Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 25)
Reading edition
“A book of practical usefulness for the student, the writer and the public speaker.”
+ Cath World 106:414 D ‘17 50w
“Has great helpfulness for whoever is willing to use it according to Mr Kleiser’s plan.”
+ Lit D 56:46 F 9 ‘18 90w
N Y Times 22:542 D 9 ‘17 70w
“While some of these selections seem ‘thwarted by fortune,’ one’s criticism must be ‘tempered by charity,’ and there is no doubt that a systematic study of these pages would greatly improve a deficient vocabulary.”
+ — Outlook 117:577 D 5 ‘17 80w
KLEISER, GRENVILLE.[2] How to build mental power. il *$3 Funk 374 17-27883
A practical, constructive aid to mind-development. Each chapter constitutes a lesson. In order, one is taught how to develop concentration, a stock of ideas, orderliness of mind, power and use of words, clear thinking, intellectual force, habit of analysis, sound opinions, the use of the will, imagination and feeling, a retentive memory, conscience, power of intuition, breadth of mind and spirituality. The whole subject of mental culture is presented in a clear, simple manner that can be readily followed by an intelligent student at odd moments.
KLEISER, GRENVILLE. Talks on talking. *75c Funk 808.5 16-19827
“Both private and public speech are covered by these ‘Talks’ of Mr Kleiser. ... They refer to Talkers and talking, give Phrases for talkers, consider Talking in salesmanship, How to tell a story, How to speak in public, The dramatic element, Care of the throat, etc. It is worth while for every one to realize the value of an attractive voice, to avoid mannerisms, and to be natural, spontaneous, charming, to the largest possible degree. Mr Kleiser’s pages will help.”—Lit D
“Suggestive but not exhaustive.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:161 Ja ‘17
Cleveland p145 D ‘16 30w
“A new book on an old art, which can be taken in hand and read through in an hour or so, while the suggestions, if well remembered, may last a lifetime.”
+ Lit D 54:1274 Ap 28 ‘17 90w
N Y Br Lib News 3:171 N ‘16
+ R of Rs 54:685 D ‘16 50w
“The author was formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity school.”
St Louis 15:10 Ja ‘17 12w
Spec 118:340 Mr 17 ‘17 300w
KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSON-SMITH), ed. Beautiful crochet on household linen. (Home art ser.) il *75c Stokes 746 17-26258
A companion volume to a work on knitting, showing how table cloths, curtain tops, towel ends, sideboard cloths, tea cosies, dressing table runners, and other items may be finished with crochet. The author says that special features of the book are suggestions for finishing cloths with a straight edge, and designs showing natural flowers in filet crochet.
A L A Bkl 13:297 Ap ‘17
+ Cleveland p114 S ‘17 10w
“Some of the patterns are effective, but we wish that the designers could find inspiration in conventional renaissance work, instead of trying to adapt the forms of natural flowers to such an unsuitable medium as flat crochet.”
+ Spec 116:635 My 20 ‘16 150w
KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSONSMITH). Flower-patch among the hills. il *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 828 17-26323
Flora Klickmann is editor of The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine, an English publication, and author of a number of books on domestic art. In this volume she writes of a summer spent in an old English cottage in the hills overlooking the Wye. The book recalls “The garden of a commuter’s wife” and others of the kind in which amusing personal experiences, out-of-door descriptions and neighborly gossip are mingled.
A L A Bkl 13:355 My ‘17
“She has much that is quaint and amusing and picturesque to place before the reader of her narrative.”
+ Boston Transcript p9 Mr 7 ‘17 140w
“Will appeal to those in whom the love of gardens is an instinct. ... She writes best of what she loves best, and flowers rather than humanity are her happiest inspiration.”
+ Dial 62:152 F 22 ‘17 100w
+ Spec 116:726 Je 10 ‘16 60w
KLINE, BURTON. End of the flight. *$1.50 (1c) Lane 17-11708
Mrs Branstane, as unpleasant a woman as one could find in fiction or out of it, is named by her creator “one of the causeless catastrophes.” The scene of the story is Rossacre, typical of the smaller American cities. Rossacre boasts its social set and its social season. Of the former the Gaylands are the leaders, and it is in the Gayland home that Mrs Branstane occupies the modest position of housekeeper. But there is something sinister in her presence in the house and in her hold over Judge Gayland. He is the first of her victims. Others follow till she meets her match in Andrew Penning. Penning, who in time becomes judge in Gayland’s place, is in love with Annabel, Gayland’s daughter, and it is in her jealousy of the girl that Mrs Branstane oversteps herself and accomplishes her own ruin.
“Primarily a novel of character, of clashing temperaments and wills. Yet its best achievement and the highest promise it contains of the author’s future as a novelist—next, perhaps, to his unmistakable felicity of word and phrase—is his willingness to array his story in a healthy provincialism of scene and feeling, and his considerable ability to make his reader see that scene and share that feeling. In clarity of delineation of character and in sustained and unified effectiveness of its story of character clashing with character, this novel may leave something to be desired.” F. I.
+ — Boston Transcript p7 Ap 14 ‘17 1250w
“The characters do not live, and the temptation to much skipping is irresistible. The book is better written than many which take a more compelling grasp of their readers.”
– + N Y Times 22:226 Je 10 ‘17 160w
+ — Springf’d Republican p17 Je 3 ‘17 430w
KNIGHT, AUSTIN MELVIN. Modern seamanship. 7th ed rev and enl il *$6.50 (2½c) Van Nostrand 656 17-11225
This work by Rear-Admiral Knight, first published in 1901, now appears in a seventh edition. A note says, “The present edition is designed to bring the work up to date as completely as possible. To this end, a large amount of new material has been added, much 317that was obsolete has been cut out, and about one-third of the remainder has been extensively revised or entirely rewritten.” The new edition is illustrated with 159 plates.
+ Cleveland p112 S ‘17 10w
KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR. Lost little lady. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-25247
The scene of this story for young people is laid in New York at the time of the draft riots In 1863. Nora O’Neil rescues a strange little girl, somewhat younger than herself, from the mob. Nora is warm hearted and impetuous, and the great wealth which has come to her father and herself quite suddenly has not spoiled her. The opportunity to mother this little stranger is a golden one to lonely Nora and she hopes fervently that the child’s people will never be found. Her wish seems in a fair way to be gratified, for Bébée refuses to disclose anything about herself. The two girls become devotedly fond of one another, and, happily, the final solution of the mystery surrounding Bébée does not separate them.
“An entertaining tale.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:64 N ‘17
“Dr and Mrs Knipe have a literary style which places their books far above the range of average juvenile literature.”
+ Lit D 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w
“There is plenty of both plot and incident.”
+ N Y Times 22:389 O 7 ‘17 50w
KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR. Maid of old Manhattan. il *$1.25 (1½c) Macmillan 17-24856
A story of New Amsterdam under the rule of Peter Stuyvesant. Annetje, the maid of old Manhattan, had spent her early childhood with the Indians. She knows that they had loved and treasured her highly, for even after they have sent her to live with the white people, their protective watch over her continues. Of her parentage she knows nothing, but she has sometimes been made to feel that she is not Dutch like her companions. Twice it is given Annetje to warn the governor of impending danger. The first time, when an Indian attack threatens, she intercedes with her red friends and the town is saved. The second time her warning is not heeded. The English ships come and New Amsterdam becomes New York. But the ships bring to Annetje the secret of her birth, and Peter Stuyvesant, no longer the governor, sanctions his son Balthazar’s choice of a wife.
A L A Bkl 14:173 F ‘18
Ind 92:260 N 3 ‘17 30w
+ Lit D 55:54 D 8 ‘17 80w
“This is a novel whose simplicity and direct methods are its greatest charm. There is enough excitement to hold the reader’s attention, and enough of historical setting to give the simple story dignity. It is a wholesome and pleasing story.”
+ Lit D 55:48 D 29 ‘17 60w
“I think children from ten on will like it better than I do, because I tried it on them, and they voted it ‘great.’ And they will get a glimpse of old Manhattan at the time the British took it over, learn what they ate and what they wore, and some Dutch words, interesting because quite mysterious.” Maud Thompson
+ N Y Call p15 N 11 ‘17 270w
“A story with history, action, and interesting characters, well adapted as a gift for girls.”
+ Outlook 117:432 N 14 ‘17 15w
KOBBÉ, GUSTAV. All-of-a-sudden Carmen. il *$1.35 (3½c) Putnam 17-13315
The Metropolitan opera house is the scene of this story, and a little waif, left at the stage door, is the heroine. It is Yudels, the doorkeeper who, having picked her up, becomes her official father; but all of the company, from the prima donna down, help to mother her. She grows up amid the stage scenery. Stage properties are her playthings and she picks up the music of the operas as readily as she does the four languages spoken by the singers. Her favorite is always Carmen, the opera that was sung on the night of her arrival, and it is in Carmen that she makes her own first appearance on the stage.
“It is a pretty little story, light and improbable, but interesting.”
+ — Lit D 55:35 Ag 18 ‘17 140w
“The very slight plot is merely a thread on which to hang a detailed description of the world behind the scenes at the Metropolitan opera house, and of much of the mechanical ingenuity which goes to the production of grand opera. Singers whom all New York once flocked to hear are easily recognizable through the very thin disguises with which the author has cloaked them.”
+ N Y Times 22:195 My 20 ‘17 370w
“Famous opera stars of a generation ago cross the background of ‘All-of-a-sudden Carmen.’ ... It is a light story with a pleasant strain of sentimentality.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Jl 8 ‘17 210w
KOBER, GEORGE MARTIN, and HANSON, WILLIAM CLINTON, eds. Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene. il *$8 Blakiston 613.6 16-16701
“A collection of studies each by an expert in the particular subject. ... The essays are in three main groups. Part one discusses specific and systemic diseases of occupation; part two discusses first the cause and means of preventing occupational diseases, then the various occupations in which exposure to injurious conditions is involved. In part three there is a description of the unique Milan clinic for occupational diseases; then a discussion of statistics, their uses and their fallacies; and last, chapters that contain the latest study of legislation for the prevention of occupational disease; on the ‘rationale’ of making such diseases notifiable and including them in the records of vital statistics; on women’s and children’s work; and on administrative power and methods.”—Survey
American Industries p43 Mr ‘17
“Although the respective articles have been written by a large number of men, it is exceedingly gratifying to note the general tone of conservatism displayed throughout, especially in the medical discussions.” P. N: Leech
+ Am J Soc 23:265 S ‘17 400w
“It is a storehouse of knowledge and will be immensely useful to the teacher of economics and sociology, to the business man, and to insurance officials, as well as to those in charge of public health work or the care of the sick. It deserves a place in every college or public library.” Carl Kelsey
+ + Ann Am Acad 70:331 Mr ‘17 250w
+ + Dial 62:151 P 22 ‘17 450w
“Intelligent citizens who may wish to obtain light upon the subject will find in this book a great abundance of information.”
+ Nation 104:635 My 24 ‘17 250w
N Y Br Lib News 3:155 O ‘16
“With editors and contributors of such caliber, the treatise produced is necessarily almost complete and authoritative. ... I believe one of the most important articles in the book is that written by Frederick S. Lee, professor of physiology at Columbia university. It is entitled ‘Fatigue and occupation,’ and in a scientific and dispassionate way endeavors to prove the close relationship of fatigue to occupation ... and specifically of the effect of the length of the working day upon the health of the workers.” G: M. Price, M.D.
+ N Y Call p14 N 26 ‘16 800w
“The book is a valuable asset to industrial medical literature. The eminence of its collaborators ... is an indication of its authoritativeness and its classic character. Its range 318of subjects and the exhaustive references to the original sources at the end of each chapter make it invaluable as a reference work. While not the first American treatise upon the subject, it is the most comprehensive.” T. G. Miller
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p20 Ja ‘17 200w (Reprinted from Journal of the Franklin Institute D ‘16)
“A valuable asset to industrial medical literature. ... While not the first American treatise upon the subject it is the most comprehensive.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:42 Ja ‘17 50w (Reprinted from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1916)
+ Pittsburgh 22:339 Ap ‘17 100w
“The numerous bibliographies are valuable”
+ Pittsburgh 22:418 My ‘17 60w
“Dr T. M. Legge’s section on arsenic poisoning is the best brief treatment of this subject known to the reviewer. ... The most serious problems of industrial life are accidents and tuberculosis, the industrial poisonings (except plumbism) being by comparison relatively unimportant. Accidents presumably fall outside the scope of this work but certainly industrial tuberculosis does not; yet dust removal and factory ventilation are scantily treated, while pages are devoted to rare intoxications, of interest only as medical curiosities. ... ‘Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene’ contains much material which will make it a valuable reference book for the specialist, but it is not likely to supplant either of the two earlier works [W. Gilman Thompson, ‘Occupational diseases,’ G. M. Price, ‘Modern factory’] each of which so well fills its special field.” C. E. A. Winslow
* + Science n s 45:260 Mr 16 ‘17 650w
“Basic data are presented with a simplicity, clearness, fulness and interest that at first conceal the magnitude of the completed task. The editors have appreciated the value of mechanical aids, such as heavy-faced type for headings, numbered divisions, paragraphs of moderate length and a good index.” G. S.
+ Survey 37:467 Ja 20 ‘17 450w
KOCH, THEODORE WESLEY. Book of Carnegie libraries. il *$3.50 (4c) Wilson, H. W. 022 17-27889
In 1907 Mr Koch, of the Library of Congress, issued a portfolio of pictures and plans of typical or notable Carnegie library buildings. This collection of plates is now reissued, together with an explanatory text, which the original work lacked. The book has an introduction by R. R. Bowker of the Publishers’ Weekly. In addition, there is a character sketch of Andrew Carnegie by Hamilton W. Mabie, reprinted from the Century, and a paper on Carnegie libraries and good reading, by Arthur E. Bostwick, of the St Louis public library. Mr Koch’s text consists of chapters on: Method of giving; Documents relating to the establishment of the New York city branches; The architecture of the Manhattan branches; Reaching the people; The Brooklyn branches; Eastern libraries; The public library of the District of Columbia; The South; Pittsburg; Ohio and Michigan; Wisconsin and the Middle West; Iowa and the farther West; The southwest and the Rocky mountain region; California; Library planning. Index to text, Index to plates, and List of plates follow.
A L A Bkl 14:148 F ‘18
N Y Times 23:32 Ja 27 ‘18 50w
KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY. British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin-America. il *$4 (2½c) Century 980 17-14549
Mr Koebel, who has acted as special commissioner for South America for the London Sphere and Standard and has served as editor-in-chief of the “Encyclopedia of South America,” has written a number of books on the various South American states. “His ‘British exploits in South America’ covers a period of more than three hundred years. It opens with a picturesque account of the old English navigators and buccaneers who sailed the Spanish Main, and goes on to describe successively the work of the English and Irish Jesuits in the Spanish colonies, the British voyages of exploration in the eighteenth century, the development of British Guiana and the Falkland Islands, the exploits of the British in Brazil, the part taken by Englishmen in the wars of independence, the early relations of the English with the new republics, and the deeds of innumerable adventurous British travellers, traders, naturalists, and soldiers of fortune.” (Dial) Three aspects of British operations are emphasized: the large part played by capital, the exceptional ease with which the Englishmen took root in South America, and the fact that “almost all of the British achievements in South America have been the work of free lances.” The final chapter, “Today and tomorrow in South America,” is devoted mainly to a discussion of the commercial situation and outlook. Appended is a fifteen-page “Bibliography of modern works from 1870.”
“For the most part the present work is a compilation of extracts culled from contemporary accounts by British writers and pieced together into a somewhat disjointed narrative. The book is provided with illustrations more or less apt in reference and plan of insertion. The bibliography of works issued [since 1870] is not characterized by either accuracy or exhaustiveness, and lacks any sort of evaluation. That the works by Dawson and Scruggs should be mentioned twice, that Bourne’s treatise, along with numerous others of merit, is ignored, that the authorship of Helps’s volumes is ascribed to Oppenheim, and that a reprint of Humboldt’s account should be put down as a recent contribution, are defects not remedied by the inclusion of substantially all of Mr Koebel’s own books. Were Mr Koebel as familiar with the Spanish language and records as he is with those he actually uses, he would not have allowed so many errors and omissions to mar his pages.” W: R. Shepherd
— Am Hist R 23:200 O ‘17 550w
A L A Bkl 14:92 D ‘17
“This is the book of an author full of his subject and evidently forms the result of many years of note-taking and much general and special reading. It is a permanent contribution not only to South American literature, but is also a noteworthy addition to the shelves of general romance and adventure.” T: Walsh
+ Bookm 46:606 Ja ‘18 170w
“A series of portrait sketches drawn with such surety and finesse that in the brief space allotted to each, the personalities of the most famous of the British soldiers of fortune stand out with extraordinary vividness. ... In the concluding chapter, after having studied the ‘bright side’ of British trade in South America, the author, with an equal candor, examines the reasons for its decline, during the past few years. And they are those we of the United States should also heed.” F. B.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Je 9 ‘17 680w
“Mr W. H. Koebel—who, notwithstanding his German-sounding name, is a thoroughgoing Englishman ... speaks with authority on all matters pertaining to the contact of Europeans with Latin American resources, governments, and peoples. ... He gives evidence of an easy command of rich resources of memoirs, diaries, correspondence, and old books of travel and history: he has a keen sense of character, and his chapters make interesting reading.” F: A. Ogg
+ Dial 63:57 Jl 19 ‘17 1100w
“Since the author perforce must introduce ‘true blue’ British sea-dogs and buccaneers, one feels he has achieved a triumph in divesting them of the slightest suspicion of rum, and never exploding on his pages an improper swear word.”
Ind 91:134 Jl 28 ‘17 490w
Lit D 55:43 N 17 ‘17 410w
“The author has an irritating habit of peppering his page with irrelevant marks of exclamation. He lapses at times into rank journalese. 319But all deductions made, Mr Koebel has brought together a great deal of widely scattered information on South America and presented it in a popular and readable fashion.”
+ — Nation 105:512 N 8 ‘17 1250w
“While much of the matter in Mr Koebel’s book will not be new to those who have been sufficiently interested in South America to read its history, there is a freshness in the author’s literary style that makes a relation of an old, or even threadbare, fact peculiarly his own. He is a born story-teller.”
+ N Y Times 22:312 Ag 26 ‘17 700w
“The recent, somewhat unsatisfactory position of British commerce in those countries as contrasted with the rapid advance made by Germany before the war is frankly discussed in this volume.”
+ R of Rs 56:215 Ag ‘17 140w
KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY. Paraguay. (South American ser.) il *$3.50 Scribner 918.9 (Eng ed 17-26318)
In addition to other books on individual South American countries, Mr Koebel has written a work on “South America,” published in 1913, and one on “The South Americans,” published in 1915. “He tells something of the romantic history of this smallest and least accessible of the South American republics. ... He describes the physical characteristics, the cities, the country in general, the people and their life, and devotes much attention to the resources and to the trade in cattle, timber, fruits, cereals.” (N Y Times)
+ A L A Bkl 13:350 My ‘17
“A verbose account of the land it describes in which one looks in vain for any real interpretation of the country. The book is largely a presentation of facts, more or less interesting. About two-thirds of the whole is history; the remaining third consists of chapters on various topics.” G. B. Roorbach
– + Ann Am Acad 73:232 S ‘17 190w
“Especially valuable and interesting for its detailed account of present-day conditions, a work for which the author is well fitted, as he has shown by several previous volumes in this series. ... The book is, indeed, a storehouse of all those up-to-date data desired by intending tourist or business man, or by the stay-at-home seeker after information.”
+ N Y Times 22:101 Mr 25 ‘17 180w
+ Pittsburgh 22:424 My ‘17 20w
Pratt p42 Jl ‘17 30w
+ R of Rs 55:555 My ‘17 80w
+ Spec 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 200w
“Mr Koebel gives a really admirable description of the early history of the colony. ... One of the best chapters is the eighth, on ‘The Jesuit mission establishments.’ Mr Koebel treats the subject fairly and impartially. ... A highly prosperous future, if internal stability be maintained, almost certainly lies before this inland republic, but it is a prosperity of promise. Mr Koebel, drawing his information from official sources, undoubtedly paints a picture too roseate.”
* + The Times [London] Lit Sup p77 F 15 ‘17 2050w
KOHLER, MAX JAMES, and WOLF, SIMON. Jewish disabilities in the Balkan states. $1.50 Am. Jewish hist. soc. 17-7956
“This paper, amplified from the form of its original reading before the society and fortified by voluminous foot-notes, is valuable chiefly because of its compact summary of the legislation now existing in Rumania to the detriment of the Jewish population of that country; and, in consequence, thus formulating the terms of the problem which will arise when the present war in Europe is ended. ... The contributions of the United States to this problem have been almost continuous, beginning a full half-century ago with Mr Seward’s note to Turkey. ... All of these efforts, however, as Mr Kohler shows, were instigated by one or another of the organizations designed to further the political and other progress of the Jewish race; but it is none the less to the credit of American statesmen that the spirit of our diplomacy so readily and generously responded to the appeal.”—Am Hist R
“Mr Kohler has marshalled a line of impressive precedents which point the way for American influence to make itself felt beneficently.” G: H. Moses
+ Am Hist R 22:708 Ap ‘17 400w
Cleveland p106 S ‘17 50w
“This volume constitutes one of the most important and valuable issues in the series of ‘Publications’ of this active society. ... Mr Kohler, the one author, is a prominent attorney and writer on historical and sociological topics of this city, Mr Wolf, the other collaborator, is the venerable champion of Jewish rights at Washington; for more than fifty years he has acted in support of the civil and religious rights of his brethren-in-faith at the national capital. ... The book is well printed, furnished with a comprehensive index, and conveniently bound.”
+ N Y Times 21:434 O 15 ‘16 700w
“Though primarily intended as a contribution to the literature on Jewish history and not written in a form which will attract the general reader, the present volume is likely to help in formulating the policy of this country concerning European reconstruction after the present war. Its scholarship and authority give it unusual weight as a brief for American intervention on behalf of the oppressed Jews in Rumania and other Balkan states.” Bruno Lasker
+ Survey 37:438 Ja 13 ‘17 600w
KORNILOV, ALEKSANDER. Modern Russian history; being an authoritative and detailed history of Russia from the age of Catherine the Great to the present. 2v maps *$5 Knopf 947 17-8743
“The material chiefly employed in this book by a Russian professor was originally used in his lecture courses at the Politecnicum of Peter the Great in Petrograd within the past two years. It embraces a sketch of Russia’s development as state and people down to the year 1866. The author does not attempt to trace the development of the various Russian nationalities, but aims to expand the history of the Russian people. It is not with Russia’s external history that he deals, but with its social, cultural and inner history. ... The study closes with the year 1890. But in a supplementary section, Mr Alexander S. Kaun, the translator, writes some complementary chapters, although he disclaims all thought of directly continuing M. Kornilov’s work.”—Boston Transcript
“Here is an excellent book on a subject about which there is little good literature in English, and it is made almost unreadable for us by the incompetence of the translator. The title is misleading. It promises a general history of Russia, but the work is almost confined to Russian institutions and political development in the last century and a half. Foreign relations and wars and expansion of territory are touched upon only in a casual and rather slipshod manner, and there are several errors in statement. Economic development comes out a little better, but not much, and there is nothing about such things as the progress of science, literature, or art. On its real topic the book is valuable. Being composed for Russians, it presupposes a certain knowledge of Russian history on the part of its readers. In short, Professor Kornilov’s work is a scholarly, judicious compendium of an important subject, but it is not likely to prove attractive to many American readers. The transliteration of Russian words is in the main good.” A. C. Coolidge
+ — Am Hist R 23:148 O ‘17 650w
A L A Bkl 13:444 Jl ‘17
“It is likely to contribute to the knowledge and understanding of Russia more than any other single work which has appeared in English in late years.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ Bookm 45:320 My ‘17 1000w
320“Mr Kaun’s addition is pertinent and readable. He does not enter into a discussion of the causes of the present war, but he aims to show the prevailing attitude of the Russian intelligentzia towards it.” H. S. K.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 31 ‘17 400w
“Admirably written and reliable. The print of the two volumes is too fine for the comfort of the reader.”
+ — Cleveland p138 D ‘17 90w
“An outstanding work. Taking as its basis the best studies of Russian social and political development,—Kluchevsky’s ‘Survey of Russian history,’ and Miliukov’s ‘History of Russian culture,’—it is a lucid, dispassionate, discreetly documented and thoroughly reliable survey of the history of Russia in the nineteenth century.” L: S. Friedland
+ Dial 62:429 My 17 ‘17 980w
“It is a book for the student, not heavy, but with no particular attempt to attract the casual reader. The full index makes it excellent for reference.”
+ Ind 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 150w
“The author is radical-liberal in his attitude. Nowhere in English, so far as we know, can one find so clear, simple, and yet somewhat philosophic an account of the growth of liberalism and democracy in the great Slav empire. Professor Kornilov is one of the first to interpret adequately the influence of the Russian publicists and the Russian newspaper press in the formation of parties and policies. He has also a fairly good ethnological account of the various tribes and nationalities which make up the Russian state and which have become more or less Russified. Unfortunately the extreme gaucherie of the translator has filled the pages with hideous Teutonisms and some almost unintelligible phrases.”
+ + — Nation 105:267 S 6 ‘17 400w
“It is a relief to feel that one is at last in the presence of a socially-minded and conscientious historian, who is gifted with the ability to assemble and organize complex data, and endowed with the power to see events, institutions and human relations in perspective. ... I wish especially to call attention to our author’s lucid treatment of the peasant problem.” D: Rosenstein
+ N Y Call p15 Je 17 ‘17 1100w
“The many tangled threads of Russian life and development are handled in a masterly way, making clear the growth of Russian liberalism through all its varied stages and manifestations. ... Professor Kornilov has the reputation of being a liberal, and therefore it is the more surprising to find his point of view entirely calm, cool, and detached. The hot heart of indignation does not beat in his literary breast, however much it may in his human frame. In that one respect his work seems somewhat defective, since it fails to give the reader an adequate idea in their true colors of Russian affairs and Russian life.”
+ N Y Times 22:103 Mr 25 ‘17 1000w
“Naturally of a special interest to us to-day are the concluding chapters, which are packed with interesting information in regard to the various dumas, the zemstvos, the workmen’s movement, and the conduct of the war with Germany.”
+ Outlook 116:74 My 9 ‘17 60w
Pittsburgh 22:825 D ‘17 40w
Reviewed by R. Staughton
Pub W 91:1326 Ap 21 ‘17 250w
“For the first time, we now have an authoritative history of Russia, from the time of Catherine the Great to the third year of the great war.”
+ R of Rs 55:552 My ‘17 220w
St Louis 15:187 Je ‘17
“Professor Kornilov’s ‘Modern Russian history’ is an excellent book, and it ought to have an enormous circulation in America. Based on lectures to students, it is written in a clear, luminous style. This history, more than any other book I have read, enables one to understand the Russian revolution of the year 1917, and its prodigious importance. The concluding pages of the book, written by Mr Kaun, intentionally forsake the calm historical manner of Professor Kornilov.” W: L. Phelps
+ Yale R n s 7:186 O ‘17 450w
KREHBIEL, HENRY EDWARD. Second book of operas; their histories, their plots and their music. il *$2 (3½c) Macmillan 782 17-7943
This book, devoted to some of the more recent developments in operatic music, supplements the author’s earlier “Book of operas.” Contents: Biblical operas; Bible stories in opera and oratorio; Rubinstein and his “Geistliche oper”; “Samson et Dalila”; “Die königin von Saba”; “Hérodiade”; “Lakmé”; “Pagliacci”; “Cavalleria rusticana”; The career of Mascagni; “Iris”: “Madama Butterfly”; “Der rosenkavalier”; “Königskinder”; “Boris Godounoff”; “Madame Sans-Gêne” and other operas by Giordano; Two operas by Wolf-Ferrari.
“Well written, authoritative, and has critical value.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:339 My ‘17
“For the musician and student of music rather than for the average opera-goer.”
+ Cleveland p114 S ‘17 90w
“As in his earlier work, the free expression of his own preferences and aversions contributes to the enjoyment of the book. Portraits of composers and performers abound, and there are a few facsimiles of autograph scores.”
+ Dial 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 200w
“Mr Krehbiel writes with learning and authority, but without pedantry, and in an easy and pleasant style. It must be added that at times his prejudices sit heavy upon him.”
+ — Ind 92:384 N 24 ‘17 180w
+ Lit D 54:1274 Ap 28 ‘17 120w
“One of the most refreshing things in this book is the enthusiasm for Humperdinck’s ‘Koenigskinder.’ Of particular interest also are the pages on Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly,’ in which the Japanese factors that enter into the texture of the score are made evident.” H: T. Finck
+ Nation 105:545 N 15 ‘17 380w
St Louis 15:177 Je ‘17 20w
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 19 ‘17 280w
KROEGER, ALICE BERTHA. Guide to the study and use of reference books; 3d ed., rev. throughout and much enl. by Isadore Gilbert Mudge. $2.50 A. L. A. 028.7 17-23822
“The third edition of the guide is based, in the main, upon the second edition, 1908, and the two supplements for 1909-10 and 1911-13, but the many changes in reference books and developments in reference work and teaching since 1908 have necessitated many changes from the earlier edition. The general plan and arrangement of the second edition have been followed and Miss Kroeger’s introduction has been kept intact except that one section, ‘How to study reference books,’ has been made slightly more detailed. The lists of reference books, however, have been changed very materially and the annotations have been rewritten and much extended, so that this latter feature of the guide is practically new throughout, only a few annotations having been carried over from the second edition, although somewhat more have been retained from the two supplements. Aside from the new annotation, the revision of the lists of reference books has consisted principally of (1) excision of older titles and editions now superseded by more recent material, (2) addition of new titles including not only the recent books listed in the two supplements and later titles through 1916, but also a very considerable number of earlier titles, principally foreign or more special works not hitherto included in the guide, and (3) the addition of some entirely new lists, such as those on Constitutions, International law, Romances, Historical source books, English public documents, etc. ... In general, information included goes through 1916, and does not cover 321changes, additions, etc., for 1917.” (Preface) Miss Mudge is reference librarian of Columbia university.
“A new edition of the guide, which is everywhere recognized as the foremost ‘guide to reference books,’ has been demanded by librarians in all parts of the country for the past five years, and the A. L. A. publishing board have been fortunate in securing for this important work the services of Miss Mudge, than whom there is no better judgment on the subject of reference books anywhere in the country. ... Absolutely necessary for all libraries making any pretensions at doing reference work, and recommended for purchase for all libraries having 5,000 volumes or more.”
+ A L A Bkl O ‘16
“The new guide lists over one and a half times as many titles as the old edition and the notes are much more critical and minutely descriptive.” M. E. H.
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:243 O ‘17 210w
KROPOTKIN, PETR ALEKSIEEVICH, kniaz. Mutual aid: a factor in evolution. *$1.25 Knopf 301 A17-1635
A reprint of a work published in 1902. “At the beginning of the war in 1914, Prince Kropotkin determined to prepare a reprint of his ‘Mutual aid.’ He put it forth as evidence of his belief that the constructive forces of men are at work in spite of the destructive influences of the war, and that these will lead to a better understanding between men and eventually among the nations. In his discussion of the subject of mutual aid, he begins with the evidence of it to be found in animals, and he then proceeds by evolutionary stages through its aspects as found in the social lives of savages and barbarians, in the mediæval city, to its culmination in the modern state and community.” (Boston Transcript)
“As we read these pages it seems impossible that a man capable of such argument and discussion should have been imprisoned behind stone walls as a danger to his country. It was, however, not his country, but its autocrats that feared him and kept him in an exile that is now ended. Prince Kropotkin is at last free to return to Russia and to take part in the government that by his voice and his work he has succeeded in establishing.” E. P. E.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ap 11 ‘17 700w
Dial 64:32 Ja 3 ‘18 160w
“Those who are old enough to read, and to think seriously, should read this book. Those who are old enough to have read it already, should read it again.” B: C. Gruenberg
+ N Y Call p15 Je 3 ‘17 670w
+ R of Rs 55:553 My ‘17 160w
“This sociological study of Prince Kropotkin’s, so full of the generosity and humaneness of the Russian temperament at its best, is in many ways valuable for its instruction, and will be found not lacking in inspiring qualities even by those who think it unduly neglectful of the egoistic instincts and who regard its conception of progress as one-sided; though, of course, the author might reply that individual achievement, such as Plimsoll represented, or Lord Shaftesbury, may be gained by the dedication of exceptional powers to the common good.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Mr 15 ‘17 680w
KRYSHANOVSKAYA, V. I. Torch-bearers of Bohemia; tr. from the Russian by Juliet M. Soskice. *$1.40 (1½c) McBride 17-11467
This book by a modern Russian woman tells a story of medieval Bohemia. The time of the story spans the last years of John Hus, from 1401 to 1415. John Hus and Jerome of Prague are two dominant figures in the story, altho its plot is built about the figure of Rugena, a young girl betrothed from childhood to Count Vok of Waldstein. This betrothal is brought about by Bishop Brancaccio, in whom the corruption of the church of the time is exposed at its lowest depths. By lying and forgery he represents the marriage as the will of the girl’s father, whom he has murdered. The two reformers, Hus and Jerome, both play a part in the girl’s later history.
“The novel certainly deserves recognition, if only for the fact that it is perhaps the only work of fiction dealing with the period of John Hus. It has the romantic fascination of the past, and the English reader will find a familiar atmosphere in the book, owing to the excellent translation which has preserved the peculiarities of the epoch through a masterly use of old English and of the traditional methods of Scott and Reade. The author has been true to historical facts.”
+ Nation 104:686 Je 7 ‘17 170w
“‘The torchbearers of Bohemia’ differs from the novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz only by greater condensation, a kinship that may be a distinction, but which fails to satisfy those whom modern Russian literature has trained to expect less of a surface treatment. ... Considered solely as a conventional historical novel, the book is vivid enough.”
+ New Repub 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 170w
N Y Br Lib News 4:87 Je ‘17
“The author has made the theme of this book a round denunciation of everything German in the great days of Hus. ... Miss (or Mme) Kryshanovskaya has done a tremendous amount of historical reading for the artistic and historical touches that lend an air of verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.” W. M. F.
— N Y Call p14 Jl 22 ‘17 300w
“In the light of the present situation in Russia, it is peculiarly interesting to note the fire and sympathy with which the struggle for national and religious liberty in Bohemia is depicted by a Russian writer. The splendid personality of John Hus dominates the volume, and gives us an illuminating portrait of that great martyr.”
+ N Y Times 22:102 Mr 25 ‘17 380w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p526 N 2 ‘16 40w
KUELLER, JO VAN AMMERS. Young lion of Flanders; a tale of the terror of war; tr. by C. Thieme. il $1.50 Stokes (Eng ed 17-10166)
“The book tells what happened to a peaceful, well-to-do Belgian family, one of the daughters of which had married a German. The principal character, the ‘Young lion of Flanders’ himself, is sixteen-year-old Léon Casimir. An expert motor cyclist, he becomes a dispatch rider in the Belgian army, and distinguishes himself at Marbeke, winning the approbation of the hero-king, Albert of Belgium. He has more than one narrow escape from death, and is very nearly shot with a number of other prisoners.”—N Y Times
“It is told as much by suggestion as by direct description. For appalling as is its revelation of German ‘frightfulness’ and perfidy, it is remarkably restrained.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 12 ‘17 440w
“It is not exclusively juvenile readers who will be held by this stirring story, of which the translation is exceptionally fluent and satisfactory.”
+ Cath World 106:548 Ja ‘18 310w
“Léon’s adventures will thrill young readers, but the sad and bitter tone of the book puts it into the adult class.”
+ Cleveland p3 Ja ‘18 70w
“The story, the author tells us, was written that her own children might learn thru reading it the horror and futility of war. It seems more probable that the prowess of the boy Leon, and his thrilling adventures would appeal to the heart of youth as glorious.”
— Ind 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w
“It is all quite dreadful enough—unbelievably dreadful, we would have thought it a few years ago. But in the light of our present knowledge 322we are inclined to feel that in his evident effort not to overstate the author has rather understated his case.”
+ — N Y Times 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 400w
“The four pictures by Raemaekers with which it is illustrated are even more illuminating than the text.”
+ Spec 117:660 N 25 ‘16 30w
KUENZLI, FREDERICK ARNOLD. Right and duty; or, Citizen and soldier; Switzerland prepared and at peace a model for the United States. il $1 (2c) National defense inst., Tribune bldg., N.Y.; for sale by Stechert 355.7 16-25197
The author, a native of Switzerland now living in the United States and acting as assistant appraiser at the port of New York, describes the Swiss system of military training and urges its adoption in America. The text of the military constitution of the Swiss federation is given at the close of the book. There is neither table of contents nor index.
A L A Bkl 13:377 Je ‘17
Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 250w
Cleveland p103 S ‘17 10w
“The preparedness discussion has brought out a number of articles and books expository of the Swiss military system, but this interesting volume is perhaps the most comprehensive and most illuminating of them all.”
+ N Y Times 22:34 F 4 ‘17 350w
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Mr 22 ‘17 400w
K’UNG YUAN KU’SUH. Judgment of the Orient. *60c (6c) Dutton 940.91 17-10431
“Some reflections on the great war made by a Chinese student and traveller, edited and rendered into colloquial English by Ambrose Pratt.” (Title-page) Brief observations as to the characteristics of the different peoples of Europe as they impressed him in his travels, are followed by the author’s discussion of the sex of nations. A nation, like a human being, has a soul, and the soul of the nation like that of the human being has sex. Germany has a female soul. He says, “The psychological genesis of the war between Germany and Europe is sexual. It is a war between the femininity of Germany and the masculinity of her neighbors—especially the masculinity of England.”
“Here is food for thought for the wisest.”
Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 130w
“The opinions recorded have a rapier-like penetration and cannot fail to be a source of satisfaction to those who have the cause of the Allies at heart.”
+ Dial 62:153 F 22 ‘17 180w
“It is certainly an ungallant theory as regards woman. ... It is nevertheless an exceedingly curious and interesting speculation, and from the Chinese point of view, certainly does not lack arguments to support it.” J. W.
N Y Call p15 Ap 8 ‘17 580w
N Y Times 22:28 Ja 28 ‘17 480w
“If, in the flood of foolish writing about the war, more nonsense has anywhere else been packed within the narrow limits of seventy-two small pages, it has not been the reviewer’s ill fortune to see the work.” H. R. M.
— Survey 38:174 My 19 ‘17 180w
KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK. Rings for the finger. il *$6.50 (6½c) Lippincott 391 17-7933
Dr Kunz, author of “The curious lore of precious stones,” has prepared another valuable book drawing on his wide knowledge of jewels and ornaments. In this book he has treated of “Rings for the finger, from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.” (Title-page) The titles of the chapters are: The origin, purposes and methods of ring wearing; Forms of rings and materials of which they are made; Signet rings; Some interesting rings of history; Betrothal (engagement) rings, wedding (nuptial) rings, and love tokens; The religious use of rings; Magic and talismanic rings; Rings of healing; Ring making. There are 290 illustrations, some in color.
+ Cath World 105:125 Ap ‘17 100w
+ Dial 62:152 F 22 ‘17 120w
“In his registry of pretty ‘posies’ he revives delightfully a bit of seventeenth century sentimentality.”
+ Ind 90:37 Ap 2 ‘17 50w
“No review could indicate all the information in this exhaustive study of rings.”
+ Lit D 55:36 S 22 ‘17 250w
“The illustrations to the book are, from the point of view of reproduction, of exceptionally high quality, but they appear to have been selected a little at random.”
+ — Nature 99:522 Ag 30 ‘17 950w
“Will have permanent value as a reference book.”
+ N Y Times 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 500w
“Contains bibliographical foot-notes.”
Pittsburgh 22:215 Mr ‘17 3w
“A veritable encyclopedia of fascinating lore. Reproductions of paintings of persons wearing rings are included in the 220 illustrations in color, double-tone, and line.”
+ R of Rs 56:332 S ‘17 150w
“The student and the collector will find the clear and well-arranged plates of great value, while other readers will look with interest at the reproductions of portraits showing the rings as they were actually worn by their owners.”
+ Spec 119:sup469 N 3 ‘17 1300w
“Dr Kunz has the vantage point of the Metropolitan museum of New York, with which he is connected, as an initial source for his studies and his rank as an authority on this and kindred subjects is now established.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 10 ‘17 250w
“Dr Kunz has drawn on the most diverse sources for his materials, and has brought together an extraordinary amount of curious learning. He has not, however, the gift of lucid order. ... If the reader tries to find a connected answer to any question that suggests itself, such as the development of the ring forms, he finds himself baffled by wealth of matter and insufficient method.”
+ – The Times [London] Lit Sup p294 Je 21 ‘17 1050w
KUPRIN, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH. Bracelet of garnets, and other stories; with an introd. by W: Lyon Phelps. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-13619
In his selection of stories for this volume, Leo Pasvolsky has had the advice of the author. In a letter from Mr Kuprin, eight of the stories here translated were named as among those he considered “most successful.” “There is wholeness about Kuprin as a writer, which breathes of the strength and power of Russia herself,” writes Mr Pasvolsky. This quality, he says, is brought out best in the longer stories, of which “The bracelet of garnets,” is one. Another side of Kuprin’s art is shown in the very short story, also represented in the volume. In addition to the title story the book contains: The horse-thieves; The Jewess; Anathema; The Læstrygonians; An insult; The park of kings; An evening guest; A legend; Demir-Kayá; The garden of the Holy Virgin. The translator is editor of the Russian Review.
Cleveland p104 S ‘17 70w
“The book as a whole, however, while no less searching in its psychology and no less unsparing in its truth, than ‘The party’ and ‘The eternal husband,’ has an atmosphere of normality and restraint which make a stronger appeal to Anglo-Saxon minds.”
+ — Ind 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 170w
“This cheerful note rings through all Kuprin’s works, and places him quite apart from his pessimistic contemporaries—Andreyev, Sologub, 323and Artsibashev. But he falls far behind them as an artist; he lacks their intensity and reserve. The excellent translation of Mr Pasvolsky does not redeem the platitudinousness of the allegories placed in the end of the book.”
+ — Nation 105:374 O 4 ‘17 350w
“Brilliant little studies in character or atmosphere, some compressed into half a dozen pages.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Je 7 ‘17 370w
“Two volumes of collections of the short tales of one of the most eminent of living Russian novelists, Alexander Kuprin, have recently been translated, ‘A Slav soul’ and ‘The bracelet of garnets.’ Scarcely any duplication appears, although the biting satire, ‘Anathema,’ is seen in each volume. ‘The garden of the Holy Virgin,’ is a noble illustration of the poetic beauty of Kuprin’s style, when he deals with an exalted theme.” W: L. Phelps
+ Yale R n s 7:189 O ‘17 140w
KUSER, JOHN DRYDEN. Way to study birds. il *$1.25 Putnam 598.2 17-15688
A small book for beginners in bird study, meant to serve as a guide to the identification of the more common species. It is adapted to the vicinity of New York city. Part 1, Prerequisites, has chapters on: Method of study; Twelve abundant permanent residents; Note-keeping; How to use a key and learn five songs. Part 2 is devoted to the birds of summer, with chapters on: The fifteen most abundant summer residents; The fifteen next in abundance; Nests. Part 3 consists of two chapters on fall and spring bird study; Transients, and Migration data. Part 4 is devoted to winter, with chapters on Winter residents and Winter feeding. Part 5 gives supplementary data, including a bibliography. There are nine colored plates.
“Directions for keeping notes, recording migrations, and learning bird songs, a partial list of books and a note on preservation and propagation of our native birds widen the usefulness of this valuable ornithological primer.”
+ Dial 63:352 O 11 ‘17 130w
“Despite the ever-increasing number of books designed to teach the beginner how to study birds, it is doubtful whether, after all, the short cuts are not, in the end, long cuts. The way is made easy—and unprofitable. This is in large measure true of ‘The way to study birds.’ With its nine plates, the book is, of course, no substitute for the amply illustrated manuals by Chester Reed and others.”
— Nation 105:130 Ag 2 ‘17 140w
“A bird book of convenient pocket size and of sufficient comprehensiveness to be of actual use.”
+ R of Rs 56:220 Ag ‘17 140w
“Arranged especially for the students of New York city and immediate neighborhood, but serves equally well for the southern New England states.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Je 3 ‘17 200w
KYNE, PETER BERNARD. Webster—man’s man. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-25126
The hero of this romantic tale is a mining engineer, and the heroine, whom he first meets on a western railroad train, is the daughter of the former president of the Central American republic. The story is brim full of action, most of which takes place in the volcanic little republic, which is on the brink of a revolution.
“An extravagant yarn, lively and entertaining.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:97 D ‘17
+ Outlook 117:432 N 14 ‘17 20w
“‘Webster—man’s man,’ by Peter B. Kyne, belongs to the familiar and ever popular type of the soldier-of-fortune novel, with all the inevitable stage properties and situations in which the late Richard Harding Davis delighted. The surprising thing about the book is that in spite of this there is a freshness and a certain spontaneous sincerity that makes one forget the triteness of its theme. ... Its people are alive, individual, and intensely appealing.” Philip Tillinghast
+ — Pub W 92:807 S 15 ‘17 500w
“A rollicking story of love and adventure which, even in its most thrilling moments, preserves the humorous, devil-may-care atmosphere that characterizes it from the outset.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 11 ‘17 200w
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LAGERLÖF, SELMA OTTILIANA LOVISA. Queens of Kungahälla, and other sketches; tr. by C. Field. *5s T. Werner Laurie, London
“‘The queens of Kungahälla’ is a cycle of episodes, woven together in a manner highly characteristic of Miss Lagerlöf; the English translation before us supplements it with six short tales which are quite independent. ... The most complete and characteristic is ‘Saint Catherine of Siena.’ ... ‘Old Agneta’ is a mysterious dream of lost souls, tortured with frost on a Norwegian glacier, whose sufferings are mitigated by the efforts of a solitary woman. ‘The fisherman’s ring’ is woven around a description of an Adriatic storm breaking over Venice. ‘The bird’s nest’ alone among these stories is mildly humorous; it describes how a pair of wagtails built a nest and hatched their young in the hand of a hermit who had made a vow not to shift his position. ‘God’s peace,’ which is a sort of appendix to the novel of ‘Jerusalem,’ recounts a terrific incident in the life and death of Ingmar Ingmarson.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“An enchanting revel of fancy.”
+ Cleveland p132 D ‘17 30w
“Kungahälla is a locality unknown to the guide-books and, we think, to the historians. ... But Miss Lagerlöf gives her fiction such an air of reality that we hesitate to say that this city is wholly fabulous. ... The English reader of ‘The queens of Kungahälla’ will find himself constantly reminded of William Morris’s late prose romances. ... This arises from a similarity in the approach of both authors to the medieval civic life which attracted each of them. ... Miss Lagerlöf has greater vigour of narrative than her English precursor; she leads us more vividly on a more intoxicating revel of fancy, but her essential attitude to the middle ages is the same. She sees the scenes in pure and brilliant colour, like the miniatures in a Book of hours. ... Mr C. Field is often adequate and sometimes excellent, although his text would bear further revision.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p127 Mr 15 ‘17 1000w
LAJPAT RAYA.[2] England’s debt to India; a historical narrative of Britain’s fiscal policy in India. *$2 Huebsch 330.954
A companion volume to the author’s “Young India” which reviewed British rule in India from the political standpoint. The present discussion is from the economic point of view, and is supported by the best British testimony, official and non-official. The chapter headings indicate the scope of the work: A historical retrospect; India and the British industrial revolution; “Tribute” or “drain”; How India has helped England make her empire; The cotton industry of India; Shipbuilding, shipping, and minor occupations; Miscellaneous industrial, agricultural, and mining operations; Agriculture; Economic conditions of the people; Famines and their causes; Railways and irrigation; Education and literacy; Certain fallacies about the “prosperity of India” examined; Taxes and expenditure; Summary and conclusion.
“But, even granting all of the author’s statements and argument, passing over his unwillingness to recognize and give just appraisal to all that England has done for India, the fact 324remains that understanding of the great issues just now at stake and of loyalty to that civilization in which the future welfare of India as well as of the rest of the world is bound ought to have led Lajpat Raya to wait for the presentation of his plea until the greater issues, comprehensive of India’s own, are settled.”
— N Y Times 23:51 F 10 ‘18 600w
“This author’s manner is as eloquent as his matter is interesting. Readers may not agree with all his conclusions, but they will, we are sure, appreciate the wealth of information given concerning the economic conditions in India.”
+ Outlook 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 120w
LANCHESTER, FREDERIC WILLIAM. Flying-machine from an engineering standpoint. diags *$3 (9c) Van Nostrand 629.1 (Eng ed 17-13807)
This book contains the James Forrest lecture which the author delivered before the Institution of civil engineers three months before the outbreak of war. It has been reprinted in more permanent form in answer to the many requests for copies. The author says, “Since the outbreak of war, from considerations of national secrecy, very little, indeed, of a technical character has been added to the stock of public information, and thus the position existing immediately prior to the war has become a matter of more permanent interest than the author anticipated at the time his lecture was prepared.” He has also added “A discussion concerning the theory of sustentation and expenditure of power in flight,” a paper presented at a meeting of the International engineering congress in San Francisco in 1915.
Nature 99:241 My 24 ‘17 1000w
“For a lengthy review see Engineering, April 6, 1917. Also reviewed in Automobile Engineer, Jan., 1917; Mechanical Engineer, Jan. 19, 1917.”
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p3 Ap ‘17 110w
“An excellent, accurate and interesting lecture on the flying-machine for those familiar with the subject.” E. W. B.
+ St Louis 15:330 S ‘17 30w
LANE, ANNA EICHBERG KING (MRS JOHN LANE). War phases according to Maria. il *$1 (4c) Lane 17-6332
Two of these war phases are reprinted from “Maria again.” They are included here to make complete the record of Maria’s most noteworthy activities between 1914 and 1916. The subjects of the new sketches are: Zeppelin dangers; Maria’s political opinions; Maria on submarines; On the new equality; Cardboard friendship; War hens; Margarine and society; War notice. The book is cleverly illustrated by A. H. Fish.
“We do not find Maria more than moderately amusing.”
+ — Ath p596 D ‘16 30w
“Maria on the subject of everything under heaven from war hens to submarines is a genuine comedy character.”
+ Dial 62:148 F 22 ‘17 130w
+ N Y Times 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 300w
“A book not to be missed in these times.”
+ Sat R 123:42 Ja 13 ‘17 350w
“Mrs Lane’s gifted satirical pen might more profitably be turned to other phases of society than those connected with Maria’s personality.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 29 ‘17 450w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p574 N 30 ‘16 80w
LANE, ROSE WILDER. Henry Ford’s own story. il *$1 E. O. Jones, Forest Hills, N.Y.; for sale by Baker 17-2686
“The American public, says the writer of this book, has made a hero of the big business man. But Henry Ford, she adds, is not a big business man; he is a big man in business. She tells, in this book, the very simple and very interesting story of Henry Ford’s life, ‘how a farmer boy rose to the power that goes with many millions, yet never lost touch with humanity.’ ... Her record stops shortly after the outbreak of war; it does not include the peace party. But it tells in a good deal of detail about his wage scale and other experiments with his men.”—N Y Times
A L A Bkl 13:400 Je ‘17
“A very human book. If it were just plain fiction it could not interest one more. ... To read it is to get a new realization of what work means, what persistence will do, on what efficiency must build, and of the tremendous power in unselfish will.”
+ Lit D 55:45 Ag 4 ‘17 210w
“The platitudinousness and naïveté, the well meaning but sophomoric approach to a problem that are revealed in Mr Ford’s utterances on all subjects not relating to engineering are almost incredible. Such intellectual infantilism would be impossible any grown man in any other civilized country—as would Miss Lane’s ecstatic admiration of it. But the story of Henry Ford does not end there. Against his contempt for the amenities of life and the finer cultural satisfactions may be set his hatred of poverty and wretchedness. In that balance, who can say that the admiration of Miss Lane is misplaced?”
New Repub 10:384 Ap 28 ‘17 370w
“A most unusual piece of biography and exceedingly well written.” J. W.
+ N Y Call p15 Ap 15 ‘17 400w
+ N Y Times 22:119 Ap 1 ‘17 180w
Pittsburgh 22:404 My ‘17
+ R of Rs 55:442 Ap ‘17 90w
“Some day, as has been said, Mr Ford will have a real biography; before that time comes there will be plenty of studies, personal, economic, sociological. Miss Lane’s account is purely popular, colorful, newsy, and it portrays the man.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 13 ‘17 650w
“If sympathy with one’s subject is the sine qua non of biographers this should be the perfect biography. Miss Lane’s enthusiasm for her subject colors the entire book and surrounds him with a halo of glory.” Henrietta Walters
+ Survey 38:372 Jl 28 ‘17 120w
“Written in extremely popular and simple style, it is specially adapted to the uneducated or young reader.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:125 Ap ‘17 50w
LANGE, DIETRICH. Lure of the Mississippi. il *$1.25 (2½c) Lothrop 17-28332
During the period of the Civil war, Minnesota was the scene of several Indian uprisings, the Sioux seeing in the preoccupation of the white man with a war of his own, an opportunity to regain their lands. One of these outbreaks is described by Mr Lange in this story for boys. The young heroes are two southern boys who have come north with an uncle. Driven out by the Indians, they try to rejoin their parents in Vicksburg, traveling down the river with an old trapper and a friendly red man. Vicksburg is under siege and the boys find that they have exchanged one kind of danger for another. But in time they find their parents and the entire party makes a safe return journey to what is to be their permanent home on the northern prairies.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
Bookm 46:496 D ‘17 30w
“Yet the story is not unduly melodramatic, but abounds in good pictures of life on the great river.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 D 16 ‘17 140w
LANGENHOVE, FERNAND VAN. Growth of a legend. *$1.25 (2c) Putnam 940.91 16-25175
The “legend” of the title refers to the stories without foundation that are common in all countries in time of war. The author has examined some of these legends which have been current in Germany. He calls his book “a study based upon the German accounts of francs-tireurs and ‘atrocities’ in Belgium.” The 325work has been translated by E. B. Sherlock, and is published with a preface by J. Mark Baldwin.
+ Ath p259 My ‘17 180w
+ Cleveland p45 Mr ‘17 100w
+ Ind 90:382 My 26 ‘17 60w
“Written to defend Belgium against unjust accusations, the book also gives the human background of many so-called German ‘atrocities’ which otherwise would seem inexplicable.”
+ New Repub 9:251 D 30 ‘16 350w
N Y Br Lib News 4:7 Ja ‘17
“M. van Langenhove writes with restraint and painstaking care of the sociological investigator. His book is marked by its absence of invective, of excited denial. ... The book is one of the valuable contributions to the library of war documents.”
+ N Y Times 22:3 Ja 7 ‘17 300w
St Louis 15:166 Je ‘17
“A dispassionate work, compiled in the impartial spirit of scientific research. Rhetorical expressions of indignation are hardly to be found in its pages, though they abound in Mr Baldwin’s preface.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p134 Mr 22 ‘17 900w
LANSBURY, GEORGE. Your part in poverty. *$1 (4½c) Huebsch 331 17-26891
George Lansbury is a member of the Church of England, the Church socialist league and the Independent labor party, has been for thirty years in active political life, and has served on the London county council and the Royal commission on the poor law. He writes this “appeal to men and women of the comfortable classes,” not from the point of view of an economist or a philanthropist but from that of an “ordinary person,” to make clear to them “what Labor asks and what, in his judgment, on Christian principles, Labor ought to have.” Mr Lansbury believes that land values should be taxed, that the wages and profit system should be abolished, that we must substitute cooperation for competition, and that the workers must “join together in great industrial unions or guilds, representative of particular industries.” After an introductory chapter, the subject is dealt with under five headings: Workmen; Women and children; Business; Churches; What we must do. There is a preface by the Bishop of Winchester.
A L A Bkl 14:76 D ‘17
“Specifically, we are exhorted to join the more advanced section of the working class movement, the section which aims at the complete control of the great industries by the workers in each industry. ... The difficulties which would confront such a system are lightly brushed aside by the author in a spirit of simple faith.”
— Cath World 106:256 N ‘17 350w
“There is broad charity in Mr Lansbury’s criticism of those who possess and an earnest appeal to the innate love of man for man. Even in his chapter on business, a sermon on the text, ‘business is business,’ he offers sympathy for the overwrought business man.”
+ Ind 92:536 D 15 ‘17 320w
“No one who wishes to understand the labor movement in England can afford to miss this book; few who read it can fail to be captivated by its charm. It is not a program; it is not a treatise. It is simply the expression of an attitude to life which is growing rapidly in importance in every section of the English working classes.” H. J. L.
+ New Repub 13:25 N 3 ‘17 1800w
“Mr Lansbury’s indictment of society, the church, and the state is confused, and his suggested remedies are very vaguely indicated. But we are impressed by the sincerity of his wondering indignation, and we feel that the book, at any rate, reflects the doubts and fears of many intelligent workmen.”
– + Spec 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w
“He seldom lets his feeling get the better of him. Consequently nearly all that he says has force. ... For the sake of symmetry in the argument Mr Lansbury ought perhaps to show that the ‘liberated’ working class—to use the word ‘liberate’ in the sense in which he uses it—would represent a higher standard of probity, self-restraint and disinterestedness than is exemplified by the prosperous elements in society to-day.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p6 S 11 ‘17 1150w
“Mr Lansbury has written a penetrating statement. But it is written in such a kindly way that one must wonder at his moderation. He knows the poor and their problems, and he knows where the trouble lies. But he does not attack those who are responsible.”
+ — Survey 39:297 D 8 ‘17 430w
LANUX, PIERRE DE.[2] Young France and new America. *$1.25 Macmillan 327.73 17-31439
“Reflections of a Frenchman who spent the year 1917 in America. They deal with the present events and those from the near past, but their expression is first inspired by the thought of the near future, that is to say, the period that will begin when this war ends.” (Foreword) The writer sums up what the Franco-American co-operation will mean in the years to come, how the war has opened the way to a better understanding of each other and cemented loyalties. To the Frenchman who thought of the American as a millionaire pork dealer and the American who looked upon the Frenchman as a “fussy, nervous gentleman who wore a red ribbon in his buttonhole” the experiences of the past three years have been fraught with revelation.
Boston Transcript p7 Ja 2 ‘18 680w
“I think M. de Lanux writes about us with too obvious a will to be kind. What he says of America’s coming influence upon French art, literary and plastic, may be true or may be mistaken, but certainly, to my taste, it is written by too glad a hand. Other parts of his book, however, are wholly free from this taint.” P. L.
+ — New Repub 13:350 Ja 19 ‘18 1430w
“The author’s notably keen and understanding observations and conclusions in the United States show him to be a trustworthy student of life. Without doubt, M. de Lanux’s book will receive the attention and the interest it deserves. The people of this country are ready for its message and they will welcome both its spirit and its practical suggestions.”
+ N Y Times 22:540 D 9 ‘17 780w
R of Rs 57:215 F ‘18 110w
“Told with an amplitude of apt quotation and with a charm which makes this contribution to the literature of foreign relationships a real source of inspiration.” B. L.
+ Survey 39:526 F 9 ‘18 200w
LARNER, RING W. Gullible’s travels, etc. il *$1.25 (3c) Bobbs 17-5401
Perhaps the narrator in these five tales is the original Tired Business Man. His account of “Carmen” would seem to entitle him to that distinction. His second experience of opera is described in the next sketch, and in the third, from which the book takes its title, he relates experiences at Palm Beach. The two stories that follow are in like vein. First copyrighted by the Curtis publishing company.
N Y Times 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 250w
“Amusing but excessively slangy short stories.”
Outlook 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 6w
“Underneath the funny narratives of narrow views and man-handled English, there is a layer of shrewd common sense that punctures the provincialism of the snug middle class and the humbug of our so-called exclusive society. ... A broadly farcical volume.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 Mr 4 ‘17 150w
326LASKI, HAROLD J. Studies in the problem of sovereignty. *$2.50 Yale univ. press 320.1 17-8598
“The problem of sovereignty which Mr Laski discusses is whether the seat of authority in society is single or manifold. In other words, whether a sound political theory is monist or pluralist. He argues in favor of the pluralist view, and maintains that a society is a ‘person’ in reality, not merely by a legal fiction; for the law merely recognizes and regularizes a preëxistent fact. He supports this argument by an appeal to the evidence supplied by three ecclesiastical and religious movements in the nineteenth century in Great Britain—the Scottish disruption, the Oxford movement, and the Catholic revival—and by the careers of Le Maistre and Bismarck on the Continent.”—New Repub
“It is an example of painstaking and rather brilliant historical writing, and may justly be classed, both as regards the subject-matter with which it deals and its scholarly method of treatment, with the studies of Mr J. N. Figgis, and particularly his ‘From Gerson to Grotius’ and his ‘Churches in the modern state.’ ... When Dr Laski leaves the field of history and enters upon a discussion of the nature of sovereignty he is less happy, and critics who will attribute to him an imperfect understanding of the real character of sovereignty are not likely to be wanting.” J. W. Garner
+ Am Hist R 22:844 Jl ‘17 2200w
A L A Bkl 14:6 O ‘17
“An important contribution to the literature of that brilliant school of political writers who are forging for us a new and more satisfactory theory of the nature of the state. It should be read especially in connection with Maitland’s classic introduction to Gierke’s ‘Political theories of the middle ages,’ and Figgis’s ‘Churches in the modern state.’ ... Not only does [Mr Laski’s doctrine] mean an abandonment, or at least a serious impairment of the theory of the sovereignty of the state, but it involves the revival of the eighteenth century doctrine of natural rights, now, however, attached to group-units instead of to individuals. Whether in every particular these ideas will withstand the effect of criticism, there is no doubt that they offer in some respects a much better explanation of contemporaneous political tendencies and movements than the Hegelian theory that the state is an all-inclusive metaphysical organism, which governs the practical politics of modern Germany.” W. J. Shepard
+ Am Pol Sci R 11:582 Ag ‘17 550w
“Throughout, the style is as incisive and clear as the temper is judicial, and everywhere sympathy is combined with a rare detachment.” C. H. McIlwain
+ Dial 62:436 My 17 ‘17 2700w
“The book is marked by a certain agreeable scholarship. This scholarship in respect to concrete historical happenings, is however, set in a philosophical frame which is most unbecoming and which must in all frankness be ascribed to the author’s very superficial knowledge of political theory and to his failure to understand or to appreciate some of the most fundamental distinctions of political science. Even if Mr Laski’s assumptions were not of this superficial character, his practical teaching would destroy itself thru its very absurdity.” N. M. B.
– + Educ R 54:513 D ‘17 1050w
“Mr Laski has done his part both in making clear his own tentative ideas and in presenting the historical data upon which they are based. This book, moreover, is not to be his last word on the subject.”
+ Nation 105:671 D 13 ‘17 280w
“Possibly he assumes at times too great a knowledge of the facts for American readers, and writes in an unduly allusive style, but to the mind of any one who comes from Oxford and has lived in its atmosphere, so permeated with the tradition of the Oxford movement and Catholic revival, the story seems excellently and sympathetically interpreted, for Oxford, though it gives an artificial mannerism which soon dies, gives also a real inspiration, which quickens as well as lives; and Mr Laski belongs, I think, to those whom Oxford has taught to see life whole, as well as to study it in detail.” K. L.
+ New Repub 11:25 My 5 ‘17 1650w
“The London Times, with visions of conscientious objectors rampant, finds much in the book that is ‘disreputable and even dangerous,’ and one cannot forbear to suggest that the Times is more agitated about the alleged disrepute of Mr Laski’s theories than their danger. But after the indispensable ‘word of warning’ has been meted out, one cannot fail to appreciate that the truth of Mr Laski’s reasoning overtops the danger.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 29 ‘17 820w
“Mr Laski is an Englishman, but he bears a historic Polish name. He should study, from the point of view of that pragmatism to which he makes frequent appeal, the effects of the liberum veto in the old Polish constitution. It still has its defenders as the last word in the assertion of the moral liberty of the citizen. ... Though there is much in this volume which we consider disputable and even dangerous, there is also much that is sound and illuminating; and though his presentation of his subject is too often involved and obscure, it rarely fails to stimulate thought.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p231 My 17 ‘17 2250w
“He has given us a scholarly and invigorating historical review of the significant events and theories which he selects as background for his discussion. He has also given timely warning to us, as citizens, of the dangers of an implicit acceptance of a certain grim Hegelianism which has swept us unprotestingly on into the vortex of a great All which is more than ourselves.’” C: Seymour
+ Yale R n s 7:443 Ja ‘18 1250w
LATOURETTE, KENNETH SCOTT. Development of China. *$1.75 (3½c) Houghton 951 17-8745
“Mighty changes are taking place in China. It is undergoing a transformation whose results no man can foresee. ... It is certain, however, that the outcome will profoundly affect the entire world. ... If Americans are not to blunder, if they are to make to the new China the unselfish contributions of which they are capable, if they are not to stumble into unnecessary conflict with Japan, if they are to share to the utmost in the trade and the industrial development of the new China, they must know her and must know her better than they do now.” (Introd.) The author, formerly of the College of Yale in China, has written this book for college students and for the general public. His aim has been to present in the light of modern scholarship a sketch of the essential facts of Chinese history and development and of the historical setting for its present-day problems.
“The characteristic feature of this book is successful condensation. ... The book is well written, well printed, and should prove very valuable for the purpose for which it is intended. It brings together within brief compass a variety of essential information which will greatly facilitate the work of classes in oriental history and contemporary politics. In producing this work Professor Latourette has rendered a distinct service both to student and to teacher.” S. K. Hornbeck
+ Am Hist R 22:857 Jl ‘17 670w
“Bibliography (7p.) with useful descriptive notes.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:444 Jl ‘17
“Will serve as a valuable textbook to the student of Chinese history. It should meet with even greater favor from that class of general readers who, without the drudgery of technicality and details, desire an unconventional introduction to the civilization of the Far East.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 My 19 ‘17 250w
Cath World 105:400 Je ‘17 150w
“Perhaps a dozen brief histories of China are available in English. Some of them are hastily written and untrustworthy. Some are prejudiced. Some are overloaded with dynastic details. ... There is, therefore, a place for 327Mr Latourette’s ‘Development of China,’ which is carefully written, fair, and free from excessive technicalities.” F: A. Ogg
+ Dial 62:524 Je 14 ‘17 1050w
“Mr Latourette is the first writer of a serious work who has accurately set forth the character of the late Yuan Shi Kai. He has furnished also a readable statement of the progress of events since 1894. ... Those interested at all in the Far East will find the volume worth reading and rereading.”
+ Lit D 55:36 Jl 14 ‘17 170w
“It furnishes a splendid background to just such a study as Professor Hornbeck’s. While lacking the vitality and the temperamental felicity of such life-long writers on China and her history as Giles, for instance, and Little and Martin, Mr Latourette does nevertheless cover the ground that these more rugged writers have covered before him; and he covers it with a precision and a scholarship that perfectly adapt his book to the college classrooms for which he has designed it. ... He further adds to the value of the book as a basis for instruction by a voluminous index and an extremely serviceable and well-chosen bibliography.”
+ Nation 104:681 Je 7 ‘17 330w
“An introductory sketch like Mr Latourette’s, notable for the scholarly absence of inflation of facts, for its sense of proportion, and for the understanding it gives of the larger features of China’s development and of the historical setting of present-day problems, meets a real need.”
+ N Y Times 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 500w
“He is fair to the Japanese, fair to the British about the so-called opium war, fair to the missionaries and entirely appreciative of all that is best in China’s glorious past. By far the best part of his book is that which deals with present-day problems.” I. C. Hannah
+ Survey 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 170w
LAUCK, WILLIAM JETT, and SYDENSTRICKER, EDGAR. Conditions of labor in American industries. *$1.75 Funk 331.8 17-13561
“The present volume is designed to meet a practical need for a compact collection of the results of the large number of investigations and studies of conditions under which the American wage-earner and his family work and live. It is presented merely as a summarization of the principal and fundamental facts that have been ascertained during the past decade and a half; it is not intended to be a critical discussion of those facts, or to be an argument in favor of or against any partizan conclusion, or any remedial program.” (Preface) These summaries are presented in nine chapters; The labor force; Wages and earnings; Loss in working time; Conditions causing irregular employment; Working conditions; The wage-earner’s family; Living conditions; The wage-earner’s health; The adequacy of wages and earnings. Mr Lauck is author with J. W. Jenks of a standard work on immigration. Mr Sydenstricker wrote one of the reports for the Commission on industrial relations.
“The statistical data presented—most of which was gathered for the United States Commission on industrial relations—are quite extensive. ... There is very little new material in the book. Its purpose, on the contrary, was to make easily available existing material, and this the authors have done in a painstaking manner. Particularly valuable are the discussions of unemployment, its causes and effects: family income; and the health of the worker. The chapter on working conditions is less satisfactory. It is unfortunate that so little attention is paid to unionism and collective bargaining. Perhaps the chief weakness of the book is the tendency to dogmatize from insufficient data.” J: A. Fitch
+ — Am Econ R 7:649 S ‘17 1150w
+ A L A Bkl 14:151 F ‘18
“The book is intelligently planned, is designed to answer those questions which so frequently arise in the mind of the legislator, the teacher, the general reader, and the newspaper editor. ... While replete with statistics, it is interesting throughout. It deserves careful study and a wide circle of readers.” J. T. Young
+ Ann Am Acad 72:234 Jl ‘17 570w
Cleveland p107 S ‘17 40w
Dial 63:350 O 11 ‘17 220w
“A valuable reference book for educators, social workers, and all in any way engaged in handling employment problems.”
+ Ind 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by Nathan Fine
J Pol Econ 25:851 O ‘17 760w
“No reflective business man, no thoughtful workingman, no social worker, no trade unionist, no student of industrial problems, can study the situation here revealed without realizing how fundamental to our national life these facts must be, and how thoroughly they deserve consideration.”
+ Lit D 55:36 N 3 ‘17 430w
“To some extent the ‘American labor year book,’ published under the editorship of the present reviewer, attempted to accomplish the same purpose. The present volume is more inclusive. As a reference volume on present-day industrial conditions the book should prove valuable to those who have no opportunity to consult original sources.” Alexander Trachtenberg
+ N Y Call p14 Je 24 ‘17 430w
+ N Y Times 22:296 Ag 12 ‘17 650w
“The data are largely those relating to conditions between 1900 and 1914 or 1915, since which time many changes have taken place. These, however, are noted, and such facts as are obtainable concerning them are reviewed. The authors appear to have succeeded remarkably well in keeping up with a constantly and rapidly-moving procession of industrial events.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 5 ‘17 870w
“The book is devoted, in the main, to an examination of the income of the American wage-earner and a consideration of its sufficiency. The chapters that deal with that subject are worth reading. One may not always agree with the conclusions—based as they are on statistics that are anywhere from four to sixteen years old and some of them questionable too—but the discussions are illuminating and the figures are the only ones we have. ... The book is full of little errors of varying degrees of importance, from misspelled names to misstatements of fact. Dates get mixed, words are omitted, pages at one point are incorrectly inserted. These are minor matters. But there are other errors that are more serious.” J: A. Fitch
+ — Survey 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 600w
LAUGHLIN, CLARA ELIZABETH. Heart of Her Highness. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-25586
A romance of Flanders in the fifteenth century. The heroine is Mary of Burgundy, orphaned daughter of Charles the Bold. With her young step-mother as her only sympathetic counselor, Mary is beset with many troubles. In her childhood she had been betrothed to the young son of the emperor of Germany, but the proposed alliance had all but been forgotten, and Louis of France wished to force a marriage with his son, while her own people urged a marriage equally distasteful. Mary herself has given her heart to an unknown youth, and while it looks for a time as tho love must be sacrificed to her country’s needs, the two claims are in the end discovered to be identical.
A L A Bkl 14:132 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 46:342 N ‘17 70w
“Begins like a novel and ends like a fairy tale. There is more than one vivid passage; and if the dialogue is too conventional to be convincing, it is suggestive of those firelight stories that were always too good to be true.”
+ — N Y Times 22:373 S 30 ‘17 230w
“Miss Laughlin is to be commended for telling her story in present-day English and avoiding 328the practice of some historical romancers of attempting to reproduce archaic forms of speech.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 4 ‘17 220w
LAUGHLIN, JAMES LAURENCE. Latter-day problems. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 330.4 17-3490
The three last chapters of the first edition, dealing with money and banking, have been omitted from this revised edition. In their place the author has added five chapters on: Women and wealth; Monopoly of labor; Capitalism and social discontent; Business and democracy; Economic liberty. The omitted chapters may be included later in a volume dealing with monetary problems.
A L A Bkl 13:275 Mr ‘17
“The tone of Prof. Laughlin’s dismissal of the case for the working class makes a liberal suspect him. ... The best thing to be said for ‘Latter-day problems’ is that it makes a very creditable attempt to solve 20th century problems with 18th century formulæ.”
— Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 22 ‘17 270w
LAVIS, FRED. Railway estimates, design, quantities and costs. il *$5 McGraw 625 17-14018
“The author, a special lecturer on railway engineering at Yale university, presents in one volume all that is necessary in estimating the probable cost of a proposed railway and the design of general features, together with a complete analysis of details not hitherto available in any single publication.” (Pittsburgh) “The book is more than a development of chapter 8 of the author’s ‘Railway location, surveys and estimates.’ It is an expansion of that chapter and a setting forth of the timely subject matter in a manner that carries weight and impresses the reader with the author’s broad and practical knowledge of the subject.” (Engin News-Rec)
“It is a pleasure to note that the author, in handling chapters 3 to 11 inclusive—the principal classified cost elements—has, as is his custom, confined himself to the practical illustrative essentials and avoided wordy expansions of irrelevant features. One would have been glad to find in the text three or four chapters instead of three or four pages on the subject of electrical operation and electrification of steam roads.” M. P. Paret
+ — Engin News-Rec 79:128 Jl 19 ‘17 580w
Pittsburgh 22:662 O ‘17 50w
Pratt p23 O ‘17 50w
LAY, WILFRID. Man’s unconscious conflict; a popular exposition of psychoanalysis. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 130 17-9481
The author offers an interpretation of Freud which will be more acceptable to American readers than many that have preceded it. He has adopted a nomenclature that is more in accordance with our common usage and modes of thought, thus eliminating much of the seeming offensiveness of the Freudian theories. The treatment is popular. His purpose is “to show the unconscious operating in every act of our lives, not merely in the actions ordinarily known as unconscious or automatic, but in that part of our activity to which we attribute the most vivid consciousness.” One important chapter, on a phase little touched on heretofore, deals with the application of psychoanalysis to education. The author suggests that most if not all the faults of the present system of instruction in schools is due to ignorance of the function of the unconscious.
“Fascinating and very practical book.” L. M. Field
+ Bookm 45:417 Je ‘17 550w
“Dr Lay, for all the qualities of his argument that look like prepossessions, lays out this difficult lore with a clarity, a charm and a high moral force, that point his book with every power to instruct and improve. No science is so immediately devoted to human service as psychology, no person with his own or society’s welfare at heart can afford to neglect it, and few writers have laid bare its main principles with happier effect than Dr Lay.” B. K.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 28 ‘17 1000w
“A coherent and systematic account, in simple terms, of the fundamental principles and conceptions that are implied in the discoveries and hypotheses of Freud and his school. This is in itself no small achievement. ... It is a pity that Dr Lay still defers so much to the rather inconclusive and therapeutically as well as theoretically useless generalization of sex; that he underestimates, if he at all considers, the importance of the ‘self-regarding instinct’; and that he offers hasty prescriptions to teachers.”
+ — Dial 62:485 My 31 ‘17 230w
“It gives one a fair idea, in an easy and entertaining style, of what it is all about—and incidentally enables one to measure the depths of psychoanalytic credulity.”
+ — Nation 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 300w
N Y Br Lib News 4:93 Je ‘17 30w
Pratt p7 O ‘17 50w
“Valuable book, which should be in the hands of all parents and educators.”
+ R of Rs 55:553 My ‘17 110w
LAZARILLO DE TORMES. Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and his fortunes and adversities. *$1.50 (4c) Kennerley 17-12486
This version of the first picaresque romance is “done out of the Castilian from R. Foulché-Delbosc’s restitution of the editio princeps, by Louis How.” (Sub-title) “The “Life” was probably in existence in some form or other, perhaps for some time, before 1554, the date from which our earliest editions reach us. But the numerous English editions of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early nineteenth centuries are not widely current in these days, and they are all filtered through French translations.” (Dial) There is no plot. Lazarillo’s experiences with his many masters form a satire on society in sixteenth century Spain. After a prologue, the narrative proper is divided into seven treatises or chapters. “The first deals with the early life of Lazarillo and his peregrinations as guide of a blind beggar. In the next four he appears as the servant of a priest, an impoverished petty noble, a friar and a pardoner. In the sixth and seventh he serves a painter of tambourines, a chaplain and a constable, and finally becomes a town crier of Toledo, ... and settles down as the complacent husband of a maidservant of the archpriest of San Salvador parish. Most of the action passes in Toledo or in its immediate neighborhood.” (Introd.) The historical introduction of forty-four pages, and the notes, are by Charles Philip Wagner.
Cleveland p104 S ‘17 100w
“Mr How has attempted a literal version; he goes so far as frequently to sacrifice smooth English in his effort to keep the construction of the original. The result is occasionally a racy bit of phrasing, but too often the reader misses the craftsmanship of the anonymous author. The notes, by Mr Charles P. Wagner, will be of interest to serious students of Spanish. Some of the latter will doubtless wish to quarrel with Mr How over a few of his renderings.”
+ — Dial 63:216 S 13 ‘17 290w
+ Ind 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w
“Should serve greatly to widen the circle of readers of the tale. We think such who come to it afresh will enjoy the series of anecdotes through which Lazarillo passes with the perfect effrontery of the mediæval rogue.”
+ Nation 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 200w
LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.[2] Frenzied fiction. *$1.25 (2c) Lane 827 18-768
To “Nonsense novels,” “Further foolishness” and other humorous works, Mr Leacock now adds a work of “Frenzied fiction.” It opens with the author’s “revelations as a spy,” quite as solemnly ponderous and neither more nor 329less revelatory than many of the supposedly authentic confessions. Other pieces in the book are: Father Knickerbocker—a fantasy; The prophet in our midst; Personal adventures in the spirit world; The cave man as he is; The new education; Back from the land.
“The book is the work of a warmhearted and joyous spirit, a friendly, gentle soul that pokes good natured fun at our ridiculousness, our pretensions. He makes you like him and he makes you laugh. It is much.”
+ N Y Times 22:573 D 23 ‘17 1500w
“This is Leacock at his best, and this best is better than others of his recent books. The fun is sly and penetrating; the burlesque quality is sustained; the writing is that of a humorist, not that of a mere jokesmith.”
+ Outlook 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 40w
LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE. Enforced peace; proceedings of the first annual national assemblage. 50c (1c) League to enforce peace 172.4 17-697
A volume containing the proceedings of the first annual national assemblage of the League to enforce peace, held in Washington, May 26-27, 1916. An introductory chapter is devoted to the organization of the League. Its principles and proposals are given in an appendix. Among the papers reprinted are: The League to enforce peace and the soul of the United States, by Edward A. Filene; The League program, preparedness, and ultimate reduction of armaments, by Hamilton Holt; Constitutionality of the proposals, by William H. Taft; The Monroe doctrine, by George Grafton Wilson; The European nations and the League program, by John Bates Clark; American labor and a constructive settlement of the war, by Samuel Gompers; American agriculture and the League to enforce peace, by Carl Vrooman.