Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 31)
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MOORE, LESLIE. Antony Gray,—gardener. *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-11702
A sudden whim puts into the mind of Nicholas Danver the desire to see his last will and testament in operation. With the assistance of his friend Doctor Hilary, he becomes officially dead, and Antony Gray, his heir, is called home from South Africa to hear the conditions of the will. They are rather unusual, requiring that the young man shall live on the estate 395for one year as an undergardener. The fulfillment of this condition is made more difficult for Antony by the presence in the neighborhood of the woman he loves. At the crisis in affairs, Nicholas comes forward from his retirement to set matters straight.
+ A L A Bkl 13:450 Jl ‘17
“Charm, lightness, deft love-making, delightful descriptions of ‘the nice, fresh, cool, clean country’ are combined into a delicate pot pourri of a book.”
+ Dial 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 60w
“A pleasant little story, rather nicely told, with some pretty descriptions of the English countryside and a delightful puppy named Josephus. Trix’s aunt is fairly amusing, and the tale as a whole will be found to provide very mild entertainment for an idle hour.”
+ N Y Times 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 250w
“The opening chapters promise a lively interest, but later the story becomes very tame.”
– + Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 15 ‘17 220w
MOORE, WILLIAM HENRY. Railway nationalization and the average citizen. *$1.35 Dutton 385 18-2686
“Canada is seriously concerned over the position of her railways—so seriously that she recently invoked the services of three eminent experts in railway finance and operation, to make a study of the situation and advise as to the future. This commission by a vote of two to one proposed an elaborate plan involving a trusteeship which seems to approach closely to the substance of government ownership without the form. William H. Moore, a vigorous opponent of government ownership, feeling that the ‘average citizen’ has been misled by the ‘platitudinarians’ and the ‘doctrinaires,’ contributes his attempt towards the education of the electorate in a book entitled ‘Railway nationalization and the average citizen.’ He states that he has been in railway service during the period under review. ... His interest lies mainly in the history of the Canadian Northern and its unfortunate financial experience.”—Nation
Reviewed by O. D. Skelton
+ — Am Pol Sci R 12:144 F ‘18 400w
“He has written a tract rather than a convincing, well-balanced essay. His arguments from foreign experience are fragmentary and unsatisfactory.”
— Nation 105:572 N 22 ‘17 230w
“It is written so that the average citizen can understand, if he is open-minded, or rather so that he cannot misunderstand unless he is resolute to do so.”
+ N Y Times 22:532 D 2 ‘17 800w
MOOREHEAD, WARREN KING. Stone ornaments used by Indians in the United States and Canada. il *$3.75 Andover press, Andover, Mass. 970.6 17-6240
“Since his boyhood days, Mr Moorehead has been an active student of everything pertaining to American archæology.” (Boston Transcript) In this book he describes “certain charm stones, gorgets, tubes, bird stones and problematical forms” (Sub-title), which were apparently used by the Indians as ornaments, amulets or charms. One chapter describes the author’s methods of study and classification. “There are nearly three hundred illustrations, an excellent index and full bibliography.” (Boston Transcript) “Arthur C. Parker, New York state archeologist, has contributed an excellent discussion, while Prof. Edward H. Williams, Jr., and Benjamin L. Miller have made a study of the problem of patina and weathering.” (N Y Times)
“Probably every museum in this country has some specimens of these ornaments and to study them and collate the information about them has required a prodigious amount of work which has been performed in the scholarly fashion characteristic of the author, making this volume invaluable to the student of archæology. Many of the specimens are not readily accessible and to have them thus listed is most helpful.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 1 ‘17 600w
+ Dial 63:468 N 8 ‘17 120w
Lit D 54:1429 My 12 ‘17 90w
N Y Br Lib News 4:76 My ‘17
“Classification and minute study are Mr Moorehead’s field. As a collector and a statistician he is one of the finest in the archeological field. But when he attempts speculation, his imagination leads him often into strange paths. ... For one thing, however, Mr Moorehead deserves all praise. He has offered a complete and working classification for ornamental and problematical forms, illustrated by excellent pictures of specimens.”
+ + — Springf’d Republican p6 O 23 ‘17 500w
MORAN, THOMAS FRANCIS.[2] American presidents; their individualities and their contributions to American progress. *75c (3c) Crowell 923 17-25276
A chance remark to the effect that Theodore Roosevelt lacked the attributes of the “typical president of the United States” started the author on the inquiry that resulted in this little book. He has found that there is no “typical president,” and he aims to set forth the characteristics of each of our presidents in a way that will emphasize his individuality. The book consists of four chapters: From Washington to Jackson; From Jackson to Lincoln; From Lincoln to Wilson; The ethics of the presidential campaign. The author is professor of history and economics in Purdue university.
+ Am Pol Sci R 12:158 F ‘18 40w
“In showing up wherein some of our greatest men have failed to measure up to great heights, Dr Moran has produced a readable little book. His judgments in some cases have gone against popular impressions and traditions, which is a recommendation. But he is conventional enough to find some good to record of all of the presidents.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 D 29 ‘17 470w
“These sketches show well-balanced judgment, but they might with advantage have been somewhat more extended. It is impossible adequately to portray the character of a great political leader and discuss his relation to his age in a paragraph or two of comment.”
+ — Ind 92:193 O 27 ‘17 70w
MORETTI, ONORIO. Notes on training; field artillery details. il *$2 Yale univ. press 355 17-16557
This material was prepared under the direction of Captain Robert M. Danford, professor of military science and tactics at Yale university, from notes kept by himself, Capt. E. L. Gruber, and Capt. Moretti while on duty as instructors in the course for non-commissioned officers at the School of fire for field artillery, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. It was designed for the immediate use of the field artillery unit of the Reserve officers’ training corps at Yale. The contents include Map reading, Military sketches, Elementary field artillery gunnery, Firing data records, Communication, Scouts, couriers, and route markers, etc. The plates, for the most part, are from drawings made by Sergeant Ivar W. Wahren, Field artillery, on duty as assistant instructor at Yale university. Captain Danford draws particular attention in his preface to the “Principles of fire, part 6 chapter 2” concerning which he states that they are “those which were enunciated by the School of fire as the result of the most careful and comprehensive statistical studies. Their importance to field artillery men of all grades cannot be overestimated.” The three appendixes show Range tables, Common errors in firing, and Problems given at the School of fire. The book was issued in May, 1917 and reached a second printing in July.
A L A Bkl 14:77 D ‘17
N Y P L New Tech Bks p15 Jl ‘17 100w
396MORGAN, JAMES MORRIS. Recollections of a Rebel reefer. il *$3 Houghton 17-11810
“The author was a boy midshipman when the Civil war began. The most interesting period of his service under the confederacy was on the cruiser Georgia, mate to the famous Alabama. His adventures afterwards in the reconstruction period and as an officer in the Egyptian service are told with animation and gusto.”—Outlook
A L A Bkl 13:447 Jl ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 21 ‘17 1400w
Cleveland p126 N ‘17 60w
“His narrative is frank and relieved with humor, and the breadth of outlook it displays gives it value as a historical document.”
+ Dial 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 300w
“Few men could possibly set down such a record of their activities as this book affords. Not every man would care to tell so freely all his escapades as Mr Morgan has told his. Taken as a whole, his story may not inspire the reader to nobler ambitions or a loftier purpose, but it is a positive change from the customary ‘Recollections’ and ‘Reminiscences’ that so many have written, and it reads almost like a romance.”
+ Lit D 55:33 S 1 ‘17 340w
“Mr Morgan here discloses a personality as interesting as the life adventures which he tells so well. The exaggerated sentiment which mars so many of the books relating to the South of this period is happily absent.”
+ Nation 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 700w
“One of the best of recent books of reminiscence, because its narrative has spirit and a sense of humor.”
+ Outlook 116:33 My 2 ‘17 60w
Pittsburgh 22:526 Je ‘17 30w
Pratt p45 O ‘17 40w
R of Rs 55:666 Je ‘17 100w
“Throughout Mr Morgan enlivens his book by witty anecdotes mostly concerning persons famous during the Civil war.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Je 27 ‘17 520w
MORGAN, JAMES OSCAR. Field crops for the cotton-belt. (Rural textbook ser.) il *$1.75 Macmillan 633 17-2193
In this volume, planned as a college text, the author has endeavoured “to present clearly and accurately the science and art of field-crop production in the south. As the art of crop production is based primarily on the sciences of botany and chemistry, the aim has been to give to these subjects their proper application.” (Preface) Cotton and corn, the two leading crops of the south, have been given first and most extended attention. Other crops given consideration are oats, wheat, rye, barley, rice, the sorghums, sugar cane and the peanut. The book is illustrated and provided with an index. The author is professor of agronomy in the Agricultural and mechanical college of Texas.
A L A Bkl 14:11 O ‘17
Cleveland p70 My ‘17 30w
“Prof. Oscar Morgan’s contribution worthily upholds the reputation of the series, and is likely to be accepted as having a value considerably beyond the sphere of usefulness very possibly contemplated for it by its author. ... The book will be appreciated by cotton-growers throughout the world. In that light it is perhaps unfortunate that so much elementary science was thought necessary. The first principles of the physiology and chemistry of plant life might have been left to the lower school text-book. A glossary of terms would have got over any difficulty presumed to exist.”
+ — Nature 99:342 Je 28 ‘17 750w
N Y Br Lib News 4:44 Mr ‘17
St Louis 15:113 Ap ‘17 120w
MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT. Critique of the theory of evolution; lectures delivered at Princeton university, February 24, March 1, 8, 15, 1916. (Louis Clark Vanuxem foundation) il *$1.50 (6c) Princeton univ. press 575 16-22585
This work by a professor of experimental zoology in Columbia university, is an examination of the older evidence on which the theory of evolution was based in the light of later evidence. In his preface he furnishes a synopsis of the contents of his book: “In the first lecture an attempt is made to put a new valuation on the traditional evidence for evolution. In the second lecture the most recent work on heredity is dealt with, for only characters that are inherited can become a part of the evolutionary process. In the third lecture the physical basis of heredity and the composition of the germ plasm stream are examined in the light of new observations; while in the fourth lecture the thesis is developed that chance variation combined with a property of living things to manifold themselves is the key note of modern evolutionary thought.”
“Scholarly yet popular.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:384 Je ‘17
“Very searching and illuminating exposition.”
+ Educ R 54:528 D ‘17 30w
+ Ind 90:254 My 5 ‘17 200w
“When we look to the present summary for some statement of what important progress in our conception and understanding of inheritance is to be reported, we are reluctantly driven to the conclusion that what Prof. Morgan calls ‘a satisfactory solution of the traditional problem of heredity’ is only a restatement of the problem in terms of invisible ‘factors’ associated with chromosomes. The existence of such ‘factors’ is not a new inference, but has been a feature of theories of inheritance both before and since Darwin’s treatment of the subject.” E. R. Lankester
* Nature 99:181 My 3 ‘17 1500w
Reviewed by A. E. Watson
+ Survey 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 370w
“The illustrations are copious and very instructive, and are drawn very largely from flies.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p24 Ja 11 ‘17 60w
Reviewed by Ellsworth Huntington
Yale R n s 6:667 Ap ‘17 750w
MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON. Parnassus on wheels. *$1.25 (3½c) Doubleday 17-24508
“R. Mifflin is the ‘Professor’s’ name, and he has built a book-van in which he travels over the country, selling books to farmers and their families, to people in small towns, wherever he can get an audience and interest people in the joys of literature. ... But the little man ... has decided that he wants to sell his ‘Parnassus on wheels,’ and Helen McGill, housekeeper on a New England farm for her brother, who, from being a farmer has blossomed out into a David-graysonish kind of author, decides that she wants an adventure herself. So she buys the van and she and the ‘Professor’ ... set off together. He is going to ride with her for a day and show her how, and then he is going to Brooklyn to live for a while and write a book. The story is concerned almost wholly with their adventures, which are many and varied and entertaining.”—N Y Times
A L A Bkl 14:97 D ‘17
“It is graceful in style, light in substance, merry in its attitude towards life, and entertaining in every aspect of its plot and insight into character. It is both a story and an essay. ... It is real, yet it is fantastic; it is fantastic, yet it is real. And, best of all, it has an original idea in it that is carried just far enough.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 26 ‘17 1400w
“A story of quaint and spicy flavors.”
+ Cleveland p128 N ‘17 100w
397“Mr Morley combines genuine understanding of the ‘bookish’ temperament with humor that is irresistible.”
+ Dial 63:403 O 25 ‘17 90w
“A delightfully absurd little book, whose quaint whimsies make excellent reading aloud for winter evenings.”
+ Ind 93:241 F 9 ‘18 40w
“A bit of true romantic comedy.”
+ Nation 106:118 Ja 31 ‘18 170w
“It is a droll, engaging story, but it is so much more than just a droll story that one needs to read it to find out how many other kinds of things a droll story can be at the same time.”
+ N Y Times 22:360 S 23 ‘17 550w
+ Outlook 117:219 O 10 ‘17 60w
Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins
+ Pub W 92:803 S 15 ‘17 270w
+ + — Springf’d Republican p6 O 23 ‘17 500w
MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON. Songs for a little house. *$1.25 Doran 811 17-29993
Bayberry candles, A charm for our new fireplace, Six weeks old, Reading aloud, The milkman, The cedar chest, Washing the dishes, and The furnace are some of the “Songs for a little house” that constitute the first group of poems in this book and give it its title. “A handful of sonnets,” and a series of poems on the war, followed by a group of humorous verses, “Hay fever, and other literary pollen” complete the volume.
“‘Songs for a little house’ are very delightful and cheery and intimate; very simple, but fresh and bright and musical, in expression. In the other groups Mr Morley shows how versatile are his poetic gifts. He shows it in his themes and interests rather than in his style, though this has a distinction in spite of its common patterns that is full of charm. At trifling, in the light familiar vein, he is a rare performer. In the group of ‘Hay fever, and other literary pollen,’ he is in humorous and witty vein, quite the best of our younger poets who affect light verse.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 D 22 ‘17 730w
“A home-book in every sense of the word. These poems of Mr Morley are written with a very delicate touch—simple and with an air of spontaneity that takes them direct to the heart.”
+ Lit D 55:61 D 8 ‘17 570w
MORLEY, JOHN MORLEY, viscount. Recollections. 2v *$7.50 (5c) Macmillan 17-29196
This is not a work of biography, for the author does not present intimate details of personal life, and a chronological order is not followed in the arrangement of material. The chapters that compose the two volumes are grouped into six books: The republic of letters; Public life; Three years in Ireland; Policies and persons; A short page in imperial history; A critical landmark. A short passage from the introduction will serve to indicate something of the temper of the work: “Much of my ground obviously involves others; deeply should I regret if a single page were found unfair, or likely to wound just sensibilities. More deeply still should I deplore it, if a single page or phase or passing mood of mine were either to dim the lamp of loyalty to reason, or to dishearten earnest and persistent zeal for wise politics, in younger readers with their lives before them.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:128 Ja ‘18
“His book was bound to be in some degree an apologia, and I notice that more than one critic has condemned its complacency. My own disappointment is on other grounds. I had expected a full length autobiography, and what we have been given is at most a torso. ... Perhaps politicians will welcome what I regret. Yet I cannot help feeling that the book would have gained if it had been a little more intimate, and—though it is on the borders of blasphemy to ask this from Lord Morley—a little more indiscreet.”
+ — Ath p659 D ‘17 340w
“A book which contains a wealth of portraiture, wisdom, quiet wit, and what the public loves best of all—‘secret history.’ Here, assuredly, is both a book to praise and a man to praise.”
+ Ath p662 D ‘17 1300w
+ Ath p682 D ‘17 240w
“For an abstract and brief chronicle of the later nineteenth century times in all their British aspect, the reader of the future will unquestionably turn to these recollections of Lord Morley.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 D 8 ‘17 1700w
“Never has the intellectual beauty of the Victorian age been more truly and eloquently defined, ever has it been more brilliantly and sympathetically exemplified than by Viscount Morley’s ‘Recollections.’” R. M. Lovett
+ Dial 64:16 Ja 3 ‘18 2700w
“One of those works that appear hardly oftener than once in a decade, books indispensable for all students of modern history and social life, and the public affairs of our own age.”
+ Lit D 55:46 D 8 ‘17 170w
“Writing with entire freedom of the political events in England of thirty years past, in which he played so worthy a part, Morley betrays no secrets, sets down no bitter verdicts. His serenity and restraint are out of the common. ... Only an occasional and incidental reference is made to the great struggle, and that without irritation or bitterness. Yet we cannot help thinking that Morley intended this work of his to have its significance as bearing on his attitude towards the war. Without directly condemning it, he sets forth the ideals of statesmanship which would have prevented it. It is a record of enlightened and consistent liberalism which he puts before his readers, leaving them to draw the moral.”
+ Nation 105:568 N 22 ‘17 1500w
“The book is essentially a simple one. There is absent from it the personal, eager fling of definiteness that made de Tocqueville’s ‘Memoirs’ the pleasantest of arm-chair comforts. It has nothing of the almost dazzling splendor that made of Meredith, to whom he gives some shining pages, a comet across the sky. It is the revelation of life in its two deepest interests that Lord Morley offers—what he has known of literature and of politics. It is the portrait of the world as it dawned upon the vision of one who gave his days to thought; and curiosity is stilled at the deliberate reservation.” H. J. L.
+ New Repub 13:286 Ja 5 ‘18 2800w
“It is not too much to say that Lord Morley does not mention one prominent figure of his time—scarcely one person—without giving the reader a living picture of the man. What he has to say of Gladstone, especially of the failure of his last cabinet, is as vivid as it is valuable. ... As a piece of writing, ‘Recollections’ is charming—charming in the fine, large, literal sense of holding, pleasing, delighting, the reader’s mind.”
+ N Y Times 22:489 N 25 ‘17 1650w
Pittsburgh 22:804 D ‘17 120w
“The outstanding work of its kind of the year.” Robert Lynd
+ Pub W 92:2028 D 8 ‘17 480w
“Lord Morley’s style as writer and speaker has the merits of clearness, point and logic. It is so plain as to be, if not bald, certainly cold, and it is unrelieved by wit or humour.”
+ — Sat R 124:417 N 24 ‘17 1250w
“His attitude has dignity, and frees the book from anything resembling party passion. ... Lord Morley’s book abounds in interest.”
+ Spec 119:568 N 17 ‘17 2500w
+ Spec 119:600 N 24 ‘17 2600w
“The quotations with which the work is embellished are only such as could come from one who had ‘taken all knowledge for his province.’ On every page there is substance to delight the thoughtful reader as well as to instruct him, for a very high quality of charm is attained in this chronicle of serious persons and serious events.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 D 23 ‘17 3450w
398“It is a book of immense interest, stimulus, even inspiration; not one of companionship, still less one of equality. There is more of ordinary humanity in two pages of Boswell or Lockhart than in these two large volumes. Lord Morley is no confessor. We get no weaknesses here except that of a somewhat complacent quality akin to vanity, which contemplates all his doings with a self-assured serenity of approval, but without which the book would have lost some of its best pages.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p561 N 22 ‘17 4400w
“In many libraries the work will have a very limited reading, but if possible it should be at the disposal of those few who will find in it food for thought and discussion and a better understanding of the British people and their problems.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 14:31 Ja ‘18 120w
MORRIS, LLOYD R. Celtic dawn; a survey of the renascence in Ireland, 1889-1916. *$1.50 (3c) Macmillan 820.9 17-4807
“‘The Celtic dawn’ is a study of the several movements which, although having their foundation in a single consciously expressed philosophy, have labored in widely varied fields to produce a new social synthesis in contemporary Ireland.” (Foreword) As the five movements of major importance the author names those which have been concerned with literature, with the drama, with the revival of Gaelic, with economic and social reform, and with political thought. These are treated in six chapters as follows: The forces at work; Critical theories of the renascence; Poetry of the renascence; The drama; The novel, folk-lore, and other prose; Movements for social and economic reform. The last chapter includes a treatment of the Sinn Fein and the rebellion of 1916.
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“His survey is the best proportioned, though not in detail the most complete, which we have yet received. ... There are, however, a few particulars in which the book might be improved. ... Mr Morris has failed to indicate the exact problems and the position of the Catholic church in relation to this movement. ... But of all these faults, which are, after all, only minor ones, the worst is the exasperating absence of a usable bibliography. Mr Morris is a good critic, of that we have no doubt, but scarcely a thorough and exact scholar.” Elbridge Colby
+ — Bellman 22:438 Ap 21 ‘17 650w
“Boyd’s ‘Ireland’s literary renascence’ is perhaps a better all around treatment, especially as the present volume is not provided with an index.”
Cleveland p64 My ‘17 110w
“Mr Morris is particularly happy in his characterizations of A. E. Synge, and James Stephens, but we miss that recent remarkable apparition James Joyce.”
+ — Dial 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 250w
+ Ind 90:469 Je 9 ‘17 30w
“The last chapter is a sound and valuable piece of work and a most serviceable outline of the various movements in the social and political life of the last generation in Ireland.”
+ — Nation 105:74 Jl 19 ‘17 350w
N Y Br Lib News 4:61 Ap ‘17
“After dealing adequately with the fiction, the novel and folklore of the Gael, Mr Morris enters with the greatest intelligence into a discussion of the social and economic reforms undertaken in Ireland by Sir Horace Plunkett and ‘A. E.’ The guild organization inaugurated by Plunkett after his return from North America, and inspired by the agricultural banking reforms of Germany, has produced such prosperity and advancement in the country and village life that it may be said to have revolutionized Irish conditions and given new phases to the national political questions. ... ‘The Celtic dawn’ is a work for the shelves of every library that desires a statement of the latest and most significant movement in English literature.”
+ N Y Times 22:225 Je 10 ‘17 680w
St Louis 15:182 Je ‘17 10w
MORRIS, LLOYD R., comp. Young idea. *$1.25 (4c) Duffield 810.4 17-13546
“An anthology of opinion concerning the spirit and aims of contemporary American literature.” When the plan of this book was formulated by the author, he sent out letters to representative writers among the younger generation of authors asking for opinions on the new movement in literature. A compilation of the replies received, with introductory and concluding essays by Mr Morris, make up this volume. Some of these replies are brief and of interest chiefly as expressions of personal opinion; others, of more extended length, constitute genuine contributions to criticism. Mr Morris has arranged the contents in five parts: The empiricists; The romanticists; The idealists; The pessimists; The traditionalists. The discussion has chiefly to do with the revival in poetry.
“Good for club papers.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:441 Jl ‘17
“The volume constitutes a criticism and interpretation of modern American poetry as it appears to its creators and furnishes the best basis for a comparative study of these poets of any book yet published.”
+ Cleveland p89 Jl ‘17 130w
“If you examine the various credos contributed by such poets as Miss Lowell, Vachel Lindsay, Conrad Aiken, Louis Untermeyer, Max Eastman, and Miss Monroe, you will hear them all repeating in one form or another the conviction that what chiefly marks off our period is the passion for emancipation. ... But the thing that strikes one as, after all, strangest about these various passionate confessions of faith is that there should be felt to be so pressing a need to defend the claims of truth on our attention. ... How much more persuasive is the innocence of the Russian, who never thinks of apologizing for telling the truth and has always regarded his everyday adventure as the stuff out of which to fashion the most profound and strangely beautiful creations of the modern mind.” G: B. Donlin
Dial 62:520 Je 14 ‘17 1150w
“‘The young idea’ represents a variety of revolutionary spirits. One is willing to grant that most of them would prefer to revolt by writing verse than by telling how they do it.”
— Springf’d Republican p10 N 15 ‘17 260w
MORRIS, SIR MALCOLM ALEXANDER. Nation’s health; the stamping out of venereal diseases. *$1.25 Funk 616.95 SG17-260
“As a member of the Royal commission, Sir Malcolm Morris has written this admirable little book to drive home the lessons of the report. He describes, the history and nature of venereal disease, showing incidentally that it is more prevalent in towns than in the country. He lays stress on the difficulties in the way of compulsory notification, and still more of compulsory treatment. He regards the old policy of regulation, still followed on the Continent, as a complete failure. ... In a final chapter he says some plain words on the increase of the plague caused by the war and the urgent need of dealing with it more thoroughly.”—Spec
“A very admirable little book, written by one who is thoroughly conversant with the subject and entitled to speak to the British public as a great authority. It would be well if copies could be seen in every library in the kingdom.” L. C. P.
+ Pittsburgh 22:460 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute sup p1 Mr ‘17)
+ Spec 118:141 F 3 ‘17 120w
“While it deals with conditions in England, it is almost equally applicable to our own situation in America, and will not only be useful to those who are directly interested in the public 399health problems of venereal disease, but will also be valuable to any reader who seeks a clear and simple statement of the facts.” J. H. Foster
+ Survey 39:326 D 15 ‘17 510w
“It is written with judgment and discretion, as well as with technical mastery of the subject. ... Sir Malcolm Morris has a chapter on ‘Spreading the light,’ which we view with considerable misgiving.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p44 Ja 25 ‘17 500w
MORRISON, EDWARD, and BRUES, CHARLES THOMAS. How to make the garden pay. *75c (2½c) Houghton 635 17-18831
A manual for the intensive cultivation of home vegetable gardens written to tell both novices and experienced gardeners how so to cultivate a small area as to increase as much as possible the home food-supply. The authors have had experience as home gardeners and Mr Brues is assistant professor of economic entomology at Harvard university. Contents: Right planning; Profitable methods; Alphabetical list of vegetables with directions; Insect enemies and diseases (Those of the cabbage take three pages of text). The appendix gives tables showing the Food value of fresh vegetables and other foods and dates for garden-planting, also a Home gardener’s calendar for the northern states. The book is indexed.
+ Cleveland p111 S ‘17 20w
“An excellent, business-like, little handbook.”
+ Ind 91:110 Jl 21 ‘17 50w
“By far the most valuable little book on vegetable gardening for the novice as well as the more experienced that has come under our purview this season.” S.
+ N Y Call p15 Ag 19 ‘17 150w
Pittsburgh 22:665 O ‘17
+ St Louis 15:365 O ‘17 30w
“The garden novice can profit greatly by frequent consultation of this manual.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 28 ‘17 160w
MORSE, EDWARD LELAND CLARK. Spanish-American life; a reader for students of modern Spanish. (Lake Spanish ser.) il *$1.25 Scott 468 17-12482
“A reader consisting mainly of extracts from Central and South American newspapers. Our southern neighbors are thus made to describe themselves. These selections are easy, well chosen, and interesting. The editor has travelled much in New Spain and observed closely. His attitude is as sympathetic as could be desired. The annotations are original and refreshingly unpedantic. The copious illustrations are taken mostly from Mr Morse’s own photographs.”—Nation
“No better presentation of South American civilization has yet appeared in textbook form.”
+ Nation 104:662 My 31 ‘17 90w
+ Pittsburgh 22:694 O ‘17 30w
MORSE, EDWARD SYLVESTER. Japan day by day, 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83. il *$8 Houghton 915.2 17-28348
“Professor Edward S. Morse, the genial, ambidextrous director of the Peabody museum at Salem and expert curator of Japanese pottery at the Boston art museum, set out for Japan forty years ago for the sole purpose of studying brachiopods. ... The newly founded Imperial university of Tokio discovered this enthusiastic young fisherman hard at work and captured him. He was carried off triumphantly and made professor of zoölogy.” (Boston Transcript) He held this position “during a very interesting period in the early years of the transformation of Japan and witnessed some of the throes of the struggle of occidental and oriental ideals from the vantage-point of a government official, with an outlook from the capital city. It was, however, the daily life of the people, their quaint and curious and clever ways and devices, so different from our own, and their social customs and industrial methods which most interested him. ... This book is a narrative abstracted from his daily journal.” (Dial)
+ A L A Bkl 14:164 F ‘18
“It is a book of great enthusiasms and conveys a whole world of curious information not to be found in any guide-book.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 14 ‘17 1800w
+ Dial 63:591 D 6 ‘17 350w
Reviewed by Poultney Bigelow
+ Ind 93:72 Ja 12 ‘18 970w
“The present work is encyclopedic in that it furnishes concrete information of the most intimate and detailed character on native life in Japan a generation ago, yet with all the interest of personal and connected narrative.”
+ Lit D 56:34 Ja 12 ‘18 400w
“With the multitude of thumb-nail sketches which form an integral part of the record, the general effect is that of a casual illustrated lecture—undeniably vivid in spots, but often disconcertingly abrupt in its transitions from subject to subject, and not infrequently naive in its generalizations.”
+ — N Y Times 22:451 N 4 ‘17 1200w
“Mr Morse writes with adequate responsibility and in a scholarly spirit. His book is authoritative, detailed, comprehensive; it is also zestful, almost ‘larky.’”
+ No Am 206:959 D ‘17 500w
“A record in which the freshness of daily impression is preserved.”
+ Outlook 117:576 D 5 ‘17 110w
+ Pittsburgh 22:824 D ‘17 80w
“The unique history of this inimitable record of a traveler’s impressions is suggestive of nothing so much as some rare old vintage which has mellowed for decades in the wood before being finally decanted to delight the palate of a younger generation. Yet, in a work dealing confessedly with the social conditions of a nation in a transition state, one wishes that either the author himself or perhaps some one better informed as to present day conditions in Japan, could have indicated on the one hand the customs which have passed away, and on the other those which still endure.” Calvin Winter
+ — Pub W 92:1381 O 20 ‘17 750w
MORSE, FRANCES CLARY.[2] Furniture of the olden time. new ed il *$6 Macmillan 749 17-27766
A new edition of a standard work that was first published in 1902. There are over a hundred and twenty new illustrations and a new chapter on “Doorways, mantels, and stairs.” There has also been added a glossary of terms employed by cabinet makers.
“A new edition of a standard work that has made itself almost indispensable to people of taste in matters of household equipment. This is a book to make the reader feel proud of the workers and workmanship of the old days.”
+ Outlook 118:68 Ja 2 ‘18 60w
“It is indispensable to the collector and has a special interest as well for the cabinet maker, the art student, and the student of domestic history.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ja 13 ‘18 100w
MORTIMER, MAUD. Green tent in Flanders. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 940.91 17-24525
These sketches from the war zone appear to be extracts from the daily record of a volunteer nurse. The author is an American woman who served for a time as an assistant in one of the field hospitals. With a somewhat milder and gentler pen, she draws pictures that are not so different from those of Ellen LaMotte in “The backwash of war.” Parts of the book have appeared in Everybody’s and other magazines.
“It is made vivid by the human touches in the glimpses of the poilus as they come and go and in the heroism or littleness of the nurses and doctors.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:54 N ‘17
400“Of all the books on the war we have yet seen, this is by far the most appealing because of its fine quality of style, its restrained handling, and the intimate, sympathetic view it gives of human nature under the stress of terrible events.”
+ Cath World 106:390 D ‘17 370w
“The entries are fragmentary and the harrowing details of field hospital work continually intrude, but suffering, heroism and humor appeal to the author’s human side and she has the artist’s vision.”
+ Cleveland p1 Ja ‘18 50w
“The wounded soldiers who pass under Miss Mortimer’s care are portrayed with graphic, sympathetic touch, and the numerous anecdotes could only have been told by an acute observer with a sense for the picturesque.”
+ Dial 64:120 Ja 31 ‘18 90w
“All unconsciously, it would seem, she has struck an immortal chord vibrating thru the silence of mortality, and by it lifts her book out from its haunting shadows into that white light by which many may find faith restored and grief comforted.”
+ Ind 92:342 N 17 ‘17 220w
“The artistic vision, the philosophic tendency of mind, and the quiet humor make it all as different from an ordinary chronicle of hospital service as a statue is different from a block of marble.”
+ N Y Times 22:463 N 11 ‘17 480w
“The author has illustrated her own book with little pen and ink sketches usually but not always serving as chapter headings, and quite as effective as more finished pictures.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 D 16 ‘17 300w
MOSBY, JOHN SINGLETON. Memoirs; ed. by Charles Wells Russell. il *$3 (3½c) Little 17-25282
In every war, says the introduction, there are figures which, “through intrepidity, originality, and brilliancy of action” raise themselves above their fellows and achieve a picturesqueness that is commonly associated with characters in fiction. Such a figure was Colonel Mosby, one of the most daring of the Confederate raiders. “In the South his dashing exploits made him one of the great heroes of the ‘lost cause.’ In the North he was painted as the blackest of redoubtable scoundrels.” Colonel Mosby, who lived to the age of eighty-five, had all but completed his memoirs before his death in 1916. These have now been edited for publication. After the war he became one of Grant’s personal friends, and the book closes with two chapters devoted to: My recollections of General Lee, and My recollections of General Grant.
+ A L A Bkl 14:89 D ‘17
“The story as Mosby has written it is full of deep interest and one, in the reading, soon loses sight of the fact that this is the narrative of one who was doing his utmost to destroy our common country, and becomes absorbed in the delight of the narrative and the vigor of the telling.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 O 3 ‘17 800w
“The narrative of the war is lucidly and interestingly written and his defense of General Stuart’s strategy is a valuable contribution to the military history of the times.”
+ Ind 92:56 O 6 ‘17 80w
+ Lit D 55:45 O 13 ‘17 400w
“Colonel Mosby seems to have had almost as enjoyable a time in raiding the weak places in Lee’s inaccurate report of the Gettysburg campaign, in Longstreet’s Memoirs, and in the numerous biographies of Lee and other writings by his staff officers as he had during the war in descending upon the trains, camps, and cattle herds of the Union armies in Virginia. ... The lively narrative of Mosby’s own exploits sometimes fails to be sustained by other evidence.”
+ — Nation 106:147 F 7 ‘18 1150w
“A very valuable addition to Civil war literature. The only adverse criticism that can be made is that they contain rather too many quotations from official reports and family letters which have but a faint interest to the reader of to-day.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p17 O 21 ‘17 1200w
MOSES, MONTROSE JONAS. American dramatist. new rev ed il *$1.75 Little 812 17-17744
“A second edition of ‘The American dramatist,’ has been revised and enlarged to contain a history of the progress of the motion-picture industry and the advance of American drama since 1910. Mr Moses presents the drama largely in its sociological aspects, and his character sketches of dramatists have a biological trend. ... Among the latter is a study of Percy MacKaye and his father, Steele MacKaye. There is a chapter on ‘little theaters.’ ... The closing chapter discusses the privileges and duties of the dramatic critic.” (R of Rs) A “Bibliography of the American dramatist” is found on pages [379]-394.
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Reviewed by Algernon Tassin
Bookm 46:348 N ‘17 290w
“The author apparently thinks that his task of ‘revision’ is fulfilled by covering the six years that have passed since his work originally appeared with a number of extra chapters here and there. He seems to have left his original work almost untouched, and as the later chapters are not specifically indicated, we are often quite unable to tell whether the author is looking back from 1911 or from 1917. The result is a good deal of muddle. ... There is about ‘The American dramatist’ a lack of enthusiasm, an over-critical note that suggests a quite undue pessimism; a scarcity of constructive criticism.”
+ — Boston Transcript p6 Jl 25 ‘17 220w
“It is, all in all, an excellent book, yet it does not give enough attention to individual plays; gives too much attention to conventionalized ideas, and gives too little credit to ‘the movies,’ to the little theater and to those dramatists of excellent ‘moments,’ who by their very failures to construct model plays best exemplify the American drama’s real trend.”
+ — Ind 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w
R of Rs 56:443 O ‘17 150w
MOSS, JAMES ALFRED. Trench warfare. il $1.25 Banta pub. 355 17-17084
“Major Moss ... is a member of the United States army, and bases his handbook on private and official British publications which set forth the best methods, as developed by experience, of training and instructing officers and men in trench warfare. The first chapter, on ‘Tactical fortifications,’ deals with the work of making intrenchments and other field fortifications; the second taking up, under the heading, ‘The service of the trenches,’ such matters as routine of duty, billeting, sanitation, the different methods of offense and defense, and the responsibilities of the platoon commander. Other chapters deal with sniping, grenades and grenadiers, gas warfare, bayonet fighting, machine guns, and various features of the offensive. A complete set of questions for every chapter adds to the value of the book for purposes of instruction in training camps. It is very fully illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken at the front.”—N Y Times
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“A good guide book for the soldier.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 S 5 ‘17 100w
Cleveland p131 D ‘17 20w
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p16 Jl ‘17 60w
“Major Moss’s presentation of the methods of warfare that have been developed during the last three years is perhaps the most exhaustive that has been made.”
+ N Y Times 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 210w
Pratt p14 O ‘17 30w
401MOSS, JAMES ALFRED, and STEWART, MERCH BRADT. Military training for boys; intended to develop body, character and patriotism. il 50c Banta 355.07 17-16556
This volume was prepared by two officers of the United States army, joint authors of “Self-helps for the citizen soldier,” for the use of the National school camp association. The purpose is defined as follows: “First, to give the boys of this country a clear idea of the part that military preparedness and training play in the life of a nation; second, to teach them some of the A.B.C.’s of military training; third, to make clear to the American youth that the drills and maneuvers of military training, while necessary, are only one side—the mechanical side—of the soldier’s work, and that the lessons of patriotism, loyalty, discipline, frugality, physical and moral sturdiness, self-reliance, self-control, determination and respect for the law, all of which enter into the training of a soldier, are qualities which will help them to be better citizens and more successful men in every walk of life, and that they may, every day of their lives, while training themselves for their work in life, at the same time, train themselves in the qualities which the soldier must have; fourth, to impress upon our boys the fact that in the future, as in the past, we must depend upon the citizenry of the country to defend it.” (Prefatory note)
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MOSS, JAMES ALFRED, and STEWART, MERCH BRADT. Our flag and its message. *25c Lippincott 929.9 17-14035
This little booklet is by two officers of the United States army. “In the compass of less than thirty pages they give the story of ‘Old Glory,’ explain its symbolism and present in addition the President’s appeal for unity at the opening of hostilities between our country and Germany.” (Cath World) “America” and “The Star spangled banner” are printed in full.
Boston Transcript p16 S 26 ‘17 60w
“One of the most attractive leaflets we have seen among the host of such publications the war has brought forth.”
+ Cath World 105:846 S ‘17 90w
MOULTON, FOREST RAY. Introduction to astronomy. new and rev ed il *$2.25 Macmillan 520 16-23571
“The necessity for a new edition has given Dr Moulton an opportunity to rewrite his manual, with the addition of some new material and an altered organization. The first chapters in the new edition deal with the earth and its motions, and aim in general to ‘illustrate the care with which scientific theories are established,’ and the chapters on the sun and the evolution of the solar system follow the treatment of the moon, planets and comets.”—Springf’d Republican
+ A L A Bkl 13:276 Mr ‘17
+ Ind 30:382 My 26 ‘17 40w
“The popularity of Prof. Forest Ray Moulton’s ‘Introduction to astronomy’ is attested by the fact that there have been seven reprints since the first appearance of the textbook ten years ago. ... There are nearly 200 diagrams and photographic illustrations. Dr Moulton is professor of astronomy in the University of Chicago and research associate of the Carnegie institution of Washington.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Mr 4 ‘17 150w
MOXCEY, MARY ELIZA. Girlhood and character; introd. by G: A. Coe. (Manuals of religious education for parents and teachers) *$1.50 Abingdon press 173 16-23594
“For leaders, teachers, and parents of girls this is an analysis of the problems of adolescent girlhood, from the standpoints of physiology, psychology, and growth of character through formal and informal education. Divided into four parts, taking up the problem as the older generation sees it, early adolescence, middle, and later adolescence.”—A L A Bkl
“Has been criticized as bordering on sentimentalism and attempting too varied a field.”
A L A Bkl 13:374 Je ‘17
“The author makes clear that the moral education of the emotions begins not with prescribing or proscribing acts for young people, but in self-knowledge, reverence and control.”
Boston Transcript p7 Jl 18 ‘17 150w
“A full bibliography of books relating to girls and women is a valuable addition.”
+ Ind 89:559 Mr 26 ‘17 50w
Pittsburgh 22:700 O ‘17 40w
“Personal service rather than hearty cooperative endeavor becomes the character factor. This lack in the book is counterbalanced by the suggestive treatment of certain other points.” K. T.
+ Survey 38:289 Je 30 ‘17 200w
MÜCKE, HELLMUTH VON. The “Ayesha”; tr. by Helene S. White. il *$1.25 (3c) Ritter & co. 940.91 17-4203
The landing squad of the “Emden” was sent on shore at the Keeling Islands to destroy a wireless station. While they were so occupied, the “Emden” became engaged in action, and Lieutenant von Mücke with his men, unable to overtake her in their small motor boat, were left stranded. To stay on the island meant capture by the British, and taking possession of a small sailing vessel, a none too seaworthy craft, that lay in the harbor, they made their escape. This was the “Ayesha.” It is interesting to note that the Englishmen on the island, to whom the “sporting side of the situation” made an appeal, helped the Germans in their departure. As an exciting narrative the tale of their adventures is worthy of the commendation that the translator in her preface and Lieutenant Klein of the United States navy in his foreword give it.
Cleveland p71 My ‘17 80w
N Y Br Lib News 4:57 Ap ‘17
“It is interesting in the first place as a record of gallant and perilous adventure, in more ways than one a veritable wonder-voyage. And it is interesting as a personal narrative, for the gayety, humor, and briskness with which the story is told.”
+ N Y Times 22:263 Jl 15 ‘17 170w
Pittsburgh 22:530 Je ‘17 70w
+ St Louis 15:134 My ‘17 10w
+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 13 ‘17 130w
MÜCKE, HELLMUTH VON. The “Emden”; tr. by Helene S. White. il *$1.25 (4c) Ritter & co. 940.91 17-13489
Kapitänleutnant von Mücke, first officer on board the Emden, gives an account of that ship’s adventures in the fall of 1914. News that Germany was at war with Russia and France was received on August 2, and the Emden, then in the Indian ocean, was immediately made ready for action. The first chapter contains a brief and positive statement of the causes of the war from the German point of view, but in the remainder of the book the author confines himself quite strictly to his narrative. As he has related in “The Ayesha,” he had gone ashore with the landing squad at the time of the Emden’s last fight, so he can only describe that event as witnessed from a distance.
+ A L A Bkl 14:89 D ‘17
+ Ind 91:32 Jl 7 ‘17 350w
“If this were a primeval struggle, with no cables, wireless, or correspondents to keep the world informed of its minutest fluctuations; if only a few incidents rose out of the haze of rumor to stand clear in the light of fact, the Emden might then be the central theme of an Iliad in which its Capt. von Mücke was Achilles. Unfortunately the narrative, appearing 402as it did at about the time America declared war, cannot hope for as large an audience as it might have won in a better day.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 S 7 ‘17 270w
MUIR, JOHN. Cruise of the Corwin. il *$2.50 (5½c) Houghton 919.8 17-31765
When the “Thomas Corwin” put out from San Francisco in 1881 in search of the “Jeannette,” lost somewhere in the Arctic, John Muir, already distinguished for his glacial studies in the Sierra Nevada and Alaska, was a member of the expedition. The objective of the expedition was Wrangell Land, then unexplored, for which it was believed De Long of the “Jeannette” had been headed. In the introduction to this volume it is stated that “so far as known, the first human beings that ever stood upon the shores of this island were in Captain Hooper’s landing party, August 12, 1881, and John Muir was of the number.” A second relief expedition touched on the island shortly after, but between that time and the wreck of Steffánsson’s flagship the “Karluk,” in 1914, the region was unexplored. This gives to John Muir’s record a unique value. It was the first, and remains practically the only scientific account of this part of the arctic regions. A series of letters contributed to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, supplemented with extracts from his journal, forms the basis for this volume. It is edited by William Frederic Badè.
“Not as interesting as his other books to the general reader.”
+ — A L A Bkl 14:164 F ‘18
“A worthy and interesting supplement to his book of explorations in Alaska. ... It is by no means a dry and technical scientific treatise. While he observed and recorded scientific facts he was deeply interested in the human life around him, was keenly alive to the characteristics and ways of the Eskimos.” H. S. K.
+ Boston Transcript p10 D 12 ‘17 600w
“The joy he found in the voyage and its experiences is evident on every page of his journal or his articles. The picture he gives of that desolate world and of its inhabitants, of the wild seas and the bitter weather or the glory of the short summer, is a picture vivid and compelling and human. The editor has done his work excellently, and has contributed a valuable introduction.”
+ N Y Times 22:581 D 30 ‘17 1350w
“Every admirer of John Muir and every lover of Arctic adventure will rejoice in this book.”
+ Outlook 117:654 D 19 ‘17 60w
MUIR, RAMSAY. Expansion of Europe; the culmination of modern history. maps *$2 (3½c) Houghton 940.5 (Eng ed 17-15578)
The author, who is professor of modern history in the University of Manchester, “surveys the origins and nature of the process by which, during the past four centuries, the world has been subjugated by European civilization; he discusses the relations of this process to the problems of the war, and endeavours to analyse the nature of the share in the work taken by the chief European peoples who have participated in it. The meaning and motives of imperialism are discussed, and the successive periods of European imperialism are considered in order of time: the period of ‘Iberian monopoly’; the period of Dutch, French, and English rivalry; the era of revolution, covering the severance of the American colonies from Britain, and the establishment of British rule in India; the period of the transformation of the British empire, 1815-78, and the growth of self-government in the colonies; the era of the world-states and the partition of Africa, 1878-1900; and the recent period, covering the campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan, the war with the Boers, and Germany’s ‘great challenge’ to the world.” (Ath) There are a number of serviceable black-and-white maps. “The essay was originally designed as one of a set of four, to be included under the general title ‘The culmination of modern history.’ Two of these have been already published under the title of ‘Nationalism and internationalism.’” (Preface)
“While it is perfectly obvious that in any account of the expansion of Europe the British empire must be accorded the largest share for both size and achievement, the tale could have been unfolded with much less national self-glorification. Perhaps it might have been desirable not to intimate quite so strongly that ‘force and fraud’ were characteristics of the modes of securing colonial territory by all European countries except Great Britain. ... The chapter on the transformation of the British empire between 1815 and 1878 is easily the best in the book. Here the reasons for the tolerant attitude that Great Britain adopted toward its colonies, and notably toward those of the self-governing type, are summarized with much skill and cogency.” W: R. Shepherd
– + Am Hist R 23:387 Ja ‘18 710w
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Ath p366 Jl ‘17 170w
“A simply and clearly written essay, well put together, emphasizing the essentials of the subject and sparing the details. ... Prof. Muir’s brief account of the various modern empires—French, Russian, American, German, as well as our own—does not really do justice to their characteristics. ... Even such important facts as the reactionary change in French colonial policy in 1892 are not mentioned. ... The account of Italian and American colonial experiments is also very perfunctory.”
+ — Ath p399 Ag ‘17 1150w
“The book may be read profitably by persons who desire a rapid résumé of the colonial and commercial rivalries of the great powers; more serious students will find it of little value.”
+ — Dial 63:460 N 8 ‘17 280w
— Ind 91:266 Ag 18 ‘17 50w
“Professor Muir’s historical survey is sound and full, yet without any unnecessary multiplicity of detail; but in the last stages, where the great challenge to the greatest of the new composite world states, the British empire, is dealt with there is a polemical note, and his references to America throughout are acid and grudging.” M. J.
+ — Int J Ethics 28:295 Ja ‘18 240w
Lit D 55:38 S 29 ‘17 380w
“It is to be regretted that the facts are presented with such a blend of national self-glorification, of small and unnecessary boastings, of bland superiority to the other nations of the world. ... Professor Muir is both at his best and his worst in writing about his own country. ... It is worthy of note that Professor Muir makes an evident effort to be entirely just to the point of view of Germany. It is impossible not to feel that he does not make that effort in writing of America.”
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Outlook 117:100 S 19 ‘17 160w
Pittsburgh 22:765 N ‘17 60w
“We do not find quite the same freshness in the present work as in his ‘Nationalism and internationalism.’ Nevertheless the summary of the workings of a reasonable imperialistic spirit in ‘The expansion of Europe’ is a very lucid survey of the facts, and it has great instructive value.”
+ — Spec 118:37 Jl 14 ‘17 1400w
“A scholarly and most readable essay. The point of view is aggressively British and the opportunity to do a patriotic bit by the writing has plainly appealed to the author, but this at least has not affected the clarity of his exposition or his excellent style.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 D 30 ‘17 580w
“The first 150 pages cover a survey of the expansion of Europe down to the year 1878. These are, as we should expect, well written, well arranged, the work of an experienced teacher and a competent historian; written as they could not but be, on the lines of Seeley’s ‘Expansion of England,’ they form a useful compendium or text-book. ... The chapters 403which deal with the events since 1878 are not on the level of his ordinary work. The arrangement is defective, there is a good deal of repetition. ... This is, we suggest, the key to the book; it is written too soon.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p254 My 31 ‘17 1600w
MUIR, RAMSAY. Nationalism and internationalism; the culmination of modern history. *$1.25 Houghton 940.5 (Eng ed 17-11913)
“The author’s object is to trace in broad outline the development of two of the most powerful factors in modern history, namely, the nationalist and internationalist movements.” (Ath) “He writes from the standpoint of one who sees a steady growth towards a reign of law in European relations; who believes in the necessity of organizing states on a national basis; and who finds in this kind of national system the sole basis for an international system.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“The author is professor of modern history in the University of Manchester.”
A L A Bkl 13:429 Jl ‘17
Ath p539 N ‘16 70w
+ Ath p578 D ‘16 800w
+ Cleveland p102 S ‘17 20w
“These are not the only cases where Professor Muir obscures truth by his eagerness for broad conclusions. His theory of nationality, his interpretation of medieval cosmopolitanism are both of them brilliant pieces of journalism, but they are brilliant journalism only because they represent an unnatural simplification of complex facts. They take no account of exceptions, or else they regard them as easy jests. Professor Muir has written a book that is useful for the purposes of dinner-table conversation. But it is not profound enough in its acquaintance with the real issues at stake to be more that a skilful piece of political persiflage.” H. J. Laski
— Dial 62:472 My 31 ‘17 530w
N Y Br Lib News 4:77 My ‘17
+ Pittsburgh 22:686 O ‘17 100w
+ Pratt p38 O ‘17 20w
St Louis 15:154 My ‘17
+ Spec 117:809 D 23 ‘16 160w
“Professor Muir’s essay does not suffer from lack of balance, but it is distinctly marred by an overstatement of certain tendencies and an understatement of others which at times give his interpretations, seen at a distance, the color of extreme partisanship. ... This is the more regrettable because Professor Muir, in the same short volume, gives some definitions and leading lines of thought which are of surpassing interest and light up whole centuries of happenings with understanding.” Bruno Lasker
+ — Survey 38:74 Ap 21 ‘17 700w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p515 O 26 ‘16 120w
“Vigorous, eloquent, well-arranged pages. ... The book before us has, to begin with, one great merit. The author knows precisely what he wants to say, and he says it. ... It is a book which should be read by all who wish for a sane, virile, courageous, and clear-sighted interpretation of the issues of the great war.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p518 N 2 ‘16 1100w
MUKERJEE, RADHAKAMAL. Foundations of Indian economics; with an introd. by Patrick Geddes. il *$3 Longmans 330
“The author, who has been a research student of Calcutta university, and who has for some time been investigating the economic organization of modern India, collects in this volume his scattered studies, and provides a comprehensive and useful survey of the conditions of production in that part of the British empire. The book sketches the economic influences of the Indian system of family, caste and religion, presents detailed studies of the principal cottage and village industries, describes the rural system of trade and credit, and discusses the future of the organization.” (Am Econ R) Professor Mukerjee believes that “India’s economic salvation lies not in bodily taking over the industrial system of the West, but in developing and modernizing her own industrial system which, because it fits the environment, will most assure a prosperous, progressive and contented population.” (Ann Am Acad)
“Will appeal to the interests of students of economic history as well as to those particularly concerned with the problems of modern India.” Clive Day
+ Am Econ R 7:613 S ‘17 220w
Reviewed by G. R. Roorbach
Ann Am Acad 73:237 S ‘17 330w
Ath p584 D ‘16 60w
“In order to readjust our knowledge of the Orient, books like Professor Mukerjee’s are extremely valuable. ... He is typical of the new school of Indian thinkers. ... The only defect in his book is the absence of a glossary for native names and expressions.” W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez
+ Dial 63:203 S 13 ‘17 1150w
“Professor Mukerjee has performed a great service in taking stock of the vestigial remains of India’s ancient economies as they survive to-day in the traditional arts and crafts preserved by the universal caste and guild systems. He is at considerable pains to show the effect of western institutions on these survivals. ... Most illuminating is the careful description and illustration of the various hereditary trades and their processes of production and distribution.”
+ Nation 105:99 Jl 26 ‘17 400w
N Y Br Lib News 4:24 F ‘17
“The importance of Professor Mukerjee’s work lies in his ideas and proposals. ... The book is marred by the writer’s limitation of view. ... The great questions of protection (as against free imports), labour, and capital should have been more fully discussed. ... But his work will repay perusal to those concerned with Indian economics, as showing the views of an educated Indian, which many compatriots possibly share.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p583 D 7 ‘16 820w
MULLER, ROBERT ENRIQUE. United States navy. il $1 Rand 359 17-13461
“One hundred and forty-three reproductions of our superdreadnoughts, dreadnoughts, battleships, armored cruisers, and submarines, and life aboard them; also the work of laying mines, discharging torpedoes, etc. ... Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske furnishes a foreword.”—Wis Lib Bul
N Y Br Lib News 4:89 Je ‘17
“A convenient book for boys interested in the navy and those enlisting in its service.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:182 Je ‘17 50w
MUNDAY, ALBERT H. Eyes of the army and navy; practical aviation. il *$1.50 Harper 623.7 17-29812
A handbook on aviation. The author is a flight-lieutenant in the Royal naval air service, and his book is planned “to meet the requirements of the layman with a moderate education who wished to obtain a practical knowledge of flying and the fundamental principles of construction, aero-engines, and various other aeronautical subjects.” (Foreword) Contents: Aerial navigation; Theory of flight; Map-reading; Cross-country flying; Charts; Meteorology; Construction; The care and maintenance of aeroplanes; Aero engines; Aeroplane and airship instruments; Wireless telegraphy and semaphore; Aerial photography; Bombs and bomb-dropping; Night flying; Artillery observations from aircraft; Aerial fighting; Lighter than air; Medical supervision of aviators. An appendix gives definitions of terms and tables for the metric system.
Pittsburgh 22:814 D ‘17 20w
404MUNDY, TALBOT.[2] Winds of the world. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-30041
“Here, by the author of ‘King, of the Khyber Rifles,’ a man who knows his India well, is a hair-raising tale of adventure, intrigue, peril, uncertainty, that centres in the loyalty of an Indian regiment and the failure of German ‘diplomacy.’ The chief of characters in the book are three: Kirby, the English colonel of a Sikh regiment; Risaldar-Major Ranjoor-Singh, whom Kirby trusts as he trusts himself; and Yasmini the dancer, to whom the winds of the world have whispered their secrets. ... With these three as chief characters, and a group of German ‘merchants’ weaving their web of plottings, the story runs its exciting course.”—N Y Times
Boston Transcript p6 Ja 12 ‘18 170w
“Kirby and the dancer the author has drawn in a conventional fashion, winning the reader’s attention by obvious means enough. But Ranjoor-Singh’s capture of our sympathy is more subtle; it is, as a piece of work, the best thing in the book.”
+ N Y Times 22:555 D 16 ‘17 320w
“There is abundant mystery and adventure in this lively tale, and the reader’s pleasure and entertainment is enhanced by the author’s humor.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 D 30 ‘17 260w
MURDOCH, W. G. BURN. Modern whaling and bear hunting. il *$5 Lippincott 639
“In 1892 Mr Burn Murdoch took part in a whaling expedition to the Weddell sea in Antarctica. He went as an artist, but became so attracted by the fascinations of whale-fishing that he formed a small company, fitted out a motor-driven whaler in Norway—the ‘St Ebba’—and, accompanied by a Norse crew, ranged over northern and southern seas in pursuit of the dangerous but highly profitable Finner. This book tells us how he fared.”—Spec
“This is a story of actual adventure, even more vigorous and entertaining than any fiction could be. More than a hundred illustrations from drawings and photographs add greatly to the value and interest of the book.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 10 ‘17 250w
“The interesting personality of Mr Burn Murdoch is a welcome embellishment to the subject-matter of his book. On the practical side he is a genuine whaler, in the business for the profit which it offers, with a keen eye for efficient methods in its prosecution, and yet with that larger outlook that would have his own success only an element in the success of all. But he has also in his make-up a well-developed aesthetic element which finds in the sea something more than the whales which are to fill his oil vessels and thereby fatten his bank account.”
+ Nation 105:669 D 13 ‘17 900w
R of Rs 56:552 N ‘17 90w
“Mr Burn Murdoch’s descriptions are always effective, because of their simplicity and sincerity. His English is sometimes shaky, but we never fail to grasp his meaning. There could be no greater refreshment to the war-weary mind than the perusal of this book.”
+ Spec 119:526 N 10 ‘17 1650w
“Mr Burn Murdoch is by no means so easy to read as he well might be if he had taken a good model—say, for instance, Darwin’s ‘Cruise of the Beagle.’ It is a pity, because he knows his subject, which is good.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p622 D 13 ‘17 900w
MURPHY, CHARLES JOSEPH.[2] American Indian corn (maize); a cheap, wholesome, and nutritious food; rev. and ed. with additions of many new recipes and a foreword by Jeannette Young Norton. *75c Putnam 641.5 17-23804
“The data, gathered by Mr Murphy, formerly food commissioner of Nebraska, is even more valuable today when it was collected for the illumination of the great food convention, held in Paris in 1889. ... This edition holds many new recipes. And besides those for general use is a series suitable for invalids. Prefacing these rules for the making of ‘the very best foods’ from Indian corn is a brief history of its growth and use.”—Boston Transcript
+ A L A Bkl 14:156 F ‘18
+ Boston Transcript p7 D 26 ‘17 330w
Ind 92:344 N 17 ‘17 80w
MURPHY, THOMAS DOWLER. Oregon, the picturesque. (See America first ser.) il *$3.50 Page 917.95 17-28901
The sub-title calls this book a “book of rambles in the Oregon country and in the wilds of northern California; descriptive sketches and pictures of Crater and Klamath lakes, the Deschutes river canyon, the new Columbia highway, the Willamette and Rogue river valleys and the cities and towns of Oregon; also of the little-known lakes, rivers, mountains, and vast forests of northern California, to which is added a trip to the Yosemite and to the Roosevelt dam and the petrified forest of Arizona, by motor car.” (Library of Congress card)
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“In addition to Mr Murphy’s text the reader has a map before him for guidance and a series of half-tone illustrations to justify the author’s enthusiasm over the scenic wonders he visits.” A. A. R.
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 21 ‘17 900w
“The author fails to invest the open road with the charm that it has in this region, while his portrayal of the major scenic marvels lacks the power of conveying even a modicum of the reactions produced by the originals.”
+ — Dial 64:71 Ja 17 ‘18 590w
Outlook 117:519 N 28 ‘17 50w
MURRAY, ARTHUR MORDAUNT. Fortnightly history of the war. maps *$3 Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-16101)
“Not many serial criticisms of the war are worth republication, for most criticisms offered in reviews and newspapers fall out of date as information accumulates. Colonel A. M. Murray’s history of the war written month by month in the Fortnightly Review is, however, a distinct exception. It is true that he has amended and amplified his remarks, but in substance they remain. ... Sir Evelyn Wood in a short introduction expresses his admiration, and also his dissent on certain points.” (Spec) “The present volume takes us from the beginning of the war down to July 18, 1916.” (New Repub)
“The outstanding feature of this voluminous work is its really splendid set of seventy maps that illustrate, with a scrupulous detail, the campaigns and the battles in Europe, Asia and Africa. Colonel Murray writes with a soldierly regard of strategy and tactics. To our mind the French defence of Verdun and the antecedent epoch-making battle of the Marne deserve more analysis than he grants.” S. A.
+ — Boston Transcript p6 D 29 ‘17 420w
“Colonel Murray has written an accurate, terse and shrewdly perceptive military history of the war during its first two bloody years.”
+ New Repub 13:156 D 8 ‘17 210w
“A very clear military exposition of events.”
+ Spec 118:239 F 24 ‘17 190w
“As it stands, it is, perhaps, more valuable as a history of the evolution of expert opinion than as a ‘précis’ of the military operations. The account of the operations of the Belgian army is very vague: and there are some notable omissions.”
– + The Times [London] Lit Sup p580 D 7 ‘16 880w
MURRAY, GILBERT. Faith, war, and policy. *$1.25 (1c) Houghton 940.91 17-23769
These thirteen essays show the reaction of the mind of “a fairly representative English Liberal, standing just outside the circle of official politics” to the European war. “Beginning with ‘First thoughts on the war,’ an 405article printed in October, 1914, [in the Hibbert Journal] they come down through the three years of war, taking up various questions concerning it, and end with an address delivered March, 1917, before the Fight for right league on ‘The turmoil of war.’ Included is a section on ‘Ireland,’ in three parts, one on the Dublin insurrection, one on the execution of Casement, and a consideration of the future of Ireland written the middle of last March. Two of the papers deal with America in her relation to the war and to England, both of them preceding our entrance into the conflict.” (N Y Times) Several of the essays were first printed in the Atlantic Monthly, Contemporary Review, Westminster Gazette, etc. The essay entitled “How can war ever be right” was printed as Oxford pamphlet no. 18.
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Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
+ Bookm 46:289 N ‘17 100w
“Professor Murray’s book affords a wise and statesmanlike view of complicated problems, and not the least of its merits is the temperate spirit with which these problems are discussed.”
+ — Cath World 106:266 N ‘17 490w
+ Cleveland p131 D ‘17 40w
“What stands out most sharply and incongruously in the book is Professor Murray’s complaisance in transferring the problems raised by the war to the shoulders of those very diplomats and statesmen whose inadequacy is sufficiently demonstrated by the present débâcle. In discussing the British foreign office, Professor Murray adopts a tone which is nothing less than smug. This fatal complacency extends to everything British.”
– + Dial 64:30 Ja 3 ‘18 390w
“One of the most persuasive defenses of British foreign policy ever written. ... Gilbert Murray not only performs perfectly the easy task of showing the manifold fallacies of non-resistant pacifism but courageously ventures to discuss the most questionable phases of his case, such as the suppression of the Dublin revolt, British interference with neutral trade, and the secret diplomacy of the British foreign office.”
+ Ind 91:512 S 29 ‘17 210w
“The sentiments of these utterances should get before the minds of all of us Americans, and in particular into the minds of those incomprehensibles who talk of ‘those blood-thirsty Europeans’ who will not compromise, or declare that none of the warring nations know what they are fighting about.”
+ Nation 105:408 O 11 ‘17 500w
“There is a Gilbert Murray writing in this volume who fulfills a high expectation. ... There are flashes throughout these pages of a personal intensity of experience. ... But his propaganda is not altogether a pleasant thing to contemplate. ... It is difficult not to be continually reminded in this volume of the poorer sorts of patriotism that make the chauvinist and the jingo. ... Mr Murray beats the German dog with the stick of self-righteousness, failing altogether to account for the less immediate and less nationalistic issues that now are emerging through the conflict, and that propose a revision of the whole structure of monarchical Europe rather than the redemption of the status quo from the nationalistic collision.” F. H.
– + New Repub 12:138 S 1 ‘17 2000w
“It is not that the matter is not informative; its lack of backbone, its inconclusiveness is the most striking feature. In almost everything, this Liberal ‘Sir Roger de Coverley’ tells us that ‘much can be said on both sides,’ and to do him justice, he says it, and says it particularly well.” J. W.
– + N Y Call p14 S 23 ‘17 700w
N Y Times 22:344 S 16 ‘17 560w
“Although many of the papers contained in this volume were written so early in the war as to have lost the appeal of timeliness, there is in the views expressed a permanent rightness that gives the book lasting importance.”
+ No Am 206:793 N ‘17 720w
“Especially to be commended to students of ethical aspects of the war.”
+ Outlook 117:309 O 24 ‘17 50w
Pittsburgh 22:682 O ‘17 80w
“It was a little unfortunate that Gilbert Murray’s ‘Faith, war and policy’ should fall into the hands of an anti-English reviewer in the New Republic and an anti-Russian reviewer in the Evening Post. For their assaults on the book were not quite without prejudice. They hardly did justice to Prof. Murray’s fundamental liberalism. Yet for their irritation there is some excuse. Prof. Murray does claim a good deal for his country. ... He is too ready to put to the back of his mind a less liberal and lofty England, not many years in the past, and by no means suppressed in the present. ... Not all that he has to say about America will be pleasing to American readers. ... There is in the book much fine feeling and brilliant writing; though, as a whole, it is not above the status of controversial, perhaps one may even say, propagandist literature, however much it may be above the average level of that literature.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p6 S 19 ‘17 860w
“The finest testimony, perhaps, to the worth of the author’s political and moral philosophy is the fact that there is no great contrast between his reaction to war at the beginning and that after three years of it.” Bruno Lasker
+ Survey 38:573 S 29 ‘17 550w
MUSPRATT, EDMUND KNOWLES. My life and work. il *$2.50 (3c) Lane 17-3731
These memoirs cover a long period of time, the author having been born in 1833. He is the son of a manufacturing chemist of Liverpool and he has been closely associated with the public life of that city. As a young man he was sent to Germany to study with Liebig, and his German experiences and friendships are the subject of the early chapters. He visited the United States in the year of the centennial and devotes an interesting chapter to his impressions. Other chapters are concerned with travels on the Continent and with the men and women of note he has known.
+ Ath p238 My ‘17 1100w
+ Boston Transcript p8 F 3 ‘17 850w
“We gain a vivid impression of German university life and of the condition of German society in the early fifties of last century. It is not without its lights and shades. ... The book is written in a simple, unaffected manner, with no pretensions to literary style.” T. E. Thorpe
+ Nature 98:325 D 28 ‘16 1000w
+ R of Rs 56:328 S ‘17 60w
“Mr Muspratt is well known in Liverpool as a good citizen, with a keen interest in higher education, art, and other worthy causes. He is known more widely as a strong Liberal and Free Trader, and rendered much service to his party in the past by his ‘Financial reform almanack.’ At the age of eighty-three, he has written his reminiscences of a happy life, with notes on his travels, and his many friends will find the book interesting.”
+ Spec 117:774 D 16 ‘16 70w
“A book with something on every page to interest the humane reader. ... In these pages we hear of persons whom literature has made famous in the guise of fiction.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 F 18 ‘17 950w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p550 N 16 ‘16 230w
MUSSON, BENNET. Turn to the right. *$1.35 (3½c) Duffield 17-18357
A novelized version of the play by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard that had so great a run in New York last year. Without letting his widowed mother know, Joe Bascom had served time in Ossining for another’s guilt. Free again, but penniless, he arrives home to find his mother well caught in a snare spread for her 406by a respected deacon of the town. The deacon’s hold on her is thru a debt of a hundred and twenty-five dollars which Joe is trying desperately to raise when two fellow prisoners drop down upon him. They learn of Joe’s plight, make a journey to the deacon’s grocery, take the needed money from the safe, and give it to Joe without explaining the manner of getting. The deacon is paid, but the pals relieve him of the sum and put it back into his safe. One humorous situation follows another. On the serious side, the deacon’s plans are foiled, the pals “turn to the right,” a way is found for the mother to make her peach orchard pay handsomely, and there is more than the ordinary amount of marrying and living happily forever after.
“The transposition into book form of even the finest play is seldom successful. And the drama from which this novel was written was not of the class mentioned, no matter how ‘successful,’ may have been its run. The combined result is obvious.”
— Boston Transcript p6 Ag 18 ‘17 300w
“The little tale is of a somewhat sugary quality, but in justice to Mr Musson, the novelizer, it must be said that he has done his work nicely, and that the superabundance of sweetness in the whole is no fault of his. The plot has some dexterous twists which enable it to hold the reader’s interest.”
+ — N Y Times 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 210w
“The transformation is done with greater care and skill than is generally found in work of this order. The story is sentimental, but contains enough colloquial humor to palliate the other element.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 S 30 ‘17 140w
MUTZENBERG, CHARLES GUSTAVUS. Kentucky’s famous feuds and tragedies; authentic history of the world renowned vendettas of the dark and bloody ground. *$1.25 (2½c) Fenno 976.9 17-18067
The author has been at pains to discover the truth about some of the famous Kentucky feuds and to separate legend from authentic history. His investigations have led him to the conclusion that these long standing and tragic feuds have had their origin primarily in the failure of legal machinery. In addition to inefficient and corrupt officials, the lack of healthy moral sentiment, of proper education and religious training and the illicit trade in whisky are named as contributing causes. The clannish spirit of the mountaineers is accounted for by the fact of their descent from the highland clans of Scotland.
“His viewpoint is of course all very well if you care to look at everything from a restrictedly moral eminence. Few people who know the mountains probably will care for it, for it is strongly misrepresentative.” R. M.
— Boston Transcript p7 My 16 ‘17 550w
“Kentucky’s feuds are, in any large sense, over. ... Their history illuminates the character of the present-day ‘citizen’; it does not afford justifiable grounds for a polemic against his ancestors who made their own law and abode by it.”
Dial 63:352 O 11 ‘17 140w
“As a literary product, this volume has little to commend it. A needless multiplicity of detail, doubtless intended to give it weight as an indictment, swells it to burdensome proportions.”
— Nation 105:318 S 20 ‘17 850w
“While undoubtedly true in every particular, Mr Mutzenberg’s book in some places reminds one of a dime novel. It is a long record of lawless crimes, murders and outrages. Such a condition of affairs has almost passed away, and, it is to be hoped, will never return.”
Springf’d Republican p8 My 29 ‘17 320w
MYERS, GUSTAVUS. History of Tammany Hall. 2d ed rev and enl *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 363 17-31564
“A history of Tammany Hall has long been wanted. There had been one, and only one, that we know of, issued some sixteen years ago. For the last few years it has been practically impossible to procure a copy, which gives color to the belief that the volume has been undergoing a quiet but effective suppression. At any rate, copies were always held at a high premium. But now the same work has been issued in a second edition, and the history brought down to the present day. ... The matter which was added to the work since its first appearance sixteen years ago is unusually full and complete.”—N Y Call
+ Am Pol Sci R 12:157 F ‘18 90w
“His book should be as useful to the college student of political science as to the voter.”
+ Ind 92:193 O 27 ‘17 100w
“The book is not a homily, but a sober recital of cold facts, which it behooves every one who would retain his faith in popular government to ponder deeply.”
+ — Nation 105:640 D 6 ‘17 480w
“Where the course of the organization became particularly spectacular, as under the leadership of ‘Boss’ Tweed, Croker, Murphy and others, the narrative is particularly copious, but eminently fair as a recital of fact. ... It is not a recital of ‘original sin’ or ‘inherent depravity,’ though most of the acts chronicled will of course bear that bourgeois interpretation. What we can perceive is the workings of ‘economic determinism,’ the constant struggles of an organization to adapt itself to its environment.” J. W.
+ N Y Call p15 N 4 ‘17 1700w
“Mr Myers, not being a politician, has gone at his job like a historian. He has gone to his sources, old newspapers, city hall records, not forgetting criminal court minutes, with no more partisan passion than would be expected of a man getting ready to write a history of the dynasty that built the pyramids.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 4 ‘17 1950w
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NADAL, EHRMAN SYME. Virginian village, and other papers; together with some autobiographical notes. *$1.75 (2c) Macmillan 814 17-7187
The author has collected a number of papers and essays originally contributed to magazines. The one from which the book takes its title, “A Virginian mountain village,” appeared in Scribner’s Magazine in 1909. At the request of the publishers he has prefaced the whole with some autobiographical notes. “They say the book represents me as being in so many places and doing so many things that the effect upon the reader is confusing,” he explains. This autobiographical sketch, discursive and enriched with anecdotes, forms a pleasant introduction to the papers that follow. Among these are: Southern literature; A horse-fair pilgrimage; Impressions of Lincoln; Impressions of Lowell; Contrasts of English and American scenery; Cumberland Gap; Lincoln and Stanton; Virginia women.
+ A L A Bkl 13:343 My ‘17
“Although so very much has been written of Lincoln, it still remains true that the impressions of Lincoln incorporated into this book are likely to be read with more interest than almost any of the other pages. Mr Nadal’s style is interesting and he presents his impressions so well that they are likely to be remembered.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 7 ‘17 400w
+ Lit D 54:1084 Ap 14 ‘17 1000w
“Seldom indeed does one pick up a more seductive volume for an idle hour.”
+ Nation 104:603 My 17 ‘17 270w
“He laments that he spent so much of his youth sitting on a fence-rail looking at the landscape, but this occupation seems to have borne its literary fruit: he has a genial responsiveness to the moods of nature. Then he has humor, and what is even more essential 407to an essayist, a keen observation of men and manners which expresses itself in both portraiture and social analysis. The chapters that analyze southern society and literature are particularly interesting.” E. S. S.
+ New Repub 12:81 Ag 18 ‘17 1000w
+ N Y Times 22:137 Ap 15 ‘17 520w
+ Outlook 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 40w
+ Pratt p37 O ‘17 30w
“These papers of Mr Nadal’s have appeared in leading American magazines and newspapers, but are well worth reprinting. They make a charming, readable and informing volume.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Mr 4 ‘17 1050w
“A variety of reminiscent sketches, some of them charming in themselves, others of general interest. The author, though a Virginian born and bred, as a cosmopolitan of the outer world sees the South as it really was and is.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p391 Ag 16 ‘17 900w
NAIDU, SAROJINI. Broken wing; songs of love, death and destiny, 1915-1916. *$1.25 Lane 891.4 17-6890
“The bird of time” and “The golden threshold,” two earlier books of verse, have introduced this Hindu woman poet to western readers. The third volume is made up of poems grouped together as Songs of life and death, Memorial verses, The flowering year, The peacock-lute: songs for music, and The temple: a pilgrimage of love.
+ A L A Bkl 13:343 My ‘17
“As a whole the volume shows that the Indian woman of to-day is conscious how large her share is destined to be in the guardianship and interpretation of the triune vision of love, faith, and patriotism.”
+ Ath p201 Ap ‘17 90w
“If we seek the material India in her verses we shall find it as truly as we do the India of the spirit. ... Her love songs are delicately beautiful. The rhythms are western, but the spirit is all of the east, a spirit of tropical intensities, mingling with brooding certainty of eternal things which is so truly eastern.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 12 ‘17 800w
+ Cleveland p65 My ‘17 130w
+ Lit D 54:1071 Ap 14 ‘17 480w
“Songs of love, death, and destiny. They are saturated with the magic of the East, exquisite in verbal beauty and eloquent with spiritual comprehension.”
+ R of Rs 55:438 Ap ‘17 80w
“It is the fourth division of Mrs Naidu’s book, her love songs, which perhaps best illustrates the difference between occidental and eastern verse. In these love songs she permits herself an abandonment that is truly oriental, and that to an Anglo-Saxon reader contrasts rather unpleasantly with the elevation of thought and charm of such poems as Mrs Browning’s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 My 8 ‘17 450w
NANDIKESVARA. Mirror of gesture; tr. by Ananda Coomaraswamy and G. K. Duggirala. il *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 792
“This translation is based upon a Nagari transcript of the second Telugu edition of Nandikesvara’s ‘Abhinaya darpana.’ ... Among the gestures dealt with are movements of the head, the brows, and the hands. The last-named receive elaborate treatment. Numerous illustrations and a bibliography follow the text.”—Ath
“Will be useful as an introduction to Indian dramatic technique and to oriental acting in general.”
+ Ath p411 Ag ‘17 90w
Dial 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 360w
“The little book is dedicated ‘to all actors and actresses,’ but it will interest as well (or more) all students of the drama.”
+ Nation 104:716 Je 14 ‘17 570w
“Easy, graceful English. ... The translator would have helped us more if he had done two things, if he had supplied an index, and had commented on some one complete picture.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p199 Ap 26 ‘17 1100w
NATHAN, GEORGE JEAN. Mr George Jean Nathan presents. *$1.50 (2½c) Knopf 792 17-24680
A collection of papers on the theater. Mr Nathan is a dramatic critic in New York city, and plays recently produced on the New York stage give him the starting point for discursions on the art of the theater, play making and producing, the shortcomings of American audiences, etc. He is a very sophisticated person, with a cynical outlook and not much hope for the future of American drama, but for much of the sham and sentimentality of current theatrical production he offers an effective antidote. He writes of The Hawkshavian drama; The American music show; The commercial theatrical mismanager; The case for bad manners; America’s most intellectual actress, etc.
“A volume as gay and impudent as its title.” Algernon Tassin
+ Bookm 46:348 N ‘17 320w
“A man cannot live—live exclusively and consciously—in a realm of unworthy make-believe without suffering for it; and Mr George Jean Nathan, in some of his phases, is calculated to cause regrets. He opens up some wonderful, sudden vistas for the playgoer, and shoots a number of penetrating epigrams; but his taste and discretion are not equal to his brilliancy.”
– + Dial 63:457 N 8 ‘17 340w
“This is a book of serious criticism of the New York theatre. Mr Nathan is self-possessed, cynical, urbane, smart and sometimes flippant. He confounds one with his knowledge of the drama of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany. He gives us facts running over. He loves to shatter legends. His book is refreshingly honest because refreshingly severe.”
+ New Repub 13:387 Ja 26 ‘18 230w
— Springf’d Republican p17 O 21 ‘17 230w
National year book, 1917. maps 50c Hammond & co. 317.3
“A book of facts, figures and general information, together with a new and complete gazetteer of the United States and non-contiguous territories.” The book contains nearly 150 pages of useful information on miscellaneous subjects, with many statistical tables, maps, etc.
Pittsburgh 22:430 My ‘17
NAUMANN, FRIEDRICH. Central Europe; a tr. by Christabel M. Meredith from the original German. *$3 Knopf 327 17-8207
A translation of “Mittel-Europa,” a German work outlining a plan for a permanent union of the Central European nations. “The nucleus of the organization is to consist of the German empire and Austria-Hungary. To this nucleus will be added the Balkans, Turkey, and the present neutral states to the north of the empire. Thus a combination will be effected that comprises a great stretch of territory through the heart of Europe, binding the members together with ties of common interest. At the same time the enemies of the empire will be separated. The major part of the book is taken up with discussion of the difficulties in the way of a union of the empire and the dual monarchy. The author realizes that the sovereignty of each state must be preserved; and that that may be done, works out a scheme of joint commissions which shall carry out the wishes of the several governments. The tariff problem is recognized also.” (J Pol Econ)
+ Am Econ R 7:113 Mr ‘17 130w
“Important because it expresses imperial Germany’s political and economic claims with fervid enthusiasm, but with authority. Classed bibliography 408(17p.) of German and Austro-Hungarian books designed to further a mutual understanding: does not list translations.”
A L A Bkl 13:347 My ‘17
“The author, who is well known on the continent for various earlier books on political questions began his career as a Lutheran pastor and evangelist of socialism. He sprang into notice through several publications of radical propaganda, and entered journalism and politics. In the Reichstag, under the wing of the Liberal Socialist party, he has been long an exponent of Christian socialism and the world-wide mission of German kultur. In the present instance, Naumann does not view the war with the optimism of the German-American press. For him it is a cause of reflection.” R. W.