Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 23)

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“Impressive and interesting as are these posthumous fragments, their interest is immensely enhanced by the plans or schemes for their completion. They are things quite unique in literature, intimate glimpses into what Henry James has elsewhere called ‘the closed chamber of an artist’s meditations.’”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p427 S 6 ‘17 1000w

JAMES, HENRY. Middle years. *$1.25 Scribner 17-31066

“With this small volume, which brings us down to about the year 1870, the memories of Henry James break off. It is more fitting to say that they break off than that they come to an end, for although we are aware that we shall hear his voice no more, there is no hint of exhaustion or of leave-taking. ... We recognize, if not directly then by hearsay, the old world of London life which he brings out of the shades and sets tenderly and solidly before us as if his last gift were the most perfect and precious of the treasures hoarded in ‘the scented chest of our savings.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The volume is the third of Henry James’s reminiscences, following “A small boy and others,” 1913, and “Notes of a son and brother,” 1914.

“Unfortunately a mere fragment. Comprised in its pages, however, are some interesting recollections of George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and a few others, as well as memory-impressions of the London of mid-Victorian days.”

+ Ath p682 ‘17 50w

“I am glad it has been published, there are things in it one would on no account have missed, portraits in different scales of Swinburne, Renan, Browning, Lewes, George Eliot, Tennyson, Mrs Greville, Lady Waterford. But it makes me feel that Henry James took with him to England, as a young man of twenty-five, a state of mind which would have been forgivable if it had been temporary, and which lasted forever after.” P. L.

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“Henry James is not at his best in the fragment called ‘The middle years.’ These few chapters were dictated in the autumn of 1914, when he was thinking of something else—the war. We ought to remember that they were never revised by the author, and that he dictated without notes. The book is a model of the publishers’ art, in its clear type, its dull paper, and its exquisite lightness.” W: L. Phelps

+ — N Y Times 22:537 D 9 ‘17 650w

Outlook 117:652 D 19 ‘17 70w

“A series of impressions or memories, which must have been a torture to write, as they seem to be dug out of the novelist’s memory by exquisite toil. ... We are far from saying that these impressions of a distinguished novelist are not worth giving to the world. But we think that they might have been conveyed in a simpler, more vivacious, and shorter form.”

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“It contains little or none of the personal gossip ordinarily to be found in books of reminiscences, but there are, instead, some unforgettable impressions of mid-Victorian worthies. ... Our only complaint against this ultimate 290fragment of his work is a complaint against the inevitabilities—that he did not live long enough to complete it.”

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“He comes to his task with an indescribable air of one so charged and laden with precious stuff that he hardly knows how to divest himself of it all—where to find space to set down this and that, how to resist altogether the claims of some other gleaming object in the background; appearing so busy, so unwieldy with ponderous treasure that his dexterity in disposing of it, his consummate knowledge of how best to place each fragment, afford us the greatest delight that literature has had to offer for many a year. And this book of memories sounds to us like a superb act of thanksgiving.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p497 O 18 ‘17 3700w

JAMES, HENRY. Pictures and other passages from Henry James; comp. by Ruth Head. *$1 Stokes 813

“Henry James himself set the seal of his approval on Miss Head’s proposed plan of making an anthology from his writings, but did not live to see the completed work. It is divided into five chapters with sections under the headings: The seasons, Nationality, America, France and Paris, Switzerland, Italy, London, Country England, Country houses, Gardens and parks, The world of art, Interiors; Men, women, and their rooms, Passions; Portraits of women, character, feminine; Portraits of men, character, male; Moralities and aphorisms, Similes and metaphors.”—Boston Transcript

“The style of Henry James, building up complex impressions by minute sensitive touches, is more pictorial and more epigrammatic than one realizes until one has his portraits and pictures separated and individualized in such an anthology as this. ... The editor might with advantage have arranged his extracts chronologically, at least within the subsections.”

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+ Boston Transcript p8 N 1 ‘17 140w

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“Those who want to appreciate Henry James should read his books—there is no other way of appreciating an artist.”

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“This method of extracting representative passages and grouping them under headings enables the reader to appreciate at once the range and the limitations of Henry James’s genius. He is least happy when dealing with the primitive—the seasons, the passions, the countryside—and is seen at his best when writing of men and women, and the civilization they have made.”

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JAMES, HENRY. Sense of the past. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-28794

One of two novels that remained incomplete at the death of the writer. The other is “The ivory tower.” The central character is a young American who, from the English branch of the family, inherits an old London house. He goes to England, seeks out his new possession, and shuts himself away from the world for a night while he wanders from room to room, yielding to the spell of the past that is cast about him. He sees himself in an old portrait of 1820. A compelling sense of the past slips him out of the year 1910 back into 1820. Comfortably at first, and then uneasily he reacts to the people and conditions of the world into which he is projected. He experiences the thrills and embarrassments of two successive love affairs. The story breaks off at the end of the first. But some seventy pages of notes reveal the plan of the writer, his deft scheme for extricating his hero and bringing him back to 1910 and to Aurora Coyne who sent this lover of hers from her for the sake of his development; who grows impatient at the time it takes and hurries to London to find out the cause.

Ath p527 O ‘17 130w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

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“One inevitably thinks of ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ and the dream life there so exquisitely portrayed, in reading ‘The sense of the past.’ In a sense, too, the story of Ralph Pendrel’s experience is a dream one, though Henry James has touched it with innumerable hints and suggestions of forces deeper and more measurable scientifically though more elusive.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ Boston Transcript p4 O 31 ‘17 1500w

“An exquisite fragment of a novel in James’ most matured style.”

+ Cleveland p132 D ‘17 70w

“It alters the shape, pushes out the bounds, of the whole Henry James world, adds a substantial figure to the sum of imaginings, achievements, beauties, perfections. ‘The sense of the past’ promised all the rich, full orchestral resonance of novels such as ‘The ambassadors’ and ‘The wings of the dove’; yet, in its entire dissimilarity from anything else that even James could have written, it is as isolated and self-sufficing as ‘The great good place’ or ‘The Madonna of the future’ or ‘The turn of the screw.’” Wilson Follett

+ + Dial 63:579 D 6 ‘17 1000w

“‘The sense of the past’ is undoubtedly a work of genius; the old inspiration came back abundantly for the swan song. The English style of ‘The sense of the past’ is a glory in itself, like a mediaeval bit of architecture; the result of quiet, leisurely, devoted, loving industry, founded on genius. Fragment though it be, it is an imperishable addition to the work of one of the great masters of English fiction.” W: L. Phelps

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“We can gather from the notes how Henry James wanted to complete it, but as the transition from 1910 to 1820 is not very satisfactorily contrived, we question whether the bringing back of the hero to his own time could have been an artistic success.”

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“How this passion is adumbrated and suggested, how it grows and glows to a brightness of almost insane intensity, is sufficiently given to us in this fragment to make us sadly aware of our loss of a complete masterpiece. It would surely have been, we feel, the greatest of ghost stories.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p427 S 6 ‘17 1000w

JAMES, HERMAN GERLACH. Municipal functions. (National municipal league ser.) *$2 (2c) Appleton 352 17-10893

“Municipal advance in a democracy can be achieved in only one way, namely, by the realization on the part of the citizenship of what should be the ideal of municipal government,” says the author. His book is addressed, not to city administrators, but to citizens. His purpose is to give “a simple but comprehensive survey of the whole field of municipal endeavor.” This is done in chapters on: The growth of municipal functions; Public safety; Public health; Public education; Public morals; Social welfare; City planning; Public works; Public utilities; Municipal ownership; Municipal finances—revenues; Municipal finances—debts, budget and accounting. The author is associate professor of government and director of the Bureau of municipal research at the University of Texas.

A L A Bkl 14:6 O ‘17

“It is popular in style, practical in aim but scientific in method, and will give the general reader an excellent perspective of the modern problems of city government. Among the most important chapters are two entitled ‘Public morals’ and ‘Social welfare.’ As regards the saloon and liquor problem, he comes to the rather regrettable conclusion that this issue should be decided locally.”

+ Dial 63:276 S 27 ‘17 230w

291“In one respect this work differs from most books of its class. The author approaches the discussion from the standpoint of the smaller community rather than the metropolis.”

+ R of Rs 56:327 S ‘17 70w

St Louis 15:322 S ‘17 10w

“Though perhaps not directly intended as a text-book, it has the special values of being fundamental and clear, so much required and so seldom found in text-books. For the beginner who would acquire the point of view of the municipal statesman there is probably nothing better. There is one disappointment in the book. The reader is left with the impression that the housing problem cannot be solved.” E: T. Hartman

+ — Survey 39:46 O 13 ‘17 270w

JAMES, WILLIAM. On vital reserves. *50c (4c) Holt 131

A little volume containing two of the essays of William James, one reprinted from “Memories and studies,” one from “Talks to teachers on psychology.” The first, “The energies of men,” is a study of “the phenomena of second wind.” The second, “The gospel of relaxation,” is based on the Lange-James theory of the emotions, which sometimes expresses itself popularly in the statement that we are afraid because we run. We are a tense, nervous and over-strained people, argued Professor James, because by habit we assume attitudes of tensity. Our mental state is the result of our habit of life, not vice versa.

“The practical side of the Professor James’ books has always given them a wider public than is usually supposed to belong to the philosophical or psychological writer. In the two essays of this book he sums up the best ways in which young men and women—all men and women in fact—may realize their powers.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 27 ‘17 230w

“Both statements are models of expression. They deserve the wider circulation which, in this form, they promise to attain.”

+ Dial 62:406 My 3 ‘17 110w

+ Ind 90:353 My 19 ‘17 30w

Pittsburgh 22:771 N ‘17 40w

“The gift of making psychology read like an adventure story came to William James as to few, if any others. His gingery essays ‘On vital reserves’ are therefore well worth the while of the Henry Holt company in re-publishing.”

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

JAMISON, EVELYN MARY, and others. Italy, mediaeval and modern; a history. (Histories of the belligerents ser.) *$2.90 (2c) Oxford 945 17-19811

The present volume, covering the period from the barbarian invasions to 1915, has been written to supply the need for a general sketch of Italian history which should serve as an introduction to more detailed studies. The authors “have devoted considerable space to political and ecclesiastical history ... have called attention to the more remarkable achievements of the Italian spirit in the fields of art and philosophy and science, and the historical conditions which made these achievements possible, [and] finally, have traced, so far as it is possible to do so in a textbook, the working of those instincts ... which from age to age promoted or retarded the cause of national unity.” (Preface) Appended are an eight-page bibliography, tables of genealogies, and a list of the popes.

“The appended lists of books, and other subsidiary matter, will be of great service to students; and the volume is well provided with maps. The index might with advantage have been fuller.”

+ — Ath p366 Jl ‘17 80w

“Of the quartet of authors to whom we are indebted for this rather uninspired but extremely learned, sound, and valuable history of Italy, the last-named, Professor Terry of Aberdeen university, is the best known. ... There should certainly have been a chapter or a section to deal with literature since Goldoni, with music since Palestrina, with sculpture since Canova, with the novel since Boccaccio. ... The book answers the question, Why Italy entered the war. The authors are true philosophers of motives.” N. H. D.

+ — Boston Transcript p6 Ag 29 ‘17 820w

“In Italy, more perhaps than in any other European country, the national history is interwoven with that of the church, and cannot be fairly presented unless church history receives its meed of studious attention and just judgment. These the authors of the present work have not seen fit to give it. Hence, while the work may have its partial uses as a reference book, it cannot be recommended as accurate, authoritative or comprehensive.”

+ — Cath World 106:267 N ‘17 160w

“It may be doubted, however, whether they are correct in the reasons which they tentatively assign for the Libyan war; their bibliography of this period is not up to date; and no adequate attempt is made to fill the greatest blank in Italian history—that since 1870.” W. M.

+ — Eng Hist R 32:616 O ‘17 140w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p238 My 17 ‘17 50w

“A clear outline of the subject. ... Each period has been treated by its author with full knowledge, and with a sympathy that secures the interest of the reader. ... The story of the foundation of the kingdom apparently written by Professor Sanford Terry, is a brilliant piece of work.”

* + + The Times [London] Lit Sup p255 My 31 ‘17 1600w

JARINTZOV, NADINE. Russian poets and poems. 2v v 1 *$3.50 Longmans 891.7 17-27782

This volume, to which Dr Jane Harrison of Newnham college contributes the preface, is by the author of “The Russians and their language.” “Madame Jarintzov first discusses the subject of Russian versification; and she compares the poverty of what she calls the ‘small squirrel’s wheel’ of English rhymes with the wealth of rhyming words in Russian. Many convincing examples are given in the introduction. For the most part biographically, but to some extent critically, the author then deals with the Russian poets I. A. Krylov, V. A. Jukovsky, A. S. Pushkin, A. V. Koltzov, M. Y. Lermontov, F. L. Tutchev, Alexei Tolstoy, N. Nekrasov, and A. A. Fet. Of their works Madame Jarintzov furnishes numerous examples, translated by herself; and in her renderings she, as a Russian, has endeavoured to carry over into English the Russian spirit, and, as far as possible, the Russian manner.” (Ath) “In a second volume it is intended to treat the modern poets in the same manner.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

+ Ath p413 Ag ‘17 140w

“A fairly good biographical and critical essay on Nekrassov will be found in Mme N. Jarintzov’s ‘Russian poets and poems.’ In spite of her theory, which we cannot take seriously, Mme Jarintzov succeeds in producing some good translations. Nevertheless, her experiment in rendering Russian poetry, ‘along new lines’ can hardly be considered successful.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

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“These poets, Pushkin and Lermontov excepted, are almost unknown to the average English reader. ... Upon the difficulty of rendering the spirit and the rhythm of Russian verse in English Madame Jarintzov writes with feeling and eloquence as one who has herself attempted the impossible. Yet in a high degree she has attained to it. ... Her work forms a valuable link between two great literatures.”

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“We can bear witness to the accuracy of such of the versions as we have compared with the originals, and the Russian metres are reproduced with really astonishing success. Unfortunately 292we must add that the English reader knowing no Russian will too often be impressed by the queer un-English turns of phrase rather than by the poetic merit of the selected pieces.”

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The Times [London] Lit Sup p347 Jl 19 ‘17 380w

“These poets use the same metres as we do, with some remarkable and pervading differences. To many Russians, even when they know our language well, English poetry does not seem to be poetry at all, because they miss the double rhymes. ... A second difference is the Russian avoidance of equivalent feet. ... Mme Jarintzov thinks it of capital importance to reproduce these peculiarities of her originals—the double rhymes and the exact syllabic correspondence. ... But she goes much farther than this; she attacks the established theory of translation.”

— The Times [London] Lit Sup p367 Ag 2 ‘17 1850w

JARINTZOV, NADINE. Russians and their language; with a preface by Nevill Forbes. *$2.50 (6c) Kennerley 491.7 (Eng ed 17-10234)

The author is a Russian woman who has lived in England and who writes in English. It is her belief that much of the bewilderment experienced by the English reader on first attempting to read Russian literature in translation is due to differences in language. In her introduction she discusses some of the problems of pronunciation and transliteration. The remainder of the work represents an attempt “to show the national character of the Russians as reflected in their language.”

“Every time Madame Zharintsova publishes a book, she has a new way of spelling her own name. ... For the student of Russian there is much that is suggestive in this book. All the words used are given in an appendix in Russian with the proper accent. For those that love Russia there is much that is interpretive in her dispositions on slang and diminutive and word-play.” N. H. D.

+ Boston Transcript p7 My 5 ‘17 800w

“A good deal in this book will doubtless mean little to one who knows nothing of the language; however, anyone interested in Russia may glean therein much of interest on its life, literature and psychology.”

+ — Cleveland p122 N ‘17 110w

“Books by amateurs in any subject are not likely to be marked by accuracy, proportion, or solid judgment, but they often express points of view and shrewd comments on details for which specialists may be grateful. All this is true of ‘The Russians and their language.’ The writer has no knowledge of phonetics, so that her chatter about Russian pronunciation and transliteration is of the sort that darkens counsel.”

– + Nation 105:265 S 6 ‘17 310w

N Y Br Lib News 4:71 My ‘17

“One very interesting feature of this little study is the interpretation of Russian literature from an accurately balanced Russian standpoint. Readers who have taken the younger authors overseriously as typically Russian will be surprised to learn that an average Russian after speaking about them feels inclined to take a deep breath of fresh air.”

+ N Y Times 22:330 S 9 ‘17 550w

+ Pittsburgh 22:536 Je ‘17 60w

“The intelligent student of Russian will be fascinated by this clever book—the work of a Russian lady who knows English extremely well, and is therefore able to interpret with quite exceptional fidelity the character of the Russian language. ... Mme Jarintzov’s comments on the great authors are most illuminating, though all too brief, and her hints on pronunciation are invaluable.”

+ Spec 117:479 O 21 ‘16 160w

“There is a section on pronunciation and transliteration, but we do not think (and here Mr Nevill Forbes, who supplies a preface, seems to agree with us) that much light is thrown on either of these dark regions. Russian sounds can be learnt only from the living voice. ... The merits of the book, which are great, lie elsewhere. ... The author takes a large number of linguistic facts, and shows from them that the Russian language is a true reflection of the Russian character.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p414 Ag 31 ‘16 900w

JASPER, MME. Flemish system of poultry rearing. il *$1.50 Scribner 636.5

“The Belgian poultry-rearing industry has attained great dimensions; and in this volume Mme Jasper (who possessed at Tongres a large establishment for the breeding and management of poultry for table use) describes wherein Flemish methods excel those customary in England. The distinctive feature of the Flemish system is that the birds are sheltered from cold and damp, provided with plenty of air without any draught, kept in a mild and carefully regulated temperature, and put to sleep in a clean and spacious brooder.”—Ath

+ Ath p429 S ‘16 200w

St Louis 15:113 Ap ‘17 30w

+ Spec 117:417 O 7 ‘16 400w

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p613 D 14 ‘16 900w

JASTROW, MORRIS.^[2] War and the Bagdad railway. il *$1.50 (4c) Lippincott 940.91 18-1122

A timely presentation of one of the most important single factors contributing to the present war. Because the full import of the railroad venture is made clear in the light of the history of Asia Minor, the author traces that history and its relation to the civilization of antiquity thru the period of Greek, Roman, Parthian and Arabic control down to the conquest by the Ottoman Turks. Then he proceeds with the story of the railroad thru which he follows the growth of hostile rivalry among European nations terminating in the great war. Step by step the writer follows the change in the project from a commercial scheme to a political one in which Germany ambitiously aims to get the mastery of the East. The solution offered is to throw open the road to the East but urges that its control be neither German nor British but international.

“Of all the books that have come to our notice, works dealing primarily with the problem of Bagdad, Professor Morris Jastrow’s ‘The war and the Bagdad railway’ with its illustrative map, is unquestionably the best.” S. A.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 5 ‘18 930w

+ Lit D 56:36 F 9 ‘18 1350w

“Professor Jastrow is hard to match for brevity and clearness, although he adds little that is new to the discussion of the present problem.” A. J.

+ — New Repub 13:257 D 29 ‘17 1000w

“Not from the patriots with their hands over their ears, nor from the pacifists with their hands over their eyes, but from such accurate thinkers as Dr Jastrow do we make the first patient beginnings in the unsnarling of the war problem. It is not easy these days to write as a student of history and not as a partisan, but it would be difficult to doubt the justice of Dr Jastrow’s claim to this position.” Doris Webb

+ Pub W 93:215 Ja 19 ‘18 550w

“Professor Jastrow is a high authority in the field of Semitic languages. ... His studies of the ancient peoples of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia have been extended to an accurate knowledge of the present peoples and conditions. He has thus been able to give us a remarkable valuable account of the recent rivalries of the great European powers in Asiatic Turkey, and in his newest book he tells the story of the Bagdad railway more instructively for American readers than any other writer has yet done.”

+ R of Rs 57:214 F ‘18 170w

293JATAKAS. Jataka tales; selected and ed., with introd. and notes, by H: T: Francis and E: J. Thomas. il *$2.50 (1½c) Putnam 398.3 (Eng ed 17-18045)

“Jataka tales” are Hindu folktales. They are commonly referred to as “Buddhist birth-stories,” but Mr Thomas in the introduction points out that their origin is pre-buddhistic. This introduction considers also the relation of the tales of those of Aesop. The aim of the editors has been to bring together the stories “of most interest, both intrinsically, and also from the point of view of the folklorist.” The translations are taken from the complete edition translated under the editorship of Prof. E. B. Cowell, Cambridge, 1895-1907.

“The Jataka stories included in the present collection exhibit many features of interest to the student of folk-lore; and at the same time the English renderings run so smoothly that readers who seek merely entertainment will find plenty of it here.”

+ Ath p95 F ‘17 150w

“From one point of view their work is of an encyclopædic character, from another it is thoroughly human composition. They have retold stories of the world’s childhood in such vigorous prose that the children upon whom the ends of the world are come will read with avidity what they have written.” Bishop Frodsham

+ Sat R 123:sup5 My 19 ‘17 520w

“Type and page are of excellent size, the editing is entirely trustworthy, and the illustrations are taken from the representations of the Jataka tales carved on the Stupa of Bharhut, discovered by Sir A. Cunningham in 1873 and dating from 250-200 B.C. ... To this day there is no book so beloved by humble eastern folk as this book. There is a mighty, enthusiastic audience for the recital of it at this very present in Ceylon. For us of the West it gives us glimpses of the permanent life of the people such as is seldom afforded us in other Indian literature.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p138 Mr 22 ‘17 1900w

JEFFERSON, CHARLES EDWARD. Land of enough; a Christmas story. *50c (9c) Crowell 17-24813

The moral lesson of this little book is effective because it is presented with a saving touch of humor that removes it from the “Sunday-school” type of story. Max and Madge never had enough of anything. Max always wanted more time to play, more time to sleep, more of something to eat. Madge wanted more clothes and more of a dozen other things that girls of seventeen do want. And it was quite in vain that her mother compared Madge’s wardrobe with her own when she was a girl, for, as the author says, “there are comparisons which are odious, and this is one of them.” And then suddenly the “Land of enough” is really achieved, and is found to be a quite barren country.

“An effective sermon on the Christmas spirit.”

+ Cath World 106:412 D ‘17 170w

+ Ind 92:446 D 1 ‘17 20w

JEKYLL, GERTRUDE. Annuals and biennials; with cultural notes by E. H. Jenkins. il *$3 Scribner 716 17-15076

“This addition to Miss Jekyll’s garden books, always acceptable to the aesthetic gardener, consists on pp. 57-156 of an alphabetical list, with description of culture, of the best annuals and biennials; following introductory chapters on various sides of the subject, including one by Mr Jenkins on ‘Raising annuals in green-house or frame.’ At the end is a chart of colour and height and a list of selections for various purposes and aspects. The book is fully illustrated by full-page photographs and some coloured plates.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

N Y Times 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 70w

+ Spec 118:49 Ja 13 ‘17 70w

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p615 D 14 ‘16 90w

JENKINS, BURRIS ATKINS. Man in the street and religion. *$1.25 Revell 17-11447

“A stimulating and virile book by the chaplain of a regiment in the Missouri militia, who is also pastor of a church of 2000 members in Kansas City, and a keen sportsman. He believes everybody of all conditions and classes is religious, and he makes a series of appeals to this unconscious faith.”—Springf’d Republican

“An exceptionally readable and suggestive demonstration of the proposition that everyone is religious at heart, coupled with a delineation of the kind of Christianity which will appeal to the average man.”

+ Ind 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 70w

“The book is brightly written, and abounds in anecdote and quotation.”

+ Springf’d Republican p10 My 18 ‘17 130w

JENKINS, HERBERT GEORGE. Bindle; the story of a cheerful soul. *$1.35 (2c) Stokes 16-22980

Joseph Bindle is a furniture-mover by profession, a calling which is “fraught with many vicissitudes and hardships.” Of Bindle himself, we are told: “Two things in life he loved above all others, beer and humor (or, as he called it, his ‘little joke’); yet he permitted neither to interfere with the day’s work, save under very exceptional circumstances.” Of Mrs Bindle, her husband says, “She thinks too much o’ soap an’ ‘er soul to make an ‘owlin’ success o’ marriage.” The story consists of a series of episodes from the life of Bindle. Herbert Jenkins, the author, is the British publisher of that name.

+ — A L A Bkl 14:60 N ‘17

+ Ath p480 O ‘16 120w

“Those who like Charlie Chaplin—and his popularity must have a very genuine foundation—will thoroughly appreciate Bindle. There is nothing illusive, nothing subtle, about his style of humor. It is as general in its appeal as was the earlier work of Mark Twain, and it possesses something of the same quality of humanness.”

Bellman 22:441 Ap 21 ‘17 230w

“The humor of the book is slap-stick comedy and sometimes it is too obviously planned, but parts of it are entertaining.”

Ind 90:299 My 12 ‘17 50w

+ N Y Times 22:40 F 4 ‘17 350w

Sat R 122:395 O 21 ‘16 150w

“For the most part very good fun.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p452 S 21 ‘16 300w

JENKINS, HERBERT GEORGE.^[2] Night club. *5s Herbert Jenkins, London

“Bindle, ‘J. B.’ to his friends, was responsible for dignifying as The night club the weekly gatherings of several totally unlike men who had formed a habit of meeting in the flat of one of their number for a smoke, a drink and a yarn. ... A story being the principal business of the evenings, the author has ingeniously woven those that were told into a humorous account of several adventures of the members, their families and friends. ... The actors include principally, first and foremost Bindle; his wife and her brother, both afflicted with a peculiar sort of religion; Angell Herald, the publicity agent who dreamed that he had been asked by the prime minister to be minister of publicity; ‘The boy,’ who had won his D.S.O. early in the war, but who didn’t like to hear about it; Gimp, the actor, whose story was surprisingly better than he or his acting; the old general who considered it a privilege to talk to the men of the new army; 294and Miss Sallie, who did what the whole German navy had failed to do—tricked the British navy.”—Boston Transcript

“Bindle is the central figure, though he does not give his name to the book, and his genial shrewdness and candour win our appreciation as they did that of the very varied membership of the club.”

+ Ath p680 D ‘17 70w

“The present volume is happily conceived in that it may be taken up and enjoyed in spare moments or read through at one sitting; in either case the reader will be filled with a sense of the warmth of its geniality and wit.”

+ Boston Transcript p7 Ja 5 ‘18 450w

“A large percentage of readers will close this volume with a sincere wish that they, too, might become members of ‘The night club.’”

+ N Y Times 22:565 D 16 ‘17 500w

“The stories should amuse a larger circle; for they are unfailingly lively and show much fertility of idea.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p547 N 8 ‘17 100w

JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE.^[2] Trust problem; 4th ed., enl. and completely rev., with the collaboration of Walter E. Clark, diags *$2 (1c) Doubleday 338.8 17-28340

This so-called “Bible on industrial combinations,” by the director of the division of public affairs, New York university, becomes practically a new book in its fourth edition. “Some new chapters have been added. Chapter 1 on the Evolution of business, the very large additions made to Chapter 9 on Prices, Chapter 10 on Trusts and the working man, with the new facts that they contain, aid materially in the discussion of the economic principles involved. Chapter 12 on Industrial combinations in Europe gives us a basis of wide experience. The new chapters on State and federal trust legislation in the United States, and the one on Trusts and the federal court, showing the development of legislation during the last few years, likewise serve to strengthen the economic foundation of the discussions, since the course of legislation has, to a considerable degree, clearly been based upon the principles brought out in the theoretical discussions.” (Preface to fourth edition)

“In our judgment, no other single volume on the subject of industrial combinations, their development, structure, and problems, equals this one for compact information, breadth of view, and the variety of facts presented. The book bears evidence of careful planning and patient work, and is suggestive of the systematic and exhaustive work with which German scholars are credited.” James Oneal

+ N Y Call p16 Ja 19 ‘18 260w

+ R of Rs 57:220 F ‘18 70w

JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA. Street of the blank wall, and other stories (Eng title, Malvina of Brittany). *$1.35 (2c) Dodd 16-23590

The first story in this collection of six is a tale of mystery in which the real truth about a murder is brought to light fifteen years after its commitment. The second story “Malvina of Brittany,” the longest story in the book is also the lightest. Malvina is a fay or pixie transported from the pages of old English romance to modern Britain. Each of the four that follow, His evening out, The lesson, Sylvia of the letters, The fawn gloves, represents a different type of short story.

+ A L A Bkl 13:267 Mr ‘17

“Altogether, it is not a particularly rewarding volume.” F. I.

– + Boston Transcript p8 Ap 14 ‘17 480w

“Mr Jerome writes with sincerity, with feeling for reality, with some insight into the deeper possibilities of life, with a feeling for what is lovely as well as of good report. And that sort of thing is in itself good, better, I should say, than a striving for virility.” E: E. Hale

+ Dial 62:190 Mr 8 ‘17 250w

+ N Y Times 22:40 F 4 ‘17 550w

“The stories doubtless have been written at wide intervals and add little to Mr Jerome’s reputation.”

Springf’d Republican p15 Mr 4 ‘17 100w

“Most of these stories are written at greater length than is necessary, and part of what is superfluous is also irrelevant; we should infer, indeed, that Mr Jerome is too preoccupied with edification to take much thought for form. No such criticism, however, is applicable to ‘The fawn gloves.’”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p476 O 5 ‘16 450w

JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON. Secret bread. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-20670

“The story tells how a bastard was elevated above his legitimate brethren, and surmounted his difficulties by the help of a fine-minded pastor; and in addition we have most graphic and intimate studies of [English] farming and the improvements that a progressive landowner introduces.”—Ath

+ Ath p363 Jl ‘17 100w

“The abiding impression left by the book as a whole is of a large and sympathetic interpretation of human experience, though set in a minor key.” H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 46:486 D ‘17 600w

“‘Secret bread’ is a narrative at heart starkly chill. As a whole, it is undubitably powerful, with many pages of prose of the first rank.”

+ — Boston Transcript p9 D 19 ‘17 330w

“It gratefully lacks the famous brilliancy of the ‘younger British school’ of novelists. It has solidity, not only in its portraiture, but in its embodiment of a truth, or, if you will, a moral, as contrasted with the expression of an ‘idea’ in the Wellsian sense. This is a book of rich texture, both in form and in substance.”

+ Nation 105:515 N 8 ‘17 580w

“The story is written with a wealth of detail and a great number and variety of characters. All the people in it, notwithstanding their strongly marked differences of social position and mental endowment are delineated with subtility and truth.”

+ N Y Times 22:413 O 21 ‘17 550w

“The author shows great sympathy for the very young and the old. ... A little reserve of force would have been more telling than the almost camera-like detail in which she prefers to indulge—detail that is sometimes wearying, and often coarse and offensive.”

+ — Sat R 124:50 Jl 21 ‘17 300w

“The book is very generously planned, like the English novels of an earlier day. And now and then we find Miss Jesse straying a little too widely from her main theme.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p272 Je 7 ‘17 670w

JOHNS, CECIL STARR. With gold and steel. *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 17-28765

A romance of France in the time of Henry of Navarre. The hero is François Le Pouldu who comes to Henry with a tale of treasure that he is ready to devote to the king’s service. On a lonely coast he has come upon a wrecked Spanish galleon, loaded with gold, silver and arms. The king furnishes the outfit necessary for salvaging the cargo and François starts on his adventures. Denise de Marmont, sister of one of Henry’s enemies, early enters the tale to give it the required feminine element.

“We congratulate Mr Johns on his ability to get out of the beaten track of the average novel of sword and cloak into the field of fresh plot.”

+ Boston Transcript p7 N 14 ‘17 210w

“Those who like stirring, old-fashioned historical romance, served with something of the dignity and leisurely manner of the Stanley Weyman novels, will enjoy this story by Mr 295Johns. ... The characters all do a great deal of talking, but it is conversation that helps to carry on the story, which it does with brightness, vivacity, and humor.”

+ N Y Times 22:571 D 23 ‘17 330w

JOHNS, ORRICK G. Asphalt, and other poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811 17-13553

Mr Johns’s poem “Second avenue,” which was awarded a prize in a poetry contest a few years ago, is included in this collection of poems. The book takes its title from the group of street ballads with which it opens. The remaining groups that compose its contents are: Country rhymes; The city; Old youth; Three women; Ebb sand and stars.

“Nothing could afford a better illustration of the fact that poetry which addresses itself to current issues or social conditions will grow passé, like a last year’s garment, than the lack of interest which one feels now in a poem like ‘Second avenue.’ The same criticism applies to the opening section of ‘Asphalt,’ to the street ballads, in gutter dialect, through which Mr Johns hits off social conditions. ‘Country rhymes,’ whose title must not mislead one into thinking they are rustic verses, take one captive from the start. They are full of charm and whimsicality, but something much deeper is in them, too. ‘Asphalt’ demonstrates the fact that Mr Johns has versatility and a poetic gift of no common order.” J. B. Rittenhouse

+ — Bookm 46:578 Ja ‘18 750w

“One could wish that he had omitted the dialect poems at the beginning of his book, but in reading many of the lyrics which compose the rest one experiences little but delight. Not only has Mr Johns a very seductive gift of melody, but at times he has what is rare among contemporary American poets, charm,—which is only one degree removed from magic.” Conrad Aiken

+ Dial 62:476 My 31 ‘17 320w

N Y Br Lib News 4:85 Je ‘17

“On the whole, ‘Country rhymes,’ and the section called ‘Old youth,’ contain the best poetry of the book, the other portions seeming to us not so much absolute achievement as clever experiment or good promise.”

N Y Times 22:207 My 27 ‘17 150w

“Has melodic freshness and contains much essential poesy.”

+ R of Rs 55:661 Je ‘17 80w

“Orrick Johns reveals himself as a young poet of considerable individuality but little poetry.”

Springf’d Republican p17 Jl 1 ‘17 270w

JOHNSON, BURGES. Well of English and the bucket. *$1.25 (5½c) Little 808 17-26881

A collection of essays on the writing of English. The author is assistant professor of English at Vassar college and he writes from the point of view of one who has tried to break away from the stilted academic traditions in English teaching. Some of the essays are reprinted from Harper’s and the Century. Contents: The well of English and the bucket; Grammar, the bane of boyhood; Impression and expression; Essaying an essay; The right not to laugh; The everyday profanity of our best people; Ethics of the pen.

“Seven essays, written clearly, convincingly and with a touch of humor.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:79 D ‘17

“This writer is interesting; he puts old views freshly, he urges new ones with effect.”

+ Boston Transcript p7 D 26 ‘17 280w

“The author is able not only to teach the students in his English classes how to write but he can give them good models from his own light, lucid and vigorous pen.”

+ Ind 92:536 D 15 ‘17 380w

Outlook 117:350 O 31 ‘17 70w

“‘The well of English and the bucket’ is a thoughtful piece of work with a very clever title. Its author has pondered much upon the educational and practical problems of writing without missing their difficulties, and, at the same time, without representing the situation as altogether hopeless.”

+ Springf’d Republican p10 N 16 ‘17 250w

JOHNSON, CLIFTON. New England; a human interest geographical reader. il *$1 Macmillan 917.4 17-8898

“The aim of the author is to furnish interesting and valuable supplementary reading material for the upper elementary grades. The facts are drawn from geology, nature, history, industry, biography, literature, legend, and humor, and are selected with the idea of entertaining and instructing the reader. The general plan of treatment is first to devote a few chapters to New England as a whole and then to treat each of the six states separately. In dealing with each state the plan is to devote a chapter or two to historical beginnings and the remainder to industries, natural scenery, and famous people and places. There are about two hundred well-selected illustrations.”—El School J

“Beautifully illustrated geographical reader. ... The author betrays his prejudice by absolute silence regarding all things Catholic.”

+ — Cath World 105:693 Ag ‘17 60w

Cleveland p127 N ‘17 20w

Educ 56:174 F ‘18 40w

“Outside of New England the book will be of little practical value as a supplementary reader. If such material is used in school, it should treat of the community in which it is studied. The great value of Mr Johnson’s book to communities outside of New England is to indicate the types of local material which can be utilized in a study of one’s near or immediate locality.”

El School J 17:773 Je ‘17 220w

“Thru all the descriptions runs a personal touch that appeals to children. The pictures are most helpful.”

+ Ind 91:229 Ag 11 ‘17 50w

“His methods are somewhat unique, and include a combination of the historical and the descriptive.”

+ N Y Times 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 380w

JOHNSON, DOUGLAS WILSON. Peril of Prussianism. *75c (1c) Putnam 940.91 17-22576

This is “the substance of an address delivered by the associate professor of physiography in Columbia university before the annual convention of the Iowa Bankers association at Des Moines on June 14, 1917.” (Foreword) His argument is that the American ideal and the Prussian ideal of government “are mutually antagonistic, and cannot long exist in the world side by side,” because the “very existence of the Prussian ideal depends upon an aggressive militarism.”

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

— Bookm 46:289 N ‘17 20w

“One of the most interesting features of the book is a series of historical maps showing the area controlled by the Hohenzollern dynasty in succeeding centuries, from the origin of the Brandenburg monarchy to the present day.”

+ Ind 91:352 S 1 ‘17 80w

R of Rs 56:549 N ‘17 50w

“A vigorous indictment of Prussian methods.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p395 Ag 16 ‘17 60w

JOHNSON, DOUGLAS WILSON.^[2] Topography and strategy in the war. il *$1.75 (3c) Holt 940.91 17-27768

An analysis of the topography of each of the most important theaters of war, together with a summary of the principal campaigns, pointing out how military operations have been influenced by the surface features of the country. One object is to emphasize the relationship between inanimate nature and the science of war. Another is to place before the reader such a picture of each theater of war as shall enable him to follow with greater ease and livelier 296interest the movements of our own and our allied troops. Good maps, diagrams and illustrations generously supplement the text.

“A remarkably suggestive book with few technical terms, which will need to be consulted by future historians of the war.”

+ Cleveland p1 Ja ‘18 80w

Outlook 117:654 D 19 ‘17 40w

“An excellent beginning has been made in the treatment of this rather difficult subject and additional chapters will be demanded as new campaigns bring other regions within the area of active warfare.”

+ R of Rs 57:101 Ja ‘18 120w

JOHNSON, JOSEPH ESREY, jr. Blast-furnace construction in America. il *$4 McGraw 669.8 17-9602

“The author of ‘Blast furnace construction’ has been a student of the blast furnace on both the theoretical and the practical side for a number of years, and has given to the furnace-man many valuable and instructive papers bearing on the operation and control of this most complex of all metallurgical processes. The present volume deals fully with the construction of the furnace proper, from an early date up to the present time, and considers in detail all the adjuncts that play an important part in the production of pig iron.”—Nation

A L A Bkl 14:46 N ‘17

“This comprehensive work, based partly upon investigations by the author, fills a long felt want in metallurgical literature. ... Of especial note is the chapter on the dry blast.”

Bul N Y Public Library 21:483 Jl ‘17 100w

+ Cleveland p96 Jl ‘17 50w

“The chapter on distribution of stock in the furnace proper is well worth the price of the book, as probably more troubles in blast-furnace operation are traceable to poor distribution than to all others combined. The chapter on washing and cleaning gas could well have been enlarged in scope. ... The intention to amplify this work by another on blast-furnace operation will be awaited with interest by the producers of pig iron and allied products.” C: E. Lehr

+ Engin News-Rec 79:129 Jl 19 ‘17 300w

“There seems to be nothing of importance upon which Mr Johnson has not touched from the laying of the foundation to the last detail in the completion of a modern blast furnace. His book will be indispensable as a work of reference in every metallurgical establishment in the country.”

+ Nation 104:766 Je 28 ‘17 230w

N Y Br Lib News 4:59 Ap ‘17

“Very useful work on arrangement and construction, and to some extent on mechanical features of operation. Not concerned with metallurgical problems. For this subject see Robert Forsythe’s ‘Blast furnace and the manufacture of pig iron,’ 1909.”

+ Pittsburgh 22:423 My ‘17 30w

“The series of articles on blast construction and operation which appeared in several numbers of Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, is a thorough covering of the subject in the compass allowed by the 405 pages utilized.”

+ Pittsburgh 22:456 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Blast Furnace and Steel Plant p190 Ap ‘17)

“Authoritative treatise.”

+ Pratt p20 Jl ‘17 30w

St Louis 15:175 Je ‘17

JOHNSON, LIONEL PIGOT. Religious poems. *$1 Macmillan 821

“This selection from the most directly religious poems of the late Lionel Johnson has been made by Mr George F. Engelbach, and Mr Meynell contributes an appreciative and sympathetic preface to a volume which will be welcomed by many admirers of the poet.”—Ath

“‘Friends,’ ‘Winchester close,’ and ‘A dream of youth’ are specially appealing and sympathetic.”

+ Ath p44 Ja ‘17 60w

“Johnson’s poems, written after his admission into the Catholic church, are resonant with faith and tender with devotion. Nevertheless, there is not in them that ring of anguish, of personal need, of mystical rapture that arrests us in the poetry of Francis Thompson.”

+ Cleveland p75 Je ‘17 100w (Reprinted from the Dial)

Reviewed by O. W. Firkins

+ — Nation 105:597 N 29 ‘17 30w

N Y Br Lib News 4:62 Ap ‘17

St Louis 15:136 My ‘17

“It is, perhaps, a question whether these selected poems have not the effect of rendering somewhat too definitely a ruling temperament. ... Many might prefer to meet this singer’s most directly religious poems amid the lighter environment out of which they have been taken. Of the attractive quality of their nobility, fervour, and sincerity there can be no doubt. Only—they present the austere outlook on gifts of earthly joy.”

+ Sat R 123:577 Je 23 ‘17 900w

“A series of poems of personal aspiration, and a series devoted to the celebration of friendship both reveal a striking kinship of spirit with the religious verse of Digby Markworth Dolben, recently edited by Mr Bridges, and in both cases constitute the poet’s main contribution to the not very large body of English sacred poetry of a high order.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p66 F 8 ‘17 1050w

JOHNSON, ROSSITER. Fight for the Republic. il *$2.50 (2½c) Putnam 973.7 17-5857

The subtitle calls this “a narrative of the more noteworthy events in the War of secession, presenting the great contest in its dramatic aspects.” It does not aim to be a complete history of the Civil war. As the author defines his purpose, it is “to set forth clearly such of the greater events as either constituted turning-points or distinctly advanced or retarded the general movement toward the end.” There are a number of folding maps, and several portraits.

“In 1910 the author published ‘A history of the war of secession,’ the military chapters of which are now reprinted under a separate title. The present volume excludes practically everything except military history, and on this side presents little that is not found in the former volume. Students of the war period will find nothing new in ‘The fight for the Republic,’ while for those who are taking up the subject for the first time the book is not to be recommended because it is too one-sided.”

— Am Hist R 23:222 O ‘17 250w

“Facts are well backed up by figures. ... A valuable feature of the work is found in the illustrations. There are sketch maps of all the principal battlefields.”

+ Boston Transcript p14 Ap 7 ‘17 380w

+ Cath World 105:409 Je ‘17 170w

“The limitations of the work are considerable. ... It is hardly possible to write, in this day, a valuable history of the Civil war without devoting some attention to the non-military aspects of the period, but for Mr Johnson these matters evidently have little interest. For one who wishes to get a brief description of a battle or a campaign as seen from the Union side, this work will serve well; but he who wishes to read understandingly of the fight for the Union must go elsewhere—for example, to Mr Rhodes—for a more comprehensive account.”

+ — Dial 62:318 Ap 5 ‘17 300w

+ Educ R 54:97 Je ‘17 30w

“It cannot be recommended to students familiar with the work of Burgess, Rhodes, Ropes, Wood and Edmunds and Formby, but will be useful to any one making a beginning in the field.”

Ind 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 100w

297“Rossiter Johnson has long been recognized as a historian who builds dramatically on a foundation of well-verified facts. This—his third important book on the Civil war in America—seems to leave little more to be said on a subject not easily exhausted.”

+ N Y Times 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 1500w

+ Spec 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 100w

“The facts concerning the nation’s great struggle can always be portrayed in a new way, and that is what Rossiter Johnson has done.”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 12 ‘17 220w

JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER. America and the great war for humanity and freedom, il *$1.50 (2c) Winston 940.91 17-17290

“Eight chapters of this book review the antecedents of the war, and the stories of the different states which entered the war in 1914. The six following chapters describe the war as fought in the different countries and upon the sea and in the air. Three chapters give the story of America’s relations with Germany while she tried to be neutral. Then follow some chapters which describe the resources, actual and potential, of the United States, discuss how modern wars are waged, etc. Among these are brief chapters on women and war work, universal military service, the Monroe doctrine, and the flag. The book is illustrated with photographs and maps.” (Boston Transcript) The author is honorary professor of the history of American foreign relations in New York university.

“The author has been for many years a student of American history, especially in its foreign relations, and he has carefully followed the progress of the war from the beginning. The results of his study have appeared in the Transcript and other papers, and now he has gathered them together in this volume which is one of the most enlightening which have appeared up to the present time.” F. W. C.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 18 ‘17 550w

“For those who like to have a popular ‘vade mecum’ of narrative, argument, and statistics, opening with the ‘Battle hymn of the Republic’ and closing with the ‘Star-spangled banner,’ the volume should prove serviceable. The hundred and more maps and illustrations are, as a rule, well executed.”

+ — Nation 105:322 S 20 ‘17 150w

“One of the important works of reference on the war. Of great timeliness to the student of current events.”

+ Outlook 116:592 Ag 15 ‘17 110w

JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER. America’s foreign relations. 2v il *$6 (2c) Century 327.73 16-9786

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“Although rarely brilliant, the style is at all times clear, while some chapters, notably those on Hawaii, Samoa, and Far Eastern relations possess a fascination to be found only in really fine historical writing. ... The index is adequate; the book has neither footnotes nor bibliography. ... Most of the errors made by the author are of minor importance in themselves, but taken together perhaps show an uneven grasp upon all parts of the subject, and at times an inadequate background of political and constitutional history. ... Despite these and numerous other inaccuracies, and the limitations, from the scholarly viewpoint, imposed by its ‘popular’ character, Mr Johnson’s book is the most complete, most readable, and altogether the best account that has been given of America’s foreign relations.” Ralston Hayden

* + Am Pol Sci R 11:156 F ‘17 1400w

“The book is readable, and at the same time weighty, and, on the whole, remarkably accurate and impartial. ... The determining factors of American foreign policy are presented to us, correctly, as governed not by theoretical but by practical considerations. It is this which will give it its peculiar value in educating American opinion. ... At the present time when it is of capital importance that the British public should realize what are the really determining motives of American policy, this book should be read by every one who is capable of understanding it. Mr Johnson’s account of America’s attitude from the beginning towards the question of ‘the freedom of the seas’ is, alone, of great educative value.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p62 F 8 ‘17 1550w

JOHNSTON, MARY. The wanderers. *$1.75 (1½c) Houghton 17-24277

From the woman of the tree-folk who discovered fire and the uses of the long stick, down thru the ages, Miss Johnston traces the progress, now forward, now back, of women. The cave woman who taught the wanderer man that it is good for two to be together, Gata of the long house, who disclosed the mystery of paternity, Vana who gave away the mother-right and established inheritance thru the male line, Lindane the Amazon, Myrina the courtesan, Valeria the Roman wife, and Alleda, the Goth who brought Christianity to her people, are some of the figures who stand out in the narrative, which, loosely constructed as it intentionally is, is held together by the thread that follows the gradual strengthening, refining and sweetening of the love tie that binds man and woman. The story approaches modern times only so far as the French revolution.

A L A Bkl 14:96 D ‘17

“An impressive departure from the author’s usual field.” H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 46:342 N ‘17 50w

“It is due to the really fine art of the author that she makes the reader become wholly interested in each of her nineteen sets of characters, though only the space of a single chapter is allotted to any one set of characters. Remembering that each one of these chapters has to be built up about some phase of the same subject, we gain some realization of the breadth and difficulty of the task. ... The book is unusual and only an author of the deep insight and the dramatic intensity of Miss Johnston could have made it so revealing.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p6 O 3 ‘17 1250w

“The book voices in fictional form feminine unrest, without a sufficient disguise for its purpose to be successful. In other words, the artist in Miss Johnston has been pretty thoroughly stifled here by the feminist.”

— Cath World 106:400 D ‘17 280w

Cleveland p132 D ‘17 50w

“Miss Johnston’s new book shows the same primary weakness that we have found in all her work. This is the weakness of the long face. We suspect that Miss Johnston’s later work has bored a good many people who have approached it with the best intentions. It has no light and shade; it is all done with the down stroke. ‘The wanderers’ is uncommonly hard reading.”

— Nation 105:487 N 1 ‘17 450w

“It is a grindstone for the feminist axe. ... The love stories are in themselves typical and appealing, though on the whole monotonous and unvaried by any insight of the depths and chasms between lovers. This does not mean that there are no tragedies, but only that the attitude between lovers is that of lovers in a book—when they are happy it is as protagonists, and unhappy, as tragic exemplars. They exult in terms of uncritical idealism, and they die as badly.” J. L.

– + New Repub 13:289 Ja 5 ‘18 430w

“The idea is an interesting and a very ambitious one, and though the book as a whole would be more effective were it not so extremely long, many of the tales are interesting in themselves, containing color and a good deal of drama.”

+ — N Y Times 22:365 S 30 ‘17 550w

Outlook 117:386 N 7 ‘17 30w

“They preserve to an extraordinary degree the atmosphere and probable perspective of life of the periods they represent.”

+ R of Rs 56:557 N ‘17 90w

298“The book is a fine piece of imaginative writing—a landmark in the season’s fiction—and enhances Miss Johnston’s already conspicuous position in American letters. ... It is a book for the discriminating.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 O 7 ‘17 430w

JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW. “Limpy,” the boy who felt neglected. il *$1.35 (2c) Little 17-7454

He had a good home, a kind father, a sympathetic mother and two brothers who did their best to be thoughtful, but he wasn’t happy. His nickname, “Limpy,” explained why, for he wore an ugly iron brace and couldn’t run or fight or play games like other boys. Then he made friends with an old Civil war soldier who had only one leg. Their common bond drew them together, and reassured by this new friend, Limpy found courage to go on bravely till the time came when a surgical operation cured his lameness and made him like other boys.

– + A L A Bkl 13:316 Ap ‘17

“Mr Johnston has achieved a task as delicate as difficult. He has disclosed the heart of a boy with a tenderness which has no trace of sentimentality.”

+ Boston Transcript p9 Mr 24 ‘17 280w

“Huck Finn and Penrod have, between them, made all the other boys of fiction seem a little tame. Were it not for them, ‘Limpy’ would be a capital boy story. As it is, it runs a close second in places, although its hero exhibits something of the lamentable ‘glad’ mania that has recently affected all the little girls of fiction.”

+ Dial 62:147 F 22 ‘17 120w

+ N Y Times 22:75 Mr 4 ‘17 200w

Reviewed by R. D. Moore

+ Pub W 91:586 F 17 ‘17 450w

“Unfortunately, the book lacks the humor that one associates with stories about boys; but its naturalness, both as to speech and action, goes far to compensate for this deficiency.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p15 S 2 ‘17 300w

JOIRE, PAUL MARTIAL JOSEPH. Psychical and supernormal phenomena, their observation and experimentation. il *$3 (1½c) Stokes 134 (Eng ed 17-9817)

Dr Joire is a professor at the Psycho-physiological institute of France and president of the Société universelle d’études psychiques. “This book deals with such subjects as multiple personality, ‘motricity,’ haunted houses, telepathy, crystal-gazing, levitation, materialization, automatic writing, and the like. It is claimed that psychical phenomena have not, for the most part, been subjected to sufficiently serious observation and scientific analysis; and that their verification, though extremely difficult, is not impossible.” (Ath) The book is translated by Dudley Wright.

Ath p473 O ‘16 50w

“To the student of psychology this work should prove of some value. The subject, in its most elementary as well as advanced form, is here dealt with in a broad and comprehensive spirit, and the usual adverse criticisms of psychical phenomena, criticisms which in many cases, to the lay mind at least, seem only too well founded, are tackled by Dr Joire in an able and impartial manner.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p583 D 7 ‘16 630w

JONES, DANIEL. English pronouncing dictionary (on strictly phonetic principles). (Dent’s modern language ser.) *$3 Dutton 423 A17-1345

“The object of this dictionary—it gives no definitions—is to record with as much accuracy as is necessary for practical linguistic purposes the pronunciation used in ordinary conversation by cultivated southern English people. ... The system used for representing pronunciation is that of the International phonetic association, which, in the opinion of the author, is the best as well as being the most widely used of the existing phonetic alphabets. ... Special features of this dictionary are the inclusion of proper names, all plurals of nouns, comparatives and superlatives of adjectives, and the inflected forms of verbs. ... The pronunciation is recorded of 49,690 words, exclusive of inflected forms.” (Springf’d Republican) The author is reader in phonetics in the University of London.

“Here is material for much warm-weather discussion, and to such disputants, of whom this topic counts its millions, there could be recommended no better guide than Mr Jones both for industry and accuracy in collecting his facts and for open-mindedness in the presentation of them. For, apart from a few striking dialectical peculiarities, such as the glide before r in hero and the like, the language which Mr Jones describes would pass as good and by no means peculiar English wherever educated people meet together.”

+ Nation 105:71 Jl 19 ‘17 620w

N Y Times 22:201 My 20 ‘17 40w

+ R of Rs 56:109 Jl ‘17 80w

Reviewed by W. H. Chesson

+ Sat R 123:551 Je 16 ‘17 1400w

“The book will be of much service to Americans as informing them of what is probably the best English usage as to the pronunciation of ordinary words and will be very illuminating to them on the pronunciation of English place names and on the English usage as to other proper names.”

+ Springf’d Republican p10 My 10 ‘17 450w

JONES, EDGAR DEWITT. Fairhope; the annals of a country church. il *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 17-16185

“Some of the names in this story of Kentucky country life may be disguised, but the annals are, evidently, history, not fiction. They cluster around a ‘meeting house’ of the denomination known as Disciples of Christ.” (N Y Times) “The protracted meetings, the student preachers, the wooing of one of them, the changing of the old order from the doctrinal champions to the modern minister expert in rural sociology, these and other phases of the parish annals are set forth.” (Springf’d Republican)

“Lifelike and wholly pleasant sketches.”

+ Ind 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 50w

“Mr Jones has given more than a mere picture of Fairhope church and its people from ‘The days of controversy and debate’ half a century ago to the present time of broad toleration; he has lifted bodily for our behoof the very soil itself, with its characters, genuine and quaint, and the church which was their centre and soul.”

+ N Y Times 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 350w

“Just what Ian Maclaren did to put ‘Drumtochty’ on the map of Scotland, that has ‘David Westbrooke’ done for Fairhope. ... Half a century ago there were public doctrinal debates exciting almost as much interest as the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the political field. Some of these, one in particular, are described here.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 22 ‘17 400w

JONES, EDWARD DAVID. Administration of industrial enterprises; with special reference to factory practice. il *$2 Longmans 658.7 16-24712

“In this volume the author first outlines the problem of equipment and then proceeds to discuss the formation of an administrative organization, the adjustment of the relations of labor and capital, and, finally, the process of mercantile distribution. The aim of the book is two-fold—to trace the application of the scientific method in industry and to point out the efficiency of an economic policy based upon welfare and service.”—R of Rs

299“The proportions of the work are not perfect. Too much space is devoted to the highly technical subject of ‘layout of a manufacturing plant’ and not enough to modern aids to an enlightened administration. The treatment of cost accounting is far too meager and there is nothing at all on managerial statistics and the graphical presentation of facts. Nevertheless, the ground in general is covered with judgment and as thoroughly as a work of moderate size addressed to the general reader would permit. At the end of each chapter is a well-selected bibliography. Where the author most falls into error is in handling some of the technical features of scientific management.” C: W Mixter

+ — Am Econ R 7:630 S ‘17 530w

“A valuable, short, compact statement. Not as inspiring as Lewis’ ‘Getting the most out of business’ nor as analytical as Shaw’s ‘Approach to business problems.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:116 Ja ‘18

“Dr Jones has given us a well organized work. It is a straightforward, connected story. As a textbook, it ought to be well received, and as a part of a business man’s library, it should prove an asset.” Malcolm Keir

+ Ann Am Acad 71:229 My ‘17 250w

Boston Transcript p7 My 19 ‘17 480w

“Although the preface does not indicate it, this volume is better suited for use as a textbook than as a guide to executives of industrial plants. It covers too wide a range to touch more than lightly on the vital things that make for successful management. The man with executive problems to solve will need fuller treatment.”

Engin News-Rec 78:154 Ap 19 ‘17 90w

“Here are no abstract theories of business organization, but facts in profusion stated so professor alike may easily understand. ... Perhaps, in his enthusiasm for the subject, Professor Jones overemphasizes the results which will come from scientific management. After all, the human element must always remain as a large factor in business success.”

+ Ind 89:508 Mr 19 ‘17 150w

“The necessary result of this enlargement of scope is, however, that the treatment of all the topics is very brief. Indeed, in some cases, the discussion is so slight as to make it a question whether much benefit can be derived by the student.”

Nation 104:557 My 3 ‘17 150w

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Pratt p28 O ‘17 30w

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“Professor Jones has attacked this somewhat formidable task with considerable success.” E. B. Gowin

+ Survey 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 150w

JONES, FRANCIS P.^[2] History of the Sinn Fein movement and the Irish rebellion of 1916; with an introd. by J: W. Goff. il *$2 Kenedy 941.5 17-14796

“Mr Jones analyzes the English influences that have been at work in Ireland for many years. He shows the pernicious attempts to strengthen Ireland commercially and politically. In contrast to these influences he explains the Sinn Fein ideals, and traces out the gradual unification of discontent that culminated in the revolt of 1916. Of that unfortunate insurrection and its leaders, he gives a most intimate account, having gathered his material from personal contact with Pearce, Connolly, MacDonald and the other Sinn Fein leaders.”—Cath World

A L A Bkl 14:53 N ‘17

“His presentation of the Irish problem is the most conclusive written in recent years, and contains a complete review of a period in Irish history that will grow in importance with the passing of time. No one who would know Ireland’s present position can afford to miss reading this scholarly work. In writing it Mr Jones has done a great service for Ireland and her people.”

+ Cath World 105:549 Jl ‘17 250w

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N Y Br Lib News 4:77 My ‘17

“The story of the Sinn Fein movement is dramatically told, and there is a running account of the various armed movements that accompanied it. All this is well done. There is not, however, sufficient notice taken of the Irish trade union movement, or the part it has played in reforming and extending the economic ideas of the Irish people.” Frank MacDonald

+ — N Y Call p15 Ap 29 ‘17 900w

St Louis 15:187 Je ‘17 20w

JONES, JENKIN LLOYD. Love for the battle-torn peoples. 75c Unity pub. 172.4 17-26179

“A series of popular sermon-studies, sketching rapidly the contributions made by each of the warring countries to civilization, which entitle them to the love of the American people. A new statement of the author’s well known faith in human brotherhood and internationalism.”—A L A Bkl

A L A Bkl 13:241 Mr ‘17

“A charming little volume.”

+ Educ R 54:208 S ‘17 40w

“The author has a wide knowledge of literature and a profound feeling for the great values of history and human life. He has also the gift of expression.”

+ Int J Ethics 27:267 Ja ‘17 60w

“No one will read Mr Jones’s book without feeling that some things have been included that he cannot and does not want to love and that even more has been omitted that one has learned to love. And yet it is fair to say that Mr Jones has more nearly succeeded in reaching an average possessing universal appeal than could have been thought possible before the idea was given a trial.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 F 11 ‘17 300w

JONES, JOHN PRICE. America entangled (Eng title, German spy in America). pa *50c Agnes C. Laut, 286 5th av., N.Y. 940.91 17-8589

“In the course of his work on the staff of the New York Sun Mr Jones has given a year to the close investigation of the subject [of the German spy in America]. ... Here we have a detailed exposure of the misdeeds of von Papen, von Igel, Koenig, Boy-Ed, Captain Franz von Rintelen, the ‘German arch-plotter,’ who was commissioned ‘to isolate commercial and financial America as a base of war supplies from Europe,’ Dr Heinrich F. Albert, Dumba, and the rest of the conspirators; the full story of the Lusitania, an account of Germany’s lobby in Congress, and of the change in the system when publicity became too strong. Mr Roosevelt contributes a foreword, and Mr Roger B. Wood an introduction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

Ath p476 S ‘17 200w

St Louis 15:166 Je ‘17

“Not only to Americans, however, but to all the belligerent countries, and above all to neutrals, will Mr Price Jones’s book be of service in warning them how the Kaiser makes war.”

+ Spec 119:298 S 22 ‘17 1650w

“A remarkable story, lucidly and effectively put together.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p371 Ag 2 ‘17 140w

“Mr Jones’s story is the more deadly because it is supported throughout by documentary evidence, and is told in plain, straightforward language, little embellished by rhetoric.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p380 Ag 9 ‘17 1000w

300JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW. St Paul, the hero. il *$1 (3½c) Macmillan 225.9 17-10430

“This is the story of the life of St Paul, told with remarkable simplicity and especially designed for younger readers. ... The first chapter shows him as a boy ten years old, talking with his father about the meaning of the law; the last chapter gives us a picture of the heroic champion sealing his loyalty to the gospel by his death.”—Bib World

“The unfolding history is given in untechnical language, vividly and concretely. ... This short book ought to be of great value in Bible study. The pictures are unusual, being reproductions of steel engravings in the classical style. The maps are too fine to be legible.”

+ Bib World 50:128 Ag ‘17 160w

“St Paul’s life is so full of incident and so fascinating in detail that to write a long book about him would be far easier than a satisfactory short one; but Professor Jones, with the exactness of a scholar and with the quiet reverence of a Quaker, has produced a series of brief chapters that will convey to young people a very clear outline of the main story, while not exceeding the compass of their patience.”

+ Cath World 105:551 Jl ‘17 170w

“The well-known scholar succeeds in making the character of Paul interesting to the adolescent boy. ... The story is written so as to appeal to the youthful imagination.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 29 ‘17 110w

JONES, WILLIAM TUDOR. Spiritual ascent of man. *$1.50 Putnam 201 17-5700

In his introduction, A. L. Smith, master of Balliol college, says “This book aims at bringing the best philosophical thought of the time within the range of the ordinary reader.” As the author defines his purpose it is “to present some of the main problems of science, philosophy, and religion as these are dealt with by a number of the most prominent writers of our day.” The greatest weakness of the church in the past, he says, has been its failure “to give due heed to the various branches of knowledge in their bearings on religion.” Contents: The scope and limits of science; Matter and life; Body and mind; Intellect and intuition; The “is” and the “ought”; Values; The nature of spirit; The conception of God; Religion and Christianity; Conclusion.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 6 ‘17 430w

Dial 63:536 N 22 ‘17 220w

+ Educ R 54:316 O ‘17 70w

“This book is clearly the fruit both of wide philosophical reading and of hard philosophical thought. ... It is certainly a book which all who have the cause of religion at heart would do well to read and ponder. The book appears at an opportune time. ... We whole-heartedly commend it.” J. T. Walley

+ Int J Ethics 27:396 Ap ‘17 720w

N Y Br Lib News 4:94 Je ‘17

JORDAN, DAVID STARR. Alsace-Lorraine; a study in conquest. *$1 (5c) Bobbs 943.4 17-6885

This work was written in 1913. It is based on a study made in Alsace-Lorraine at that time. Writing then, before the war, Dr Jordan compared Alsace to a cyclone center—the quiet place within the storm where there is no movement. Alsace was then the least war-like place in Europe. An Alsatian expression of opinion is quoted as typical: “War is the worst possible solution of our problems, because war is no solution. With war there is never a solution of any question. ... If France should gain Alsace by war, it would be only the beginning of another war, and so on without end.” Contents: The “nightmare of Europe”; The German point of view; Alsace-Lorraine as “Reichsland”: The French point of view; Nationalism. The material of the book appeared in part in the Atlantic Monthly for May, 1914.

A L A Bkl 13:395 Je ‘17

“Brings very clearly to the foreground the evil results following Germany’s action in striving to absorb a people against their natural affiliation.”

+ Ind 90:380 My 26 ‘17 80w

R of Rs 55:445 Ap ‘17 70w

St Louis 15:187 Je ‘17 20w

“Prof. Jordan is eminently fair to both sides. The letters he quotes as having received from prominent Frenchmen and Germans on this thorny question form not the least interesting part of his readable and informing little book.”

+ Springf’d Republican p12 Mr 30 ‘17 320w

“If the author is unable to forecast the best solution of the perplexing problem of Alsace-Lorraine, at least he brings sufficient evidence to show that many of those which have been proposed from time to time are utterly impracticable. ... The creation of a new ‘buffer’ state, though not advanced by Dr Jordan as ‘the’ solution, from an analysis of the material which he brings does stand out as at least the most promising approach to it.” Bruno Lasker

+ — Survey 38:551 S 22 ‘17 1000w

JORDAN, EDWIN OAKES. Food poisoning. (Science ser.) il *$1 (3½c) Univ. of Chicago press 613.2 17-14054

The author is chairman of the department of hygiene and bacteriology of the University of Chicago. The introduction deals with the extent and kinds of food poisoning and articles of food most commonly connected with food poisoning. The author then considers: Sensitization to protein foods; Poisonous plants and animals; Mineral or organic poisons added to food; Food-borne pathogenic bacteria; Animal parasites; Poisonous products formed in food by bacteria and other micro-organisms; Poisoning of obscure or unknown nature.

A L A Bkl 14:81 D ‘17

“Concise authoritative, non-technical summary of present-day knowledge.”

+ Cleveland p95 Jl ‘17 40w

St Louis 15:328 S ‘17 10w

Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 4 ‘17 600w

“The book is of value at any time, and of importance; but the coming food campaign should focus attention upon it as one of the books which, above the primer grade, lead thoughtful readers into the desired realization of certain physiological aspects of the three-meals-a-day routine.” G. S.

+ Survey 39:73 O 20 ‘17 240w

JÖRGENSEN, JOHANNES. False witness. il *$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-26259

A translation of a Danish work, “Klokke Roland.” The main part of the book is taken up with an examination of “Appeal to the civilized world” sent out by ninety-three German professors. The author examines their claims and brings evidence to prove them false. In addition the book contains miscellaneous chapters on German character and “kultur.”

A L A Bkl 13:306 Ap ‘17

“It is an interesting book, written in genuine and acknowledged sympathy with Belgium, and bears the marks of a craftsman.”

+ Cath World 105:694 Ag ‘17 300w

Cleveland p58 Ap ‘17 80w

“It is the first authoritative expression of the Danish viewpoint—if one may go so far in generalizing—that we have had. And it should be welcomed here, as the comment of a neutral and a neighbor, upon the conduct of the war.”

+ N Y Times 22:140 Ap 15 ‘17 430w

“No clearer or more eloquent condemnation of the German treatment of Belgium has been written than this neutral book, which deserves reading.”

+ Spec 118:176 F 10 ‘17 120w

301JOYCE, JAMES. Portrait of the artist as a young man. *$1.50 (2c) Huebsch 17-4707

The story of the childhood, boyhood and youth of a young Irishman. It is extremely subjective and at times difficult to follow in its intricate turnings and abrupt transitions. From babyhood onward, Stephen is a lonely soul. At an early age he is sent to a Jesuit school where, altho he is evidently popular with the boys, he seems more than ever alone. He lives a secret life and during adolescence falls prey to the temptations of sex that lie in wait for the young. The agony of his remorse, his fear of confession, and the peace and exaltation that follows it, are among the most vivid impressions the book gives. The Catholic influence is strong thruout his early life. At one time he is led to think that he has a “vocation,” but when the book leaves him at the beginning of early manhood, he is leaning toward agnosticism.

“The book has an irresistible effect of sharp, first-hand reality. But as a treatment of Irish politics, society or religion, it is negligible.”

Cath World 105:395 Je ‘17 1100w

“Such a book would have been impossible forty years ago. Far from looking back with regret at the good old novelists of the nineteenth century (whom, besides, we need never lose), I believe that our fiction is immensely freer and richer than the fiction of our immediate forefathers.” J: Macy

+ Dial 62:525 Je 14 ‘17 240w

“The book in many places is exceedingly coarse, so marring uncommon beauty, descriptive power and insight.”

– + Ind 90:256 My 5 ‘17 50w

“What thrusts itself forward is the naturalism.’ Apart from this, in spite of it, the book has a measure of force by virtue of its sincere intent and its unconquered though ingrowing and indeterminate idealism. Its hero (who surely discourses like nobody in nature) is to be an artist in words—for the sake of Ireland.” H. W. Boynton

– + Nation 104:403 Ap 5 ‘17 350w

“The brilliant and nasty variety of pseudo-realism is excellently exemplified in ‘A portrait of the artist as a young man.’”

— Nation 104:600 My 17 ‘17 500w

“One almost despairs of conveying it to the person who has conventionalized his idea of Ireland and modern Irish literature, yet there is a poignant Irish reality to be found in few existing plays and no preexistent novel, presented here with extraordinary candor and beauty and power. ... ‘A portrait of the artist as a young man’ is not entirely pleasant. But it has such beauty, such love of beauty, such intensity of feeling, such pathos, such candor, it goes beyond anything in English that reveals the inevitable malaise of serious youth. Many people will furiously resent his candor, whether about religion or nationalism or sex. But candor is a nobility in this instance.” F. H.

+ New Repub 10:138 Mr 3 ‘17 1650w

“It is worth a great deal to the outside world to read of such events as are chronicled in ‘The portrait’ and ‘Dubliners.’ To see directly into the household and the heart of this sensitive young Irishman of the upper middle class is to be brought face to face with the social, political and religious forces which vex Ireland (and England, too, incidentally) daily.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 1 ‘17 650w

“If we begin by complaining of the title of this book, it is only because it may turn some people away from it. Others may be put off by occasional improprieties; and it is useless to say that people ought not be put off by such things. They are; and we should like the book to have as many readers as possible.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p103 Mr 1 ‘17 1100w

JOYCE, THOMAS ATHOL. Central American and West Indian archæology. il *$3.75 (5½c) Putnam 913.728 (Eng ed 16-17487)

The author calls this “an introduction to the archæology of the states of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the West Indies.” His aim has been to treat the archæology of these districts in a manner similar to that of his earlier books on Mexico and South America. He says: “The geographical area covered by the book is one which is still very imperfectly known from an archaeological point of view; the people inhabiting it in early times were not so highly developed, politically, as the Mexicans or the Peruvians, and the literature dealing with them is neither large nor easy of access. Still a summary of the known facts may be of use, if only in performing the function of a signpost for future investigators.”

“Summarizes in a scholarly way much material on excavations and discoveries of scientists that has heretofore been unavailable. Good illustrations.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:217 F ‘17

“Mr Joyce, who is an assistant in the department of ethnography in the British museum, has already written two earlier volumes on the archaeology of Mexico, Yucatan and the South American continent, including the exceptionally interesting study of early Aztec civilization. ... He has gathered many of the interesting traditions which have come down from pre-Colombian days. Since the conquest of Porto Rico by the United States much has been done by our Bureau of ethnology in the line of ethnological research in that and the adjoining smaller islands, some of the results of which are seen in Mr Joyce’s book.”

+ Boston Transcript p8 F 14 ‘17 700w

Cleveland p71 My ‘17 30w

Dial 63:467 N 8 ‘17 120w

“The title well describes the book as an ‘introduction’ to the subject. As such it has good value. One feels, however, that the price set is high, considering the size of the volume.”

+ — Lit D 55:39 N 17 ‘17 280w

N Y Br Lib News 4:15 Ja ‘17

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p104 Mr 1 ‘17 1100w

JUDD, CHARLES HUBBARD.^[2] Psychology, general introduction. 2d completely rev ed il *$1.80 Ginn 150 17-25595

A second edition largely rewritten. The writer points out the principal changes and elaborations: (1) “The present edition goes further than did the first in working out the doctrines of functional psychology, especially in so far as these use motor processes in explaining mental organization; (2) The doctrine of attitudes which was presented in the first edition has been much expanded; (3) The applications of psychology have been elaborated, especially through a new chapter on mental hygiene; (4) The view with regard to the importance of consciousness in evolution which was set forth in my paper before the American psychological association in 1909 has been adopted as a guiding principle in this volume. In keeping with this view, the chapter on volition has been wholly rewritten, and several earlier sections have been largely worked over.” The chapters only slightly modified are: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, and 17.

“The significance of this revision for educators is enhanced by the fact that the author, for most of the ten years which have elapsed since the first edition, has been actively engaged in the teaching and administration of education. This has meant that the functional aspect of mental life, in which it is regarded as active, and doing something in the organism which it inhabits and in the world outside—this aspect which was already emphasized in the first edition is still more clearly defined in the additions which appear in the second edition. The student who is sufficiently mature to make applications of general principles for himself will gain profit from a study of the discussions of this book.” H. O. Rugg

+ El School J 18:312 D ‘17 400w

JUDSON, KATHARINE BERRY, comp. Myths and legends of British North America. il *$1.50 (3½c) McClurg 398.2 17-11232

To her series of books of retold legends of American Indians, east and west, the author adds a volume of tales from the north. Among the tribes represented are the Haida, Eastern 302Eskimo, Wyandot, Cree, Bella Coola, Lillooet and Chilcotin. The author says, “Only authentic myths and legends have been used in the compilation of this volume. The leading authorities are the publications of the United States Bureau of ethnology, of the Jesup North Pacific expedition, of the Memoirs of the American Museum of natural history, as well as the ethnological publications of the Canadian Bureau of mines.” There are about twenty illustrations.

A L A Bkl 13:428 Jl ‘17

“A large selection of well-executed cuts enhance the aesthetic appeal of the work. The author has, however, been less successful in her comments on some of these samples of Indian art. ... No justification can be found for the promiscuous arrangement of the myths of wholly heterogeneous provenience. ... A more judicious arrangement would have enhanced the value of the work immeasurably.” A. A. Goldenweiser

+ — Bookm 45:418 Je ‘17 650w

“They have an ethnological value as well as a picturesque interest.” F. B.

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 16 ‘17 450w

“The purpose of the book seems to be the entertainment of young people, but even for this modest design the sketchiness of the material and lack of developed unity leaves it inadequate.”

— Dial 63:461 N 8 ‘17 180w

N Y Br Lib News 4:94 Je ‘17

JUDSON, KATHARINE BERRY. Old Crow stories. il *$1.35 (4c) Little 17-24075

A book of animal stories selected from Indian folk lore. “Old Crow” is one of the characters in these tales, others are Raven, Grizzly and Coyote. How Raven brought the light, How Grizzly Bear stole the light; How Sun was made; When Real People were baked; How Coyote got his cunning; How Fire came to the Real People, are some of the titles. The pictures are by Charles Livingston Bull.

“She has retold these Indian myths of the beginnings of things in a spirited manner and in simple enough language for the little ones, yet without the condescending ‘talking down’ to which children instinctively object.” R. D. Moore

+ Pub W 92:2031 D 8 ‘17 270w

“They have a decided interest for older readers who recognize their ethnic and symbolic importance, while children will read them as the most delightful make-believe.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 20 ‘17 70w

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KAMBAN, GUTHMUNDUR.^[2] Hadda Padda; a drama in four acts; tr. by Sadie Luise Peller. (Borzoi plays, v) *$1 Knopf 839.6 17-30695

This play, translated from the Icelandic, was given its first production in Copenhagen in 1914. In spite of its difficult fourth act, which had made managers hesitate to attempt the play, it was an instant success. The other Scandinavian countries accepted it with equal enthusiasm and preparations for its presentation in Germany were only cut short by the war. It is a four-act tragedy on the theme of a proud woman’s betrayed love. Even in the pages of the printed play, Hrafnhild, called Hadda Padda, stands out as a very vital creation. In his drawing of her character and in the working out of the last act, the young dramatist reveals his northern heritage. There is an appreciative foreword by Georg Brandes.

Cleveland p6 Ja ‘18 70w

“The element of the death of Hadda Padda in this occasionally strong little drama is a weakness—not strength, not climax. It is one of the instances of avoidance, of seeking the easiest way out, both for dramatist and character. ... The play deserves success, for, in spite of common places worked out in a commonplace manner, and its artificiality, it goes far beyond the average run of plays, and it is really in a class quite outside our English works.” F. M.

+ — N Y Call p19 D 15 ‘17 600w

“Strikingly brilliant play.”

+ R of Rs 57:109 Ja ‘18 90w

KARAPETOFF, VLADIMIR. Engineering applications of higher mathematics. 5v ea *75c Wiley 620 (11-32468)

“‘This is not a book on calculus or analytic geometry, nor on engineering or any branch of it. It is intended to enable an engineer to make a better and more extended use of higher mathematics in his work.’ (Preface) Contents: v. 1. Problems on machine design; v. 2. Problems on hydraulics; v. 3. Problems on thermodynamics; v. 4. Problems on mechanics of materials; v. 5. Problems on electrical engineering.”—Cleveland

“The author has great skill in stating the application of basic principles and in leading students to advanced work without waste of time and energy.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:205 F ‘17

Cleveland p9 Ja ‘17 60w

“The treatment is, on the whole, sound, though the diction is often rather loose. ... The mathematical work is not distinguished by neatness, and one finds awkward and cumbrous proofs where often quite simple methods are available. The author appears afraid of making undue demands on the knowledge of his readers, and when a real difficulty occurs contents himself with a reference to a textbook. These criticisms must not be taken to reflect on the competence of the author, whose aims, as recorded in his prefaces, are excellent.”

+ Nature 99:102 Ap 5 ‘17 380w

KAWAKAMI, KIYOSHI KARL. Japan in world politics. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 327.52 17-21929

Writing from Peking in 1917 the author of “American-Japanese relations” and “Asia at the door” tells us in his preface to this book that prior to 1901 he was one of the founders of the Social Democratic party in Japan. His experiences in America subsequent to that date caused him regretfully to turn from the socialism and trade unionism he met here because he found them to mean a brotherhood between western nations only. “I have come to the conclusion,” he says, “that socialism cannot be achieved until the relations between the East and the West are radically changed.” That such a change may mean the averting of the world catastrophe that the future centuries will otherwise see is his reason for this attempt to “serve mankind by removing some of the misunderstandings now casting a dark shadow upon the relationship of the two nations.” Most of the chapters of this book were originally published as separate articles in the North American Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and other periodicals. Among the topics discussed are: The Japanese instinct of self-preservation; America’s issues with Japan; Is America preparing against Japan?; Land hunger: the background of the immigration question; Japanese immigration to America; The Pacific coast and the Japanese; The expatriation of the Japanese; The open door in China; Japan and America in China; Japan’s blunders in China; America and Japan in Korea; Japan and the Philippines; Japanese “designs” upon Mexico; America and the Anglo-Japanese alliance; America and German-Japanese relations; America and the Russo-Japanese entente.