Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 28)
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“The collection shows both discrimination and wide reading.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 27 ‘17 160w
Cleveland p90 Jl ‘17 40w
“A collection of verse that contains neither the sentimental nor the banal, nor does it ever descend to doggerel however well intentioned. A book that one need not apologize for sending to anybody’s mother.”
+ Ind 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w
MCCULLOUGH, ERNEST.[2] Practical structural design. il $2.50 U. P. C. bk. co. 624 17-29163
“A text and reference work for engineers, architects, builders, draftsmen and technical schools; especially adapted to the needs of self-tutored men.” (Sub-title) The book is an outgrowth of a series of articles that appeared in the numbers of Building Age from 1914 to 1916, with the title “Design of beams, girders and trusses.” Before writing the articles the author had used the subject matter in evening classes where it was presented to the type of “self-tutored” men for whom in particular the book is planned. Contents: External forces; Internal forces; Problems in design of beams; Girders and trusses; Joints and connections; Graphic statics; Columns and structures. The author is a member of the American society of civil engineers and is a licensed structural engineer and licensed architect of the State of Illinois.
“If in our college days one of us had dared to tell our professor of mechanics or structures that a really comprehensive text could have been written without the use of calculus or algebra, he would certainly have been classed with the heretics. The writer has always felt, however, that such a thing could be done and now his belief is realized in Mr McCullough’s admirable work. Although containing only 293 pages, it is difficult to find a phase of structural engineering such as is likely to be encountered in the city practice of a designing engineer which is not covered in a satisfactory manner.” W. S. Edge
+ + Engin News-Rec 80:128 Ja 17 ‘18 500w
MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR. Green fancy. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-23981
Green fancy is a strange hidden house on the American border of Canada. In and around it royal personages, third-rate actors, a New York man of the world, a beautiful woman, an Irishman of fortune, an international crook, all play their parts in an exciting drama of European intrigue.
“The narrative gallops along at a rapid rate, with plenty of dramatic incidents and exciting situations, while the author garnishes characters, incidents, and narratives with touches of humor.”
+ N Y Times 22:349 S 16 ‘17 290w
“It is a light romance, but the element of mystery is well sustained after the manner of such writers.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 O 14 ‘17 240w
MACDONALD, ALLAN JOHN MACDONALD. Trade politics and Christianity in Africa and the East; with an introd. by Harry Johnston. *$2 Longmans 266 16-22960
“This able book won the Maitland prize at Cambridge for an essay on the thesis, ‘Problems raised by the contact of the West with Africa and the East, and the part that Christianity can play in their solution’—one of the fundamental questions, that is, which confront the Empire and cannot be evaded. The chapters on the liquor traffic in West Africa and in Ceylon are very painful reading. ... Mr Macdonald discusses the difficult question of mixed marriages, and concludes that ‘the Eurasian, so long as he exists ... must be treated, if not as a social equal by the members of either dominant race, at least as a man and a brother in the great Christian community.’”—Spec
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Ath p475 O ‘16 120w
N Y Br Lib News 4:94 Je ‘17
“Sir Harry Johnston, who is rated an authority on English colonial matters, contributes an interesting introduction.”
+ N Y Times 22:242 Je 24 ‘17 70w
Pittsburgh 22:430 My ‘17 100w
“From first to last Mr Macdonald seeks after truth in such a temperate manner that his book will be read with pleasure even by those who will differ from some of his views.”
+ Sat R 122:sup8 N 4 ‘16 1550w
“Sir Harry Johnston’s introduction is a remarkable tribute to the Christian missionary.”
Spec 117:556 N 4 ‘16 160w
“An extensive, detailed, and able review of labour and liquor problems in Africa, India and China.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p455 S 21 ‘16 140w
“While one may not be convinced by Mr Macdonald’s argument, and there are slips in his ethnological statements ... his book is valuable for its full and impartial account of the difficulties between Europeans and natives as they exist at the present moment.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p520 N 2 ‘16 1100w
356MACDONALD, GEORGE. Evolution of coinage. (Cambridge manuals of science and literature) il *45c (1c) Putnam 332 17-8356
The introductory chapter gives in brief the early history of coinage. Subsequent chapters take up: Coinage and the state; The material of coinage; Form, and methods of production; Types; Legends; Dates, and marks of value; Key to the plates. Select bibliography and Index follow. Eight plates illustrate the volume.
“An account, admirably written and illustrated, of the development of coinage in its technical and general aspects. The economic history of the subject is not included in the author’s plan.” C. D.
+ Am Econ R 7:413 Je ‘17 50w
“It would be difficult to imagine a better introduction to numismatics.” H.
+ Eng Hist R 32:316 Ap ‘17 90w
“His illustrations are excellent.”
+ Spec 118:593 My 26 ‘17 100w
MACDONALD, J. RAMSAY. National defence. *2s 6d Allen & Unwin, London 172.4
“In this small book Mr MacDonald concentrates his attention not on the peace problem of the moment or on post-war international policies, but on a criticism of ‘militarism’ as a principle and as a means of national defence. He does not, that is to say, here attack the war spirit and compulsory military service on humanitarian or sentimental grounds, but on grounds of national defence as the most likely means to promote what it is supposed to prevent; ‘created to give a sense of security and to defend, whereas its very existence keeps fear alive and adds to danger.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Ath p106 F ‘17 130w
“A chapter on ‘A democratic Germany and peace’ is a significant warning to those who expect the Germans to translate military defeat into a pacific democracy. The Germans may rid themselves of their reigning house, as the French rid themselves of Napoleon III in 1871, without wishing to forget the war.” M. J.
Int J Ethics 27:529 Jl ‘17 430w
Pratt p10 O ‘17 50w
Spec 119:189 Ag 25 ‘17 200w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p59 F 1 ‘17 100w
MACDONALD, JAMES ALEXANDER. North American idea. (Cole lectures for 1917) $1.25 Revell 18-273
“A course of lectures delivered in the early part of the present year under the auspices of the Vanderbilt university of Nashville, Tenn., by the editor of the Toronto Globe. ... The North American idea which the author sets forth, is a recognition of the law of the world’s good will as an infinite and immutable law of the ordered life of human society and as the law of the world’s good will. This law of good will never is broken. No more than the law of gravitation can ever be broken. The world’s good will is law for all nations. Its transgression makes inevitable Germany’s undoing. ... ‘Already the leaders of world-opinion, at all the battle fronts of the world’s mind have learned the truth of the Christ dictum in the realm of world politics, that no nation can live to itself or can die to itself alone.’ An internationalized world is to be the outcome of the present world conflict of ideas. North America must play her part in the great conflict of ideas. Her preparedness must be that of the American mind, consciousness and will. ‘Service is the measure of our civilization. Service for others is the keynote of our democracy.’”—Boston Transcript
“Dr Macdonald has gained an international reputation, which the present volume will surely enhance.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 26 ‘17 360w
Cleveland p135 D ‘17 30w
Ind 92:256 N 3 ‘17 80w
“Of prominent importance is Dr Macdonald’s enlightening review of United States history, and that of the Dominion. Of the latter he exposes great ignorance among us. Startling is his exposure of General Bernhardi’s secret mission hither in 1913 to prepare Germans for mischief among us in the coming war.”
Outlook 117:184 O 3 ‘17 180w
“The reader is, perhaps, led to share the speaker’s zeal for democracy and internationalism. But as an exposition of North America’s attitude toward these greatest of causes the book is altogether inadequate. Comparatively little of the political achievement of either Canada or the United States is presented by the speaker.”
– + Springf’d Republican p17 O 21 ‘17 200w
MCDOUGALL, GRACE. Nurse at the war. il *$1.25 (3½c) McBride 940.91 17-20977
This is the story of the “F.A.N.Y. corps” in Flanders and France, told by the Scottish nurse who started the work in September, 1914. The corps has now over 50 members working in the zone of the armies, and a few more in a convalescent camp in the center of France. They are doing motor ambulance, first aid, base hospital, and convalescent canteen work.
“Here is one of the most modest books to have grown out of the war. The author’s name does not even appear upon the title page. ... Among the most inspiring parts of the narrative are those which tell of struggles against early official refusal to accept women’s service, when male prejudice and mistaken kindness prevented and delayed the entrance of woman to one of her truest and noblest fields of activity.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 27 ‘17 300w
“‘Graphic’ the publishers term it, and the word is none too strong. Besides being graphic, it has an air of hurry that suits well the incidents that it relates. She does not parade horrors, but her buoyancy is so irrepressible that neither does she shrink from letting them appear in all their ghastliness.”
+ Nation 105:610 N 29 ‘17 190w
+ N Y Times 23:344 S 16 ‘17 90w
MCDOWELL, WILLIAM FRASER. Good ministers of Jesus Christ. (Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching) *$1.25 Abingdon press 251 17-15666
“Dr McDowell is a bishop in the Methodist church. ... [In this book] he divides the work of the Christian ministry into eight divisions, using the work of Christ as a basis and guide for these aspects. He terms them revelation, redemption, incarnation, reconciliation, rescue, conservation, co-operation and inspiration.”—Springf’d Republican
“The lectures have large-mindedness as to practical problems of religion and wisdom in dealing with men. Every page has suggestions for the preacher.” A. S. Hoyt
+ Am J Theol 21:633 O ‘17 340w
“Bishop McDowell is, in our judgment, strongest in his chapters on redemption and rescue. The terseness and beauty of the style is an outstanding feature of the lectures.”
+ Bib World 50:315 N ‘17 70w
“Assuming that his hearers intended to enter the ministry of the Christian church, he has tried to show them in these eight lectures how they may become good ministers of Jesus Christ. He speaks as one who has had thorough training for and long experience in the Christian ministry.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 3 ‘17 830w
“The style is clear and incisive, the substance rich with accumulated wisdom and instinct with passionate earnestness.”
+ Ind 91:354 S 1 ‘17 60w
“In the long series of these annual lectures this last is inferior to none. It is characteristically inspirational and vitalizing.”
+ Outlook 117:143 S 26 ‘17 140w
“The book is an interpretation of the ideals of Wesley’s followers in the light of modern needs and modern thought. ... It is interesting to 357note the many divergencies of thought from the very excellent series of lectures delivered on the same foundation [Lyman Beecher foundation, Yale university] in 1915, by President Hyde of Bowdoin college, entitled ‘The gospel of good will.’ The two series, read together, give one an admirably-balanced view of the religious needs of men and women to-day.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Je 8 ‘17 400w
MACE, ARTHUR C., and WINLOCK, HERBERT EUSTIS. Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht. il *$10; pa *$8 Metropolitan museum of art 913.32 17-2044
“The first publication of the Egyptian expedition of the Metropolitan museum is this handsome quarto volume by the assistant curators of the museum’s department of Egyptian art. The work of the expedition was begun in the winter of 1906-07 on the site of the pyramid-field of Lisht, which includes the pyramids of Amenemhat I and Senusert I, of the twelfth dynasty, with ‘royal’ cemeteries surrounding them. ... Text and drawings, photogravures and colored plates present and describe the site and the tomb, the clearing of the tomb, the coffins and canopic box, the jewelry, ceremonial staves, and pottery. Appendixes contain notes on the mummy, by Dr G. Elliott Smith, and an index of names of objects from the painted coffins. Mr Albert Morton Lythgoe, curator of the department of Egyptian art, is general editor of the publications of the expedition.”—Dial
“A careful index makes reference easy. And the book, a royal quarto, printed in clear large type, is a credit to the institution that made it possible and to the authors whose wealth of learning makes one gasp with astonishment.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 7 ‘17 850w
+ Dial 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 170w
“It will be seen that the volume under discussion is part of a large and comprehensive plan of archæological work, which neglects neither science nor the public, but has considered the needs of all with real scientific statesmanship. ... The jewelry, which is very fully presented in color plates, photographs, and drawings, makes the volume of importance to all students of the goldsmith’s art.”
+ Nation 105:95 Jl 26 ‘17 1500w
“Highly specialized as it is, the record contains a good deal of general interest, and may be read with enjoyment by a wider public than that concerned merely with the results of the archaeological expedition’s work. ... It need scarcely be pointed out that the plates which illustrate the great volume—there are thirty-five of them, as well as eighty-five ordinary figure illustrations—are of the finest.”
+ N Y Times 22:117 Ap 1 ‘17 500w
MCFADDEN, GERTRUDE VIOLET. Honest lawyer. *$1.25 (1c) Lane 17-6331
A provincial neighborhood in Dorset a hundred years ago is the scene of this story. The hero is a young attorney who has just succeeded to his uncle’s practice. The heroine enters the tale in a most startling way, by sending a proposal of marriage to the lawyer-hero, who has never seen her. Just why beautiful, haughty and much sought after Quenride Chideock should have done this remains a mystery for some time. The answer involves a forged will, the foiling of a particularly black villain, a trial for felony, and a pardon obtained under unusual and romantic circumstances.
“Rather sensational tale.”
Boston Transcript p8 F 7 ‘17 250w
“The events of the story are improbable, not to say impossible; it is romance pure and simple, wholly removed from realism. ... An adherent of Mr Howells is not likely to care for the strange incidents and unheard of situations of ‘The honest lawyer’; but to those who wish to be taken out of themselves into a wholly different world from any they have known, Miss McFadden’s ingenious and well-told story may be heartily commended.”
+ N Y Times 22:152 F 11 ‘17 200w
MACFARLANE, ALEXANDER. Lectures on ten British mathematicians of the nineteenth century. (Mathematical monographs, no. 17) il *$1.25 Wiley 925 16-14318
“This posthumous publication contains most interesting biographies of ten of the leading mathematicians of the nineteenth century in Great Britain, namely, of George Peacock, Augustus De Morgan, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, George Boole, Arthur Cayley, William Kingdon Clifford, Henry John Stephen Smith, James Joseph Sylvester, Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, Isaac Todhunter. These sketches are a part of the lectures given by Dr Macfarlane at Lehigh university during the years 1901-04.”—Science
“Should appeal to all students of human nature. It is, however, of more special interest, because not only are the personalities drawn, but the work and achievements of these men are presented and discussed in considerable detail.”
+ Engin N 77:112 Ja 18 ‘17 500w
“The list is truly representative.” G. B. M.
+ Nature 99:221 My 17 ‘17 1700w
“The author’s personal acquaintance with some of these men, and with intimate friends of them, enabled him to add personal touches which will be relished by the reader. Particularly gratifying are the details about Boole and Kirkman, concerning whom little had previously appeared in print. The future historian of mathematics during the nineteenth century will find the booklet full of interesting material. ... Carelessness in the proof-reading is noticeable.” Florian Cajori
+ Science n s 45:88 Ja 26 ‘17 680w
MACFARLANE, CHARLES. Reminiscences of a literary life; with an introd. by J: F. Tattersall. *$3.50 Scribner (Eng ed 17-19702)
“A man who met Shelley at Naples and introduced him to Pompeii, who saw Keats in Italy, who talked with Hartley Coleridge at Grasmere, and who knew all the London wits of George IV’s day is a very welcome acquaintance. Charles MacFarlane, whose reminiscences have been discovered in manuscript in a country bookshop, was a prolific author now forgotten save, perhaps, for his historical novel, ‘The camp of refuge,’ which may have inspired Kingsley’s ‘Hereward the Wake.’ In later life he had to seek refuge in the Charterhouse as a Poor brother, and there, before his death in 1858, he finished dictating the two stout quartos which he meant for his son as an heirloom—and probably for the public as well. The son, an Indian officer, died in 1872, and the memoirs have been preserved by some happy chance, to be published at last by the descendant of MacFarlane’s old friend, the John Murray of Byron’s time.”—Spec
“He is an extremely lucid chronicler of events and a caustic analyst of character. ... Among the many picturesque personalities brought by MacFarlane into his book is Thomas De Quincey, whom he handles without gloves. ... It seems altogether likely that these reminiscences were never completed, or that if they were the final volumes are lost or still undiscovered.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 19 ‘17 1850w
“MacFarlane was a man of cultivated mind, was a fit associate of the varied personalities with whom he had contact. The chief value of his book lies in his reaction to those personalities. And along with his easy-going chatter about them goes an instinct for discerning the things which are characteristic, revealing.” Garland Greever
+ Dial 63:518 N 22 ‘17 1300w
“One of the most entertaining books of the sort published in many a day.”
+ Nation 105:611 N 29 ‘17 270w
“Full of engaging details of the literati and dilettanti of the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as some well-known Italians and Anglo-Indians. ... Writing casually, MacFarlane was not always accurate.”
+ — Sat R 123:390 Ap 28 ‘17 1150w
358“He hated Radicals, loathed Miss Martineau and De Quincey, and bore a seemingly justifiable grudge against Charles Knight, for whom he wrote ‘The pictorial history of England’ and other popular books; but there was no real malice in his nature. ... His meeting with Shelley fills the first, and best, chapter in the book. ... MacFarlane’s serious books are forgotten, but his reminiscences will be read and quoted for a long time to come.”
+ Spec 118:643 Je 9 ‘17 2300w
“He is as honest as a very determined and rather prejudiced old gentleman may be. Down go his likes and dislikes, all pat; and since he took care to know a good many of the interesting people in the first half of his century, writes about them honestly, and engagingly ‘gives himself away’ in so doing, his book is lively from start to finish.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p163 Ap 5 ‘17 1750w
MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLA (CANFIELD). Boys and girls of many lands. il *$1.25 (3c) Crowell 17-25294
It is the author’s purpose to tell for American children something of the every day lives of boys and girls of other countries. A little African boy, Carl of Australia, Our playmates in Austria, Jaurez, a lad of the Amazon, A little maid of old Quebec, Boys and girls in China, are the titles of a few of the twenty and more chapters. There are sixteen illustrations from photographs. Mrs McFee is author of “Outlines, devices and recreations in United States geography,” “Studies in American and British literature,” and other books for school use.
MACGILL, PATRICK. Soldier songs. *$1 Dutton 821 17-20683
“In his third book of the war, Mr MacGill turns from prose to verse. As his ‘Songs of the dead end’ were written out of the life of his youth in Ireland, so these ‘Soldier songs’ are the lyrical expression of the sights and sounds he encountered a few years later in the midst of ‘war’s orgies of carnage.’ To him war has a charm, but it is merely the charm of adventure that adds to the joy of living and that gives him a theme for writing. ... In a dedicatory letter addressed to ‘My dear H. J.’—which initials undoubtedly represent his London publisher, Mr Herbert Jenkins—Mr MacGill responds to a request for information about the favorite songs of the soldier on active service.”—Springf’d Republican
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“In all these poems there is never absent that strong sense of the part played by nature in man’s life which is always conspicuous in Mr MacGill’s prose as well as in his verse. He responds eagerly and vigorously to the scenes amid which he is suddenly placed.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 26 ‘17 1600w
“The easy dialect of the trenches predominates, but in spite of this, literary quality is not lacking in many of the poems. ‘Marching’ and ‘Before the charge’ are fine bits of verse.”
+ Cath World 106:408 D ‘17 120w
Cleveland p121 N ‘17 90w
Ind 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 60w
“Noteworthy for its hearty rhythm, its sturdy originality of phrasing, and for the courageous spirit which permeates it. By a strange paradox, this poet has found in battle the sanity of outlook not noticeable in the work he wrote in times of peace.”
+ Lit D 55:41 Jl 7 ‘17 350w
“We recommend to all who look upon war as something worth all its ghastly horrors in the ‘purifying’ results it bestows on mankind the poems entitled ‘After the war,’ ‘Out yonder,’ ‘Red wine,’ ‘The return,’ ‘A vision,’ ‘The everyday of war,’ and particularly ‘Letters.’ Be it remembered that these poems are the testimony of a man who finds a justification for this war.” D: P. Berenberg
+ — N Y Call p14 Ag 5 ‘17 240w
“Like everything of MacGill’s, they are ‘different’ from anything else. They are, besides, a genuine contribution to the few specimens of real poetry produced by the war.”
+ N Y Times 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 620w
+ R of Rs 56:105 Jl ‘17 100w
“Make somewhat grim reading, but they are not as harsh as his prose, and now and again a note of unexpected and delicate tenderness is heard. ... It is indeed a signal proof of versatility that the trench poems written in the crudest slang and the reverent and dignified lines on the crucifix in Givenchy church should have come from the same pen.”
+ Spec 118:76 Ja 20 ‘17 70w
“Criticism of the songs as works of art, beyond allowing their metrical passability, would show them to fall between two stools, since they are not poetry on the one hand, not spontaneous expression of crude emotion, on the other.”
– + Springf’d Republican p6 S 17 ‘17 420w
“These songs seem perhaps more than any verse of so strictly ‘soldierly’ a type that has come from the trenches to bring home to us something that is really alive—to ‘get there,’ if the expression may be allowed—more truly and easily, and without a touch of jingling bravado.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p503 O 19 ‘16 400w
MACGRATH, HAROLD. Luck of the Irish; a romance. il *$1.40 (1½c) Harper 17-25084
William Grogan, born in New York, thrown upon the streets at nine, a journeyman plumber at twenty-four, is the kind of hero who, like “the Hindu Yogi, could set his body grinding corn, take his soul out and go visiting with it.” For three years from his cellar shop window he had seen the same two shapely feet, sensibly shod, trip lightly by. Saturdays minus and the gap of July and August led him to the conclusion that she was a school teacher. He had never seen her face. “There were lots of homely women with pretty feet. He hadn’t many illusions left, this young philosopher of the soldering-iron, and he wanted to keep this one.” The wheel of fortune turns. A part of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is dumped into his lap. He puts himself aboard a ship for a trip around the world. The pair of feet is on the same boat. Mystery with plenty of treachery spices the story which must be left to the reader.
Cleveland p128 N ‘17 60w
“A lively tale, the interest of which depends almost entirely upon its plot, and, though in the climax at Singapore it does seem as if the author might have managed to concoct a more plausible excuse for the delay which enabled William to arrive in the very nick of time, the story as a whole is amusing.”
+ — N Y Times 22:394 O 14 ‘17 430w
MACHARG, WILLIAM, and BALMER, EDWIN. Indian drum. il *$1.40 (1½c) Little 17-25511
It was an Indian superstition—that the drum, hidden somewhere in the woods at the northern end of Lake Michigan, tolled the passing of every soul lost on the lakes. Twenty years before, when the freighter “Miwaka” had gone down with all on board, the drum had beaten short. Twenty-five was the number of the lost, but the drum made the count twenty-four. And there were those who had waited many years for the return of a rescued man. The story opens with the disappearance of Benjamin Corvet of Chicago, veteran ship owner and best known man on the lakes. Coincident with this is the arrival in Chicago of young Alan Conrad of Kansas, who had been summoned by Corvet. Henry Spearman, youngest member of the firm Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman, insists that the senior partner is dead, but Constance Sherrill refuses to be convinced and encourages Alan in his search for the missing man. The mystery shrouding Alan and his relationship to Corvet, together with the explanation of the connection between Corvet and Spearman and 359the lost “Miwaka” is cleared away with the wreck of Carferry 25, when the count of the Indian drum is again one beat short.
“An unusually good mystery story.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:97 D ‘17
“The tale is clearly and pleasantly told, the characters acceptably real, and the solution eminently satisfactory.”
+ N Y Times 22:401 O 14 ‘17 230w
“The plot is painstakingly worked out and the book is better written than most plot stories. The power and tragedy of the Great Lakes in time of storm form an impressive background.”
+ Outlook 117:219 O 10 ‘17 70w
“The big scene on the lake steamer when the cars get loose recalls the place in ‘Ninety-three’ where the gun breaks loose between decks and begins to batter the ship to pieces. The incident is as thrilling as anything short of Flanders.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ Pub W 92:1372 O 20 ‘17 370w
“The story, despite the obviousness of its dramatic struggle, is skilfully constructed, its air of mystery being well sustained.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p13 D 16 ‘17 280w
MACHEN, ARTHUR. Terror. *$1.25 (3½c) McBride 17-25086
An ingenious mystery story, impossible, fantastic, yet with a moral that sets thoughtful people musing. Rural England which is the scene has a succession of strange deaths. Workers in munition factories, miners, farmers, tourists and laborers are stricken down, some apparently asphyxiated, others victims of inexplainable violence. The theory is suggested that the Germans, before the war, undermined the earth, and, from hidden vantage points, are making use of some deadly ray to destroy the people. In the end it is revealed that the terror had been due to a mute uprising of the brute creation against their human masters who, in descending to the plane of beasts to conduct warfare, had released their spiritual hold over the animal creation. The subjects revolted because their king abdicated his throne. Hatred is contagious. The animals under its spell turned on man to destroy him.
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“‘The terror’ is a pure tour de force in diabolism. With its haunting unreality, its many passages of real beauty, its passages of description of Welsh scenery, no little pleasure may be derived from its chapters.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 O 31 ‘17 130w
Ind 92:192 O 27 ‘17 60w
“Artfully does the story-teller establish his fiction upon an indubitable fact, fresh in every reader’s mind. The British were inactive; we all wondered why at the time, and here, says our deponent, with his crisp reporter’s air, is the answer.”
+ Nation 105:457 O 25 ‘17 550w
“The horrors that mark the animals’ sudden war upon mankind seem isolated from their cause, and do not convince one of any real terror at the root of them. In spite of the disappointment, and the defect of a good idea not vigorously carried out, ‘The terror’ is a distinguished book, and bears the mark of a strangely original mind.”
+ — New Repub 13:158 D 8 ‘17 150w
“The fancy is an excellent one, and on the whole well worked out, though, naturally, there are many things left unexplained, and some that do not hang very well together. But as ‘A tale of terror’ it certainly qualifies, and we should conjecture that the book has not been published in England, though it, no doubt, will be after the war.” J. W.
+ — N Y Call p14 O 14 ‘17 530w
N Y Times 22:400 O 14 ‘17 320w
“Daring, ingenious tale.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:808 D ‘17 50w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p70 F 8 ‘17 80w
MACIVER, ROBERT MORRISON. Community: a sociological study. *$3.75 (3c) Macmillan 301 17-17545
“A small portion of this work has already appeared in the Sociological Review and other quarters. The greater portion is concerned with what are believed by the author to be the fundamental laws of social development. Prof. Maciver declares that social science, in order to advance, must cease to be subject to the methods and formulæ of physical and biological science. It has a method of its own; and social relations cannot adequately be stated quantitatively, nor understood as expressions of quantitative laws. Of militarism the author remarks that it has been the enemy of modern social development, and that, if it cannot be overcome, ‘in all we do to build a greater civilization we are preparing greater offerings to the powers of destruction.’”—Ath
“This is easily the most notable book of the year in sociology. ... It is impossible to outline in a satisfactory manner the argument of a book so fertile in ideas. The only fair thing that the reviewer can do is to urge all interested in social science to read the book. It is far easier, however, to criticise the work, and in certain respects it deserves criticism. It is doubtful, for example, if the author has rendered sociology a service by adding another terminology to the many already in existence. ... Finally, Professor Maciver’s attempt to make psychology purely a subjective science, the science of ‘the knower’ (p. 60), and thereby divorce the social sciences quite entirely from it, will scarcely meet with approval on the part either of psychologists or of a large number of sociologists. These are, however, on the whole, minor defects in a work whose substantial value nearly all students of the social sciences will heartily recognize.” C: A. Ellwood
+ — Am Econ R 7:598 S ‘17 950w
“It strikes one as a serious omission that almost no reference is made to the contributions of earlier writers to the same theme. ... On the other hand, the author shows no particular familiarity with the sociological tradition. For that reason the terms used in this book are more or less improvised, consequently lacking in precision, and the whole volume is vague, thin, plausible, and innocuous.” R. E. Park
— Am J Soc 23:542 Ja ‘18 550w
Reviewed by L. L. Bernard
Am Pol Sci R 11:772 N ‘17 770w
“What makes Dr Maciver’s volume so helpful is the fact that it was written before the outbreak of war and is published unaltered. It is a masterly book, characterized by a firm grasp of principles, and it is about principles that we want clear thinking at the present time. ... The volume is refreshing in that it is neither doctrinaire nor dogmatic. The lack of pretension about the book does not, however, hide the fact that it is written with a thorough knowledge of the best work in modern psychology and philosophy.”
+ Ath p235 My ‘17 1650w
Ath p248 My ‘17 150w
Cleveland p123 N ‘17 60w
“It suffers from a certain abstractness. Again and again one needs the apt illustration which will serve to drive home the point that has been made. It is a well-arranged book; and a student who is acquainted with the literature of which it is a part can read it with interest and profit. It is, indeed, here that its main value lies. It is nothing so much as an encyclopædia of the problems involved in the fact of human organization. ... It is permissible to suggest that future work of this kind will be the more useful and suggestive in so far as it is written from the standpoint of historical experience.” H. J. Laski
* + – Dial 62:517 Je 14 ‘17 1850w
“Dr Maciver has done valuable service not only in providing us with a summary analysis of acquired results, but also reminding the specialist of the immense value of a wide outlook. The author disarms criticism by acknowledging that the subject is too vast for any adequate survey to be made in the present 360state of our knowledge. On the whole Dr Maciver’s book is completely successful.” C. D. Burns
+ Hibbert J 16:175 O ‘17 680w
“Remarkable book—remarkable for the vigour, originality and precision of the views presented. ... Of the two appendices, A is a very masterly criticism of neo-Hegelian identification of the state with society. It is, perhaps, in this illuminating criticism of authorities such as Professor Bosanquet in this appendix and of M. Durkheim (p. 87), Mr William McDougall (p. 79) that Dr Maciver is at his best.” M. J.
+ Int J Ethics 28:292 Ja ‘18 340w
Nation 105:698 D 20 ‘17 340w
“We may express our gratitude for so able and suggestive a plea for the value and importance of individual human personality in the life of community, a plea more deeply significant against the background of present-day happenings.” W. L. S.
+ Nature 100:124 O 18 ‘17 1000w
“While there is no question that what he has written is of high ability, Mr Maciver has yet certain defects of outlook and method which detract from the value of his thought. His thesis is over-elaborated. ... What is more serious is the unreal atmosphere of the book. Again and again it becomes difficult to grasp the vital fact that of this community we are ourselves part. There is missing the apt historical illustration which would lend point to the argument. ... Not the least serious defect in Mr Maciver is his seeming ignorance of vital tracts of human experience which are essential to his theme. ... If this is for the most part a criticism that is adverse, it is because Mr Maciver has written what is an indispensable book.” H. J. L.
+ — New Repub 11:283 Jl 7 ‘17 2200w
Pratt p8 O ‘17 40w
“A very able and penetrating analysis of communal development in the broadest sense.”
+ Spec 119:331 S 29 ‘17 120w
“We needed this book badly. Of the thousands who lightly talk about ‘national reconstruction,’ how many question the issues involved? This book provides a real preparation for the task.” A. H. Burnett
+ — Survey 39:201 N 24 ‘17 540w
“This book, the work of a Canadian professor, is one of unmistakable originality. ... In precision of language, in accuracy of definition, in the expulsion of indefinite phraseology, Mr Maciver’s volume contrasts, to his advantage, with the bulk of sociological literature. Certain pages are in the best style of philosophical exposition. But Mr Maciver does not wholly escape the besetting sin of sociologists—diffuseness.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p194 Ap 26 ‘17 1500w
MACKAY, CONSTANCE D’ARCY. Little theatre in the United States. il *$2 (3c) Holt 792 17-29335
Aims to give a complete survey of one of the “newest, freest, most potent and democratic forces in the art of the American stage.” The author shows that the idea of little theatres came from Europe. In Paris in 1887 the first experiment was launched by André Antoine. In America the movement is new, dating from 1911-12. The “arch-foe of commercialism,” this great promoter of common interest has grown rapidly in America. The chapters describe the contributions and achievements of the more important little theatres of the United States and tell of the work going on in the laboratory theatres of the universities. There is also a word on the cost of little theatres, on repertory theatres, and on little theatres that have failed.
+ Cleveland p135 D ‘17 50w
“A crisply written informational volume.”
+ R of Rs 57:107 Ja ‘18 480w
“The author has done little more than bring together trivial notes and opinions. ... And the information is frequently inaccurate.”
– + Springf’d Republican p17 N 11 ‘17 330w
“Meets a real need to satisfy requests for the history of the little-theater movement.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 14:30 Ja ‘18 80w
MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY). Journal of small things. *$1.35 (2c) Duffield 940.91 17-8206
The author writes of France in the early days of the war. The preface, by W. L. Courtney, says: “Those who have read Mrs Mackay’s book which she entitled ‘Accidentals,’ will know exactly what to expect from her new book ‘Journal of small things.’ Like the early one it consists of a series of little sketches more or less in the form of a diary, vignettes taken from a very individual angle of vision. ... The precise quality of them is that they are extremely individual and intimately concerned with the little things—episodes half observed, half forgotten, which cluster round a big tragedy.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:396 Je ‘17
+ Ath p106 F ‘17 60w
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 570w
“The writer’s intense sympathy with the sufferings she records is unmarred by emotionalism, and permits her to produce an account objective enough to be valuable; and, although Mrs Mackay is apparently not a Catholic, the ‘Journal’ is full of a beautiful reverence for the religion of the French people.”
+ Cath World 105:838 S ‘17 250w
“This is the record of a spiritual development, and it is by far the most impressive, the most poignant which this reviewer has yet found in the mass of war literature. It is a volume to be read and reread, and always to be kept near at hand.”
+ + Dial 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 230w
+ Ind 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 40w
“It stays with one, with its heartache and its beauty; not for themselves and their lost homes, but over and over again—‘Sauvez la France.’”
+ N Y Times 22:182 My 6 ‘17 600w
+ Outlook 116:33 My 2 ‘17 60w
Pittsburgh 22:682 O ‘17 80w
+ Sat R 123:sup6 My 19 ‘17 190w
“The book is sad, it cannot be otherwise, but it is truthfully sad and is informed with a delicate sentiment which is never sentimental and which gives to her sketches contrasts of light, shade, and atmosphere.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p32 Ja 18 ‘17 400w
MACKAY, MRS ISABEL ECCLESTONE (MACPHERSON). Up the hill and over. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-10164
A little village in Canada, very amusingly described, is the scene of this story. Dr Henry Callandar, of Montreal, seeking mental rest and change of scene, finds both in Coombe, where he buys out the practice of old Dr Simmonds. Well-wishers inform him that old Dr Simmonds really has no practice to sell and that Coombe is an unprofitably healthy town, but all this fits in perfectly with Dr Callandar’s plans. He comes into town on foot, like a tramp, and his first encounter is with Esther Coombe, the young school mistress. What promises at first to be a very pretty love story is interrupted by the meeting between Callandar and Esther’s stepmother. Callandar and Mary Coombe had known one another in the long past and there is that between them that throws the shadow of tragedy over the awakening of a new love. But the shadow lifts, making for the story a sunny ending.
+ A L A Bkl 13:405 Je ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 2 ‘17 350w
“The rather melodramatic plot is redeemed by skillful character drawing.”
+ — Cleveland p128 N ‘17 50w
+ Lit D 54:1857 Je 16 ‘17 180w
“A book with which we are glad to have made friends.”
+ N Y Times 22:126 Ap 8 ‘17 350w
361“An unusual novel of Canadian life by a Vancouver writer. It is admirably written and very interesting. There is truth, humor, and charm in the pictures both of the place and the people, while the construction is exceptionally good and the plot well and logically developed.”
+ Ontario Library Review 1:119 My ‘17 150w
MACKAY, LUCY GERTRUDE.[2] Housekeeper’s apple book. *75c Little 641.5 17-29531
The author classes the apple among the most essential foods and gives over 200 recipes for its use. Apple sauce and apple salads, baked apples and fried apples, apple puddings, pies, cakes and dumplings are all here, with many variations. The book is indexed.
A L A Bkl 14:117 Ja ‘18
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ja 13 ‘18 70w
MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE. Canterbury pilgrims. *$1 Macmillan 812 17-403
Percy MacKaye’s play “The Canterbury pilgrims” was published in 1903. This operatic version was prepared in the summer of 1914. With music by Reginald De Koven it was given its first performance at the Metropolitan opera house in New York during the season of 1916-17. Geoffrey Chaucer himself is one of the characters, together with the best known of the pilgrims, the Knight, the Squire, the Friar, the Miller, and so on, not forgetting the Wife of Bath.
“That Mr MacKaye’s comedy has been out of print for some time gives a fresh interest and appeal to this operatic version. ... Long regarded as one of the finest of Mr MacKaye’s poetic dramas, it has now achieved the highest recognition in this country.”
+ Boston Transcript p9 Ja 10 ‘17 400w
“Rare among librettos in English, it is readable. ... Where Chaucer has failed him is in the matter of plot, and the effort to supply the deficiency is not so fortunate. ... In the play, as it was published in 1903, there was more opportunity to seek safety in an entirely appropriate discursiveness. The condensation necessary in an opera makes the incongruity of the plot only the more apparent.”
+ — Nation 104:411 Ap 5 ‘17 250w
“With the possible exception of the Prioress, the characters are convincing portrayals. The whole affords relaxation for the student of Chaucer and satisfaction for the lover of good stories.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 My 22 ‘17 350w
MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE. Community drama; its motive and method of neighborliness; an interpretation. *50c (10½c) Houghton 792.6 17-17646
The substance of this book was “delivered as a lecture before the American civic association in 1916. ... Mr MacKaye considers community drama the ‘ritual of democratic religion.’ Also by offering a dramatic channel for social consciousness he would convert the mentality of competition into the mentality of coöperation, and foster the growth of the international mind, thus making end to war.” (R of Rs) The appendix gives newspaper comments on the production of “Caliban” in New York in 1916.
A L A Bkl 14:49 N ‘17
“As Mr MacKaye admits, there are other excellent ways of attaining the ‘international spirit,’ there are other ‘substitutes for war,’ but no one who reads this little book can deny that he proves his own scheme to be at least worth the trying. ... Little attention is given to the rather important subject of the effect of this new amateur ‘community drama’ on expert and professional acting and authorship.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Jl 11 ‘17 250w
Cleveland p135 D ‘17 110w
“It is too slight to be of much value to the student of sociology or of the drama, nor specific enough to be of service to those interested in the practical aspects of the pageant or community play, and too emotional—too sentimental—to carry conviction to the intellectually aware.”
— Dial 63:277 S 27 ‘17 280w
— Ind 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w
R of Rs 56:443 O ‘17 130w
MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE. Sinbad the sailor. *$1.25 Houghton 812 17-10549
The tales of “Sinbad the sailor” and “Beauty and the beast” have been fused to make this “lyric phantasy” in a prelude and three acts. A note says that music for the play has been composed by Frederick S. Converse.
“An extravagant but entertaining phantasy. ... Full descriptions make the play effective for reading aloud.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:440 Jl ‘17
“The dialogue consists of sprightly nonsense on the Gilbertian order, and there are some good lyrics. The settings and transformations, the work of Joseph Urban, seem, as described, to be the last word in modern lighting and stagecraft.”
Cleveland p75 Je ‘17 100w
“Percy MacKaye proves himself more the poet than the dramatist for ‘Sinbad’ ends with all its ‘first line frenzy’ of inspiration, fancy, visualization, lyricism, naïvete, whimsicality in dramatic structure gone, lost in dull verbiage, vanished in its middle act.”
+ — Ind 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
N Y Br Lib News 4:75 My ‘17
“If Mr MacKaye were an unknown, struggling author, one could offer him at least the gift of silence. But for a man of his standing in the world of literature and the drama to put forth such a ‘lyric phantasy’ as ‘Sinbad’ is calculated to make the judicious grieve.”
— N Y Times 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 200w
+ Pratt p36 O ‘17 20w
MCKELLAR, K. B. Machine gun practice and tactics for officers, N. C. O.’s and men. *90c Macmillan 358 17-18610
A concise manual on methods of organization and machine gun units and sequence of training which has grown out of three years of experience at the front and in instructing men for active service in the present war.
A L A Bkl 14:113 Ja ‘18
+ Ind 92:343 N 17 ‘17 20w
R of Rs 56:550 N ‘17 30w
MACKENNA, ROBERT WILLIAM. Adventure of death. *$1.50 (5c) Putnam 218 17-15977
Chapters on The great adventure; The fear of death; The painlessness of death; Euthanasia; What life gains from death; Does death end all? by a British physician who “has enjoyed exceptional opportunities of studying the state of mind and demeanour of those who are at the point of death, and of gathering and collating the experiences of soldiers who have faced the perils of war.” Dr MacKenna believes that a normal man in perfect health has “in some degree a salutary fear of death,” but that “when his hour comes, in almost every case the fear is lost, that a physician has no right to end the life of an apparently hopeless sufferer; that death in itself is painless, and that there is nothing inherently impossible in the survival of personality.”
“No one is likely to find the slightest difficulty in following the argument of ‘The adventure of death,’ for it is very clearly written. Its chief blemishes are the over-abundance of quotations from the poets and philosophers—some of which seem to have more sound than relevance—and an extraordinary gaudiness of style.” J. F. S.
+ — Boston Transcript p6 Je 27 ‘17 530w
Cleveland p106 S ‘17 20w
“A beautifully and simply written little book whose perusal ought to do away entirely with the fear and horror of death that lurk in the 362minds of most normal people who have never been brought into much close connection with it.”
+ N Y Times 22:281 Jl 29 ‘17 710w
“His little essay is eminently sane and comforting, and that without being a tract.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Je 19 ‘17 700w
MCKENNA, STEPHEN. Sonia; between two worlds. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-20668
“Mr McKenna elects to call his novel ‘Sonia’; but Sonia Dainton, charming if turbulent, plays in reality but a small part in it. The story is mainly concerned with the doings and development of George Oakleigh, who acts as narrator, and his two friends, Lord Loring and David O’Rane, from their schooldays at Melton—the famous English public school that stands ‘like a group of temples on a modern Acropolis’—down to the first years of the great war.”—Spec
+ A L A Bkl 14:132 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 46:205 O ‘17 650w
“Should the social historian of the future wish to find a convincing picture of one stratum of pre-war Britain he can do no better than read Stephen McKenna’s novel, ‘Sonia.’” F. I.
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 26 ‘17 1000w
“A substantial as well as absorbingly interesting novel, worth the time it takes to read.”
+ Cleveland p3 Ja ‘18 100w
“An excellent example of those novels of school and college life which only the English know how to write, perhaps because the English are the only ones who know how to live that life. But it is more than charming narration and delineation; it has a sense of the traits in British character which make it survive.”
+ Dial 63:280 S 27 ‘17 190w
“Of course, Mr McKenna has chosen to write ‘Sonia’ in the bald narrative vein for purely artistic purposes. By making the everyday life of an aristocratic order that is passing so homely and friendly, by avoiding any quick, hot anger at the impeccable and stupid extravagance of silly routine, Mr McKenna can vivify O’Rane’s contrasting point of view more enduringly than by dramatic rant.” H. S.
+ New Repub 13:103 N 24 ‘17 820w
“The novel is well written, done conscientiously, and with infinite care. A great deal of it is interesting, but unfortunately a great deal of it is excessively tiresome. It is a great pity that this should be so, for the book is in many ways excellent, an intelligently thought-out and carefully produced criticism of certain phases of English life as it was before the war.”
+ — N Y Times 22:332 S 9 ‘17 500w
“By a member of the recent British commission to Washington. The best part of this book, both for quantity and quality, consists of a review of the actions and thoughts of people in the years just preceding the war, beginning with the hero’s schooldays in 1898, and some account of the modifications which the war has brought about. We congratulate the author on much shrewd discernment and considerable wit, as well as on his attitude towards social problems. We wish we could as heartily commend his characterization, but here, especially in the case of the girl whose name figures in the title, his failure by comparison is very marked.”
+ — Ontario Library Review 1:119 My ‘17 100w
+ R of Rs 56:557 N ‘17 100w
+ Spec 118:416 Ap 7 ‘17 970w
“The description of life in Mr Oakleigh’s London in the year of fate is really brilliant, an odd frenzied London, where an eager humanitarianism, showing itself in the sincere pursuit of social reform and international understanding, could mix with senseless personal indulgence. ... It is Mr Oakleigh’s vivid impressionism as a whole, rather than its details, that gives to this book its great interest.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p116 Mr 8 ‘17 800w
MACKENZIE, CAMERON. Man who tried to be it. il *$1 (5c) Doran 17-7928
From Wellesville, where he had been general manager of a small business concern, John Hadden was called to Chicago to become president of the Consolidated shoe corporation. John Hadden was accounted a successful business man. He had power and driving force and he looked on the Consolidated as just another and wider field for the exercise of his abilities. But he failed at it, failed because he tried to do too much and because he treated his subordinates as subordinates and tried to make of them mere machines subject to his will. He failed because he tried to use in the big business methods that had been successful in the small business.
A L A Bkl 13:405 Je ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 28 ‘17 350w
“Tersely and interestingly told, and its ‘moral’ deserves a wide reading.”
+ N Y Times 22:99 Mr 18 ‘17 280w
“The author displays considerable insight into the organization and conduct of a big corporation, and the story is an illuminating reminder of how far co-operation in the management of present-day corporations has supplanted the ‘one man’ control of a not distant day.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 8 ‘17 280w
“Capital character study of business men. ... No romance and rather unpleasant.”
Wis Lib Bul 13:159 My ‘17 70w
MACKENZIE, DONALD A. Stories of Russian folk-life. *2s 6d Blackie, London
“This volume of the ‘Story and legend library’ contains seven short stories of Russian life, both ancient and modern, and an introduction in which the author gives us an interesting sketch of a few of the most prominent facts of the geography and history of the country. Some of the stories are traditional, and in one we have an exciting and tragic encounter with wolves, while in the last, and in some ways the best, there is an account of the actual moment of transition for the peasants from serfdom to liberty.”—Spec
N Y Br Lib News 4:75 My ‘17 30w
+ Sat R 123:68 Ja 20 ‘17 150w
+ Spec 117:sup609 N 18 ‘16 100w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p526 N 2 ‘16 50w
“‘Stories of Russian folk-life’ is a cheerful volume, and the pictures are good. But the title does not indicate the contents very clearly. The book is apparently not translated, and it is not the retelling of old tales. Mr Donald Mackenzie’s effort appears rather to have been to tell certain stories in the folk-lore spirit.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p607 D 14 ‘16 170w
MACKENZIE, JEAN KENYON. African trail. il 50c Central committee on the united study of foreign missions. West Medford, Mass. 266 17-10203
“A textbook on the approach of the Gospel to primitive peoples was ordered of this experienced missionary, after her striking letters under the title ‘Black sheep’ had appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1915. The present work is the result, and is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature of missions.” (Boston Transcript) “For here is far more than simply an account of religious work among the Bulus. It is a poetic, impassioned setting forth of the great romantic endeavor of the messengers of the ‘tribe of God’; a description in few words of the effect on the white man of life among strange peoples; a remarkable analysis of the first results of the ‘technique of Christian living,’ the ‘ten tyings,’ on the heathen mind.” (Ind) A brief reading list is appended.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Je 9 ‘17 220w
Cleveland p123 N ‘17 50w
“The book is full of original and enlightening expressions, of keen psychology, of human sympathy. It stands beside Keable’s beautiful ‘City 363of the dawn,’ tho broader in scope and deeper in thought. It may be a good textbook. It certainly is literature.”
+ Ind 90:34 Ap 2 ‘17 170w
+ Outlook 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w
“There is not in existence any other missionary text-book that presents with such power the underlying psychology of certain African tribes.”
+ R of Rs 56:330 S ‘17 220w
MACKINTOSH, HUGH ROSS. Immortality and the future. *$1.50 (2c) Doran 218 A17-1602
Dr Mackintosh, professor of theology in New college, Edinburgh, restates the Christian doctrine of life after death “on a new foundation, after careful examination of many arguments and much evidence for and against it.” (Springf’d Republican) “In the first part of the volume he takes up the historical development of ideas concerning death and a future life among primitive races and the earlier civilizations. Then, in four chapters, he studies the doctrine of death and life set forth in the Old Testament and Judaism, in the teachings of Jesus, in the apostolic age, and during the long history of the church. The second part, which fills more than half the book, is devoted to ‘a reconstructive statement’ of the hopes of the Christian world, the reasons therefor, and the conclusions of modern belief, deduced from historical and theological research, as to immortality.” (N Y Times) “Some part of the best literature for those who wish to pursue the study of this field is mentioned in the text or footnotes.” (Preface) The first edition of this book was published in England in 1915.
+ N Y Times 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 400w
“One of the best of recent books on the subject of life after death, written from the religious point of view.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 30 ‘17 370w
MCKNIGHT, GEORGE HARLEY.[2] St Nicholas: his legend and his rôle in the Christmas celebration and other popular customs. il *$2 (5½c) Putnam 922
How a dignified bishop of the medieval church came to take on the character of our popular Santa Claus is one of the matters touched on in this book. The author has brought together a store of scattered material relating to the real life of this saint and the legends that have grown up about him. He says, “In St Nicholas the reader will come in contact with a personality of unique amiability, whose influence has permeated popular customs for many centuries and has contributed much of sweetness to human life.” The illustrations show how the saint has been pictured in popular German prints, early Italian painting and other works of art. One interesting chapter is devoted to St Nicholas plays.
“It is indeed to be regretted that we have known so little of the good Saint Nicholas himself. That want is readably and pleasantly filled in this new book.”
+ N Y Times 22:566 D 16 ‘17 350w
MCLAGLEN, LEOPOLD. Bayonet fighting. il *75c National military pub. co. 355 A18-120
The system of bayonet fighting described in this little manual was invented by Captain McLaglen about the year 1910. In it there is a certain amount of jiu-jitsu. Twenty thousand men of the 1st and 2d Expeditionary force of Australia were instructed by Captain McLaglen in the new method and it is in wide use with the British troops. The fifty-five illustrations have captions printed in French as well as English.
N Y Times 22:379 O 7 ‘17 120w
MCLAREN, A. D. Germanism from within. *$3 Dutton 914.3 17-26319
“‘Germanism from within’ by A. D. McLaren is, as the title implies, a series of studies about the German people, but they have not all been called forth by the war, as many of them were written before it. Their central theme is an analysis of Germanism. The author has lived for seven years in Germany. He was in Berlin at the time of the declaration of war, was later arrested and spent eight months in a concentration camp. Mr McLaren treats all phases of German life, political, religious and military. ... An interesting chapter is devoted to the study of the Kaiser.”—Springf’d Republican
+ A L A Bkl 13:350 My ‘17
Boston Transcript p8 Mr 14 ‘17 720w
“Thus the book is no mere by-product of the war. It is the careful work of a patient observer who has for thirty years been studying the politics, industry, education, character, and ideals of the German people.”
+ Dial 63:401 O 25 ‘17 270w
“Far indeed from any shade of pro-Germanism, he yet believes some elements in the German nature are misconstrued. For example, even the severe Prussian is not a pure materialist. Of this the universal German devotion to the Christmas festival is evidence.”
Ind 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 70w
“A journalist by profession—he was a reporter in Germany for the Sydney (Australia) Daily Telegraph from 1908 to 1915—Mr McLaren has observed German life and character from many points of view. ... There is often a certain hardness in Mr McLaren’s treatment and in his conclusion, but the reader is always aware of the great force of his logic. Mr McLaren’s chief weakness is his limited knowledge of German history.”
+ — Nation 104:687 Je 7 ‘17 220w
“His frame of mind is notably judicial and his constant aim seems to be utterly fair to the German people.”
+ N Y Times 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 330w
Pittsburgh 22:675 O ‘17 20w
R of Rs 55:551 My ‘17 100w
“The book is painstaking and often interesting, but the author, in his conscientious efforts to be strictly fair (which he is), becomes at times a trifle labored and confused in his style.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p8 Mr 23 ‘17 350w
MACLEAN, STUART. Alexis; a study of love and music. *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-22300
“Cosmopolis, a bustling provincial city somewhere in the United States, possessed a first-class musical critic. Van Alstyne Bradshaw ... was a talented composer as well as a lover of all good music, and did his sincere best to improve the taste of Cosmopolis’s very self-satisfied inhabitants. But he had had a great sorrow in his life; he was an embittered man, inclined to be pessimistic, and very lonely, until he met the boy Alexis. The son of a washerwoman and a day laborer, both Hungarians, Alexis Vaczy was a born violinist. It did not take Bradshaw long to discover this fact, and what he did to Alexis and what Alexis did to him the book tells. ... Two love-stories help to complicate the plot.”—N Y Times
A L A Bkl 14:61 N ‘17
+ Cleveland p132 D ‘17 50w
“It is not often that a reviewer finds himself in a glow over an American novel, but such is the present writer’s experience with ‘Alexis.’ ... It does not suffice to say that this story has attractive subject-matter, ... nor is it enough to say the story is exceptionally well written, or that the characters are deftly drawn, or that there is a lot of splendid talk about music and musicians. ... There is between the lines an indefinable quality of ardor, of the eagerness and intensity of youth and youthful ambitions. One knows from the start that the story will be a happy one.”
+ Dial 63:281 S 27 ‘17 200w
“While it is evidently intended to be a study of the musical temperament, and as such is not badly done, the most interesting thing in the novel is the picture of the musical and would-be musical society of Cosmopolis.”
+ N Y Times 22:349 S 16 ‘17 340w
364“The work is distinctly above the average novel in intelligence.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 F 10 ‘18 440w
MCMAHON, JOHN ROBERT. Success in the suburbs. il *$2 (3c) Putnam 630 17-14063
A book that offers to tell “how to locate, buy, and build; garden and grow fruit; keep fowls and animals.” This promise is repeated in the chapter headings: The hike to the suburbs; Scouting for a suburban home; Financing the suburban home; Legal fixings and fences; The suburbanite his own architect; The fireproof house; Remodeling old houses; The garden; Fruit trees and small fruits; Animals on the suburban place, etc. There are over forty excellent illustrations. Useful tables are given in an appendix.
A L A Bkl 14:81 D ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p7 Je 30 ‘17 430w
“An interestingly written and practically suggestive book.”
+ Cleveland p111 S ‘17 30w
“His optimism is merry, not patronizing, and the more convincing that he sets up a moderate standard, planting it in good practical advice. Of course, covering much ground, the book is suggestive, not a complete building and garden guide.”
+ Ind 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 50w
“It is a very interesting and instructive book, and combines practical, scientific, and legal instruction. With this book and personal enthusiasm it would seem possible to make a success of any suburb.”
+ Lit D 56:38 Ja 26 ‘18 200w
+ Nation 105:127 Ag 2 ‘17 430w
“To all suburbanites and would-be suburbanites I introduce this book as the most complete work on the ‘suburban game’ yet published.” G: H. Hamilton
+ N Y Call p14 Ag 12 ‘17 400w
“A practical book.”
+ N Y Times 22:165 Ap 29 ‘17 50w
“A rather slangy account of life in the suburbs, but at the same time a valuable account, for it contains many practical hints to the suburban dweller as to house and garden, orchard and poultry yard.”
+ Outlook 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 36w
“Many personal experiences are related which are of practical service to the novice in country life.”
+ R of Rs 56:220 Ag ‘17 120w
+ Springf’d Republican p19 Je 10 ‘17 400w
MACMILLAN, MARY LOUISE. More short plays. *$1.50 Stewart & Kidd 812 17-21729
This is the author’s second book of plays suitable for amateur production. “Short plays” was published in 1915. Among the seven plays in the new book are two that are rather more ambitious than the title would suggest, “Honey,” with scenes laid in a southern mill town, and “The pioneers,” an historical play of the Middle West. The remaining plays, His second girl, At the church door, The dress rehearsal of Hamlet, In Mendelesia, parts 1 and 2, and The dryad, are shorter pieces.
“All the plays are pleasing, however, viewed from different angles. ‘His second girl’ is a delightful bit of comedy. ... ‘The dryad’ is a poetic fantasy in verse that will appeal to the heart of every tree-lover.”
+ R of Rs 57:109 Ja ‘18 160w
MACMURCHY, MARJORY. Woman—bless her; not as amiable a book as it sounds. *$1 Doran 396 (Eng ed 16-21046)
“An appeal to women for proper recognition of their work in war and reconstruction. It is addressed primarily to the women of Canada, but can be read with benefit by women in the other dominions and in Britain. ‘The most useful economic and social war and reconstruction work that each woman can do,’ says Miss MacMurchy, ‘will be found more readily if she can define the economic and social duty of the class to which she belongs.’ To this end she divides women into categories. ... The writer proceeds to study the particular work in each category, to estimate its value to the nation, and to show where it can be developed and extended.”—Spec
“Useful for the facts and statistics presented.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:149 Ja ‘17
“Librarians should purchase this book and make special efforts to circulate it.”
+ Ontario Library Review 1:30 S ‘16 250w
Spec 117:837 D 30 ‘16 140w
MCNALLY, GEORGIA MAUD. Babyhood of wild beasts; with foreword by W. T. Hornaday. il *$2 Doran 17-29790
“Miss McNally was born and lived for a part of her early life on the frontier where she came to know something of the wild animals, to care for them and to feel that she understood them. The wild babies of whom she tells were some of them her own personal home friends, like Pompey, the baby lion, and others she became acquainted with in the big Bronx zoological and other gardens. All the wild babies she has known in one way or another, and the many interesting pictures are of the animals themselves.”—N Y Times
“A fascinating account.”
+ Lit D 55:59 D 8 ‘17 80w
“Through it all you get accurate scientific facts, with now and then a good scientific word smuggled in where its meaning is quite evident from the context. There is no sugar-coating of facts with silly stories. This is a book to be most heartily recommended to boys and girls of all ages.” R. F. Zametkin
+ N Y Call p18 D 15 ‘17 140w
N Y Times 22:499 N 25 ‘17 160w
MACNUTT, JOSEPH SCOTT. Modern milk problem in sanitation, economics, and agriculture. il *$2 (5½c) Macmillan 614.3 17-17296
The author is lecturer on public health service in the Massachusetts institute of technology. His book stresses “the practical and economic as well as the sanitary factors involved,” and should interest not only health officials, milk inspectors, dairymen, city dealers, legislators and physicians, but also inquiring consumers.
“The book covers practically the same ground as is covered by ‘The city milk supply’ by H. N. Parker. The chapters on the analysis of the sanitary aspects of the milk problem are well done. The chapter on the economic factors is superficial and does not even cover the secondary material available to the author. There is some valuable material in the appendix on milk statistics, grading systems, the North system, costs and prices, and milk products.” C. L. K.
+ — Ann Am Acad 74:300 N ‘17 80w
Cleveland p111 S ‘17 30w
+ Ind 92:109 O 13 ‘17 150w
N Y P L New Tech Bks p8 Jl ‘17 70w
“Probably the only work combining in concise form the economic, agricultural and sanitary features.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:818 D ‘17 50w
+ R of Rs 56:554 N ‘17 120w
“A distinct acquisition to the literature on the subject. Its most distinctive feature is its illuminating treatment of the economic factors which enter into the present-day milk problem.” L. F. Rettger
+ Science n s 46:292 S 21 ‘17 600w
“Shows in a clear and intelligent manner why there is a milk problem.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 29 ‘18 360w
“This book can be recommended as a reliable, up-to-date and readable exposition of the milk situation. Enough material in the way of facts and figures is inserted to support the argument fully.” Franz Schneider, jr.
+ Survey 39:72 O 20 ‘17 410w
365“A timely book, explaining why there is a milk problem, but more useful for the student than for the housewife or the baby’s nurse. Rosenau’s ‘Milk problem’ (1912) is more complete though now a little out of date. The bibliography (6p.) and the appendix material are excellent.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 14:29 Ja ‘18 40w
MACQUARRIE, HECTOR. How to live at the front. il *$1.25 (3c) Lippincott 355 17-24528
This is a book of “tips for American soldiers” by a second lieutenant of the British royal field artillery, who has been in the United States addressing young officers and men preparing for active service. Lieutenant MacQuarrie has tried to tell the American boys going to the front about the little things in warfare, not found in the official military textbooks or presented by staff reporters. He has much to say on discipline, on the details of life behind the firing-line and in the trenches, on the English and French people with whom the soldiers will come in contact and the British Tommy in particular, on the folks at home, the censoring of letters, the effect of war on character, and the desirability of studying the life of Jesus “to prevent war from killing your soul.” In the rather unusual chapter entitled “A curse of war,” he warns the young soldier against the fearful number of women now going about “quite unmoral and very kindhearted,” and begs him to remember that he is the father of future Americans and to give his children a fair chance.
“Told with engaging straightforwardness and humor.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:54 N ‘17
“From every aspect, light, serious, deeply human and sincerely religious, every American soldier will be helped by reading Lieutenant MacQuarrie’s book.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 26 ‘17 210w
“The author writes sensibly and clearly and enlivens his advice with anecdote, making the book enjoyable as well as informative.”
+ Cleveland p130 D ‘17 100w
“Written without pretension, it is reminiscent of the matter-of-fact advice of an elder brother who has seen the world to a younger brother who has not. It is not a book that goes to the roots of things, or tries to.”
+ Dial 63:589 D 6 ‘17 200w
+ Ind 92:342 N 17 ‘17 80w
“The author is the more to be commended for the interesting, lively, readable humanness of this volume in the light of the fact that, where he finds it needed, he does not hesitate to run the risk of seeming to ‘preach’—though never was any approach to ‘preaching’ less sentimental and less dry. The chapter on ‘A curse of war’ is frank, sane, fine.”
+ N Y Times 23:2 Ja 6 ‘18 870w
Pittsburgh 22:835 D ‘17 60w
Reviewed by Ruth Stanley-Brown
+ Pub W 92:814 S 15 ‘17 550w
“The advice is informally expressed and given in excellent spirit.”
+ R of Rs 57:215 F ‘18 100w
+ St Louis 15:417 D ‘17 30w
“It is very much to the point; thoroughly practical, shrewd, vivacious, and clear.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p33 Ja 10 ‘18 30w
MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER. Book of holidays. il *$1.25 (4c) Crowell 394 17-31084
Believing that our holidays are degenerating into mere play days, the author has taken upon himself the task of reminding us of their meaning. The book is adapted for young people. All our special days, are included: New Year’s day; Lincoln’s birthday, St Valentine’s day, Washington’s birthday, St Patrick’s day, Good Friday and Easter, May day, Arbor day, Bird day, Mothers’ day, Memorial day, Flag day, Independence day, Labor day, Columbus day, Hallowe’en, All Saints’ day, Election day, Thanksgiving day, and Christmas.
Outlook 117:615 D 12 ‘17 30w
“The book will prove profitable reading for older persons as well as the young.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 D 21 ‘17 40w
MADDOX, HARRY A. Paper; its history, sources, and manufacture. (Pitman’s common commodities of commerce) il 85c Pitman 676 17-15681
“‘A book written with a view to acquainting the general reader with a full understanding of how raw material is converted into paper. ... Gives an excellent history of the introduction of the early forms of crude paper from the East, together with matter relating to the making of paper in England and the Continent in early times.’ Inland Printer”—Pittsburgh
“Covers much the same ground as Dawe but gives more space to the history of paper making, is more detailed as to manufacture, does not contain so many descriptions of the different kinds of paper, and is sixty-five cents cheaper.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:46 N ‘17
+ Cleveland p112 S ‘17 10w
N Y Br Lib News 4:59 Ap ‘17
“Valuable for the school library—especially the historical sections.”
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p19 Ap ‘17 50w
“Mr Maddox is an authority on this subject. Descriptions of the various machines and details as to their operation, full explanations of the methods employed in making handmade papers, and other interesting facts, make the book a most valuable one for the printer, the stationer, the advertising man, the engraver, the artist, the lithographer, and others, not to mention the people directly concerned with the manufacture and sale of papers.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:341 Ap ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Printing Art p65 Mr ‘17)
+ Pittsburgh 22:458 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Inland Printer p103 Ap ‘17)
“Primarily for those concerned in making, handling or using paper, yet written in language intelligible to the general reader.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:660 O ‘17 40w
“Brief semi-technical treatise which would be instructive to the general reader interested in knowing how paper is made.”
+ Quar List New Tech Bks Jl ‘17 18w
MADSEN, ARTHUR WILHELM. State as manufacturer and trader; an examination based on the commercial, industrial and fiscal results obtained from government tobacco monopolies. *7s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 336.19 (Eng ed 16-23037)
“The purpose of this monograph is apparently to show the defects of government-managed industries, and so far as tobacco manufacture is concerned, the effort is entirely successful. The author presents brief sketches of the state tobacco monopoly in France, Italy, Austria, Japan, Spain and Sweden. He shows the financial results, the popular verdict on the quality of goods produced, and the unbusinesslike management of the public authorities. Outside of France his sources of information seem to have been meager, but there is undoubtedly an unanimous verdict against government control in all the countries treated.”—Ann Am Acad
“An appendix of over sixty pages to which the author continually refers in the text contains many valuable statistical tables. These tables derived from official reports, indicate by countries the financial results of tobacco monopolies, the wages paid to factory operatives, etc. ... Whether one agrees or disagrees with the attitude of the author towards state socialism, one is unfavorably impressed by the absence in his work of an impartial analysis of the testimonials presented, by the lack of a judicious weighing of arguments pro and con.” Simon Litman
– + Am Econ R 7:434 Je ‘17 480w
366“It is unnecessary to emphasize the point that the author’s conclusions, founded on a single industry, are not to be applied without reserve to all government undertakings.” J. T. Y.
Ann Am Acad 70:328 Mr ‘17 100w
Ath p475 O ‘16 40w
Nation 104:557 My 3 ‘17 140w
“A competent résumé of the world’s experience with the principal commercial industry carried on by the government in any considerable number of countries.”
+ New Repub 10:173 Mr 10 ‘17 400w
Spec 117:sup534 N 4 ‘16 80w
MAETERLINCK, MAURICE. Light beyond; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$2 (4c) Dodd 236
The mystery of death has always held the imagination of Maurice Maeterlinck, and of late years he has tended to give it more and more of his thought, a tendency intensified by the war. In this volume the translator has collected “a selection of essays illustrating the later stages of Maeterlinck’s quest.” They are chosen from the three volumes entitled, “Our eternity,” “The unknown guest,” and “The wrack of the storm.”
“Too frank and sincere a philosopher to assume that he can answer with finality a question which has defied the ages, he contents himself with reviewing the evidence pro and con as he sees it, leaving deductions to those who read.”
+ N Y Times 22:498 N 25 ‘17 980w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p531 N 1 ‘17 40w
MAETERLINCK, MAURICE.[2] News of spring, and other nature studies; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. il *$3 (9c) Dodd 580.4
A collection of nature studies. Only one of them, Our city gardens, reprinted from the Daily Mail [London], is new to American readers. The other papers have been selected from “The measure of the hours” and “The double garden.” The translator says, “I have taken the opportunity not only of revising my translation with some thoroughness, but also of introducing all the additions and corrections which the author has made in the French edition of these two books.” Contents: Our city gardens; The intelligence of the flowers; Perfumes; News of spring; Field flowers; Chrysanthemums; Old-fashioned flowers; The wrath of the bee. There are twenty illustrations in color by Edward J. Detmold.
“An exquisite book indeed. We may point out to those who have not read ‘The double garden’ and ‘The measure of the hours’ that the lover of beauty, as of nature, can ill-afford to miss such essays as these.”
+ N Y Times 22:558 D 16 ‘17 670w
MAGNUS, LEONARD ARTHUR. Pros and cons in the great war, a record of foreign opinion, with a register of fact. *$2 Dutton 940.91 17-2674
“An alphabetized compilation of opinions, the material for which has been drawn mainly from German and other foreign sources, with occasional reference to official documents.” (Ath) “There are many of the things which a student would look for: as atrocities, balance of power, Belgium, commercial rivalry, the Entente, envelopment of Germany, false news, the Hague conventions, hatred, Italy, Kaiser, kultur, Middle Europe, militarism, navalism, Pan-Germanism, Poland, prisoners, right of search, the United States, and the causes of the war. The book very largely contains hostile opinions, with some arguments in opposition, and some comments by the editor himself.” (Nation)
“Very useful for reference.”
+ Ath p106 F ‘17 60w
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
+ — Bookm 46:390 N ‘17 30w
“An excellent bibliography contains a long list of contemporary writings upon the war, which the ordinary reader would never know of. It must be said that the numerous pieces out of which the book is made have not always been well put together.”
+ — Nation 105:567 N 22 ‘17 370w
MAGNUSSON, CARL EDWARD. Alternating currents. il *$4 McGraw 621.31 16-24124
A work by the professor of electrical engineering in the University of Washington. “The treatment is of theory, not heavily loaded with field and shop practicalities, and aims to help students to gain an idea of internal reactions and to handle certain physical facts in mathematical shorthand. Transformers are taken up after voltage generation and circuit properties. This is followed by motors, generators, converters, insulation, polyphase power, long-distance transmission.” (Engin N)
“A good text for college classes, suitable for more advanced reference work. ... Contains problems, a few footnote references, and many diagrams, some of which are not very satisfactory.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:383 Je ‘17
“Another addition has been made to the already long list of electrical teaching texts that are primarily lecture notes arranged to satisfy the specific needs of specific institutions. By stating that the book, even though having 500 odd pages, covers only fundamentals, the scope is indicated. ... The chief feature of originality lies in pushing the study of transmission lines farther than common with undergraduates.”
+ Engin N 77:110 Ja 18 ‘17 120w
MAHER, RICHARD AUMERLE. Gold must be tried by fire. il *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-10983
As in two earlier novels, Father Maher has told a story of industrial conditions in northern New York. The scene is a mill town, dependent wholly on the paper manufacturing industry for its existence. Daidie Grattan, who three years before had thrown a wrench into her machine and walked out of a cotton factory, comes to Barton to work in the mill. In the years following her act of rebellion the girl had gone thru a bitter experience, but she had found healing at the hands of a Catholic sisterhood and with new courage had come out into the world with the hope of helping other girls. Not until she is employed in his mill does she discover that Hugh Barton is the man who had once saved her life in a crisis. The situation between these two is worked out against a background of industrial unrest, labor warring with capital, the independent manufacturer fighting for his life against the trust.
A L A Bkl 14:27 O ‘17
“Mr Richard Aumerle Maher marries his attractive working girl to the son of the millowner. As the publishers say, this does ‘bring the volume to a pleasing close,’ but I have a feeling that things do not happen so. The real strength of the novel is the dramatic picture of the industrial wars.” J: Macy
+ — Dial 63:112 Ag 16 ‘17 190w
“Like ‘The Shepherd of the North,’ by the same author, this is a tale of sentiment without being a tale of folly.”
+ Nation 104:737 Je 21 ‘17 280w
“If you start reading ‘Gold must be tried by fire’ you are compelled to finish it, although you are apt to wonder why you ever began it.”
N Y Times 22:195 My 20 ‘17 370w
“There are tenseness and power in situation and treatment.”
+ Outlook 116:32 My 2 ‘17 30w
MAHER, RICHARD AUMERLE. While shepherds watched. il *$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 244 17-28077
Father Maher has retold the story of the birth of Christ. Beginning in the early chapters with the annunciation and the visit to Elizabeth, he continues the story thru the journey 367to Bethlehem, the birth of the child and the visit of the wise men and shepherds, and closes with an interpretation of the meaning of this child’s birth to the world.
“A vivid interpretation of the Christ story suitable for the older and more thoughtful children and for adults.”
+ Ind 92:446 D 1 ‘17 30w
“Written with feeling and simplicity.”
+ N Y Times 22:564 D 16 ‘17 110w
MAHIN, JOHN LEE. Advertising; selling the consumer. 2d ed il *$2 (3c) Pub. by Doubleday for the Associated advertising clubs of the world 659 16-22121
“The author reviews the economic and social factors related to selling. He emphasizes the mediums and English of advertising rather than purely psychological principles. The power of personal salesmanship and the need of individual initiative are shown in relation to middleman and consumer. The present business organization from producer to distributor is seen to be that of profit yielding according as the group spirit is understood by the advertiser in telling his message.” (Ann Am Acad) “The work is based on lectures delivered before the School of commerce of Northwestern university, and for this new edition has been revised, with some new chapters substituted for old.” (N Y Times) The book was first published in 1914.
“This book is one of the few dynamic advertising books in the field at the present time.” H. W. H.
+ Ann Am Acad 73:231 S ‘17 90w
“An interesting feature of the book is the descriptive list of books for supplementary reading which follows each chapter.”
N Y Times 22:173 Ap 29 ‘17 200w
MAHONEY, HENRY CHARLES. Sixteen months in four German prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben; chronicled by F: A. A. Talbot. il *$1.50 McBride 940.91 (Eng ed 17-7955)
“Mr Mahoney is, by profession, an expert in photography. At the outbreak of the war he was in Germany, with his camera, on his way to take up an interesting appointment in Warsaw. Unable to get into Russia, he tried to get back into Holland, but was denounced as a spy, arrested, taken to Wesel, and subjected to the formidable ordeal of a midnight secret trial. ... Mr Mahoney was able to establish his innocence. He was not formally acquitted, but the charge was not pressed, and he was interned in Sennelager. After a time he was released, but only to be re-arrested and sent to Ruhleben, whence he was eventually returned to England as an invalid, unfit for military service. And now he tells, with Mr Talbot’s collaboration, his long and exciting story.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Altogether, the picture of ‘Prussian militarism’ exhibited by Mr Mahoney is a hideously repellent one, and his recital gives no evidence of exaggeration, either.” Joshua Wanhope
+ N Y Call p14 O 28 ‘17 1100w
“The book is more than a recital of a prisoner’s sufferings in Germany; it is a splendidly thrilling tale of heroism and adventure.”
+ N Y Times 22:478 N 18 ‘17 500w
St Louis 15:166 Je ‘17
“If anything more were needed to pillory Germany in the world’s opinion, this book would supply the deficiency. Mr Mahoney tells of the attempts of the American ambassador to mitigate the hardships of the English prisoners, and of the deceit practiced on him by the authorities. This chapter harmonizes with Mr Gerard’s own narrative.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 5 ‘18 450w
“The chief interest, if not the chief merit, of Mr Mahoney’s book lies in the fact that he has told the truth about Sennelager, where things were done which have dug a formidable gulf between the British and German peoples, and about Major Bach, the infamous commandant of that camp. ... The evil fame of the unspeakable major has penetrated into every prison camp in Germany.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p51 F 1 ‘17 1100w
MAHONEY, JOHN JOSEPH. Standards in English. (School efficiency monographs) *90c World bk. 808 17-20535
A course of study in oral and written composition for elementary schools. The course was worked out in practice while the author, now principal of the State normal school at Lowell, Mass., was assistant superintendent of schools in Cambridge. Part 1 of the book consists of a discussion of the course; part 2 of an outline of work by grades.
“The movement for economy of time has nowhere been as well carried out in actual school practice as in Mr Mahoney’s ‘Standards in English.’ The style of the book is direct and non-technical and it should be put in the hands of elementary school teachers for the distinct improvement of oral and written work in English.”
+ El School J 18:231 N ‘17 470w
MAINS, GEORGE PRESTON. James Monroe Buckley. $1.50 Meth. bk. 17-22865
“By common consent, Dr J. M. Buckley, for more than thirty years editor of the New York Christian Advocate, has been and still is the accepted spokesman and leader of American Methodism. This fact alone might entitle him to the somewhat unusual honor of a biography published during his lifetime. ... The author treats his subject in separate chapters as editor, debater and parliamentarian, traveler, and author. Not the least interesting part of the record is the story of Dr Buckley’s triumph over physical handicaps that would have discouraged an ordinary man.”—R of Rs
“We consider the book of great value. Dr Buckley is a very remarkable man. ... This book was written for a purpose, but its purpose was not simply to interest and please. It will do both, but primarily it was meant to help. ... It not only reveals the greatness of this man, but the possible greatness of every normal man.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 29 ‘17 1250w
+ Outlook 117:26 S 5 ‘17 80w
“Dr Buckley’s personality is so compelling, his versatility in thought and expression so remarkable, and his proved ability in diverse fields of activity so well known, that thousands within and without the great Methodist fold will welcome the book that his colleague, Dr Mains, has felt impelled to write. The work is naturally eulogistic, but the author does not permit himself to abandon the judicial attitude.”
+ R of Rs 56:439 O ‘17 150w
MAJOR, CLARE TREE. How to develop your personality; with a foreword by Sir Herbert Tree. il *$1 (4c) Crowell 174 16-18755
The author is a graduate of the Academy of dramatic art of London, founded by Sir Herbert Tree, and many of the principles of that school are embodied in her book. The book is divided into four parts: Physical personality; Vocal personality; Self-expression; and Mental power.
“Very practical little text book. It is primarily intended for the actor, but there is very little in it which does not apply and cannot be used with profit by any man or woman.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Jl 11 ‘17 250w
+ N Y Times 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 80w
“The author presents her teachings in a straightforward, sensible manner.”
+ R of Rs 56:106 Jl ‘17 110w
368MALORY, SIR THOMAS.[2] Romance of King Arthur and his knights of the Round table; abridged by Alfred W: Pollard. il *$2.50 (1½c) Macmillan 398.2 17-28655
This abridgment of Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur” has been made by Mr Pollard of the British museum, who had previously edited a complete edition of the work. With a scholar’s respect for a master work, the editor has refrained from revision, confining himself to the elimination of repetition. He says, “I have tried to clear away some of the underwoods that the great trees may be better seen, and though I know that I have cleared away some small timber that is fine stuff in itself, if the great trees stand out the better, the experiment may be forgiven.” A glossary is provided. Sixteen pictures in color and others in black and white are Arthur Rackham’s contribution to the book.
+ A L A Bkl 14:142 Ja ‘18
“The abridged edition, excellently illustrated by Arthur Rackham, is of distinctive literary worth and the book itself is most attractively bound.”
+ Ind 92:448 D 1 ‘17 40w
“As the omitted matter is largely of a redundant character, the present edition will answer fully the requirements of readers in general.”
+ Int Studio 63:127 Ja ‘18 110w
“Young readers should welcome this judicious abridgment of Malory by a scholar who has feeling for the original, and who has weighed carefully what is best suited to boys and girls. The edition is beautifully printed, with illustrations in color—some of the best done by Rackham.”
+ Lit D 55:56 D 8 ‘17 100w
“Sir Thomas Malory himself would be hard to please were he dissatisfied with the fashion in which Arthur Rackham has chosen to limn his lords and ladies. The illustrator’s occasionally troublesome wealth of detail is here artistically consistent with the text.”
+ Sat R 124:sup6 D 8 ‘17 230w
“Mr Pollard has done his work well, and the old stories of Lancelot and Galahad, of Gawain and Tristram, and their fellow-knights will in this simpler form gain many new readers.”
+ Spec 119:sup473 N 3 ‘17 130w
“The artist has given much thought and study to the costuming of the remote period, but in physiognomy Mr Rackham is not to be absolved from the charge of a tendency toward caricature. This defect in Mr Rackham’s art is rather serious. The book, however, makes an ornamental and valuable addition to one’s library. The scholar’s contribution gives it more than the usual importance of works of this type.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 D 1 ‘17 630w
“Mr Pollard in abridging Malory has only done for young readers what most older readers have learned to do for themselves. And Mr Rackham seems to have been fortified by the greatness of the matter. His design has never before been so bold, his colour so rich and clear. His touches of comedy are adroit, his tragic sense more powerful than in any of his previous works.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p613 D 13 ‘17 220w
MANGOLD, GEORGE BENJAMIN. Challenge of Saint Louis. il 60c Missionary education movement 309.1 17-25094
“Starting out with a religious survey, Dr Mangold finds there are some 400 Christian churches, valued at some $15,000,000. He then wants to know what these churches do in connection with the 21,000 illiterates of the city; with that half of the children who do not finish the eighth grade; with the 10,000 children at work. ... Dr Mangold wants to know what the churches are doing to help remedy these and many other evils. He insists all through the book that the church has a duty to perform and that it cannot remain satisfied with mere lip service.” (Survey) Dr Mangold is director of the Saint Louis school of social economy and the book is intended for mission study classes.