Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 30)

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 27 ‘17 950w

Reviewed by Graham Taylor

+ Survey 39:254 D 1 ‘17 380w

MELVILLE, NORBERT JOHN. Standard method of testing juvenile mentality by the Binet-Simon scale; with the original questions, pictures and drawings; a uniform procedure and analysis. il *$2 Lippincott 371.9 17-13701

This standard method of testing juvenile mentality by the Binet-Simon scale is prepared by the director of the psychological laboratory, Philadelphia school of pedagogy, and is based on experiments conducted by the author in public schools in Philadelphia, and other cities. These investigations, which have involved the training of several hundred co-workers, have demonstrated the necessity and practicability of standardizing each detail of procedure. Some of the questions that are given attention for the first time are: “With what tests should the examiner begin? Which of two alternative questions should be first employed in a given case? Under what conditions may a test be repeated? By what precise standards shall we decide whether responses in such tests as the definitions should be credited at age six or age nine?” Part 1 is devoted to General procedure in gathering and analyzing the data; Part 2 to Uniform method of applying the Binet-Simon scale (Final revision by Binet and Simon, 1911). William Healy, of the Juvenile psychopathic institute of Chicago, writes an introduction for the work.

Ath p518 O ‘17 150w

“The standard method developed by the writer of this manual is well characterized as provisional.’ We should note, however, that at the same time it is the outcome of more detailed research and gives more adequate attention to details of mental testing than does any such manual which we have yet seen.”

+ El School J 17:689 My ‘17 300w

“Part 2 provides, in form convenient for use, all the printed materials necessary for the tests. This is in itself a distinct service to Binet test-users.” M. R. Trabue

+ J Philos 14:530 S 13 ‘17 500w

“It is essentially a guide to practice, and as such may be warmly recommended.”

+ Nature 100:103 O 11 ‘17 280w

N Y Br Lib News 4:93 Je ‘17

Pittsburgh 22:540 Je ‘17

382“A very useful and practical work.” Alexander Johnson

+ Survey 39:260 D 1 ‘17 50w

MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS. Book of prefaces. *$1.50 (3c) Knopf 810.4 17-28839

The first two-thirds of this volume by the editor of the Smart Set discusses the work of Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, and James Huneker. The last third deals with Puritanism as a literary force. Here Mr Mencken discusses both the “Puritan impulse from within,” which “has been a dominating force in American life since the very beginning” and the “genesis and development” of the “Puritan authority from without”—the “organization of Puritanism upon a business and sporting basis.” Mr Mencken is out of sympathy with “this moral obsession,” as he calls it, which sets American literature “off sharply from all other literatures.”

“They abound in clever phrases and quick turns of thought.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:87 D ‘17

“Few have dared to suggest so clearly the exact ways in which the present-day Puritans have laid a numbing hand on art and the manner in which their work has been done.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p8 D 19 ‘17 1100w

— Nation 105:593 N 29 ‘17 2350w

“He has all the raw material of the good critic—moral freedom, a passion for ideas and for literary beauty, vigor and pungency of phrase, considerable reference and knowledge. Why have these intellectual qualities and possessions been worked up only so partially into the finished attitude of criticism?” Randolph Bourne

– + New Repub 13:102 N 24 ‘17 1200w

“Here are vital appreciations, here are pungent bits of writing that interpret in terms of the classic realism, romanticism, naturalism, and what not, without the heavy professorial pedanticism.” F. J. K.

+ N Y Call p14 N 25 ‘17 1750w

“Mr Mencken is an intelligent man with a certain gift of phrase, and if he were content to be a critic, and not so often an apologist for the nasty, and if he only wrote in earnest, instead of being provocatively flippant and cynical, his mind might count in the critical councils of the hour. He writes entertainingly, but without special penetration, about Conrad. ... Mr Mencken does not merely rant against the Puritans. ... He does see that there was a moral elevation in Puritanism, though he apparently does not sympathize with a morality that subordinates the personality to a spiritual ideal—that, in other words, has the same aim as art. ... Pithy and nettling persiflage is the final judgment that one must pass on Mr Mencken’s book.”

– + Springf’d Republican p17 O 21 ‘17 850w

MENZIES, AMY CHARLOTTE (BEWICKE) (MRS STUART MENZIES). Memories discreet and indiscreet. il *$5 Dutton 17-30307

“This is a book of reminiscences of the interesting people whom the author met in the course of a wandering outdoor career as the wife of an army officer in India, Egypt, and England. She tells many new stories about celebrities as widely separated as Cardinal Manning and Lord Cardigan, Parnell, Father Stanton, Melton Prior, and Fred Burnaby; and she draws an unconventional sketch of a side of Lord Kitchener’s character not generally presented to the public. She gives, also, some fresh details of the famous ride to Kandahar and the Majuba Hill disaster, but serious information is not her forte.”—Spec

“An easy, intimate account of the life and achievements of those well-known to fame, told with a style and ease of manner that gratify our interest and curiosity.”

+ Lit D 55:46 D 1 ‘17 190w

+ R of Rs 56:551 N ‘17 30w

“In her lighter moods she is always entertaining; she avoids malicious scandal, and leaves on the reader’s mind the impression of a very attractive personality, sweet-tempered, broad-minded, and unselfish, more devoted to living than to literature.”

+ Spec 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 170w

“The writer is a plucky, versatile, travelled woman; an entertaining conversationalist who writes as she talks.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p258 My 31 ‘17 980w

MEREDITH, CHRISTABEL M. Educational bearings of modern psychology. (Riverside educational monographs) *60c (2c) Houghton 370.1 17-715

This work by an Englishwoman, is an application of some of the principles of modern psychology to elementary education. The aim of the book is “to give a brief account of some portions of recent psychological work which have had and are likely to have a special influence on education. Part 1 is concerned mainly with genetic psychology: instincts, the growth of habit, and the effect of environment and suggestion. ... Part 2 is concerned with some special studies in educational psychology and in particular with experimental work.” (Preface) Dr Henry Suzzallo, in his introduction says, “The compass of the work is small, but a fine discrimination in choice and organization has made brevity a virtue unaccompanied by its usual shortcomings.”

A L A Bkl 13:242 Mr ‘17

+ Cleveland p108 S ‘17 20w

“Within her limits Mrs Meredith has done distinctly useful work, choosing her topics with discretion and treating them in a competent and serviceable way. ... The final chapter on adolescence contains wisdom for parents as well as for teachers.”

+ Nature 98:27 S 14 ‘16 200w

Pratt p16 O ‘17 20w

MERINGTON, MARGUERITE. More fairy tale plays. il *$1.50 Duffield 812 17-22672

A companion volume to “Fairy tale plays,” planned on the same lines. The author has chosen familiar fairy tales and made them into plays, introducing new characters as her plots demand. Contents: Puss in boots; The three bears; Hearts of gold, or, Lovely Mytlie; Hansel and Gretel. A fee is charged for the stage use of any of the plays.

“They contain very little action and hardly a line of sincere dialogue; its lines being farfetched and facetious talk,—most of it (thank Heaven) well over the heads or under the feet of children.” J: Walcott

— Bookm 46:494 D ‘17 120w

Ind 92:444 D 1 ‘17 20w

“Teachers and parents eager for plays to give to children will find this volume, by a seasoned playwright, of great help.”

+ Lit D 55:59 D 8 ‘17 60w

“The book has nothing in common with its name. It is devoid of either imagination or play.” LaVergne Miller

— N Y Call p14 Ja 12 ‘18 200w

“The conversation, too, is in keeping and often witty, and the stage directions are definite enough to result in a satisfactory representation.”

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

MERTON, HOLMES WHITTIER (YARMO VEDRA, pseud.). How to choose the right vocation. *$1.50 Funk 174 17-14247

A book which “aims to meet—so far as it is possible to do so without expert personal counseling—the urgent need of individual guidance in choice of vocation.” The author discusses in turn the dominant abilities—construction, intuition, reason, form, color, number, attention, etc. With the analysis of these dominant characteristics is included discussion of what he calls “essential” and “supporting,” as well as consideration of “deterrent” abilities. Following 383the discussion in each case are a group of “self measuring questions” and a list of the professions and trades which demand the characteristics under discussion. Several hundred professions, arts, commercial enterprises and trades are included in these lists. In conclusion there is a chapter on “The great vocation”—agriculture. Mr Merton is a vocational counselor in New York city and author of “Descriptive mentality.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 29 ‘17 230w

“Its value is lessened by the lack of an index.”

+ — Cleveland p124 N ‘17 50w

“A curious, entertaining and doubtless useful compilation.”

+ Ind 92:193 O 27 ‘17 40w

“It is an educational volume of the self-educational kind, sure to profit one if studied in a receptive mood.”

+ Lit D 55:43 N 3 ‘17 290w

+ Lit D 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 200w

N Y Br Lib News 4:125 Ag ‘17

“This overambitious attempt defeats its end by being so cumbersome that it is not convincing. It is doubtful whether any but those so intelligent as to need little guidance could guide themselves by this elaborate system. The book is worthy of study by vocational counselors for the suggestiveness of the questions and the descriptions of characteristics.” F. M. Leavitt and Margaret Taylor

– + School R 26:61 Ja ‘18 150w

MERWIN, HENRY CHILDS. Horse; his breeding, care, and treatment in health and disease. il *$1.50 (2c) McClurg 636.1 17-14155

A book on the breeding and care of horses. Earlier books by the author include “Dogs and men,” published in 1910, and “Road, track and stable,” published in 1912. Part 1 of this book treats of The breeding, training, and care of horses, part 2 of Diseases and injuries. A bibliography gives references to other books on the subject. The volume is well illustrated and is indexed.

MERWIN, SAMUEL. Temperamental Henry. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-24396

“‘Temperamental Henry,’ also sometimes known among his mates as ‘Henry the Ninth,’ is an eighteen-year-old youth who lives in a small Illinois town not far from Chicago. He holds the centre of the stage, but around him are grouped his ‘crowd’ of boys and girls, all of about his own age, while more or less importantly across the scene now and then crosses one of their elders. The author has turned his attention especially to Henry, and him has dissected and discussed and pictured, up and down, in and out, through all his waverings, irresponsible, sudden moods and absurdities, comedies and tragedies. It is a remarkable—and amusing—portrayal of the age of adolescence, comparable with, or, rather, a sort of chronological sequel to Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen,’ with which it will, inevitably, be compared.”—N Y Times

+ A L A Bkl 14:61 N ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 46:341 N ‘17 60w

“Henry strikes the reader as remarkably true. It is because he is so undoubtedly true to that temperamentality of youth, that the book possesses a meaning far in excess of the light story which it tells. The ability to bestow so complete a sense of reality upon a character must be acknowledged as fine art.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p7 N 3 ‘17 920w

“Mr Merwin takes his eighteen-year-old hero rather seriously, and makes one feel the near-tragedy as well as the humor, the romance as well as the banality, of that distressing period of emotional chaos termed adolescence.”

+ Cleveland p132 D ‘17 60w

“Both funny and pathetic.”

+ Dial 63:464 N 8 ‘17 80w

“Frankly, while we acknowledge that ‘boys will be boys’ and we love their foolish boyishness, we find ‘Henry the ninth’ a terrible strain on our credulity and are glad that our nineteen-year-old friends are not such gullible idiots.”

— Lit D 55:38 O 27 ‘17 230w

“The readers of the story, and they are sure to be many, will be glad to know that Mr Merwin purposes letting them follow Henry’s career as he grows older and becomes something more than an unlicked cub.”

+ N Y Times 22:366 S 30 ‘17 550w

“We would hardly say that Merwin and Barrie were in the same class as writers, much as we like the American’s humor and realism. But they both, surely, have created and given the breath of life to one adolescent, temperamental boy. Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen’ was funny. And it had its moments of extremely clear insight into a boy’s mind. But ‘Temperamental Henry’ goes much deeper, as did ‘Sentimental Tommy.’ ... Probably the most human bit about the whole book is the dedication. ‘To Sam and John,’ it reads, ‘with sympathy.’ That is the whole point. ... The author understands.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ Pub W 92:801 S 15 ‘17 450w

“A most entertaining tale.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 4 ‘17 500w

MERWIN, SAMUEL, and others. Sturdy oak; theme by Mary Austin; the chapters collected and (very cautiously) ed. by Elizabeth Jordan. il *$1.40 (2½c) Holt 17-31033

A composite volume from the pen of fourteen prominent writers who, good suffragists that they are, donated their services to the cause. It is a lively story of one George Remington who, as the action begins, has just brought his bride to the old Remington place, and is launching upon a political campaign for the post of district attorney. One of the big issues upon which he must express an opinion is that of woman suffrage. He writes a flowery article for his town’s leading paper, containing the usual anti home-is-the-sanctuary, man-the-protector, woman-the-ministering-angel line of objection to enfranchising women. The suffragists fully aroused, organize and swing into one of those efficient campaigns for which they are noted. Their aim is not to defeat Remington so much as to teach him a necessary lesson. When two unprotected female relatives of the clinging-vine type swoop down upon him, when his adorable wife becomes a suffragist, when he is shown the wretched housing conditions of the factory district owned by comfortable, flabby-brained women who won’t shoulder responsibilities—the scales fall from his eyes. His victory is complete.

“A good story and a boost for woman suffrage.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:132 Ja ‘18

“Though it is obviously a tour de force, it turns out to be no worse, if no better, than dozens of novels set adrift by the publishers each season. As a presentation of the ‘woman question,’ of which suffrage of course is only a phase, ‘The sturdy oak’ is absurd, even though it advances all the stock pros and demolishes all the stock cons. It is made to seem the more absurd by comparison with the new edition of ‘A woman of genius,’ by Mary Austin, the writer of chapter 13 of ‘The sturdy oak’ and the builder of its plot. Sound advice to the reading public would be: Buy ‘The sturdy oak’ for the sake of the cause and read ‘A woman of genius’ to find out what it is all about.”

– + Dial 64:117 Ja 31 ‘18 550w

“It isn’t as good, we believe, as any one of them could have done alone. A good suffrage tract, a not bad story, and an interesting study in comparative literary workmanship.”

+ — Ind 92:385 N 24 ‘17 160w

“In the present instance all seriousness is there, all determination and intent to place the suffrage question on its broadly human instead of the usual limited sex basis. And it is done 384with deftness, with a few fine, old thrills, with delightful irony and some well-directed straight arm jolts.” F. W.

+ N Y Call p15 N 18 ‘17 500w

“An exceedingly interesting story, and very amusing to boot. It is very far from being dogmatic. It is very clever indeed. And from beginning to end it is irresistibly readable. There are weaknesses and extravagances in the book. But the novel as a whole is excellent.”

+ — N Y Times 22:458 N 11 ‘17 1050w

“Each chapter is the contribution of one author, but the theme is carried along so smoothly that the chapters link together without a hitch or suggestion of friction. The authors, too, subordinate to the central idea—propagandism, if you choose,—the mannerisms peculiar to their own individual styles.”

+ Springf’d Republican p13 Ja 20 ‘18 540w

METCALFE, AGNES EDITH. Woman’s effort: a chronicle of British women’s fifty years’ struggle for citizenship (1865-1914); with an introd. by Laurence Housman. il *$1.25 Longmans 324.3 (Eng ed 17-24667)

Miss Metcalfe has written a detailed account of the militant movement for the political emancipation of women in Great Britain and Ireland from 1906 to 1914, with a brief summary of preceding events, to which she devotes only twenty-six pages of her book. “For much of the history of the first thirty-five years or so of the Women’s suffrage movement the author acknowledges indebtedness to Miss Helen Blackburn’s book, ‘Women’s suffrage’ (1902). ... Interesting details are given of the later and most advanced manifestations of ‘militancy’; and the four trials for conspiracy which occurred between 1912 and 1914 are briefly described. The frontispiece and six other illustrations are reproductions of cartoons from Punch.” (Ath) There is a three-page Suffrage directory confined to British societies.

“The statement is fair and dispassionate, though the writer’s sympathy with the agitation is not concealed.”

Ath p357 Jl ‘17 200w

“Miss Metcalfe, as has been said, gives most of her space and emphasis to the ‘militant’ suffragists; she passes over, with very inadequate comment, the more statesmanlike work of the non-militant societies; there are many serious omissions, amounting almost to misrepresentation, on this side of the question. These omissions considerably detract from the value of what is otherwise a sound historical record of one of the least creditable phases by which ‘Freedom slowly broadens down’ in the good old Victorian fashion.”

+ — Ath p36 Ja ‘18 660w

“The author maintains a detached and judicial point of view and nowhere betrays her own convictions or sympathies.”

+ N Y Times 22:348 S 16 ‘17 120w

“Miss Metcalfe can hardly be called a dispassionate chronicler, but she may fairly claim to have compiled a narrative of what actually occurred.”

Spec 119:64 Jl 21 ‘17 90w

“The whole book is a typical illustration of suffragette psychology. ... Partisanship deprives the work of most of its value.”

* – The Times [London] Lit Sup p389 Ag 16 ‘17 2150w

MICKIEWICZ, ADAM. Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania; tr. from the Polish by G: Rapall Noyes. *$2.25 Dutton 891.85

“This is the second translation of Mickiewicz’s best-known poem that has appeared in English, Miss Briggs having published a rendering in 1885. The poet wrote ‘Pan Tadeusz’ while he was exiled from his native country and living in Paris, where it was published in 1834.” (Ath) “‘Pan Tadeusz,’ the national poem of Poland, describes life in Lithuania at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It seems to have budded in the poet’s mind as a rustic idyll—the love of Thaddeus Soplica for Zosia Horeszko, daughter of an ancient house wronged by his own. ... As the poem took shape, however, the young lover and his private fortunes became dwarfed by the larger interests represented by his father, Jacek Soplica. Jacek is one of those full-blooded romantic figures whom writers of the period loved to create. In a fit of jealousy he had murdered the chief of the Horeszkos ... taking sides for this purpose with the Muscovites, the national enemy; and this misdoing of his, together with his remorse, supplies the framework of the poem. With the object of atoning for his crime, Jacek strives both to unite the Polish Montagues and Capulets in the persons of the young lovers and to free Poland from Muscovite oppression.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“The lyrical movement in these passages is what chiefly reminds us that we are reading the translation of a poem, and not a regular prose romance. There is also an epical breadth about the narrative, and the fighting is described with Homeric realism.”

+ Ath p526 O ‘17 280w

“The two predominant characteristics of the poem are an intensity of feeling which sometimes lapses to sentimentality and again rises to lyric fervor, and a wonderful truth not only to the general impression but also to concrete facts of his experience.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p8 D 8 ‘17 500w

“Mr Noyes has translated the poem into English prose, perhaps gaining for it thereby something in story interest while, except in form, he has lost little of its poetic values. His work has been done with admirable care and spirit and with signal success. The pictures of life reproduce with appealing fidelity the simple, tenderly portrayed details of the original, and also its intense feeling and quiet humor.”

+ N Y Times 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 510w

“The various elements are skilfully combined, but it is less as a story that the poem impresses the reader than as a series of richly coloured pictures of a vanished past.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p460 S 27 ‘17 950w

MIDDLETON, EDGAR C.^[2] Way of the air. *$1 (2½c) Stokes 623.7 17-22331

“The idea of this little book is to give as clear and graphic a description of modern aviation as circumstances will permit. ... The writer’s chief endeavor in the opening chapters has been to help the young man who wishes to adopt ‘flying’ as a profession. Part 2 of the book is composed of a collection of incidents taken from the diary of an air pilot on active service somewhere in the north of France. They are given in their original form.” (Author’s note) Part of the material of the book is reprinted from the Daily Mail, Daily Express, and other English periodicals.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 16 ‘18 270w

+ Ind 92:342 N 17 ‘17 90w

MIESSNER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Radiodynamics. il *$2 Van Nostrand 621.3 16-20751

“This is intended to provide a historical and technical description of the development of wirelessly controlled mechanisms, but is directed toward the military and non-technical scientific reader as well as toward the engineer. The book opens with a discussion of ‘wireless’ telegraphy. ... The central portion of the book gives some descriptive matter relating to various early attempts at wireless control of boats, airships and torpedoes, and the author then takes up in some detail the work of J. H. Hammond, jr. (whose assistant he was) in improving the military value of such devices. Various problems of interference prevention, relay operation, etc., are discussed and the author’s suggested solutions described.”—Elec World

A L A Bkl 14:117 Ja ‘18

385“Non-technical work describing much suggestive research. Not entirely reliable on the historical side.”

+ — Cleveland p109 S ‘17 13w

Electrical News N 1 ‘16

“Some ingenious proposals are brought forward, though the treatment is largely amateurish from the radio-engineering standpoint. ... In spite of its evident weaknesses, however, the reader is likely to find some information of interest in the descriptive chapters.”

Elec World 69:281 F 10 ‘17 200w

“B. F. Miessner, expert radio aide of the United States navy, has presented the subject clearly and concisely, assuming a considerable knowledge of electricity on the part of his reader.”

+ Ind 89:558 Mr 26 ‘17 40w

“The author has unnecessarily increased the bulk of his book by the introduction of a good deal of irrelevant matter, and by space given to elementary facts connected with wireless telegraphy which might quite well have been taken as familiar to any reader likely to be interested in it. Moreover, he has rather overestimated the importance of the early work of some American investigators, and done insufficient justice to that of European workers. He is not a safe guide on points of history or priority in relation to radio-telegraphic invention.” J. A. F.

+ — Nature 99:442 Ag 2 ‘17 800w

N Y Br Lib News 3:190 D ‘16

“The book contains more information on this subject than can probably be found elsewhere by the general reader, and will give him, as well as the trained engineer, a brief history and exposition of the methods and some of the apparatus used in radio-dynamics to within comparatively few years. ... The subject matter is well planned and the diagrams clear and well rendered.”

+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p12 Ja ‘17 150w (Reprinted from the Journal of the United States Artillery Nov-Dec ‘16)

Scientific American 115:537 D 9 ‘16 200w

MIGEOD, FREDERICK WILLIAM HUGH. Earliest man. *$1.50 Dutton 571 (Eng ed 17-7052)

“Mr Migeod’s essay, written in West Africa, is a thoughtful attempt to reconstruct the earliest stages in man’s evolution from the beast, with illustrations from the life of animals and natives in the tropical bush.” (Spec) “The advancement of proto-man to the dignity of homo primigenius is also considered, as are the first stages in the use of shelter, clothing, weapons, fire and cooking. The transition from eoliths to palæoliths, the origin of speech, and social organization, are dealt with in the later chapters.” (Ath)

“The tables of cranial capacities, localities, and chronology are useful for reference.”

+ Ath p429 S ‘16 170w

Reviewed by Archibald Henderson

+ Bookm 46:274 N ‘17 300w

“Some of Mr Migeod’s conceptions of the laws and causes of organic evolution will by no means commend themselves to those who are accustomed to approach the subject from a wider point of view, but the novelty of the circumstances in which his little book was written makes it stimulating and interesting.” A. S. W.

+ — Nature 98:189 N 9 ‘16 300w

Spec 119:385 O 13 ‘17 30w

MILLAR, ANDREW. Wheat and its products. (Pitman’s common commodities of commerce). il 85c (2½c) Pitman 664 17-4602

“A brief account of the principal cereal: where it is grown, and the modern method of producing wheaten flour.” (Subtitle) The author’s first purpose has been to write a book that will be of interest to the general reader; his second, to make it both interesting and useful to millers and “others connected with the breadstuffs industry.” Contents: The geography of wheat; Wheat analysis; Ancient milling; Silos; Wheat cleaning and conditioning; The break system; Machines used in the reduction system; The reduction system; Auxiliary appliances; Millstone milling; Corn exchanges. The discussion of milling processes seems to be limited to British practice.

N Y P L New Tech Bks p22 N ‘16 70w

“Of interest to the general reader as well as interesting and useful to millers.”

+ Pratt p26 O ‘17 20w

Quar List New Tech Bks Jl ‘17 20w

MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER). Ladies must live. il *$1.25 (2½c) Century 17-24402

Mrs Miller once put to us the question “Are women people?” and answered it in the affirmative. About “ladies” her decision may be different, for in this story she pictures them as pirates high-handedly taking what they consider they need, whether at the game of cards or of marriage. Men, even a self-reliant western man, fall before the brilliance, charm, and ruthless acquisitiveness of the society “ladies” of Long Island and New York. Then, when the black flag seems to have conquered, love comes in.

“It is all preposterous if the reader approaches it equipped with the cool monocle of reason. But he ought not to do that: the famous glasses of rose colour are his proper tool.” H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 46:694 F ‘18 110w

“Were the dialogue a portrayal of character, the little book would have much artistic merit. Since its men and women, however, are types rather than individuals, one cannot expect delicately shaded conversations.”

+ — Boston Transcript p9 O 27 ‘17 290w

“She seems to have drawn her characters from life rather than society journals and exhibits genuine wit in their handling.”

+ Dial 63:354 O 11 ‘17 50w

Ind 93:240 F 9 ‘18 50w

“A far from plausible romance, but iridescent with the wit natural to the author.”

+ — New Repub 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 90w

“A book which one immediately forgets all about as soon as it is finished.” M. G. S.

— N Y Call p15 S 30 ‘17 270w

“Mrs Miller presents a satire on the ‘idle rich’ that is amusing, yet so improbable that it is essential to give in to her mood absolutely for the book to be convincing. The characters are drawn in keeping with the general type of the book. ... There is an abundance of smart talk, the persons of the novel glitter brightly, but ‘Ladies must live’ is not so good as ‘Come out of the kitchen.’”

– + N Y Times 22:367 S 30 ‘17 220w

“The chief pirate of the tale is reformed by love—a regrettable concession to fiction convention. Thackeray’s ‘Becky Sharp’ didn’t reform!”

– + Outlook 117:184 O 3 ‘17 50w

“A clever bit of work.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 590w

MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER). Women are people! *75c Doran 817 17-8104

In her last book of suffrage verse, Mrs Miller asked the question which is answered affirmatively in the title of this new volume. “Women are people!” contains a collection of new poems, for the most part humorous, arranged in four groups: Treacherous texts; Our friends; Our friends the enemy; Unauthorized interviews. Many of them are reprinted from the New York Tribune.

+ A L A Bkl 13:378 Je ‘17

“She proceeds through the sparkling pages of her book of poems to show how clever a woman writer can be.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 16 ‘17 350w

+ N Y Times 22:234 Je 17 ‘17 280w

386MILLER, EDWIN LILLIE. English literature. il *$1.60 Lippincott 820.9 17-18730

The author is principal of the Northwestern high school, Detroit, Michigan. He tells us that he has written this “introduction and guide to the best English books” to entertain rather than to instruct, and that he hopes his pages “will arouse curiosity about books and authors, will form the basis of class reports and discussions, and will incite people, in and out of school, to read books.” (Preface) The volume is in textbook form, with Questions and exercises and Suggested readings after each chapter. It brings the subject up to date, treating Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Hall Caine, Bernard Shaw, Rupert Brooke and others. There is an appendix of a little over two pages giving “English history in stories, novels and plays,” and an outline map of Great Britain to be filled in by the student to form a literary map. The chapters on Milton, Bunyan, and Dryden are by Miss Helen M. Hard.

“Extraordinary opinions and commonplace verdicts upon English literature and its makers. ... He refers to a distinguished historian as Edgar Augustus Freeman, John Masefield is credited with writing ‘The tragedy of man,’ and Arnold Bennett with a novel called ‘Old wives’ tales.’” E. F. E.

— Boston Transcript p7 Jl 11 ‘17 660w

“This is an excellent introduction to English literature. We have nothing but praise for it.”

+ Cath World 106:408 D ‘17 80w

“The book exhibits many of the points of a good textbook and not much besides, except a willingness to draw easy parallels between the things of yesterday and to-day. It also shows the tendency of the traditional textbook to degenerate into a bede-roll. But it offers many good suggestions for collateral reading in historical fiction. ... A later edition should point out that the ‘Prioress’ tale’ is not that of little Hugh of Lincoln, and that Sackville did not plan the ‘Mirror for magistrates.’”

+ — Nation 105:260 S 6 ‘17 140w

“An unusual feature is the space given to women writers. The book is obviously an expression of the author’s love of literature. ... There is not a dry page in the entire 597. The book is adequately illustrated and there are special pedagogical features in the way of questions and answers, charts, etc. While Mr Miller has written primarily for the high school boys and girls his book should prove intensely interesting to the general reader.”

+ School Arts Magazine 17:44 S ‘17 170w

“Mr Miller’s ‘English literature’ is particularly strong in the number and quality of its quotations and selections from the ‘Great masterpieces.’ The critical comment is good in the main, though at times it seems more positive and final than is necessary for the guidance of the young.” E. E. Geyer and R. L. Lyman

+ — School R 25:609 O ‘17 110w

MILLER, ELIZABETH YORK. Blue aura. il *$1.35 (2½c) Clode, E: J. 17-24815

Dora Trelawny, a little dancer of the London music halls, is the heroine of this story. Dora is undisciplined, selfish, and vain. She marries Teddie Tyson of Tyson and Turco, acrobats, and the team becomes a trio, for a place for Dora is made in their act. Turco, who plays the clown, hides a noble and beautiful soul behind his ugly exterior appearance. He understands Dora and acts as the good angel in her life, finally meeting his own death in her behalf. Turco had possessed psychic powers to a certain degree, and it is thru his sacrifice that Dora attains to the “blue aura” he had predicted for her.

“A story of graceful and unaffected sentiment.” H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 46:492 D ‘17 90w

“Its principal claim on the reader’s interest is its capital character drawing, much force and delicacy being essential in depicting such a wild, yet lovable heroine as Dora.”

+ Boston Transcript p11 N 28 ‘17 240w

“‘The blue aura’ is a pretty story, of undisguised but unforced sentiment.”

+ Nation 105:541 N 15 ‘17 150w

“By what means the author contrives to write so commonplace a tale without lapsing into cheapness it is difficult to say.”

+ — N Y Times 22:500 N 25 ‘17 300w

Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins

Pub W 92:1374 O 20 ‘17 250w

MILLER, FRANK EBENEZER. Vocal art-science and its application. il *$2.50 Schirmer 784.9 17-3597

This book “is a comprehensive illustrated treatise on vocal matters written by Dr Frank E. Miller, long an authority on the subject. ... He believes that everyone can and should learn to sing, and advances a theory of certain pyramido-prismatic forces within the body comparable to those which produce light and energy. With scientific training these forces give us beautiful utterance both of the speaking and the singing voice. Exercises are given to guide the self-taught student, and over sixty illustrations assist the reader to a definite comprehension of the author’s vocal gospel. The introduction is by Gustav Kobbé.”—R of Rs

N Y Br Lib News 4:73 My ‘17

R of Rs 56:445 O ‘17 140w

MILLER, GEORGE AMOS. China inside out. il *$1 (2c) Abingdon press 275.1 17-7538

In order to come close to the Chinese people in their daily lives, the author traveled about China on foot and by boat. “The life of the Chinese is his theme, what the people say, how they amuse themselves, what they have done to represent their ideals of religion, their occupations, their daily toil. ... Through these pages walk and speak the Chinese people, in terms of universal experience, testifying their response to the stimuli of the Christian gospel and western civilization.” (Introd.) Contents: The human Chinese; The gospel of health; The missionary at work; The Chinese church and its heroes; The leaven of life. The book is illustrated with line drawings made from photographs by the author.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 4 ‘17 250w

+ Dial 62:315 Ap 5 ‘17 110w

+ Ind 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 40w

Pittsburgh 22:539 Je ‘17 30w

+ R of Rs 55:555 My ‘17 30w

“It is a very readable book, because it seizes upon picturesquely typical scenes and events and narrates them from the viewpoint of a wide-awake outside observer.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 17 ‘17 250w

“Mr Miller writes of China from the point of view of Methodist missions in a sort of Billy Sunday vernacular. Very rightly he condemns hasty, ignorant and wholesale denunciations of missionaries, but at the same time seems rather to lay himself open to the retort that had he been longer in the Far East he might have been satisfied with a less absolutely sweeping denunciation of the mercantile communities of the treaty ports.” I. C. Hannah

Survey 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 70w

MILLER, JOHN ORMSBY, ed. New era in Canada. *$1.75 Dutton 971 17-28860

“A collection of sixteen essays by leading Canadians, each dealing with his or her own special subject, but all more or less concerned, directly or indirectly, to point out paths for the betterment of Canada after the war. ... The general editor is Dr J. O. Miller, principal of Ridley college, Ontario, who contributes one of the best essays in the book on ‘The better government of our cities.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

A L A Bkl 14:92 D ‘17

+ Ind 92:256 N 3 ‘17 160w

387“Two papers are by Leacock, and those who know him only as a jester and satirist will be surprised at the pessimism of the professor of political economy. ... Equally clear-sighted and vigorous is his concluding essay, ‘Our national organization for the war,’ which is being circulated in Canada almost as a ‘Tract for the times.’ He pricks the bubble of wartime prosperity and warns, like Cassandra, of coming ruin. Plain dealing is the note of all the essays. There is no flattery of popular prejudices, or of a foolish national pride.”

+ Nation 105:604 N 29 ‘17 920w

N Y Br Lib News 4:126 Ag ‘17 120w

+ Outlook 117:574 D 5 ‘17 30w

“Here are sixteen essays by fifteen different authors, some of whom write with a real sense of message; others appear to have been rather bored by the invitation to contribute. The warm friendliness that the volume before us displays for the United States should be keenly appreciated on this side of the international boundary.” I. C. Hannah

+ — Survey 39:446 Ja 19 ‘18 460w

“So much having been said—and it is due—in praise of the book, there is something to be said in the direction of criticism. In the first place, the thread of unity which runs through the book is a very slender thread. ... In the second place, no French-Canadian speaks in the book for the place of French Canada.”

* + – The Times [London] Lit Sup p362 Ag 2 ‘17 1700w

MILLER, JOSEPH DANA, ed. Single tax year book; the history, principles and application of the single tax philosophy. *$2.50 Single tax review pub. co., 150 Nassau st., N.Y. 336.2 17-28939

“Every five years the ‘Single tax year book’ presents an inventory of what has been accomplished by the movement for the taxation of land values. The quinquennial edition of 1917 contains a broad array of useful information for those who are interested in this subject. There is a bibliography of single tax literature, compiled by Arthur N. Young.” (Am Pol Sci R) “This volume, besides dealing with the relation of single tax to social problems, is replete with the history of the movement, citing the partial application of the principle in New Zealand, Australia, the South African republic, western Canada, Kiauchau, European and South American countries and in various sections of the United States. Of special interest to citizens of the New England states is the experience of Rhode Island.” (Springf’d Republican)

+ Am Pol Sci R 11:791 N ‘17 110w

Ind 92:262 N 3 ‘17 70w

“The volume is in every way an excellent one, comprehensive, explanatory and exceedingly well compiled.” J. W.

+ N Y Call p14 N 4 ‘17 520w

“The book is an encyclopedia upon the subject.”

+ N Y Times 22:368 S 30 ‘17 240w

Pittsburgh 22:691 O ‘17

Springf’d Republican p19 D 2 ‘17 310w

“It contains little that is new but much that has been widely scattered. Its publication reduces to a scant half dozen the books which one must read who desires a knowledge of the single tax philosophy, its history and its applications. This means that it will serve the movement well. The volume furnishes what is probably a very true cross-section of the movement today.” R. M. Haig

+ Survey 39:525 F 9 ‘18 630w

MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS. Boys’ book of canoeing and sailing. il *$1.25 (1½c) Doran 797 17-9127

This book by the editor of Field and Stream aims to tell ambitious boys not only how to handle boats but how to build them as well. It consists of three parts: Sailing and boat building; Canoeing and cruising; Motor boat management and construction. The book has many illustrations and there are working drawings to accompany the directions for building.

+ A L A Bkl 13:454 Jl ‘17

+ Ind 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 50w

N Y Br Lib News 4:76 My ‘17

+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p11 Ap ‘17 100w

Pratt p32 O ‘17 30w

“In his published plans and suggestions for the building of boats Mr Miller has been careful to keep in mind the limitations of the average boy’s pocketbook and only the least expensive materials are considered.”

+ R of Rs 55:665 Je ‘17 170w

+ St Louis 15:378 O ‘17 20w

MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS. Rifles and shotguns; the art of rifle and shotgun shooting for big game and feathered game; with special chapters on military rifle shooting. il *$2 (3c) Doran 799 17-13239

A work by the editor of Field and Stream. Contents: Four centuries of firearms; Rifle mechanics; Rifle sights; Aiming at big game; Trigger release; Rifle targets; Two rifles for the poor man; The .22 rifle; The U.S. military rifle; Know your gun; The man’s game of trapshooting; Clay bird practice afield; Shotgun mechanics; Snap shooting; Cartridges and tables. The book is very fully illustrated.

+ Cleveland p115 S ‘17 20w

“A useful treatise filled with not too technical information of value to the sportsman and, in less degree, to the intending soldier.”

+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 13 ‘17 270w

MILLET, PHILIPPE. Comrades in arms; tr. by Lady Frazer. *$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-12511)

A book of war sketches translated from the French. The author says, “For a period of several months, in my capacity of liaison-officer attached to a British division, I was in a position to see the soldiers of the British empire and of France fighting side by side. From this moving multitude certain figures, grave or gay by turns, stood out in relief day by day. To my eyes they summed up, better than an abstract analysis, the distinctive features of the two nations in arms. I have here attempted to bring them together just as they were in reality.” There is an introduction by J. St Loe Strachey, editor of the Spectator.

A L A Bkl 14:20 O ‘17

“Spirited, humorous and sympathetic.”

+ Cleveland p118 N ‘17 30w

+ R of Rs 55:668 Je ‘17 70w

“We are delighted to see that Captain Philippe Millet’s charming book, ‘En liaison avec les Anglais,’ reviewed by us some three months ago, has been translated, and very well translated, by Lady Frazer. ... We desire to put up a signpost to the new version to let those who do not read French easily know how much pleasure and interest they will get from this brilliant and sympathetic study of the British army.”

+ Spec 118:20 Ja 6 ‘17 700w

“Words of appreciation like this from a French soldier, who is military correspondent of the Paris Temps, and has himself been decorated for conspicuous bravery, should be relished by the Tommies.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Je 24 ‘17 270w

MILLIGAN, GEORGE.^[2] Expository value of the Revised version. *75c Scribner 220 A17-497

“The purpose of this little volume in ‘The short-course series’ is not to repeat the material that came from the pens of Trench, Ellicott, Lightfoot, and Westcott concerning the Revised version. ... The first part contains in the compass of twenty pages a brief history of the English translations of the Bible. Then follows a discussion, under negative and positive heads, of the practical use of 388the Revised version. The third section, about fifty pages, contains a concrete study of the doctrinal significance of the Revised version.”—Bib World

“There is need of a short discussion of the value of other versions of the Bible than the Authorized. This is admirably supplied in the present book. [In Section 3] Dr Milligan sets forth an array of interesting variations in translation which ought to bring freshness and strength into the preaching of any pastor who will follow out the study. This section of the book ought to have been more extensive.”

+ — Bib World 50:255 O ‘17 210w

“Does not omit the usual strong Protestant bias. The book is useful, but contains little that is noteworthy. Its scholarly author would have done better had he omitted the commonplace history which did not belong strictly to his subject, and expanded his real theme which is both interesting and important.”

+ — Cath World 106:553 Ja ‘18 140w

St Louis 15:318 S ‘17 10w

MILLIKAN, ROBERT ANDREWS.^[2] Electron. (Univ. of Chicago science ser.) il *$1.50 Univ. of Chicago press 537.1 17-22580

“The purpose of this volume is to present the evidence for the atomic structure of electricity, to describe some of the most significant properties of the elementary electrical unit, the electron, and to discuss the bearing of these properties upon the two most important problems of modern physics: the structure of the atom and the nature of electromagnetic radiation.” (Introd.) In order that the thread of discussion in the main body of the book need not be broken, mathematical proofs have been reserved for appendixes. The author is professor of physics in the University of Chicago, and the work is based largely on his own experiments in the Ryerson laboratory.

N Y P L New Tech Bks p12 O ‘17 70w

Pittsburgh 22:816 D ‘17 60w

“Millikan’s beautiful investigations on the electronic charge and on the photo-electric effect are justly celebrated throughout the scientific world; they will undoubtedly become classical examples of the highest type of modern physical research. A description of such researches by their author is immensely valuable and will serve to stimulate scientific investigation as nothing else can.” H. A. W.

+ Science n s 47:44 Ja 11 ‘18 520w

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p440 S 13 ‘17 700w

MILLS, ENOS ABIJAH. Your national parks. il *$2.50 (4c) Houghton 711 17-14711

This well illustrated volume provides a complete historical and descriptive guide to our national parks. The Hawaii national park is included, and one chapter is given up to the National parks of Canada. Another chapter is fittingly devoted to John Muir. A list of books, on national parks, including government publications, is provided, and there are several maps, reproduced by permission of the National park service of the Department of the interior. The Guide to national parks, prepared by Laurence F. Schmeckebier, gives detailed information for the tourist.

+ A L A Bkl 14:92 D ‘17

Reviewed by LeRoy Jeffers

+ Bookm 46:213 O ‘17 770w

+ Boston Transcript p7 Jl 11 ‘17 380w

+ Cleveland p113 S ‘17 30w

+ Dial 63:115 Ag 16 ‘17 320w

+ Ind 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 50w

“You can not wonder, after you read his pages and scan the photo-pictures with which they are illustrated, that Mr Mills asks: ‘Why not each year send thousands of school children through the national parks?’ If you love the west, you should read this tribute, whatever be your hunger to see that region once more. The book will do you good, even tho you must be hereafter a stay-at-home.”

+ Lit D 56:42 F 9 ‘18 430w

“No intelligent traveller who intends to visit the national parks should fail to read Muir as a spiritual preparation, but he will do well to avail himself of the more detailed information of Mills also.”

+ Nation 105:17 Jl 5 ‘17 380w

“Comprehensive and valuable book, with more than five hundred pages of full and accurate information. ... Mr Schmeckebier’s ‘Guide,’ in the appendix, contains much valuable information for the tourist.”

+ N Y Times 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 650w

Pittsburgh 22:651 O ‘17 90w

“The entire volume, with its pictures and maps, should be owned by every visitor to the parks.”

+ R of Rs 56:221 Ag ‘17 160w

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 24 ‘17 480w

MILLS, WALTER THOMAS. Democracy or despotism. $1.25 International school of social economy, 2333 Haste St., Berkeley, Cal. 16-16745

“Mr Mills ... shows first that the United States is not a real democracy, pointing out the familiar conditions in industry and politics through which the popular will may be checked. The measures through which democracy is to be attained are universal political education; representation in legislative bodies of the economic interests of the people rather than of geographical divisions; social ownership and control of the means of production, transportation, and exchange; and the initiative, referendum, and recall. The ideal is a world democracy. The author’s position is essentially that of the organized socialist movement, although in some details he is in opposition to the position officially taken by the American Socialist party.”—Am Econ R

Reviewed by G. B. L. Arner

Am Econ R 7:435 Je ‘17 120w

Int J Ethics 27:269 Ja ‘17 80w

MINER, MAUDE EMMA. Slavery of prostitution; a plea for emancipation. *$1.50 Macmillan 176 16-22872

“Those who have known Maude Miner’s work as secretary of the Probation and protective association of New York will be especially interested in this summary of her many years’ experience in work for delinquent girls. The book is written from a personal rather than from a scientific point of view and for that reason is valuable as a supplement to the various treatises and reports of vice commissions that have been issued on the subject of prostitution. The author shows that prostitution is not an isolated evil that can be abolished by direct methods of attack. She discusses its relation to housing conditions, industrial maladjustment and lack of recreation facilities, as well as to evil companionship and mental defect.”—Ann Am Acad

“There is breadth of view, sanity, balance, a strong sense of social causation, a healthy but not blind optimism in all Miss Miner says. There seems reason only for praise for such a timely and admirable book.” H. E. Mills

+ Am Econ R 7:905 D ‘17 410w

“Of value to students, social workers, judges, and physicians.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:374 Je ‘17

“The fact that the book is popular in form, free from sordid details, and gives much space to a program of prevention, makes it especially useful for laymen who are interested in modern methods of prevention and correction of delinquency.” H. G.

+ Ann Am Acad 71:241 My ‘17 200w

Cleveland p53 Ap ‘17 50w

“Does more than merely relate facts; it correlates them to their causes on the one hand, and on the other to the social remedies to which we must look for the protection of girls from all forms of the exploitation which ends in their 389ruin. ... Miss Miner, bringing to her task the equipment of experience gained in her many years as probation officer in the Women’s night-court of New York feels that society’s obligation is a double one; to help out those who have been enmeshed in the slavery of prostitution and to prevent others from being caught in it.” Alice Henry

+ Life and Labor 7:28 F ‘17 700w

+ Nation 104:583 My 10 ‘17 750w

N Y Br Lib News 4:13 Ja ‘17

“It is therefore a matter of grave moment to the public that the great theme ... should be freely and rationally discussed by one so well equipped as Miss Miner has been, both by scholarly research and years of probation work in the Night court.” Jane Addams

+ St Louis 15:49 F ‘17 40w

+ Spec 118:77 Ja 20 ‘17 130w

“This is an admirable book. It strikes exactly the right note. ... It is not a compilation of disagreeable revelations. It is not sentimental, nor salacious. ... There is definite information, but it is illuminated by a sympathetic understanding of what the general reader requires to know and what may be left for official reports.” E: T. Devine

+ Survey 37:154 N 11 ‘16 450w

MINER, WILLIAM HARVEY.^[2] American Indians, north of Mexico. il *$1 (1c) Putnam 970.1 (Eng ed 17-27757)

The aim of the author has been to provide a brief popular account of the American Indian which should be at the same time authentic and comprehensive. He points out in his preface that it has been the lack of systematic arrangement rather than a dearth of material that has handicapped the student. Contents: Introduction; General facts; Indian sociology; The plains Indians; The Indians of the south-west; Indian mythology. These chapters are followed by notes, bibliography and index and there is a map showing principal linguistic families.

“Mr Miner has been well advised in his choice of authorities and has escaped most of the pitfalls into which other would-be popular writers frequently fall. It would have been better had the specific narratives been appended to the general discussion instead of being sandwiched into the middle of it. The former would also have been improved considerably by a chapter on material culture and economic life.” J: R. Swanton

+ — Am Hist R 23:436 Ja ‘18 450w

“There is a good bibliography, and the book may be commended as a satisfactory popular introduction to the study of a remarkable people.”

+ Nature 99:283 Je 7 ‘17 250w

MITCHELL, JOHN AMES. Drowsy. il *$1.50 (2c) Stokes 17-25378

This is a scientific fairy tale which is also a love story. Cyrus Alton, called “Drowsy,” who is only seven when we make his acquaintance, is the illegitimate son of an Italian singer and a young American doctor. Dr Alton settles with his boy in a little Massachusetts village where Cyrus makes friends with Ruth Heywood, the minister’s daughter. Cyrus has a strange faculty of knowing what people are going to say before they speak, and also of knowing the unuttered wishes of faraway friends. About half of the book deals with the grown-up Cyrus, who invents “a contrivance hardly bigger than a dinner-plate that generates electricity without machinery and has infinite power,” takes a voyage to the moon, where he finds enormous green diamonds, and starts for Mars but is recalled by Ruth, who has refused him but who finally sends a message out into space telling him that she has always really loved him.

“A fantastic tale which the author asserts is not a fairy story for it may come true. Drowsy is quite human, particularly in his youth in spite of his remarkable gifts.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:170 F ‘18

“No task is more delicate and dangerous to a writer than the revelation of the future. Mr Mitchell strikes a very happy medium when he opens the door of the future for us in his latest novel. He is very clever about it.”

+ Boston Transcript p8 D 1 ‘17 530w

“It is a fanciful tale, a book of dreams, but sometimes dreams come true. Mr Mitchell charms and fascinates by his philosophical comments on human foibles and human achievements.”

+ Lit D 55:48 D 29 ‘17 240w

“The success of a tale of this kind does not depend upon whether equally marvelous things have actually taken place, but upon the author’s ability to convince us of the credibility of those he relates, during the time, at least, that we are reading his book. And in this ability—a somewhat rare one—Mr Mitchell is lacking.”

– + N Y Times 22:413 O 21 ‘17 260w

MITCHELL, JULIA POST. St Jean de Crèvecœur. (Columbia univ. studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 Columbia univ. press 16-16336

St Jean de Crèvecoeur was a Frenchman who came to America before the Revolution, settled on a farm in New York state and wrote a book, “Letters from an American farmer,” which was brought out in London in 1782. After the close of the Revolution he went back to his native land, to return later as French consul, in which capacity he was instrumental in establishing the packet service between France and America. From historical collections in America and family records in France, Miss Mitchell has brought together material for an interesting biography.

Ath p255 My ‘17 90w

Cleveland p115 S ‘17 60w

“This doctoral dissertation is the evidence of a good many years of untiring research, and is therefore much less superficial or fragmentary than investigations by the late Robert de Crèvecœur, F. B. Sanborn, Mr Barton Blake, and others. ... New readers will hardly be drawn to Crèvecœur and his letters by this scholarly biography. Dr Mitchell’s stagnancy of style in her ‘Life’ of an author who was seldom wanting in a certain naïve vivacity, no doubt follows the purest German tradition, which is too generally, in American universities, the tradition of our scholarship also; but that authoritative theses are necessarily dull has been disproved to us again and again by the work of candidates for the French doctorate of letters.”

+ — Dial 62:486 My 31 ‘17 500w

“Well-written biography.”

+ Spec 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 80w

“An important addition to the history of early Franco-American relations.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 N 13 ‘16 950w

“Miss Mitchell has told the world all that it is ever likely to know about Crèvecoeur, his life and his labours. But, after all, is the game quite worth the candle? If research of this kind is to be prosecuted it were surely as well to prosecute it with discrimination and a due sense of proportion. Applied to Crèvecoeur it appears to us to be a little overdone, even though, in itself, it is as well done as Miss Mitchell has done it.”

The Times [London] Lit Sup p196 Ap 26 ‘17 920w

MITTON, GERALDINE EDITH. Cellar-house of Pervyse; a tale of uncommon things. il *$2.25 Oxford 940.91 17-13748

“‘The cellar-house of Pervyse’ describes one of the most romantic undertakings by women in the whole war. Mrs Knocker (now the Baroness T’Serclaes) and Miss Mairi Chisholm were members of a Red cross party which went to Belgium at the beginning of the war. Mrs Knocker had been trained as a nurse, but Miss Chisholm had not. They were, however, prepared to do anything, no matter how dangerous, that they might be allowed to do. For a time they helped in motor-ambulance work under conditions of unceasing peril. ... In spite of much disapproval and opposition, they established a ‘poste de secours’ in the village of Pervyse. 390Their theory was that a large proportion of seriously wounded men died of exhaustion through being hurried to the rear, and that many more lives might be saved if the wounded were treated first ‘for shock’ near the trenches, even though the dressing of their wounds might be insufficient in itself. This theory was brilliantly justified.”—Spec

“A valuable first-hand account of one of the most tragic phases of the war. Those who wish for ‘uninspired’ and thorough detail concerning Belgium and a part of her sufferings should read it carefully.”

+ Ath p601 D ‘16 30w

“A story utterly unlike any other narrative of the war in all its varied aspects.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 13 ‘17 1250w

“This volume, even after the hundreds of war books with all their details of horrors endured with courage, stands out as a wonderful record of brave and efficient service.”

+ N Y Times 22:9 Ja 14 ‘17 550w

+ Pratt p42 O ‘17 40w

“The photographs give a good idea of the scene of the desolation amid which the heroic pair worked, and of types of Belgian soldiers.”

+ Sat R 122:534 D 2 ‘16 550w

“A wonderful story of unflinching spirit and good-heartedness.”

+ Spec 118:239 F 24 ‘17 250w

MITTON, GERALDINE EDITH. Lost cities of Ceylon. il *$3.50 Stokes 915.48 (Eng ed 17-12260)

“Out of India—as well as from Africa—there always comes something new. Most people at any rate will be surprised to learn from this well-written book that the remains of the ancient civilization of Ceylon, ranging in date from 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200, are comparable in magnitude to the pyramids and temples of Egypt, and that the fragments of sculpture in the ruined cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa are superb in their vigour and grace. A glance at Miss Mitton’s excellent photographs will show that her enthusiasm is in no wise misplaced. Her book is based on the official reports of the experts who, at a trifling cost, have cleared the jungle from these wonderful old ruins and given them a new lease of life.”—Spec

“It is a book of one who has solved the difficulties of travel and who writes to make the way easy for others as well as to direct them to the more noteworthy sights of the island. For this reason it reads at times somewhat like the better class of guide book.”

+ Boston Transcript p10 O 13 ‘17 380w

+ R of Rs 57:219 F ‘18 120w

“Many travellers have lamented in the past the small number of available books describing the history and antiquities of Ceylon. Miss Mitton, therefore, supplies a real need, and she has written with care and with enthusiasm.” Bishop Frodsham

+ Sat R 122:554 D 9 ‘16 950w

+ Spec 117:sup610 N 18 ‘16 120w

“It is not easy to ‘place’ exactly Miss Mitton’s book. It is too practical and useful for a mere book of travels, a little too learned for a guide book, and not quite learned enough for a treatise on the ancient architecture of Ceylon. ... To the really intelligent traveller the book should be very useful indeed. What distinguishes this book from most others of its kind is that its author has a passionate—the word is no exaggeration—interest in the places which she describes. She skilfully mixes archæological description with history. ... She can usually be accepted as a safe guide, but she is sometimes, we think, carried away by her enthusiasm.”

* + The Times [London] Lit Sup p519 N 2 ‘16 1000w

MOKVELD, L. German fury in Belgium; tr. by C. Thieme. *$1 (1½c) Doran 940.91 17-22682

This book gives the experiences of a Netherland journalist during four months with the German army in Belgium. John Buchan in his preface calls it “an admirable piece of war-correspondence, which bears on every page the proofs of shrewd observation and a sincere love of truth and honest dealing.” Contents: On the way to Liège; In Liège and back to Maastricht; Round about Liège; Visé destroyed; a premeditated crime; Francs-tireurs? With the Flemings; Liège after the occupation; Louvain destroyed; Louvain under the mailed fist; Along the Meuse to Huy, Andenne, and Namur; From Maastricht to the French frontier: the destruction of Dinant; On the battle-fields; Round about Bilsen; During the siege of Antwerp; The ill-treatment of British wounded; On the Yser.

A L A Bkl 14:54 N ‘17

“Of course Mr Mokveld’s book is not for those who shudder at the truth even when it is necessary to tell the truth for the sake of the betterment of mankind. It is, however, essential that the world should know the truth about Germany, and it cannot be better learned than through such books as this.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p7 Jl 3 ‘17 730w

Cath World 105:694 Ag ‘17 70w

Cleveland p118 N ‘17 30w

“His account is calm and impartial.”

+ N Y Times 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 230w

Pittsburgh 22:682 O ‘17 60w

R of Rs 56:214 Ag ‘17 90w

MONAHAN, MICHAEL. New adventures. *$2 (3c) Doran 814 17-28176

Under the five headings: Mannahatta; Mannahatta II; Portraits and preferences; Realities and inventions; and Lagniappe, Mr Monahan chats about Newyorkitis; Old men for love; Balzac the artist; Bermuda; The circus; The age of safety, etc.

“One might ignore the author’s paragraphs about sex were they not so frequent and conspicuous. ... Omitting the lapses, and the banalities and frayed truisms that occasionally pop their smirking faces up there is much to give genuine pleasure in ‘New adventures.’ ... We find him a lover of mankind except for a slightly jaundiced view of women. He has found life good in the main.” H. S. Gorman

+ — Bookm 46:724 F ‘18 780w

“Genial reflections upon life and art. ... Mr Monahan gives us a diversion on all his pages, and on many of them a humorous thrill or an appealing shock.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p9 O 13 ‘17 550w

“Especially interesting are the two chapters ‘Mannahatta’ and his artistic short stories, ‘Nocturne’ and ‘Yearnings.’”

+ Ind 92:604 D 29 ‘17 70w

“It is a book that can be read with pleasure and with some profit; at least it is never stodgy.”

+ Nation 105:642 D 6 ‘17 140w

“Slight as its encouragement has been, until recent years, the American essay has developed a form and style and spirit of its own. And in all three of these things Mr Monahan’s essays are characteristically of our own product. They are brief and pithy, they have humor and grace and the genial spirit, and above all they are intensely interested in the swirling stream of present life.”

+ N Y Times 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 590w

“Mr Monahan writes with some frankness about streetwalkers, and elderly roués, and about miscellaneous other things. Unfortunately one is not sure that he is wholly untouched by the sex-mania which he deplores.”

– + Springf’d Republican p17 O 21 ‘17 140w

MONROE, HARRIET, and HENDERSON, ALICE CORBIN, eds. New poetry. *$1.75 Macmillan 821.08 17-7483

An anthology compiled by the editors of Poetry: a magazine of verse. An introductory discussion of the “new poetry” opens the volume. The editors say “It [the new poetry] is less vague, less verbose, less eloquent, than most 391poetry of the Victorian period and much work of earlier periods. It has set before itself an ideal of absolute simplicity and sincerity—an ideal which implies an individual, unstereotyped diction; and an individual, unstereotyped rhythm.” The poets who are writing today do not disregard tradition, “on the contrary, they follow the great tradition when they seek a vehicle suited to their own epoch and their own creative mood, and resolutely reject all others.” Poetry written before 1900 has not been included. One hundred poets are represented, among them: Conrad Aiken; Mary Aldis; Witter Bynner; Robert Frost; W. W. Gibson; Vachel Lindsay; Amy Lowell; Edgar Lee Masters; Ezra Pound; Carl Sandburg; and Louis Untermeyer.

A L A Bkl 13:342 My ‘17

“The editors of Poetry have been cordial to all schools, and they offer the best of modern English verse in their new anthology. The result is of that rare company—a book to keep at hand.” K. B.

+ Boston Transcript p7 Mr 24 ‘17 800w

Cath World 105:263 My ‘17 870w

“A highly interesting volume, prefaced by a valuable essay interpreting the spirit and aim of the new movement as an attempt at ‘a concrete and immediate realization of life,’”

+ Cleveland p65 My ‘17 70w

“It is fairly comprehensive as regards American poets, but makes lamentable omissions as regards the English. ... It seems almost as if Miss Monroe had a peculiar instinct for choosing a poet’s second-best. ... It is neither old nor new, good nor bad, selective nor comprehensive. ... The result is a disappointing half-success—a provoking half-failure.” Conrad Aiken

* – + Dial 62:389 My 3 ‘17 1250w

“To my mind the book is inexact, and its aim and claim, if I understand its declarations, is exactness.” O. W. Firkins

– + Nation 105:597 N 29 ‘17 580w

“It is only the indescribable gleam of the ‘true gold’ of poesy, that fairy magic beyond analysis of great verse, that can command the prize. And just this true gold it is which too often lacks in the volume Miss Monroe and Mrs Henderson have prepared.” M. T.

– + New Repub 12:307 O 13 ‘17 2500w

“Praiseworthy as are many of the inclusions, we cannot understand a mind that seeks to treat of the significant poetry of today and omits Giovannitti, Harry Kemp, Edwin Markham, Chesterton, Davies, Belloc, Lascelles Abercrombie, Irene McCleod, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, to mention only a few. There is a provincial smallness in the fact that three fourths of the poets included have poems selected which have appeared in Poetry. ... But, taking it all in all, it answers the purpose.” Clement Wood

+ — N Y Call p12 Ap 27 ‘17 250w

“The chief criticism against the book, or rather against the poets of today as here they show themselves, is that four or five of the writers practically include the rest, and that out of the hundred some half dozen only are truly original. ... Yet this alikeness is not a result of imitation; rather it appears to be born of similarities of experience and culture and outlook. ... It is difficult to overestimate the need for just such a book. ... The volume is made more useful by the bibliography with which it concludes, where all the books published by the several authors are noted, as well as most of the magazines in which the poems quoted from serial publications appeared. The table of contents is particularly well arranged.”

+ N Y Times 22:81 Mr 11 ‘17 1550w

“Handsome but too indulgent volume.” Lawrence Gilman

No Am 205:781 My ‘17 1100w

Pratt p35 O ‘17 20w

“For the envisioning of the range of the ‘new poetry,’ and a comparison of its diversities, there is no other collection that compares with this anthology.”

+ R of Rs 55:437 Ap ‘17 450w

St Louis 15:183 Je ‘17 10w

“The title aside, it is an admirable collection. ... There are exactly 101 names on the list, mostly of Americans. All the British writers represented in the two collections of Georgian poetry are allotted space, save for Mr Chesterton and James Elroy Flecker.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 23 ‘17 330w

“The best collection for the library needing a volume to represent the new school of poetry. ... From the viewpoint of merit, the emphasis is open to criticism: the greatest space is given to Ezra Pound, the next to Miss Monroe herself, then follow Masters and Sandburg.”

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:156 My ‘17 70w

“Surely at least one poem by Miss Letts and several by Irene McLeod and Lascelles Abercrombie should be found in this volume. What can be said of the standard of selection that omits Hodgson’s ‘Eve’ and ‘A song of honor?’ For this last poem we would willingly forego the seventeen pages—chiefly affectation—of Ezra Pound. ... No one concerned with modern thought and its expression can afford to neglect this book. If it is not full of what Herrick called poetic pillars, it offers many guide posts. The emotions and thoughts of many of the contributors to this anthology seem in solution; they have not crystallized. Here, then, are the young poets of America in the making, and if one could prophesy, the future of American verse might be read in these pages.” E: B. Reed

+ — Yale R n s 6:861 Jl ‘17 370w

MONROE, WALTER SCOTT; DE VOSS, JAMES CLARENCE, and KELLY, FREDERICK JAMES. Educational tests and measurements. (Riverside textbooks in education) *$1.50 Houghton 371 17-28093

During recent years many educational tests have been devised and put into practice. The purpose of the present work is to give “a clear and simple statement as to the nature of the different tests which have been evolved, their use, their reliability, what are the best standard scores so far arrived at, and, in particular, how to diagnose the results and apply remedial instruction.” (Editor’s introd.) The book is designed primarily for teachers. A preliminary discussion of The inaccuracy of present school marks is followed by chapters devoted to special school subjects: Arithmetic; Reading; Spelling; Handwriting; Language; High-school subjects. Following these are four chapters on: Statistical methods; The meaning of scores; The derivation of tests, and examinations; Use of standard tests in the supervision of instruction.

“The book provides the reader with very complete bibliographies and on the whole will fill a need which has been experienced by school men recently for a fairly complete compilation of the tests which are now available.”

+ El School J 18:230 N ‘17 550w

+ School R 25:691 N ‘17 550w (Same as El School J review)

MONTAGUE, GILBERT HOLLAND. Business competition and the law. *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam 338.8 17-8475

How everyday trade conditions are affected by the anti-trust laws is the subject of this book. The author is a lawyer who writes here for the practical business man. The book is based on articles that appeared in Printers’ Ink in 1915. Contents: Dangers of aggressive salesmanship; Letters that spell conspiracy; Getting your competitor’s business; Price-discriminations and price-manipulation; “Exclusive-dealer” agreements; The scope of patent protection; Some “tying-contract” traps; The problem of “price-cutting”; Why join a trade association? The book closes with a bibliography and list of authorities.

A L A Bkl 14:7 O ‘17

“The purpose in writing seems to be rather to induce terror than to produce light.” A. M. Kales

— Am Pol Sci R 11:591 Ag ‘17 360w

392“It is phrased in a colloquial style and its manner of expression is simple and natural. What is more noteworthy, it represents lucid treatments of subjects of which the author has an intimate technical knowledge.” Frank Parker

+ Ann Am Acad 74:295 N ‘17 350w

“In addition to being authoritative, ‘Business competition and the law,’ has been written in a style which will make interesting reading for business men in general.” R. C. V. A.

+ Boston Transcript p9 Mr 28 ‘17 650w

“His book gives little evidence of an attempt to understand the new economic tendencies; it offers little encouragement to the group of industrial leaders who are trying to develop the newer laws of competition.”

— Ind 91:133 Jl 28 ‘17 110w

Reviewed by Eliot Jones

J Pol Econ 25:751 Jl ‘17 700w

Nation 105:269 S 6 ‘17 300w

“It may be doubted that men of business can find elsewhere a better guide through the mazes of the law regarding conspiracies in restraint of trade. The decisions can be found elsewhere, but not the bills of complaint, the charges to juries, the decrees by consent, with their reasons, and other proceedings difficult of access which Mr Montague cites in his discussions.”

+ N Y Times 22:298 Ag 12 ‘17 650w

“Does what such broad discussions of legal principles and precedents as William H. Taft’s admirable book, ‘The anti-trust act,’ do not accomplish: it shows in detail how the law bears upon small business as well as big business. ... Mr Montague has written a well-conceived and useful book—a book that may be read with profit not only by business men, but by all who wish to study the workings of a law that is also a public policy.”

+ No Am 205:805 My ‘17 850w

“He has done just what he meant to do, and just what hundreds of business men wanted him to do. But at the same time we do miss the broader spirit—the spirit that Edward N. Hurley has put into ‘Awakening of business.’ ... The excellent bibliography gives a summary of some sixty or so notable cases of collision with the Sherman and Clayton acts.” Doris Webb

+ Pub W 91:976 Mr 17 ‘17 840w

R of Rs 56:441 O ‘17 110w

St Louis 15:321 S ‘17

Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 17 ‘17 330w

MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT. Twenty minutes of reality; an experience, with some illuminating letters concerning it. *75c (6½c) Dutton 248 17-10440

An essay printed anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly in 1916 now appears under the author’s name. She describes an experience that came to her during convalescence after a serious illness, in which, with suddenly cleared vision, she seemed to sense for the first time the wonder and beauty and worth of life. With this little essay are printed a number of the letters called forth from others who had had similar revelations.

“The book will be helpful to those seeking a vital religious experience, and it will suggest means of comfort to those who mourn for their dead. ... The book will prove interesting to all, and of practical value to not a few.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 9 ‘17 500w

“This pseudo-mysticism might be amusing were it not that the neurasthenics who give their experiences are devoid of all sense of humor.”

— Cath World 105:408 Je ‘17 110w

“Idealistically sound, and heartening at the same time, in these days of war this big little message is most timely.”

+ Ind 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 60w

“The book makes, altogether, a contribution to psychology of consequence and interest; and also it will induce in every thoughtful reader much speculation—and possibly experiment sometimes—as to the cause of such an experience and as to the possibility of making the condition described that of ordinary life.”

+ N Y Times 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 650w

Springf’d Republican p6 N 12 ‘17 200w

MONTAGU-NATHAN, M. Contemporary Russian composers. il *$2.50 Stokes 780.9 17-26884

“We can best describe the book by saying that it is a thoroughly successful effort to make good the author’s aim as defined in his introduction—that of showing modern Russian music to be, not a nine days’ wonder, but a genuine and fruitful contribution of abiding value to the youngest of the arts.” (Spec) “The works of Skriabin, Glazounov, Stravinsky, Rakhmaninov, Rebikov, Taneyev, Medtner, and other composers are discussed and criticized at some length. The first thirty-four pages of the volume are devoted to an interesting survey of Russian musical history.” (Ath)

A L A Bkl 14:84 D ‘17

Ath p251 My ‘17 100w

+ N Y Times 22:479 N 18 ‘17 510w

Pratt p32 O ‘17 10w

“Mr Montagu-Nathan writes with intense sympathy, but he is far from being uncritical. ... His style is efficient, though somewhat laborious, and he is inclined to overload his comments with the ponderous jargon of modern art criticism; but he does not write for mere writing’s sake, he shows at times an agreeable sense of dry humour, and he excels in his judicial summaries.”

+ — Spec 118:366 Mr 24 ‘17 1450w

“He covers the ground well, and his book is in so far of real value. ... But he makes, it must be confessed, demands on the reader’s patience. The facts are wrapped up in a maze of words, the criticisms are both vague and long, and the style is repellent.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p139 Mr 22 ‘17 1200w

MONTESSORI, MARIA. Montessori elementary material; tr. from the Italian by Arthur Livingston. (Advanced Montessori method) il *$2 Stokes 371.4 (17-25133)

In this book the Montessori principles of education are applied to the needs of children above kindergarten age. It consists of seven parts, devoted to: Grammar; Reading; Arithmetic; Geometry; Drawing; Music; and Metrics. The English work is in part a translation and in part an adaptation of the original. So far as grammar is concerned an effort has been made to take account of differences between the two languages, and new illustrative material has been substituted. A number of the illustrations are from photographs taken in Montessori schools in operation in the United States.

“Here is a book which the average parent and teacher will really read. ... It is not at all certain, however, that the book as it stands quite meets the needs of American schools.” H. T. C.

+ — Boston Transcript p8 O 17 ‘17 260w

MONTESSORI, MARIA. Spontaneous activity in education; tr. from the Italian by Florence Simmonds. (Advanced Montessori method) il *$2 (2c) Stokes 371.4 (17-25133)

This work is a general discussion of all the principles that underlie Dr Montessori’s system of education. It consists of chapters on: A survey of the child’s life; A survey of modern education; My contribution to experimental science; The preparation of the teacher; Environment; Attention; Will; Intelligence; Imagination. The book is without an index, a lack partly supplied by an analytical table of contents.

“It covers much of the ground already gone over. Its contribution, then, to current educational literature is of no unusual value.” H. T. C.

– + Boston Transcript p8 O 17 ‘17 260w

393MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (MRS EVAN MACDONALD). Anne’s house of dreams. il *$1.40 (1½c) Stokes 17-22301

This is the same Anne who was the heroine of “Anne of Green Gables” and “Anne of Avonlea,” and the scene is still Prince Edward’s Island. Anne marries in the fourth chapter and goes to live in her “house of dreams” at Four Winds Harbour. The book brings in some of her old friends and a number of new ones.

A L A Bkl 14:61 N ‘17

N Y Times 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 350w

MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (MRS EVAN MACDONALD). Watchman, and other poems. *$1.25 Stokes 811 17-30917

A volume of poems by the author of “Anne of Green Gables” and other popular stories. “The watchman,” from which the title of the book is taken, is a narrative poem, relating an incident at the time of the crucifixion. “Songs of the sea” and “Songs of the hills and woods” follow, and the remainder of the book is taken up with miscellaneous poems.

MONTGOMERY, ROBERT HIESTER. Income tax procedure, 1917. *$2.50 Ronald 336.2 17-2659

“This work, by its author’s own profession, is not a treatise on the income tax but rather a reference manual for the individual, company, or trustee who wishes authoritative guidance in the actual reporting of income as required by the amended income-tax law. The various provisions of the law are set forth under convenient headings; Treasury department rulings are cited; and the interpretations and criticisms of the author, who is both an attorney and an accountant, are appended.”—J Pol Econ

“The work will be helpful to those not familiar with the preparation of income tax returns, but it will not take the place of a lawyer and an accountant where the problems are complex. The author does not hesitate to uphold the law and related rulings where he deems them justifiable, nor to criticize where he thinks they are not what they should be. Most of the criticisms are well taken, but not all of them are expressed conservatively and judiciously.” R. G. Blakey

+ Ann Am Acad 72:238 Jl ‘17 270w

+ Educ R 54:97 Je ‘17 30w

“This book is, notwithstanding, a serviceable compilation, even though it hardly makes good Mr Montgomery’s hope that it will ‘answer about 98 out of 100 anxious questions.’”

+ J Pol Econ 25:408 Ap ‘17 120w

“It seems probable that the taxation of incomes will continue for a long period; and until it ceases, or the law authorizing it is better understood, this work must be indispensable in the preparation of returns and to save needless overpayments. Its advice is definite and down to date.”

+ Lit D 54:570 Mr 3 ‘17 150w

N Y Br Lib News 4:58 Ap ‘17 40w

“Mr Montgomery’s claim to distinction is that he does not hesitate to try both the makers and administrator of the law by the principles established by the courts.”

+ N Y Times 22:239 Je 24 ‘17 370w

“The author is a certified public accountant.”

St Louis 15:109 Ap ‘17 7w

MOORE, CLIFFORD HERSCHEL. Religious thought of the Greeks from Homer to the triumph of Christianity. *$1.75 Harvard univ. press 292 16-22750

“This volume is in the form of lectures. Eight lectures given before the Lowell institute in the autumn of 1914 are combined with material from a course delivered at the western colleges with which Harvard university maintains an annual exchange. ... Beginning with Homer and Hesiod the development of Greek religion is traced through more than a thousand years to the triumph of Christianity. In addition to a treatment of the better known periods of classical literature, there are chapters on Orphism, Pythagoreanism and the mysteries, on Oriental religions in the western half of the Roman empire, on Christianity, and on Christianity and paganism.”—Am Hist R

“It represents what, I venture to think, may properly be called the new humanism of classical ownership. Without attempting universality or completeness it offers a treatment of Greek religion which is at once interesting and significant. Teachers of the history of thought should welcome for their pupils such an excellent organization of the more important aspects of the subject, while classical students will profit by the philosophical insight with which it is treated.” W. G. Everett

+ Am Hist R 22:621 Ap ‘17 700w

Ath p302 Je ‘17 120w

“The essential lack of unity in the book and the inappropriateness of the title should be apparent from the chapter-headings in the table of contents when the book is first opened. But the reader becomes more convinced of these things and more regretful when he has discovered how ably and how successfully the author has handled his proper theme. The Protestant cult of the Old Testament has warped the conception of Christianity in the popular mind, and Professor Moore has done a real service in setting forth clearly and dispassionately the vast debt which Christianity owes to the enlightened thought of Greece and the West.” I. M. Linforth

+ — Class Philol 13:99 Ja ‘18 2650w

“The learning exhibited in the book is solid and unimaginative, the style too much that of the class-room, dull but informing.”

+ — Dial 63:467 N 8 ‘17 220w

Reviewed by James Moffat

+ Hibbert J 15:680 Jl ‘17 70w

“From more special, technical, partial, and possibly more brilliant presentations the reader who seeks instruction rather than a new thrill may sometimes turn with relief to this lucid, sober, well-proportioned exposition.”

+ Nation 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 230w

N Y Br Lib News 4:13 Ja ‘17

“The study is orderly and methodical, not perhaps brilliant or original, but a responsible volume, such as one can turn to with confidence, and a worthy and useful popularization of knowledge.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 19 ‘17 450w

MOORE, EDWARD. Studies in Dante, series 4. *$4.20 Oxford 851 17-19159

“This last contribution by the late Dr Moore to the study of Dante, which has been seen through the press by Dr Paget Toynbee, contains seven studies. Four are reprinted from periodicals: three—on ‘Dante’s theory of creation,’ an ‘Introduction to the study of the Paradiso.’ and ‘Sta. Lucia in the “Divina commedia”’—are now published for the first time. But the most important contribution, occupying nearly half the volume, consists in the ‘Textual criticism of the Convivio,’ giving Dr Moore’s reasons for emendations many of which were embodied ‘sub silentio’ in the 1904 text of the Oxford Dante.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ Ath p199 Ap ‘17 80w

“For specialists the new and exhaustive treatise on the textual criticism of the ‘Convivio’—as that singular prose work should be called instead of ‘Convito’—will be of chief importance. More general interest attaches to the reprinted paper on Dante’s tomb at Ravenna.”

+ Spec 118:369 Mr 24 ‘17 100w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p83 F 15 ‘17 70w

“It is twenty-one years since the ‘first series’ of Dr Moore’s ‘Studies in Dante’ was issued, and each member of the succession, now closed by the present volume, has been an important event for scholars.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p124 Mr 15 ‘17 1350w

394MOORE, ERNEST CARROLL.^[2] Fifty years of American education. 80c Ginn 370.9 18-2690

The publishers issue this book as an anniversary memento of their own fifty years of activity in the educational field. Dr Moore sketches briefly the progress of education from 1867 to 1917, or from the close of the Civil war to the present. There are three chapters: We live in a period of change; Education at the end of the Civil war; Some changes since the Civil war. A brief bibliography, listing about fifteen titles, is added.

“Professor Moore has given us a thumb-nail sketch of this golden era—a sketch replete with facts and figures, and serving the very definite purpose of letting us know just how far we have advanced in an important field of human endeavor.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 16 ‘18 90w

+ School R 26:146 F ‘18 250w

“Dr Moore, whose work is concise and impartial, treats of the development of theory as well as the material progress during this period.”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 17 ‘18 130w

MOORE, GEORGE. Confessions of a young man. Uniform ed *$1.50 Brentano’s

“The ‘Confessions’ has long been known and liked; it is not likely to be forgotten. ... Mr Moore says that the book is ‘a sort of genesis; the seed of everything I have written since will be found therein.’ The present edition contains some songs and ballades written in French that belong with the period of the book, and which are well worth recovering.”—N Y Times

“There is very little that is durable about ‘The confessions of a young man.’ Mr Moore compares it to Rousseau. It is much more comparable with the work of George Sylvester Viereck. ... To improve with age a book should not have been written with an eye to the immediate audience in front. The trouble with the ‘Confessions’ is this preoccupation. ... About Degas and others of the Nouvelle Athènes, about Shelley and Gautier and Balzac and Pater, about Emma in the London boarding-house—George Moore continues to be engaging in this juvenescent book. But it remains the book of a man to whom art had not yet given the unity that he craved; and who did not quite understand or acknowledge his divided soul.” F. H.

— New Repub 10:300 Ap 7 ‘17 430w

“A 1917 person will have to overcome a strong distaste before he can get the good out of the ‘Confessions of a young man.’ ... Old vices are a thousand times worse than old virtues. George Moore had money and played the prodigal in Paris of the early 80’s, the Paris of Verlaine and Mallarmé. Homer and Chaucer are our contemporaries, Shakespeare belongs to yesterday, but the Paris of Verlaine and of Mallarmé is prehistoric.” W: E. Bohn

— N Y Call p14 Je 3 ‘17 520w

“Probably no more vivid and entertaining set of sketches, impressions, adventures, understandings, and realizations of life lived in an environment with which Mrs Grundy has nothing in common, were ever written. ... Naturally these books are for sophisticated readers.”

+ N Y Times 22:62 F 25 ‘17 250w

MOORE, GEORGE. Lewis Seymour and some women. Uniform ed *$1.50 Brentano’s 17-3153

“In his preface to the new version of ‘A modern lover,’ which now bears the title of ‘Lewis Seymour and some women,’ Mr Moore tells how he did not revise this book, finding it to be, he exclaims, ‘jargon ... beyond hope of revision.’ Instead he rewrote it entirely, and the book is a new book, except for the plot, or anecdote. As Mr Moore describes it, ‘This anecdote was so true and beautiful that it carried a badly written book.’”—N Y Times

“It is written with all the consummate art, the seeming-careless carefulness, the ripe humor, the power in the depiction of character that have made Mr Moore a master, and the delight of every reader to whom these great qualities appeal. The story lends itself easily to Mr Moore’s genius.”

+ N Y Times 22:62 F 25 ‘17 700w

“Of ‘A modern lover’ it may at least be said that it possessed the saving grace of youth. There was spring in it. The new novel, for all its fluent facile writing, has not the same fire. ... We can forgive the one, the other is not so pleasant a spectacle.”

— Sat R 123:322 Ap 7 ‘17 300w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p142 Mr 22 ‘17 180w

MOORE, HARRY HASCALL. Youth and the nation; a guide to service; with an introd. by S: McCune Lindsay. il *$1.25 (4c). Macmillan 174 17-19844

“This book is an attempt to arouse a wholesome interest among young men and older boys of college and high school age in modern social evils, to show them how men have combatted these evils and to suggest vocational opportunities in the warfare against them.” (Preface) In the October, 1917, number of the Educational Review the author, a professor in Reed college, presented the results of the investigation which led to the writing of this book. Questions put to 827 junior and senior high school boys brought home to him their ignorance of the modern problems of poverty, the social evil, and industrial unrest. Under the heading Enemies of the nation he discusses Disease, Feeblemindedness, Juvenile delinquency and crime, Commercialized prostitution, Child labor, Unemployment, The inequitable distribution of wealth, etc. As Defenders of the nation he lists the physician, teacher, lawyer, engineer, minister, forester, journalist, and others, and tells something of the lives of men who in these various fields have earned that title. In a final chapter the youth is called to action in the field of service. There is a brief selected list of books at the end.

A L A Bkl 14:40 N ‘17

“Five chapters, called ‘Defenders of the nation,’ contain short biographies of men who have achieved success in vocations. This is an original idea, well carried out.”

+ Boston Transcript p10 D 12 ‘17 280w

Cleveland p135 D ‘17 40w

+ Springf’d Republican p6 O 3 ‘17 130w

MOORE, JOHN HOWARD. Savage survivals. il $1 Kerr 170 16-923

“This book is an excellent presentation of the concepts of organic and social evolution adapted to the intelligence of children. The material was originally part of a series of lectures on ethics given in the Crane technical high school of Chicago. The important part played by the principle of selection among wild and domestic animals is shown, and the many apt illustrations of vestigial structures, vestigial instincts, and vestigial social forms serve to impress the young mind with the evolutionary concept of gradual change and continuity. The relatively modern idea of the vast period of prehistoric human evolution is well developed.”—Am J Soc

“It is doubtful whether the pedagogical value of Morgan’s anthropologically obsolete nine stages of society is sufficient to justify its use even in a popular work which in so many respects is admirably scientific.” F. S. Chapin

+ Am J Soc 22:693 Mr ‘17 160w