the veteran geologist collects Shakespeare’s references to birds, of which he names at least fifty species, and shows once more how intimate a knowledge of wild nature he had acquired in the woods and lanes of leafy Warwickshire.”—Spec
Ath p432 S ‘16 90w
“It is all that it claims to be, and will fill a vacant place on the shelves of those who do not possess Mr J. E. Harting’s standard work.”
+ Nature 98:147 O 28 ‘16 480w
N Y Br Lib News 4:40 Mr ‘17
Sat R 123:sup10 Mr 31 ‘17 120w
“Twenty excellent woodcuts from Saunders’s ‘Manual of British birds’ illustrate the book.”
+ Spec 117:419 O 7 ‘16 70w
“This little book is enticing; one to be read by all who love either birds or Shakespeare or both.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p426 S 7 ‘16 1300w
GEIL, WILLIAM EDGAR. Adventures in the African jungle hunting pigmies. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-8202
This book for boys is one of the volumes of “The true adventure series.” The author is an explorer of note and the story is based on first-hand acquaintance with Africa. Billy Benson, a boy of about sixteen, accompanies his uncle on an exploring expedition into the heart of Africa. Their object is to discover a band of pigmies, supposed to inhabit a part of the jungle. Lions, leopards, elephants and other natives of the African forest play a part in their adventures. The young hero is refreshingly boyish. No feats of impossible prowess are attributed to him, and never does he outdo his uncle, the noted explorer, in sagacity or achievement.
GENEVOIX, MAURICE. ‘Neath Verdun; tr. by H. Grahame Richards. *$1.60 (2½c) Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-26253)
The author of this book was a second-year student at the École normale, Paris, in 1914. His book is a day-by-day account of the first months of the war, from August to October, 1914. Ernest Lavisse says in his introduction: “He supplies us with an invaluable picture of the war. In the first place, the writer is endowed with astonishing powers of observation; he sees all in a glance, he hears everything. The intense power of concentration he possesses enables him instantly to seize upon all essentials of a particular incident or scene, and so to harmonize them as to produce a picture true to life.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:306 Ap ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p8 F 14 ‘17 250w
“His book is one of the real contributions of the war’s writing. For here, for us to read and learn from, is something of the war itself.”
+ N Y Times 22:34 F 4 ‘17 600w
“Perhaps it is well that the ghastly side of the war should not be tucked away as though it did not exist. Horror is treated here with a French power of rhetoric and insistence.”
+ Spec 118:105 Ja 27 ‘17 150w
GEORGE, HEREFORD BROOKE. Genealogical tables illustrative of modern history. 5th ed, rev and enl *$2.50 Oxford 929.7 16-22139
“The ‘Genealogical tables illustrative of modern history’ first published by the late Rev. Hereford B. George more than forty years ago have long acquired and deserved an established position as a work of reference. They now appear in a fifth edition, revised and enlarged by Mr J. R. H. Weaver. The enlargement consists mainly in the continuation of the reigning houses down to their last changes and the insertion of their younger members; there is also added a list of the presidents of the United States of America.”—Eng Hist R
“The size of the print and the general openness of the tables make them easy to consult and the book should enter upon a further career of usefulness.”
+ Am Hist R 22:435 Ja ‘17 200w
“The work of correction has been carefully done: we have looked for facts omitted in the earlier editions and have found them duly inserted. ... In the first three editions the tables were folded and mounted on guards, and the book was easy to handle; now that the tables are bound up flat and the book requires 2 ft. 8 in. of space to open out, it cannot be described as convenient for practical use.” R. L. P.
* + Eng Hist R 31:660 O ‘16 450w
GEPHART, WILLIAM FRANKLIN. Principles of insurance. 2v ea *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 368 17-2500
“A discussion of life and fire insurance offered for classroom use in schools and colleges. ... The author has had experience in the insurance business and in association with insurance organizations, as well as in teaching.” (R of Rs) “There are two volumes, devoted, respectively, to Life insurance and Fire insurance, the former replacing the author’s well-known earlier work, devoted mainly to life insurance, which has now been thoroughly revised, amplified, and brought down to date. The volume on fire insurance contains twelve chapters in which are treated such pertinent topics as the economics and business organization of fire insurance, hazards, rates and rating problems, the nature of the contract, adjustment of losses, fire protection, and the relation of the state to insurance.” (Nation)
“Mr Gephart has well met the problem. His book is simple and readable and yet broad, and adequate to give not only an understanding of the fundamental principles but a great deal of the practical business side. The book avoids a difficulty which sometimes occurs when those outside of the business attempt to write about it: namely, the difficulty of supporting theories which, for practical reasons, are unworkable. The arrangement is a little unfortunate.” W. M. Strong
+ — Am Econ R 7:670 S ‘17 1100w (Review of v 1)
“It would be too much to claim that the author has entirely mastered a subject of which the depths have by no means been sounded by those who spend their lives in the work or that all of his statements would pass without challenge from underwriters, but it is certain that he has written a clear, interesting, and admirably balanced study of the principles of fire insurance.” W. E. Mallalieu
+ — Am Econ R 7:672 S ‘17 900w (Review of v 2)
+ A L A Bkl 13:376 Je ‘17
“The volume on life insurance is on the whole a contribution to the subject, the various topics being carefully arranged and the exposition 213clear. One may seriously object, however, to the issuance of a revised edition which does not follow the progress in the business in certain directions. The volume on fire insurance appears to possess certain serious defects as well as commendable features. The strongest criticism which can be advanced, viewing it in the light of a text, is its seeming lack of plan and arrangement of chapters. Prior to his work no adequate description of some of the more recent developments of the business was available. He has therefore rendered a service in producing a relatively up-to-date textbook. Secondly, he has incorporated to a greater degree than any other writer a discussion of fire insurance from the social viewpoint.” Robert Riegel
+ — Ann Am Acad 74:296 N ‘17 400w
“Though adapted to the purposes of the general reader, the business man, and the student, the volumes will, in all probability, find their chief use as textbooks, for which they seem excellently adapted. At the close of the various chapters are lists of references covering the main topics treated, and each volume contains a carefully selected general bibliography, including the standard works on both life and fire insurance.”
+ Nation 104:245 Mr 1 ‘17 230w
“Those seeking and those selling insurance would profit by this conservative statement of principles which fit the reader for his individual decision of moot points, which are frankly indicated and argued fairly.”
+ N Y Times 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 180w
“Heretofore it has been difficult to obtain material on this subject in convenient form for educational purposes. Most of it has been confined to government documents, official reports of insurance companies, published addresses, and pamphlets.”
+ R of Rs 55:443 Ap ‘17 70w
“The author is professor of economics in Washington university.”
St Louis 15:139 My ‘17 9w
“There are interesting chapters on the economics, business organization and, last but not least, the immense historic development of the insurance business.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 30 ‘17 110w
GÉRALDY, PAUL. The war, Madame ...; tr. by Barton Blake. *75c (5c) Scribner 17-8886
This little story is merely an account of one day in the life of a French soldier who, after thirteen months of service, returns to Paris. His sensations on again finding himself in his loved city are described, and in conversations with two of his women friends scenes from the front are pictured.
“A lively, graceful, quite irresponsible and unreflecting narrative of a young soldier’s last day of leave in Paris before returning to the front to be killed.” C. M. Francis
+ Bookm 46:451 D ‘17 140w
“As we read his pages, we understand more clearly than ever before how it is possible for men to go through the ghastly struggle and not come out thoroughly embittered. ... This account seems to approach nearer to the probable mean of reality than any of the many war books that have already been written.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 770w
“So different is it from the France and the Paris of which correspondents and returning war-workers of one sort or another have told us that, since it is written by a Frenchman, one marvels and wonders whether he is a better observer and a truer reporter than they.”
N Y Times 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 300w
St Louis 15:314 S 17 30w
GERARD, JAMES WATSON. My four years in Germany. il *$2 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-25143
The late ambassador to the German imperial court has written this account of his four years experience to prove to America that “we are in this war because we were forced into it,” and that “unless Germany is beaten the whole world will be compelled to turn itself into an armed camp, until the German autocracy either brings every nation under its dominion or is forever wiped out as a form of government.” (Foreword) Mr Gerard tells us about the political system in Germany, German militarism, German commerce, the Kaiser, the Crown prince, and various high officials of the government, and about his own diplomatic work, though he is necessarily silent on many things connected with this work. Some of the chapters are: Psychology and causes which prepared the nation for war; At Kiel just before the war; Prisoners of war; War charities; and The German people in war. There are a number of illustrations and several facsimile reproductions of documents, among them one of the much discussed telegram which the Kaiser gave Ambassador Gerard for transmission to President Wilson. The material of the book has appeared in the Philadelphia Ledger and the New York American.
“One must remember that the author has written for a large audience. From this point of view, Mr Gerard’s light treatment is quite justified, as are also the journalistic, popular style, the frequent use of the personal pronoun, and perhaps even the reproductions of court invitations. For such a presentation will appeal to millions who would ignore a more formidable treatise. Unfortunately the mechanics of the book are poorly handled.” B. E. Schmitt
+ — Am Hist R 23:398 Ja ‘18 1650w
A L A Bkl 14:56 N ‘17
“His book is a candid, unadorned, and convincing account of what has been going on in Germany during the war. His record is welcome in this permanent form.”
+ Ath p683 D ‘17 190w
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
Bookm 46:286 N ‘17 50w
+ — Cleveland p130 D ‘17 140w
+ Dial 63:460 N 8 ‘17 230w
“From a literary point of view the book is a queer mixture, much of it the sort of thing that ordinary tourists turn out by the volume, part of diplomatic secrets of the highest importance which nobody else could have known. The book is poorly composed and carelessly revised, but that does not detract from its importance as a historical document of the first order.”
+ — Ind 92:486 D 8 ‘17 1250w
“It is in every respect an important historical document, despite the chatty and easy style in which it is written, and throws an illuminating light upon many dark places in European diplomacy and modes of thought. His book will furnish convincing proof, if any American still feels the need of proof, of the sinister intentions of the ruling powers in Germany, and of their utter disregard of all recognized conventions, ethical or political, in an effort to attain their ambitions.”
+ Lit D 55:34 O 27 ‘17 1800w
+ Lit D 55:43 D 8 ‘17 250w
“We think the telling of this story was a service to the American people; and at a time when there is so much to be read that this is distinctly one of the books to be chosen. The description of German government and institutions is excellent; it would be difficult for the ordinary reader to find anywhere a better popular account. The most important chapters relate to diplomatic affairs, and to the attitude of Germany towards the American people.”
+ Nation 105:484 N 1 ‘17 1750w
“In Mr Gerard’s remarkable book there is an enlightening chapter which reveals, to some extent, how organised capital in Germany, aided by the state, is still seeking to dominate the world.” T. E. Thorpe
+ Nature 100:361 Ja 10 ‘18 1900w
“All this variety gives the book, inevitably, a certain scrappiness of effect, but vastly increases its interest and value as a report upon another nation. Its report, by necessity, is one 214of superficial observation. Mr Gerard nowhere makes pretense of profound study of the German people or their affairs.”
+ N Y Times 22:378 O 7 ‘17 1000w
Pittsburgh 22:762 N ‘17 50w
“Considering its source and timeliness, such a book would in any event have real significance, but there is a danger that the general reading public will seek that significance in the wrong place. The real value of what Mr Gerard has to tell us lies entirely aside from the personal equation. ... Spicy as this book is, it leaves a somewhat tantalizing impression that the author has reserved a good deal of his most piquant matter for publication some time in the dim future.” F: T. Cooper
+ Pub W 92:1383 O 20 ‘17 600w
“The volume carries with it its own justification. ... There is a straightforward sincerity about this book that must impress all readers. While it condemns Germany, it does not appeal to the spirit of hatred.” A. S.
+ R of Rs 56:528 N ‘17 800w
+ Spec 119:572 N 17 ‘17 170w
“The book is of more value from a historical viewpoint than as mere literature. The author has something to tell that the public wants to know and in such case substance takes precedence of form.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 4 ‘17 800w
“To English readers the most interesting pages in the book will probably be those in which the ambassador relates his efforts to alleviate the lot of British prisoners.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p547 N 15 ‘17 950w
German deserter’s war experience; tr. by J. Koettgen. *$1 (1½c) Huebsch 940.91 17-13674
The author is a German Socialist and anti-militarist, who after fourteen months of fighting in Belgium and France escaped into Holland and came to America. His story was first published in the New Yorker Volkszeitung. He describes the entry into Belgium, the advance and retreat at the Marne, the beginning of trench warfare, the famous Christmas truce, etc. The translator says, “The chief value of this soldier’s narrative lies in his destructive, annihilating criticism of the romance and fabled virtues of war.” The author, in concluding, says, “Today I have recovered sufficiently to take up again in the ranks of the American Socialists the fight against capitalism. ... A relentless struggle to the bitter end is necessary to show the ruling war-provoking caste who is the stronger, so that it no longer may be in the power of that class to provoke such a murderous war as that in which the working-class of Europe is now bleeding to death.”
“Written with a strong anti-militarist and socialist bias.”
A L A Bkl 13:443 Jl ‘17
“The writer’s deep hatred of war and all its works, not only the actual bloodshed and cruelty, but also the unnatural and humiliating relations of men to officers in the German army itself, speaks in every page. The whole story is told with the vividness that comes of recent deep and indelible impressions of soul-stirring experiences.”
+ Dial 63:401 O 25 ‘17 160w
“He accuses his officers of both deliberate cruelty and cowardice, giving instances in the advance on the Marne, and flight from it, to sustain his charges. This part of his book is an astounding revelation. He asserts on several occasions the men refused to obey orders to shoot wounded enemy soldiers and helpless civilians, and were more tortured than punished for such insubordination.”
+ Ind 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 200w
“It will rekindle our determination not to become swamped in the war to the point where we forget our chief purpose—not defeat of Germany so much as defeat of war as an institution. ... ‘A German deserter’s war experience,’ with its directness and almost clumsy sincerity, is a chastening and thrilling book for all of us, but it is as a symbol of revolt that one will not wish to forget it.” H. S.
+ New Repub 11:193 Je 16 ‘17 1050w
“The volume is the output of a very keen observer, a man who kept his wits about him in every possible situation and was able to recount what he saw afterwards. ... The volume is one of the best descriptive works that we have yet seen on this subject. ... Much praise is due the translator, Comrade J. Koettgen, for a careful and yet spirited account of war as seen through the eyes of a Socialist participant.” J. W.
+ N Y Call p14 My 20 ‘17 1050w
N Y Times 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 120w
Pittsburgh 22:681 O ‘17 50w
Pratt p40 O ‘17 40w
“The writer is a man of the people, a foreman miner, and tells his story straightforwardly, intelligently and without conscious art. ... Of widest interest are the detailed descriptions of the advance thru Belgium, the battle of the Marne and the retreat. There have been numerous accounts of these events by French witnesses and by newspaper men who have repeated the tales of participants, but, except for the official German account, this book is the first to come from that side.”
+ Pub W 91:210 Ja 20 ‘17 150w
R of Rs 55:668 Je ‘17 80w
“Whether true or not—and the balance swings in favor of the affirmative, it is an absorbing story.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Je 13 ‘17 280w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p596 D 6 ‘17 650w
GEROULD, GORDON HALL. Peter Sanders, retired. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-11709
When his gambling house in New York was closed down, Peter Sanders became a wanderer. He was a gentleman of quiet tastes, and a lover of books, with a leaning toward the classics. He meets adventures in various parts of Europe, but his inclinations call him back to America, even tho his return means the hiding of his identity under a false name. Accompanied by his faithful servant, Henry, he becomes familiar with corners of his native land before unknown to him. He makes new friends too and comes to think better of his fellow men than he had in the old days when he saw them only thru a gambler’s eyes. Finally when he is reinstated in New York, it is to find that he has become a new man and that the old ways no longer hold any charm for him.
“A leisurely tale ‘gay without vapidity and adventurous without sensationalism.’”
+ A L A Bkl 14:60 N ‘17
“What we assist at is a gradual change in point of view and emphasis rather than a radical change of character.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 45:410 Je ‘17 650w
“This Mr Silcox is a very credible old gentleman. ... The thing that is not quite believable is Peter Sanders. ... We feel sure that, although many a novelist has done worse, Mr Gerould could have done far better.”
+ — Boston Transcript p6 Je 13 ‘17 300w
“Thoroughly to enjoy it, one should know that Mr Gerould is a college professor; his interest in ex-gamblers gains piquancy from this fact.”
+ Dial 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 330w
“The story (which is not, we suspect, without its foundation in fact) is in its way a romance, and long before we are done with him we have formed a proper romantic affection for its stout and aging hero.”
+ Nation 104:580 My 10 ‘17 350w
“The novel is written with a sense of irony which gives it a certain pungency.”
+ N Y Times 22:163 Ap 22 ‘17 300w
215“The story is well written and gently humorous. The resemblance of Mr Sanders to a noted New York gambler lately deceased is striking.”
+ Outlook 116:32 My 2 ‘17 60w
+ Springf’d Republican p8 My 8 ‘17 400w
GEROULD, KATHARINE (FULLERTON) (MRS GORDON HALL GEROULD). Change of air. il *$1.25 Scribner 17-25861
“The book opens with a scene in the drawing rooms of Miss Cordelia Wheaton. Miss Wheaton, a rich woman, had a very large number of poor friends, and she had sent for them all to come to her house on a certain day. There they sit at the beginning of the first chapter; ‘and they waited, unprotesting; for they were all poor.’ At last, when the rooms are full, Miss Wheaton appears and makes the surprising announcement that she has decided to divide the greater part of her fortune among them at once, instead of doing it in her will. Each is to receive a certain sum—how much no one of the others will ever know. She carries out her plan, and the effect of this ‘windfall’ upon the lives and characters of some few of her beneficiaries, and ultimately upon Miss Wheaton herself, form the theme—or perhaps it would be better to say the themes—of the book.”—N Y Times
A L A Bkl 14:131 Ja ‘18
“To Walter Leaven we owe the story’s rescue from bitter comedy to a finale of exquisite romance. It is his figure, treading devotedly towards its goal of self-realisation through self-devotion, that makes a story out of what might otherwise have been a mere group of satirical episodes.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 46:691 F ‘18 590w
+ Nation 105:695 D 20 ‘17 220w
“Though there are frequent fine penetrations in her account of people, and a sharp wit to clinch the penetration, she has a constant tendency to substitute the values of polite society for the values that a genuine artist would discern. Her bristling smartness, her complaisance, her snobbishness, are difficult traits to tolerate in a novelist of manners.”
+ — New Repub 13:223 D 22 ‘17 650w
“The book is very short, very clever, very cynical.”
+ — NY Times 22:394 O 14 ‘17 800w
“A good story idea only moderately well carried out.”
+ — Outlook 117:386 N 7 ‘17 50w
+ Pittsburgh 22:749 N ‘17 30w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
+ Pub W 92:2028 D 8 ‘17 280w
“It is all very brilliant, but one shudders to see life chiseled with such delicate scalpels and with so sure and unashamed a pagan touch.”
– + Springf’d Republican p17 N 18 ‘17 480w
GERRISH, FREDERIC HENRY. Sex-hygiene; a talk to college boys. (Present day problems ser.) *60c (8c) Badger, R: G. 612.6 17-13326
“In 1911 there was given to Bowdoin college a fund the income of which was to be devoted to the instruction of the students in the proper relations of the sexes. As a part of this instruction the following lecture has been given to the freshman class of each succeeding year. It has been given, also, in a number of other institutions for the education of young men and boys.” (Preface) The lecturer is professor emeritus of surgery at Bowdoin college, and author of several standard medical books.
Cleveland p91 Jl ‘17 50w
“One of the most useful books of its kind. ... It is plain and direct and is without an excess of detail. ... Bowdoin college has announced that it is going to give a copy to every member of each freshman class from now on.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 26 ‘17 130w
GERSTENBERG, CHARLES W., and JOHNSON, WALTER SEELY. Organization and control. (Modern business, v. 3) il Alexander Hamilton inst. 658 17-1816
“‘Organization and control’ deals not with the internal management and control of business units, but rather with the external organization and ownership of industrial enterprises and the control of their business policies. In other words, this is not a work on business management, but on the structure of the business unit. ... The book approaches the subject largely from the legal standpoint, although there is nothing of a technical legal nature in the content. ... The closing chapters deal with the questions growing out of concentration and combination in business. In them the author examines the causes that have led up to the present high degree of centralized control, traces the evolution of the ‘trust’ through the various forms which it has taken and outlines the advantages resulting from industrial consolidation. Illegal combinations are discussed and the book closes with a history of the law of monopolies and an analysis of recent legislation on the trust question.”—Am Econ R
“It presents the subject in a remarkably clear and readable manner, illuminates the material with a number of well-selected business forms, and arouses interest by suggestive questions on hypothetical corporate problems.” F. E. Armstrong
+ Am Econ R 7:648 S ‘17 380w
Pratt p23 Jl ‘17
GERSTER, ARPAD GEYZA CHARLES.[2] Recollections of a New York surgeon. il $3.50 Hoeber 17-29633
“Born in Hungary in 1848, Dr Gerster came to this country in 1873 and settled for practice in New York city. His family origin was Swiss and his forebears were sturdy peasants or burghers, who did not fail to do their part in freeing Europe from the feudal subjection to the Hapsburg and Burgundian overlords. ... He writes of the public service of his ancestors—of John Gerster of Kaufbeuren who held various offices in the Basel city government prior to 1532, when he was pensioned, of Ottmar Gerster, who commanded the peasant army in the war waged against Abbot Ulrich VIII of Sankt Gallen to gain liberation from the overlordship of the monastery. ... In 1866 Gerster entered the University of Vienna as a medical student. There he remained seven years and went through all the experiences of student life, including the duel requirements. ... His surgical practice in New York began in a very humble way, and for some years was confined to work among the very poor. Later he won renown and wealth. The closing section of his book is devoted to ‘diversions.’”—Boston Transcript
“And he writes delightfully of music, sketching, wood-carving and etching.” H. S. K.
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 14 ‘17 650w
“Throughout the book there is evident a genial, eager personality whose keen interest in the world and all its people, in nature and all her manifestations, has filled the days of his life with enjoyment. Particularly wholesome reading will the book be for young medical students and practitioners.”
+ N Y Times 22:573 D 23 ‘17 480w
GIBBONS, MRS HELEN DAVENPORT (BROWN). Red rugs of Tarsus. *$1.25 (3c) Century 956 17-10364
An account of the Armenian massacre of 1909. The author, with her husband, Herbert Adams Gibbons, was spending the year 1909 in Tarsus and teaching in a mission school. Since then she has tried to put the experience of that year out of her mind. “But,” she says, “recent events in Armenia brought it all back again. My indignation, and a sense of duty and of pity, transcended all personal feelings. I lived again that night in Tarsus, when we—seven defenseless women, our one foreign man ... and 4,800 Armenians waited our turn at the 216hands of the Kurds.” The story is told from the letters written at that time to her mother in America.
+ A L A Bkl 14:22 O ‘17
“She gives bright and humorous descriptions of her new experiences, which, however, soon cease to be merely amusing. The horror of an Armenian massacre converts the airy narrative into a grim recital of terrible deeds.”
+ Dial 62:447 My 17 ‘17 200w
“Unfortunately many of these letters to Mrs Gibbons’ mother contain information which must have interested her mother greatly, but which will seem irrelevant to the public, or trivial, when thought of in relation to such great happenings.”
Ind 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 70w
+ Lit D 54:2006 Je 30 ‘17 150w
“A fine and significant book. ... Of the moments of her own peril Mrs Gibbons has written with a simplicity, almost an unconsciousness, that is magnificently fine and dramatic to read, now that it is all over, and she and her husband were saved. But the record as a whole, including those terrible hours with the rest, is one of stark, close, immediate realities, known and faced. The book will give the American reader food for more than one kind of thought.”
+ N Y Times 22:201 My 20 ‘17 500w
“A very vital, realistic, graphic portrayal of one of the terrible tragedies of modern history.”
+ Outlook 116:627 Ag 22 ‘17 60w
Pittsburgh 22:527 Je ‘17 50w
St Louis 15:186 Je ‘17
“The deposition of Abdul Hamid and the triumph of the Young Turks occurred while the family was at Mersina, and the popular impression that the new régime was more tolerant is contradicted by what Mrs Gibbons writes of the early days of its intolerance.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Je 24 ‘17 450w
GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS. Reconstruction of Poland and the Near East; problems of peace. *$1 (3c) Century 940.91 17-21742
“These chapters were written as a series of articles for the Century Magazine. At the time of the Russian revolution and the intervention of the United States, the chapters on Poland and Constantinople had already been published and the others were in print.” (Foreword) Mr Gibbons treats some events in outline only, and makes references that assume the reader’s knowledge of modern European history. His chapters all deal with the wrongs of small nations, whom he shows to have been ill-treated by the Entente allies as well as by Germany, and with the way the small nations should be treated to secure a durable peace. Despite his “horrors and detestation of what Jews and Poles and Armenians and Belgians and Serbians are being made to suffer,” he does not think that the punishment of and a change in the political status of Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Austria-Hungary would prevent the renewal in the very near future of wrongs inflicted upon small and weak nations, but believes the formula for the readjustment of the world to be “government by the consent of the governed.” He therefore argues that the reconstituted Polish state must not be subject in any way to either Germany or Russia and that its boundaries must be determined by ethnological, economic and political, rather than historical, considerations; that Constantinople must be considered “in the light of principle and not as a pawn”; that the peace conference must prove the intention of Europe to put “local Mohammedan interests ahead of European interest in Mohammedan countries”; and that the Entente powers must “guarantee the Balkan peninsula to the Balkan peoples,” as otherwise “Germany will keep the hegemony in the Balkans that she has already won.”
A L A Bkl 14:19 O ‘17
“The book interprets for us the passionate racial desires for freedom, and the inalienable right to enjoy that freedom, of all the minor weaker states now in the whirlpool of war.” S. A.
Boston Transcript p6 S 12 ‘17 410w
+ Cleveland p138 D ‘17 60w
“The author writes from long and intimate knowledge of eastern European politics, and his suggestions are worthy of the earnest attention of statesmen and diplomats.” F: A. Ogg
+ Dial 63:583 D 6 ‘17 520w
Ind 91:475 S 22 ‘17 250w
+ Lit D 55:46 D 29 ‘17 370w
“The attitude of the writer is rather that of a thoughtful observer than an incisive critic. He has no definite solution to offer for any of the problems which are sure to plague mankind after peace negotiations shall have begun.”
+ — Nation 105:609 N 29 ‘17 500w
“Mr Gibbons is the author of two recent and very valuable works, ‘The new map of Africa’ and ‘The new map of Europe.’ In the present work he departs from his special forte of describing what has happened in the way of territorial changes to suggest changes that may happen in the future. ... The value of the work consists far more in the information given regarding the past status of these countries than in what he suggests for the future. ... In his past work he was on sure ground, in this it is unavoidably different.” J. W.
+ — N Y Call p15 S 2 ‘17 400w
“Mr Gibbons gives a lucid and vigorous presentation of the issues at stake in Poland and the Near East, pointing out that if the war is to continue in the character of a struggle for democracy against autocracy, the issues must be defined to meet the requirements of democracy. .... In his point of view he is accurately representative of American nationalism.”
+ — N Y Times 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 540w
“A useful work of historical reference and suggestion. It should have an index.”
+ — Outlook 117:26 S 5 ‘17 360w
Pittsburgh 22:825 D ‘17 90w
“An important contribution to the literature on American foreign relations emphasizes that the principles of American policy concerning the Near East are fundamentally and necessarily different from those of our allies. ... The author sets right misled public opinion in this country concerning the nature of Panislamism and the Islam conception of the state.” Bruno Lasker
+ Survey 38:550 S 22 ‘17 720w
GIBBONS, JAMES, cardinal. Retrospect of fifty years. 2v *$2 (1½c) Murphy, J: 282 17-88
These two volumes contain a selection from the essays and sermons of Cardinal Gibbons. His introduction expresses the belief that they may be of historical importance as a record of the times in which he has lived. He says “I have lived a long time, and I have lived through a very critical time. Not only have I held office many years, but I have held office during a time of transition, when the old order was changed.” A large part of the first volume is devoted to the Vatican council (1869-1870), of which Cardinal Gibbons is the last surviving member. Other miscellaneous papers of general interest included in the two volumes are: The Knights of labor; The church and the republic; Irish immigration to the United States; Patriotism and politics; Will the American republic endure?
“The reader will not find in this book any aids to an exact knowledge of historic facts, nor will the non-Catholic find any arguments to persuade him to join the church, but he will feel that the country has been very fortunate to have had a man of broad sympathies, of generous temper, of great patience and Christian charity at the head of the Catholic church in America during the last fifty years.” H: D. Sedgwick
Am Hist R 22:887 Jl ‘17 1050w
“Of interest to both Catholics and Protestants alike.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:285 Ap ‘17
217“He was already a priest during the Civil war, followed Abraham Lincoln’s body in procession when it was brought to Baltimore, and has been personally acquainted with most of the American presidents since Lincoln’s death.”
+ Ath p255 My ‘17 120w
“The essay on the Knights of labour is one of the most important, as the part played by Cardinal Gibbons in their behalf is one of his noblest achievements. ... In every essay, the character of the man is unconsciously made clear. And one arises from such reading with the conviction that this man is greater than any of his writings or deeds, and that such a man is one of the greatest assets of a nation or a church.” F. P. Lyons, C. S. P.
+ Bookm 45:193 Ap ‘17 1000w
“Many of the papers and addresses embraced in the ‘Retrospect’ deal with civic affairs. .... In these we get an ineffaceable impression of the distinguished author as the type of the militant citizen who rebukes the wrong and defends the right, and yet through all retains an unshakable faith in his country and its institutions which glows like a torch to guide all who call themselves Americans.”
+ Cath World 104:689 F ‘17 800w
+ Lit D 54:911 Mr 31 ‘17 950w
R of Rs 55:667 Je ‘17 80w
GIBBS, GEORGE FORT. Secret witness. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-22296
“The author, in an explanatory final chapter, seems to claim that some evidence exists of the truth of the incidents described in the novel as preceding the assassination of the Austrian archduke at Sarajevo. According to this theory, the German Kaiser and the Archduke had formed a secret alliance in which, after the death of Emperor Francis Joseph, they were to divide between them Austria, Serbia, Poland, and other territory, the Archduke to hold the eastern section and to found a dynasty through his children, whose right to succeed him was denied by Austria. The story gives an Austrian origin to the plot and assassination. The secret interview between the Kaiser and Archduke is overheard by a young Austrian countess and a young English diplomat who are in love with each other and who conceive it to be their duty to report the matter—one to the Austrian emperor, the other to the English ambassador. Out of this naturally come plots and counterplots and adventures of startling character.”—Outlook
A L A Bkl 14:95 D ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p11 O 6 ‘17 300w
“Not so skillfully written as Buchan’s ‘Greenmantle,’ but of similar interest.”
+ — Cleveland p128 N ‘17 70w
Dial 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 60w
“A technically adroit, plausible and attractively written story.”
+ New Repub 12:226 S 22 ‘17 200w
“There is plenty of variety in the scenes which are laid in many and very different places, including a Turkish harem and an ancient, supposedly abandoned castle high up in the Tatra range of the Carpathians. ... A swift-moving, entertaining story with an ingenious plot.”
+ N Y Times 22:343 S 16 ‘17 320w
Outlook 117:142 S 26 ‘17 160w
Pratt p51 O ‘17 10w
“A second ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ in its headlong pace, picturesque situations, adventure and love interest.”
+ R of Rs 56:556 N ‘17 200w
GIBBS, PHILIP. Battles of the Somme. *$2 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-3464
This is Mr Gibbs’s second war book. “The soul of the war” was written while he was a free-lance journalist in France and Belgium. He is now an officially accredited correspondent with the British armies in the field. In this book he has brought together articles written in the three months following July 1, 1916. He is one of the most brilliant men writing from the front. He kept close to the fighting forces, and makes the daily life of the men in action very vivid. There are two folding maps.
+ A L A Bkl 13:345 My ‘17
“Mr Gibbs’s book is the war. ... The reader sees and senses the horror and the nastiness and the incredible folly of it all; but, shining through the sombreness, the glory of those golden lads who, knowing the war and hating it like the hell it is, went steadfastly forward into the flames with smiling eyes and a jest on their lips.” A. R. Dodd
+ Bookm 45:196 Ap ‘17 600w
“No man who writes from the front writes more sensitively than does Philip Gibbs. ... His best pictures are of men.” W. A. M.
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 29 ‘17 950w
+ Ind 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 140w
+ Lit D 54:1708 Je 2 ‘17 550w
+ New Repub 10:sup16 Ap 21 ‘17 550w
“If Mr Gibbs can see the saving humors in the warring days, he can see the hideousness, too, and the fineness, and the tenderness that so often goes hand in hand with the heroism. It is because he can see all of these things—and makes us see them—that his book is so good.”
+ N Y Times 22:57 F 18 ‘17 500w
+ Outlook 116:75 My 9 ‘17 50w
Pratt p40 O ‘17 20w
+ Spec 118:239 F 24 ‘17 600w
“The two excellent maps appended to the book, while they fulfil the purpose of their insertion by recording the progress made in the early weeks of the battle, are of no use in following the present movement. The Germans have been backed clean off them.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Mr 13 ‘17 550w
“His record appeared from day to day, in either the Daily Telegraph or the Daily Chronicle. ... On the tanks Mr Gibbs speaks with a certain guarded enthusiasm. ... ‘If we had enough of them—and it would be a big number—trench warfare would go for ever and machine-gun redoubts would lose their terror.’”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p38 Ja 25 ‘17 700w
GIBBS, WINIFRED STUART. Minimum cost of living. *$1 Macmillan 331.83 17-10221
“This work is based on a methodical study of the food habits, as compared with the scientifically-estimated food requirements, of a number of New York families cared for by the Association for improving the condition of the poor; this study seems to have succeeded in multiplying the effectiveness of the money spent in relieving want, and as an unintentional byproduct food economies are suggested which are undoubtedly feasible on a larger scale. The contribution of the book to present needs lies in these statistics of food use and food needs.”—Springf’d Republican
“An accurate laboratory contribution to family budget literature, of use to every student of social conditions. Further, it demonstrates the practicability of using the family budget as a lever to raise the living standards both of dependent and of independent families, and will, therefore, be of service to every social worker.” W. E. Clark
+ Am Econ R 7:665 S ‘17 500w
Reviewed by Florence Nesbitt
Am J Soc 23:277 S ‘17 60w
A L A Bkl 14:6 O ‘17
“It must be kept in mind, however, in reading this book that the budgets given are not to be set up as standards for the cost of living. The clothing estimate is admittedly inadequate even when eked out by gifts of clothing from relations.” N. D. H.
+ Ann Am Acad 72:237 Jl ‘17 90w
“While primarily a book for charity visitors and district nurses, it should interest all social workers for it records with modesty a fine piece 218of constructive work to help families left without an adult male wage-earner, to spend their incomes wisely.”
+ Cleveland p77 Je ‘17 60w
Dial 63:351 O 11 ‘17 120w
J Pol Econ 25:1059 D ‘17 60w
“Of peculiar interest, now that the war has given prominence to the question of food-economy.”
+ Nation 105:272 S 6 ‘17 360w
N Y Br Lib News 4:90 Je ‘17 50w
Pittsburgh 22:689 O ‘17 40w
Pratt p25 O ‘17 20w
Reviewed by Graham Lusk
+ Science n s 46:18 Jl 6 ‘17 230w
“The explanatory text is rather incoherently assembled, but there are enough figures in handy form to give the amateur economist a good working basis.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 My 3 ‘17 440w
“It gives concrete evidence for the philanthropist, the law-maker, and the employer regarding the now undeniable interrelation between human progress and the minimum wage.” L. B. Mendel
+ Survey 38:531 S 15 ‘17 200w
GIBSON, CHARLES R. War inventions and how they were invented. il *$1 Lippincott 355 (Eng ed 17-1948)
“An attractive book which answers a good many of the questions—about guns and shells and range-finding, for instance—which the layman is always asking himself or others equally ignorant.” (Spec) “Contents: How guns were invented; How guns were made to shoot straight; Guns that fire 1,000 shots per minute; Giant guns; What is an explosive? How shells were invented; How we came to make iron ships; Ships that go under the sea; Some questions about submarines; About the deadly torpedo; How torpedoes and mines are exploded; A very dangerous occupation; The eye of the submarine; Measuring the distance to the enemy; Ships that go up in the air; War in the air.” (Pittsburgh)
+ Pittsburgh 22:434 My ‘17 80w
“Mr Gibson is not afraid to begin at the beginning and explain the very elements of gunnery and torpedo-work, and he has a clear and pleasant style.”
+ Spec 117:sup685 D 2 ‘16 60w
GIBSON, HUGH. Journal from our legation in Belgium. il *$2.50 (2½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-29362
This volume is the private journal of the first secretary to the American legation in Brussels “jotted down hastily from day to day in odd moments, when more pressing duties would permit.” (Introd.) It runs from July 4 to December 31, 1914. Appended to it as a final chapter is an article on the case of Miss Cavell, which has appeared in the World’s Work. “Much material has been eliminated as of little interest. Other material of interest has been left out because it cannot be published at this time.” (Introd.) Most of the matter about the early history of the Commission for relief in Belgium has been eliminated, because Mr Gibson felt that his record of it was inadequate and knew that Dr Vernon Kellogg was to publish an authoritative account of the Commission’s work. There are numerous illustrations from photographs. Among these are portraits of Edith Cavell, Herbert C. Hoover and Cardinal Mercier. There is no index.
+ A L A Bkl 14:89 D ‘17
+ Cleveland p130 D ‘17 100w
“This is one of the best books which the war has given us. The writing is not beautiful or fine, but the story is so surpassingly good that it never is tiresome or dull.”
+ Nation 105:665 D 13 ‘17 2350w
“What one gleans from this book, even more than the sensations of Belgium invaded—amplified as they are by numerous photographs and proclamations—is a pronounced impression of the Germany that invaded her, the Germans that went to make up that formidable force which Mr Gibson observes so sensibly, with such disintegrating critical gaze.” F. H.
+ New Repub 13:101 N 24 ‘17 1750w
“In this long and absorbing record of early war days there is much to clear up perplexities and to give us new facts and new light on old knowledge. ... Simple, vivid, concrete, informative, it is to repeat, a book that every American ought to read.”
+ N Y Times 22:439 O 28 ‘17 1500w
“His knowledge of the mind and spirit of the invaded, coupled with his power to portray the Germans, renders his narrative unusually absorbing and convincing.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:826 D ‘17 80w
“This is one of those exceptionally privileged volumes which make the great mass of current war literature seem tame and commonplace.” F: T. Cooper
+ Pub W 92:2025 D 8 ‘17 450w
“It forms a vivid and convincing story of what went on in Belgium during the first year of the war. It should be read by all who have any remaining doubts as to the spirit and intent of the German administration in Belgium.”
+ R of Rs 57:101 Ja ‘18 170w
“The poignant merit of this book consists, not in the novelty of the facts, which are but too familiar, but in the authority of the writer.”
+ Sat R 124:506 D 22 ‘17 1300w
GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON. Livelihood; dramatic reveries. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 17-1621
Mr Gibson has brought together twenty of his recent poems. They are narratives of humble life, stories of men and women who, “in spite of everything,” have learned “to take their luck through life and find it good.” They bring out some of those imperishable qualities in human nature which neither hardship nor poverty nor war has power wholly to destroy.
+ A L A Bkl 13:391 Je ‘17
+ Ath p200 Ap ‘17 270w
“He is truly a poet of the people. ... To be a poet of the people, the people must understand you; they must do more, they must know you understand them.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ja 20 ‘17 1600w
“The muse of Mr Gibson drowses in ‘Livelihood.’ ... Equally unfortunate is the lapse of that faculty of enlargement which gave compass and vista to those low-life themes which cramp the unsympathetic or unimaginative mind. Comparatively speaking, the persons in ‘Livelihood’ are passive, and their sorrows oppress rather than excite us. Exceptions occur, or the volume would hardly be Mr Gibson’s. ‘The news’ is an affecting though dilated story, and ‘The old nail shop’ illustrates the resurgence of vigor.” O. W. Firkins
– + Nation 105:66 Jl 19 ‘17 350w
“Not that Gibson is faultless; he has at times a distressing tendency to take the phrase or word that comes first into his head; he does not always labor until he has secured the inevitable and creative phrase, as, for instance, Robert Frost usually does. But this does not detract from the beauty he often achieves, or his significance as a poet of labor.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p14 Ap 29 ‘17 660w
“Very tender and gentle is Mr Gibson’s touch upon life in these poems, wherein he sees only the solemn glory in each humble soul and has no eyes for its baseness.”
+ N Y Times 22:14 Ja 14 ‘17 900w
+ R of Rs 55:211 F ‘17 50w
“Though these tales in verse are not poetry in the fullest and highest sense, though they are too merely individual and too photographic for that, yet they are what every one may well be grateful for. ... There is not a dull page 219in them; the book is a compound of constant cleverness, much sympathy, some imagination, scarcely any music of speech.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p79 F 15 ‘17 1300w
“The chief defect in the book is a want of the joy of life; there is a sombreness over it all; there is resignation rather than happiness. The chief delight of his men and women is in the remembering of past days. It may be that ‘Between the lines’ gives a clue to this: the shadow of the war has not yet fallen upon us.” E: B. Reed
+ Yale R n s 6:862 Jl ‘17 150w
GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON. Poems (1904-1917). il *$2.25 Macmillan 821 17-24679
The publishers state that “here is brought together in one volume all of Mr Gibson’s writings which he wishes to preserve.” Contents: Akra the slave; Stonefolds; Daily bread; Womenkind; Fires; Thoroughfares; Borderlands; Battle; Friends; Livelihood.
A L A Bkl 14:66 N ‘17
“His work is simple, rough-hewn and frequently unbeautiful, but his sympathies penetrate to the innermost heart of humble life.”
+ Cleveland p121 N ‘17 60w
“It is, of course, too early to attempt a placing of Mr Gibson. For the present it is enough to say that he has developed a style peculiarly effective, and valuable too for its influence on contemporary poetry. Mr Gibson has clearly proved that poetry can deal with the commonplaces of daily life,—with the bitter and trivial and powerful and universal commonplaces of human consciousness,—and do it with force and beauty.” Conrad Aiken
+ Dial 63:453 N 8 ‘17 700w
“Such sketches of the individual soldier in the trenches as make up the section ‘Battle’ are so brief, so compact, so single in their purpose that every lyric suggests the flight of a bullet. And, like bullets, these war poems either hit altogether or not at all. They are all perfect; tho three or four of them are perfect failures. ... In war and peace alike, Gibson selects by preference the themes that are commonplace or even disagreeable and makes them splendid by revealing the heroism and kindliness which lie deep in the hearts of common folk.”
+ — Ind 92:62 O 6 ‘17 250w
Lit D 55:32 N 3 ‘17 120w
“He has diction, but hardly phrase; he has passion, but hardly drama; he has humanity, but hardly character. He is concise, but is prodigal of concision. A master of point when he wills, he keeps that mastery in habitual abeyance. Yet so abounding, so dominating, are his diction, his passion, his humanity, that the negations, in the hour of contact, are scarcely credible or visible.” O. W. Firkins
+ — Nation 106:89 Ja 24 ‘18 730w
“Wilfrid Wilson Gibson gets into these idylls the kindliness of the English folk. Through his work we see England, not as a great imperial system, but as a not too prosperous nationality where a laborious, poorly rewarded folk love their soil and love their kind.” Padraic Colum
+ New Repub 13:sup11 N 17 ‘17 1000w
“What he has done, here grouped together, makes him one of labor’s strongest voices; we are justly proud of him.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p16 Ja 19 ‘18 650w
“Like Wordsworth, Mr Gibson has a plain, severe way of writing which degenerates only too often into aridity and baldness; ... like Wordsworth, too, he is almost exclusively interested in the lives of the simple and the poor. There, unfortunately, the resemblance stops.”
— N Y Times 22:383 O 7 ‘17 450w
GIDDINGS, HOWARD ANDREW, comp.[2] Handbook of military signaling. il *60c Appleton 623.7 17-28811
A revised edition of a handbook published in 1896 with the title “Instructions in military signaling.” The preface says, “The changes in codes and signaling systems have been so extensive that the handbook is in effect a new one. The signal codes, conventional signals, letter codes, emergency signals, etc., are taken from the Signal book, U.S. army, 1916.”
“Useful, compact little volume.”
+ Nation 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 40w
N Y Br Lib News 4:187 D ‘17 10w
R of Rs 57:102 Ja ‘18 20w
GILBERT, ARTHUR WITTER, and others. Potato. (Rural science ser.) il *$1.50 Macmillan 635 17-10445
“The author states in his preface that the book is intended to give brief and practical suggestions on the growing, breeding and marketing of potatoes.” (Science) “Mr Dean is a grower of potatoes on a large scale and has studied the business of potato growing in all parts of the United States. His chapters in the book deal with the practical work of planting and cultivating, Dr Barrus’s with the diseases of the potato and how to treat them, and Dr Gilbert’s with the different varieties and what each needs in the way of soil and care.” (N Y Times)
“Unquestionably one of the most important agricultural books of the year.”
+ Agricultural Digest 2:504 Je ‘17 60w
+ A L A Bkl 13:433 Jl ‘17
Cleveland p95 Jl ‘17 30w
“Has the usual solid merits of the volumes in Professor Bailey’s Rural science series. Of timely value is the chapter on the problems of marketing and storage.”
+ Nation 105:154 Ag 9 ‘17 550w
+ N Y Times 22:165 Ap 29 ‘17 130w
Pratt p21 Jl ‘17 20w
St Louis 15:174 Je ‘17
“This publication, in addition to being up-to-date in its cultural directions, devotes considerably more attention to the subject of potato breeding than any of our preceding American treatises on the potato. ... The discussion of potato diseases and their control is clear and convincing and should prove very helpful to both the farmer and the student. A chapter on ‘Markets, marketing and storage’ is both suggestive and helpful, as is also that on the cost of growing potatoes.” W: Stuart
+ Science n s 45:462 My 11 ‘17 300w
GILBERT, GEORGE HOLLEY. Jesus for the men of today; when science aids religion. *$1 Doran 232 17-17183
“‘Jesus: for the men of today,’ by Prof. George H. Gilbert, is a life of Christ in story form. The main facts of the gospel narrative are made to live again amid the homely human surroundings of Galilee and Judea.”—Ind
“It reveals the human and lovely character of Jesus with the power of a poet’s interpretation; it discloses the soul of the writer as well, and the vision is most beautiful. The book must have been written originally more or less in blank verse or else the writer unconsciously pens prose that admits scanning.”
+ — Bib World 50:315 N ‘17 210w
“The ample historical and archeological knowledge of the author guarantee the accuracy of the picture, and the characters are sketched with the modern touches of realism.”
+ Ind 91:354 S 1 ‘17 70w
GILBERTSON, HENRY STIMSON. County—the “dark continent” of American politics. $2 National short ballot organization 352 17-12496
“Since 1910, when the American political science association gave the county a place on the program of its annual meeting, a number of valuable studies of the county have been made. ... The work under review by H. S. Gilbertson, secretary of the New York short ballot organization, is the first attempt to set forth within the covers of a single book ‘the outlines of a very real and important “county problem.”’ The purpose of the work, as stated 220in the preface, is to stimulate a ‘much wider and more thorough research into the subject than has yet been attempted’ and ‘to throw a new light upon the “democratic experiment” in America.’ Within the first 119 pages the author presents his ‘indictment of the county.’ This is followed (86 pages) by a constructive program of county reform. An appendix of 77 pages contains a number of valuable constitutional and legislative documents relating to county government. ... A comprehensive bibliography and an adequate index enhance the value of the book.”—Am Pol Sci R
A L A Bkl 14:6 O ‘17
Reviewed by O. C. Hormell
+ Am Pol Sci R 11:587 Ag ‘17 650w
+ Cleveland p107 S ‘17 20w
“The political student and worker will find this book truly useful, the more so if he keep in mind how easy it is whenever a bad spot is found in officialdom to assault the governmental system.”
+ Ind 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 80w
Pratt p9 O ‘17 40w
“Since Mr Gilbertson began the inquiry, something has been done here and there towards untangling the county knot, for example, the work of the Public efficiency society of Cook county, Ill., the Westchester research bureau of New York, and the Tax association of Alameda county in California—and the results of his work justify a degree of optimism for the future.”
+ R of Rs 56:326 S ‘17 210w
St Louis 15:170 Je ‘17
GILMAN, STEPHEN. Principles of accounting. $3 LaSalle extension univ. 657 16-15136
“‘Principles of accounting,’ for trained bookkeepers, is a complete discussion, made clearer by careful illustration, of the forms and values of accurate accounting in its modern meaning where the aim of the business man is not merely a balancing of accounts, but such a comparison of facts and values as will give him the truest estimate of his business transactions.”—Ind
“On the whole, it may be said that the book does not undertake to advance new theories but to present clearly the principles underlying the best accounting practice. The point of view is modern, the treatment comprehensive and usually adequate, and the style simple and clear. Effective use is made of charts, examples, problems, and summaries. ... The author’s acquaintance with accounting theory, however, is evidently not equalled by his knowledge of economic theory, else why say: ‘In a natural state, water may be obtained without effort; hence it has no utility?’” C. C. Huntington
+ Am Econ R 7:133 Mr ‘17 1500w
+ Ann Am Acad 72:228 Jl ‘17 100w
+ Ind 87:242 Ag 14 ‘16 60w
GIRAULT, ARTHUR. Colonial tariff policy of France; ed. by C: Gide. *$2.50 Oxford 337 (Eng ed 16-23596)
“This is one of the two initial publications issued by the Division of economics and history of the Carnegie endowment for international peace; the other being Grunzel’s ‘Economic protectionism.’ ... The book gives a narrative and critical account of the colonial policy of France. A first part, comprising about half the contents, gives a historical sketch of that policy. The second and concluding part takes up the present colonies one by one—the small colonies, Indo-China, Madagascar and dependencies, West Africa, Equatorial Africa, Algeria, Tunis, and Morocco—and describes and discusses their present relations with the mother country.”—Am Econ R
“In style and arrangement it is a typical and creditable example of French scholarly work. It is fluently and clearly written, well arranged, supplied with convenient introductions and summaries; and there is a good index. The passages that involve criticism and reasoning are sensible, but cannot be said to show a thorough grasp of general economic theory or of the principles of international trade.” F. W. Taussig
+ Am Econ R 7:155 Mr ‘17 900w
“Professor Girault is at his best in the historical and descriptive parts of the work. A certain looseness and inconsistency characterizes his generalizations and his deductions as well as his reasoning as to the policy which France of to-day should pursue towards some of her colonies. ... The real merit of this work lies in the analysis of the causes of the colonial tariff policies under the changing governments of France and in a careful presentation of the effect of these policies upon the economic status of each colony; as such it forms an important contribution to the study of the subject.” Simon Litman
+ — Am Hist R 22:904 Jl ‘17 600w
Reviewed by R. S. MacElwee
Ann Am Acad 71:234 My ‘17 470w
St Louis 15:357 O ‘17 60w
“The severity and lucidity of the main argument, the incontrovertibility of the historical facts built into the exposition, and the wealth of the statistical evidence certainly establish its title to be a work of reference for historians, economists, and the public; but it would require more than one expert thoroughly to sift the premises and test the conclusions stated with moderation but with an impressive conviction by the author. Professor Girault is handling a subject the general principles of which he had worked out in his ‘Principles de colonisation et de legislation coloniale’; and he is careful to correlate the specific analysis of the French system with the wider principles of colonial policy in general. ... Professor Girault has provided the French delegates at the future conference with an indispensable dossier.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p59 Ja 25 ‘17 1900w
GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART. Speeches; descriptive index and bibliography; with a preface by Viscount Bryce. *12s 6d Methuen & co., London 308 (Eng ed 17-14978)
“Mr Bassett has compiled an invaluable supplement to Lord Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone,’ comprising an index to his speeches from June 3rd, 1833, to May 4th, 1897, and a bibliography of his writings. ... The index is briefly annotated and gives the length of each speech. Fourteen of the most notable orations are reprinted in full, with useful introductions by Mr Herbert Paul. They include his attack on Palmerston’s foreign policy (1850), his denunciation of the treaty of Berlin (1878), and his famous opening speech in the Midlothian campaign of 1879, expressing a detestation of the Turk. His first Budget speech and his speech introducing the first Home rule bill are of much historic interest.”—Spec
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+ Spec 118:417 Ap 7 ‘17 250w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p569 N 30 ‘16 650w
GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER.[2] Beggar and king. *$1 Yale univ. press 811 17-29491
Contains among its best pieces “Masters of earth,” “Sure, it’s fun!” “The golden plover,” “Measure for measure,” and “April’s fool.” A handful among the sheaf are steeped in orientalism. Others sing loud and exultantly, drowning “sneers of humankind.” Some are war songs. One of the latter, “The new beatitude,” with a few strokes sets ruined Picardy and Poland before the eye, where “rasps through the reek this whisper raucous and low, Blessed are they which died a year ago!”
“Mr Glaenzer’s volume is somewhat of a disappointment. With a few exceptions the works he has chosen to include are of ordinary significance. It is his workmanship rather than theme or conception that does him the greater credit. ‘Sure, it’s fun!’ one of the recent flashing bits of verse brought forth by the war shows how 221well Mr Glaenzer can succeed in being poetical; and the charming poem ‘To a vireo’ ... proves that when he abandons himself to light moods he can sing effectively and graciously. It is when he strives to be more ambitious, to sound the vague and complex depths of human experience that he fails to satisfy and merely irritates the reader by producing clever workmanship.” W. S. B.
– + Boston Transcript p6 D 22 ‘17 250w
“The workmanship is thorough, but the volume seems somewhat to lack the freshness that makes much of today’s poetry interesting.”
– + N Y Times 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 140w
“He is thoroughly original in everything he writes, with the possible exception of lyrics which only in notable cases differ radically in the year 1917. Mr Glaenzer delights in cynicism. His lyrics are tinged and also tarnished by this trait. Try as he may to climb to the subjective hights of lyricists, there is always some repelling incident to make him slip. For this reason he never effervesces nor thrills with emotional ecstasy. The coquette amuses him. There is always some regret or failing in his theme to dull the brilliance of the glittering peak.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 Ja 13 ‘18 650w
GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON. Inside the British Isles. *$2 (2c) Century 942.08 17-14222
A series of papers on Great Britain in wartime, arranged in four groups: Labor; Women; Ireland; Social studies, followed by a study of Lloyd-George and a conclusion. In concluding the author says, “I have sought to show the passing of England,—Little England, Old England,—the crumbling of its caste system, and the emergence of the England of John Bull and Cromwell’s soldiers from inarticulateness into power. And a yet greater thing has come—the advent of the new British commonwealth.” He adds further, “I am convinced that our own future is bound up with that of England, that together with England and France we can face the world with security, and gradually and painfully make the democratic principle prevail.”
A L A Bkl 14:19 O ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 9 ‘17 280w
“The impression he creates is of a mind previously made up, and using only those facts which will support his thesis. ... In other words, Mr Gleason is a special pleader rather than a philosophic investigator, and it is only a philosophic investigator who could convincingly treat such a subject as that of the present book.”
— Cath World 106:261 N ‘17 510w
Cleveland p99 Jl ‘17 70w
“Everyone is there—Mr Lansbury, Mr Zimmern, Mr Lionel Curtis, Mr Webb. Labels of identification are attached to them all. An ordinary Englishman like myself may again and again have real difficulty in recognizing some of the portraits. Mr Gleason works rapidly, and he is a little naïve. But his book has a real interim value as a cinematograph and it is extraordinarily pleasant reading.” H. J. Laski
Dial 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 80w
“Contains uncommonly keen analyses of certain aspects of the national characteristics. Thus, his grasp on the Irish problem in relation to the gulf of feeling and sentiment separating the Irish from the English people goes true to the very bone of the difficulty.”
+ Ind 90:553 Je 23 ‘17 300w
“Mr Gleason writes with a rush and a whirl. He offers a minimum of specific data and a maximum of generalization. Yet we feel sure that no one will put down Mr Gleason’s book without a clear impression that England is today in revolution. His account is, beyond question, the most comprehensive and the most stimulating that has thus far appeared.”
+ — Nation 105:246 S 6 ‘17 1100w
“Mr Gleason is to be complimented in his piecing together of all the fragmentary information, heretofore available only from time to time in the hurriedly read columns of the press, and furnishing a fairly synthetic picture of all that has taken place. ... He is careful to tell us that ‘Marxian socialism’ is ‘obsolete.’ And this is the only thing in the volume that he doesn’t apparently know anything about.” J. W.
+ N Y Call p14 Je 3 ‘17 570w
“Sometimes one wonders if perhaps Mr Gleason in his enthusiasm exaggerates the importance of the changes he observes going on, thinks them significant of deeper forces than they represent, mistakes the temporary adjustment to suit temporary conditions for permanent evolution. ... Nevertheless, whether one agrees or not, the book has peculiar interest and high importance. ... But the volume contains a half dozen or more pages on ‘The new Americanism’ which might very well have been omitted because they are utterly irrelevant to the subject of the book and because they amazingly misunderstand and misinterpret facts and conditions in this country.”
+ N Y Times 22:231 Je 17 ‘17 800w
Pittsburgh 22:674 O ‘17 30w
+ Pratt p46 O ‘17 30w
“The advantage possessed by Arthur Gleason as an interpreter of English life for Americans is that he has a fresh and active mind and knows what aspects of England American readers would like to hear about. The disadvantage is that his familiarity with British affairs—if familiarity is the proper word—is apparently a very recent growth. ... Having a keen and alert eye and a facile habit of deduction, he seldom fails to be interesting, though he frequently does fail to be significant.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p17 Jl 8 ‘17 1100w
“The primary value of this book to the student of contemporary events is its description of tendencies, accompanied in nearly all cases by sufficient evidence to allow the reader to judge for himself what amount of intended or unconscious exaggeration there may be in the predictions made.” Bruno Lasker
+ Survey 38:548 S 22 ‘17 850w
GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON. Our part in the great war. il *$1.35 (2c) Stokes 940.91 17-13604
This book is made up of four sections. Section 1, Americans who helped, consists of accounts of relief work in France, based on the author’s experience with an ambulance corps. Section 2, Why some Americans are neutral, has chapters on: Neutrality: an interpretation of the Middle West; Social workers and the war; Forgetting the American tradition, etc. Section 3, The Germans that rose from the dead, is based largely on gleanings from German war diaries. Section 4, The peasants, is a series of sketches, drawn from the author’s experience in Belgium and France. In addition there are two letters in an appendix addressed To the reader and To neutral critics.
A L A Bkl 13:443 Jl ‘17
Cleveland p86 Jl ‘17 90w
+ Dial 63:349 O 11 ‘17 200w
“So rapidly have events moved that Mr Gleason’s book has become, in ways, somewhat out of date even by the day of its publication. And that is a pity, for it contains so much valuable contribution to our knowledge of the war and is written in a spirit so earnest and, in the best sense, so patriotic that the reading of it ought still to have a tonic effect.”
+ N Y Times 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 550w
+ R of Rs 56:213 Ag ‘17 130w
GLOVER, TERROT REAVELEY. Jesus of history; with a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury. *$1 (1c) Assn. press 232 17-9479
This work was prepared for the British Student Christian movement and published in Great Britain by that organization. It is based, however, on lectures given in India in the winter of 1915-16 by the author, who is fellow of St John’s college, Cambridge, and university lecturer in ancient history. The aim of the book, the author says “is, after all, not to achieve a final presentment of the historical Jesus, but to suggest lines of study that will deepen our interest in him and our love of him.” 222Contents: The study of the gospels; Childhood and youth; The man and his mind; The teacher and the disciples; The teaching of Jesus upon God; Jesus and man; Jesus’ teaching upon sin; The choice of the cross; The Christian church in the Roman empire; Jesus in Christian thought.
A L A Bkl 13:424 Jl ‘17
+ Bib World 50:254 O ‘17 220w
“Will appeal to those who find experience and life a guide to the understanding of the gospels rather than technical theology.” James Moffatt
+ Hibbert J 15:679 Jl ‘17 100w
“The prolix and involved presentation, however, make the argument difficult to follow; and one lays down the work with a sigh of disappointment, at the little this eminent scholar has contributed to our knowledge or understanding of Jesus.”
– + Ind 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 80w
+ Outlook 116:116 My 16 ‘17 190w
Reviewed by M. K. Reely
Pub W 91:1323 Ap 21 ‘17 350w
“In the foreword which the Archbishop of Canterbury contributes to this book he speaks of its author’s ‘rare power of reverently handling familiar truths or facts in such manner as to make them seem to be almost new.’ In saying that he expresses what every one will feel to be the chief distinction of the book.”
+ Spec 119:143 Ag 11 ‘17 620w
“Dr Glover’s gifts of vivid description and graphic exposition have enabled him to provide a study of the central figure of the synoptic gospels which must evoke and retain the interest of even the least sympathetic readers. ... It is certainly unconventional and sometimes daring in its interpretations, but it is always reverent and full of the force of a man who has a strong personal grasp of what he believes to be ‘the fact of Christ.’”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p80 F 15 ‘17 500w
GODFREY, THOMAS. Prince of Parthia. il *$2.50 Little 812 17-14983
This book is a reprint of “the first tragedy ever composed by a native American and produced on the professional stage in the United States.” (R of Rs) It has heretofore been available only in the original edition of 1765, and “is now published in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its production [in Philadelphia], without variation from the original, and accompanied by a biography and historical and critical introduction by Archibald Henderson.” (R of Rs) Only 550 copies were printed for sale.
Reviewed by Algernon Tassin
Bookm 46:346 N ‘17 350w
“Godfrey was in no sense a great poet, not even a poet of great promise; but he was remarkable for the number and the variety of the English masters whom he was able, at the age of twenty-three, to echo in a way that showed appreciation if not originality. ... Many known facts go to show that his real importance in the history of eighteenth-century American literature has not been adequately recognized.”
Dial 63:215 S 13 ‘17 500w
N Y Br Lib News 4:108 Jl ‘17
“The tragedy has many passages of great beauty. ... This is the first adequate account of Thomas Godfrey, and one that presents a picture drawn from historical data, of the literary and cultural conditions of American society in Philadelphia and Wilmington 1750-67.”
R of Rs 56:443 O ‘17 250w
GOGOL, NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH. Inspector-general; a comedy in five acts; tr. from the Russian by T: Seltzer. (Borzoi plays) *$1 Knopf 891.7 17-78
“In this satire (written in the third decade of the last century) Gogol takes you to a little town of provincial Russia and introduces you to conditions there. Great excitement prevails in the town; for news of the coming of a government inspector has reached the town officials, and they tremble at the prospect of an investigation. ... In their panic fear they take the first man who arrives in town for the dreaded ‘Revizor.’ He happens to be a penniless adventurer from Petrograd, and to him each of the local officials, from the governor down, comes to reveal the venality of the others. ... The play is an unsparing castigation of ‘official’ incompetence, dishonesty and baseness.”—N Y Call
“It is theatrical, it is obvious. ... But it is irresistible fun.” O. M. Sayler
+ Dial 62:142 F 22 ‘17 120w
Reviewed by L. S. Friedland
N Y Call p15 F 25 ‘17 350w
“A Russian critic writes: ‘Russia possesses only one comedy, “The inspector general.”’ This volume is a new and complete version of Gogol’s four-act play written in 1835, which, by holding up to ridicule the officials of a typical municipality, struck a definite blow at the tyrannous bureaucracy of the Russian government.”
+ R of Rs 55:440 Ap ‘17 50w
“Means very much more to the Russian than even ‘The school for scandal’ or ‘She stoops to conquer’ does to the English-speaking world. ... Also known by its more literal title of ‘The revizor.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 22 ‘17 70w
GOLDMAN, MAYER C. Public defender; a necessary factor in the administration of justice. *$1 (7c) Putnam 343 17-7209
The author bases his plea for the establishment of the office of public defender on two principles: “(1) That it is as much the function of the state to shield the innocent as to convict the guilty; (2) That the ‘presumption of innocence’ requires the state to defend as well as to prosecute accused persons.” He discusses the subject in eight chapters: The public defender idea; The injustice of the “assigned counsel” system; Public prosecution and prosecutors; Analysis of the public defender; The ancient conception of crime; Specific objections considered; Other remedies inadequate; The march of the movement. The author is a member of the New York bar and the book has a foreword by Justice Wesley O. Howard of the Appellate division, New York Supreme court.
“‘The author has approached the subject from many angles and we believe has presented an exceptionally able brief in support of his premise and has answered in full, all criticisms and objections which have been raised.’”
+ Cleveland p92 Jl ‘17 110w (Reprinted from American Law Review)
“A valuable feature of the book is an appendix giving the chronology of the movement in this country and setting forth the most important facts regarding its present employment.”
+ Dial 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 330w
New Repub 11:142 Je 2 ‘17 160w
“The author is an attorney who drew both the bills for a public defender which were introduced into the New York legislature in 1915.”
N Y Br Lib News 4:59 Ap ‘17 60w
+ N Y Call p14 Mr 18 ‘17 200w
N Y Times 22:386 O 7 ‘17 60w
Pittsburgh 22:769 N ‘17 80w
R of Rs 55:444 Ap ‘17 80w
“The public defender idea has met opposition from bar associations, judges, newspapers and others who have believed that accused persons are sufficiently protected in our courts under existing safeguards. Meanwhile, it has won increasing attention from the public generally.” W. D. Lane
Survey 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 520w
223GOLDSMITH, ROBERT. League to enforce peace; with a special introduction by A. Lawrence Lowell. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 341.1 17-6558
The “League to enforce peace,” organized in June, 1915, with ex-President Taft, A. Lawrence Lowell, and others as its promoters, is one of the associations that are trying to work out a practical program for the insurance of peace. A discussion of this program is the substance of the present work. It is divided into three parts. In part 1, the author considers The forces that failed, examining some of the agencies that broke down in 1914. Part 2 is devoted to an exposition of the principles and platform of the League to enforce peace. Part 3 is an examination of The creed of militarism, with a refutation of the militarist arguments. Endorsements of the League, etc., are given in an appendix. There is a bibliography and an index.
A L A Bkl 13:330 My ‘17
Ann Am Acad 74:301 N ‘17 260w
“The author of this comprehensive discussion of the subject is a working member of the League and his book has had the examination and approval of several of its officials.” F. F. Kelly
+ Bookm 45:183 Ap ‘17 400w
“An unusually thin mess of intellectual porridge. ... The book slides along from easy platitude to easy platitude, without any genuine criticism or even analysis of the idea it professes to expound.” Randolph Bourne
— Dial 62:387 My 3 ‘17 1050w
“The book, tho rather diffuse in thought and arrangement, is nevertheless sound in principle, comprehensive, and well written. It should do much, especially in schools and colleges, to spread the idea that the coöperation of nations and not the competition of nations will alone insure eternal peace when the war ends.”
+ Ind 90:380 My 26 ‘17 120w
“An excellent bibliography of books on the war and reconstruction is appended to a volume which does its admirable ‘bit’ towards making an old idea fresh and alive.”
+ New Repub 10:sup20 Ap 21 ‘17 250w
— N Y Call p15 Ap 15 ‘17 500w
“Throughout the book, both in his exposition of the league’s proposals and in his discussion of conditions out of which it has grown and of opinions concerning those conditions, Mr Goldsmith never loses sight either of the ideal that is aimed at nor of the practical steps by which it can be attained.”
+ N Y Times 22:64 F 25 ‘17 800w
+ Outlook 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 90w
Pittsburgh 22:701 O ‘17 10w
“A ‘League to enforce peace’ ought to do much toward keeping us in intellectual equilibrium, not so much perhaps because of the startling or unusual in its pages as for the simplicity with which oft-expressed ideas are set forth.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 6 ‘17 480w
GOLTZ, HORST VON DER. My adventures as a German secret agent. il *$1.50 (2½c) McBride 940.91 17-29598
Chance slipped the young von der Goltz into the hands of the Prussian intelligence bureau and after years of shaping he was turned out a finished secret diplomatic agent. His adventures as secret agent in Russia, France, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, the United States and England came to an abrupt end when England caught him and put him in prison. In this autobiographical volume he betrays Germany and divulges the entire structure and workings of her efficient spy system as it has been operative among the Allies. Of the United States he says: “Let me repeat again that Germany has installed in this country thousands of men, whose nationality and habits are such as to protect them from suspicion, who work silently and alone, because they know that their very lives depend upon their silence, and who are in communication with no central spy organization, for the very simple reason that no such organization exists. ... Eternal vigilance, here as elsewhere, is the price of security.”
“He makes an exciting tale, though it may be hard to believe everything he says, and most of the intrigues have already been exposed in the papers.”
+ — A L A Bkl 14:123 Ja ‘18
“Interesting as is Baron von der Goltz’s exposure of German character, it yet fails in the appeal to our sympathies that its author evidently intended. Like every German he supposes that the average human mind works as the German mind works. He builds the whole structure of his book about his ridiculous slander against the late Empress Frederick. The American is accordingly prepared to believe nothing. Nevertheless, the rest of the narrative rings true.”
+ — Boston Transcript p8 D 8 ‘17 430w
Dial 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 90w
“The volume is interesting, however the reader may regard it. If it is considered as fiction, it has its merits; and equally so if it is considered as fact.” Joshua Wanhope
+ N Y Call p14 O 28 ‘17 700w
N Y Times 22:435 O 28 ‘17 880w
St Louis 15:419 D ‘17 30w
GOODMAN, PAUL, and LEWIS, ARTHUR D., eds. Zionism; problems and views. *$1.50 Bloch 296 17-4978
“This book consists of twenty-three papers by as many Anglo-Jewish contributors, with an introduction by Dr Max Nordau, the present leader of the movement of Zionism. ... What the capacities of the Jews are for national life, what they have done in Palestine already, may be read in this book. It is a study of the Jews, full of information little known to the Gentile, which appeals at least to intellectual curiosity, and very considerably to the sympathies of all educated readers.”—Sat R
N Y Br Lib News 4:13 Ja ‘17 70w
Pittsburgh 22:53 Ja ‘17 5w
+ Sat R 122:137 Ag 5 ‘16 1200w
GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER. Appeal of the nation. *75c (4½c) Pilgrim press 172 17-13744
Five patriotic addresses by the minister of Old South church, Boston. Contents: American freedom; The foreign-born American citizen; Christian and citizen; American loyalty; The nation and humanity.
“These lecture-sermons are as Christian as they are patriotic.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 19 ‘17 300w
“Of the five stirring addresses that make Dr George A. Gordon’s ‘Appeal of the nation,’ all are worth reading, but that on our foreign-born citizens preaches an understanding sympathy that it were well if all native Americans could feel.”
+ Ind 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 40w
GORDON, JAN. Balkan freebooter. il *$3 Dutton (Eng ed 17-9486)
“‘A Balkan freebooter’ is a picturesque account, for whose truth the author vouches, of a Servian outlaw and comitaj whose career, still unfinished, is a compound of those of Robin Hood and Raffles. His name is Petko Moritch, and his biographer has had his story from Petko’s own lips, altering only the names of the principals, including Petko’s.”—Springf’d Republican
“The story of his eventful life rings with the romance that only truth, that strangest thing in the universe, is able to supply. It shows the fighting character of the modern Serb, who, like Petko, has tramped the plain of Kossovo, fleeing mountainwards, and by some miracle of survival, by some quality of superhuman strength, is winning his way back into freedom. Mr Gordon’s narrative is particularly timely and interesting.” R. M.
+ Boston Transcript p8 F 14 ‘17 600w
224“A fascinating book.”
+ N Y Times 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 700w
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Mr 11 ‘17 250w