Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 24)
Reading edition
“The author’s sympathies are with Japan in American-Japanese questions, though his presentation of his views is reasonable and sane. He feels that the Monroe doctrine is unjust to small overcrowded nations and that unhindered immigration is necessary for a permanent peace. 303He attempts to justify Japan in China and Korea and to allay suspicion of German-Japanese relations.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:42 N ‘17
Reviewed by W. W. McLaren
Am Pol Sci R 11:777 N ‘17 300w
Ind 92:60 O 6 ‘17 130w
“If he were writing from the patriotic Japanese standpoint, he would remember that Great Britain is the ally of Japan, and as such is to be treated with courtesy and respect. But all the allusions to ‘England’ throughout are as unpleasantly unfair as if they came from a ‘Zeitung,’ and are particularly regrettable at the present moment. If he were writing as a keen-witted American, he would know that the policy of the ‘open door’ enunciated by John Hay has always had British support.”
– + Nation 105:571 N 22 ‘17 520w
“The author declares that he was once a socialist. He abandoned socialism, however, when he began the study of the relations of Asia and Europe. This he tells us, is a chasm to be bridged before there can be any reasonable talk of socialism and internationalism. So Mr Kawakami sets about to state the problem. And he does it well.” J. W.
+ N Y Call p14 O 7 ‘17 750w
“Not often does one find a discussion of Japanese and American relations that will compare with this little book in sanity, reasonableness, judicial temper, and ability to see the rights and wrongs of all sides of a question. As between America and Japan, he makes emphatic his conviction that the crux of the matter is the question of naturalization.”
+ N Y Times 22:312 Ag 26 ‘17 950w
+ — Outlook 117:143 S 26 ‘17 50w
St Louis 15:388 N ‘17 30w
KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA. John Galsworthy. (Writers of the day) il *60c (4c) Holt 823 A17-395
The author ranks Galsworthy higher as a dramatist than as a novelist. His strong points, craftsmanship and sense of form, stand out with distinctness in his plays, and his weakness in character drawing is not so evident. Types are more successful than individual characters on the stage. Furthermore Galsworthy is more successful in his plays than in his novels because most good plays are founded on a situation; most good novels on the development of a situation; “and development is not a characteristic of Galsworthy’s art.” Two chapters are devoted to the plays, two to the novels, one to the sketches, and a final chapter considers Galsworthy the artist.
+ A L A Bkl 13:342 My ‘17
“His admirers will like this essay and it may help those who demand that he be other than he is to understand and value one of the real artists of our time.”
+ Ind 91:33 Jl 7 ‘17 120w
Nation 104:687 Je 7 ‘17 220w
“A commonplace study of the cataloging type of John Galsworthy, placing emphasis upon his dramas rather than his novels, but taking one production after another in each field with impartial disregard of the demand of the ordinary reader for a measure of synthesis.”
— Nation 105:324 S 20 ‘17 430w
“A worthy successor to the other numbers of the series. And that is high praise. ... One is tempted to quote the book in detail, analyze its analyses. It is a pregnant and most excellent little volume.”
+ N Y Times 22:196 My 20 ‘17 630w
“Not a brilliant or inspired but a good, discerning, level-headed and reasonably sympathetic study. ... One feels, however, that Miss Kaye-Smith over-praises Galsworthy’s power with words.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 8 ‘17 1150w
“It goes simply and concisely through the several items of Mr Galsworthy’s work, with descriptive and clear thoughtful criticism.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p551 N 16 ‘16 150w
KEARY, CHARLES F. Religious hours. *2s 6d Constable & co., London 821
“The title of this volume will suggest to many readers something in the vein of the ‘Christian year.’ But Mr Keary’s religion is not Keble’s. It is not orthodox, not even Christian, at all. In his prefatory note he says that the poems are chosen, out of a quantity of verse he had ready for publication, as more suited than others to ‘the gravity of the time’; and, he adds, ‘the title “religious” which I have given them is to be construed in this sense, the literary one; the sense in which Herrick often uses the word.’ ... The truth is that religion in Mr Keary’s use means not something fanciful which poets have invented, but what it actually meant for the world of Greece and Rome before the coming of Christianity.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Mr Keary’s long and devoted service to fine letters is well summed up in this choice book, which, we hope, will not be passed by as if it were inferior hymnology.”
+ Sat R 123:208 Mr 3 ‘17 750w
“A volume of grave pagan psalms and hymns of a true piety and a true imagination.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p43 Ja 25 ‘17 1550w
KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE. Wayside flowers of summer. il *$1.35 Scribner 580 17-14079
“A study of the conspicuous herbaceous plants blooming upon our northern roadsides during the months of July and August.” (Subtitle) In the introduction the author adds, “The plants described in this volume are those that the wayfarer, starting out upon his summer vacation, will most likely meet if he goes on foot, or pass if he takes an auto, or see from the windows of his moving train; they are the ones that are part and parcel of summer life. ... In round numbers they vary from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty.” The botanical descriptions are based on Gray’s “Manual of botany,” seventh edition, and Britton’s “Manual of the flora of the northern states and Canada.” The book is fully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and pictures in color.
+ A L A Bkl 13:435 Jl ‘17
Cleveland p109 S ‘17 30w
Pratt p19 O ‘17.
“Of convenient size for the pocket, of good type for the eye, of generous illustration both in color and line drawings.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 28 ‘17 150w
KEEN, EDITH. Seven years at the Prussian court. il *$3 (3½c) Lane 943.08 (Eng ed 17-1178)
The author spent seven years in Germany as a companion in the household of the Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia, sister of the German empress. Like the many others of its kind, the book is made up of personal reminiscences and bits of gossip about royal personages. Among the chapters are: My early days at Potsdam; The princess Margarethe; Incognito visits to England; Servants in German royal households; The crown prince and princess; The days before the war, etc.
“Her knowledge of the Kaiser and his family is at best but second hand information.” D. L. M.
Boston Transcript p9 Mr 14 ‘17 400w
“There is frequently a bias in her manner of writing that makes one realize how difficult it is for the author to be fair toward her country’s enemies.”
+ — Lit D 55:43 N 17 ‘17 80w
“Much entertaining gossip for those interested in the love affairs and dress bills of royalty is scattered over these rambling pages, but there is singularly little that is significant of anything beyond personal concerns. ... The frequent glimpses of the Kaiser, sometimes in his moods of testiness or of ruffled vanity, are the most enlivening feature of the book.”
+ — Nation 104:410 Ap 5 ‘17 270w
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N Y Br Lib News 4:60 Ap ‘17
N Y Times 22:271 Jl 22 ‘17 750w
+ Outlook 115:625 Ap 4 ‘17 140w
St Louis 15:185 Je ‘17 20w
+ Spec 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 150w
KEEN, WILLIAM WILLIAMS. Medical research and human welfare. il *$1.25 (4½c) Houghton 610.9 17-30712
This “record of personal experiences and observations during a professional life of fifty-seven years” formed the substance of the Colver lectures for 1917 at Brown university. Dr Keen is emeritus professor of surgery in Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia. His professional experience covers the period from the “old horribly fatal surgery of the Civil war” to the present. He has watched surgery emerge “from a septic purgatory into an aseptic paradise,” and he very briefly covers the marvelous changes that have taken place in this time. Among the subjects touched on are Bacteriology, Puerperal fever, Hydrophobia, Modern surgery, Syphilis, Smallpox, Cholera, Yellow fever, Malaria, Cancer, and Tuberculosis.
+ A L A Bkl 14:155 F ‘18
“This record surpasses in interest the most thrilling detective story. ... It is the best possible answer to some of the claims of Christian science training.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 D 19 ‘17 100w
“The readableness, the sagacity, and the persuasiveness of this book are to be found only by the careful perusal which it deserves.”
+ Outlook 117:577 D 5 ‘17 90w
“[Written] in brilliant, scholarly, but quite untechnical style.” G. S.
+ Survey 39:326 D 15 ‘17 240w
KEENE, LOUIS. “Crumps”; the plain story of a Canadian who went. il *$1.25 (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-29600
The word “crumps” is trench slang for a bursting shell—“on account of the sound they make, a sort of cru-ump! noise as they explode.” The author is a young Canadian artist who writes of the early days of the war, illustrating his account with his own drawings. He touches lightly on war horrors in his text; but some of his pictures are very grim indeed. There is a very brief foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood.
“Of life in the trenches the writer tells his story with light and cheerful spirit and yet not without full sense of duty and responsibility.” H. S. K.
+ Boston Transcript p7 N 17 ‘17 600w
Ind 92:604 D 29 ‘17 40w
“‘Crumps’ takes the whole thing a good deal as a college boy takes a big football game; it’s all something of a lark, a glorious great game, and even the horrors are touched on with a latent feeling that they are, in their own way, humorous.”
+ N Y Times 22:546 D 9 ‘17 1750w
“The chief interest, in fact, of the book is in its earlier chapters, which tell of things that other men have left largely unreported.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 28 ‘17 690w
KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE, and CARNOY, ALBERT JOSEPH. Indian [mythology]; Iranian [mythology]. (Mythology of all races) 13v v 6 il $6 (6c) Jones, Marshall 291 17-6787
The sixth volume of the Mythology of all races is made up of two books in one. The first part, Indian mythology, is by A. Berriedale Keith, regius professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Edinburgh university. The author has limited his subject by restricting the treatment as closely as possible to the mythology that is closely allied to religion in India. Part 2, Iranian mythology, is by Professor Albert J. Carnoy of the University of Louvain, now research professor in the University of Pennsylvania. He says, “The purpose of this essay is exactly set forth by its title: it is a reasonably complete account of what is mythological in Iranian traditions, but it is nothing more; since it is exclusively concerned with myths, all that is properly religious, historical, or archaeological has intentionally been omitted.” The illustrations of the volume are deserving of special mention. Among them are a number of fine color plates.
“Both accounts well fulfil their purpose as popular summaries; both will also prove valuable to specialists. The most satisfactory chapters of Keith are those on the Rig-Veda, the Brāhmanas, and the Epic. The chapter on Buddhism, the most difficult one to write, is the least satisfactory of all.” W. E. Clark
+ — Am J Theol 22:155 Ja ‘18 1150w
+ A L A Bkl 13:424 Jl ‘17
“This series promises to be one of the great monuments of the history of religions. It is impossible to enter into a discussion of each one of these volumes. It is enough to call attention to the admirable analysis of material, its readable style, the mass of notes and bibliography.”
+ Bib World 50:125 Ag ‘17 240w
“Professor Keith of Edinburgh university, the author of the volume, has already published the standard ‘Vedic index of names and subjects’ and appears as editor and translator of the Sankhayana and Aitareya and of the Taittiriya Samhita. ... This is the first time, however, that any authoritative work has been published in English on the history of Indian mythology. ... The Metropolitan museum of art allowed the color plates from the Persian manuscripts of the Shaknamah to be used for illustrations of the Iranian section.” D. L. M.
Boston Transcript p6 Mr 17 ‘17 850w
“Dr Keith has with infinite skill cut a swathe through what seems an inextricable tangle of mythological detail. He makes clear the development of philosophical ideas and yet preserves so much of the mythological drapery in which these ideas are clothed that the book possesses the double quality of scholarliness and fascination. By recognizing the close connection between mythology and religion, he has greatly enhanced, in my opinion, the interest of his subject.” H. A. Clarke
+ Dial 63:158 Ag 30 ‘17 1350w
“In clear presentation of matter, and in appropriateness of illustration this volume is superexcellent. For the last, some of the choicest of manuscript and book-decorations have been employed at large cost.”
+ Lit D 54:2007 Je 30 ‘17 250w
Nation 104:658 My 31 ‘17 1200w
+ N Y Times 22:179 My 6 ‘17 700w
+ Springf’d Republican p6 O 23 ‘17 640w
KEITH, KATHERINE. Girl. *$1.35 (3c) Holt 17-3032
Chapters from this autobiography have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. It gives a series of impressionistic pictures from a girl’s life from childhood up to her eighteenth year. As a little girl she is both mischievous and imaginative. She lives partly in a dream world and invents long and involved romances, of which a handsome actor and a western ranch are features, she herself playing the part of a boy. As she begins to grow up, the narrative seems more artificial and some of the incident and the mixing of the dates of certain known events give the impression that the whole is a piece of fiction.
“It is obvious that its writer has striven hard to write something strikingly original, and that she frequently makes the sad mistake of thinking that freakishness is identical with frankness, and that self-searchings and their public confession are as interesting to the reader as to herself. ... The confessions are too artificial to carry with them the convincing power of truth.” E. F. E.
— Boston Transcript p8 Ja 10 ‘17 1050w
“It is a very interesting book. People perhaps will like to discuss its social significance,—as I have done. But it is chiefly worth while 305as a very definite rendering of an interesting conception,—rather a rare thing in art.” E: E. Hale
+ Dial 62:71 Ja 25 ‘17 500w
“Written with a curious detachment and objectivity rare in personal revelations.”
Ind 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 30w
“A book of ingrowing emotion, of strained and hectic self-consciousness, of feminism in its aimless and sterile phase. It is also consciously and deliberately ‘literary.’”
— Nation 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 250w
“The story is no more chaotic than is life itself. One of its charms is its surprises.” J: N. Beffel
+ N Y Call p15 Mr 4 ‘17 950w
“The story is written with delicate art, its crisp, lucid style strikingly simple and its situations vividly realized. This is especially true of those portions of the book that deal with the childhood of the girl.”
+ N Y Times 22:24 Ja 21 ‘17 250w
“Semi-fictionalized reminiscence. ... It consists of a loose-strung series of incidents, anecdotes and self-revealments ... many of them exquisite in themselves and in their presentation; and the lot of them cumulatively meaningful in their feminine entirety.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:208 Mr ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Life, 1917)
KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON. Sudden Jim. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-6325
James Ashe, senior, was known as “Clothespin Jimmy.” It was a matter of disappointment to him that his son, Jim, in the twenty-eight years of his life had acquired no distinctive title. A man didn’t amount to much, in his opinion, who had done nothing to merit a descriptive name. That was one of the reasons that led him to go off to California leaving his clothespin factory in Jim’s charge. If there was anything in the younger man, he wanted to see it come out. In less than a week on his new job, the son had earned his title, “Sudden Jim.” The scene of the story is a small town in Michigan and local politics play a part in the action.
A L A Bkl 13:355 My ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p13 Ap 7 ‘17 500w
“He is a type loved by the average American.”
Dial 62:444 My 17 ‘17 120w
“A good book of its kind. It is amusing, brisk, swift moving, full of incident and surprise.”
+ N Y Times 22:99 Mr 18 ‘17 320w
“Mr Kelland cleverly sketches a group of local characters, whose colloquialisms and hard commonsense are a source of delight. It is a clever, rapid and diverting American story.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 My 6 ‘17 330w
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:126 Ap ‘17 50w
KELLEY, ETHEL MAY. Turn about Eleanor. il *$1.40 Bobbs 17-23983
“Half a dozen young people, three girls and three young men, all of them great friends and all but one pledged never to marry, decide to adopt a child and bring it up on the co-operative plan. A little girl of ten, Eleanor Hamlin, an orphan from Cape Cod, is chosen as the subject of this experiment, and the first twelve chapters tell of her experiences with her six volunteer parents, each of whom lives in a different way and has different ideas from any of the rest. Eleanor spends two months with first one and then another, until she has stayed with all six; they teach her a good deal, and to them she is a liberal education.”—N Y Times
A L A Bkl 14:96 D ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 46:341 N ‘17 100w
“Will attract the favorable attention of those who want an old-fashioned story about new-fashioned people. It is old-fashioned in this day of typewriter-made fiction because it is full of common sense and good workmanship. There is more than an amusing plot, there are real ideas in it, as well as flesh and blood and brain characters.”
+ Dial 63:463 N 8 ‘17 170w
“It is a bright little story and the cooperative parents are nicely sketched.”
+ N Y Times 22:402 O 14 ‘17 250w
KELLOGG, MRS CHARLOTTE. Women of Belgium; turning tragedy to triumph. il *$1 (3c) Funk 940.91 17-12252
An account of relief work in Belgium, with special reference to what the Belgium women have been doing for themselves and their countrymen. Mrs Kellogg went to Belgium in July, 1916, as the one woman member of the Commission for Belgian relief. Herbert Hoover, on behalf of the Commission, says “We offer her little book as our, and Mrs Kellogg’s, tribute in admiration of them [Belgian women] and the inspiration which they have contributed to this whole organization.” All profits from the sale of the volume go to the relief work.
+ A L A Bkl 13:444 Jl ‘17
“A wonderful story of courage and heroism as splendid as any of the battlefield or trench.”
+ Cath World 106:105 O ‘17 200w
+ Cleveland p101 S ‘17 80w
“There are many angles of vision, of course, from which one may consider the conditions in Belgium, and Mrs Kellogg has elected to put her emphasis, not upon the source of the Belgian calamity, but rather upon the spiritual reaction of the women to the set of circumstances imposed upon them.”
+ Dial 63:277 S 27 ‘17 540w
+ Ind 91:74 Jl 14 ‘17 110w
“Her tale is moving to a degree. She has given to the world, in her description of the accomplishments of the 55,000 volunteer relief-workers, a remarkable picture of splendid courage and of the noble service of true human brotherhood and sisterhood.”
+ Lit D 55:34 S 29 ‘17 300w
“Mrs Kellogg’s restraint gives her book convincing value as a document.” E. S. S.
+ New Repub 11:253 Je 30 ‘17 480w
“The simplicity with which she writes makes the wonderful story of the devotion, the unstinted service, the utter self-abnegation with which many thousands of Belgian women are giving themselves completely to this work stand out all the more grandly.”
+ N Y Times 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 620w
KELLOGG, LOUISE PHELPS, ed. Early narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1669. (Original narratives of early American history) *$3 (2c) Scribner 973.2 17-6235
The author has brought together a group of the original narratives of the early French explorers of the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi. These narratives, as she says, are “full of the charm of brave deeds, of heroic endurance, of abiding enthusiasms, and of famous achievements.” Among them are records of the adventures and explorations of Nicolet, Radisson, Allouez, Marquette, Jolliet, La Salle and Tonty, and Duluth. Three facsimiles of old maps illustrate the volume.
“All of the narratives thus brought together are elsewhere printed, but not all are readily available, nor are all English versions complete or trustworthy. The Tonty memoir, here given in full, should prove useful to students of a wider field than that to which this volume is specially devoted. For all of the journals, Miss Kellogg’s abundant annotation is helpful. The clearly-penned introduction to each narrative not merely summarizes it, but informs the student of what printing it has already had, either in French or English, and makes plain the editor’s choice of text. Not the least interesting feature of the work is a facsimile of a contemporary map drawn to illustrate Marquette’s discoveries. The volume as a whole bespeaks scholarly care.”
+ Am Hist R 23:179 O ‘17 650w
A L A Bkl 13:307 Ap ‘17
306 + Boston Transcript p6 Ap 11 ‘17 630w
+ Dial 62:485 My 31 ‘17 380w
“Although not by any means the most important of the series, it is in many respects the most interesting. The narrations of the early Frenchmen who traversed the Old Northwest possess a charm that will always appeal to the student of history.”
* + – Nation 104:762 Je 28 ‘17 1050w
N Y Br Lib News 4:60 Ap ‘17
Pittsburgh 22:428 My ‘17 100w
“It is a great convenience both to the historical student and to the general reader to have these materials arranged in a single volume.”
+ R of Rs 56:108 Jl ‘17 110w
St Louis 15:155 My ‘17
KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN, and TAYLOR, ALONZO ENGLEBERT. Food problem. *$1.25 (2½c) Macmillan 613.2 17-29573
The two authors are members of the United States food administration and the book has an introduction by Herbert Hoover. Part 1, devoted to The problem and the solution, has chapters on: The food situation of the western allies and the United States; Food administration; How England, France and Italy are controlling and saving food; Food control in Germany, and its lessons. Part 2, The technology of food use, has chapters on: The physiology of nutrition; The sociology of nutrition [two chapters]; Grain and alcohol. In conclusion there is a brief chapter on Patriotism and food.
+ Lit D 55:45 D 29 ‘17 230w
“Their volume is so replete with facts and cogent, lucid reasoning that it is indispensable to all who write on this problem for newspapers and magazines. Particularly instructive, psychologically as well as economically, are the results of a study of conditions in Germany made in these pages.”
+ Nation 105:606 N 29 ‘17 1100w
“The present admirably clear book will make the patriotic reader rather painfully conscious of the enormous difficulties in our food situation.”
+ New Repub 13:131 D 1 ‘17 450w
“The book is specially remarkable because of its comprehensiveness, the amount of space it covers in its two hundred-odd pages, and for the clarity of its discussion.”
+ N Y Times 22:493 N 25 ‘17 700w
“The second section of the book gives a popular exposition of the most widely adopted modern theory of nutrition such as every speaker and writer on food conservation should carefully study to guard him from pitfalls. Altogether, this section is full of new and revised judgments even for those, not specialists, who may claim a general acquaintance with the subject. The only item in the detailed recommendations to which the reviewer finds it difficult to assent is the advice to those of means to subsist as far as possible upon the ‘rare, expensive goods, delicacies, if you please,’ in order to release more of the cheaper foods for the poorer classes and for export.” Bruno Lasker
+ — Survey 39:297 D 8 ‘17 570w
KELLY, RUSSELL ANTHONY. Kelly of the Foreign legion. il *$1 (4½c) Kennerley 940.91 17-28641
“The first seven chapters of this book are letters received from Russell A. Kelly, age 21, volunteer in the Légion étrangère. The letters, many of which were published in the New York Evening Sun, were sent to his parents in New York and have been retained in exactly their original form except for the omission of strictly personal matters.” (Preface) The letters date from November 25, 1914 to June 15, 1915. After the engagement around Souchez on June 16 their writer was officially recorded as “missing.” Their helpfulness lies in their naturalness in the recording of daily happenings. The last chapter of the book gives an interesting history of the Foreign legion, dating its existence back to the fifth century under Clovis.
“One could wish nothing better for our boys ‘over there,’ and on the way, than that their records may be as honorable as that of ‘Kelly of the Foreign legion.’”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 22 ‘17 230w
“The book differs from many others of its kind in an apparent absence of emotion in the performance of a hated but inevitable task.”
+ Cleveland p118 N ‘17 50w
Ind 92:536 D 15 ‘17 320w
“That he enjoyed the experience is manifest in spite of his repeated assertions that war is asinine and his ridicule of the theory that war is grand. It is an interesting human document.”
+ New Repub 13:28 N 3 ‘17 140w
“Kelly makes the soldier’s life stand out vividly in these letters. The book is a good side light on the war.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 O 5 ‘17 220w
KELSEY, CARL.[2] Physical basis of society. *$2 (2c) Appleton 304 17-274
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Two things especially are worth noting about this book. One is the great mass of data which has been assembled. ... The second important feature of the book is that it symbolizes very markedly some of the newer tendencies in the development of sociology.” L. L. Bernard
+ — Am Econ R 7:600 S ‘17 500w
“The defects, as far as there are any, are essentially those which are related to the use of the survey method. The extensive character of the facts which are given would seem to justify more personal induction than one finds in the book. A few inaccuracies occur. ... A splendid and original service has been performed by Professor Kelsey in selecting, bringing together, organizing, and presenting in one volume such a fund of concrete material upon the physical bases of social progress. Students undertaking sociological studies, and the busy reader alike, will find the book of increasing usefulness.” E. S. Bogardus
+ — Am J Soc 23:270 S ‘17 310w
+ A L A Bkl 13:289 Ap ‘17
“From the writings of the specialists on geography, natural history, biology, ethnography and criminal anthropology, he has gleaned, arranged and intelligently interpreted experiments and observations not easily accessible to the student. The style is clear and interesting, the treatment concrete and summary, the attitude objective and the spirit impartial. The author shows open-mindedness and sound judgment, and, in dealing with controverted matters, takes pains to give the evidence on both sides.” E. A. R.
+ Ann Am Acad 71:240 My ‘17 220w
“A work that widely read would do much toward bridging the gap between the older generation and the new.”
+ Ind 90:295 My 12 ‘17 370w
“Dr Kelsey gives us little more than a compilation of the best thought of authorities on the subjects he discusses. If Dr Kelsey has anything original to tell us, it is only the most assiduous reader who will be able to find it. His two most original chapters are those wherein he discusses ‘Social institutions’ and ‘The nature of progress.’” Harry Salpeter
– + N Y Call p14 My 13 ‘17 650w
“The book gives all appearances of having been too hastily written, and thus furnishes grounds for the criticism that the work of sociologists is superficial. This is all the more deplorable because the general plan and logic of arrangement of the book are excellent.” F. S. Chapin
– + Science n s 46:215 Ag 31 ‘17 510w
Reviewed by Graham Taylor
Survey 38:573 S 29 ‘17 210w
307KEMMERER, EDWIN WALTER. Modern currency reforms. diags *$2.40 Macmillan 332 16-25102
“Beginning with the Indian monetary reform of 1893 five important currency adjustments have been consummated. The other four comprise those perfected in the Philippines, Porto Rico, the Straits Settlements, and Mexico—although some may doubt the efficacy of that of the last-named country. Professor Kemmerer has assembled data of these five reforms covering the conditions which preceded them, the causes, the plan of readjustment, and the results, presenting it in a volume of unusual value and interest to students of finance.” (Boston Transcript) “Professor Kemmerer was financial adviser to the Philippine government, and during that service drafted the currency legislation for the Straits Settlements. He had especial opportunities for information regarding the establishment of a new standard of value in Porto Rico.” (N Y Times)
A L A Bkl 14:6 O ‘17
“Barring the title, the book is quite satisfactory, from table of contents to index, both inclusive. ... No man, surely, is better fitted than Professor Kemmerer to write such an account. The author himself made so much of the history here chronicled that his book must have for every reader an unusual quality of finality. ... Is not adapted to use as a textbook for American college classes.” G: R. Wicker
+ Am Pol Sci R 11:356 My ‘17 220w
“Professor Kemmerer needs no introduction to students of money and credit. His contributions in this field have been numerous and of a uniformly high order. He and Professor Irving Fisher are generally recognized as the two foremost exponents in the United States of the modern form of the ‘quantity theory’ of money value.” E. E. Agger
+ Ann Am Acad 72:228 Jl ‘17 350w
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 14 ‘17 390w
+ Ind 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 50w
“Every day enhances the value of this work. ... It is safe to say that attempts at currency reform will play no small part in the finance of the coming years, and the laboratory experiences which Professor Kemmerer here describes will be of inestimable value to the world. To be sure, these experiences are related to fluctuating silver moneys, whereas the great problems of the future will relate to depreciated paper currencies. Yet a depreciated currency is a depreciated currency, whether it be metal or paper.”
+ Nation 105:92 Jl 26 ‘17 1200w
“No one wishing to be abreast in the state of the art and science can afford to be ignorant of these object lessons of how prices, taxes, wages, and contracts of indebtedness are affected by such reforms.”
+ N Y Times 22:64 F 25 ‘17 180w
R of Rs 55:443 Ap ‘17 100w
KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN. Rib of the man; a play of the new world in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of an afternoon in the fulness of days. il *$1.30 Harper 822 17-8757
The theme of Mr Kennedy’s play is the coming of a new day in which a new relation will be established between men and women and in which there will be no war. “If we depend upon war to end war, we are lost indeed,” says Diana Brand, “No! War will end by the advent of something mightier than itself! It is here, now! At the door!” The scene is an island in the Ægean, the time, toward the end of the European war. Scene and action are arranged to correspond somewhat with the situation in the Garden of Eden.
A L A Bkl 14:50 N ‘17
“With all these elements which would seem to remove it far from any sense of reality, the dramatist does the seemingly impossible, and gives us actual people, doing real things in a natural way.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 5 ‘17 170w
Cleveland p105 S ‘17 110w
“Part of the dialog is witty; once or twice the plot of the play proper begins to sound very interesting. As for Diana, she is a very real and very wonderful woman, and deserves a better vehicle for her power, beauty and humor.”
– + Ind 92:489 D 8 ‘17 330w
“It will be caviare to the general and a stumbling block to some of his stanchest admirers. To the cynical and skeptical it will appear the work of a rhapsodical sentimentalist and visionary. Only those in sympathy with his sturdy apostolic faith will recognize the inspiring spirituality of his main themes, and even they will regret that high ideals, so eloquently and forcibly expressed, should be blurred by much that is extravagant or intemperate.” J. R. Towse
+ — Nation 104:608 My 17 ‘17 900w
“Had Mr Kennedy not enlisted the aid of symbolism that simplicity of his program might perhaps have been quarreled with, but he envelopes the issues in such allegorical vagueness that realistic standards are inapplicable.”
New Repub 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 180w
“The fervor, humanitarian aspiration, glorious conception of a spirit-free world, loyalty to true art, occasionally beautiful turn of phrase and daring presentation do not rescue this play from frequent triviality and occasional overwhelming dullness. ... It will leave most readers merely indifferent.” Frank Macdonald
+ — N Y Call p12 Ap 22 ‘17 270w
“A vein of satire runs through it, for Mr Kennedy delights in satire, and the character study is delicately done. Of action the play has little; it moves in the realm of thought.”
N Y Times 22:162 Ap 22 ‘17 650w
“His people, save for his superman and superwoman with their conception of the new world, are all more or less caricatures, illustrative of present-day types. Indeed the superman and superwoman themselves are tremendously overdrawn, as they must perhaps be in an allegorical play, yet drawn for all that with force and feeling. They express radical doctrines. They utter lines that are ultra-modern, occasionally blasphemous—a compound of Wells and Shaw—and yet it is impossible to escape the lofty thought that animated the poet-dramatist in writing. ... The situations possess true dramatic forcefulness and the lines many times rise to genuine poetry.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 15 ‘17 680w
KENT, CHARLES FOSTER. Social teachings of the prophets and Jesus. *$1.50 Scribner 220 17-12971
“The discovery that the great prophets and founders of Judaism and Christianity were above all else social teachers and reformers is rapidly revolutionising the study of the Bible,” says the author. “The Hebrew prophets and Jesus speak to us to-day more directly and convincingly than they did even to their contemporaries, for we are far more keenly alive to the importance of the social problems which they were seeking to solve. To appreciate fully the social principles which they laid down it is necessary first to become acquainted with the personality of each of these prophets and with the immediate political and social conditions with which they were dealing. Studied in the light of their historical background, these teachings can then be readily interpreted into universal terms and used as a solvent for the social problems of today.” In this paragraph both the purpose and method of Professor Kent’s book are summed up. It is divided into four parts, treating of: The social ideals of the pre-exilic prophets; The social ideals of the exilic and post-exilic prophets and sages; The social ideals of Jesus; The social ideals of Jesus’ followers. There is a five-page bibliography.
308“Dr Kent’s conception of Jesus is well known from his earlier works, and reappears here with still sharper emphasis on the ‘social service’ aspects. ... The objections to this point of view hardly need recapitulating. All this is in no way meant to say that Dr Kent has not written very much of very great value. The weakness is a weakness often to be found in writings of the ‘social service’ school—a desire to obtain results too directly, a constant implication that the biblical teachers spoke with modern problems in modern phrasing ever before their minds. Good method requires that we determine the content of such teaching in the light of its own day. The appendix contains an excellent bibliography, an elaborate list of subjects for investigation and discussion, and a brief classified index of biblical passages.” B. S. Easton
+ — Am J Theol 21:470 Jl ‘17 800w
A L A Bkl 13:425 Jl ‘17
“The book will not solve all present-day social problems by the teachings of the Bible. It is not intended to do this. It is meant primarily to be a source book; and when used as such it will be found to be a most excellent one.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p7 My 23 ‘17 500w
“It is not so much his social principles that are objectionable, which are one sided rather than false, but his implicit rejection of supernatural religion without which those principles have little force. Traditional Christianity is the most tremendous assertion ever made by man. It is worse than futile to hold, as does this writer, that it matters little or nothing whether it is true or not. That is the one thing that really does matter.”
– + Cath World 106:401 D ‘17 580w
Cleveland p106 S ‘17 30w
“Will be of much assistance to Christian preachers and teachers.”
+ Ind 91:354 S 1 ‘17 60w
“This is the work of a man saturated with the broader subject which includes that of the book. Those who are wondering what to teach advanced classes in a church school will find a good course in this college textbook.” L: A. Walker
+ N Y Call p15 Jl 1 ‘17 150w
“Dr Kent, who is Woolsey professor of Biblical literature in Yale university, is well known to Bible students for his work in religious history and modern criticism. ... Dr Kent is in the main a conservative as regards social theory, but he seeks merely to arrange the social utterances and expand them as nearly as possible in accordance with their original meaning. The book is carefully compiled, and is a valuable and timely contribution to the Christian interpretation of modern social problems.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 27 ‘17 210w
KERFOOT, JOHN BARRETT. How to read. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 028 16-22768
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
+ A L A Bkl 13:240 Mr ‘17
“This is a most suggestive book. It should lead many to realize the mental indigestion from which they suffer, and help them to order their reading so as to make it useful.”
+ Ath p248 My ‘17 30w
“Mr Kerfoot is the literary critic of Life; and he has brought into his essay that journal’s distinctive tone: the brilliant and piquant passing into the flippant, and occasionally degenerating into the slangy. But the principles for which he argues are old friends of psychology, applied to reading. ... The principles upon which Mr Kerfoot dwells are by no means new in themselves, but they may well be new to many. The author’s method is certainly novel.”
+ Cath World 105:121 Ap ‘17 420w
“There may have been a more fascinating exposition written in some language, at some time, on some subject, than Mr Kerfoot’s book; but one is permitted to doubt it.”
+ Dial 62:315 Ap 5 ‘17 430w
“It is all interesting, but we wish he had made some of his statements with more directness and fewer explanations.”
+ Lit D 54:569 Mr 3 ‘17 150w
“It is not a humorous book, but it sparkles from the first page at frequent intervals clear to 297. Going to such a school is delightfully rewarding if one will not expect the teacher to do it all. Reaction to the Kerfoot stimulus is not difficult, but it must be seriously experienced, not too much at once, if this book is to be a veritable ‘open sesame’ to literature.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Mr 1 ‘17 350w
KERNAHAN, COULSON. In good company. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 920 17-15319
A volume of personal reminiscences of distinguished men. Five of the papers that compose the contents deal with Theodore Watts-Dunton. The other papers are: A. C. Swinburne; Lord Roberts; When Stephen Phillips read; Edward Whymper as I knew him; Oscar Wilde; S. J. Stone, the hymn-writer.
+ Ath p255 My ‘17 140w
“A miscellany of excellent personalia, somewhat inflated in manner but intimate in its revelations of the inner world of literary London.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Je 6 ‘17 370w
“Mr Kernahan’s book, like all good company, is stimulating and provocative. It is too often dull; it is marred by mysterious hints at things the author might tell an he would, and by a very wearisome and embarrassing—an almost servile—self-depreciation. And yet the glimpses that it affords of such ever-interesting figures as Swinburne, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde, and the mountaineer and scientist, Edward Whymper, who are the subjects of the best of the sketches, are amazingly lifelike.”
+ — Dial 63:347 O 11 ‘17 490w
“The Wilde essay has some things that had better have been left unsaid.”
+ — Ind 91:291 Ag 25 ‘17 250w
“Mr Kernahan, in his pictures of his friends, reveals his own stature—a man big enough to forget his own importance in a study and appreciation of his friends and fellow craftsmen.”
+ Lit D 55:45 D 1 ‘17 280w
“This collection of ‘personal recollections’ superficially resembles but essentially differs from the abundant chirping books and articles about the celebrities of the day. It differs from them in containing a number of deliberately executed literary portraits, composed and finished with a clear consciousness that portrait painting is a fine art with a technique beyond the reaches of the cheerful chatterbox.”
+ Nation 105:486 N 1 ‘17 950w
“In his circle Mr Kernahan moves with appropriate kindliness and dignity and attentiveness. Of his three graces the best is undoubtedly the last. He has a fine faculty for remembering and recording what people actually said, or what sounds actual.” B. H.
+ New Repub 12:309 O 13 ‘17 650w
+ R of Rs 56:103 Jl ‘17 100w
“He pays a fine tribute to Lord Roberts, in whose campaign for national service he took part. Like every one else who came into contact with that great man, Mr Kernahan was profoundly impressed with his courtesy, his patience, and his abounding energy.”
+ Spec 118:568 My 19 ‘17 70w
“One of the most interesting because least familiar sketches in Mr Kernahan’s book is that of S. J. Stone, the hymn writer, author of ‘The church’s one foundation.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Je 24 ‘17 350w
“We have enjoyed Mr Kernahan’s book so much that we find ourselves asking what the reason can be. ... He succeeds very singularly in making us feel that to all these men life was a rich and remarkable affair. ... The average person is chiefly struck by the eccentricities of the great; Mr Kernahan, on the other 309hand, bears witness to the fullness, sincerity, and passion with which great men live compared with lesser men.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p175 Ap 12 ‘17 1050w
KERR, SOPHIE. Blue envelope. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-5983
When she is nineteen, Leslie Brennan learns that she must earn her own living. It had been her father’s wish, her guardian informs her, that she adopt some gainful occupation and support herself for two years. The transition from a well-established social position in a small city to a business college and boarding house existence in New York is a sudden one but Leslie adapts herself to it. She finds a position with a red-haired, irascible chemist, and it is when her employer sends her to Washington with an important formula intended for the War office that exciting events begin for Leslie. It is thru them that she proves her mettle, learning at the same time how affairs stand between her and the red-haired chemist.
“Light, good for reading aloud, and has made a good ‘movie.’ Appeared in Woman’s Home Companion.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:316 Ap ‘17
“The story is told with vivacity and skill. A considerable fault is the not infrequently reviewed recital of happenings for the benefit of persons in the story not as well informed as the readers of the book.”
+ — Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ‘17 330w
+ N Y Times 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 270w
“There is a delightful vein of humor throughout the tale, and, while the pictures of difficulties encountered by working girls are vivid and serious, the story is quickly diverted to a more romantic and improbable course.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Je 3 ‘17 270w
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:126 Ap ‘17 50w
KERRUISH, JESSIE DOUGLAS. Miss Haroun Al-Raschid. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-13954
“Rathia Jerningham, heroine and narrator of the tale, has led a very unusual kind of life. Her mother, Rathia Khan, of Abasside descent, having died when she was but a baby, her father married a courageous English lady who went with him on all his expeditions. It was often very dangerous, for Sir Horne Jerningham was a really great Assyriologist; as his daughter grew up, she shared his work and became herself an expert. But before this Lady Jerningham the second had also died, several years had been spent in England, and Rathia had a year in society before she returned to Asiatic Turkey, leaving her half-sister, Evelyn, and two brothers to be educated in England. The novel begins with the coming of this half-sister to Constantinople, whence she insists upon accompanying her father and Rathia to their home in Mosul. Through Kurdistan and Mesopotamia the story takes us into Armenian villages, among the Chaldean Christians, and into the hold of a Kurdish mountain chief. ... There is a love story interwoven with it all. ... The period is the early nineties, when Victoria was still on the throne of England, and the Armenian massacres were brewing.”—N Y Times
“The author apparently knows well the life of which she writes, for her novel contains an abundance of illuminating and interesting detail.”
+ N Y Times 22:322 S 2 ‘17 650w
+ Outlook 117:100 S 19 ‘17 70w
“This novel is a little confusing and difficult to follow in its hurry of events, but much may be forgiven for the sake of the vivid picture of Mesopotamia given us by the author. The part of the book which deals with Assyriological excavations in the Land of the two rivers furnishes most timely reading, and incidentally affords much detailed information as to the conditions under which our troops are fighting in that theatre of war.”
+ — Spec 118:544 My 12 ‘17 80w
“An exceedingly well-told tale, full of color, excitement, and solid information. The last named is so smoothly merged with the element of fiction, however, that it never transcends the imaginative atmosphere surrounding the narrative.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 D 2 ‘17 460w
“Miss Kerruish’s story has won the first prize in her publishers’ thousand-guinea novel competition, and both the authoress and her judges are to be congratulated on a decision with which her readers will have good reason to agree.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p166 Ap 5 ‘17 790w
KESTER, PAUL. His own country. *$1.50 (1c) Bobbs 17-17972
“The plot of ‘His own country’ centres around the personality of Julius Cæsar Brent, whose blood is but one-eighth black. While still a boy he goes to Montreal, becomes in time a physician, marries twice, in each case a white woman. He has three children, a son and two daughters. In middle age the call of his native Virginia rings loud in his ears, and having acquired a competence, he purchases an old estate by correspondence and without revealing his identity as a former slave boy who once dwelt in a cabin in the very district of tidewater Virginia to which he returns. ... He is denied all social recognition. Against the appeal of his wife, he decides to remain, subjecting her and his children to a degrading humiliation even greater than his own. The months and the years pass. He becomes a national figure, lectures far and wide on the race question, heads a great movement to make the negroes a permanent political and financial power, and finally brings upon himself and two of his children the doom of death. A thousand and one details of his association with his fellow Virginians of both races add to the length and substance of the story, and numerous plots and counterplots in it increase its persistent sensationalism.”—Boston Transcript
“The book is long, rather unpleasant, and will have a limited appeal.”
— A L A Bkl 14:27 O ‘17
“The hand of the playwright betrays itself in the series of dramatic or melodramatic episodes upon which the story hinges. ... As a tract this book, prophesying as it does a great struggle to the death between the black race and the white, may do more harm than good; as a story, with all its touches of realism, it amounts to a skilful melodramatic contrivance on a great scale.” H. W. Boynton
– + Bookm 45:647 Ag ‘17 800w
“His facts run away with him, and his imagination plays havoc with them. ... His story becomes a veritable chaos of ill-constructed incidents. It is the wildest sort of sensation. ... Its pictorial quality is unquestioned, its creation of both black and white character is remarkable in its truth to life, it contains many incidents strong in their realism, its dialogue abounds in shrewd human touches, but the story as a whole falls far short of reaching the dignity of its theme and of achieving the sincerity of the novelist’s purpose.” E. F. E.
– + Boston Transcript p6 Jl 3 ‘17 800w
“As a novel, the story is interesting; as a psychological study and as a thought-provoking introduction to more serious consideration of the future of the colored race in America, it deserves attention. To offset the prolixity and occasional stiffness there is a sincere and wholesome study of conditions and atmosphere that cannot fail to impress the reader.”
+ — Dial 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 110w
“We are all thinking first of the war. But we must not forget the problems of democracy facing us at home, and no one of these is more important than the problem of right and justice in our relations with the colored people. ... The story does not offer any solution for the race problem but it does present the tragic situation fairly and humanly.”
+ Ind 91:133 Jl 28 ‘17 280w
310“Fully and strongly as the case for ‘the nigger’ is put by Brent in speech, it is all belied by Brent in action. He can go so far and no farther towards greatness, fails always to meet the supreme tests. ... This theory of his essential inferiority by reason of the ‘black drop’ in him emerges as the dubitable idea underlying this elaborate and, on the whole, melodramatic narrative.”
– + Nation 106:148 Ag 9 ‘17 700w
“Dr Brent is not a tragic figure, nor one that wins the reader’s sympathies. He is not even convincing. The whole story reads much as if Mr Kester meant it to be a warning of the dangers of negro progress.”
— N Y Times 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 850w
“With very considerable talent, and with more than average knowledge of his subjectmatter, he has written a strange and wonderful melodrama, at times verging on power, at times so crude as to be scarcely tolerable.”
– + No Am 206:797 N ‘17 850w
“So far as it discusses race problems it would be a better book if the author showed evidence of the slightest knowledge about the effort made by Booker Washington, Hampton and Tuskegee, and their friends, North and South, black and white, to make a good man and a good citizen out of the negro. He seems to have the idea that the friends of the negro are chiefly occupied in advocating miscegenation and negro supremacy.”
– + Outlook 116:556 Ag 8 ‘17 200w
“Mr Kester is neither academic nor melodramatic. The ethics of the question are presented without weakening the dramatic and emotional elements inherent in the tale. It is a very long, but at no point, tedious book. ... which makes a deep impression on the reader.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 5 ‘17 500w
KETCHAM, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Fire insurance. $2.50 E: A: Ketcham, Madison, Wis. 368 16-11610
“The author has been for ten years an examiner in a state insurance department and his purpose in writing this book is stated to be ‘to place in convenient form the essential elements relating to the fire insurance business ... for the student.’ The following chapters occupy 218 of the 301 pages and constitute the important part of the book: History of fire insurance (two chapters), Rating of risks, Fire insurance accounting, and Examination of a fire insurance company.”—Am Econ R
“The book is almost wholly descriptive, with much detail in parts of it. The style is good, but there is a lack of unity and logical arrangement, each chapter reading as if it had been prepared as a paper or as an address. There is little discussion of the fundamental principles underlying fire insurance or of the concrete problems which arise in the conduct of the business. ... No index is provided; and this in a book lacking unity, and almost wholly descriptive in character, becomes a more than ordinarily serious defect.” W: F. Gephart
Am Econ R 6:934 D ‘16 800w
St Louis 15:10 Ja ‘17 10w
KETTLE, THOMAS MICHAEL. Poems and parodies. *$1 Stokes 821 (Eng ed 17-17077)
The author, late professor of Irish economics in the National university of Ireland, was killed in France in 1916. This little book of his poems has an appreciative foreword by William Dawson. The poems themselves are grouped as: Personal; Early poems; Translations; Miscellaneous; Political; War poems.
“They are the reflection of a mind quick and free, rich in subtle ironies and tendernesses, but most frequently—since it was the mind of an Irish patriot—full of a brilliant indignation.”
+ — Cath World 106:393 D ‘17 340w
“Those who are interested in following the careers of the men who have made the big concern of their lives the political emancipation of Ireland will no doubt be interested in this volume, but it has no particular claim to one’s attention as straight poetry or parody though it is all quite clever.”
– + Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 22 ‘17 290w
“The charm and the finest quality of Kettle’s poems come out in the dreaming. He fought the Germans for a dream, as he had fought England for a dream; and however uncomfortable it may be for the politicians and rulers of the Empire when this power is expended upon politics, this heroic dreaming is the source of all good Irish literature.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p56 F 1 ‘17 450w
KETTLE, THOMAS MICHAEL.[2] Ways of war; with a memoir by his wife, Mary S. Kettle. *$2.75 Scribner 940.91 (Eng ed 17-28917)
“Barrister-at-law, poet, literary stylist, patriotic Irishman, eloquent speaker, member of Parliament, journalist, professor of economics, and finally a soldier, giving up his life at Ginchy on Sept. 9, 1916, ‘at the post of honour, leading his men in a victorious charge,’ Kettle was a man of the loftiest ideals. ... The memoir by his wife is followed by a sequence of chapters which constitute the apologia of an Irish man of letters as to why he felt called upon to offer up his life in the war for the freedom of the world. The first section of the book, ‘Why Ireland fought,’ includes chapters upon ‘The bullying of Serbia’ and ‘The crime against Belgium.’ In the early days of the war Kettle was in Brussels, and had opportunities of visiting Termonde, Malines, and other places. A striking chapter of the book deals with the soldier-priests of France.”—Ath
+ Ath p507 O ‘17 970w
+ Ath p525 O ‘17 200w
“The book will help to fill a small and solitary shelf in the big library this world-conflict is creating; for it is rich in two of literature’s prime essentials, a lucid and beautiful style, and a fervor in expression that is well-nigh that of the mystic who is a zealot.” S. A.
+ Boston Transcript p3 D 15 ‘17 590w
“The volume is composed of various papers, all bearing the marks of a rare style and scholarship. There are pungent and vivid pages on the scenes he witnessed in Belgium, and on various phases of life at the front, a scathing study of Bismarck, Nietzsche, and Treitschke in ‘The gospel of the devil,’ while the ‘Rhapsody on rats’ is typical of Kettle’s racy wit.”
+ Nation 106:96 Ja 24 ‘18 470w
New Repub 13:256 D 29 ‘17 1850w
N Y Times 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 900w
“Read this book that you may receive comfort and confidence from the unquenchable spirit of the new France. Read the memoir, written simply and movingly by Kettle’s widow, that you may come to love the man for what he was and the country which begat him.”
+ Spec 119:297 S 22 ‘17 1300w
“The book contains some brilliant little sketches of life at the front.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p439 S 13 ‘17 860w
KILMER, JOYCE., ed. Literature in the making. *$1.40 (3c) Harper 810.4 17-13416
Mr Kilmer reports interviews with a number of contemporary men and women of letters. He says in explanation of his purpose: “How eagerly would we read an interview with Francis Bacon on the question of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, or an interview with Oliver Goldsmith in which he gave his real opinion of Dr Johnson, Garrick, and Boswell! A century or so from now, some of the writers who in this book talk to the world may be the objects of curiosity as great.” Among the subjects discussed with various authors are: War stops literature—William Dean Howells; The joys of the poor—Kathleen Norris; National prosperity and art—Booth Tarkington; Romanticism and American humor—Montague Glass; Commercializing the sex instinct—Robert Herrick; Literature 311in the colleges—John Erskine; The new spirit in poetry—Amy Lowell. The interviews were written up first for the New York Times.
A L A Bkl 13:440 Jl ‘17
“Much sense and much nonsense will be found, as might be expected, in these interviews.” E. F. E.
+ — Boston Transcript p7 My 12 ‘17 480w
“A book of fascinating quality and wide appeal.”
+ Cath World 105:681 Ag ‘17 280w
“The titles of the interviews really promise more than the interviewer accomplished but some interesting things are said with point and humor.”
+ — Cleveland p89 Jl ‘17 100w
Reviewed by G: B. Donlin
— Dial 62:519 Je 14 ‘17 250w
+ Lit D 55:48 Ag 4 ‘17 180w
Nation 104:662 My 31 ‘17 300w
“A genial, human, gratifying, and readable book. ... A brief biographical paragraph in the table of contents after each author’s name gives an outline of his life and work.”
+ N Y Times 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 500w
R of Rs 56:104 Jl ‘17 110w
“The interviews by Joyce Kilmer which have appeared in the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times may be said to have outlived their usefulness. The papers in collected form are a veritable hodge-podge. ... It must not be inferred that Mr Kilmer ‘writes down,’ that he is inept, or that he distorts; he is too good a newspaper man and too honest a writer for that. The papers were not intended to have permanent form, and that is why they appear to such disadvantage in it.”
— Springf’d Republican p13 Je 17 ‘17 280w
KILMER, JOYCE. Main street, and other poems. *$1 Doran 811 17-28181
Mr Kilmer is now an officer in America’s new army, and six of the twenty-eight poems in this volume are about the war. “The white ships and the red” deals with the Lusitania, while “The cathedral of Rheims” is from the French of Émile Verhaeren. Nearly half of the remaining poems deal with religious subjects.
“At his best he rises to a very noble achievement. The discipline of the sonnet is excellently medicinal for him: it belts him in where he might sag.” C. D. M.
+ — Boston Transcript p6 O 10 ‘17 1000w
“The volume just published brings its expected revelation of ‘growth.’ It is an advance over ‘Trees’ not in quantity—for it is still slim—but in the quality, that is to say, the variety of its verse. And its variousness proves Mr Kilmer not less but more a poet of ‘that little, infinite thing, the human heart.’”
+ Cath World 106:405 D ‘17 670w
“Facile verse with an aroma of medieval mysticism.”
+ Cleveland p134 D ‘17 110w
“The publisher tells us that Mr Kilmer has had, for a man still young, an astonishing varied career. Nevertheless, one could not guess it from Mr Kilmer’s book. Ideas, emotions, language, rhythms, all are oddly second-hand, as if they had been offered to him and blandly accepted.” Conrad Aiken
— Dial 63:513 N 22 ‘17 400w
“That delicacy and charm that have characterized Mr Joyce Kilmer’s work in the past are found, with an added note of strong religious fervor, in his new volume of verse.”
+ Lit D 55:38 N 24 ‘17 1350w
“In singing quality and in the command of his medium this new collection, largely of lyrics and sonnets, is quite the best he has published. More marked in it also than in his former books, although it has always been one of his distinguishing qualities, is a certain friendly, human feeling.”
+ N Y Times 22:530 D 2 ‘17 360w
KILNER, WALTER G., and MACELROY, ANDREW J.[2] Cantonment manual; or, Facts for every soldier. il *$1 Appleton 355 17-31017
This book of “facts for every soldier,” prepared by two army officers, attempts to cover briefly the entire field of military training. Chapters are given to: Helpful hints for recruits, Setting-up exercises, Infantry drill, School of the squad, School of the company, Inspections and muster, Honors and salutes, Tent pitching, Signals and signaling, etc. The last chapter provides an “Easy road to French.” Miscellaneous matter, including music for the bugle calls, is given in an appendix. The book is indexed.
“Provides a great fund of practical information and advice.”
+ R of Rs 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w
KIMBALL, MARIA (BRACE) (MRS JAMES P. KIMBALL). Soldier-doctor of our army, James P. Kimball. il *$1.50 (5c) Houghton 17-9244
The wide extent of Dr Kimball’s service as an army surgeon is indicated by the chapter titles: College and Civil war; Fort Buford—the frontier; The Yellowstone expedition; The Black hills and the Big Horn; The Thornburgh massacre; Texas—Europe—Texas; New Mexico—Santa Fé; New Mexico—Fort Wingate; Governor’s Island—the war with Spain. This memoir, prepared by his wife, is interestingly illustrated. There is an introduction by Major-General William C. Gorgas.
+ A L A Bkl 13:447 Jl ‘17
“The career of Surgeon Kimball is a distinct part of the history of the country, and a delightful sidelight on certain events that the historian, with mind intent on the high tops, does not and can not include.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 9 ‘17 190w
+ Nation 105:539 N 15 ‘17 1400w
Pratt p48 O ‘17 30w
St Louis 15:186 Je ‘17
KING, BASIL. High heart. il *$1.50 (1½c) Harper 17-24285
“Alexandra Adare, who tells her own story, is a Canadian, well born, who had lived an easy life until her father’s death left her almost penniless. ... She was without a suitor of any kind when Mrs Rossiter, who before her marriage had been Miss Brokenshire, one of the extremely rich Brokenshires of New York and Newport, ... engaged her as nursery governess for her little daughter. Then, of course, Hugh Brokenshire, Mrs Rossiter’s brother, fell in love with Alix, and the family objected, especially J. Howard Brokenshire, the father, an autocrat with the worst possible manners. ... The relations of Alix with the various members of the Brokenshire family, especially with the redoubtable J. Howard and his beautiful young second wife, furnish the main part of the story.” (N Y Times) The war enters slightly into the latter part of the story.
A L A Bkl 14:96 D ‘17
“The book has the interest of setting forth the different ways in which Canadians and Americans viewed the earlier stages of the great European conflict.”
+ Ath p680 D ‘17 70w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 46:338 N ‘17 130w
Dial 63:463 N 8 ‘17 170w
“J. Howard Brokenshire is never anything but a wooden figure which moves as the author jerks the wires. But since this is true of every character in the novel, he does not thereby become exceptional.”
— — + N Y Times 22:354 S 23 ‘17 450w
Pittsburgh 22:750 N ‘17 40w
Spec 119:682 D 8 ‘17 20w
“A story to be read thoughtfully. It contains several striking characters—the elder Brokenshire, for example, and one or two 312minor persons. Its principal significance lies in comparing three branches of the English-speaking race—the native Britons, the Canadians, or ‘Colonials,’ and the people of the United States—and in setting forth the vast influence for peace and the good of humanity that will be evolved when all three come to realize that their fundamental moral principles are one and the same.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 O 14 ‘17 900w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p542 N 8 ‘17 140w
KING, BASIL. Lifted veil. il *$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-8203
The woman who came to Arthur Bainbridge’s study was heavily veiled. She told her story and went away. When she comes into his life again three years later he does not recognize her. Out of this situation rises the complication that gives the story its plot. Clorinda Gildersleeve thinks that the clergyman to whom she had gone as a sinner must know her. When he has learned to love her, she takes his love as an evidence of his divine forgiveness, and promises to marry him. The revelation comes to him later. He stands the test but it is when she learns that he has not, as she had supposed, known the truth from the beginning that the real barrier to their marriage is raised.
“The situations are tense and the discussions, though very carefully handled, will offend some readers both in their nature and in their conclusions. Appeared in McClure’s Magazine.”
A L A Bkl 13:403 Je ‘17
“In all its scenes ‘The lifted veil’ is very close to life. ... It offers a clear view of the experiences that confront us every day.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p13 Ap 7 ‘17 450w
“A harmless book, carelessly constructed, somewhat verbose, and arriving nowhere in particular.”
— Dial 62:401 My 3 ‘17 350w
“In substance the story, like its predecessors, is helplessly and not altogether wholesomely romantic, the old set illusion tricked out in the costume of the hour, and made palatable to Mr King’s large audience, we fear, rather as refined sex-melodrama than as anything else: a means of escape, not of access.”
— Nation 105:16 Jl 5 ‘17 180w
“Basil King’s new novel is in many ways quite the best that has come from his pen.”
+ N Y Times 22:94 Mr 18 ‘17 570w
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 29 ‘17 400w
KING, DOUGALL MACDOUGALL. Battle with tuberculosis and how to win it. il *$1.50 (2½c) Lippincott 616.2 17-25108
The author practiced medicine for ten years, was for eighteen months a patient at sanatoria in Canada and the United States and resided for two years in a health resort. He has become convinced that many deaths from tuberculosis occur because the majority of patients do not “begin to comprehend the significance of the reasons underlying the only treatment that will bring success.” He has therefore written this “book for the patient and his friends” to set forth “the fundamental scientific facts which help to answer the patient’s constant inquiry—Why must I do this?” (Introd.) The appendix treats of disinfectants.
+ A L A Bkl 14:81 D ‘17
“It is probably the first book ever written which turns the discussion of a dreaded malady into a military romance of thrilling interest. The book will bring hope and cheer to thousands of homes. It deserves a wide advertisement from pulpit and press and should be found in every public library in the land.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 12 ‘18 190w
“He has written an unusually clear and helpful manual-at-arms for popular guidance. It is made clearer by the frequent use of simile, chiefly drawn from army life.”
+ Dial 63:460 N 8 ‘17 250w
+ Nation 105:672 D 13 ‘17 250w
“With the increasing number of books of a popular nature for tuberculosis patients and their families, Dr King’s book will have a certain amount of competition. His new and refreshing point of view, however, will help to stimulate flagging interest on the part of many tuberculosis patients and workers.” P. P. Jacobs
+ Survey 39:266 D 1 ‘17 250w
KING, HENRY CHURCHILL. Fundamental questions. *$1.50 (3½c) Macmillan 230 17-3741
The author’s aim is “to deal, in not too technical fashion, with some of the most fundamental questions, theoretical and practical, which are involved in the Christian view of God and the world.” Among these problems are: The question of suffering and sin; The question of prayer; The question of Christ; The question of life’s fundamental decision; The question of Christian unity; The question of Christianity as a world religion.
“The last chapter, ‘Citizens of a new civilization,’ is a thrilling statement of the universal meaning and claim of Christianity that must find an answer from anyone who is sensitive to the call to high and heroic duty. The climax of this chapter and therefore of the book is superb.”
+ Bib World 50:255 O ‘17 270w
Reviewed by James Moffat
+ Hibbert J 15:678 Jl ‘17 60w
+ Ind 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 50w
Pratt p7 Jl ‘17 20w
+ R of Rs 55:553 My ‘17 100w
St Louis 15:136 My ‘17 7w
“A fine spirit and authentic vision mark ‘Fundamental questions’, by Henry Churchill King, the president of Oberlin college. ... President King writes with sympathy and penetration, and his words should be helpful to many who are perplexed at the trend of present-day life and the greatness of its problems.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 4 ‘17 250w
KINGMAN, HENRY.[2] Faith of a middle-aged man. *$1.25 (2½c) Pilgrim press 240 17-25597
“A little book of reassurance for troubled times,” promises the author. It is for men and women, preoccupied with innumerable cares, that the message is given, men and women whose interest in the chapters “will not come from their wisdom but from the elemental heart-hunger that is common to us all.” The first part treats of “The ground of faith” in eight chapters: Life’s need of faith; The appeal of middle age; The years of attrition; Faith’s inner citadel; The life as a witness to the truth; The personality of Jesus; The witness of the life-stream; The place of the cross. The second part enlarges upon “The outlook of faith” in seven chapters: The fact of God; The divine outlook on man; The good fight; The discipline of pain; Overcoming under difficulties; The hope of everlasting life; The unending fellowship.
“The book is sure to find a place in more than current and ephemeral reading.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 O 31 ‘17 120w
“The book is just what one might expect of Dr Kingman. Between the lines his friends can read autobiography, and are not disappointed in the courage and faith and fine manliness that speak out from a life where physique has failed to match aspiration, and success has been attained by stern heroism.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 5 ‘18 490w
KINGSBURY, HELEN OVINGTON. All aboard for Wonderland. il *$1.50 (4c) Moffat 18-1718
A story for younger children. Donald and Rose have spent a wonderful day in the city. Railway terminal, Christmas shops, Hippodrome and city streets have offered them a series of marvels, one after another. Tired and 313happy and a little bit sleepy, they sit waiting for their train and listening to the trainman’s voice: “Five forty express for Washington—all aboard.” And then: “Five fifty-nine express for India and the elephants—all aboard!” And immediately Donald and Rose find themselves all aboard and off for Wonderland. What follows is a dream story in which the real events of the day are made to blend fancifully into the dream. There are attractive illustrations, four of them in color, by Gertrude Alice Kay.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ — Bookm 46:495 D ‘17 50w
+ N Y Times 22:441 O 28 ‘17 100w
“The story is well conceived and entertainingly written, and the several illustrations in color add to its charm.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 D 1 ‘17 100w
KINGSLEY, FLORENCE (MORSE) (MRS CHARLES R. KINGSLEY). Neighbors *$1.40 (2½c) Dodd 17-24704
The central character of this story is Miss Malvina Bennett, the village dressmaker of Innisfield. The reader is also introduced to Malvina’s rival, Mrs Hobbs, who puts out a sign “Madame Louise—Robes” and draws much of the village custom; to Mrs Hobbs’ son who longs to enlist in the English army; to Harry Schwartz, who works in the munitions factory under the name of Le Noir; and to Madeleine Desaye who has fled from France with her father, and with whom these two young men are in love. Miss Philura, now Mrs Reverend Pettibone, who has figured in other stories by Mrs Kingsley, reappears in this with a new baby.
A L A Bkl 14:96 D ‘17
“The characters are stereotyped ones, but the author has a faculty for making them charming. Perhaps the greatest drawback to one’s enjoyment of the book is the tiresome use of dialect.”
+ — N Y Times 22:414 O 21 ‘17 260w
“Mrs Kingsley’s new heroine, Malvina Bennett, village dressmaker in Innisfield, is just as pleasing in her own way as was Miss Philura.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p17 N 11 ‘17 300w
KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA. Clothing and health. (Home-making ser.) il *65c Macmillan 646 16-18558
“‘Clothing and health’ treats of the elementary work in sewing, which precedes garment making. It also discusses the leading textile materials, telling where they are grown and how they are manufactured ready for use. The hygiene of clothing, the buying of material, the use of the commercial pattern and the care and repair of clothing are discussed in connection with the lessons on sewing and textiles.”—Springf’d Republican
Cleveland p127 N ‘17 20w
St Louis 15:144 My ‘17
“A hundred and fifty illustrations enrich the text of this book of 300 pages, as excellent as its mate.”
+ School Arts Magazine 16:356 Ap ‘17 50w
Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 29 ‘17 50w
“For use in elementary schools, specially rural schools. ... Lessons and questions make it a useful textbook, or it can be used in the home.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:127 Ap ‘17 40w
KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA. Home and the family. (Home-making ser.) il *80c Macmillan 640 17-3475
“This is an elementary text book of home making, to be used as a supplementary reader, and source book. It describes the decoration and furnishing of a cottage at Pleasant Valley in a way that develops a strong desire to go and do likewise.”—School Arts Magazine
“Has a chapter with simple directions on how to care for ‘the most important member of the family,’ the baby, and one on right living and how to keep well. Good print and illustrations.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:297 Ap ‘17
+ Nature 100:3 S 6 ‘17 300w
St Louis 15:113 Ap ‘17
“Four color plates and 185 other illustrations add to the attractiveness and to the value of this sensible volume.”
+ School Arts Magazine 16:356 Ap ‘17 60w
KIPLING, RUDYARD. Diversity of creatures. *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday 17-11707
A collection of stories and poems. A number of the stories have appeared in American magazines: “In the same boat,” in Harper’s Magazine, December, 1911; “In the presence,” in Everybody’s, March, 1912; “The vortex,” in Scribner’s Magazine, August, 1914; “Swept and garnished,” in the Century Magazine, January, 1915; and “Mary Postgate,” in the Century Magazine, September, 1915. There are fourteen stories and about an equal number of poems.
+ A L A Bkl 13:404 Je ‘17
“He has never shown himself a greater master of the art of story-telling, never combined creative imagination with more triumphant realism, or handled his own English prose with more ease, economy, and certainty of effect. The first of the fourteen, ‘As easy as A. B. C.,’ is perhaps the finest short story of the future ever written.”
+ Ath p240 My ‘17 850w
+ Ath p254 My ‘17 180w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 45:537 Jl ‘17 330w
“Two of them, ‘Swept and garnished’ and ‘Mary Postgate,’ are products of the war, and that they reveal him at his best is evidence of his command of the vital facts of life. Both are grim.” E. F. E.
+ — Boston Transcript p6 My 12 ‘17 1600w
“In these stories Kipling presents the lamentable spectacle of the writer who has written himself out. From ‘As easy as A. B. C.,’ a wearisome, drawn-out, scientific tale in the early H. G. Wells manner, To ‘Mary Postgate,’ an account of the war’s reactive effect on two lonely women, he gives on the whole only meagre evidence of that power which in the eighteen-nineties made his name famous over the globe. The fourteen tales vary in merit, but by a curious grouping the poorest and dullest rank first, the last five stories are the best of the collection. There are two stories of practical jokes on a large scale—‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘The horse marines.’ The last is the better, and has more than a little of the old rollicking humor of ‘Soldiers three.’ ‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ is interesting in conception, but is drawn out to such impossible conclusions and to such an unconscionable length as to destroy its effect.”
– + Cath World 105:684 Ag ‘17 280w
“The best stories in this volume are Kipling all over. ... His old vigor of phrase is undiminished, both the vigor which is beauty and the vigor which is brutality.” J: Macy
+ Dial 62:441 My 17 ‘17 950w
“Three stories stand out from the book sufficiently to assure them a place in the anthologies of the future, ‘As easy as A B C,’ ‘In the same boat,’ and ‘The village that voted the earth was flat.’”
+ Ind 90:350 My 19 ‘17 550w
+ — Lit D 54:1858 Je 16 ‘17 160w
Nation 104:632 My 24 ‘17 550w
+ — New Repub 11:112 My 26 ‘17 1100w
+ N Y Times 22:177 My 6 ‘17 1100w
Reviewed by Fremont Rider
+ — Pub W 91:1315 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
“Only two of the stories actually deal with the war, and in them the author is at his best. They have restraint and dignity. There are no tricks or fireworks, but they are written with immense power and sincerity. In striking contrast to these are the two ‘comic’ stories, ‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘The horse marines,’ which are as bad as anything that Mr Kipling has done in the way of whipped-up humour.”
+ — Sat R 123:368 Ap 21 ‘17 600w
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+ Spec 118:461 Ap 21 ‘17 1800w
“‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘In the presence’ not only transcend the others in merit, but are also most characteristically Kiplingesque.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 13 ‘17 770w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p186 Ap 19 ‘17 750w
KIPLING, RUDYARD. Sea warfare. *$1.25 (4c) Doubleday 940.91 17-7953
“The fringes of the fleet,” printed earlier in a separate volume, is included here as the first of three parts. Parts 2 and 3 are Tales of “The trade” and Destroyers at Jutland. By “The trade” is meant the submarine service. A number of poems are included.
A L A Bkl 13:346 My ‘17
“This collection of Mr Kipling’s recent articles exhibits his genius for vivid description of the almost indescribable, and his power of giving life to brute engines and physical energies, at its highest.”
+ Ath p601 D ‘16 50w
“Only one American writer has so far laid his finger on the secret by which Kipling may be understood. In a recent article Mr Will Irwin discussed the cleavage in the British race between Norman blood and Saxon—a cleavage that very few understand but that is very illuminating. Rudyard Kipling is clear Saxon. He sees and writes from the Saxon point of view. His Norman-blooded officers are seen from beneath. ... In his most recent book he has given us again the purely Saxon viewpoint, writing as a brother when he writes of Grimsby fishermen. On the other hand, his officers (and the navy with its rigorous caste rule is practically all Norman on the upper deck) are admirable at a little distance.”
+ Dial 62:358 Ap 19 ‘17 450w
+ — Ind 90:35 Ap 2 ‘17 370w
+ N Y Times 22:179 My 6 ‘17 700w
Pittsburgh 22:529 Je ‘17 10w
“The ‘Destroyers at Jutland’ chapter furnishes the real interest of the book.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 6 ‘17 420w
“Have an atmosphere and flavor of their own; they sometimes seem tenuous and even confused, but their effect is cumulative, the significant though often slight incidents related remain in the memory, and we conclude, with the author, that ‘the navy is very old and very wise.’”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:124 Ap ‘17 70w
KIRK, MRS ALICE GITCHELL. Practical food economy. il *$1.25 Little 641 17-24175
Mrs Kirk offers this book as the direct result of eleven years lecturing on home economics and the teaching of all grades from kindergarten through the academic departments in cooking. Contents: Preparedness in the home; Meats; Bread; Milk; Conservation of fruits and vegetables; Use of fruits in season; Service first. Nutrition tables, Children’s menus, School lunches for children, A week-end vacation for mother, are some of the features of a book designed to put in operation Mr Hoover’s direction to “Eat plenty, wisely, and without waste.”
+ Cleveland p131 D ‘17 30w
“To the average housewife a definition of and a technical treatise on the familiar word ‘calorie,’ is not particularly illuminating. In this book Mrs Kirk has incorporated a generous list of examples representing approximately 100 calories and Professor Atwater’s nutrition table which shows the waste and fuel matter (measured in calories) of every food variety.”
+ Ind 92:344 N 17 ‘17 120w
“Mrs Kirk’s technical knowledge is sufficient to enable her to find untechnical expression for it, and she robs calories of half their horror in her careful, practical explanations.”
+ N Y Times 22:345 S 16 ‘17 200w
“Special attention is given to the elimination of waste in buying, preparation and cooking. Ways for co-operating with the Food administration are suggested. A special section deals with ‘understanding the gas range.’ An entire chapter is devoted to bread. Decidedly this is the book for all those wishing to become partners with Mr Hoover.” Cyra Thomas
+ Pub W 92:816 S 15 ‘17 420w
R of Rs 57:220 F ‘18 30w
“Another valuable point in this book is the amount of space devoted to the proper foods for children.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 O 28 ‘17 100w
KIRKPATRICK, MARION GREENLEAF. Rural school from within. il *$1.28 (2c) Lippincott 379 17-19387
This book is largely autobiographical. The author tells the story of his teaching experience in a rural school in Kansas some twenty-five years ago. It is a very human story in which the characters of the young teacher, his pupils and the men and women of the community are revealed. With the ripe wisdom that has come from years spent with boys and girls, the author discusses some of the problems of education and discipline represented in that early experience. He is now specialist in education, division of college extension, Kansas State agricultural college.
“Those who have neither attended nor taught a rural school may get much local color and good advice, if they desire them, from this didactic but interesting narrative. The data on consolidation of country schools may appeal to more specialized readers. The proposed rural-school curriculum falls far short of the changes which present conditions demand.” L. L. Bernard
+ — Am J Soc 23:554 Ja ‘18 100w
“Shows a sympathetic insight into the rural school problem and should be a source of inspiration to those interested in rural education.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:113 Ja ‘18
“A constructive book.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 8 ‘17 150w
“The freshness of his approach to a discussion of these problems and of means of making progress towards their solution is the delightful quality of a loosely written book; a book humanly rather than intellectually original. ... His heart is plainly in what he writes, and his sympathy and first-hand experience are refreshing after books which make rural education a dehumanized affair of sociology and public administration. But to appreciate the homeliness of his book is not to forgive its poor organization and padded style.”
+ — Nation 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 220w
“From the first paragraph to the last it is constructive.”
+ School Arts Magazine 17:94 O ‘17 110w
“The spirit and tone of the book is sane and helpful and will help to inspire those who sincerely desire to render service to country people.” G: L. Roberts
+ School R 25:529 S ‘17 180w
KITTREDGE, MABEL HYDE. Home and its management. il *$1.50 (1½c) Century 640 17-13801
“A handbook in homemaking with three hundred inexpensive cooking receipts.” (Sub-title) Among the chapter titles are: The house itself; Kitchen; Dining-room; Living-room; Bedrooms; Plumbing; Useful facts for the homemaker; Laundry work; Marketing; Division of income; Foods and their value. The author is president of the Association of practical housekeeping centers in New York city and chairman of the New York school lunch committee. She has written several other books on housekeeping subjects.
“An amplification of the material contained in two previous books. ‘Practical home making’ and ‘Second course in home making.’ While addressed to school girls, the suggestions are helpful and practical for all inexperienced housekeepers.”
+ Cleveland p111 S ‘17 40w
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+ Ind 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
“An authoritative volume.” M. G. S.
+ N Y Call p15 Ag 19 ‘17 190w
“Miss Kittredge’s book begins at the beginning; it takes for granted exactly nothing at all. The youngest and most ignorant housekeeper will learn the fundamentals here. In its compass of less than 400 pages, it is a remarkably inclusive book. It will be of particular value to the young homemaker in a city apartment. It will be welcomed, too, by the woman of limited means.”
+ N Y Times 22:284 Jl 29 ‘17 500w
“There are a great many suggestions about living conditions, such as a discussion of the treatment of servants, which hardly belong in a textbook for use in settlement or home-training classes. It seems almost a self-evident fact that the greatest need of the housekeeper at the present time is the ability to evaluate her time and to learn thereby how to maintain an efficient home with the least expenditure of effort. There is no attempt in Miss Kittredge’s book to even suggest this problem, and many of the methods of work that are given are unnecessarily time-consuming.” A. R. Hanna
– + School R 25:613 O ‘17 430w
“Even the most experienced housekeeper will be likely to find something new in this volume.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 O 28 ‘17 150w
KLEENE, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS. Profit and wages. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 331 17-100
A study in the distribution of income. Income is differentiated from general wealth as “wealth just produced or come into existence.” The author examines the various economic theories that have been put forth and then arrives at his own conclusions, which go back to doctrines of the classical school. Contents: Introduction; Böhm-Bawerk’s theory of interest; The time-preference theory; The abstinence theory; The productivity theory of interest; The essentials of a theory of profit and interest; The theory of wages—The supply of labor; The theory of wages—The demand for labor; Conclusion.
“A clear, well reasoned attempt to state and solve the problem of distribution in economics. Scholarly and highly theoretical, it complements, but does not replace, other works in this field.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:290 Ap ‘17
“The book is excellent in style and tone, and a perusal of its contents will be particularly useful to economists who have followed the subjective theorists into the wilderness of psychological determinations.”
+ Am Pol Sci R 11:365 My ‘17 150w
“Professor Kleene’s volume must be classified as a contribution to economic criticism. ... On its constructive side the book is fragmentary and lacks coherence. It doubtless will prove useful both to those who are insisting upon a return of theory to the problems and methods of classicism and to those who are demanding a newer institutional economics. If the book is far weaker as a constructive study than as a critical attack, the result is not evidence of personal weakness on the part of the author. Rather it affords testimony to the existing state of economic theory. In view of their problems it is unfortunate that both volumes reveal a lack of familiarity with the writings of the school of English economists who recently have been giving their attention to the subject of welfare, and who of all current theorists seem to be most fully conscious of what they are doing.” W. H. Hamilton
+ — Ann Am Acad 72:239 Jl ‘17 220w
“This is a theoretical analysis of the distribution of income, which the trained student may find very instructive, but which will never be read by the ordinary man of affairs.”
Ind 89:507 Mr 19 ‘17 90w
N Y Times 22:120 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
R of Rs 55:443 Ap ‘17 40w
“The whole analysis is careful and well reasoned. It will interest everyone who is thinking in the field of economics.” H. F. G.
+ Survey 38:289 Je 30 ‘17 250w
KLEIN, ARTHUR JAY. Intolerance in the reign of Elizabeth, queen of England. *$2 Houghton 274.2 17-4838
“This careful study (by the professor of history in Wheaton college, Norton, Massachusetts) of the religious and political animosities rife in the Elizabethan era shows, as the author remarks, that the great queen’s reign is ‘not altogether an encouraging field to the idealist seeking in the past for the first rays of the light of tolerance.’ Anglicans, Catholics, and Presbyterians contended, and intrigued against each other, with bitterness and persistence.” (Ath) “Mr Klein ... makes clear his belief that the comparative tolerance of the Anglican church was none of its choosing, but was imposed upon it for political reasons by the queen.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“If Professor Klein had called his book a brief sketch of ecclesiastical controversies during the reign of Elizabeth and had made no pretensions beyond a careful restatement of the conclusions already reached by competent scholars, the book could have been commended as vital, interesting, and for the most part accurate. But as a history of intolerance during the reign of Elizabeth—it must be said in all kindliness—the book possesses the remarkable deficiency of saying very little about it. ... The long bibliography and the acknowledgments in the preface raise expectations of a more extended study of manuscript and printed sources than the text substantiates, for the great majority of its details are supported abundantly by standard secondary authorities and the foot-notes are devoted mainly to Strype, the Parker society’s publications, and the State Papers, Domestic.” R. G. Usher
Am Hist R 22:890 Jl ‘17 580w
+ Ath p257 My ‘17 150w
“The bibliography is not critical, and evidences the author’s anti-Catholic prejudice. He warns his readers against accepting the statements of Catholic writers, but says nothing against unfair books like Bury’s ‘A history of freedom of thought.’ Again he is not aware of the utter unreliability of Sarpi’s history of Trent, nor does he apparently know that a new critical history of the Council is in course of publication.”
— Cath World 105:546 Jl ‘17 670w
+ — Dial 62:317 Ap 5 ‘17 300w
“The truth is that the intolerance of churches is an antiquated issue; it is the intolerance of states with which we fight to-day. ... To the question ‘When does persecution cease to be persecution?’ Mr Klein seems to provide the facile answer ‘When it is done by the state.’ ... The bibliography is portentous and indiscriminate, amounting to nearly a fifth of the text.”
— The Times [London] Lit Sup p208 My 3 ‘17 1400w
KLEIN, FÉLIX. Hope in suffering; memories and reflections of a French army chaplain; tr. from the French ‘Les douleurs qui espèrent,’ by Gemma Bailey; with an introd. by Canon H. Scott Holland. *4s 6d Melrose, London 242
“It was the Abbé Klein, of the American hospital, Neuilly, Paris, who gave us the sad and moving little book ‘La guerre vue d’une ambulance’—translated under the title ‘Diary of a French army chaplain.’ The present little book has the same poignant note of single-mindedness; and it is not confined to ‘memories’ for about a third of it contains ‘Reflections’—on the problem of Evil, Grief, Atonement, ‘Lux in tenebris,’ &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Ath p474 O ‘16 70w
N Y Br Lib News 4:94 Je ‘17
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p503 O 19 ‘16 80w
316KLEISER, GRENVILLE. Fifteen thousand useful phrases. *$1.60 Funk 808 17-30916
That this is a work for study rather than for reference is made clear in the author’s preface on How to use this book, in which he says, “The method used for building a large vocabulary has usually been confined to the study of single words. This has produced good results, but it is believed that eminently better results can be obtained from a careful study of words and expressions, as furnished in this book, where words can be examined in their context.” The phrases for study are arranged in eleven groups: Useful phrases; Significant phrases; Felicitous phrases; Impressive phrases; Prepositional phrases; Business phrases; Literary expressions; Striking similes; Conversational phrases; Public speaking phrases; Miscellaneous phrases. There is an introduction by Frank H. Vizetelly.