Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 22)
Reading edition
“As the first student of trade unionism who perceived that, besides varying in type as to organization or structure, labor groups have functional differences through which a clearer understanding of the phenomenon might be secured, the late Prof. Hoxie occupies a unique position in his particular ‘guild.’ A close study of the application of the theory inevitably clears thinking and results in a saner attitude toward the problem.”
+ Engin News-Rec 80:132 Ja 17 ‘18 330w
“It seems clear that Professor Hoxie had not yet found time to think out trade-union method in terms of his leading principle. It remains to be seen whether the conception will bear fruit in other hands. Apart from this novel fundamental idea, the book is interesting and suggestive. The glimpses of Professor Hoxie’s method as a teacher are peculiarly attractive and will deepen the sense of loss suffered through his early death.”
+ — Nation 105:696 D 20 ‘17 340w
“It will be long before we have a better book to supersede it. For the qualities that distinguish Hoxie’s work are exceedingly rare in scholarship. Where other scholars strive earnestly to deal in certitudes, it was Hoxie’s zeal to preserve an open mind. His devotion to openmindedness is infectious.” Alvin Johnson
+ New Repub 13:319 Ja 12 ‘18 1650w
“The value of a sympathetic attitude on the part of the investigator of an institution is seldom seen to greater advantage than in this important work, which will be indispensable to the student of labor conditions in America.”
+ Outlook 117:516 N 28 ‘17 80w
“Even though he did not live to see his studies brought out in book form, the work unquestionably stands out as one of the most complete treatises on trade unionism in this country.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 18 ‘18 470w
HUARD, FRANCES (WILSON) (MME CHARLES HUARD). My home in the field of mercy. il *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 940.91 17-29627
Mme Huard here continues the story told in “My home on the field of honour” by describing the transformation of the Château de Villiers into “Annex No. 7,” a hospital for French wounded. After “ten days of shoveling out and burying the filth” that had been her “most cherished possessions,” she was cheered by the arrival of Mme Guix, the nurse, the sergeant-infirmier and his four assistants. Then the sick and wounded began to come in. We are told “how they were taken care of, healed, amused, humored, and set to work according to their capacity”; (N Y Times) how the number of beds was increased from 45 to 120, and typhoid patients, some in the worst stages of the disease, were taken in, and how Mme Huard made the trip to Soissons, then under fire, to get tobacco for her patients from Mme Macherez, who risked her life for Soissons when the Germans entered it. The episode of ten-year-old Elvire, “mad with a terrible remembered experience and shrieking at the sight of a man in uniform,” stands out unforgettably, as does also the picture of Mme Huard, driving off to Paris to have her appendix removed, cheered on by her helpers “all standing on the steps waving a fond adieu, and for want of something more appropriate shrieking ‘Vive la France!’”
+ A L A Bkl 14:123 Ja ‘18
“The book is rather carelessly written but interesting and dramatic.”
+ — Cleveland p130 D ‘17 60w
“Her book is a wonderful record.”
+ Lit D 55:44 D 8 ‘17 130w
“A book that is breathlessly interesting, full of fun in spite of all the danger and the tragedy, lightened with the most delicious pen pictures of the French poilu in all sorts of situations. ... It is a book worth having written and deeply worth the reading. The illustrations by Charles Huard are exquisite drawings, vignettes of battle scenes, characters in the story, visions of France as she looks today.”
+ N Y Times 22:492 N 25 ‘17 1100w
Outlook 117:521 N 28 ‘17 40w
Pittsburgh 22:826 D ‘17 50w
R of Rs 57:101 Ja ‘18 90w
“Mme Huard does not dwell on unpleasant details. With an American sense of humor—for she is the daughter of Francis Wilson, the 277comedian—and with also a touch of dramatic sense, she lightens her book with the quaint sayings and doings of the people around her.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 550w
HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST. From the gulf to Ararat; an expedition through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. il *$3.50 Dutton 915 (Eng ed 17-9114)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The author has incidentally furnished us with a careful description of those regions in Mesopotamia and Persia that have been fought over by the British, Russian, Turkish, and German armies.” W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez
+ Dial 63:394 Oct 25 ‘17 1150w
+ N Y Times 22:539 D 9 ‘17 80w
HUDSON, CHARLES BENJAMIN. Royal outlaw. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-17619
This is the story of the early life of David, beginning with his flight from Saul, who tries to take David’s life, picturing his career as an outlaw, and ending with his coronation as king of Israel. The author has filled out the biblical outlines with incidents of his own imagination. “David is portrayed as a young man of quick temper and lightning decision, and as an extremely resourceful military commander.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Delightfully human book ... portrays an interesting period in Hebrew history with accuracy and sympathy. It is a nice combination of Bible facts and the author’s fancy, a spirited tale of adventure and romance charmingly written.”
+ + Boston Transcript p6 Ag 15 ‘17 200w
“Unfortunately, the author appears to have felt that to accomplish his purpose he must eliminate from the incomparable romance its inner significance. The hand with which he has removed the veil of symbolism was curiously maladroit and lacking in ordinary veneration for a literary masterpiece.”
— Cath World 106:693 F ‘18 220w
+ — Ind 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 50w
“A perfectly corking story, without a single moral or sign of a moral about it. It is human, and not only credible, but almost convincing. David is a hero after the heart of men and women. ... It will make a thrilling film.” L: A. Walker
+ + N Y Call p15 Jl 8 ‘17 340w
“As for adventures and perils and hairbreadth escapes and all manner of fighting, it would be hard to find more of them in any single novel that has been written in many a day. ... Humor enlivens the pages.”
+ N Y Times 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 620w
“A very interesting tale told with spirit and in close adherence to biblical facts. But the principal service it performs is to present David as a man with human passions as well as a writer of poetry.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 19 ‘17 350w
HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY. Crystal age; with an introd. by Clifford Smyth. *$1.50 Dutton A17-174
“The crystal age” was published in the eighties. An edition was brought out in America in 1907 and was reviewed in the Digest at that time. The present revival of interest in W. H. Hudson has called for a reprint. “In ‘A crystal age,’ the author visits and describes for us a no man’s land. It may be England, it may be South America, it may be any other country on the face of the globe. Its people and incidents may be of the past, the present or the future. As he himself describes his story, he has written in it ‘a dream and picture of the human race in its forest period.’ ... Although the country and the people of ‘A crystal age’ are obviously of mythical origin, they are visualized none the less vividly by Mr Hudson. We see them as they are, and their manners and customs are explicitly described. Over and around them all, however, is thrown a romantic glamour that is wholly Mr Hudson’s own.” (Boston Transcript)
A L A Bkl 13:274 Mr ‘17
“After reading one of Hudson’s books one feels toward him a personal debt so great that one can discharge some small part of it only by handing on to others the news of what he is and does.” F. F. Kelly
+ Bookm 45:84 Mr ‘17 850w
“It is of course easily discernible whence Mr Hudson drew his scheme for the social order of this strange gathering of men and women. A student of nature, he saw in the life of the bee a theme for the creation of a human community after their fashion, and he has therefore made ‘A crystal age’ a perfect analogy between the two. If we read it with that knowledge in view, we have a perfect scientific study; if we read it simply as a story, we have a narrative complete in substance and beautiful in form.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p8 F 3 ‘17 1400w
“Hudson gives us ‘literary opium’ in its most delightful form, in words so musical that at times one almost forgets the sense.”
+ Ind 89:506 Mr 19 ‘17 150w
“In the majority of Mr Hudson’s books—always excepting ‘Green mansions’—the naturalist seems more to the fore than the artist. Here the latter controls the former’s abundant wealth. Nature certainly serves as a well-known and well-loved background. ... Yet the striking thing is rather the artistic and dramatic unity of the volume: the unity of the story, which moves on, picking up anticipations, opening new vistas, down to its poignant close; and the consistency of the character development as seen in the invading Englishman, who quietly acquires a soul as the action progresses.”
+ Nation 104:340 Mr 22 ‘17 600w
“W. H. Hudson is one of the very great writers of English.”
+ N Y Times 21:575 D 31 ‘16 800w
Pittsburgh 22:649 O ‘17 90w
+ R of Rs 55:554 My ‘17 140w
“Has too little story, and is too leisurely and too visionary for most novel readers, but both the subject and the fine style of its writing will endear it to some, especially those who liked ‘Green mansions.’”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:158 My ‘17 80w
HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY. Idle days in Patagonia. il *$1.50 (2½c) Dutton 918.2 A17-394
The author went out to Patagonia to make a study of its bird life. An accident shortly after his arrival rendered him quite helpless for a time and limited the field of his researches. But out of the idle days which resulted from his change of plans grew these sketches, perhaps more intimate because of their narrower range. He writes of Life in Patagonia; Snow, and the quality of whiteness; Bird music in South America; Sight in savages, etc. The book was published some years ago by D. Appleton and company, but has been out of print.
+ A L A Bkl 13:364 My ‘17
“Its charm, as in everything Mr Hudson writes, is varied, and it appeals to the reader through his understanding of nature, through his reflections upon the lives of men and beasts as he encounters them, through his many interpolated anecdotes, through his visualization of everything he sees, and through the grace of a remarkable and unpretentious English style. Its manner is no less attractive than its substance.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 14 ‘17 1000w
+ Cath World 105:404 Je ‘17 140w
+ Ind 91:33 Jl 7 ‘17 140w
+ Nation 104:526 My 3 ‘17 1000w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p15 My 20 ‘17 220w
278“Full of exquisite prose-poetry, of careful observation, of keen, live interest in all the life of those ‘idle’ days.”
+ N Y Times 22:95 Mr 18 ‘17 770w
+ R of Rs 55:555 My ‘17 80w
“The total effect of the book is something the same as if John Burroughs and Joseph Conrad had collaborated—and in a field almost of Conrad’s choice.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 My 14 ‘17 900w
“The chapter which especially caught my attention in the ‘Idle days in Patagonia,’ as it probably has that of most readers of the book, was the thirteenth.” Arthur Colton
+ Yale R n s 6:856 Jl ‘17 1350w
HUESTON, ETHEL. Sunny slopes. il *$1.40 (2½c) Bobbs 17-22006
Excepting Connie, the daughters of the parsonage are now all married, and in this volume Connie finds her way through her literary ventures to a cowboy husband. Connie was always the “different” one of the family. But Connie’s affairs are only incidental to the main thread of the story which is concerned with gay little Carol, now the wife of a Presbyterian minister and his mainstay while he fights tuberculosis in New Mexico and Colorado. “It is in New Mexico that they see the ‘sunny slopes’ of the mesas and learn to fight the battle for cheerfulness, to keep in the sunshine and avoid the shadows.” (N Y Times)
“Simple, a trifle sentimental and will be popular.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:26 O ‘17
+ N Y Times 22:326 S 2 ‘17 280w
“In spite of the story’s sad trend, it is the reverse of gloomy.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 D 2 ‘17 290w
HUGHES, JAMES LAUGHLIN. Training the children. *60c Barnes 173 17-10692
Seven brief chapters on the training of children thru self activity. Thruout, the author contrasts this new idea of training with the old idea of coercion and repression. He writes of: The child’s achieving tendencies; Training through doing; Negative and positive training; Coercion; The child’s need of freedom; The “bad” boy; Some common mistakes of the old training. The author was for many years chief inspector of schools in Toronto. He is author also of “Mistakes in teaching,” “Teaching to read,” etc.
“Here in a tiny volume, entirely within the means of any one, so far as cash or time value to be expended is concerned, we find just such a clear exposition of the eternal principles of education and the relative values of free activity and development contrasted with ‘the negative and coercive ideal’ of old times, as we long to inject into the consciousness of that great majority of adults who, as Dr Hughes aptly says, no longer defend harsh methods of disciplining children, but still retain their faith in the old ideal.” J. L. Hunt
+ Survey 38:575 S 29 ‘17 480w
HUGHES, RUPERT. In a little town. il *$1.35 (1c) Harper 17-8348
The author’s earlier books have been novels of city life. This is a book of small town stories. The author, however, staunchly protests against the idea that there is any essential difference between a big town and a small one. “A village is simply a quiet street in the big city of the world. Quaint, sweet happenings take place in the avenues most thronged, and desperate events come about in sleepy lanes. People are people, chance is chance.” The scene of the stories is close to the Mississippi. The titles are: Don’t you care! Pop; Baby talk; The mouth of the gift horse; The old folks at home; And this is marriage; The man that might have been; The happiest man in Ioway; Prayers; Pain; The beauty and the fool; The ghostly counselors; Daughters of Shiloh; “A” as in “father.”
“Clever, often amusing, and often keen.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:403 Je ‘17
“It is only that Mr Hughes is at times banal and even cheap in his style, and he is surely inexcusably flippant; it is that we must resent the lack of distinction in writing where the matter cries aloud for sincerity and dignity. The collection is much too good not to be very much better. As it stands, it is always thoroughly readable, and often extremely diverting.”
– + Boston Transcript p6 My 2 ‘17 370w
“The promise is not fulfilled. The stories contain excellent material, hastily handled. These cheerful, ordinary, humanly vulgar folk fail to arouse interest because their creator writes of them but not for them. They are crude snapshots rather than artistic photographs. ‘And this is marriage’ strikes the highest note.”
– + Dial 62:402 My 3 ‘17 120w
+ Ind 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 120w
“The effect is of artifice, of ‘well-made’ plots and character in the sense of the stage rather than of the art which interprets. In short, they are of the magazine formula, and of little account on other grounds.”
— Nation 104:633 My 24 ‘17 280w
“Mr Hughes’s collection of fourteen short stories all have their scenes laid in imaginary small towns in the region round about the city of Keokuk, Iowa, a region familiar to his youth.”
+ N Y Times 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 380w
“Almost without exception the stories are diverting in high degree.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Je 3 ‘17 430w
“Not very cheerful on the whole, but well done.”
Wis Lib Bul 13:158 My ‘17 30w
HUGHES, RUPERT. We can’t have everything. il *$1.50 (1c) Harper 17-22299
Kedzie Thropp came from a little Missouri town to visit New York with her parents. She ran away from them and began her career by getting a job in a candy-store. Later, she tried Greek dancing and the movies. Her first marriage venture was with Tommie Gilfoyle, an advertising man, her second with Jim Dyckman, one of the richest men in New York society, and her third with the Marquess of Strathdene. Kedzie, the social climber, greedy for all the material good that life can give, is contrasted with Charity Coe Cheever, a woman of assured position in society, who was also divorced and re-married.
“Kedzie is the one person in the story in whom we more or less believe. As for the others, the more strokes the artist puts into their portraits, the less clearly we see them. ... The truth is, Mr Hughes has again, in the thin disguise of a story-teller, taken the floor to have his say about something. ... The book is an argument in favour of tolerably easy divorce, with a laboriously arranged exhibit of what decent people may suffer under the present laws of New York state. If the believer could only have embodied his belief in his story! Unluckily, it is only too clear that his idea and not his people interests him.” H. W. Boynton
— Bookm 46:210 O ‘17 960w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ — Bookm 46:339 N ‘17 50w
“In the end the reader isn’t sure just who is married. The whole, in its sly sex-suggestiveness and apparent frankness about ostensibly vital problems, is quite characteristic of Rupert Hughes.”
— Dial 63:463 N 8 ‘17 110w
“The book has a story to tell, but the narrator appears to be in at least two minds as to what it is all about. Under these conditions there can be no story pure and simple. At best it is a piece of satirical comedy in an elaborate New York setting; we recognize the scene, we marvel at the effectiveness of the lighting and authenticity of the costumes. Unluckily, 279we also recognize the plot and personæ, less as ‘from the life’ than as from the stockroom of recent fiction.”
– + Nation 105:370 O 4 ‘17 470w
“Kedzie is a Rupert Hughes version of a vampire, very beautiful, very modern, very resourceful and capable in adapting herself to surroundings and blooming out afresh with each new possibility of progress. The story comes down to the present and takes in the recent welcome of New York to the French mission.”
N Y Times 22:311 Ag 26 ‘17 660w
“Rupert Hughes requires 637 closely printed pages to find the way to happiness for Jim Dyckman and Charity Coe. It could have been found by a shorter route and without sacrificing a single essential of the story. ... The author’s flow of satirical, and often flippant, humor, is more diverting than his exposé of odoriferous social morals, though, needless to say, this is done with Mr Hughes’s grasp of character and sense of atmosphere.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 S 16 ‘17 300w
HUGINS, ROLAND. Possible peace; a forecast of world politics after the great war. *$1.25 (3½c) Century 327 16-23057
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
A L A Bkl 13:306 Ap ‘17
“A judicial and admirably dispassionate survey of the unfolding of recent European history, culminating in the war, with discussion of its significance for us and its possible influence upon our future.” F. F. Kelly
+ Bookm 45:182 Ap ‘17 450w
Ind 89:320 F 19 ‘17 160w
“The author develops his theses with candor and intelligence. The book is not exactly inspiriting, but it is wholesome reading in an epoch in which partisan interpretations and pragmatic conclusions make up the bulk of the literature on international affairs.”
+ New Repub 10:52 F 10 ‘17 350w
“His volume is one of the sanest that the war has produced and deserves to rank for its calm, judicial temper, its loyalty to truth, and its illuminative thought with G. Lowes Dickinson’s ‘European anarchy’ and Fried’s ‘Restoration of Europe,’ while not even Romain Rolland’s ‘Above the battle,’ although more passionate in its longing and more inspired in its utterance, is more earnestly and single-heartedly desirous of the ending of the war and the establishment of a more enlightened understanding of one another among the peoples of the earth. So clear and fair and free from all prejudice is Mr Hugins’s marshaling of the facts of recent history and so strictly just his interpretation that his book, along with that by Mr Dickinson—for the two admirably supplement each other—ought to be put on the supplementary reading courses of modern history classics in universities and colleges.”
+ N Y Times 22:34 F 4 ‘17 530w
HULL, ARTHUR EAGLEFIELD.[2] Great Russian tone-poet, Scriabin. (Library of music and musicians.) il *$1.25 Dutton 17-11131
“Dr Eaglefield Hull devotes his book chiefly to an analysis of Scriabin’s works, both for the pianoforte and for orchestra. The pianoforte works comprise preludes, études, nocturnes, etc., a concerto and ten sonatas; the orchestral three symphonies, the ‘Poem of ecstasy’ and ‘Prometheus.’ There is a brief biography, preceded by the inevitable exposition of the musical awakening in Russia. ... The mystery of Scriabin’s new scales and new chords is expounded. ... In appendices are lists of his works, each with a brief descriptive paragraph. There is a list of Russian and other names.”—N Y Times
+ A L A Bkl 14:84 D ‘17
“The author’s style is often confused, and troublesome to the reader. The thought in a book is the test; and this volume comes off well in that respect.”
+ — Ath p588 D ‘16 320w
“Whether one reads to damn or praise, the value of Dr Hull’s commentary must be recognized.” Russell Ramsey
+ Dial 64:21 Ja 3 ‘18 1500w
“Dr Hull’s comments are intelligent, granting the point of view; and his book should be valuable to the followers of the new and to any who wish to know the new.”
+ — N Y Times 22:479 N 18 ‘17 410w
“We are more grateful for the matter than for the manner of this book.”
– + The Times [London] Lit Sup p571 N 30 ‘16 970w
HUMPHREY, SETH KING. Mankind. *$1.50 (4c) Scribner 575.6 17-24251
A treatise on racial values and the racial prospect. It presents the subject untechnically in its broad social aspect with a view to awakening in the lay reader an appreciation of the fundamental part played in human affairs by inborn racial quality. He examines racial tendencies as factors in human progress, views the race values of the countries at war, shows the necessity of a eugenic system at work in the world that shall effectively cut off the increase of downright human unfitness and forecasts an era when hereditary defects among enlightened peoples are wiped out as a preparatory period to one that shall legitimately insure adequate perpetuation of only superior inheritances.
“An interesting study, vigorous in expression and noteworthy for the laudable independence of the thinking.” Archibald Henderson
+ Bookm 46:275 N ‘17 650w
“This book overlooks entirely the economic interpretation of history, the influence of social heredity in calling out the potentialities which for all we know may lie dormant in every individual. The writer’s opinion of woman is influenced by his conception of her value as a means of transmitting a valuable trait down the family line. Other chapters on The nations at war, The immigration problem and The negro all show themselves tinged by dogmatism and the same narrow point of view.” A. E. Watson
— Survey 39:445 Ja 19 ‘18 510w
HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK). Grail fire. *$1.50 (2c) Dutton 17-8347
The story of a young man’s search for religious peace of mind. Francis Merwin is the son of a man who is an agnostic and a woman who is a strict Puritan. His mother’s narrow Protestantism seems to him barren and meaningless, and yet he demands something that his father, beauty-loving pagan that he is, cannot give him. In Eleanor Ramsey he finds a companion who sympathizes with him. Together they study the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church, finding themselves repelled by its hard and fast dogmas, altho emotionally it seems to offer what they seek. Finally they discover the Catholic branch of the Episcopal church and in it find the answer to all their doubts and questions. Francis, altho his mother and father are both hurt by his choice, studies for the ministry. Eleanor remains true to him, even tho it seems for a time that his priestly ideals will demand the renunciation of personal happiness.
“‘Grail fire’ barely convinces. ... Those with tendencies towards mysticism will find the novel attractive. The average reader will be somewhat repelled because of its lack of vitality. Without question it is both carefully written and sincere in feeling.”
+ — Boston Transcript p6 Ap 25 ‘17 190w
“The author must be totally devoid of all sense of humor, for her description of Father Merwin’s first mass with his sweetheart acolyte, and his motley congregation of Jews, Italians and Irish is ludicrous in the extreme.”
— Cath World 105:263 My ‘17 200w
“A very charming, if somewhat illogical book. ... Although ‘Grail fire’ may be a bit too 280idealistic for the average mortal, we predict that all the sixteen-year-olds in the land will find it absolutely true to life.”
+ — Dial 62:402 My 3 ‘17 170w
“Despite its theological thesis she has written a novel of vital human interest, which even a casual reader will hardly lay aside until the end is reached.”
+ N Y Times 22:125 Ap 8 ‘17 380w
HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) (MRS W. DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.). Rubbish heap. *$1.40 (1c) Putnam 17-13182
A half French nephew who comes to disturb the Victorian propriety and solitude of two maiden aunts, and a little Irish waif brought home by a sea captain to be a companion to his wife, are characters in this story. Christopher, whose artistic tastes and temperament are so puzzling to Miss Augusta and Miss Jane, discovers little Mara and paints her against the background of the curio shop that is her home. The attic of this shop, with its heaped up treasure, proves the means of solving the mystery of the little girl, and shows that between her and Christopher there exists a strange relationship.
“A fairly pretty story tho not very convincing.”
– + Lit D 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 170w
Nation 105:40 Jl 12 ‘17 200w
“An ingenious little story and well written, although the coincidences are too numerous to be altogether credible.”
+ N Y Times 22:202 My 20 ‘17 280w
HUMPHREYS, FRANCIS LANDON. Life and times of David Humphreys, 1752-1818. 2v il *$7.50 Putnam 17-8099
A biography that takes us back to the American revolution. David Humphreys, soldier, statesman, poet and manufacturer, was termed by one of his contemporaries the “belov’d of Washington.” “It may safely be said,” says the author, “that as it is impossible to write the life of Humphreys without including a large part of the life of Washington, so it is almost as impossible to write fully of the career of Washington without presenting, in large measure at least, the life of Humphreys.” The biography is based in part on the Humphreys and Washington correspondence, now in the manuscript department of the Library of Congress. As a manufacturer Humphreys has a present-day interest as founder of the woolen industry in this country.
“An extremely detailed biography; not a brilliant book, but a work which will be useful for reference. The illustrations and the index deserve a word of commendation.”
+ Ath p365 Jl ‘17 120w
“A casual reader with endless time will find in them much of miscellaneous interest, and the scholar may make use of them by means of the excellent index. Except for one or two slips that may be chargeable to the printer the work seems accurate and scholarly.”
+ — Dial 63:462 N 8 ‘17 550w
“There is, in this varied and useful career, much that is typical of the lives men led in our heroic age. Perhaps for that reason the biographer has yielded to the temptation to be at times, out of the wealth of his material, a little superfluous in his account of well-known events. In spite of the attempt of the biographer to make him out a hero, Humphreys is most interesting as a representative man who deserved either a shorter or a more vivid biography than has fallen to his lot.”
+ — Nation 105:455 O 25 ‘17 1350w
“Although he has made considerable use of Colonel Humphreys’s correspondence with Washington which is preserved in the Library of Congress, the author has been somewhat sparing in direct quotation therefrom. Whenever he has done so it is very readable, especially the long reports to President Washington from Spain and Portugal.”
+ N Y Times 22:200 My 20 ‘17 750w
+ Outlook 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 150w
R of Rs 55:667 Je ‘17 60w
“This biography is singularly opportune, and should find many readers on this side of the Atlantic.”
* + Spec 118:62 Jl 21 ‘17 1100w
“The book is well produced and illustrated, and is a useful contribution to American history, particularly that of the period from the close of the Revolution to the adoption of the present constitution. It is, however, too long; its contents could easily and better have been compressed into a single volume. Some of the text is much the same as can be found in an ordinary book of history, and many of Col. Humphreys’s letters have but faint interest for the reading public of to-day.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p6 My 28 ‘17 650w
“A biography so constructed inevitably falls between the two stools of biography proper and what the French call ‘Mémoires pour servir.’ ‘It is to be noted,’ says the biographer, ‘that very little of Humphreys’s correspondence is published in these two volumes.’ And yet there is too much. His private correspondence is excellent—full of shrewd observation, terse description, and keen political insight. But his public correspondence belongs to a different category, that of history, not of biography.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p280 Je 14 ‘17 2050w
“Here is a subject for a valuable and interesting biography, and in its preparation there is evidence of persistent scholarship. The records are closely read. The background of historical events, doubtless, is drawn with fidelity to fact. And yet this biography is not interesting.” C: S. Brooks
– + Yale R n s 7:437 Ja ‘18 1000w
HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS. Unicorns. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner 814 17-25117
These thirty essays, copyrighted from 1906 to 1917, deal with Edward MacDowell, Remy de Gourmont, Artzibashef, Henry James, George Sand, Cézanne, Brahms, Huysmans, W. H. Mallock, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Chopin, George Moore, and Richard Wagner; also with such subjects as Style and rhythm in English prose; A synthesis of the seven arts; Pillow-land; Cross-currents in modern French literature; Violinists now and yesteryear; Prayers for the living, etc. The title essay, In praise of unicorns, takes the unicorn as “the symbol of fantasy and intellectual freedom.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:86 D ‘17
Boston Transcript p7 O 24 ‘17 750w
Cleveland p133 D ‘17 50w
“It is all in the same manner, obligingly informative and genially casual. It has the compactness of pemmican. It is guaranteed by the authority of great names, and shows an agile intellect dovetailing epigrams. Mr Huneker has never escaped from the blight of cleverness that characterized the nineties. ... His great merit is that he has banished solemnity and cant; he talks about books because he loves them, and there isn’t an ounce of pedantry in his whole nature.” G: B. Donlin
+ — Dial 63:344 O 11 ‘17 1400w
“Would it be unkind to intimate that he is writing, or at least publishing, in 1917 and not in 1897, and that the world has grown, for terrible reasons, rather weary of trifling with morality?”
– + Nation 105:402 O 11 ‘17 980w
“After all that he has done for us, it seems a little ungrateful to be bored with ‘Unicorns.’ Mr Huneker remains a brilliant journalist, instead of developing into an American critic who would respond to the large currents and counter-currents with an individual competence of appreciation.” R. B.
– + New Repub 13:130 D 1 ‘17 830w
“Mr Huneker is always brilliant. He is always worth reading. But this collection of essays is more personal than anything else that he has done, and we are not sure that it is not more charming.”
+ N Y Times 22:416 O 21 ‘17 820w
281“Mr Huneker is amiable, effervescent, always companionable, and in his disdainful talk about ‘conventional morality’ and the like shows none of the hauteur of the modern intellectual egoist who usually uses such phrases. For a time he was our most implacable ‘modern,’ but that distinction, no longer undivided, has passed to a less worthy and less likeable crew.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p10 O 19 ‘17 780w
HUNGERFORD, EDWARD. Railroad problem. il $1.50 (2c) McClurg 385 17-10892
The railroad is characterized by the author as “the great sick man of the American business family.” He says, “Just at this time, owing to the extraordinary and abnormal prosperity that has come to the United States, largely because of the great war in Europe, he [the railroad] has rallied temporarily. But his illness continues, far too deep-seated to be thrown off in a moment. And the recent extraordinary legislation passed by Congress has done nothing to alleviate the condition of the sufferer. On the contrary, it has been a great aggravation.” In the author’s opinion great opportunities for development lie before the railroad system of the United States, and his purpose, after discussing the present situation and its causes, is to point out the course that it must follow if it is to continue as a privately owned institution. The problems of labor are given five chapters. Other chapters discuss: The railroad and national defense; The necessity of the railroad; Regulation. In part the material of the book has appeared in Collier’s, Every Week and the Saturday Evening Post.
A L A Bkl 14:6 O ‘17
Cleveland p96 Jl ‘17 30w
“The good red blood of human life runs all through the book. Even the serious student of the railroad problem may profit by its perusal, for it helps to humanize the whole situation.”
+ Dial 63:398 O 25 ‘17 200w
Pittsburgh 22:758 N ‘17 30w
Wis Lib Bul 13:215 Jl ‘17 40w
HURGRONJE, CHRISTIAAN SNOUCK. Revolt in Arabia. *75c (2c) Putnam 953 17-7479
A translation of articles that appeared in a Dutch newspaper in July, 1916. Announcement had just come of a revolt in Arabia against Turkish rule. Professor Hurgronje’s purpose was to supply the historical background for an understanding of such an event. The book has a foreword by Richard J. H. Gottheil of Columbia university, and a translation of the proclamation of the Shereef of Mecca is added as an appendix.
“This brief account of the revolt and of the general situation is admirably lucid, and so is the chapter explaining the impropriety, according to Mohammedan law, of the assumption of the title of Caliph by the Sultan of Turkey. It will help western readers to understand questions that are to most of them obscure.”
+ Ath p530 O ‘17 100w
“Though we must agree with Prof. Snouck Hurgronje that the Sherifate of Mecca, acting alone, is a negligible quantity in the great war, Arabia, considered as a whole, can undoubtedly become an important factor in its course and its consequential bearing on Near Eastern problems.”
+ Nation 104:711 Je 14 ‘17 1600w
N Y Times 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 200w
St Louis 15:186 Je ‘17 20w
“A most instructive little book. The author condemns the attempt of the Young Turks, under German influence, to revive the Caliphate, ‘playing with the fire of religious hate.’ He regards the Shereef’s revolt as ‘a master stroke,’ in reply to this pernicious scheme, which has happily failed in the great Mohammedan countries and is now rejected in Mecca itself.”
+ Spec 119:247 S 8 ‘17 1350w
“The author is professor of Arabic in the University of Leiden, Holland. As he also dwelt for some time in Mecca he has been able to get a good insight into the hopes and aspirations of the followers of the prophet. The little work is of value for the light it throws on one of the side issues of the war.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 1 ‘17 90w
* + The Times [London] Lit Sup p377 Ag 9 ‘17 1350w
HURLEY, EDWARD NASH.[2] Awakening of business. *$2 (4c) Doubleday 380 16-24342
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
+ A L A Bkl 13:297 Ap ‘17
“In popular, almost journalistic form, the newer point of view as to the relation between government and business is set forth. A valuable chapter on the work of the trade commission shows how the commission prevents law suits. The author is optimistic and singularly devoid of that fear of calamity from either foreign competition or government oppression which permeates the writings and addresses of the older school. His attention is taken up less with ‘grave perils’ than with means of strengthening and expanding business prosperity.” J. T. Y.
+ Ann Am Acad 72:236 Jl ‘17 250w
“This book by the former chairman of the Federal trade commission, exhibits those ideas which have given him nation-wide fame. But the careful thinker will not be able to avoid the inference that with all his apparent clearness of thought he has some of those heresies that have made Frank A. Vanderlip term us ‘a nation of economic illiterates.’ The author discusses the Sherman law in a sane way and explains the attitude of the Federal trade commission. At the close of the book the act under which the commission was formed and a part of the Clayton act are published. The book is interesting from cover to cover. Hurley’s meaning is always clear and his ideas always clever.”
+ — Coal Age 11:641 Ap 7 ‘17 1250w
HURST, ARTHUR F. Medical diseases of the war. *$1.75 Longmans 616
“Dr Hurst discusses certain common diseases in the war, such as trench fever, dysentery and paratyphoid, and shows how infections received at this time may linger and revive through many years in other forms.” (Survey) “The first chapter is devoted to the functional nervous disorders of which so many varieties have been met with during the war. Among these are classed cases of shell shock, neurasthenia, hysteria, and psychasthenia.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
Reviewed by Gertrude Seymour
Survey 39:170 N 17 ‘17 80w
“It is a valuable addition to the medical literature of the war.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p4 Ja 4 ‘17 400w
HUSBAND, JOSEPH. Story of the Pullman car. il *$1.50 (6½c) McClurg 656 17-15079
The story of the Pullman car is told in the following chapters: The birth of railroad transportation; The evolution of the sleeping car; The rise of a great industry; The Pullman car in Europe; The survival of the fittest; The town of Pullman; Inventions and improvements; How the cars are made; The operation of the Pullman car. One aspect of the subject is not touched on, the labor disturbances that have attended the development of the industry. The illustrations, which include reproductions of cartoons made in the early days of the sleeping car, are interesting.
A L A Bkl 14:46 N ‘17
“The majority of people know in a vague way about the town of Pullman and the immense size of this industry, and these exact details of the various inventions and improvements which bring about the comfort and luxury of present day travel make an interesting and instructive book.”
+ Boston Transcript p9 D 12 ‘17 130w
Cleveland p112 S ‘17 30w
Pittsburgh 22:819 D ‘17 20w
282HUSIK, ISAAC. History of mediaeval Jewish philosophy. *$3 (2c) Macmillan 181 16-21233
At the suggestion of the Jewish publication society the author has undertaken to write a “history of mediaeval Jewish rationalistic philosophy in one volume—a history that will appeal alike to the scholar and the intelligent non-technical reader.” He points out that no such work exists in any language, and that in English, Jewish philosophy in general is barely touched. This work then seems to fill a gap in the history of philosophy. A general introduction is followed by chapters devoted to eighteen mediaeval philosophers. Bibliography, notes, list of Biblical and rabbinic passages, and index complete the book. The author is assistant professor of philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania.
“The author shows his ability to do pioneer work of this type by the skill with which he handles the obscure and intricate subtleties of his theme. He deals exhaustively with mediaeval Jewish rationalism but omits all reference to mysticism or the Kabbaka.”
+ Ind 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
“Those familiar with the scattered, obscure, and unintelligible material with which Dr Husik had to cope, can best appreciate the value of his excellent work. He has transformed a literary chaos into a systematic presentation, accessible to the modern reader. His study of the texts is deep and thorough; and his clear, simple, and concise style stands in contrast with the obscure interpretations in German.” N. H. Adlerblum
+ — J Philos 15:22 Ja 3 ‘18 1600w
N Y Br Lib News 3:188 D ‘16
“Most scholarly and illuminating work.”
+ R of Rs 56:554 N ‘17 160w
“Dr Husik deliberately restricts his scope to the medieval Jewish rationalism. Within these limits Dr Husik has written a good book. ... He has the two qualifications necessary for his main task. He has a real control of the technique of metaphysics and an independent knowledge of the Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic materials. The skilful exercise of these qualifications has resulted in a notable addition to the history of philosophy.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p32 Ja 18 ‘17 1150w
HUTCHINGS, MRS EMILY GRANT. Jap Herron; a novel written from the ouija board; with an introd. The coming of Jap Herron. il *$1.50 (3c) Kennerley 17-28757
The sponsors of this story, Emily Grant Hutchings and Lola V. Hays, seem to be convinced that Mark Twain spelled out the tale to them on the ouija board. “Emily Grant Hutchings, who writes the introductory account of how it all happened, is from Hannibal, Mo., the home of Mark Twain’s boyhood, and in her the alleged spirit of the author seems to have put much confidence.” (N Y Times) “Jap Herron is the son of the local drunkard of a village somewhere in Missouri. After his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage ‘to another bum,’ Jap runs away and strays into Bloomtown and the printing office of the Herald. The editor, Ellis Hinton, has already worked and starved himself to the verge of consumption. ... Jap appoints himself assistant, which means chiefly the sharing of Hinton’s thankless toil and pitiful fare. The two become devoted to each other; a good third is added them in the son of the village skinflint, and, later, a fourth in the angelic middle-aged Flossy, who marries Hinton and mothers them all. It is Hinton’s dream that Jap shall grow up to be what he himself has wished to be, a power for righteousness in the community. Jap does: we leave him secure in the esteem and leadership of a rejuvenated Bloomtown.” (Bookm)
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
— Bookm 46:208 O ‘17 520w
Cleveland p128 N ‘17 90w
Dial 63:597 D 6 ‘17 200w
“A good deal of the detail does ‘sound like Mark’—as an echo sounds like a voice. The ‘lay-out’ of the tale is natural enough, too, its setting in a little Missouri town, with the village printing office as its closer scene. But that is all. It is a tale of voluptuous domestic sentiment and pathos, with morbid emphasis (strange as coming from a freed spirit!) upon the pathos of death. ... It is a woman’s story of a notably ‘slushy’ type. Its roughness, its Twainish flavor, are external and occasional. Its people are unreal; when they do not remember to talk like Mark Twain, they talk like a best-seller.”
— Nation 105:223 Ag 30 ‘17 550w
“The story is short and snappy. ... There are spots of undoubted brilliance. The pathos is much in evidence, and there is a lot of slapstick comedy. ... At its worst, it could be called a decent parody of Mark Twain.” Clement Wood
– + N Y Call p14 S 2 ‘17 230w
– + N Y Times 22:336 S 9 ‘17 500w
HUTCHINSON, ROBERT H. Socialism of New Zealand. *$1 New review pub. 335 16-14591
“Like Mr Walling, the author would apply the term ‘state capitalism’ to the social experiments of New Zealand; and says, with much truth, that they are designed largely for the benefit of the small farmers and shopkeepers, and that the result has been to entrench capitalism more strongly than ever in the affections of the middle class. The ‘Lib-Lab’ alliance, which controlled New Zealand politics for so many years under Ballance, Seddon, and Ward, has reached the limit of its power, and now the small farmers and capitalists, under the leadership of Massey and the so-called ‘Reform party,’ show reactionary tendencies, while the labor leaders and socialists are breaking away from the old entanglements to take a new and more radical path, where true progress lies. ... The experience of New Zealand, as Mr Hutchinson says, indicates the lines of development which the United States is likely to take in the near future.”—Am Econ R
“While this little book gives few unfamiliar facts about New Zealand, it is important in that it shows the point of view of a socialist who has spent a year or more in that country and who wishes to ‘dispel the prevalent idea that her progressive institutions have in any way solved the problems of capital and labor.’ ... Mr Hutchinson’s book is very readable, and shows an intimate knowledge of the subject. Here and there one might cavil at his argument.” J. E. LeRossignol
+ Am Econ R 7:176 Mr ‘17 370w
“The book is not a technical treatise, but a brief simple work for the general reader, and is both readable and instructive.” G. S. Dow
+ Am J Soc 22:414 N ‘16 430w
Pittsburgh 22:689 O ‘17 60w
Springf’d Republican p5 Jl 18 ‘16 170w
Survey 37:673 Mr 10 ‘17 70w
HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von. Mag Pye. *$1.50 Appleton 17-4712
“This new story by the Baroness von Hutten is, first and foremost, a tale of mystery. There is the mystery of Mag’s mother, and the even greater mystery of Bettany’s disappearance, and several minor secrets connected more or less closely with these two principal ones. Victor Quest, the briefless, or almost briefless, barrister, learned about them all after a while, and it is Victor Quest who tells the story. ... Although the tale ends in the year 1916, the war is but lightly touched upon, with just a glimpse or two of the opinions of various persons as to the relations of England and Germany before August, 1914.”—N Y Times
“Told in a quiet, reflective manner with good characterizations.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:316 Ap ‘17
“The novel is pleasing and wholesome.”
+ Ath p102 F ‘17 60w
283“A story of graceful humour and unforced sentiment, at its weakest where it bothers with plot.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 45:314 My ‘17 300w
“The novel stands in that host of good, but uninspired, middle-class English fiction.”
+ Dial 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 100w
+ Lit D 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 280w
“As with De Morgan the apparently careless and haphazard manner of its telling veils an adroit and intricate method. ... It is a very graceful and skilful story.”
+ Nation 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 340w
+ N Y Times 22:74 Mr 4 ‘17 350w
“Not by any means the author’s best work. The plot is improbable and mechanical. Mag herself is a natural and charming girl.”
– + Outlook 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 20w
Springf’d Republican p17 Je 24 ‘17 280w
“The Baroness von Hutten is far too well trained a writer to drop into futility, but she is capable of unreality and of dullness. ... The story may satisfy the sentimental, but it is unconscionably long.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p82 F 15 ‘17 80w
HYAMSON, ALBERT MONTEFIORE. Palestine, the rebirth of an ancient people. il *$1.50 Knopf 915.69 17-23768
“A detailed presentation of the social, economic, and agricultural conditions in modern Palestine, accompanied by a brief survey of the history of the country since the time of Roman occupation. Palestine has long appeared to be a desert. ... The colonies established under the care of the Zionist movement have proved that Palestine is one of the richest agricultural and fruit-producing countries on the face of the globe. ... What Palestine needs, Mr Hyamson states, is, first, a new vitalized western population, secondly, roads, railways and harbors, and above all a wise, just and stable government. Since the sorry events of Turkish misrule following the war, the Jews of Palestine hope for local autonomy under the protection of a Protestant power that will see fair play between the different elements of the population.”—R of Rs
+ A L A Bkl 14:124 Ja ‘18
Boston Transcript p6 N 24 ‘17 400w
“Mr Hyamson has done his task thoroughly. His book contains all the information necessary on the subject, handled with a nice sense of relative values in a style that is somewhat heavy.”
+ N Y Times 22:462 N 11 ‘17 530w
R of Rs 56:553 N ‘17 180w
“The unique interest of his work lies in the part concerned with modern Zionism and the actual work of colonisation and education which it has so far achieved.”
+ Sat R 124:151 Ag 25 ‘17 1500w
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 8 ‘18 310w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p387 Ag 16 ‘17 2250w
HYDE, WILLIAM DE WITT. Best man I know. *50c Macmillan 170 17-14119
President Hyde of Bowdoin college died on June 29, 1917. In this, his last book, he has condensed into ninety-five pages some forty-five treatises. “The best man Dr Hyde knows finds the roots of his being in ‘that will for the good of all which is the will of God,’ and from these roots various practical fruits are borne.” (Nation)
“It seems almost mystically appropriate that President Hyde’s last publication should be a message to the world describing ‘The best man I know,’ an ideal which many of the author’s friends and former pupils will think he not only depicted but exemplified. ... Dr Hyde had something very definite to say on each of his topics, and what he has written will make excellent food for reflection for men and women of every age.”
+ Nation 105:377 O 4 ‘17 270w
Springf’d Republican p17 Jl 8 ‘17 90w
I
Information annual 1916; a continuous cyclopedia and digest of current events. *$4 Cumulative digest corporation 031 (16-9777)
The second annual cumulation of the monthly numbers of Information. The Foreword says, “With the issue for January, 1917, Information passed into new ownership, tho remaining under the same editorial direction as heretofore. This change of ownership brought an enlarged size and a changed format—which will affect materially the bulk of the new annual volume. The present volume is, however, but slightly larger than that for 1915. The European war, as before, overshadows all other subjects.” The volume is a cyclopedia for the year 1916, bringing the latest cyclopedias up to date. Fremont Rider is general editor, and the work of compilation has been done by Elizabeth Webb.
“Unique in that it follows the news as given in the daily papers upon a great variety of topics with only so much of editorial digestion as is required by brevity and the exclusion of extraneous and repetitious matter. A much larger number of topics are treated than in the excellent ‘American year book’ or ‘New international year book’; the annual has the nature of an edition of the index of the New York Times with brief text under each entry instead of reference to the newspaper files, though it is not so inclusive. Its defects are many and evident. It contains no information except that which appears in the news columns of the press, it is not well written, and it suffers much from incoherence.”
+ — Nation 105:100 Jl 26 ‘17 250w
INGPEN, ROGER. Shelley in England; new facts and letters from the Shelley-Whitton papers. 2v il *$5 Houghton 17-9463
“Mr Ingpen is known already as the author of ‘The letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ first published about eight years ago. ... Its first-hand offering of the real Shelley as limned by himself in his letters complemented Professor Dowden’s monumental biography and the two together gave what has been thought to be the definite depiction of the poet, his life, career, and character. But new material has been found which adds much of interest to the facts already known. ... Several interesting new facts are revealed, and some portions of Mary Shelley’s life in England are cleared up. Two letters written by Lord Byron and a number by Shelley and his relatives are printed for the first time. Legal documents recently unearthed establishing Shelley’s marriage to Harriet Westbrook in Edinburgh and others concerning her suicide are here first published.”—N Y Times
“Not necessary in the average public library.”
+ — A L A Bkl 14:127 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by G. I. Colbron
+ Bookm 45:289 My ‘17 1000w
“His story is well known as one of the most romantic in all literary biography. It is told by Mr Ingpen in all its variety with little skill and with a straightforward marshalling of facts old and new. The two volumes contain many valuable additions to authentic Shelleyana, and in an appendix of almost one hundred pages are reprinted a series of documentary texts, and facsimile pages of Shelley’s note-books rescued from the boat that carried him to his death.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 24 ‘17 1460w
284“His work is too bulky for a supplement to Dowden’s and too scant for a successor. He deserves much credit, however, for assembling a variety of information which has been accumulated since Dowden’s time. He deserves still more credit for original contributions to our knowledge of Shelley.” Garland Greever
+ — Dial 62:521 Je 14 ‘17 1800w
+ Lit D 54:1425 My 12 ‘17 430w
“The object is frankly to complement the standard biographies (particularly Dowden’s). Manifestly the work must be judged on its own basis. Taken alone, it is incomplete and has the misfortune, so far as mere interest is concerned, of dealing largely with controversial and subordinate issues. But it is a scholarly and, for its own end, well-constructed narrative. By all odds the most important new matter presented by Mr Ingpen is a considerable series of letters that passed between William Whitton (Timothy Shelley’s solicitor) and the various members of the Shelley family.”
+ Nation 105:123 Ag 2 ‘17 950w
+ N Y Times 22:61 F 25 ‘17 1750w
Pittsburgh 22:672 O ‘17 100w
“The new material, of which Mr Ingpen makes a very workmanlike use, was discovered by the lawyers who succeeded to the business of Whitton, the solicitor of Timothy Shelley, the poet’s father.”
+ Spec 118:338 Mr 17 ‘17 1750w
“Here is a book which, on account of the scarcity of paper, has grown to the dimensions of a college dictionary. The publishers were forced to divide the sheets into two sizable volumes, which are now issued in uncut paper label style, and which, notwithstanding their weight, will be found very much worth while if you are a lover of Shelley and of the England of his day.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 F 24 ‘17 130w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p95 F 22 ‘17 100w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p115 Mr 8 ‘17 750w
“The book will be indispensable to the real student of Shelley, but it does not aim to be a self-sufficient biography for the general reader. The author has so rigorously ‘refrained from moralizing, or attempting any detailed criticism of Shelley’s literary work,’ that his narrative is at times colorless.” C. M. Lewis
+ — Yale R n s 7:433 Ja ‘18 760w
INGRAM, ELEANOR MARIE. Twice American. il *$1.35 (2c) Lippincott 17-28801
David Noel was called the “Twice-American” because Brazil, on account of services rendered the state, allowed him to become a Brazilian citizen without surrendering his United States citizenship. When David was a lonely, poverty-stricken boy of eleven, a little five-year-old girl gave him her white shoes to sell so that he could replace his own worn out ones. The money received for her shoes, gave him his start in life. He followed the sea for years, then settled in Brazil where he became rich and honored, a general and a statesman. The palace where he lived was known as the “House of the little shoes.” The latter part of the story deals with “Dom David’s” search for and courtship of his “lady of the little shoes,” about whom hangs a mystery; and with the treachery of Jacinto Meyer, his pro-German enemy. “Dom David’s” secretary, Nilo Valdez, and Corey Bruce, an American engineer, released from prison on parole, play prominent parts in the story.
A L A Bkl 14:132 Ja ‘18
Nation 105:667 D 13 ‘17 80w
“This novel is described as a romance, and if the word is another term for incredible narrative it has been given an apt name.”
— N Y Times 22:518 D 2 ‘17 260w
Reviewed by R. D. Moore
+ Pub W 92:2031 D 8 ‘17 340w
Springf’d Republican p13 F 3 ‘18 220w
INNESS, GEORGE, jr. Life, art, and letters of George Inness; with an introd. by Elliott Daingerfield. il *$4 (7½c) Century 17-26890
America’s greatest landscape artist receives intimate and sympathetic treatment from the son who was his comrade and pupil. To write into these chapters the dynamic energy of his father’s studio hours and the quiet absorption of his out-of-door preparation has been a congenial task for the son. “He has given us a picture of his father, the man and his habits, and with this has told to us incident and story, many of them new, all reflecting most clearly the ingenuous nature of the man.” He attributes Inness’s great success to his honesty and simplicity. The volume is fully illustrated, there being many reproductions of Inness’s paintings.
“An interesting and very appealing picture of a great man. Reading his life cannot fail to give the Inness lover new reverence for his work and it must introduce many who may not know it.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:93 D ‘17
“The book comes most opportunely at the present stage of our artistic development, and it ought to serve, in some measure, as a corrective for some of the fantastic, distorted, barren ideas concerning art that have sprung up and spread offensively during recent years.” F. F. Kelly
+ Bookm 46:329 N ‘17 300w
“There is an interesting selection from Inness’s letters, throwing light on his religious opinions and on his own art and that of his contemporaries.”
+ Lit D 55:44 D 8 ‘17 130w
+ R of Rs 57:99 Ja ‘18 120w
“The reader does not need to be a student or even a great lover of art in order to enjoy this vivid and intimate picture of the greatest of our landscape painters. The son who tells the story was his father’s pupil as well as congenial companion, and yet he is able to look at the artist’s work in a detached, impartial manner, and to describe it in a way to make the book very valuable to students.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 14:30 Ja ‘18 100w
International military digest annual, 1916. *$4 Cumulative digest corporation 355 (17-14742)
“‘The international military digest’ summarizes the contents of eighty-odd periodicals on military science in fourteen languages. It is published monthly as a magazine and in this annual volume the material of the twelve separate issues is rearranged and re-grouped under common heads so as to make a complete, accessible record of the progress in each branch of military science during the year.”—Pub W
+ Ind 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 30w
“There isn’t six inches of superfluous matter in the six hundred and thirty pages of double column contents of this book. The type is clear and easy to read. Whether a man be in the regular army, a member of the Officers’ reserve corps, or merely one who is trying to follow the events of the war intelligently it is hard to see how he can afford to overlook this work.” A. B. Guernsey
+ Pub W 91:1322 Ap 21 ‘17 600w
IRWIN, FLORENCE. Mask. il *$1.40 (2c) Little 17-24816
The mask referred to in the title is the one which the author assumes that we all wear to hide our thought and feelings. Elsa, Alison and Gertrude Terry are the daughters of a father who is a clergyman and a mother who is “a dodger of real issues.” The girls lead a sheltered life in the town of Coningsboro, and grow up innocent and inexperienced. Alison inherits money from an aunt, marries a temperamental young author, Phil Howland, and goes with him to New York. Her husband proves to be selfish, lazy, a gambler, and neglectful of his wife. The way in which Alison bears everything, even the loss through Phil’s 285carelessness of her baby, how she succeeds as an author, how she remakes her husband, body and soul, form the main theme of this story of married life. The handling of one episode in the book between Alison and a friend of Phil’s recalls the descriptive powers of Mr Theodore Dreiser.
Cleveland p132 D ‘17 40w
N Y Times 22:401 O 14 ‘17 200w
IRWIN, GRACE. Brown-eyed Susan. il *75c Little book pub. 17-9254
Susan Yorke was a pretty little girl whose mother’s original ideas as to clothing her caused the child much suffering. The story carries Susan “through childhood to girlhood, through the normal school to her first position as teacher.” (Boston Transcript)
“‘Brown-eyed Susan’ is a pretty little story of everyday humanity. It will not have a reader who will not long to put it in the hands of at least one person of her acquaintance that some sensitive child may thereby be spared the ordeal of being conspicuously unlike her mates.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 5 ‘17 200w
“The little volume, which is the first book of a young author, should be welcomed as enjoyable in itself, and as a pleasing promise of future work.”
+ N Y Times 22:190 My 13 ‘17 200w
Springf’d Republican p6 F 17 ‘17 160w
IRWIN, INEZ (HAYNES) (MRS WILLIAM HENRY IRWIN). Lady of kingdoms. *$1.50 (1½c) Doran 17-25510
A village on Cape Cod is the scene of the early part of this story and two young women who have grown up in its repressive atmosphere are joint heroines. Both in the words of Matt Hallowell, the village philosopher, are “waste women.” Southward Drake is a beautiful, flashing girl who early exhausts the opportunities Shayneford offers. Her friend Hester Crowell is colorless and uninteresting, her latent qualities remaining undeveloped. A party of New Yorkers who spend a summer in camp in the neighborhood bring contact with the outer world. The two girls visit New York and are introduced to its many sidedness. Southward ultimately marries, and Hester, breaking through the barriers of reserve that have held her, deliberately chooses the difficult way of unmarried motherhood as the solution for her problem.
N Y Times 22:367 S 30 ‘17 400w
IRWIN, M. E. F. Out of the house. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran (Eng ed 17-15549)
The time of this story is the nineteenth century, but little Carolin Pomfret, who is its heroine, is brought up in an atmosphere that belongs to the century preceding. Left an orphan at five, she comes to live with her relatives Great-aunt Catherine, who had been a belle of the Regency, Great-aunt Lucilla, and her elderly daughter Lavinia, and elderly Cousin James. She is brought up on family history, given family memoirs to read, and because the Pomfrets hold that no Pomfret should marry outside the family if it can be helped, she is all but married to one of them, her weak-willed cousin Antony. But fortunately a big man from Ireland appears in time to take her away, out of the house of Pomfret, to a new life, which altho it does not offer safety and security, yet promises something of freedom and joy.
“The tale as it is told is convincing and very charming.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ap 14 ‘17 720w
“The book has finish and a certain dainty and deliberate artificiality, but the same things are described, the same ground gone over so often, that it presently becomes more than a little tedious, losing much of the charm it might otherwise have had.”
+ — N Y Times 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 350w
“The book has a quaint old-world flavour. The characters would have figured appropriately had the date been a hundred years ago.”
+ Spec 118:241 F 24 ‘17 30w
IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH. Pilgrims into folly: romantic excursions. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-16317
The author of the “Letters of a Japanese schoolboy” here gives us seven short stories, mainly serious in character. “You can’t get away from your grandfather,” “What became of Deegan Folk?” and “He shot the bird of paradise” were published in McClure’s Magazine for April, 1914, February and September, 1915, respectively. Other copyrights are held by the Short Story press corporation and P. F. Collier & Son.
A L A Bkl 14:96 D ‘17
“Perhaps one can best recommend Mr Irwin’s first collection of short stories by saying that it is likely to give equal pleasure to the casual and to the analytical reader.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 11 ‘17 350w
“One story, ‘He shot the bird of paradise,’ stands out from the rest. It has subtlety and suspense, and is marred only by a touch of amateurishness—a criticism that applies to the entire volume. Mr Irwin is still a little uncertain of his powers, but the present book has definite promise.”
+ — Dial 63:403 O 25 ‘17 110w
“Mr Irwin’s versatility is nothing less than astonishing. ... The writer of ‘Random rhymes,’ etc., whose name is suggestive of smiles, presents in his new volume seven short stories, of which pathos, sometimes deepening into tragedy, is the most striking characteristic. They are told with exquisite art, and with a sincerity which makes even impossibilities, as in ‘The highest,’ credible.”
+ N Y Times 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 110w
“The final tale, ‘The ideal gentleman,’ may be voted the best of the group. It is a pathetic story of a waiter’s efforts to make of his son a ‘gentleman’ in the English sense of the term.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 19 ‘17 350w
IRWIN, WILLIAM HENRY (WILL IRWIN). Latin at war. *$1.75 Appleton 940.91 17-26656
“Mr Irwin’s book on ‘The Latin at war’ makes a connecting link between the French and the Italian soldiers and nations. The first chapter, ‘The city of unshed tears,’ deals with Paris, then the next four take the reader to the Italian front on the Isonzo and up among the fighting men in the high Italian Alps. Afterward he returns to France and carries the reader with him along the French front, where he describes the work of the American ambulance service, and tells of his observations and experiences in the war-swept zone. In the last chapter there is perhaps the most comprehensive and accurate account of the French army, how it is formed, why it is democratic, what are its peculiar qualities, and whence they are derived that has been offered to American readers. The chapters dealing with the work of the Italian army are graphic and full of human interest.”—N Y Times
“A vivid, very readable account of the author’s experiences on the French and Italian fronts in 1916. Some have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:20 O ‘17
Ath p420 Ag ‘17 60w
Cleveland p102 S ‘17 60w
+ Cleveland p130 D ‘17 70w
“The present book should be cut down to half its size. The author is a good observer, he has had excellent opportunities to see the French and Italian armies, and he paints some graphic scenes; but his pages are cluttered up with long descriptions of things that do not count.”
+ — Dial 63:348 O 11 ‘17 200w
+ Ind 91:474 S 22 ‘17 500w
286“No correspondent ‘at the front,’ during this war, has found more of human interest in his experiences than has Mr Irwin. He knows how to find it, and how to record it. His style is terse and graphic. He makes you visualize while you read, because he visualized while he wrote.”
+ Lit D 55:40 S 15 ‘17 280w
“His pages may lack the charm of the first-hand narrative of poilu or ambulance driver, but they contain a good deal of intelligent reflection, and there is no bluff and not too much rhetoric.”
Nation 105:154 Ag 9 ‘17 220w
“Mr Irwin has remained fundamentally American and naïve and curious to know what the whole thing means in human values to everyday men and women. He is not the professional war correspondent. His human values have remained steady—although convinced of the basic justice of the cause of the Allies, he has not maligned the enemy.”
+ New Repub 12:225 S 22 ‘17 650w
+ N Y Times 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 150w
Pittsburgh 22:682 O ‘17 60w
+ Spec 118:675 Je 16 ‘17 280w
IZOR, ESTELLE PEEL. Costume design and home planning. il 90c Atkinson, Mentzer & co. 646 16-17166
“The purpose of this volume is to help establish in the minds of girls ‘a sane sensible well-balanced attitude toward dress,’ and towards the home as ‘the vital center of all life’s activities.’ ... The book is the result of experience in teaching.”—School Arts Magazine
“Elementary enough for children to read.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:249 Mr ‘17
“The best book so far available on elementary costume design and home planning.”
+ Cleveland p155 D ‘16 60w
St Louis 15:144 My ‘17
“Well written, captivatingly illustrated. ... It is without doubt the best single volume for teachers who are required to teach costume design to junior high school pupils. It will prove helpful, however, to upper grammar and high school teachers everywhere who have to help young people to think seriously about their own personal relation to clothing and shelter.”
+ School Arts Magazine 16:89 O ‘16 150w
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JABOTINSKY, VLADIMIR. Turkey and the war. 6s T. Fisher Unwin, London
“The author begins by attempting to define the objective as distinguished from the subjective aims of the present war, the aims inherent in the situation. ... The destruction and partition of Turkey may be considered the real aim of the conflict because its accomplishment is essential to a durable peace. ... Discussing the various controversial points of the scheme of partitioning the empire, Mr Jabotinsky points out that the present Germano-Turkish alliance would imply the presumably independent Sultanate of Anatolia as the natural field for German commercial expansion, and that the policy of excluding Germany from any such natural expansion must inevitably lead to another war, especially if the proposed plan of an annexation of German markets in allied countries is carried through. He concludes by emphasizing the importance, for its psychological effect, of an allied conquest and military occupation of the great market represented by Asiatic Turkey,”—N Y Times
“M. Jabotinsky pins no faith on a self-controlled, self-directed or stable Ottoman kingdom. In his lucid and somewhat cynical book, brilliant in its exposition, he discloses the salient defect of Turkish rule, or rather of the Young Turks’ rule. ... It comes from a false theory of nationality.” H. S.
+ New Repub 12:24 Ag 4 ‘17 1250w
“This essay by the military correspondent of the Moscow Russkia Vedomosti represents some original thinking on the Eastern question. Briefly, it is a more than usually straightforward application of the ‘est delenda’ to the Ottoman empire, supported by a convincing series of facts and arguments.”
+ N Y Times 22:323 S 2 ‘17 520w
JACKS, LAWRENCE PEARSALL.[2] Life and letters of Stopford Brooke. 2v il *$4.75 Scribner 17-27957
“The facts of Brooke’s life are probably well known. Born in 1832, the son of a poor but well-born Irish clergyman, he was ordained in 1857, was curate at Kensington from 1859 to 1863, took the lease of St James’s chapel in 1865, and left the Church of England in 1880.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “From the moment of his leaving the church Brooke became formally what he had temperamentally been for many years, an independent. ... He was a preacher and a teacher, a poet and a lecturer, and he was interested in science and art, painting being among the joys and recreations of his later years. He wrote many books in addition to the little volume by which he is best known [“A primer of English literature”]. ... Dr Jacks’ biography is throughout a near view of the man in all his aspects. The biographer married Brooke’s daughter and he draws freely upon the letters which in themselves represent clearly the progress of the great preacher’s intellectual life.” (Boston Transcript)
+ Ath p32 Ja ‘18 1750w
“To give us a self-revelation of Stopford Brooke is what Dr Jacks strives to do and succeeds in doing. Although he knew his subject so intimately, he practices self-effacement except where the personal recollections and the personal touch are necessary to color and emphasize his story.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p8 D 12 ‘17 1500w
“Well worth reading because of its faithful depiction of a sweet, wholesome and beautiful nature expressing itself in manifold activities through a long and busy life.”
+ N Y Times 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 780w
“An adequate and appreciative account.”
+ Outlook 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 30w
“Fascinating volumes.”
+ Sat R 124:464 D 8 ‘17 1650w
“This biography has one quality at least which makes it very unlike the usual biography. It has the quality of growth. It is the record of the things that change rather than of the things that happen. The result is a book not of revelations or confessions in the usual sense, but of spiritual development which carries the art of biography a step further in the most interesting direction now open to it—that of psychology.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p581 N 29 ‘17 2050w
JACKSON, GABRIELLE EMILIE (SNOW). Silverheels. il *$1 (4½c) Doran 17-30276
Silverheels is a gray horse. His young master, Bob Hughes, is a waif who has run away from the brutal farmer who has mistreated him, taking Silverheels, his one possession, with him. Silverheels is a wonderfully intelligent horse, and it is he who helps Bob find a home with kind people who turn out to be the boy’s own relatives. The story was published in St Nicholas in 1916.
Lit D 55:59 D 8 ‘17 60w
“A nice human story of a horse who is much better than some humans and a first-class hero for a story.”
+ N Y Times 22:384 O 7 ‘17 30w
“Although this book is not written for the very youngest readers, they will enjoy it as well as those a little older.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 20 ‘17 100w
287JACKSON, J. WILFRID. Shells as evidence of the migrations of early culture. (Manchester univ. Ethnological ser.) il *$2 Longmans 572
This book consists of a report of the preliminary survey in the field of research suggested by the title. It is made up of a reprint of four papers, first published in the Proceedings of the Manchester literary and philosophical society. The first of the four on The geographical distribution of the shell-purple industry, is concerned with the utilization of shells in the manufacture of the famous dye, “Tyrian purple.” Subsequent chapters take up Shell-trumpets and their distribution in the old and new world; The geographical distribution of the use of pearls and pearl-shell; The use of cowry-shells for the purposes of currency, amulets and charms. Additional data that has come to light since the first printing of the papers is given in appendixes. In his introduction G. Elliot Smith, dean of the faculty of medicine in Manchester university, discusses the magic properties attributed to shells. The book is provided with index, maps and other illustrations.
“Professor Elliot Smith and his colleagues, Mr Jackson and Mr Perry, cannot be praised too highly for their method. Admiration for Professor Elliot Smith’s ingenuity must not blind us to the extremely hazardous character of his theoretical affiliations.”
+ — Sat R 124:530 D 29 ‘17 1400w
“Professor Elliot Smith agrees with the author in thinking that so laborious an industry as the preparation of this purple from shell-fish could not have been invented in more than one district, and that its occurrence in eastern Asia and America points to a migration from the Mediterranean. It is a plausible theory, but it is not proved.”
+ — Spec 119:301 S 22 ‘17 120w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p454 S 20 ‘17 140w
“If there is some lack of arrangement, if the trees, not to mention the shrubs, do obscure the view of the wood, if the index whenever appealed to affords no clue, still we cannot but admire the diligence and wide reading of the author.”
+ – — The Times [London] Lit Sup p501 O 18 ‘17 1650w
JACKSON, MARGARET TALBOT. Museum: a manual of the housing and care of art collections. il *$1.75 (3c) Longmans 708 17-14148
“The object of this little book is to put before those interested in the administration of collections the result of several years of study of the museums of Europe and America. It cannot claim the distinction of bringing new ideas to a field where so many men of genius have long been working; it can only hope to call attention to the results of the constant experiments being made by those already in the field.” (Preface) The list of museums visited, given in an appendix, shows how extensive have been the author’s studies. Contents: The situation of the museum building; The architectural plan; Preparation for the collections; The formation of collections; The preparation of objects for exhibition; Official questions. The seven illustrations have been chosen to fit the text. The volume is without an index.
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“As a pioneer in its field this study of the museum is a noteworthy book.”
+ Dial 64:74 Ja 17 ‘18 280w
“Nothing would more make for the education of those public-spirited laymen who are our museum trustees than a careful perusal of this volume.”
+ Nation 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 100w
N Y Br Lib News 4:110 Jl ‘17 20w
Pittsburgh 22:512 Je ‘17 30w
“Save for its unforgivable crime of having no index, her book is extraordinarily good.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p579 N 29 ‘17 420w
JACKSON, ORTON PORTER, and EVANS, FRANK EDGAR.[2] Marvel book of American ships. il *$2.50 Stokes 359 17-31922
An informing revelation of the secrets of big ship building. The reader is taken to the ship yards and gets an inside idea of how undersea fighters, superdreadnoughts, all around battle ships, destroyers, sea liners, and all sorts of lesser craft are built. There are accounts of dramatic sea happenings such as sea battles, gun firing and signaling, deep-sea diving and certain tragedies of the seas. Notable features of the book are its more than 400 illustrations from photographs, the chart of the flags used, the signal code and the chart of funnel types and company flags by which ships can be recognized at a distance.
+ N Y Times 23:25 Ja 20 ‘18 110w
“A reliable informational book.”
+ R of Rs 57:215 F ‘18 140w
JACKSON, SIR THOMAS GRAHAM, 1st bart. Holiday in Umbria. il *$3 (7c) Holt 914.5 (Eng ed 17-21517)
Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, who is architecturally responsible for the restoration and addition of so many of the beautiful buildings of the great English universities and public schools, has here given us a second book of travel. It is “a book of historical, architectural, and literary interest, originating in two visits, in 1881 and 1888, to a part of Italy comparatively unfamiliar to British travellers. Ancona, Rimini, Gubbio, Urbino, Pesaro, and other places are described; there is a particularly detailed account of the ducal palace at Urbino; and many pages are devoted to extracts from ‘Il cortegiano’ (’The courtier’), by Count Baldassare Castiglione, ambassador from Duke Guidobaldo I to King Henry VII. These excerpts present a pleasing picture of life at the ducal court.” (Ath)
“The book is very readable, and the illustrations are good.”
+ Ath p104 F ‘17 100w
“The author’s contribution to the literature of travel is a valuable one.”
+ Dial 64:82 Ja 17 ‘18 120w
“One of the chief sources of information concerning this history is Castiglione’s ‘Il cortegiano,’ and an abstract of this forms the longest and not the least interesting chapter in Sir Thomas’s book, which is made additionally attractive by reproductions of some of his own sketches and a few photographs.”
+ Int Studio 61:145 My ‘17 190w
“The book is beautifully produced and illustrated.”
+ Library World 19:273 Ap ‘17 130w
+ Lit D 55:46 D 8 ‘17 110w
+ N Y Times 22:579 D 30 ‘17 230w
“Books of travel appeal to two classes of people—those who have seen, and those who plan to see. This one will interest especially the first class.”
+ Outlook 117:350 O 31 ‘17 50w
“Distinction and insight are the leading characteristics of Sir Thomas Jackson’s contributions to the literature of his art, and they are not lacking in this volume. ... In describing the humours of the road he selects exactly the right sort of experience to lay before his readers; but in the historical scaffolding he raises around the cities and structures he went to see he is less happy.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p79 F 15 ‘17 1050w
JACKSON, WILLIAM WALROND. Ingram Bywater. *$3 Oxford 17-28095
This memoir of the Oxford scholar, Ingram Bywater—the undergraduate with Walter Pater at Queen’s, the fellow of Exeter, the college tutor and reader in Greek, and finally the successor to the chair of regius professor of Greek left vacant by the death of Professor Jowett—is written by an intimate friend and fellow Oxonian, the former rector of Exeter 288college. “Incidentally Dr Jackson tells us all that needs to be told about Bywater’s personal circumstances and surroundings. But essentially the book is a well-balanced appreciation of Bywater’s aims and achievements as a Hellenist of the best and most catholic type.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“A biography which will be read with attentive interest by all who have at heart the intrinsic value of the scholar’s life. ... There is something sound and stimulating in the fellowship of one who seems never to have suffered from the disease so rife to-day among university men—the feeling of despondency over the value of scholarship in and for itself and over the intrinsic dignity of the scholar’s life.”
+ Nation 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 250w
“Those who do read the book can be assured, for two hours, at least, of a perfect haven of rest. It is a happily short book. It has the kind of virtues one associates with a good common-room at Oxford, half-a-dozen flashing epigrams, some good anecdotes about the incomparable Mark Pattison, and the heavy mellowness of old college port above it all.” H. J. L.
+ New Repub 12:278 O 6 ‘17 1550w
“Dr Jackson’s memoir is written in choice, good English, but seems a little formal. Here it may be characteristic of his subject.”
+ Sat R 123:482 My 26 ‘17 1000w
“Dr Jackson’s memoir reveals Professor Bywater as an attractive human being and illustrates the permanent value of his scholarship.”
+ Spec 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 140w
“An admirable little monograph on one of the most learned and brilliant Hellenists that modern Oxford has produced. ... We cannot doubt that all who have known Oxford and its academical life during the later decades of the last century and the first decade of this will heartily welcome the book and read it with keen appreciation. Dr Jackson is singularly well qualified for the task he has undertaken. He has produced a masterpiece of its kind.”
* + + The Times [London] Lit Sup p175 Ap 12 ‘17 1850w
JACOBS, WILLIAM WYMARK. Castaways. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-2478
Mr Jacobs’s new story takes place half on land and half on sea. He has adopted one of the seven, or is it eleven? original plots as a starting point. A modest and unpretentious bank clerk of quiet tastes inherits a fortune. The diversion from type is furnished by Mr Jack Knight, an irresponsible and audacious young person who is not averse to using Mr Carstairs’s good fortune to further his own ends. His ends happen to concern the niece of Lady Penrose. Mr Carstairs is induced to buy a country house in Lady Penrose’s neighborhood where Mr Knight can be a frequent guest. Later Mr Carstairs is induced to charter a yacht and take the whole party, including Lady Penrose and her niece, Mr Knight and his friends, for a cruise. A prearranged mutiny which takes an amusing and unexpected turn brings on the climax.
+ A L A Bkl 13:267 Mr ‘17
“His fun turns invariably either on practical joking or its verbal counterpart of repartee. Perhaps that is why he is, as I believe, almost exclusively a man’s author. ... It is all good fun for the reader who likes the Jacobs kind of thing.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 45:98 Mr ‘17 400w
+ N Y Times 22:26 Ja 28 ‘17 350w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
+ Pub W 91:205 Ja 20 ‘17 350w
+ Springf’d Republican p15 F 25 ‘17 250w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p587 D 7 ‘16 450w
JACOBY, HAROLD.[2] Navigation. il *$2.25 Macmillan 527 17-28810
The author has aimed to make this a book complete in itself, “so that it should be possible to navigate a ship in any ocean not very near the north or south pole without other books or tabular works, excepting only the nautical almanac for the year in which the voyage is made.” No formal mathematical and astronomical knowledge has been assumed on the part of the reader. The author is professor of astronomy in Columbia university. Contents: The fundamental problem of navigation; Dead reckoning without logarithms; Dead reckoning with logarithms; The compass; Coastwise navigation; The sextant; The nautical almanac; Older navigation methods; Newer navigation methods; A navigator’s day at sea.
“Useful for those who must study without a teacher and convenient for the advanced student.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:155 F ‘18
“Nothing more in the way of books is required by young navigators, who, doubtless, will welcome it as warmly as it deserves.”
+ Nation 105:670 D 13 ‘17 250w
+ Quar List New Tech Bks Ja ‘18 40w
R of Rs 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w
JAFFRAY, JULIA KIPPEN, ed. Prison and the prisoner. il *$2.50 (6c) Little 365 17-31780
This symposium, to which fourteen specialists contribute, is edited by the secretary of the National committee on prisons and prison labor. In the discussions the point of view of the lawyer, the doctor, the psychiatrist, the social worker, the educator and the prison official is expressed, each contributing something to the new ideals of prison reform. Contents: The prisoner and the courts, by William H. Wadhams; The prisoner himself, by Bernard H. Glueck and Thomas W. Salmon; The prisoner—ward or slave? by Karl W. Kirchwey; The control over the prisoner, by George Gordon Battle and E. Stagg Whitin; Self-government by the prisoner, by Thomas Mott Osborne and E. Kent Hubbard; The prison officer, by Frederick A. Dorner; Industrial training for the prisoner, by Arthur D. Dean; The prisoner in the road camp, by Charles Henry Davis; The union man and the prisoner, by Collis Lovely; The man who comes out of prison, by R. J. Caldwell; The community center and the delinquent, by John Collier.
“The joint authors of the book place the emphasis rightly ‘not on the place from which the man has come but on that to which he is going.’” R M.
+ Boston Transcript p9 D 12 ‘17 670w
“A valuable and inspiring, if somewhat formless, work by a dozen authors with more or less expert knowledge as to our prisons.”
+ — Outlook 117:653 D 19 ‘17 70w
“A more satisfactory book would have been produced if fewer writers had collaborated, those being left out who either have little to say or who haven’t stuck to their text.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 10 ‘18 470w
“The book obviously aims to meet with specific suggestions, in some instances with programs even, some of the pressing tasks set society by the man in prison. With a few striking successes it scores several dismal failures.” W. D. Lane
– + Survey 39:369 D 29 ‘17 800w
JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON. Arizona, the wonderland. (See America first ser.) il *$3.50 Page 979.1 17-29202
“The scope of the present work is set forth on the title page as follows: ‘The history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, 289sportsman, pleasure and health seeker.’ Fortunately the pages are large, so the above subtitle leaves also space for the announcement of a map and sixty plates of which twelve are in color.”—Springf’d Republican
+ A L A Bkl 14:164 F ‘18
“A volume valuable as a record, as well as attractive to those in search of timely gift-books.” A. A. R.
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 17 ‘17 800w
“Too bulky for a guide book, too discursive for quick reference, the work nevertheless, makes pleasant and often informative reading.”
+ Dial 63:644 D 20 ‘17 350w
+ Lit D 55:46 D 8 ‘17 170w
+ Outlook 117:518 N 28 ‘17 50w
“His style is so easy that the uninitiated will imagine that the book could almost write itself. But there is a vast amount of research behind this orderly parade of friars and cowboys, Indians and explorers and politicians.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 11 ‘17 520w
JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON. Reclaiming the arid West. il *$3.50 (3½c) Dodd 631 17-31554
The author has written of the work of the United States reclamation service from the standpoint of the layman and homeseeker. In the early chapters he describes the work of the “army of peace,” which within the past twenty-five years has been carrying out the great plans conceived by Major John Wesley Powell. In the chapters that follow he takes up the projects, one at a time, tells something of the difficulties encountered, the engineering skill that surmounted them, and of the resulting opportunities offered to settlers. The story of the text is supplemented by very excellent photographic illustrations.
+ A L A Bkl 14:155 F ‘18
JAMES, HENRY. Ivory tower. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 17-29022
Had it been finished, this work would have added one more to the author’s list of international novels. Graham Fielder is brought fresh from a European background to Newport, to be made the inheritor of his uncle’s millions. The story as it progressed was to have concerned itself with the young man’s reactions to the situation and to his new American environment. As it now stands the fragment has a claim to completeness in its unforgettable picture of the two old men, Mr Gaw and Mr Betterman, business rivals and enemies, each waiting for the death of the other. Appended to the three completed parts of the novel are the notes in which the author had amplified the idea of the book as it first took possession of him.
Ath p527 O ‘17 300w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 46:690 F ‘18 430w
“The texture of this story gives me the impression of a firmer and more precious weaving than in any of the novels of the master. The book is a fragment as it stands, but a glorious fragment.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 31 ‘17 1300w
“Artistically, the book reaches the high water mark of James’ genius.”
+ Cleveland p132 D ‘17 90w
“‘The ivory tower,’ if a great thing, is great in the smallest ways associable with its author. The story probes shrewdly into some aspects of our American social scene. But it belongs among such late and relatively little things as ‘The outcry’ and ‘The sacred fount,’ without the beguiling farce of the one or the uniquely confessional purpose of the other.” Wilson Follett
– + Dial 63:579 D 6 ‘17 1000w
“Not since 1909, when Ibsen’s preliminary studies made their appearance, has any book thrown such interesting light on the literary process.” Q. K.
+ New Repub 13:119 D 1 ‘17 1500w
“In the vast world tragedy this story must have seemed to its author trivial; and trivial it is, whether it seemed so to him or not. The style is full of unusual difficulties, even when compared with most of its author’s later works. Real characters there are, too—I have never seen a better presentation of that modern figure, known only too well in modern affluent homes, the trained nurse; but, on the whole, the failure to finish this story cannot be regarded as a literary disaster.” W: L. Phelps
– + N Y Times 22:537 D 9 ‘17 650w
“Yet it is worth while to persevere with Henry James’s tortuous sentences, clinched so often with a touch of slang as if the literary language had in the end failed him, for they build up, little by little, strange modern characters such as one does not find elsewhere in fiction.”