Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 35)
Reading edition
New Repub 11:164 Je 9 ‘17 1450w
“A book full of truth, power and beauty.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p15 Je 24 ‘17 670w
“Told simply and sincerely, with careful craftsmanship, this book is worthy of the best traditions in American fiction. It touches on many vital problems of our modern life, but the problems are never emphasized at the expense of character.”
+ N Y Times 22:194 My 20 ‘17 1050w
“This book is chiefly to be prized as a picture of Mr Poole’s own soul. ... It rewards the best that one can bring to it. ... It has spiritual penetration and latitude and elevation. It is filled throughout with a deep and intimate consciousness of the reality of other souls.” Lawrence Gilman
+ No Am 205:943 Je ‘17 1500w
“A novel of admirable poise and of quiet but deep-lying social import.”
+ Outlook 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 200w
“Appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, v. 35-36, Sept. 1916-May 1917.”
Pittsburgh 22:510 Je ‘17 70w
+ R of Rs 56:102 Jl ‘17 270w
“Compared with ‘The harbor,’ ‘His family’ is analytical in even greater degree. It is not unjust to say that the second novel does not grip as did the first. It is perhaps more polished, and Mr Poole undoubtedly reveals a more pronounced grasp of the technique of the novel; but it lacks something of the enthusiasm, the vividness and the freshness of discovery which made ‘The harbor’ the immediate success it was. This is not to say, however, that ‘His family’ is not one of the notable novels of the season.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 27 ‘17 1150w
POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE. Japan at the cross roads. *$3.50 (2½c) Dodd 952 (Eng ed 17-27871)
First hand facts about Japan brought together to delineate the real state of affairs in Japan and to indicate the forces which are at work moulding public opinion and the directions in which they are leading. Politics, finance, social conditions and religion are the interests that chiefly occupy the writer’s attention. “Mr Pooley pays tribute to the rapid progress Japan 448has made, and to the vigor and energy of her statesmanship, but he does not disguise his belief that radical improvement must be effected before Japan can claim of right a position as a first-class power. ... Mr Pooley’s discussion of Japan’s foreign relations, particularly those with the United States, will do much to clear up a lot of misinformation about this matter which exists in America.” (Publishers’ note)
“The cumulative effect of all the criticism in the book is considerable; and, even assuming that some of the shadows in Mr Pooley’s picture are as dark as he paints them, we doubt whether the present is the best time to draw up so unflattering an account, and so sweeping an indictment, of our allies.”
– + Ath p682 D ‘17 250w
“The author sums up the Japanese in a manner which clearly points out their weak as well as their strong characteristics.” H. S. K.
+ Boston Transcript p8 D 19 ‘17 800w
“The book would gain somewhat if the author conceded more frequent summaries of his facts and more emphatic statements of his conclusions; these the reader must carefully elicit for himself. So comprehensive a study should have an index appended. But these minor faults are insignificant in Mr Pooley’s illuminating achievement.”
+ N Y Times 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 610w
“His chapters on ‘Social conditions,’ and on Japanese methods in Korea and Formosa, deserve attention. He shows how the war has benefited Japanese industry.”
+ Spec 119:774 D 29 ‘17 150w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p543 N 8 ‘17 60w
POORE, IDA MARGARET (GRAVES) lady. Admiral’s wife in the making, 1860-1903. *$3 Dutton (Eng ed 17-20978)
“Lady Poore has written a very charming book on her girlhood and early married life, completing the autobiography which she began at the end, so to say, in her ‘Recollections of an admiral’s wife.’ The daughter of Dr Graves, Bishop of Limerick, she spent a happy youth in Dublin, Limerick, and County Kerry, with less happy intervals at an English school. She married in 1885, soon after Commander Poore had won great distinction by his work in the Nile expedition. ... As the wife of a naval officer with modest means, Lady Poore seems to have enjoyed life heartily in Bermuda, Halifax, Jamaica, Malta, Alexandria, and other stations whither her husband was sent, as well as in France and Italy for periods of unemployment.”—Spec
“A sense of humour and an element of delightful frankness are two factors helping to make Lady Poore’s book very pleasant reading.”
+ Ath p256 My ‘17 90w
“The spirit not only of a very gracious and plucky British gentlewoman infuses it, but the spirit of Britain itself.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 D 1 ‘17 650w
“A few of these memoirs, a blessed few, are well worth reading, because their authors can write and ought to write. Among this last select class is Lady Poore.”
+ Sat R 123:343 Ap 14 ‘17 1850w
+ Spec 118:493 Ap 28 ‘17 240w
“This is a jolly book. It reads like the letter of an intimate friend who has snatched a spare moment to tell you the many things she has seen to interest her in her travels, because you are sure to understand the point of it all without expecting her to labour it.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p162 Ap 5 ‘17 1050w
POORMAN, ALFRED PETER. Applied mechanics. il *$2 McGraw 620.1 17-17214
“A knowledge of general physics and of the calculus is assumed for the study of this undergraduate text-book, which aims to develop basic principles in a way which the average student can easily follow. Two unusual features are claimed: (1), the extended use of the graphic method; (2), the large number of illustrative examples which have been solved in detail. Numerous practical problems with answers are also given. The author is associate professor of applied mechanics in Purdue university.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“The book is a fine example of effective, interest-arousing presentation. Instead of dealing with abstract principles, the strong psychological appeal of a single engineering problem is used. Some of the principles in which many graduates are especially weak have been given exceptionally clear and satisfactory treatment. The typographical work, the drawings and reproductions are also distinctly superior to previous standards.” J. P. J. Williams
+ Engin News-Rec 79:131 Jl 19 ‘17 380w
N Y P L New Tech Bks p13 Jl ‘17 80w
PORTER, ARTHUR KINGSLEY. Lombard architecture. 4v v 1-3 ea *$12, v 4 *$15; set *$50 Yale univ. press 723 (17-9830)
Professor Porter describes his book as “a definite synthetic analysis of Lombard architecture.” Volume 1 traces its growth from its Byzantine beginnings in the sixth century to the end of the twelfth century. “More than half of this volume is given to the discussion of ornament and the arts accessory to architecture.” “Part 4 of volume 1 is given to iconography. Volumes 2 and 3 take up in detail the study of the multitudes of edifices which, often hidden away in remote villages and cities, have been up to now scarcely even a name and which, nevertheless, preserve precious remains, full of interest to the student of religion, of architecture and of other arts. These volumes are printed in a smaller type and are extraordinarily rich in legendary and historic lore.” (Boston Transcript) The fourth volume consists of a series of 244 plates with from two to ten half-tones each. The bibliography gives an idea of the author’s wide reading. “Only 750 copies are printed from type.”
“For the architect these superb volumes will be of the utmost importance; the general reader will find in them an enormous amount of information presented in a clear and fascinating style. The portfolio of illustrations, many of them from pictures taken with the magical telephotographic lens, will appeal to anyone who delights in rare views. The typography is faultless.” N. H. D.
+ + Boston Transcript p7 My 29 ‘17 1000w
“The amount of careful erudition, of often eloquent description, of sound judgment and accurate criticism is bewildering. The translations of justifying text in Latin and Italian must in themselves have taken months of labor; the searching out of authorities and the balancing of contrary views, resulting frequently in the rectification of dates and the discovery of unknown or wholly forgotten artists and architects, the knowledge of history involved and the breadth of architectural comprehension make the work of first importance.” N. H. D.
+ + Boston Transcript p6 Jl 11 ‘17 230w
“Of that most important element in Lombard ornament, the grotesque, the author writes with convincing common sense.”
+ + N Y Times 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 950w
“The most careful, scholarly, and learned work dealing with architecture that has thus far been produced in America. Only one criticism is possible, and that is on the presentation of the plates; these, which consist of a great mass of folio sheets, unbound, each containing four or five illustrations, bear numbers only, and the task of sorting them out as one reads, identifying them from a key sheet, and getting them back again into the box, is almost insuperable.” R. A. Cram
+ + — Yale R n s 7:420 Ja ‘18 3350w
PORTER, MRS ELEANOR (HODGMAN) (ELEANOR STUART, pseud.). Road to understanding. il *$1.40 (1c) Houghton 17-9250
The story opens with an unfortunate marriage. Helen and Burke were alike in one thing only; each was self-centered and spoiled. Attracted 449by Helen’s pretty face, Burke defied his father and gave up his home to marry her. Trouble followed shortly and a separation. Left with her baby daughter, Helen begins to think things out. She decides to make of herself the kind of woman Burke could respect. She is very ignorant but she is willing to learn. With the help of good friends, she does so. Many years pass and Betty, the daughter, is a grownup girl before the three are again brought together.
“Will be popular, specially with inexperienced girls.”
A L A Bkl 13:406 Je ‘17
“One or two situations which are well worked out make the book worth reading.”
+ Ath p471 S ‘17 60w
“The book is without doubt decidedly different from Mrs Porter’s previous work. ... As an artist Mrs Porter shows both more power and more restraint in this new novel.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 28 ‘17 700w
“Of the light and shade and depth of true characterization she has hardly an inkling. She has that plentiful lack of humour which seems almost an asset with the best-buying public. ... We note that this preposterous story stands second to ‘Mr Britling’ upon the bestselling lists for April. It would be interesting to know how many readers of either can have endured the other.”
— Nation 104:736 Je 21 ‘17 300w
“We find ourselves always objecting to the situations as more than improbable and to the characters as not consistent with themselves. Besides, life is short, and the road Mrs Porter’s heroine elects is unconscionably long. Still, the book is so well written and holds so much of truth that it must be ranked among the really good stories of the day, well worth the reading.”
+ — N Y Times 22:186 My 13 ‘17 500w
“Take it from a pessimist, this new book by Eleanor H. Porter will be among the six best sellers within a month and it really is much more of a book than ‘Pollyanna.’” Robert Lynd
Pub W 91:974 Mr 17 ‘17 250w
Spec 119:221 S 1 ‘17 20w
PORTER, GENE (STRATTON) (MRS CHARLES DARWIN PORTER). Friends in feathers. il *$3.50 (4c) Doubleday 598.2 17-15687
A revised and enlarged edition of “What I have done with birds,” published in 1907. It is primarily a book on bird photography. It is illustrated with the author’s own remarkable photographs and the text is made up largely of an account of experiences while obtaining these pictures.
A L A Bkl 14:67 N ‘17
“The illustrations, showing various birds never before photographed in their natural positions are uniquely fascinating.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 O 17 ‘17 260w
“One of the most fascinating of bird books.”
+ Ind 91:110 Jl 21 ‘17 50w
“Though a student of bird-life would look in vain for any new observations of importance, and though the natural history to which the author frequently appeals is of a very thin quality, her work, nevertheless, is worthy of high praise for the excellence of many of her photographic studies; only a field student who is an adept with the camera can appreciate how fine some of these pictures really are.”
+ — Nation 105:317 S 20 ‘17 490w
+ Outlook 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 80w
PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.). Dormie one, and other golf stories. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-24401
A collection of golf stories, reprinted from Collier’s, Every Week, and other magazines. Contents: Alibi; If you don’t mind my telling you; The runner-up; The luck of the devil; The last round; If it interferes with business; Dormie one; “Consolation.” In the preface which he adds gratuitously the author touches on the difficulties involved in writing stories about golf. “I know of only one other sport,” he says, “which offers fewer possibilities for a red-blooded story of nerve and skill and stamina—and that’s billiards!”
“A collection of excellent stories. ... But good as they all are, well written technically, and often bubbling over with shrewd dialogue, we rather doubt their holding readers to whom the revered game of golf is an unknown quantity.”
+ — Boston Transcript p6 O 24 ‘17 250w
“This collection of tales, none of which is impossible (if indeed any is improbable), will be the joy of many a golfer second only to playing the game.”
+ Lit D 55:36 O 27 ‘17 300w
“The eight tales comprise a sort of anthology of the links; in deft plot construction, in sharp character sketching in every attribute that goes to the making of a good story, the author has succeeded admirably.” C. W.
+ N Y Call p18 D 15 ‘17 100w
“You need not be necessarily a golfer to appreciate the stories, for though a golf course is invariably employed as a setting, there is in each story a perspicacious study of human temperaments, together with a literary finish, which gives it a value entirely independent of its eighteen-hole environment.”
+ N Y Times 22:400 O 14 ‘17 750w
“They are so rich in human nature that the subject-matter is merely incidental.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 25 ‘17 350w
PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.). What he least expected. il *$1.50 (2c) Bobbs 17-8466
The hero is a young Harvard man who at the beginning of the story is down on his luck. The European war has just closed the New York Stock exchange and deprived him of his job. He answers a “help wanted” advertisement and after a rigid cross examination finds himself engaged at a high salary. What his work is to be remains a mystery. He is sent to one of the best hotels and told to wait further orders. The action begins almost immediately, following his introduction to two attractive girls. New York and Bermuda are the scenes of the story. “Help wanted,” was its title during serial publication in Collier’s.
A L A Bkl 13:356 My ‘17
“Mr Hall’s books and stories belong to the harmless group. ... The public is said to like love stories, real or false, hackneyed or original, and Mr Hall believes we must feed the public what we think it wants.”
Boston Transcript p6 Je 13 ‘17 300w
“Who says that grown-up Americans don’t believe in fairies?... Mr Holworthy Hall turns raw mythologic ore into the pure gold of that kind of installment novel which keeps its readers infantile.”
New Repub 11:142 Je 2 ‘17 180w
“The liveliest kind of a lively yarn, with all sorts of entanglements and cross-purposes that thoroughly accomplish their manifest destiny—which is to bewilder and interest the reader.”
+ N Y Times 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 200w
“The author always makes his characters talk easily and amusingly, but his plot is too complicated and unreal to rivet attention.”
– + Outlook 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 20w
“A love story which has married a detective story. The union has its points.” M. A. Hopkins
Pub W 91:972 Mr 17 ‘17 250w
“A light story which moves at a rapid pace, with a liberal sprinkling of colloquial slang and humor.”
Springf’d Republican p19 Mr 25 ‘17 150w
450POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.[2] Lustra of Ezra Pound, with earlier poems. *$1.50 Knopf 811 17-31072
The first book of Mr Pound’s poetry to appear in this country since 1912. The first group contains about eighty short pieces whose themes range from “The tea shop” to “The study in aesthetics.” In the second group are translations from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga. The last thirty are poems published before 1911.
“No one challenges the poet’s right to draw his materials from any source that he chooses. No one cares how far into the past he penetrates, so that he brings back something of beauty and value, something that he has revitalized and made his own. But when from these excursions into the antique he brings back chiefly what is inconsequent and often repulsive, one sees no particular reason for going so far afield for material.” J. B. Rittenhouse
– + Bookm 46:577 Ja ‘18 450w
“His poems are too complicated for hasty judgment. One must read—and read again a week later. They are ironical, jeering and intolerant, they are lonely, contemplative, searching, carefully formed and firmly living. Perhaps you hate Ezra Pound. He says many of us have the manner. Perhaps you like him, but whatever else you do you cannot ignore him. He has an individual fashion of saying things and he is without fear.” K. B.
+ Boston Transcript p5 D 6 ‘16 700w
“Its range and variety are its most outstanding quality and its chief defect. The volume seems a catch-all for Pound’s slightest utterance. What makes this lust for print the more puzzling is the fact that Mr Pound has not only a critical but a selective gift. But ‘Lustra’ is something more than a haphazard and too inclusive collection; it is the record of a retreat, a gradual withdrawal from life.” L: Untermeyer
– + Dial 63:634 D 20 ‘17 980w
“In this book we have no signs of those graceful medieval verses that Mr Pound used to write so perfectly. Sometimes Mr Pound is so modern as to be incomprehensible.”
— Lit D 55:38 D 15 ‘17 140w
Lit D 55:51 D 29 ‘17 630w
“‘Lustra’ does more than force the painful conclusion of deterioration: it reveals the actual process, the poems written before 1911 being separated from those composed later. Rarely is it possible to see in one book so sharp a line of cleavage, so complete a superiority of periods as Mr Pound lets us witness by his act of separation. Before 1911 life still stung Mr Pound.” M. T.
– + New Repub 13:352 Ja 19 ‘18 1300w
“The ‘Lustra’ is bookish; instead of revealing further heights or depths of existence, it bears the echoes of dead literature. Personally, I would rather have one of Arturo Giovanetti’s things, such as ‘The last nickel’ or ‘The walker,’ or one of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago poems than the whole volume called ‘Lustra,’ in spite of the embroidered gorgeousness of the Cathay translations, contained therein.” G: W. Cronyn
– + N Y Call p18 D 20 ‘17 750w
“The only healthy pages are entitled ‘Poems published before 1911.’”
– + Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 25 ‘18 300w
“The form which Mr Pound has chosen gives brevity, and that is enough. The richness of content compensates for its looseness. But in Mr Pound’s original poems there is seldom this compensation. It is poetry made too easy. As you read it you feel as if you had tried to sneeze and failed. There is a titillation, the promise of something about to happen, but at the end nothing has happened, not even a well-turned verse. That is the fault we have to find with most of these poems; too little happens in them. When Mr Pound is serious there is promise in his seriousness.”
– + The Times [London] Lit Sup p545 N 16 ‘16 900w
POWELL, CHILTON LATHAM. English domestic relations, 1487-1653. (Studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (2½c) Columbia univ. press 392 17-11684
The author calls this “a study of matrimony and family life in theory and practice as revealed by the literature, law, and history of the period,” and states in his preface that he has tried “to make the field of investigation within these limits as all-inclusive as possible.” “Four appendixes are added to the book, in the first of which a complete account is given for the first time of the divorce suit of Henry VIII, and in the second, a new conception of the married life of Milton and the cause of his famous divorce tracts is advanced.” (Am Hist R) There are fourteen pages of bibliography.
“Perhaps the most valuable portions of Dr Powell’s book are the chapters describing and analyzing the domestic conduct book of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the contemporary attitudes towards woman and the wider ranges of domestic literature. ... Such a careful and detailed study as Dr Powell’s should be sincerely welcomed by every student of the family. The fresh material it assembles and the painstaking way in which it traces the evolution of new ideas concerning marriage and divorce make it a genuine contribution to the growing body of literature on this subject.” Willystine Goodsell
+ Am Hist R 23:142 O ‘17 500w
“The author’s interests—and his style—are not literary, but the book will be useful to the student of literature as well as of social history.”
+ Ath p353 Jl ‘17 80w
Cleveland p10 Ja ‘18 120w
“The performance is scarcely equal to the promise. The second half of the volume deals with the literature of the subject and, though the author discusses a number of important but little-known writings, this part of the work is scarcely more than a critical bibliography. The important part of the study comprises the first three chapters. ... The field was harvested a dozen years ago with some thoroughness by Professor Howard in his monumental ‘History of matrimonial institutions’; but Dr Powell has discovered several unused literary sources and has been able to correct Professor Howard’s conclusions on various important points.”
+ — Dial 63:351 O 11 ‘17 370w
“It is included in the ‘Studies in English and comparative literature,’ but is of wider scope than most books so classified. There is a good deal here that will be of interest to the student of ‘kulturgeschichte’ or to the sociologist, for the author has very carefully assembled a good body of information respecting marriage and the family, from sources not ordinarily open to the non-expert in the period’s literature.”
+ Nation 105:375 O 4 ‘17 600w
“Dr Powell’s method, if it yields little to our actual knowledge, certainly gives a useful summary of contemporary opinion.”
+ Spec 119:sup547 N 17 ‘17 850w
POWELL, E. ALEXANDER. Brothers in arms. *50c (7c) Houghton 940.91 17-17404
A tribute to the French, written on the occasion of the visit of the French mission to America by a well-known war correspondent who has marched with the armies of France, and who wishes those of his country-people who have not had the same opportunity as he of knowing the French “to understand what manner of men are these our brothers in arms.” He does for our relations with France what Captain Ian Hay Beith has done for our relations with England in “Getting together.”
A L A Bkl 14:90 D ‘17
“The first twenty pages is fulsome in style. The writer is so eager to excel in description that his work becomes monotonous and devoid of interest. Beginning with the twenty-ninth page comes a change. Mr Powell swings into his best stride.”
+ — Boston Transcript p6 Ag 8 ‘17 260w
451
Cleveland p102 S ‘17 50w
Ind 91:352 S 1 ‘17 60w
“Might suitably serve as a memorial of the visit of Marshall Joffre and the other French commissioners to this country. Moreover, it is worth reading on its own account.”
+ R of Rs 56:214 Ag ‘17 50w
POWELL, E. ALEXANDER. Italy at war and the Allies in the west. il *$1.50 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-14525
This is the author’s third book on the war. “Fighting in Flanders” and “Vive la France” have preceded it. The first four chapters are devoted to Italy’s part. He says, “It is no exaggeration to say that not one American in a thousand has any adequate conception of what Italy is fighting for, nor any appreciation of the splendid part she is playing in the war.” Contents: The way to the war; Why Italy went to war; Fighting on the roof of Europe; The road to Trieste; With the Russians in Champagne; “They shall not pass”; “That contemptible little army”; With the Belgians on the Yser.
“More descriptive of actual fighting conditions and less of a political interpretation than Bainville (Booklist 13:442 Jl ‘17).”
A L A Bkl 13:446 Jl ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 27 ‘17 270w
Cleveland p102 S ‘17 90w
“He has a talent for collecting interesting scraps of information and adapting technical details of artillery or aviation to the comprehension of the uninitiated.”
+ Dial 63:212 S 13 ‘17 270w
“If his visits to the Champagne, Verdun and the Somme front are less impressive, it is because what is comprized within the title of his book, ‘Italy at war,’ today is the best first hand record of that war region.”
+ Ind 91:475 S 22 ‘17 150w
“The chapter on ‘Why Italy went to war’ is of particular value. For that question is perhaps the one of the whole war concerning which Americans in general have felt most uncertainty and about which they had the least information.”
+ N Y Times 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 180w
Pratt p42 O ‘17 30w
POWELL, OLA. Successful canning and preserving. (Lippincott’s home manuals) il *$2 Lippincott 664 17-26659
This is a “practical handbook for schools, clubs and home use,” by an assistant in the home demonstration work of the United States Department of agriculture. It covers the history of scientific canning, the equipment, canning in tin and glass, the description of the processes necessary for canning fruits and vegetables, with suggestions for their use in the diet, the drying of fruits, vegetables and herbs, the preservation of meat, canning club organization, the business side of canning, teaching canning and related activities. Questions and bibliographies are given at the ends of the chapters. The appendix gives an “Address list of state institutions from which agricultural extension work under the Smith-Lever act is directed” and an “Address list of firms furnishing supplies for canning and preserving.”
“The most complete manual to date, for a textbook or for scientific canning at home on a small or large scale.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:11 O ‘17
“The title does not do full justice to the extent and value of the information contained.”
+ Cath World 106:268 N ‘17 180w
+ Ind 92:344 N 17 ‘17 50w
“With the help of many illustrations, proper preparation and equipment are presented. The unfortunate part of it is that few can afford such a complete and adequate paraphernalia as is here advised.”
+ — Lit D 56:39 Ja 26 ‘18 130w
“The author has done a remarkably thorough bit of work.” M. G. S.
+ N Y Call p15 N 4 ‘17 210w
“The directions for each method are carefully given and the recipes varied.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 N 4 ‘17 360w
POWELL, MRS SOPHIA HILL (HULSIZER). Children’s library; a dynamic factor in education; with an introd. by J: Cotton Dana. *$1.75 (2c) Wilson, H. W. 028.5 17-13388
A discussion of the relation of the children’s library to the school from the modern educational point of view. As the author points out in her first chapter, the attitude of modern educators toward the place of books in the child’s early school life has undergone a change. She writes of: The place of books in education; Early libraries for children; The elementary-school library; The high-school library; The library resources of country children; Public library relations with public schools; The public library an integral part of the public education; The children’s room; The children’s librarian and her training; Aids to library work with children; Book selection; Some social aspects of library work with children. An extensive bibliography follows. John Cotton Dana in his introduction says, “A careful study of the relations of children’s reading to teachers, parents and librarians has long been needed, and this is precisely what Mrs Powell has given us.” The author is a graduate of the Pratt institute library school, and her library experience has included work in Cleveland and New York.
“This book is unexpectedly interesting and thought-provoking. An example of the critical method of the author is her discussion of the much-lauded children’s room, which, it appears upon careful examination, neither meets an otherwise unmet educational need nor does it properly meet a real recreational need. The last chapter, on ‘Some social aspects of library work with children,’ suggests a number of possibilities for the library in a wider social field.” F. F. Bernard
+ Am J Soc 23:276 S ‘17 720w
“Sensible, interesting, compact and inclusive—should be used in every library.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:422 Jl ‘17
“A book which all school administrators and those charged with instruction in English ought to read.”
+ English Journal 6:513 S ‘17 50w
“A study of its sane pages will help both teacher and librarian, and thereby, incidentally, the children.”
+ Ind 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w
“Some well-considered and apparently sound conclusions concerning the place of reading in education and the use of cultural books in elementary schools are set forth.”
+ N Y Times 22:338 S 9 ‘17 60w
“A revelation of the development and the possibilities of this educational agency. All who are interested in the possibilities of the library will find the entire book very helpful and the bibliographies highly useful.”
+ Religious Education 12:395 O ‘17 80w
St Louis 15:385 N ‘17 10w
“This book deserves the attention of all who direct the study of English in either elementary or high school.”
+ School and Society 5:711 Je 16 ‘17 90w
“The book under review will do much to unify the work of the public school and the public library. The book is certain to find an important place in all libraries as a general-reference book and as a text in library-training schools.”
+ School R 25:533 S ‘17 180w
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Je 29 ‘17 220w
POWERS, HARRY HUNTINGTON.[2] America among the nations. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 327.73 18-669
In some sense a sequel to the work published a year ago, “The things men fight for.” The aim of the writer is to furnish an historic interpretation of our national character and our relation to other nations; to supply the “family point of view” from which America was obliged to look forth when she entered the war and so 452became a member of the European family. The first part of the text is devoted to a consideration of “America at home,” including among the chapters: The first Americans, The struggle for the Pacific; Despoiling the Latin, The break with tradition, The aftermath of Panama, and Pan-Americanism; the second part treats “America among the world powers,” with chapters on: The great powers, The Mongolian menace, Greater Japan, The unfeared Powers, The background of Europe, Germany, the storm centre, The storm area, The greatest empire, The great fellowship, and Forecast.
PRATT, HENRY SHERRING. Manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects. il *$3.50 McClurg 592 16-17348
“As the author remarks in his preface, there has been no lack of manuals relating to the common insects, but hitherto a person wishing to identify animals of the other invertebrate groups has had to go to technical papers and treatises which, in many cases, have been inaccessible to all except specialists. Professor Pratt’s manual follows that of Leunis’s ‘Zoologie,’ a standard German work dealing with the animals of Europe; it is intended especially, for use in the eastern and central portions of the United States and Canada.”—N Y Times
“Needed only in large, school, and college libraries.”
A L A Bkl 13:338 My ‘17
“It will be a useful book for the reference shelves of biological laboratories, for general libraries, and for students of zoology. It does not replace special monographs.”
+ Dial 62:109 F 8 ‘17 200w
“There is a good glossary and a thorough index. The thousand-odd illustrations are all familiar line cuts of textbook style, well chosen and clearly reproduced. The faults are almost altogether those due to the condensation necessary to the limits of a single volume. The uncoated paper does away with extra weight. The most serious lack is the absence of all common names, except in the case of groups.”
+ — Nation 105:275 S 6 ‘17 430w
N Y Br Lib News 3:154 O ‘16
N Y Times 22:8 Ja 7 ‘17 80w
“The author is professor of biology in Haverford college.”
St Louis 15:12 Ja ‘17 9w
PREEV, ZINOVY N. Russian revolution and Who’s who in Russia. *2s Bale & Danielsson, London 947 (Eng ed 17-20023)
“This little book, by the editor of the Twentieth Century Russian and Anglo-Russian Review, contains first an account of the revolution (19pp.) and then a ‘Who’s who,’ not confined to persons but containing explanations of phrases like ‘Constitutional Democrats,’ ‘Intelligentsia,’ ‘Zemstvo union,’ &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The brief biographies, beginning with the Tsaritsa, speak freely about the persons they deal with.”
Sat R 123:604 Je 30 ‘17 230w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p239 My 17 ‘17 40w
PREVITÉ ORTON, CHARLES WILLIAM. Outlines of medieval history. maps *$2.75 (2c) Putnam 940 (Eng ed 17-21845)
A history of medieval Europe, embracing the period from 895 to 1492 A.D. The author says, “In the choice of events to narrate I have been guided by their far-off results, rather than by their immediate éclat in their own time, and have tried to indicate how in the middle ages were accomplished the growth of modern man and the life and attitude to life of modern times.” Contents: The barbarian migrations; The Eastern empire and the Saracens; The fusion of races in western Europe; The development of feudalism; The papal monarchy; The East and the crusades; The fall of the Western empire and of the papal theocracy; France and England; The councils and the Italian renaissance; The East and the Turks; The despotic monarchies.
“Mr Orton fairly accomplishes his aim of indicating ‘how in the middle ages were accomplished the growth of modern man and the life and attitude to life of modern times.’ As this involves some loss of local colour and a style which, though clear and well balanced, is usually a little bare and restrained, the book will probably be more appreciated by older than younger students, but this must be accounted a defect of its quality.” J. T.
+ Eng Hist R 32:616 O ‘17 280w
“This is a lucid and scholarly sketch of a vast subject which is by no means remote from practical politics, though it nominally closed with the fifteenth century. ... Mr Previté Orton has to deal with masses of facts and dates, but he writes very well and is full of ideas, so that his book is easy to read.”
+ Spec 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 200w
“The want of a satisfactory guide to medieval history has long been felt. Hallam’s work is no longer adequate, and more recent books dealing with the subject do not cover the whole ground. Students have been thrown back, therefore, on treatises having a wider range, such as Lavisse and Rambaud’s ‘Histoire générale,’ of which medieval history forms only a part. Mr Previté Orton’s ‘Outlines’ satisfies the conditions desired by giving within reasonable limits a comprehensive survey of the middle ages as a distinct historical subject. The success he has achieved in this difficult task is very great.”
* + The Times [London] Lit Sup p137 Mr 22 ‘17 1150w
PRICE, CHARLES MATLACK. Practical book of architecture. il *$6 Lippincott 720 16-24966
“The purpose of this handsomely made and compactly written volume is simple but very much worth while; to state in untechnical language the sources of our present day architecture. Not so much regarding the details of classic architecture as it appears in the Parthenon or the mysteries of Gothic architecture woven into a fabric like Notre Dame; but rather a clear statement of just what distinguishes classic and Gothic architecture respectively, how much of its ‘indicia’ are practically applicable to the needs of to-day. ... Most interesting perhaps are the two chapters on Native American architecture and on such special topics as ‘l’art nouveau’ and ‘modernist’ architecture, as well as the office building, modern hotel and railroad terminal. ... The second part of the book, ‘A practical guide to building,’ discusses sanely such questions for the prospective house builder as the selection of site, style and materials to be used, the choice of and relations with the architect, comparative costs of various styles and materials, and plans and interior details.”—Pub W
“A popular treatment of interest to those intending to build, to beginners in the study of architecture, and to the general reader. Covers the subject fully as an art and a science and yet may be understood by the layman. ... Has excellent illustrations, many of modern work.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:254 Mr ‘17
“The illustrations, 255 in number, are particularly good.”
+ Ath p197 Ap ‘17 90w
+ Boston Transcript p8 F 3 ‘17 300w
+ Cath World 105:836 S ‘17 210w
“The reader gets unusual delight from the illustrations, which are mainly chosen from well-known buildings in big cities, thereby making them more vital and understandable.”
+ Lit D 54:770 Mr 17 ‘17 300w
+ N Y Times 22:58 F 18 ‘17 200w
“Like Mr Talbot Hamlin’s book, which also appears at this time, Mr Price’s makes its own individual, educative appeal. Surely the man in the street as well as the trained critic should find much of practical value in such volumes.”
+ Outlook 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 60w
Pittsburgh 22:120 F ‘17 50w
453“There has been no book on architecture before just like this one.” Fremont Rider
+ Pub W 91:211 Ja 20 ‘17 350w
R of Rs 55:218 F ‘17 90w
“Mr Price gives a great deal of extremely sound instruction and advice, and that with convincing point and clarity. Admirable theories or principles are eloquently argued or presented; but the unworthy, and even second-rate, examples with which he sometimes seeks to illustrate them, tend rather to damp one’s latent enthusiasm and to check one’s conversion. His English ‘typicals’ are for the most part peculiarly ill chosen and unfortunate.”
+ — Spec 119:14 Jl 7 ‘17 1700w
“A work which aims at and renders a service popular rather than professional. ... The public has been slow to realize that architecture is the one art from which it can not escape even if it desires to do so.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 19 ‘16 450w
PRICE, JULIUS MENDES. Six months on the Italian front. il *$3.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-88)
“Mr Price’s book deals with the operations of the Italian army from the Stelvio to the Adriatic (1915-1916). Mr Price is the wellknown war artist correspondent of the Illustrated London News, and he had the privilege of following the Italian armies all along their five hundred miles long front in the period which might be rightly called preparatory in their hard war.” (Sat R) “He was actually present at the capture of Gorizia and Monfalcone in 1916.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ Ath p260 My ‘17 50w
“This book is wholly reportorial and free of discussions of international questions. ... The illustrations can be endorsed without quibbling as among the best of the war yet published, when the giving of true ensemble is considered. They are rich in minutely faithful sketches of the equipment of the Italian army, and frequently achieve marked excellence in their graphic portrayals of the troops of Cadorna scaling precipitous Alpine cliffs.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 12 ‘17 170w
“It is journalistic and impressionistic in the bad sense. It is a pity to waste such excellent yellowish white thick paper and fine type, when the few really great books of the war are huddled into their cramped volumes with myopic print.”
— New Repub 13:224 D 22 ‘17 250w
“He makes particularly vivid, with both pencil and pen, the difficulties of warfare in the Alpine region.”
+ N Y Times 22:382 O 7 ‘17 500w
+ Pittsburgh 22:763 N ‘17 40w
“A very graphic and faithful description and comment.”
+ Sat R 123:413 My 5 ‘17 850w
“Mr Price is primarily an artist, not a journalist. ... He is quite frank about his qualifications as a war correspondent: an amateur at the game, knowing no Italian, not even enough to venture on an Italian phrase in his book without stumbling. ... There are a certain amount of tirades in this book against Austrian ‘frightfulness.’ ... This continual search for evidences of what we have learnt to call ‘kultur’ results often in the digging up of facts which, judged by any reasonable standard of a man accustomed to the necessities of modern warfare, are no more evidences of ‘frightfulness’ than our similar methods are evidences of excessive ‘humanity.’”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p188 Ap 19 ‘17 450w
PRIESTLEY, HERBERT INGRAM. José de Gálvez, visitor-general of New Spain (1765-1771). il $3 (2c) Univ. of Cal. 906 A16-1488
José de Gálvez, visitor-general of New Spain, 1765-1771, and later appointed minister of the Indies, was, says the author “with the possible exception of the second Revillagigedo, the most able representative of the Spanish crown in New Spain during the eighteenth century. He certainly was the most competent minister of the Indies during the Bourbon régime.” This study is limited to his years of service as visitor-general, since it was in this period, the author points out, that he gained the practical knowledge that shaped his later policy as minister. The author is assistant curator of the Bancroft library, University of California, and the work is issued as one of the University of California publications in history.
“The author has made ample use of new sources from the archives of Spain and Mexico and, in addition, has made available in English much material already published in Spanish. The volume shows a vast amount of painstaking labor and is readable and interesting throughout. It is a valuable contribution to the study of Spanish colonial institutions.” R. R. Hill
+ Am Hist R 23:199 O ‘17 550w
“Mr Priestley’s description of the Spanish colonial system under Charles III is admirably complete.” G. B. H.
+ Eng Hist R 32:459 Jl ‘17 230w
“A sketch map that might profitably have contained more names, the instructions to Gálvez, a full bibliography, and adequate index complete the volume, and with ample footnotes make it a desirable contribution to Latin-American institutional history.”
+ Nation 105:490 N 1 ‘17 410w
“The book should have permanent value as a record of Mexican history and Spanish colonial administration.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 20 ‘17 500w
PRIESTMANN, EDMUND YERBURY. With a B.-P. scout in Gallipoli; a record of the Belton bulldogs; with a foreword by Sir Robert Baden-Powell. 2d ed il *$1.75 Dutton 940.91 17-21842
“This is a collection of letters written home by a scoutmaster serving as a subaltern who was killed in action in November, 1915. There is much humor in the book, and the author’s quick perception of the grotesque is evidenced by many of his drawings, which are reproduced in connection with the text.”—R of Rs
+ Cleveland p118 N ‘17 60w
+ Ind 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 140w
“A bubbling sense of humor characterizes them throughout and he has always a keen eye for interesting little incidents, whether comic, pathetic, or tragic, and a clever pen in describing them.”
+ N Y Times 22:382 O 7 ‘17 180w
+ R of Rs 55:668 Je ‘17 50w
“The little sketches of life on the bloody peninsula are written with a sureness that commends the book to a far larger audience than the intimate one for which they were intended.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 20 ‘17 110w
“The racy, cheery letters home which make up this volume show the Boy scout ideal at its best. ... The book is full of clever humorous little drawings by Lieutenant Priestmann himself.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p527 N 2 ‘16 110w
PRINCE, JANE. Letters to a young housekeeper. *$1.35 (6c) Houghton 640 17-4601
Housekeeping ways and means are here discussed in the form of letters. The letters are in fact essays on the following subjects: Economy in the household; The budget; Servants; Maid of all work; Weekly cleaning; Family meals; Duties of servants; Behind the scenes at a dinner.
“The chapters on duties of servants and serving a dinner are specially good.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:435 Jl ‘17
“Fortunate those women into whose possession this book comes. For not only is its friendly advice practical. Its spirit is that which lifts 454housekeeping into that highest of all womanly avocations—homemaking. There is about it, moreover, a delicious sense of personality.”
+ Boston Transcript p13 Ap 7 ‘17 300w
+ Cleveland p70 My ‘17 50w
“This little volume contains facts—general and particular—on household economy and the household budget. ... and finally the vexing matter of a ‘dinner party.’ It is a readable and valuable book.”
+ N Y Times 22:191 My 13 ‘17 180w
“Even to the woman who has no servants and who may be disposed to class the book as useless in her circumstances, there is more or less of helpful suggestion in matters like table arrangements, how to sweep a room properly, etc. Type and binding add to the attractiveness and value.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Mr 13 ‘17 200w
“The directions are detailed but explicit. A book which can be unreservedly recommended for every library.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:155 My ‘17 70w
PRINGLE-PATTISON, ANDREW SETH (ANDREW SETH). Idea of God in the light of recent philosophy. *$3.50 Oxford 201 17-24221
This volume is based upon the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1912 and 1913. The author is professor of logic and metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. In philosophy he is an idealist. “The twenty lectures are grouped in two series. Beginning with commentaries upon Hume’s ‘Dialogues concerning natural religion,’ the author proceeds to discuss critically and fully the views of Kant, Ritschl, Locke, Berkeley, Comte, Spencer, William James, Bergson, Prof. Bosanquet, and many others.” (Ath) “Most of the chief points of metaphysics and ethics come under review.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Dr Pringle-Pattison concludes, among other things, that “for a metaphysic which has emancipated itself from physical categories, the ultimate conception of God is not that of a pre-existent creator but, as it is for religion, that of the eternal redeemer of the world.”
Ath p246 My ‘17 180w
“In the use he makes of the principles of continuity of process and the emergence of real differences, in his insistence on the reality of appearances and his account of the finite individual in relation to the Absolute, in his treatment of the idea of creation and his elucidation of teleology as a cosmic principle, Professor Pringle-Pattison has made an illuminating advance in the study and discussion of his subject.” R. Latta
+ Hibbert J 16:153 O ‘17 4850w
“The chief criticism upon Professor Pringle-Pattison’s work is rather the vagueness with which he almost invariably expounds his position. On the majority of the issues of contemporary philosophical controversy relevant to his subject it is well-nigh impossible to say exactly what his position is. ... In spite of these shortcomings Professor Pringle-Pattison’s book will be of considerable value to all interested in the perennial problem of the Divine and the human.”
+ — Nation 105:457 O 25 ‘17 1000w
N Y Br Lib News 4:139 S ‘17 100w
“These lectures evince the new spirit gained by twentieth-century philosophy from biology.”
+ Outlook 117:576 D 5 ‘17 120w
“An able philosophic exposition of the fundamental tenet of Christianity. ... We may draw attention to his sensible and—if we may use the word—manly treatment of the problem of evil.”
+ Spec 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 120w
“The reader will feel a deep delight in Prof. Pringle-Pattison’s ability to handle ideal clearly, in the breadth and eclecticism of his speculation, in his feeling for the realities of poetry, and in his determination to impart to philosophy a human and practical aspect as well as metaphysical consistency.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 5 ‘17 1300w
“Dr Pringle-Pattison’s volume will find readers in classes which in the so-called ages of faith would have turned away from it either because discussion of it seemed profanation or—what was more often the explanation of the mood of estrangement—because it was not for them a living, ever-present question. ... Each age desires its own ‘Théodicée,’ and ours is still unwritten. It will borrow, when it is composed, not a little from the pages of Dr Pringle-Pattison. ... We miss in this volume a certain unity of purpose. The author strays here and there according as the thought of the moment suggests. But, if too much a collection of episodes, the book is what it claims to be, constructive.”
– + The Times [London] Lit Sup p184 Ap 19 ‘17 2250w
PROTHERO, GEORGE WALTER. German policy before the war. *$1 Dutton 327.43 (Eng ed 16-13631)
“An address given before the Royal historical society, Jan. 21, 1915. It is concerned (1) with the ideas and principles, the ambitions and motives which have produced in Germany a state of mind favorable to war; (2) with the historical events and the economic conditions which have strengthened this tendency; and (3) with the course of international politics which rendered an armed conflict difficult to avoid.” Condensed from introductory note—Pittsburgh
“Interesting but highly inconclusive is the author’s development of the militaristic theory of the state. ... In spite of its fairness of tone, the work bears the marks of special pleading, and is, as was perhaps inevitable, a partizan interpretation of history. ... The weakest point is the author’s failure to appreciate the German attitude toward the alliance with Austria.” R. H. Fife, jr.
– + Am Hist R 22:200 O ‘16 320w
A L A Bkl 13:261 Mr ‘17
+ — Eng Hist R 21:674 O ‘16 370w
“The introductory chapter contains the best brief statement we have seen of the development of German philosophic thought and teaching into potent ideas which are believed to influence Germans at present.”
+ Nation 103:444 N 9 ‘16 1150w
N Y Times 22:110 Mr 25 ‘17 50w
Pittsburgh 21:508 N ‘16 70w
“Where changing circumstances and personalities in power count for so much, it is impossible to assert positively that this or that policy was dominant at all times, and probably Mr Prothero, to prove his case, lays too much emphasis on the consistency of German intentions. He might have expanded his brief remarks upon the social and financial conditions inside Germany, and we should have welcomed his fuller views on some other points; for instance, the effects of Italy’s Tripolitan war. But he has certainly given us a concise and most readable and informing chapter of absorbing European history.”
+ Spec 117:160 Ag 5 ‘16 880w
“While the analysis as a whole is sound enough without being particularly new, it is open to weighty objection just at the points which seem most fatal to Mr Prothero’s ‘main thesis.’ That applies perhaps most of all to the treatment of the question of Morocco, and of Franco-German relations generally.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p243 My 25 ‘16 1100w
PROUD, EMILY DOROTHEA. Welfare work: employers’ experiments for improving working conditions in factories: with a foreword by D: Lloyd-George. *7s 6d Bell, London 331.8 (Eng ed 17-4011)
“An ably written volume, dealing with means of preserving the health and promoting the happiness of workers in factories. ‘Welfare work’ is defined as consisting of ‘voluntary efforts on 455the part of employers to improve, within the existing industrial system, the conditions of employment in their own factories.’ Factory welfare departments and the duties of a welfare secretary are described.”—Ath
“The treatment of the subject is practical and sympathetic. Especially interesting chapters are those dealing with the industrial environment, wages and hours, and incidental aids to welfare, such as the provision of baths, gymnasia, means of recreation, and the like.”
+ Ath p427 S ‘16 100w
“The matter is well and methodically arranged, with copious foot notes containing extracts from both American and English authorities, and has an excellent index. There is, however, no bibliography. This would have been a valuable addition. ... Together with Mr Lloyd-George we warmly commend this book to employers, factory superintendents, and to all members of the general public interested in the future and well being of their respective countries.” G. K. S.
+ Int J Ethics 27:250 Ja ‘17 600w
“Her book is by all odds the most complete and detailed exposition of the subject which has yet appeared.”
+ Nation 105:272 S 6 ‘17 210w
“The author is an Australian of wide experience in factory investigation both in Australia and England. At present she is connected with the British ministry of munitions.”
N Y Br Lib News 4:8 Ja ‘17 50w
Pittsburgh 22:345 Ap ‘17 30w
Pratt p8 Jl ‘17 10w
“Miss Proud is certainly moderate as a radical economist, dealing with things as they are, and trying to be a peacemaker in her chapters. But yet her radicalism shows itself, and takes her away from some questions of essential importance.”
+ — Sat R 122:229 S 2 ‘16 1350w
Spec 117:556 N 4 ‘16 130w
“The whole volume constitutes an exceedingly valuable contribution to a field where clarifying discussion is much needed.” H. R. Walter
Survey 37:671 Mr 10 ‘17 550w
“Her treatment of the subject is dispassionate and scientific without being cold or dry. The weakest point is the comparatively small range of observation which forms the basis of her study. It is confined to Australia, New Zealand, England, and Scotland. We congratulate Miss Proud on a pioneer book of high quality and real value.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p411 Ag 31 ‘16 1250w
PRÜM, ÉMILE. Pan-Germanism versus Christendom; the conversion of a neutral; ed. and with comments by René Johannet. *$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-15439
Part 1 of this volume is a reprint of the open letter by M. Émile Prüm, leader of the Catholic party of Luxembourg, to Herr Mathias Erzberger, member of the Reichstag and leader of the Catholic centre party of Germany. It was a protest against the invasion of Belgium and Luxembourg and was seized and prohibited in Germany. Part 2 is an account of The proceedings instituted against M. Prüm, and in an appendix there is a discussion of The evolution of the German Catholic centre.
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 16 ‘17 300w
Cleveland p85 Jl ‘17 80w
“Its peculiar interest to-day comes from its account of the evolution of the Centre party and the light it throws on the Centrist leader.”
+ Nation 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 550w
“We recommend it to the perusal of any still unconvinced pro-German if his mind is open to consider a plain narrative of those facts which have converted a former pro-German into a vigorous opponent of German imperialism and all its works.”
+ Outlook 116:198 My 30 ‘17 80w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p639 D 28 ‘16 190w
PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE. Bulletin. $15 (service basis) Wilson, H. W. (16-16611)
This is the second annual cumulation of the bulletins of the Public affairs information service, described as “a cooperative clearing house of public affairs information.” The work of the service is outlined in the preface. It is “not merely an information collecting and disseminating agency. Its primary aim is to be of concrete assistance in minimizing the task of the busy librarian, professor, social worker, business man, head of department or bureau. The service carries out its activities by means of the weekly bulletins, the bi-monthly cumulations and the annual number. It acts as agent for the distribution of both free material and material with a cost, desired by the cooperators. It extends the privilege of borrowing from the collection and supplies typewritten material for copying purposes. The Service may be freely used as an information bureau.” The annual volume consists of an alphabetical arrangement under subject headings of all the material (books, pamphlets, reports, magazine articles, etc.) indexed during the year.
PÜCKLER-MUSKAU, HERMANN LUDWIG HEINRICH, fürst von. Hints on landscape gardening; tr. by Bernhard Sickert and ed. by S: Parsons. il *$3.50 (8c) Houghton 710 17-19173
This volume, “which furnishes a natural sequence to ‘The art of landscape gardening,’ by Humphrey Repton [1907], is the second of a series of authoritative books to be brought out by the publishers,” says Mr John Nolen in his introductory note. In addition there is an introduction by the editor giving a sketch of Prince Pückler’s life and an estimate of the importance of his contributions to landscape art. The text itself consists of chapters on: The laying-out of a park; Size and extent; Enclosure; Grouping in general, and buildings; Parks and gardens; Concerning the laying-out of the lawns of parks, meadows, and gardens; Trees and shrubs and their grouping, and plantations in general; Roads and paths; Water; Islands; Rocks; Earthworks and esplanades; Maintenance; with a second part descriptive of Prince Pückler’s park in Muskau.
“Somewhat discursive but sound advice on the laying out of parks and estates.”
+ — A L A Bkl 14:157 F ‘18
“In an admirable introduction, Mr Parsons gives many delightful extracts from Prince Pückler’s letters, showing what a romantic old idealist he was. The book itself is a treasure for anyone who loves nature. It ought to have a powerful influence here in America, where city planning (of which he was an early advocate) and the laying out of parks as well as of great private estates are destined to become more and more a feature of our civilization.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 15 ‘17 1300w
“The book is unique. It is to be hoped that the series will be continued—and that without so long an interval as has passed between the appearance of the first two volumes.”
+ Engin News-Rec 79:752 O 18 ‘17 220w
“The author’s style, which has been closely followed by the translator, is poetic and original, and his method of treating the subject so near his heart removes it altogether from the region of dry and academic treatises.”
+ Lit D 55:40 N 17 ‘17 280w
“The illustrations and maps are a notable feature of the volume.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:812 D ‘17 90w
PURINTON, EDWARD EARLE. Pétain, the prepared. il *50c (9c) Revell 17-26783
The author has written a brief sketch of General Pétain, who commanded the French at Verdun. The point of his story is that when General Pétain’s opportunity came to him at the age of sixty, he was ready to meet it, and the lesson the author draws from the story is 456given a wide application to American life. There is a one-page foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood.
A L A Bkl 14:40 N ‘17
“A book that can be read in less than an hour, containing a message of strength and cheer for all the years ahead, is surely worth reading. Such a book Mr Purinton has given us.”
+ Lit D 55:53 D 1 ‘17 50w
PUTNAM, GEORGE ROCKWELL. Lighthouses and lightships of the United States. il *$2 (3c) Houghton 656 17-13732
“This book is planned to cover, in a general and rather non-technical way, a description of the lighthouses, especially in the United States, and a history of their development.” (Preface) The author has felt it a “pleasant obligation” to bring these facts together, and he has tried to include “enough of the personal deeds of the men and women who serve humanity in the lighthouses and on the lighthouse vessels to show the fine spirit which pervades them.” Among the chapters are: Boston light and the colonial lights; The lighthouses under the United States government; Lights in the approaches to New York; Lights of the Florida reefs and the gulf coast; Lights of the Pacific coast and Alaska; Lights of the Great Lakes and the rivers; Lightships and lighthouse tenders; The light-keepers. The book is well illustrated.
“The lighthouse service may fairly be called a model of competent administration and scientific ingenuity in the general staff and of faithfulness, endurance, and helpfulness in the rank and file; and Mr Putnam’s exposition of its history, plant, equipment, operations, and personnel is also a model.”
+ Am Hist R 22:906 Jl ‘17 350w
A L A Bkl 14:46 N ‘17
“The author of this valuable, fascinating and authoritative book is the United States Commissioner of lighthouses and he has the last word (up to June 30, 1916) on a subject of vital importance.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 27 ‘17 1100w
Cleveland p111 S ‘17 40w
“A story interesting to the engineer as a man and as a practitioner.”
+ Engin News-Rec 79:563 S 20 ‘17 120w
+ Ind 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 60w
+ Lit D 55:37 N 3 ‘17 290w
“The book is written for the general reader, but one wonders whether the author would not have been well advised to assume in such readers the ability and willingness to penetrate a little deeper into the scientific phases of the subject, even at the expense of considerable mental effort. A glance at the new Encyclopædia Britannica article on lighthouses, and especially its illustrations, will suggest that the author might have greatly enhanced the value of this volume without taking it in any respect out of the mental reach of the great majority of those who were likely to read it.”
+ — Nation 105:406 O 11 ‘17 950w
N Y P L New Tech Bks p11 Jl ‘17 100w
Pittsburgh 22:663 O ‘17 10w
“While the great toil of the business machine necessary to maintain this work is not slighted, the romantic aspect of perpetual adventure with the sea fills this book with genuine thrills and recommends it to all classes of readers. The beautiful cuts of the lighthouses and life-saving stations past and present give vivid interest to this admirable record.”
+ R of Rs 56:331 S ‘17 250w
“Particularly entertaining are the chapters which tell of the difficulties between our own independent colonial lighthouse keepers and the early national government, and the one which gives memoirs and annals of sundry keepers, both men and women.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 3 ‘17 320w
PYLE, JOSEPH GILPIN. Life of James J. Hill. 2v il *$5 Doubleday 17-15184
“In the list of great railroad men whom this country has produced the name of James J. Hill will always stand as one of the greatest of them all. ... It is only a little more than a year since Mr Hill died, at the age of 78. ... Mr Pyle took up his task as biographer with the best equipment. For Mr Hill had chosen him some years before to write the story of his finished life, had turned over to him letters and diaries and other documents, and had talked much with him for the purpose of giving him a true picture of himself, his works, and his surrounding conditions in his early years. In a little prefatory note Mr Pyle says that the only instruction Mr Hill ever gave him concerning this prospective biography was this one sentence: ‘Make it plain and simple and true.’”—N Y Times
“Without displaying many of them, Mr Pyle has had access to the letters and diaries of Mr Hill, and has freely used autobiographic dictations. Only Dr Oberholtzer’s ‘Jay Cooke’ gives financial history for the railroads with equal detail and accuracy. The point of view of Mr Pyle is disappointing. Instead of allowing his evidence to tell its own story, he lays down dicta.” F: L. Paxson
+ — Am Hist R 23:196 O ‘17 650w
+ A L A Bkl 14:58 N ‘17
Dial 63:217 S 13 ‘17 400w
“Altogether this is a book that is thoroughly worth reading both as the life-story of a successful worker of a truly American type and also as an example of what can be accomplished by honesty, unremitting endeavor, and high ideals.”
+ Lit D 55:44 Ag 4 ‘17 920w
“Mr Pyle has made a book that is worth while, so far as it goes. He has contrived to make a clear statement of many abstruse matters connected with the making of the Great Northern railway, and as a ‘source-book’ his biography will stand. And, upon reflection, it is only fair to admit that to put a man like ‘Jim Hill’ on paper is a task much easier to criticise than to perform. But—could there not have been a few more anecdotes, say, in the appendix?”
+ — Nation 105:344 S 27 ‘17 1400w
“Like most authorized biographies, Mr Pyle’s work suffers somewhat from the fact that it is all eulogium. Nevertheless, its value as the life story of one of our great nation builders is high and its interest unceasing. Young men just starting upon their careers ought to find in its pages inspiration and guidance. For, however much James J. Hill won for himself by his lifetime of work, the service he rendered his country was beyond valuation.”
+ — N Y Times 22:237 Je 24 ‘17 1800w
“Excellent if sometimes a bit monotonously eulogistic biography, which, nevertheless, might well be in the hands of every young American.”
+ Outlook 116:521 Ag 1 ‘17 680w
Pittsburgh 22:671 O ‘17 70w
“Mr Pyle had a large subject and a wealth of material from which to select, and it probably seemed to him impossible to do justice to his theme in any smaller compass. Sometime, however, he should put this biography into about half the space at a popular price for popular consumption. It is well to have the larger work, although some parts of it seem needlessly long.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 19 ‘17 1100w
PYM, THOMAS WENTWORTH, and GORDON, GEOFFREY. Papers from Picardy. *$1.50 (3c) Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-89)
Two English chaplains discuss some of the moral and spiritual aspects of war. “The papers owe their title to the fact that they were written, for the most part, during the fighting on the Somme in the summer and autumn of 1916. They are, however, the result of experience gained not only there but in other parts of France, in Flanders, and in a soldiers’ hospital at home.” (Preface) In part 4571, Rev. T. W. Pym writes of the following: Some considerations as to the varying effects of war on the individual; A commentary on the soldier’s attitude to war; A study in contrasts and in the influence of reaction; Discipline—and after? Something definite; Postscript: an epitome of war. In part 2, Rev. Geoffrey Gordon writes of: The chaplain’s dilemma; Some prisoners; Active service; Honour where honour is due; In a regimental aid post; What is truth? etc.
A L A Bkl 14:55 N ‘17
Cleveland p118 N ‘17 80w
“Part 1, by T. W. Pym, seems a more broad-minded, charitable, and human document than part 2, but even that looks life’s problems fairly in the face and acknowledges the inefficiency of the modern church to meet the present needs of men. In the chapter ‘Something definite,’ we have the strongest possible exposition of the fallacies that nurture dissipation of all kinds. ‘Papers from Picardy’ has a more universal appeal and meaning than most books of the kind.”
+ Lit D 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 250w
N Y Br Lib News 4:133 S ‘17 80w
“Both authors are undeniably sincere and both have based their conclusions on facts that have come within their personal knowledge.”
+ R of Rs 56:214 Ag ‘17 80w
Q
QUICK, OLIVER CHASE. Essays in orthodoxy. *$2 Macmillan 230 17-24306
“The author of these essays is chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury.” (Int J Ethics) “His aim in these chapters discussing leading doctrines of the Christian faith is not primarily apologetic. His position is that what is needed is elucidation in the face of misunderstanding. His presentations of the orthodox doctrines—those of the atonement, of justification by faith, and of the Holy Spirit—are treated not as dogmas based on authority or on scriptural texts, but as reasonable and necessary solutions of the problems of life.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“A book which has the two merits of steadiness and frankness in its Anglican outlook.” James Moffat
+ Hibbert J 15:677 Jl ‘17 150w
Int J Ethics 27:543 Jl ‘17 130w
“The chapters upon ‘The Holy Spirit as witness and sanctifier’ contain not a little good counsel upon practical problems of belief and conduct; and they are written with a freshness that makes their perusal a pleasure. In his discussion of some articles of the creed Mr Quick is, we think, less successful.”
+ — Spec 118:518 My 5 ‘17 1350w
“As a whole the book is certainly a singular illustration of the right method of presenting orthodoxy to a reflecting mind under the influence of the disintegrating tendencies of the day.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p639 D 28 ‘16 230w
“A book which is full of sound thought and always well expressed. ... These criticisms are offered just because the general argument of the book is so impressive, and is worked out with so much skill. Among the numerous theological discussions to which we have been invited lately this volume has a special claim to consideration.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p64 F 8 ‘17 1000w
QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS. Notes on Shakespeare’s workmanship. *$2 Holt 822.3 17-14157
The papers in this volume are revised from lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge. The author says: “They seek to discover, in some of Shakespeare’s plays, just what he was trying to do as a playwright. This has always seemed to me a sensible way of approaching him, and one worth reverting to from time to time. For it is no disparagement to the erudition and scholarship that have so piously been heaped about Shakespeare to say that we shall sometimes find it salutary to disengage our minds from it all, and recollect that the poet was a playwright.” The plays studied in the first group include Macbeth, Midsummer-night’s dream, Merchant of Venice, As you like it, and Hamlet. A second group comprises plays representative of Shakespeare’s later workmanship and includes Pericles, King Henry VIII, Cymbeline, The winter’s tale and The tempest.
“A delightful addition to Shakespeare criticism.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:15 O ‘17
“Multitudes of books upon Shakespeare have been written, but we doubt if any of them contain as much undiluted common sense as is compressed by Sir Arthur into these pages.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 3 ‘17 1500w
“It would not serve as a text for use with high school or college students but would enrich their knowledge and add to their interest if used as a supplement to their studies, and would delight any Shakespeare lover.”
+ Cleveland p105 S ‘17 90w
“The chapters are pleasantly written observations which retain the conversational flavor of their original form.”
+ Dial 63:468 N 8 ‘17 70w
“In the author’s discussion of these many-sided masterpieces there is, of course, a great deal that will provoke dissent. The assertion that there is no mystery in Hamlet’s character is a hard saying to digest. We prefer, however, to direct the attention of our readers to the fine critical analysis of ‘Macbeth.’”
+ — Nation 105:458 O 25 ‘17 1150w
“Endowed as he is with ripe scholarship, as well as discriminating knowledge of a subject in which he has specialized for many years, Sir Arthur is quite sure of himself when he tells us how the poet wrote his plays.”
+ N Y Times 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 170w
QUIN, MALCOLM. Problem of human peace; studied from the standpoint of a scientific catholicism. *$1 Dutton 172.4 17-22690
“The author decides that a human peace can only come about through the operation of the modern mind. By an adequate scientific study of war this mind will realise that both causes and effects are hostile to that perfection in Christ which is the spiritual aim of Christendom. After a rapid elimination of alternatives Catholicism, which is said to include all that is best in eastern as well as western thought, is selected as the only antidote to the causes of war—a Catholicism, however, thoroughly overhauled by the modern mind, and then disseminated through the Roman organization. The peoples will thus be informed with the common national policy of perfection.”—Int J Ethics
Ind 92:58 O 6 ‘17 60w
“The insistence laid on the part that the church might play in relation to peace is valuable.” C. D. Burns
+ — Int J Ethics 27:540 Jl ‘17 180w
“The book should be read by thoughtful students of religious and social movements as an indication of ‘modernism’ inside as well as outside the Roman church.” A. G. Spencer
+ Survey 39:201 N 24 ‘17 600w
QUINN, ARTHUR HOBSON, ed. Representative American plays. il *$2.75 Century 812 ‘17-4225
“Twenty-five American plays, by the leading dramatists of the country, that show the development of the American drama from 1767 to the present time. Each play is prefaced by a short biographical sketch of the author, the cast of the first performance, and other interesting detail.” 458(R of Rs) “Opening with the first American tragedy, ‘The prince of Parthia’ (1767), and the first American comedy, ‘The contrast’ (1787), and including works of such early playwrights as William Dunlap, James Nelson Barker, Nathaniel Parker Willis and George Henry Boker, the collection includes ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ ‘Hazel Kirke,’ ‘The octoroon,’ Bronson Howard’s ‘Shenandoah,’ Gillette’s ‘Secret service,’ and even ‘Madame Butterfly’—here first published in dramatic form. ... As illustrations of contemporary tendencies in the theatre, the book includes plays by Clyde Fitch, Langdon Mitchell, Augustus Thomas, William Vaughn Moody, Percy MacKaye, Edward Sheldon and Rachel Crothers.” (Cath World)
“Presents in a convenient form material not otherwise easily accessible. Bibliography (8p.).”
+ A L A Bkl 13:302 Ap ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p9 Ja 17 ‘17 620w
+ Cath World 105:106 Ap ‘17 300w
+ Cleveland p52 Ap ‘17 250w
“If the three latest productions—those by Mr MacKaye, Mr Sheldon and Miss Crothers—had been omitted, space might have been found for Burk’s ‘Battle of Bunker Hill,’ for Mrs Bateman’s ‘Self,’ for Hurlbert’s ‘Americans in Paris,’ and for the plays in which Solon Shingle and Bardwell Slote are the salient figures. Otherwise the selection is excellent, even if the plays chosen are, many of them, little better than curiosities.” Brander Matthews
* + Educ R 54:84 Je ‘17 300w
“As valuable a single book for student use in the pursuit of American literature as has ever appeared. ... The material is ample and typical, the text is clear, the introductory matter is compact with discriminating information, and the whole is capped with a bibliography which is generous without being a wanton display of industry minus judgment.”
+ Nation 104:547 My 3 ‘17 850w
“Professor Quinn in his collection of these twenty-five representative plays, carefully and unobtrusively edited, has thrown more light on the state of public taste along the Atlantic seaboard in the last century than could be acquired from any other sort of collection.” R. E. Rogers
+ New Repub 10:sup10 Ap 21 ‘17 2000w
N Y Br Lib News 4:42 Mr ‘17 140w
Pratt p36 O ‘17 20w
“This is the first collection of its kind and its significance and value will recommend it to all classes of readers.”
+ R of Rs 55:440 Ap ‘17 100w
St Louis 15:184 Je ‘17 20w
“A convenient collection of twenty-five of the best American plays, which will enable the student to follow the development of the American drama, and makes possible that special study of it which the Drama league is promoting this year.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:157 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Drama League Monthly)
QUINN, ELISABETH VERNON, ed. Stokes’ wonder book of fairy tales. il *$2 (2c) Stokes 17-25356
This very beautifully illustrated volume contains a selection from the world’s best fairy tales, forty-two in number. An effort has been made to include all the most loved stories, among them Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding-hood, Three bears, Snow-white, Sleeping beauty, Aladdin, Ugly duckling, Cinderella, and Rapunzel. In addition two modern tales have been given the distinction of inclusion. These are “The tale of Peter Rabbit” and “The story of little black Sambo,” two stories “which have established themselves permanently in children’s hearts.” The pictures are by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.
“The size will make it awkward for circulation but it is delightful for the children’s reading table, and for a gift book.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:101 D ‘17
+ Ind 92:444 D 1 ‘17 70w
“The selection of stories seems judicious, and the texts used are direct and simple.”
+ Lit D 55:60 D 8 ‘17 60w
R
RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA) princess. Germany under three emperors. il *$4 Funk 943 17-30068
“This account of Prussian diplomacy makes public for the first time much information regarding the Kaiser, his two immediate predecessors, and their great minister, Prince Bismarck. The author tells us how the first emperor was influenced by the great chancellor in the upbuilding of the imperial German plan, how the Emperor Friedrich, who might have modified this plan considerably, was rendered impotent by disease, and how Bismarck, ignoring his wishes, set about instilling the doctrines of militarism into the willing mind of the heir apparent. The story, as it unfolds, shows how the pupil outran the master and how the present Kaiser at last dismissed his aging chancellor and took over control of affairs himself. All this, together with the plots and counterplots that brought Europe several times to the brink of war, is set forth.”—Lit D
Lit D 55:49 D 8 ‘17 140w
“Princess Radziwill is by birth a Russian and, after her marriage to a Pole, she lived much in Berlin. In both countries her associations were with the court and diplomatic circles, and she knew personally many of the men and women who made the history of Europe during Bismarck’s half century of public life. Her book, however, is in no sense the gossipy chronicle which that fact might imply, but a very capable getting together and interesting arrangement of the facts of Germany’s political history since the middle of the last century, told with the vivifying touch of personal contact.”
+ N Y Times 23:14 Ja 13 ‘18 600w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p335 Jl 12 ‘17 90w
RAE, HERBERT, pseud. Maple leaves in Flanders fields. *$1.75 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-10673)
“In ‘Maple leaves in Flanders’ a Canadian soldier, who hides his identity under the nom de guerre of ‘Herbert Rae,’ gives a breezy description of the recruiting of a Canadian regiment dubbed by the author ‘The pompadours,’ and what the regiment has done in the war.” (N Y Times) Admiral Markham writes the introduction.
N Y Times 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 300w
“Written in an informal style, that is full of humor. ... The work is easy and delightful reading.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 21 ‘17 100w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p527 N 2 ‘16 60w
RAEMAEKERS, LOUIS. Kultur in cartoons; with accompanying notes by well-known English writers. *$5 Century 940.91 17-31662
Louis Raemaekers is conceded to be the “only great genius who has been brought out by the war”; who is “worth two army corps to the cause of the Allies.” This is a companion volume to “Raemaekers’ cartoons” published last year. To this cartoonist the war is not a “topic,” not a “subject for charity” but “a vivid, heartrending reality.” There are over a hundred drawings whose artistic appeal is subordinated to the appraisal of them as political documents and as historic records of crimes and barbarities “which the civilized world must not be permitted to forget lest the horrors of the past 459three years descend upon us again.” Each cartoon is faced with a paragraph of description and interpretation by an English writer.
+ Lit D 55:49 D 8 ‘17 140w
N Y Times 22:514 D 2 ‘17 70w
“There is little artistic finesse about Raemaekers’s work. His is of the blunt pencil rather than the Spencerian pen; yet force and action are added to his drawings in ratio to the thickness of his pencil. His vigor is crushing—well-nigh brutal. But his subjects demand the brutality he throws into his work. Despite this fact, however, he has light moments.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 D 2 ‘17 500w
RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD. Yukon trail; a tale of the North. il *$1.35 (2c) Houghton 17-13621
Gordon Elliot, an agent for the government, is sent to Alaska to investigate the valuable coal claims of Colby Macdonald. Macdonald is the big man of the North, and, while recognizing his brutality and ruthlessness, the North admires him and, in general, upholds him against the government. But Gordon Elliot comes representing a new order and a new social conscience which demands the conservation of natural resources in place of the reckless exploitation Macdonald stands for. The paths of the two men cross early. Elliot meets Macdonald on the boat going up. Sheba O’Neill is on the boat too, and the girl at once becomes a factor in the struggle.
A L A Bkl 14:28 O ‘17
+ Cleveland p104 S ‘17 50w
“It will be all the same to you whether you read this novel or any one of half a dozen of the same variety of the present season. It is a fairly plausible, well-planned yarn that clings to the traditions of its type and its setting.”
+ — Dial 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 130w
“No one will question Mr Raine’s first-hand acquaintance with his ground and the zest with which he handles the theme, even if the rather narrow trail has been trodden frequently before.”
+ Nation 105:18 Jl 5 ‘17 170w
“The plot is put together in a workmanlike way, and contains plenty of incident.”
+ N Y Times 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 300w
“An echo of the famous Ballinger conservation scandal of several years ago is found in ‘The Yukon trail.’ ... It is a wholly entertaining tale which moves at a rapid, virile pace against a background of rugged mountains, wide spaces and untamed nature.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 Je 10 ‘17 200w
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:159 My ‘17 60w
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER. Sir Walter Raleigh: selections from his “Historie of the world,” letters and other writings; ed. with introds. and notes, by G. E. Hadow. il *$1.40 Oxford 900
“This book contains, besides extracts from the first edition of the ‘History’ (1614), as well as some of Raleigh’s letters to his wife and others, the text of ‘The last fight of the Revenge at sea,’ issued anonymously in 1591. A biographical introduction, followed by commentaries on the texts, and ample notes, will be found in the volume.”—Ath
Ath p257 My ‘17 60w
“The extracts from the ‘Historie’ show what Raleigh thought on many questions of military science and statesmanship—some of them analogous to questions before us to-day, such as Spain’s aim at securing the hegemony of Europe, the contrast between the English and Spanish treatment of native races, the Spanish method of spreading false reports of victories in neutral countries, the best means of repelling an attempted invasion of England, the futility of trusting to a river or a mountain-range to stop an army, the method of dealing with ambassadors who plot against the country to which they are accredited. ... Miss Hadow’s notes are rather meagre. A short glossary of words used in obsolete senses would have been useful to the general reader or the young student. ... Attention is not called to Raleigh’s interesting use of ‘Armado’ of a ship, and ‘Armada’ of a fleet. ... The book is beautifully produced. The word ‘ingentes’ is, however, misprinted on p. 102.” G. C. M. S.
+ Eng Hist R 32:456 Jl ‘17 550w
“Miss Hadow and the Clarendon press have done a sound service to the cause of English history and English letters. ... They have made accessible the essential wisdom and the considered judgment of one of the keenest-edged spirits of Elizabethan times. ... The book has a peculiar interest for the Englishman to-day.”
+ Spec 118:644 Je 9 ‘17 1350w
“In this little book the indispensable part of Raleigh’s writing is preserved.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p127 Mr 15 ‘17 1750w
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER. Sir Walter Raleigh: “the shepherd of the ocean”; selections from his poetry and prose. il *50c Macmillan 820.8 16-25284
“The finest and most moving poetry and prose by Sir Walter Raleigh has been edited in particular for students of literature by Frank Cheney Hersey of Harvard college. ... The selections include, aside from the introductory sketch of his life, twenty-six selections, those popularly known and others difficult to find, such as The 21st book of the lost poem, ‘Cynthia,’ written in praise of Queen Elizabeth, pages from ‘The discovery of Guiana,’ ‘A relation of the Cadiz action,’ and ‘A report of the truth of the fight about the Isles of Azores.’ Portraits of Raleigh and Sir Richard Grenville and cuts from old paintings and drawings illustrate this volume.”—R of Rs
+ Cleveland p64 My ‘17 50w
“A tercentenary offering. The selections are almost equally divided between Raleigh’s verse, in which he was always a gentleman, and his prose, in which he was not seldom a poet. In portions of the latter the editor has, wisely for the flavor’s sake, kept the old spelling. To include extracts from Raleigh’s trial was a happy stroke.”
+ Nation 104:546 My 3 ‘17 120w
+ R of Rs 55:214 F ‘17 180w
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 26 ‘17 150w
RAMSOWER, HARRY CLIFFORD. Equipment for the farm and the farmstead. (Country life education ser.) il *$2.25 Ginn 630 17-12148
The author, professor of agricultural engineering in the College of agriculture of the Ohio State university, has prepared this book primarily in the interests of “the farmer of the present who is seeking information as to ways and means of making his work easier and his burdens lighter.” The book is also adapted for use as a college text. The author points out that the subject is one which has been given little attention, since the agricultural colleges, experiment stations, etc., have been so largely concerned with crop yields and the improvement of live stock. He devotes chapters to: Some principles of mechanics; Transmission of power; Materials of construction; Cement and concrete; Laying out the farm; Farm fences; Farm buildings; The farmhouse, etc., with special chapters given up to the principal items of farm machinery, The plow, Seeding-machinery, Grain-binders, etc.
Agricultural Digest 2:505 Je ‘17 120w
A L A Bkl 14:82 D ‘17
Cleveland p111 S ‘17 30w
Pittsburgh 22:821 D ‘17 30w
Pratt p24 O ‘17 10w
+ Quar List New Tech Bks Jl ‘17 60w
460RANDOLPH, THOMAS. Poems and Amyntas; ed., with an introd., by J: J. Parry. il *$2 Yale univ. press 821 17-7487
“Professor Parry believes that there are external reasons for the oblivion that Randolph [1605-35] has suffered. ... One reason why he believes Randolph has been unread is that, after his death, his brother made the mistake of publishing all of his works which he could find together. For this reason the reader has to wade through even the school exercises of Randolph in order to discover his mature work. ... To remedy this, Professor Parry has reprinted about one-third of the extant works in this volume. He has tried in every sense to avoid the errors of Hazlitt. He has made no changes of his own in the text, relying in large part upon the fact that most of the readers of such a book would be those who were familiar with seventeenth century literature and able to read the early texts with no difficulty.”—Boston Transcript
“At the present time, it is too hard to find an edition of Thomas Randolph. He may be read only in rare early editions or in the faulty Hazlitt edition, which is itself long out of print. ... Professor Parry’s introduction to the volume will aid in making it of great interest to students.”
+ Boston Transcript p14 Ap 7 ‘17 500w
N Y Br Lib News 4:78 My ‘17
“Randolph, like so many other of the earlier poets, would find his most enthusiastic readers in those under twenty. Their minds are more impressionable and they are not so apt to question. If you begin to question and criticise too deeply, it is a wasted task to read him. ‘Amyntas’ is juiceless, and scarcely repays reading. Dr Parry’s editorial work is finely done, and his introduction is a model.” Frank Macdonald
N Y Call p14 Ap 15 ‘17 200w
RANSOME, ARTHUR. Old Peter’s Russian tales. il *$2 Stokes 17-26894
“The twenty-one stories in the book are such as Russian peasants tell their children and each other. ... The author says that the stories selected for this volume are ‘not for the learned nor indeed for grown-up people at all. No people who really like fairy stories ever grow up altogether. Their reading will convey some idea of the mental processes of the race inhabiting the broad plains and distant forests of half-mysterious Russia, and throw light on the Russian peasant’s interpretation of natural phenomena and the abode of his mythology.’ The principal illustrations are the work of a Russian artist, Dmitri Mitrokhin.”—Springf’d Republican
“Well told with humorous touches.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:101 D ‘17
“They seem every bit worth while in their folk-lore quality.”
+ Lit D 55:56 D 8 ‘17 150w
+ N Y Times 22:512 D 2 ‘17 210w
“He tells his tales with the skill belonging to an experienced man of letters.”
+ Sat R 122:sup10 D 9 ‘16 140w
“The book is a unique contribution to the holiday output.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 D 1 ‘17 280w
“The tales, though they are second-rate literary matter, should read aloud well. The feeling is that the author is having a pleasant relaxation.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p607 D 14 ‘16 70w
RAUSCHENBUSCH, WALTER.[2] Theology for the social gospel. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 230 17-31090
An elaboration of four lectures delivered in 1917 on the Nathaniel W. Taylor foundation before the annual convocation of the Yale school of religion. The main proposition is that we have a social gospel and what we need is a systematic theology large enough to match it and vital enough to back it. In the first three chapters the author shows that a readjustment and expansion of theology, so that it will furnish an adequate intellectual basis for the social gospel, is necessary, feasible, desirable and legitimate. The remainder of the book offers concrete suggestions how some of the most important sections of doctrinal theology may be expanded and readjusted to make room for the religious conviction summed up in “the social gospel.”
“The book is brave and direct and gathers together in lucid statement much that has been thought out in theology in the past decade. It is a combination of beautiful thought, of keen insight and of one-sided and restricted views. The social aspect of the gospel has its all-important place, but other sides of the question need to be considered in a completely philosophical work.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 15 ‘18 420w
RAVAGE, MARCUS ELI. American in the making. *$1.40 (2c) Harper 17-28804
The young Rumanian who writes this “life story of an immigrant” tells us that they who know only America cannot really know America, that “only from the humble immigrant” can they learn “just what America stands for in the family of nations.” And so he tells us his story from his boyhood in Vaslui, Rumania, to his sophomore year at the University of Missouri. Mr Ravage came over in 1900 and settled among his country-people in the “Little Rumania” of New York city. He began to earn his living as a peddler, and after working in a bar-room, and a sweatshop, he succeeded in educating himself sufficiently to enter the University of Missouri, though the sweatshop, he tells us, was his first university, and his fellow toilers there gave him the first stimulus towards reading books and the first introduction to radical thought. “Nothing in the way of thought-interest was too big or too heavy for this intelligentzia of the slums.” His first year in Columbia is a lonely one, save for one friend. He goes back to New York for his vacation and lives “through the last and bitterest episode in the romance of readjustment.” One year in Missouri has made him a stranger to the East side ghetto and when he goes back to college he finds that at last the barriers are down between him and his classmates—that he is no longer “a man without a country”—he is an American.
+ A L A Bkl 14:93 D ‘17
“Mr Ravage’s story of how he became an American and why the process took so long is of especial interest and value because he brings out the non-material reasons for the difficulties in the Americanising of our newly come peoples. He makes clear the mental and spiritual non-adjustments, the constant strong pull of the old world soul. And that is something which we, with our so different heritage, find it difficult to realise.” F. F. Kelly
+ Bookm 46:330 N ‘17 450w
“But not as a portrayal of the Jewish spirit nor as a recognition of its leaven, not as a study in Americanization is this book primarily arresting. It is a remarkable sketch indeed of contacts between diverse cultures, but it is not alone an ethnological sketch; it is a picture of the life of the spirit, it is literature. In its ironic restraint and subtle interpretation the book is unsurpassed, it seems to me, in the literary art of this country.” E. C. Parsons
+ Dial 64:107 Ja 31 ‘18 2700w
“Gives the impression of being not only a more searching but a more honest account of the process of being Americanized than has been presented by any one else.”
+ Nation 105:609 N 29 ‘17 440w