Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 27)

+ Cleveland p104 S ‘17 110w

“It is the astonishing combination of the modern and the mid-Victorian that fascinates the reader of ‘The red planet.’ A well-ordered globe is Mr Locke’s, an England rubber-tired and ball-bearing, not the dusty and irresponsible country of Mr Britling. And we are not sure that Boyce is not one of the most virile men that Locke has ever drawn.”

+ Dial 63:162 Ag 30 ‘17 270w

“A thoroly interesting story crisply and entertainingly written.”

+ Ind 91:291 Ag 25 ‘17 400w

“For all its clever and amusing detail, there is little sincerity in this book: even the great war is used merely as an off-stage convenience for the development of an essentially commonplace and artificial plot.”

– + Nation 105:124 Ag 2 ‘17 450w

“We cannot even pretend to believe in these people. They are pallid and patriotic and dull. They do not really exist.”

— New Repub 12:82 Ag 18 ‘17 400w

“Mr Locke has always shown remarkable skill in making interesting, even heroic or lovable, figures out of most unpromising material, such as that of his ‘Beloved vagabond,’ and none of that skill deserts him as he unfolds this story through the pen and personality of Major Meredyth, almost helpless paralytic though his leading character is. ... We can come into touch with the struggle only through the spirit. But his spirit flames and mounts, and in it one sees the spirit of England.”

+ N Y Times 22:245 Jl 1 ‘17 1350w

“Mr Locke is always better in character rendering than in plot, and even more so than usual in this novel.”

+ — Outlook 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 170w

Pittsburgh 22:649 O ‘17 50w

+ — Sat R 124:335 O 27 ‘17 500w

“Skilfully constructed and worked out to a dramatic close.”

+ Spec 119:330 S 29 ‘17 950w

“While presenting but a tiny corner of the war drama, he makes the reader feel the spirit and far-reaching effects of the struggle.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 29 ‘17 600w

“It may be that recollections of ‘Lord Jim,’ and perhaps of ‘The four feathers,’ make Mr Locke’s analysis of Leonard Boyce seem a little confused and shallow.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p452 S 20 ‘17 600w

LODGE, HENRY CABOT. War addresses, 1915-1917. *$2.50 (3c) Houghton 308 17-14032

A collection of addresses made between 1915 and 1917. Among them are: Mexico, a speech delivered in the Senate, January 6, 1915; Force and peace, the Chancellor’s address at Union college, June 9, 1915; France, delivered before the Franco-American Republican club of Massachusetts, September 6, 1915; National defence, delivered before the National security league at Washington, January 22, 1916; Armed merchantmen, delivered in the Senate, February 18, 1916; The failure of the Executive to vindicate American rights, delivered in the Senate, February 24, 1917; and War with Germany, delivered in the Senate, April 4, 1917.

A L A Bkl 14:7 O ‘17

“Some of these addresses are of great interest and value to students of public affairs. All of them deal with topics of present day interest and all are of sufficient merit to warrant their preservation for readers of a future generation.”

+ Am Pol Sci R 11:594 Ag ‘17 90w

“All the attributes of a sound statesmanship based upon a thorough knowledge of the past, a clear understanding of the present and a prophetic insight into the future are to be found in the volume of Henry Cabot Lodge’s ‘War addresses, 1915-1917.’” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p7 My 26 ‘17 770w

+ Ind 92:58 O 6 ‘17 120w

“Naturally, Mr Lodge’s addresses in the Senate and elsewhere, during the years 1915-16, were those of a Republican senator criticizing a Democratic administration; and some of his criticisms were very keen. Yet even then, he was often in accord with President Wilson.”

+ Lit D 55:39 O 13 ‘17 450w

“Mr Lodge’s shift from advocacy of a league of nations to opposition, coming coincidentally with Mr Wilson’s new emphasis and the raising of the question as an immediate practical issue, is the most important fact that ‘War addresses’ records. ‘War addresses’ is an exceptional book for its directness. But it leaves the impression that Mr Lodge is progressive where progressiveness matters least, and reactionary where the opportunity for liberalism is most bright.” C. M.

+ — New Repub 13:221 D 22 ‘17 1500w

“There is a kind of luminous simplicity and earnestness in the statement of plain truths and sound ideals that hardly ever fails of its effect. This kind of eloquence is possessed in no small degree by Senator Lodge. ... The more controversial parts of the political speeches, too, will delight any not too unsympathetic reader who appreciates caustic criticism, subtle sarcasm, and argumentative skill.”

+ No Am 206:136 Jl ‘17 480w

Pittsburgh 22:688 O ‘17 120w

R of Rs 56:213 Ag ‘17 80w

“The ‘War addresses’ are hardly important except as political documents—using political in the partisan sense. Of course Mr Lodge’s polished phrases give his speeches a superficial distinction which the oratory of the Senate frequently lacks. But no consistent application of principle is manifest in this collection and no fundamental policy besides the gaining of political advantage.”

— Springf’d Republican p6 O 2 ‘17 450w

LOEB, JACQUES. Organism as a whole. il *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 575 16-25201

Individual physiological processes are readily explained on a physiochemical basis, but how, from this point of view, is the fusion of individual processes into a harmonious whole to be accounted for? This is the problem to which Dr Loeb of the Rockefeller institute addresses himself in this volume. The book is based on 343his experiments in recent years and consists of chapters on: The specific difference between living and dead matter; The chemical basis of genus and species; Specificity in fertilization; Artificial parthenogenesis; Determinism in the formation of an organism from an egg; Regeneration; Determination of sex; Mendelian heredity and its mechanism; Animal instincts and tropisms; The influence of environment; Adaptation to environment; Evolution; Death and dissolution of the organism.

“Scientific and accurate in details and should be read by all individuals interested in a mechanistic philosophy of living things.”

+ Nation 104:494 Ap 26 ‘17 850w

+ Pratt p19 O ‘17 20w

“The volume is a valuable addition to the science series—a series in which so many subjects have been treated—and is one that will appeal strongly to anyone who has the rudiments of a zoological training.”

+ Springf’d Republican p12 Mr 30 ‘17 300w

“Gifted with strong scientific imagination, Professor Loeb is one of those who go on, making the most of the facts we have, imperfect though our comprehension be.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p461 S 27 ‘17 2200w

LONDON, CHARMIAN KITTREDGE (MRS JACK LONDON).^[2] Our Hawaii. il *$2.25 (2c) Macmillan 919.69 17-27941

A book that has grown out of the experiences of the Londons in the “little space of Paradise ... that is so beautiful and restful and green.” One of Mrs Jack London’s evident desires is that the journal, in addition to its descriptions of Hawaii, may reveal something of her late husband’s personality and manner of living. The journal covers a few months spent in Hawaii a decade ago and concludes with a résumé of experiences there in 1915-1916. Mrs London says, “I have tried to limn a picture of the charm of the Hawaiian Islander as he was, and of his becoming, together with the enchantment of his lofty isles and their abundant hospitality.” Maps and illustrations accompany the text.

“There are several reasons why ‘Our Hawaii’ is an exceedingly interesting book.”

+ N Y Times 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 650w

+ Outlook 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 70w

“Her desire to express the spirit of Hawaii in the written word has made her book in some places resemble the attempts of a schoolgirl intent on writing a theme full of ‘atmosphere.’ In spite of being badly written, the book derives some interest—though not much—from its exuberant impressions and also from the biographical facts revealed about the author’s husband.”

– + Springf’d Republican p13 D 30 ‘17 200w

LONDON, JACK. Human drift. il *$1.25 Macmillan 818 17-6354

A collection of miscellaneous papers and sketches reprinted from various magazines. The human drift is an essay on the movements and migrations of peoples in their search for food, and the rise and fall of races. Following this come four sketches drawn from Jack London’s own experiences on land and sea. The introduction written for “Two years before the mast” is reprinted, and the book closes with two short plays.

A L A Bkl 13:440 Jl ‘17

+ Dial 62:404 My 3 ‘17 430w

Ind 90:474 Je 9 ‘17 70w

+ Nation 104:583 My 10 ‘17 350w

“London has not attempted much in the dramatic field. A reading of the two sketches included in this volume is enough to show that, with all his power of dramatic description and narration, the dramatic form itself is beyond him.” D: P. Berenberg

N Y Call p15 Je 24 ‘17 430w

“Lovers of Mr London’s work will probably find him at his best and most individual self in the essay on ‘Small boat sailing,’ which will be a very enjoyable bit of writing for all devotees of that sport.”

N Y Times 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 300w

St Louis 15:151 My ‘17

“London voices no new thought in his philosophical sketch, ‘The human drift,’ but he does present old ideas in a new and vivid garb.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p19 D 2 ‘17 740w

LONDON, JACK. Jerry of the Islands. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-12393

Jerry is an Irish terrier, a dog of many adventures. Born on one of the Solomon Islands, he early comes to know as master the man called Skipper. Skipper to Jerry is a god. To others he is captain of a boat engaged in “nigger-running,” the trade by means of which labor is supplied for the South Sea plantations. The calling is a dangerous one, and when Skipper meets his fate, Jerry falls into the hands of a head-hunting chief and a cannibal village becomes his home. Chance saves him from the cooking-pot and he escapes into the wilds. But unlike another dog hero, Jerry does not revert to the primitive. The yacht Ariel comes to his rescue, and in Harley and Villa Kennan Jerry finds two gods worthy of a dog’s worship.

A L A Bkl 14:60 N ‘17

“As a protracted dog yarn, the story is quite pleasant reading.”

+ Ath p471 S ‘17 80w

“Jerry and his tale are more plainly fiction than that great dog story, ‘The call of the wild’; but what a story-teller this man was!” H. W. Boynton

Bookm 45:536 Jl ‘17 430w

“His knowledge of and sympathy with his subject is unbounded, and his imagination plays with all its customary vigor and variety over a multitude of scenes in which men as well as the dog hero have an important part. ... It is good, too, in his last novel to find Mr London a story-teller and not a propagandist.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 28 ‘17 1300w

“While ‘Jerry’ is not in any sense one of London’s best works, it is yet worth reading.” D: P. Berenberg

– + N Y Call p15 Ag 19 ‘17 300w

“The story suffers a good deal from excess verbiage. ... This fault is at its worst and more discouraging in the early chapters, before the reader’s interest has been awakened. But if, by dint of hope and skipping, he goes on he will be well repaid.”

+ — N Y Times 22:158 Ap 22 ‘17 630w

+ Outlook 116:116 My 16 ‘17 40w

“The book is effectively written in a way, yet tediously full of the traders’ variety of pigeon-English called bêche de mer, which serves as a medium between white man and black. The home-staying white of this country will find it not easy to understand.”

+ — Sat R 124:251 S 29 ‘17 530w

“In this last story of his Mr London has struck a new note. He has sought to express the gentler emotions—the love of the dog for the master and the love of the master for the dog.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p356 Jl 26 ‘17 700w

LONDON, JACK. Michael, brother of Jerry. il *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-29517

Like Jerry, Michael was a dog of the South seas, and like Jerry he could make himself quite as much at home on slippery decks as on dry land. Michael’s first master is Captain Kellar of the Solomon islands, but after he is stolen by Dag Daughtry he comes to love that none-too-honest, beer-drinking steward with all a dog’s devotion. It had been Daughtry’s intention to sell the dog, but having given much loving patience to his training, he finds that he cannot part with him. Circumstances, however, take 344Michael away from this considerate master and he falls into the hands of a noted animal trainer and enters the life that Jack London calls an animal hell. “Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world,” he writes in a foreword. Michael is rescued in time by Harley and Villa Kennan, but he is never the same dog again.

A L A Bkl 14:132 Ja ‘18

“Jack London was the founder of a school of writers in fiction whose work will outlive his own, but which is not likely to catch the trick, the magnetism—call it what you will—that distinguishes his own above the rank and file.”

+ — Boston Transcript p8 D 19 ‘17 400w

“Red tears and bloody sweats!—these are the tributes Jack London loved to wring from the torn hearts (as it were) of his auditors. If the reader would put his finger on some special item in proof of this, let him read the description of the fight between Michael and a quite casual man which takes place after Michael has been rescued from the torment of the trained-animal world, and which is therefore clearly introduced on its own merits.”

– + Nation 105:666 D 13 ‘17 350w

“If the picture drawn by London of the training of animals for the circus and the stage is a true one, then the quicker we act to eliminate animal performances the better. It is to be hoped that ‘Michael’ has a wide circulation.” D. P. Berenberg

+ N Y Call p14 D 29 ‘17 380w

“It is, of course, scarcely necessary to say that much of this book is anything but pleasant reading. If, however, what it tells be indeed the truth, then it is reading which people should have forced upon them. Michael himself will appeal to all dog-lovers, and Dag Daughtry is well drawn.”

+ N Y Times 22:490 N 25 ‘17 1100w

LONG, HAROLD C. Plants poisonous to live stock. (Cambridge agricultural monographs) il *$2 (5c) Putnam 581.6 (Eng ed Agr17-863)

The author says, “As in the case of a previous volume ‘Common weeds of the farm and garden,’ the preparation of this handbook was undertaken because of the great lack of readily available and reliable information on the subject in English scientific literature.” An introductory chapter discusses such matters as What is a poisonous plant? Harm done by poisonous plants, etc. The remainder of the book is given up to descriptions of plants and of the symptoms of poisoning. There is a chapter devoted to Plants suspected of being poisonous and one to The effects of plants on milk.

“A handy work of reference in a subject on which the literature is remarkably scattered. The author has brought together many facts from numerous technical reports and journals, and the compilation will be of great value to those responsible for the care and treatment of animals.”

+ Nature 99:501 Ag 23 ‘17 430w

“Mr Long has filled a gap in scientific literature with a monograph which shows wide knowledge. The bibliography shows the extent of his gatherings.”

+ Sat R 124:sup7 Jl 7 ‘17 110w

LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH. Outlines of English and American literature. il $1.40 (1c) Ginn 820.9 17-14159

This “introduction to the chief writers of England and America, to the books they wrote, and to the times in which they lived,” is based on the author’s earlier works, “English literature” and “American literature.” It is a work however in which “the material, the viewpoint, the presentation of individual writers” are entirely new. The author’s aim here has been to relate literature to life. He says, “The only valuable or interesting feature of any work of literature is its vitality.” For each literary period a brief historical survey and a review of literary tendencies are given. These are followed by biographical sketches of authors and discussions of their principal works. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography.

“Histories of English literature and histories of American literature are many, but rarely if ever has the one subject been compressed within the pages of a single volume in a way to show their unity and alliance. Dr William J. Long has, however, done this with exceptional skill. ... Attractively printed and bound, illustrated with many portraits and scenes, Dr Long’s book gives incentive to a study of literature. It is elementary, to be sure, but it contains much that is profitably enlightening to readers who are fully acquainted with the subject.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p8 My 19 ‘17 800w

“Excellent illustrations.”

+ Dial 63:352 O 11 ‘17 70w

“Written with much vivacity and charm. The latter third of the book is given to an uncommonly well balanced review of American letters.”

+ Ind 91:230 Ag 11 ‘17 120w

“The opening chapters excellently combine a view of the development of the language along with an account of the literary monuments. There is no attempt to bring American literature into relation with English; we have frankly two volumes in one. The story does not come beyond Stevenson and Ruskin, and Howells is the only living American author treated at length.”

+ Nation 105:260 S 6 ‘17 100w

Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman

+ School R 25:610 O ‘17 70w

“William J. Long, the well-known nature writer, could be pardoned a few heresies, for the author discloses considerable freshness in his impressions and his style; but the book is too full of erroneous statements and erroneous judgments to be accepted as an introduction to English letters.”

– + Springf’d Republican p6 Je 25 ‘17 500w

LONGACRE, LINDSAY BARTHOLOMEW. Prophet of the Spirit. *75c Meth. bk. 224 17-23303

“The sub-title of this book is ‘A sketch of the character and work of Jeremiah.’ In his preface Professor Longacre says: ‘The following brief study of the prophet Jeremiah has been made in the belief that attention to the distinctions of time and circumstance leads to a discovery of God’s methods of self-revelation. The purpose has been to portray a man rather than to expound a book.’” (Boston Transcript) “A preliminary chapter on the literary history of the book leads to a study of ‘The man his neighbors knew,’ and with this key in our hands we pass through his various struggles with king and people, and no less with himself and his God, till we emerge to the clear sunshine of the New covenant of spirit and life.” (Bib World)

“An admirable little book. It is excellently written and well adapted to the purpose for which it was written. The prophet Jeremiah is made to appear like a real man working among his fellow-men.” J. M. P. S.

+ — Am J Theol 21:634 O ‘17 230w

+ Bib World 50:315 N ‘17 190w

“Professor Longacre’s conception of the character of Jeremiah is admirably carried out.”

+ Boston Transcript p8 O 31 ‘17 320w

LONGMAN, W. Tokens of the eighteenth century connected with booksellers and book-makers. il *$2 (9½c) Longmans 737

The practice of issuing “tokens” in lieu of small change grew out of the scarcity of coins of small denominations. A “token” issued by a tradesman corresponded to a promise to pay the amount stamped on the face. The author, a collector of these curious examples of coinage, has brought together all the information he has at his command concerning tokens issued by booksellers and others connected with the book trade of the 18th century, including authors, publishers, engravers and paper makers.

345“The descriptions of the various tokens are accompanied by interesting notes on the life and history of their issuers. These include notably Eaton, Spence, and others who suffered on behalf of the liberty of the press at the close of the eighteenth century.” E. T. L.

+ Eng Hist R 32:317 Ap ‘17 100w

“A delightful account written by a collector who knows his subject. ... It may be recommended to collectors of tokens, and to those for whom the history of booksellers, printers, etc., is attractive, as well as to any one investigating political opinions of the period.”

+ Nation 104:636 My 24 ‘17 270w

+ N Y Times 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 60w

LONGSTAFF, FREDERICK V., and ATTERIDGE, A. HILLIARD. Book of the machine gun. il *$3.50 Dodd 358 (Eng ed 17-7941)

This work by two British officers consists of chapters on: The evolution of the machine gun; Machine guns in battle: The evolution of machine gun tactics; Matériel; Machine guns in the British army; Machine guns in Germany and Austria; Machine guns in various foreign armies; Tactics; Training. In addition there are appendixes giving A bibliography of unofficial works; List of some British patents; and Extracts from Colonel Mayne’s works. At the close of the book, following the index, are grouped a series of illustrations, arranged chronologically to show the development of the machine gun.

A L A Bkl 14:155 F ‘18

+ Cleveland p119 N ‘17 30w

“Timely and complete.”

+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p15 Jl ‘17 60w

Pittsburgh 22:662 O ‘17 10w

“Written with professional knowledge.”

+ Pratt p14 O ‘17 10w

Quar List New Tech Bks Ja ‘18 20w

“An authoritative work.”

+ St Louis 15:364 O ‘17 20w

“So far as skill may be learned from a book, it may be learned from this volume.”

+ Spec 118:104 Ja 27 ‘17 350w

LONGSTRETH, THOMAS MORRIS. Adirondacks. il *$2.50 (3½c) Century 917.47 17-25281

“There are but two kinds of travelers; those who enjoy the road, and those who think they shall have enjoyment at the end of it. To the latter pass the time of day good-naturedly enough, but reserve the former for your company.” (Preface) So two friends walked, motored, canoed, climbed, sailed and camped in every part of New York state’s natural park. This volume is the outcome of their wanderings which in addition to generous guide-book material gives an account of the early settlement in the Adirondacks of Napoleon’s brothers, tells of the different Indian tribes and their warfare, of Trudeau, Stevenson, Dewey, Warner and others whose names are associated with the region, and of the present-day work of the state’s conservation commission. The illustrations, reproduced photographs, show the grandeur and loveliness of the region at their best.

+ A L A Bkl 14:92 D ‘17

“Written in a pleasant style and well illustrated.”

+ Cleveland p138 D ‘17 40w

+ Lit D 55:46 D 8 ‘17 110w

“Mr Longstreth is not a Thoreau, but he is a first-rate observer and an amusing raconteur.”

+ New Repub 13:131 D 1 ‘17 90w

“Mr Longstreth is a schoolmaster who has occupied his holiday time for many seasons in open-air living and journeying. He has spent more than one summer in the Adirondacks. ... The result is a book that is at once the record of a jolly summer, a history and description of the Adirondacks, and a succinct guide to those who would learn of its beauties and enjoyments at first hand. Mr Longstreth’s leisurely style has real charm—a quality not always to be found in a book so full of information as this.”

+ N Y Times 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 710w

“Mr Longstreth’s book is most informal, sprightly, and vivacious, yet abounding in matter-of-fact detail of the sort most needed by the tourist.”

+ R of Rs 56:551 N ‘17 130w

LORIMER, NORMA OCTAVIA. By the waters of Africa; with introd. by Douglas Sladen. il *$3.50 Stokes 916.7 (Eng ed 17-31878)

“A woman traveler’s account of what is going on to-day in British East Africa—how the settlers and government officers live and go about, and how the country is being slowly developed. An interesting feature of the book is the description of the famous African lakes, Victoria Nyanza and Albert.”—R of Rs

“Perhaps the homeliness of home-letters adds to the charm of the book, which, in spite of its faults of style, does tell of the common things which a man would have never thought of describing.” N. H. D.

+ — Boston Transcript p9 O 13 ‘17 850w

“Great praise is due this lady who, in spite of many dangers, has done such remarkable exploring and given us such interesting information about it.”

+ N Y Times 22:574 D 23 ‘17 370w

+ R of Rs 56:552 N ‘17 60w

“Miss Lorimer in her light-hearted pages from a diary gives perhaps a truer picture of daily life in these great colonies than we find in more serious works.”

+ Spec 119:64 Jl 21 ‘17 100w

“Unfortunately, she has accepted every piece of casual gossip about the history of the country without investigation. Those who will bear this in mind, and want merely an easily digested story of a woman’s experiences and adventures in both the towns and the back-veld of this amazingly interesting colony, will find Miss Lorimer an entertaining guide.”

– + The Times [London] Lit Sup p290 Je 21 ‘17 450w

LOTI, PIERRE, pseud. (LOUIS MARIE JULIEN VIAUD). War; tr. from the French by Marjorie Laurie. *$1.25 (2c) Lippincott 940.91 17-18154

A book of war sketches written between August, 1914, and April, 1916. Among them are: Two poor little nestlings of Belgium; A gay little scene at the battle front; Another scene at the battle front; An evening at Ypres; At the general headquarters of the Belgian army; At Rheims: All-souls’ day with the armies at the front; At Soissons; Two Gorgon heads.

“The book is interesting throughout, and the translator’s share has been well done.”

+ Ath p260 My ‘17 90w

Cleveland p101 S ‘17 60w

“In the perusal of this new volume by Loti, it is brought home to one again how inexplicably and beautifully his manner and matter are fused. He treats of the usual subjects, but in the atmosphere of this book, one sees everything bathed and refreshed.”

+ Dial 63:400 O 25 ‘17 330w

“In this book Pierre Loti is at his literary best, plus a tender genuine sympathy for his countrymen and their Belgian neighbors and a bitter scorn and hate for the German spirit that has outraged Belgium and France. Yet he seeks to maintain at least a mask of artistic restraint.”

+ Lit D 55:37 S 15 ‘17 250w

“His pictures of the men in the trenches, the wounded, the refugees, etc., are indeed trivial and pallid compared with the narratives written by dozens of men who, before the conflict, were quite unknown to literature. The prevailing note is somewhat effeminate, strident, and hysterical.”

— Nation 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 290w

“It is not a coherent book, it is episodic, a scrap-book, a hodge-podge of emotions, judgments, reports. And this constitutes the book’s 346special charm and value. It is a glimpse into the mind of a highly sensitive and perhaps overcivilized man who has been deeply shaken by the tragedy of his native land and all the world. ... This is the war’s book—the war has made use of the delicate and sensitive instrument that is the mind of the author of ‘Pêcheur d’Islande.’”

+ N Y Times 22:246 Jl I ‘17 470w

“Those familiar with his rather dreamy and saccharine descriptions of Turkey, Palestine, Japan, and the South Sea islands will be a little surprised, we think, at the comparative terseness of phrase in this volume. The descriptions are of war especially as it affects little children, the Sisters of Mercy, the wounded soldiers, and the exiled rulers.”

+ Outlook 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 110w

“M. Loti’s book by virtue of the almost feminine fineness of perception, the exquisiteness of imagery and the sympathetic tenderness by which his pages are graced, will make an impression on the reader’s memory. The only occasions on which Loti is unworthy of himself are when he permits himself bitter and scurrilous personal attacks upon the Kaiser and the Crown prince.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p17 N 11 ‘17 320w

LOUGH, WILLIAM HENRY. Business finance. *$3 (1½c) Ronald 332 17-14250

“This book, as its name indicates, is concerned with the every-day financial problems of the private business concern. The point of view taken throughout is that of an organizer or financial manager of an enterprise. While the book deals primarily with business conditions and financial practice in the United States, it includes many references also to the experience and practice of other countries which may yield suggestions of value to American business men.” (Preface) The book is made up of five parts: Finance and business; Capital; Securing capital; Internal financial management; Financial abuses and involvements. The author is president of the Business training corporation, New York city. He is also author of a work on “Corporation finance.”

“Compactly conveyed information.”

+ Cleveland p107 S ‘17 40w

“A book which takes rank as one of the important accounting books of the year. Its subject is not new, of course, as it treats of problems which arise every day in private business concerns, but it is a pioneer work in that it is the first attempt we have seen to assemble and co-ordinate data relating to methods of financing business enterprises and from such data to deduce proper and scientific procedure. ... The chapter on financial standards is of decided interest in connection with the proposed statistical library to be established under the endowment fund of the American institute of accountants. ... Not the least interesting feature of this book is the manner in which Mr Lough has driven home his points by numerous illustrations taken from famous (or infamous?) failures in commercial history. Concrete instances are worth many pages of theory to clinch an argument.” W. H. L.

+ Journal of Accountancy 24:153 Ag ‘17 1100w

Pittsburgh 22:689 O ‘17 40w

St Louis 15:321 S ‘17 30w

LOVAT-FRASER, JAMES ALEXANDER. Henry Dundas, viscount Melville. il *$1.10 Putnam (Eng ed 17-13682)

“To portray a personality rather than to describe a political career, to delineate a character rather than to unfold a history, J. A. Lovat-Fraser has written a slender volume dealing with the life and activities of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville.” (Boston Transcript) “The shrewd Scottish lawyer was for long the friend and chief colleague of the younger Pitt, ruled Scotland and India, managed the great war for some years, and was first lord of the admiralty till six months before Trafalgar.” (Spec)

“Mr Lovat-Fraser has written a discriminating and interesting biography of Dundas as a parliamentarian, as the holder of various offices of cabinet rank, and as a figure in social life in London and Edinburgh. But Dundas ranks with Newcastle and George III, as one of the three great political bosses of the eighteenth century; and despite Mr Lovat-Fraser’s book, we are still waiting for adequate studies of the methods and achievements of all these three bosses.” E: Porritt

* + – Am Hist R 23:212 O ‘17 520w

“To tell the full story of the life of Henry Dundas, first Viscount Melville, is at present impossible. Numerous documents at the Public record office and in other quarters await investigation before a complete account of Melville’s career can be attempted. The author’s object, therefore, is, from the materials now available, ‘to delineate a character rather than unfold a history’; and he may fairly be said to have been successful.”

+ Ath p49 Ja ‘17 70w

“Mr Lovat-Fraser’s volume is a concise summary of his life, although it scarcely succeeds in presenting a character and personality rather than a political career.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p9 Jl 21 ‘17 880w

“J. A. Lovat-Fraser’s excellent description of parliamentary political corruption in Scotland in the eighteenth century explains how it was that Dundas was able to rise and then to hold such autocratic power north of the Tweed that he was commonly known as ‘King Harry the ninth.’”

+ Nation 105:350 S 27 ‘17 230w

“Mr Lovat-Fraser resents Mr Fortescue’s denunciations of Dundas as one of the worst war ministers we have ever had, but he attempts no definite reply to the charge, presumably because it cannot be disproved. Dundas believed in scattering small bodies of troops over the whole theatre of war—a policy which cost us dearly in blood and treasure, especially in the West Indies. In this respect, and in others, he was Pitt’s evil genius.”

Spec 117:810 D 23 ‘16 200w

LOW, SIDNEY JAMES MARK. Italy in the war. il *$1.75 Longmans 940.91 16-24919

“Our knowledge of Italy’s part in the war has been limited. We have the more reason, therefore, to welcome a book that holds the promise of a notable enlargement of that acquaintance and understanding. ... It outlines the history of the country, political and military, since August, 1914. It makes plain the hope of the Italy of the future. It presents the problems and the circumstance of Italy’s part in the world conflict. ... In his study of the progress of the war Mr Low not only points out the necessary differences between the Italian battle lines and methods of fighting and those in France and Flanders, but shows where the Italian strength has been and where its weakness, where its mistakes have been made and lessons learned, and describes in detail the various steps in the conflict.”—N Y Times

+ A L A Bkl 13:307 Ap ‘17

“More than the majority of war books his seems to offer worthwhile information.”

+ Boston Transcript p14 Ap 7 ‘17 250w

“So far, this is the most informing book from the Italian side.”

+ Ind 90:380 My 26 ‘17 150w

“A comprehensive study of Italian conditions, strategy, fighting. ... An interesting feature of his book, too, is the information that Mr Low has to give us about Austria and the Austrian part in the war. ... The book is illustrated, too, with excellent photographs from the Italian headquarters photographic department.”

+ N Y Times 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 500w

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p560 N 23 ‘16 380w

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:124 Ap ‘17 40w

347LOWE, CORINNE MARTIN. Confessions of a social secretary. il *$1.25 (1c) Harper 17-5813

Those who delight in reading of the private affairs of that limited section of the social body that is labeled Society will find much to interest them in this book. It gives what appears to be an honest account of the inner workings of the households of a society leader, including town house, country house and Newport cottage. There are details regarding the management of servants, the arrangement of house parties, the planning of dinners, etc. Society, if this be a true picture, must be a deadly dull affair! There is a slight thread of fiction in the story of the rich young girl who chose to marry a real man. The title of the serial publication of these confessions was “This is the life.”

“The book is written in a humorous, readable manner, with more than one touch of real character drawing and a moral in the futility of the life that strives for nothing better than social pre-eminence—and attains it.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 170w

“One must be curious indeed about the doings of this set to be diverted by the detail of their domestic arrangements; these details Miss Lowe presents with photographic candor.”

Dial 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 230w

+ Lit D 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 170w

“Its thread of fiction is not without charm, but its interest and its conspicuousness alike are due to its authenticity. There is nothing fictitious about this record; the anecdotes are true stories; the people are real and may, with no great effort, be identified if one knows enough; the descriptions are photographic.”

+ N Y Times 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 400w

LOWELL, AMY. Tendencies in modern American poetry. il *$2.50 Macmillan 811 17-25828

Amy Lowell, herself a leading exponent of the new in poetry, writes of six fellow poets: Edwin Arlington Robinson; Robert Frost; Edgar Lee Masters; Carl Sandburg; “H. D.” and John Gould Fletcher. In her preface Miss Lowell says, “What sets the poets of to-day apart from those of the Victorian era is an entire difference of outlook. Ideas believed to be fundamental have disappeared and given place to others. And as poetry is the expression of the heart of man, so it reflects this change to its smallest particle. It has been my endeavour in these essays to follow this evolution, in the movement as a whole, and also in the work of the particular poets who compose it. I have tried to show what has led each of these men to adopt the habit of mind which now characterizes him, why he has been forced out of one order into another; how his ideas have gradually taken form in his mind, and in what way he expresses this form in his work.” A bibliography of the works of the poets represented closes the book, and there is an interesting photogravure portrait of each.

“An excellent critical estimate.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:87 D ‘17

Cleveland p4 Ja ‘18 70w

“In her ‘Tendencies in modern American poetry’ Miss Lowell is emphatically ‘there’; there in heart, mind, and spirit: there with her faith and her reasons for it; there with her polemical aptitudes and her full employment of them; on the spot, up to date, with her eye on the poetical clock, to the last second of the latest minute.” H: B. Fuller

+ — Dial 63:444 N 8 ‘17 1500w

“To meet the ordinary extraordinary ignorance about poets and poetry nothing could be more useful and valuable. When Miss Lowell is not busy with amateurish ethnology and ‘atavism’ and evolution and pseudo-science, she is one of the best expositors that modern poetry could have. And it is for her sympathetic exposition of the things she likes rather than her ineffectual announcement of a system and a touchstone that her book deserves to be read.” F. H.

+ — New Repub 13:52 N 10 ‘17 1800w

“The outstanding fault of the book lies in the fact that Miss Lowell has cast herself into double and conflicting rôles—those of critic and propagandist. It becomes a certainty that she is not looking at her subject from an unbiased standpoint, but, instead, that the book is written to bolster up the case for imagism.” Clement Wood

– + N Y Call p15 N 25 ‘17 1400w

“‘Tendencies in modern American poetry’ is a book that needed to be written, and it is doubtful if any one else in America besides Amy Lowell could have written it. She has brought to the task not only critical insight and independence of spirit, but a personal acquaintance with the poets she has discussed. This has served to enlarge her view, not to guide her judgments.”

+ N Y Times 22:481 N 18 ‘17 1900w

LOWNDES, MARIE ADELAIDE (BELLOC) (MRS FREDERIC SAWREY-LOWNDES). Lilla: a part of her life. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-10163

A story based on a possible situation growing out of the war. Lilla is a delicate, reticent woman whose marriage to Robert Singleton has been uneventful and colorless, altho not unhappy. Making her home with his people, she has found it necessary to repress her own personality until she hardly knows what strong emotion can mean. It is after the report of her husband’s death early in 1914, while she herself is taken up with war work, that she meets Dare Carteret. They are married a short five weeks after their first meeting. Lilla, to whom love had been unknown, has learned its meaning. Then in the midst of her great happiness Robert Singleton returns. The story closes with Lilla in France and with one of the two men involved in her tragedy starting out with Kitchener on his ill-fated voyage.

+ A L A Bkl 13:404 Je ‘17

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 1250w

“It is disappointing to find the introduction of characters wholly extraneous to the subject in hand and not even indirectly promoting the action, yet in whom the author attempts to create an interest by long explanations concerning their earlier lives.”

– + Cath World 106:106 O ‘17 550w

“There are many vivid pictures of London in war time, especially dramatic and thrilling being that of the first Zeppelin raid. The story moves quietly and rapidly, through emotional climaxes of many kinds that are always tense and gripping and incidents that would be bizarre against any but their fateful war background, to its tragic conclusion. But out of the mangled and smashed human happiness upon which it closes there rises the note of spiritual triumph.”

+ N Y Times 22:113 Ap 1 ‘17 480w

“The book is ably and sincerely written, and there is a dignity in Mrs Belloc Lowndes’s handling of her characters which gives them both interest and stability.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p476 O 5 ‘16 350w

LOYSON, PAUL HYACINTHE. Gods in the battle; tr. from the French by Lady Frazer; with an introd. by H. G. Wells. *3s 6d Hodder & Stoughton, London 940.91 (Eng ed 17-25626)

The author is the son of Père Hyacinthe, the great preacher, and was, before the war, “a rational pacifist” and the editor of Les Droits de l’Homme. Since 1914, he has devoted himself to speaking and working in the cause of the Allies in France, England, Holland and elsewhere. “This collection of ‘Open letters’ to a great variety of persons appeared originally under the title ‘Étes-vous neutres devant le crime?’ A considerable portion of the book, however (104 pages), is devoted to ‘The Roman Rolland case’—appeals and criticisms and other matter connected with the attitude towards the war of M. Rolland, as shown in his ‘Above the battle’ and elsewhere. ‘Notes’ on the contents of the book at the end occupy 34845 pages. Neither author nor translator receives any benefit from the sale of the volume; M. Loyson’s fees for the rights of translation has been given by him to the British Red cross fund.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

Pittsburgh 22:762 N ‘17 40w

“No Englishman could have written this book, but we must get our insular minds to realise that there is more than one way of doing a thing. The popular style of to-day in England rather tends to telegraphese than to sustained efforts of argument, irony, and rhetoric. ... M. Loyson fortifies his statements throughout with notes and references, especially regarding the case of M. Rolland. ... M. Rolland, on the evidence here set out at length, is clearly convicted of dodging and paltering.”

+ Sat R 123:503 Je 2 ‘17 680w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p107 Mr 1 ‘17 80w

“We do not write in M. Loyson’s manner, or, if we do, we do it ill. But M. Loyson does it well, for it is his natural way of expressing himself. He can make the grand gesture without becoming absurd. ... With all its fire it is never spiteful even against the German people. M. Loyson is still a pacifist and a gentleman. The translation is all the more successful because Lady Frazer, herself a Frenchwoman, has not tried to make it too English.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p123 Mr 15 ‘17 1000w

LUCAS, SIR CHARLES PRESTWOOD. Beginnings of English overseas enterprise; a prelude to the empire. *$2.90 Oxford 382 17-20009

“There has been much study and writing on special periods in the history of the English chartered commercial companies, but almost no attempt to give a continuous narrative of the whole career of any one of them. The work of Sir Charles Lucas, which endeavors to tell the story of three of the earliest companies, is therefore a welcome and important contribution to the literature of the subject. These three are the Merchants of the staple, the Eastland merchants, and the Merchant adventurers. The first is perforce, for lack of materials, very brief, and the second a slight, almost an outline sketch; the work is therefore practically a history of the Merchant adventurers of England from their obscure origin in the Netherlands in the fourteenth century to their dissolution, after at least four centuries of continuous existence, at Hamburg in 1808.”—Am Hist R

“It is written with the ability and mastery of the trained historian.” E: P. Cheyney

+ — Am Hist R 23:381 Ja ‘18 890w

+ Nation 106:16 Ja 3 ‘18 1200w

“Their story as unfolded in Sir Charles Lucas’s concise but weighty monograph, is not only illuminating as regards the past but pregnant with lessons for the future after the war. The ‘Beginnings of English overseas enterprise’ is a real and important contribution to that history which is ‘philosophy teaching by examples.’”

+ Spec 118:38 Jl 14 ‘17 1050w

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p317 Jl 5 ‘17 1900w

LUCAS, ST JOHN WELLES LUCAS. April folly. *$1.50 Dutton

“In ‘April folly’ Mr St John Lucas continues the story of Dennis Yorke which he began some years ago in ‘The first round.’ The central theme of the first part was the relation of Dennis, a wayward boy and an artist, to his father, ‘The Apostle of the respectable.’ This sequel begins with the funeral of Mr Yorke and the return of Dennis to his artistic friends in Chelsea,—Tellier, and Sandys, and others. Now that the death of his father has set him free to develop his musical genius Dennis’s artistic progress is great; but he is still very much in the making, serious with that immense seriousness of youth which Mr St John Lucas can describe so accurately and sympathetically, drawn one way by his art, another by the cold rectitude which he has inherited in the very fibres of his being.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Mr Lucas’s version has the merit of quietly humanising materials which have been so often merely galvanised for an easy public.” H. W. Boynton

Bookm 45:646 Ag ‘17 530w

“After a decidedly well-told story, in progress, the reader suffers the anti-climax at the end with rebellion and dissatisfaction.”

+ — Boston Transcript p6 S 12 ‘17 170w

“A first-rate analysis of calf love in London Bohemia. The only difficulty lies in the comparative slimness of the subject; it does not draw out the novelist’s resources. The whole group of Chelsea musicians is well sketched and we should have preferred following their adventures rather than turning to the sordid, pathetic little tragedy to which the story finally devotes its course.”

+ Dial 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 170w

“His adventures in sex take us along none of those miry ways to which the bold young school have now wonted us. Nevertheless, they would have seemed desperate enough if we had been regaled with them at the time of their alleged occurrence, a quarter of a century ago. ... ‘Yes, but what of it?’ is the mood in which this kind of story, however nicely done, has a way of leaving us.”

Nation 105:178 Ag 16 ‘17 350w

“The musical and artistic environment in which this drama of human relationships is played out to its pathetic and ironic conclusion is delightfully sketched.”

+ N Y Times 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 450w

“Mr St John Lucas is one of the very best of our short-story writers, to say nothing of his excellent anthologies of French and Italian verse and his graceful original poems. ... He avoids the monotony of uniform cleverness which marks the dialogue of some excellent novelists. He is judicious, too, in skating over thin ice, for you cannot write of Bohemia without touching on its squalid fringes as well as its hearty camaraderie. We may note in conclusion that while the story is written by an artist, with a lively sympathy for artistic ideals, he is so impartial in dealing with normal and even Philistine people that we come away with a heightened respect for them.”

+ Spec 117:418 O 7 ‘16 800w

“The story is told with a gentle penetration and judgment which give it charm; and the friends who are grouped together both in Chelsea and at Hampstead move and act with the pleasant ease of real companions; their comments on their arts are vivid and faithful.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p500 O 19 ‘16 430w

LUEHRMANN, ADELE. Other Brown. il *$1.35 Century 17-23048

“A story of dual personality ... [by the author of ‘The curious case of Marie Dupont’]. It adds to its psychological interest, a murder, a mine in Mexico and a love story ending in New York.”—Ind

+ A L A Bkl 14:60 N ‘17

+ Cleveland p128 N ‘17 70w

+ Ind 91:514 S 29 ‘17 50w

+ — Ind 93:240 F 9 ‘18 50w

“The story is unnecessarily complicated with endless twists and tangles. ... It is a mediocre story.” C. W.

— N Y Call p14 S 23 ‘17 110w

“‘The other Brown’ is well able to baffle and enthrall the most astute reader, and the personalities taking part in it are altogether charming.”

+ N Y Times 22:322 S 2 ‘17 300w

349“The author handles her plot with sufficient skill to keep the reader mystified—which is the only requirement of fiction of the sort. ... The conclusion is not entirely easy and natural.”

Springf’d Republican p15 S 30 ‘17 190w

LUTZ, RUFUS ROLLA. Wage earning and education. diags 50c (1c) Cleveland foundation. Survey committee; Russell Sage foundation 370.91 16-26854

This is a summary volume of the Cleveland survey series, presenting a synthesis of the results of the survey as a whole. Part 1 has chapters discussing some of the general phases of the subject, among them: The industrial education survey; Forecasting future probabilities; The wage earners of Cleveland; The future wage earners of Cleveland; Industrial training for boys in elementary schools; The junior high school; Trade training during the last years in school, etc. Part 2 is given up to summaries of the special reports.

“The risks of such an assumption of static social and economic conditions are already apparent. ... The experiences of the nations at war, as well as developments in older American communities, raise some doubts about the advisability of confining the vocational training of women to retail selling, to the sewing trades and to limited fields of the more mechanical forms of office work. The least satisfactory portion of the report is that dealing with vocational guidance and school placement.” Lucile Eaves

+ — Am Econ R 7:903 D ‘17 370w

El School J 17:525 Mr ‘17 600w

“The volume contains independent and illuminating comment. The chapter on vocational guidance is one of the sanest in the whole field.”

+ Ind 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w

N Y Br Lib News 4:59 Ap ‘17

LYNDE, FRANCIS. Stranded in Arcady. il *$1.35 (3c) Scribner 17-14177

Neither Donald Prime nor Lucetta Millington knows how they happen to find themselves alone in the northern woods on the shore of an unknown lake. Each tells a story of preceding events that ends in haziness. That they have been separately drugged, kidnapped and left together in this lonely place is the only explanation. But the story has to do not so much with this mystery as with the adaptation of two sophisticated young people, one a novelist, the other a teacher of domestic science, to primitive conditions.

“Appeared in Scribner’s Magazine.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:27 O ‘17

“Ingenious and unusual.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 9 ‘17 160w

+ Cath World 105:539 Jl ‘17 100w

“There was a time when it seemed as though the author of ‘The honorable Senator Sage-Brush’ might intend to use his very marked gifts as a story teller for the serious presentation and interpretation of certain phases of our American life, but Mr Lynde has apparently decided instead to devote himself to a lighter kind of fiction. However, this little romance is interesting, amusing, and well written, and will prove a very pleasant means of whiling away a few idle hours.”

+ N Y Times 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 330w

“So well told that one is willing to forget mere improbability.”

+ Outlook 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 70w

+ Pratt p51 O ‘17 10w

“This story is different from and less spontaneous than the bulk of Mr Lynde’s other work. Still the action is rapid and a spirit of comradeship and good nature pervades it.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Jl 1 ‘17 230w

LYNDON, LAMAR. Hydro-electric power. 2v il v 1 *$5; v 2 *$3.50 McGraw 621.31 16-23566

“The work, as may be inferred from the title is quite general in scope, covering both the hydraulic and electrical phases of design. Volume 1 is entitled ‘Hydraulic development and equipment,’ and volume 2 is entitled ‘Electrical equipment and transmission.’ However, it should not be concluded that the two volumes are entirely independent of each other. As the author puts it in the preface to volume 2, ‘this volume forms a companion to, and is, in fact, a continuation of volume 1. There is no definite point of division between the two volumes, and this treatise was divided into two sections solely to make it less cumbersome and more convenient for reference.’”—Engin Rec

Cleveland p109 S ‘17 10w

“Vol. 1 of this work is about the most concise treatment of hydraulic engineering from the standpoint of design and construction that is now available. ... The work is notable for its completeness rather than the newness of material presented, since it incorporates fundamental and standard formulas that have been used in the design of water-power developments. In interpretation of this information lie the practical difference and usefulness of the book as compared with other works available. ... Vol. 2 forms a very good supplement to the first volume but cannot be considered an adequate treatise on the electrical design and installation of station equipment or on transmission systems.”

+ Elec World 69:665 Ap 7 ‘17 350w (Review of v 1 and 2)

“Students and practising engineers interested in the design of hydroelectric-power plants will wish to add this book to their libraries. ... On the whole, it may be said that the author’s work is well done. In scope the book is excellent; it touches on almost all phases of plant design and defines the principles governing design very well. ... A number of very good charts and diagrams are included. The illustrations are excellent, and the publishers have done their part well.”

+ Engin Rec 75:235 F 10 ‘17 500w (Review of v 1 and 2)

LYNN, ETHEL. Adventures of a woman hobo. *$1.50 (3c) Doran 17-15672

The author tells of a trip from Chicago to San Francisco taken in company with her husband in 1908. She was threatened with tuberculosis, and looked on a return to California, her native state, as her only salvation. Lacking funds for the journey, they started out to work their way, using a tandem bicycle as a means of travel. Midway across the plains, the tandem was abandoned. They traveled for a time in a prairie schooner, and finally completed the last stages of the journey on freight trains. The experiences described are varied and interesting. At the close the author reports that her health was fully restored and that her view point had been modified. She says, “My belief in the inherent kindliness and unselfishness of the human heart has been strengthened. ... Never again will I think it necessary to change human nature before we can improve social conditions.”

A L A Bkl 14:42 N ‘17

Lit D 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 150w

“This book is worth the reading of all Socialists. It is a clarifying description of why the stranger you meet would rather knock you down than bid you the time of day.” L. W.

+ N Y Call p15 O 7 ‘17 500w

N Y Times 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 250w

Springf’d Republican p17 N 25 ‘17 110w

LYTTELTON, EDITH SOPHY (BALFOUR) (MRS ALFRED LYTTELTON). Alfred Lyttelton. il *$4 Longmans 17-15058

This life of Alfred Lyttelton, who died in 1913, is a particularly intimate biography. It is written by his wife, who says in the preface to part 2, “Alfred’s unique position among his contemporaries was due not so much to gifts of intellect as to gifts of character. His life was not full of adventure, nor, if measured by some standards, even of achievement. What he was, rather than what he did, needs to be 350portrayed. In trying to draw the picture of a man’s character, his affections must be described, and as truthfully as possible.” Alfred Lyttelton entered Parliament in 1895, was sent to South Africa as chairman of the Transvaal concessions commission in 1900, and in 1903 was made secretary for the colonies.

“Few biographies offer more chapters of constant and varied interest.”

+ N Y Times 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 650w

+ Sat R 123:sup3 Mr 31 ‘17 1450w

“An unusually intimate record of the man as he revealed himself to his family and friends. What his loss meant to his friends has already been declared by the tributes paid to his memory by Mr Asquith in the House of Commons; by the address delivered by Mr Balfour last August at the unveiling of the memorial tablet in St Margaret’s, Westminster; and by the appreciations contributed by Lord Curzon and Lord Midleton to the Times at the time of his death. He made fresh friends all his life, but never lost his older ones.”

+ Spec 118:388 Mr 31 ‘17 1600w

“Alfred Lyttelton was not a great man, yet his widow has written an extraordinarily interesting and fascinating biography of him. Mr Lyttelton married two remarkable women, first, Laura Tennant, sister of Mrs Herbert H. Asquith, and on her death, the author of the present volume, who was Edith Balfour.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 S 2 ‘17 950w

“She has executed her labour of love both with skill and judgment, throwing the strong lights in her picture upon Alfred Lyttelton’s incontestable splendour of character and charm of disposition, and leaving his ministerial rank and political achievement to furnish just the drapery and the background of the figure.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p139 Mr 22 ‘17 1050w

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MABIE, HAMILTON WRIGHT. Fruits of the spirit. *$1.25 (2c) Dodd 204 17-13307

A collection of essays that have appeared in the Outlook during the past ten and more years. The preface says, “It is significant that the latest essays, written in 1916, during a period of great physical depression, are concerned with the fundamentals of faith, action and achievement.” A few of the titles are: The practice of immortality; The ultimate companionship; The prophecy of love; The larger plan; The child and the world; Lodgings and homes; A secret of youth; The wisdom of youth; The long view of life; Meeting life squarely; The test of courage. There is an introduction by Lyman Abbott.

+ A L A Bkl 13:425 Jl ‘17

“Ethical in content, hortatory in spirit, they are unexceptionable in matter and form and also quite undistinguished.”

– + Nation 105:351 S 27 ‘17 120w

“The essays will be found spiritually valuable, not only to the individual reader, but to groups, and even to congregations, especially in the summer when opportunity to attend ordinary church service is often denied.”

+ Outlook 116:161 My 23 ‘17 120w

MCADIE, ALEXANDER GEORGE. Principles of aërography. il $3 Rand 551.5 17-19384

“‘The principles of aërography’ deals with the most recent advances in meteorology. ... The purpose and scope of the book are summarized in the opening sentence of the preface, ... to present this new knowledge [of about the last ten years] in a convenient form even if considerably condensed.’ ... The successive chapters are: ‘A brief history of meteorology; units and symbols; temperature scales; thermodynamics of the atmosphere; stratosphere and troposphere; the circulation of the atmosphere; the major circulations; the minor circulations; forecasting storms; the winds; the water vapor of the atmosphere; condensation; dust and microbes; atmospheric electricity; precipitation; floods and notable storms; frosts; [and] solar influences.’”—Science

“The book is well printed on paper calculated to make the illustrations appear at their best. In fact, the illustrations are one of the chief charms of the book, for they are refreshingly new. The treatment of the clouds is especially good and well illustrated. The long chapter on atmospheric electricity, which is devoted almost entirely to the consideration of the thunder shower and lightning, is again an excellent one. ... Judged as a textbook, and thus the first book to be used by a student or general reader, it has many shortcomings. The material is not well arranged; there are too many omissions and not enough elementary detail in the treatment of many subjects.” W. I. M.

+ — Astrophys J 46:301 N ‘17 1100w

“All teachers of meteorology and physical geography owe a deep debt to Professor McAdie for this helpful volume.” F. W.

+ Boston Transcript p9 N 10 ‘17 750w

+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p12 O ‘17 130w

“Well illustrated and indexed.”

+ Pittsburgh 22:814 D ‘17 30w

“Unfortunately, coherence and clearness seem to have been sacrificed to brevity in the attempt to make the book a college text. The volume will probably be of greatest value as a reference accompaniment to a well-ordered course in meteorology. As a reference book for the advanced student, however, it is lacking in footnotes or bibliography, but it offsets this with its wealth of tables computed only with difficulty, and of illustrations and diagrams drawn from valuable, inaccessible sources.” C: F. Brooks

+ — Science n s 46:264 S 14 ‘17 950w

MCARTHUR, JOHN CAMPBELL. What a company officer should know. (Harvey military ser.) il $2 Harvey 355 17-16323

“The officer will learn how to maintain discipline without becoming a martinet, to foster in his men those absolutely essential requirements of cleanliness and sobriety, initiative within proper restrictions, cheerfulness under hardship, and last but not least how to make thoroly understood that the good conduct and comradeship of each individual is responsible for the well being of the whole command. Of these, examples are given by way of personal anecdote, which assist in pointing the author’s instruction.”—Ind

Cleveland p103 S ‘17

“It is not too much to state that every reserve officer should provide himself with this handy guide. ... There is an excellent appendix of military forms and abbreviations but one wonders why a little book so cheaply bound and printed should cost so much.”

+ — Ind 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 150w

MACAULAY, MRS FANNIE (CALDWELL) (FRANCES LITTLE, pseud.). Camp Jolly; or, The secret-finders in the Grand Cañon. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24510

A story of the Grand Canyon. Three Kentucky boys, Billy Hargrave, and his cousin Teddy, and Rags, a young colored boy, accompany Billy’s father, an eminent geologist, on an exploring trip thru the canyon. Under the guidance of Wildcat Pete, they have many adventures, and Rags, with his droll comments and his amazement at everything he sees, furnishes much merriment for the party.

“Well written.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:64 N ‘17

“The record is a pleasant and mildly exciting one.”

+ Boston Transcript p8 N 10 ‘17 30w

+ Ind 92:448 D 1 ‘17 20w

N Y Times 22:565 D 16 ‘17 90w

“A good open-air story for younger boys.”

+ Springf’d Republican p13 D 16 ‘17 70w

351MACBETH, MRS MADGE HAMILTON (LYONS). Kleath. il *$1.35 (1½c) Small 17-24097

Christopher Kleath who comes to the Klondike in the early days of the gold rush is something of a mystery. He is engaged as a linotype operator on the first newspaper published in Dawson. But he gives evidence of many other talents, and his manner and social bearing give the impression that he is, or has been, a man of the world. Then too, on one occasion, he shows a surprising skill in picking a lock. Clare Meredith, the wife of the big, fine Klondike doctor, early shows an interest in Kleath, but he proves impervious to her wiles. On the other hand, while he is plainly in love with little Goldie Meadows, he never tells her so. The secret of his past is dramatically explained in the trial scene, after he has been accused of robbing the bank.

“It is regrettable but true that we could not lose a heart-beat during the course of this innocuous story.”

— Boston Transcript p6 S 5 ‘17 230w

“Her tale is mingled of humor, pathos, and sensationalism, with an unbecoming leaning toward dare-deviltry. It carries a certain air of conviction and will serve for readers whose imaginations accept the printed page as probable truth.”

Dial 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 80w

“The story is a fairly good specimen of the particular class of fiction to which it belongs, and is sufficiently interesting to hold the reader’s attention.”

N Y Times 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 270w

“The picture of conditions in Dawson city at the height of the Klondike gold rush is more restrained than is sometimes found in novels of the type.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 26 ‘17 290w

MCCABE, JOSEPH. Pope’s favourite. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 17-14139

Pope Alexander VI, Giulia Farnese, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, Fra Savonarola and other historic personages appear in the pages of this novel. The author says, “I have chosen a period so rich in colour, so instinct with turbulent life, and so well known to us, that imagination had not a laborious task. I have put a little blood into the veins of the great dead figures of the Borgia period and restored the missing threads of the worn historical tapestry.” Giulia, the pope’s mistress, is drawn sympathetically. She appears as a young girl, accepting unquestioningly the customs of her time and deeply puzzled by Savonarola’s preachments. Lucrezia Borgia is presented in a new light, a weak rather than a vicious woman.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 45:650 Ag ‘17 330w

“It is not all of equal merit, but at least in the figures of this beautiful Giulia and of her ‘Cousin’ Cesare he has made us see a real man and woman of much more than ordinary fascination. He has made for us a brilliant historical picture.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p7 Jl 3 ‘17 1100w

“Historically accurate but not very full-blooded story.”

+ — Cleveland p104 S ‘17 30w

“If the title cause the reader to expect a book that he will conceal behind a magazine in public, he will be misled. It is hardly ‘pour les jeunes filles,’ neither is it for the sensation seekers. It is simply a good historical novel—one of the best that it has been our luck to see in a long time.”

+ Dial 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 190w

“The picture is rich in detail, colorful, yet described with a certain cool aloofness, a curious lack of vitality. The reader finds himself calmly admiring the author’s scholarship rather than excited or enthralled by his narrative.”

N Y Times 22:206 My 27 ‘17 400w

“The author succeeds in making Pope Alexander a living character, but Cesare Borgia is only a shadow.”

+ — Spec 118:593 My 26 ‘17 30w

“Mr McCabe, who writes so trenchantly on so many subjects of religion, history, science, and biography, here turns his busy pen to the task of writing a romance of a period to which he has devoted special study.”

The Times [London] Lit Sup p107 Mr 1 ‘17 60w

MCCABE, JOSEPH. Romance of the Romanoffs. il *$2 (2½c) Dodd 947 17-29048

In his first chapter the author sketches the primitive democracy of the early Slavs as it existed before the “inevitable military chiefs” had fastened their hold on the people and established the beginnings of autocratic government. He then proceeds with the ugly story of Moscovite and Romanoff rule. There is irony in his title. He says, “This is not a history of Russia, but the history of its autocracy as an episode. ... To a democratic people there can be no more congenial study than this exposure of the crime and failure of an autocracy. To any who find romance in such behaviour as kings and nobles were permitted to flaunt in the eyes of their people in earlier ages the story of the Romanoffs must be exceptionally attractive.” The story is carried down to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917.

“He takes visible delight in exposing the vices and crimes of Russia’s rulers and he revels in exploding time-hallowed historical reputations, for instance, that of Peter the Great. Although this denunciatory and iconoclastic tendency has its drawbacks, particularly in a historical study, it should be welcomed as a wholesome reaction against the complacencies and shams of official Russian historiography.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ — Bookm 46:484 D ‘17 200w

“Mr McCabe’s book would be more useful, and the story of the Romanoffs could be followed more easily and intelligently, if he had appended a family tree of this not too familiar line of monarchs, or if he had even given a chronological list of the Romanoff czars.”

+ — Dial 64:114 Ja 31 ‘18 270w

MCCALEB, WALTER FLAVIUS. Happy: the life of a bee. il *75c (2c) Harper 595 17-12824

The autobiography of a bee. The author’s purpose is to set forth the life of the hive, the perils, joys and adventures of honey gathering, in attractive story form. The book has attractive illustrations and decorations by Clement B. Davis.

“A true story, its incidents being as scientifically exact as they are interesting.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 20 ‘17 280w

+ Ind 91:229 Ag 11 ‘17 30w

+ N Y Times 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 70w

“For young readers this nature story does something like that which Maeterlinck’s famous book on the bee did for older people.”

+ Outlook 116:116 My 16 ‘17 20w

+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 20 ‘17 60w

MCCANN, ALFRED WATTERSON. Thirty cent bread; how to escape a higher cost of living. *50c (3c) Doran 641 17-14406

The author says, “With regulation, now, we can have all the food we need for home use and export to our allies, 200,000,000,000 pounds. Without regulation, we shall have bread cards and soup kitchens within a year.” He discusses the situation with regard to various foodstuffs and offers suggestions for their conservation.

A L A Bkl 14:81 D ‘17

Cleveland p111 S ‘17 40w

New Repub 12:280 O 6 ‘17 260w

“His book goes into a number of interesting details on several phases of the ‘food problem,’ such as the classification of and speculation in eggs, the conservation of grain, and the preservation of vegetables.”

+ N Y Times 22:395 O 14 ‘17 150w

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Pratt p26 O ‘17 20w

“A simple, convenient argument.”

+ St Louis 15:357 O ‘17 20w

MCCARTER, MARGARET (HILL) (MRS WILLIAM ARTHUR MCCARTER). Vanguards of the plains. il *$1.40 (1½c) Harper 17-29178

A story of Kansas and the Santa Fé trail and of the part played by peaceful commerce in the upbuilding of the prairie empire. On one of his early trips over the trail between Kansas City and Santa Fé, Esmond Clarenden, a pioneer merchant and trader, takes the three children who are his wards with him, feeling that they are safer with him than they would be if left alone. This is early in the ‘forties, when the journey is fraught with grave perils. The youngest of the three children, Gail Clarenden, tells the story and in following its development from his childhood to manhood, gives a panoramic picture of the growth of the West. The story has elements of historic interest, adventure and romance.

“A good story of adventure, intrigue and mystery to which the historical background lends an added interest.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:169 F ‘18

Reviewed by J: Walcott

+ Bookm 46:496 D ‘17 70w

“No American can read [this book] without a keener realization of what that security, which has been ours from our birth, means.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 5 ‘18 560w

“The story as a whole is thrilling enough to hold any reader’s attention. But the value of the book lies in its pictures of early life on the plains and its pages from the book of the Middle West’s development.”

+ N Y Times 22:447 N 4 ‘17 650w

MCCLELLAN, GEORGE BRINTON. Mexican war diary. il *$1 (5c) Princeton univ. press 973.6 17-11694

This war diary begins with McClellan’s departure from West Point in 1846 and is continued thru the battle of Cerro Gordo in 1847. The editor, Professor Myers of Princeton, is at work on a life of General McClellan, and this diary forms a part of the collection of manuscript material in the Library of Congress which he is using as a basis.

“This diary was decidedly worthy of publication. The true character of our ‘citizen soldiery’ is presented with a tinge of prejudice but essentially in colors true to the original. And much interesting information is given in reference to certain episodes of the Mexican war—particularly the march from Matamoros to Victoria and Tampico (pp. 21-50), the siege of Vera Cruz (pp. 53-73), and the battle of Cerro Gordo (pp. 79-90). In his account of this battle McClellan makes a distinctly important contribution to the history of Pillow’s operations.” J. H. Smith

+ — Am Hist R 23:220 O ‘17 370w

“Well worth publishing, for it gives a perfect picture of the young army officer who was to become in the Civil war the idol of the Army of the Potomac.”

+ Cath World 105:407 Je ‘17 280w

“Besides containing a remarkable revelation of General McClellan’s much debated personality, and graphic pictures of the march on Mexico City from Vera Cruz, fully explains, at that early date, the unwisdom of employing raw volunteer forces in active military operations.”

+ Ind 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 70w

Lit D 55:33 S 1 ‘17 60w

Pittsburgh 22:531 Je ‘17 60w

“Gives vivid glimpses of the campaign of 1846 and makes clearer than ever the failure and futility of the ‘volunteer system’ as a national reliance in time of war.”

+ R of Rs 55:666 Je ‘17 60w

“From it we gain an intimate view of the Mexican war not to be found in ordinary books of history.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Je 11 ‘17 300w

MCCLENDON, JESSE FRANCIS. Physical chemistry of vital phenomena. il *$2 Princeton univ. press 541 17-13355

A work for students and investigators in the biological and medical sciences. The author is assistant professor of physiology in the University of Minnesota and the work is based on lectures and laboratory work given to graduate and advanced medical students in that institution. “The purpose of the book is not to go far into physical chemistry but to develop a tool for physiological research. Lengthy discussions of debated questions are avoided by tentatively accepting the hypothesis which fits the most facts, until a better one appears. For further discussion of any subject the reader is referred to the literature list and index.” (Preface) The literature list is extensive, occupying thirty-six pages, with a subject index (to the list) of seven pages following. There is no index to the text.

“If the reader of this book, as is certainly advisable, has had a course in physical chemistry, he will find occasion to use marginal question marks, or to make corrections, in a number of places. Defects of the sort pointed out are, however, only slight and somewhat excusable misadventures in the first edition of a volume which has so much to commend it, and which is a noteworthy and valuable contribution to scientific literature.”

+ — Nation 105:275 S 6 ‘17 550w

“As a whole the book exhibits the defects as well as the merits of its extreme brevity and condensation. The author evidently wishes to be as concise as possible, and largely for this reason his discussion and statements of fact frequently appear dogmatic and lacking in much needed qualifications. Certain explanations are incomplete or otherwise open to criticism.” R. S. Lillie

+ — Science n s 46:565 D 7 ‘17 1250w

MCCLINTOCK, ALEXANDER. Best o’ luck. *$1 (4c) Doran 941.5 17-28776

Tells how a fighting Kentuckian won the thanks of Britain’s king and a D.M.C. He was a sergeant in the “Canadian overseas” and rendered conspicuous service during a raid on the enemy’s trenches and, later, in rescuing wounded men at great risk. Contents: Training for the war; The bombing raid; “Over the top and give ‘em hell”; Shifted to the Somme; Wounded in action; A visit from the king.

“Told in the picturesque style of the better class of sporting writers, abounding in humorous, pathetic and thrilling incidents, the story is sure to gain large favor with those who wish to understand war as it is.”

+ Boston Transcript p11 N 28 ‘17 280w

“A random set of reminiscences, a trifle wordy, but sincere.”

+ — Dial 64:120 Ja 31 ‘18 170w

“Though less comprehensive than Empey’s ‘Over the top,’ it deserves a place beside that genial chronicle, because of its absolute honesty, its utter realism, and its unabashed humor. There are several chapters devoted to his training as a bomb thrower. These pages are of particular interest and value because of the fact that the American troops in France are being specially trained for bombing.”

+ N Y Times 22:532 D 2 ‘17 550w

“Narrated in simple style by one who ‘don’t lay claim to being much of a writer,’ but who has a story to tell.”

+ Outlook 117:387 N 7 ‘17 60w

+ Springf’d Republican p13 D 16 ‘17 620w

MCCLUNG, MRS NELLIE LETITIA (MOONEY). Next of kin; those who wait and wonder. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 940.91 17-30691

Mrs McClung is an Alberta woman who, from the public platform thruout our states, is telling the story of Canada in suffrage and war. “Times like these” had its leader of the herd, Mike, who planted his feet firmly in the watering trough and kept the other cattle from drinking. Here was a clearly drawn prototype of the political leader who blocked women in their struggle for 353the ballot. “Next of kin” has a little no-breed hen, a philosopher with personality, in spite of frozen feet and lack of pedigree. “She went down to her death with a smile, hustling and cheerful to the last.” It is so with the throng of obscure war-mothers whose hearts are wrung as they see their young sons cheated out of boyhood to assume men’s burdens on distant battlefields, yet who heroically make the sacrifice. Pervading every page is the mother spirit, triumphant in giving “bread and blood as the sacrament of empire.”

“Gives a splendid idea of the effort which Canada has made, especially the women’s part.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:170 F ‘18

“Several times this reaction of a woman to wartime conditions in Canada gives promise of some understanding of this conflict and the causes that underlie it, and of wars in general and their motivating forces. But no sooner are our hopes raised by such a suggestive flash than she plunges us down into the depths of sentimental maunderings.” C. W.

+ — N Y Call p19 D 20 ‘17 150w

“The book is a curious mixture of sound sense and nonsense, of wit and banality, of sympathetic understanding and sentimental sophistry. Withal it is marked by that sincerity which one finds in so many pseudo-public documents, such as the letters written by the farm women of the United States in response to a governmental inquiry. The sense of cheer which makes the interspersed verse reminiscent of that of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, should give it a large vogue; while the smoothness of the style and the simplicity of the stories can only serve to contribute further to its popularity.”

+ — N Y Times 22:490 N 25 ‘17 370w

MCCLURE, SAMUEL SIDNEY. Obstacles to peace. *$2 (1½c) Houghton 940.91 17-8588

The obstacles to peace are of two kinds, says the author. First there are the questions of territory, access to the sea, etc.; second, the states of mind of the peoples at war. Of the second he says, “I have tried to describe the extraordinary hatreds, contempts, and horrors that divide the warring nations; so I have given much space to the records of alleged atrocities. The most important single fact in Europe today is the feeling caused by belief in these records. This feeling constitutes the greatest single obstacle to peace.” The most important “obstacle” of the first group is Turkey. “The fate of Turkey is the issue of this war.” The author presents many original documents and writes from personal experience in the warring countries.

“Mr McClure also presents a summary which covers the crises of the decade that followed 1904 and appends a discussion of Anglo-German relations after 1912. From the historian’s point of view this is the most important portion of his work. The book is primarily designed for the general public, but every teacher of recent European history will be glad to have it on his shelves.” C: Seymour

+ Am Hist R 23:214 O ‘17 430w

A L A Bkl 13:395 Je ‘17

“On the editorial side of this book, its most important quality is Mr McClure’s keen understanding of the fact that war is first of all a state of mind ... engendered, made possible and carried on by states of mind. ... A truer, more deeply fundamental thing was never said. And yet Mr McClure’s book is one of the very few books about the war in which this truth has been emphasised, and in which it is made the cornerstone of all argument.” G. I. Colbron

+ Bookm 45:321 My ‘17 1250w

“The Belgian invasion and atrocities have left Mr McClure under no illusion as to German procedure, and his most interesting comment bears upon the hypnotic national illustration of that people. This is perhaps the striking contribution which Mr McClure gives us in all his 500 pages.” B. K.

+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 24 ‘17 450w

Cleveland p118 N ‘17 60w

“Mr McClure has many faults. He is an incurable gossip. He writes with astonishing carelessness. He continually obtrudes his own personality into events where it has no place. But, again and again, he has some useful document to transcribe, some valuable fact to record; and for these alone his book would be worth reading. As an attempt at analyzing the real aims of the belligerents the book is a failure.” H. J. Laski

+ — Dial 62:472 My 31 ‘17 430w

“A war book which, in certain aspects, is one of the most deeply impressive works we have had on this greatest human drama.”

+ Ind 90:470 Je 9 ‘17 230w

+ Lit D 55:40 O 13 ‘17 290w

“In respect of its contents this book is probably the book of the year in the field of the literature of the war.”

+ + Nation 105:38 Jl 12 ‘17 1950w

+ N Y Call p15 Ap 15 ‘17 420w

“Perhaps the most conspicuous feature of the book is the emphasis which Mr McClure gives to the matter of Turkey. He found, and in this book he makes public for the first time, the details of the Anglo-Franco-German agreement of 1914 with regard to Asia Minor.”

+ N Y Times 22:121 Ap 1 ‘17 350w

“A book of great historic value; a book for editors and librarians. ... The contrast between Georg Brandes’s ‘The world at war’ and S. S. McClure’s ‘Obstacles to peace’ is interesting and suggestive. Georg Brandes, the pacifist, gives us his conclusions without facts to support them; S. S. McClure gives us facts and leaves the reader to draw his own conclusion.”

+ Outlook 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 130w

“The book strives to be and is eminently fair, but the result is a stirring arraignment of Prussian militarism. This is trenchant in itself, and is also interesting because Mr McClure has been accused of pro-Germanism by certain sympathizers with the Allies.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Jl 1 ‘17 330w

Reviewed by Bruno Lasker

+ Survey 38:554 S 22 ‘17 600w

“Its value is enhanced because it deals not only with these matters from the point of view of the Allies, but from time to time gives us some indication of the German point of view. Perhaps the most attractive chapters are those towards the end, dealing with France, and one entitled ‘Heroic voices.’”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p574 N 29 ‘17 1000w

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:185 Je ‘17 70w

MCCLURE, WALLACE MITCHELL. State constitution-making. $3 Marshall & B. 342.7 16-17760

“Though designed especially as a contribution to the problem of revising the state constitution in Tennessee, [this work] will nevertheless have a wider field of usefulness. Parts 1 and 3 give a history of constitutional development in Tennessee and a discussion of peculiar Tennessee problems, but part 2, entitled ‘Current thought and action upon constitutional problems,’ will be found serviceable by all students of state government. The author brings together in convenient form the state constitutional provisions on such subjects as elections, organization of state governments, the short ballot, the budget, municipal and county government, organization and procedure of the legislature, direct legislation by the electorate, etc.”—Pol Sci Q

Cleveland p131 N ‘16 70w

“Mr McClure’s effort is worthy of high praise. He presented to his fellow-citizens a history of constitution making in this country and an analysis of our federal and state constitutions which should have convinced them that the constitution of their own state was in sore need of revision.”

+ Nation 104:606 My 17 ‘17 370w

354“He has succeeded admirably in concealing any partisan bias, if he has one, and has presented opposing views with a clarity and fairness that are greatly to be commended.”

+ Pol Sci Q 31:661 D ‘16 160w

“There is probably no other volume in print that contains so much of this material systematically digested and arranged.”

+ R of Rs 55:216 F ‘17 120w

MCCOMB, SAMUEL.^[2] God’s meaning in life. *75c (3½c) Harper 231 17-25739

Man’s need of God is the central thought in this book of short essays. Especially, the author holds, is this need making itself felt at the present time. The chapter titles are: “Do we need God?” God and our ideals: God the great companion; God and regeneration; God—person or principle? Christ’s idea of God; Conversation with God; Can a “finite God” satisfy? The discovery of God.

“The book is small, a companion to the volume on Prayer and faith by the same author but its viewpoint is large and the benefits of its reading should be great. Dr McComb is well-known in Boston because of his work on psychotherapy while at Emmanuel church, and this book bears evidence of that training. Not that it expounds or even advocates the movement, but through the emphasis which is constantly laid on the definition of God as a Power.”

+ Boston Transcript p7 Ja 12 ‘18 350w

MCCOMB, SAMUEL. New life; the secret of happiness and power. *50c (3½c) Harper 248 17-5701

A series of essays on the spiritual life. The author finds the secret of modern unrest in the lack of spiritual satisfaction in individual lives. Social and civic activities, however worthy, do not fill the soul. A new attitude toward God that will bring man into harmony with His law is what is needed. Contents: The need of a new life; Should a man worry about his sins? The real meaning of sin; The need of conversion; Is conversion possible? Sudden versus gradual conversion; The regeneration of character; The power of the new life; The Christ ideal; The sociological value of the new life; The new life atoning and optimistic.

A L A Bkl 13:330 My ‘17

Pratt p8 O ‘17 20w

“The book is written in simple language, and is intended for the average reader. It will prove of great value to every pastor and social worker. Dr McComb writes in a happy, hopeful vein, and his discussion of these old questions is fresh and modern. The book has a positive message, but is undogmatic in its tone.”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 4 ‘17 110w

MCCONNELL, JAMES R. Flying for France with the American escadrille at Verdun. il *$1 (4½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-6754

The author of this little book went to France in 1915 to drive an ambulance. After some months in this service he resigned to join the flying corps. The book is made up of four chapters: Verdun; From Verdun to the Somme; Personal letters from Sergeant McConnell; How France trains pilot aviators.

A L A Bkl 13:346 My ‘17

“It is this note of a spiritual awakening which lifts Mr McConnell’s book out of the class of the adventure narrative.”

+ Ind 90:296 My 12 ‘17 110w

N Y Br Lib News 4:57 Ap ‘17

“It is a short book, of little more than 150 pages—and with large print and wide margins at that—but it has a deal of interesting matter in it. It is both exciting and informative. And its record is something of which, as Americans, we can all be proud.”

+ N Y Times 22:98 Mr 18 ‘17 250w

“Vivid and interesting account of the daily work of the American escadrille of the French flying corps, particularly over Verdun and on the Somme front.”

+ Pittsburgh 22:458 My ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering p141 Mr 1 ‘17)

+ Pittsburgh 22:529 Je ‘17 60w

Pratt p41 O ‘17 20w

“Not the least interesting portions of the little volume are the touching tributes which Sergeant McConnell pays to his comrades who fell before him.”

+ R of Rs 55:549 My ‘17 300w

“Written in simple, but gripping style.”

+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 13 ‘17 130w

“Slight but very readable account.”

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:124 Ap ‘17 40w

MCCORMICK, FREDERICK. Menace of Japan. *$2 (2c) Little 327 17-9690

“When the determination of the immediate question of the future of Europe comes to conference, the fate of America’s interests and the future of the United States in the Pacific will be determined by Japan and the winners of the world war. ... The only hope for American honor, international justice, protection of commerce and trade, and other American interests in East Asia in future will be either the triumph of an European-American treaty coalition over Japanese-European Prussianism, or a triumph of the military forces of the United States over those of Japan, and a mastery in Washington in the management of foreign affairs.” These are some of the conclusions voiced in the final chapter, “Back to the guns.” “The sword, which Providence and Wisdom commend to China, they also commend to America,” is its last word. The author has been a journalist and war correspondent in the Far East since the Boxer uprising.

“A book which no thoughtful reader could for a moment take seriously.”

— Am Hist R 22:905 Jl ‘17 430w

– + A L A Bkl 13:428 Jl ‘17

“Distinguishing between fact and fiction in books upon the politics of the Far East is no easy task, even when the author cites his sources of information; in this book it becomes impossible, except to the expert student; for Mr McCormick informs us in his preface that ‘many things contained herein ... cannot be publicly ascribed to their sources ... many are simply extracts from my own journals and private records.’ The author’s rabid anti-Japanese bias casts suspicion, if not upon his facts, at least upon the soundness of his judgment. As the reader passes from one chapter to another he becomes convinced that he is in the presence of a propagandist, not a sober historical writer.”

– + Am Pol Sci R 11:593 Ag ‘17 530w

Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 730w

“Mr McCormick, although at times unjustifiably violent in his rhetoric, has without any doubt made out a clear case against Japanese diplomacy and our own inaction.”

+ — Cath World 105:249 My ‘17 1050w

“Many of his assertions are too sweeping, and his conclusions are sometimes palpably unsound. With due allowance for journalistic dash and patriotic fervor, his book can be read profitably. It contains a good deal of interesting information on the ins and outs of world diplomacy since the Russo-Japanese war. It is, however, almost wholly lacking in documentary citations, and the careful student will often be uncertain what to accept at face value and what to discount.” F: A. Ogg

– + Dial 62:432 My 17 ‘17 450w

Outlook 115:760 Ap 25 ‘17 50w

Pratt p10 O ‘17 20w

“The author was for years an Associated press correspondent in China, and in recent years he has been secretary of the Asiatic Institute. His personal acquaintance with the events he describes dates from the Boxer rebellion. His style is decidedly journalistic, but in 355places is commendably vivid. The book is essentially a study in imperialism. Whether the conclusions are sound is a question that admits of debate.”

Springf’d Republican p19 Mr 25 ‘17 400w

“A thoroughly mischievous work. Mr McCormick’s judgment and language are not marked by diplomatic restraint, nor does he sift evidence with care or display profound knowledge of the complicated matters with which he deals.” H: R. Mussey

— Survey 39:48 O 13 ‘17 1750w

MCCORMICK, HAROLD FOWLER. Via pacis; how terms of peace can be automatically prepared while the war is still going on. 60c (9c) McClurg 940.91 17-5546

This suggestion for a means of determining peace terms was written in December, 1915, issued privately in July, 1916, and is now put forward for consideration by the public. The author asks that the belligerents “enunciate the objects for which they are fighting and place their peace terms in precise and concrete form in the hands of selected neutral countries—whose role would be, not that of mediators but of custodians and ‘transfer agents.’ The terms thus deposited could be changed periodically in accordance with the varying fortunes of the war, the resulting benefit being that each side could know at a given moment precisely what the other was demanding and could examine his own assets, chances and hopes accordingly.” (Foreword)

Int J Ethics 27:540 Jl ‘17 180w

R of Rs 55:445 Ap ‘17 60w

+ Springf’d Republican p8 Je 28 ‘17 420w

MCCRACKEN, ELIZABETH, ed. To mother; with an introd. by Kate Douglas Wiggin. il *$1 Houghton 821.08 17-13752

This “anthology of mother verse” is arranged under the headings: The young mother; Mothers of men; Christmas mother poems; Lullabies; The joy of motherhood; Old-fashioned mother poems; Sonnets on motherhood; Tributes to mothers. It includes poems by Wordsworth, Tennyson, Coventry Patmore, Eugene Field, Jane and Ann Taylor, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and other English and American poets. Masefield’s “C. L. M.” and Henley’s “Matri dilectissimæ” are not included. There is an imaginative introduction by the editor, about a child and a garden; and indexes of first lines, of titles and of authors.