Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 36)
Reading edition
“Mr Ravage’s story is full of spiritual adventure. Where have we a more illuminating picture of the motives, the pathos and the fantasy, that bring people from their remote countries to America?... Surely we have had nothing like this story of the assimilation of an eager, idealistic, floundering Rumanian youth into the light, hearty life of a mid-western state university. ... In such a career we 461see something vital being done to America by the immigrant, as well as something vigorous being done to the immigrant by America.” R. B.
+ New Repub 14:30 F 2 ‘18 900w
“There is food for thought in ‘An American in the making.’ And always there is keen interest.”
+ N Y Times 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 1350w
Pittsburgh 22:804 D ‘17 50w
“The value of this autobiography lies in the fact that the author did achieve Americanization, and from this vantage point could look back over his heartrending struggles with an eye that fully appreciated what he had lost and gained. The humor and clear-sightedness of the author, to say nothing of the colorful and stimulating style, make the book one of the most interesting products of the season.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 13 ‘17 1050w
“[His experiences] are depicted with a remarkable command of English idioms and American sense of humor.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 14:31 Ja ‘18 130w
RAWLINGS, GERTRUDE BURFORD. British museum library. il $1.25 (2½c) Wilson, H. W. 027.5 17-11000
The author says: “This essay traverses some of the ground covered by Edwards’s ‘Lives of the founders of the British museum,’ and the Reading-room manuals of Sims and Nichols all long out of print. But it has its own field, and adds a little here and there, I venture to hope, to the published history of our national library.” (Preface) The chapters take up: Steps toward a national library; The Cottonian library; The Sloane bequest; The early days of the British museum; Anthony Panizzi; Later days of the British museum; Recent history of the library; Accessions by gift, bequest or purchase; Accessions through the copyright acts; The catalogue; The subject index; Some treasures of the British museum library. The appendix gives lists of some of the official catalogs and other information.
+ Ath p32 Ja ‘17 190w
St Louis 15:355 O ‘17 20w
+ Sat R 123:15 Ja 6 ‘17 900w
“An attractive and scholarly account of the rise and progress of the great library. ... Some of the principal treasures are well described.”
+ Spec 118:176 F 10 ‘17 100w
“Without being in any sense a guide the book provides readers with a brief and well-arranged survey of the contents of the national library and of the methods of obtaining access to them.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p6 Ja 4 ‘17 700w
RAWLINSON, HUGH GEORGE. Intercourse between India and the western world from the earliest times to the fall of Rome. il *$2.25 Putnam 930 (Eng ed 16-19470)
“Professor Rawlinson has chosen a romantic subject for his book, and, within the limits he has proposed to himself, has done justice to it. Academic India is at present very busy studying the records of the earliest periods of Indian civilization, and is discovering with just pride and pleasure that the Hindu culture had much in common with the origins of the polities of western nations. ... The old Hindus were certainly daring navigators, keen traders, and colonists in distant lands. They were skilled administrators, and possessed a copious literature dealing with all the affairs of men in organized society, and lacking only in historical accounts of their own doings. The suggestion is natural that the West may owe larger debts to India than have hitherto been recognized.”—Spec
“Needed only in large or special libraries.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:348 My ‘17
“The author endeavours to give a succinct account of his subject, which has never been dealt with as a whole in any English work, although the material has been handled by a host of writers. ... The book is useful as a compendious summary, and probably may reach a second edition, when corrections such as those noted can be inserted. Others are needed.” V. A. S.
+ Eng Hist R 31:661 O ‘16 600w
“With much learning, but in a readable and agreeable style, Professor Rawlinson has pieced together our fragmentary knowledge from the foregoing and other sources. His volume is a handbook, not a compilation of original documents like the tomes of McCrindle. The extent of his citations and the account that he takes of recent studies in this by no means neglected field gives it, however, much value for reference purposes as well as for passing perusal.” E: P. Buffet
+ J Philos 14:442 Ag 2 ‘17 950w
“Those interested in the relations of East and West revived by the war will find Professor Rawlinson’s book a useful and entertaining guide to a necessary and picturesque background. ... The few errors in the book are due to the inaccessibility of a good library in India, where the author holds a chair in an Indian college.”
* + Nation 104:134 F 1 ‘17 950w
+ Pratt p41 Jl ‘17 30w
St Louis 15:377 O ‘17 10w
“Full of interesting and suggestive topics—a work that will be even more useful to Indian students than to western readers of Indian history. The book is an admirable continuation of its author’s excellent ‘Bactria: the history of a forgotten empire.’”
+ Spec 117:106 Jl 22 ‘16 430w
“If its facts were all known before, they were dispersed in a variety of books, and to bring them together into one cover is to do a service to a large number of people who would like to know the general results arrived at by research with regard to the relations of ancient India and the West, and who would be unable to consult the various books from which Professor Rawlinson draws.”
* + The Times [London] Lit Sup p268 Je 8 ‘16 2000w
REED, EDWARD BLISS. Sea moods, and other poems. *$1 Yale univ. press 811 17-25111
A handful of verse, most of which is introspective reaction to the varying moods of the sea. The writer depicts the depression of fog, the exhilaration and tonic of the blue sea, the caprice of the sea and its freedom and romance. The writer for the time being is “fisherman, hunter, and sailor, playing with dreams by the sea.”
“These poems are well done, often very well done; the finish is complete, but they are illuminated from within. They have not the spontaneity, the abandon of an overflowing impulse. They tread a bit heavily their proper metres, overladen with a too literal expression rather than with the sense and emotion and imagination of the subject. The author rises to a higher perfection in verse than in poetry. Thus what we want is not verse about the sea, but the poetry of the sea.” W. S. B.
+ — Boston Transcript p8 N 7 ‘17 300w
Dial 63:513 N 22 ‘17 30w
REED, HELEN LEAH. Memorial day, and other verse (original and translated). *75c De Wolfe & Fiske co., 20 Franklin st., Boston 811 17-23580
A little volume whose profits are to be devoted to the work of helping soldiers blinded in battle. It contains in the first part several patriotic pieces, among them “Your country and mine,” “The Harvard regiment,” “The Grand army passes” and “A Canadian trooper to his horse.” The second group is made up of lighter verse for children. The third division includes some well-known odes from Horace.
“Sincere and varied verse, unpretentious and pleasing.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 12 ‘17 720w
462“Miss Reed is not a poet of the highest flights, nor does she profess to be, but this book is thoroughly entertaining. Her expression is consciously confined; when she does write swingingly the results are less happy. Her verse is not free from faults of rhyme and meter. But the diversity of subject matter bears witness to breadth of mind.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p17 O 28 ‘17 280w
REED, HELEN LEAH. Serbia: a sketch. il $1 (5c) Serbian distress fund, 555 Boylston st., Boston 949.7 17-59
A letter from the author says that the book “aims to give the average reader a clear and concise account of Serbian history from the earliest times, with some attention to the present war.” The headings for the five sections of the book are: Serbia: starting; Serbia: singing; Serbia: seaward; Serbians; Serbia: sighing. The book was written for the benefit of the Serbian distress fund, and was first put on sale at the Allied bazaar in Boston. All proceeds from the general sale of the book also go to the relief fund.
“The book will be useful to all interested in the causes of the war. Its sale will help the Serbian fund, and it is a pleasure to recommend it most heartily, as both well-written and generally accurate.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p6 D 16 ‘16 550w
“Useful, for all its slightness, for the information it gives and the sense of personality it manages to convey.”
+ Ind 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w
REED, HOMER BLOSSER. Morals of monopoly and competition. *$1.25 Banta pub. 338 17-13289
“The author is primarily concerned in describing the evolution now taking place in the business world, ‘one of the outstanding features of which is the change from private and competitive morality to public and co-operative morality.’ He first attempts to explain why private competitive morality has been found unsatisfactory, by a detailed account of its results under the practice of railroad discriminations in the case of the Standard oil company. Secondly, he describes the solutions proposed as evolved in the court decisions concerning railroad rebates and a fair rate of return for public-service companies. Thirdly, through a criticism of these decisions, he attempts to set forth the principles established to meet the new conditions. Then, turning from public callings to private callings, he follows a similar plan in the case of the large industrial corporations. ... The general conclusion is that industrial combinations which are doing business under the law of private callings ought to be regulated under the law of public callings.”—J Pol Econ
“The author predicts that the large industrial combinations will in the course of time come to be recognized as public service corporations, and will be subjected to regulation in much the same way that the railroads now are. But he does not make his point.” Eliot Jones
— Am Econ R 7:643 S ‘17 600w
“Students of business ethics will find the new book of interest as an outline of the changes which have taken place within a comparatively few years in that field. It explains the trend of the times, and is probably more or less prophetic of future changes in the matter of the regulation of business competition.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Jl 3 ‘17 200w
+ Ind 91:134 Jl 28 ‘17 160w
Int J Ethics 27:534 Jl ‘17 160w
“Offers a clear and simple statement of the significant change that has occurred in our attitude towards ‘big business.’” B. H. Bode
+ J Philos 14:613 O 25 ‘17 350w
Reviewed by C. W. Wright
+ — J Pol Econ 25:628 Je ‘17 570w
REED, THOMAS HARRISON. Form and functions of American government. il *$1.50 (1c) World bk. 353 16-24343
“This book is the result of nine years’ experience in teaching government and a lifelong interest in politics. It is intended primarily for that great majority of high-school pupils who go no farther on the road of formal education and aims to deal with the principles of governmental organization and activity in such a way as to be a suitable basis for the most thorough high-school course in preparation for citizenship.” (Preface) The book is divided into six parts, preceded by an introductory chapter on Government, and why we study it. The six parts take up: The background of American government; Parties and elections; State government; Local government; Government of the United States; The functions of government.
“The author has shown remarkable skill in being brief without being misleading. A most commendable feature is the evolutionary or organic viewpoint, which finds consistent expression throughout.” A. B. Hall
+ Am J Soc 23:267 S ‘17 410w
“Usefully illustrated; full bibliography at chapter-ends.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:334 My ‘17
“The subject is treated from an historical point of view, but in the main each topic is brought up to date and the views are progressive throughout. ... Several errors—of fact rather than interpretation—may be noted. ... This book was in press during a period of unprecedented federal legislation, so various facts concerning the Philippine government, preparedness, military and naval academies, and the income tax are already out of date. Also, the shipping board, the farm loan board, the tariff commission, prohibition of child labor, and the inheritance tax have come into existence since the book went to press. ... There is an excellent bibliography at the end of each chapter.” F. A. Magruder
+ — Am Pol Sci R 11:164 F ‘17 800w
“An admirably stimulating text book.”
+ Cleveland p107 S ‘17 70w
“Teachers of civics who desire to make their instruction practical in the best sense of the word should not overlook this volume, for besides having the notable merit of definiteness Professor Reed’s volume is inclusive, well-proportioned, accurate, and readable.”
+ Nation 104:556 My 3 ‘17 120w
“The author of this handbook came to his task with a rather unusual equipment. A graduate of Harvard university and of the Harvard law school, he was successively a member of the bar of Massachusetts and of New York, and in 1908 was appointed to a professorship of government in the University of California. For six months in 1911 he held the office of executive secretary to Governor Johnson and in 1916 secured a leave of absence from the University to assume the duties of city manager of San José, Cal. His book, therefore, has a background of practical experience in governmental affairs.”
+ R of Rs 55:108 Ja ‘17 90w
“Among the many volumes recently put out on citizenship for school use, it is clearly one of the ablest, both in its careful preparation and clear writing. In its real appeal to the natural civic interests of the high-school student it stands alone.” R. N. Baldwin
+ Survey 37:616 F 24 ‘17 250w
REELY, MARY KATHARINE, comp. Selected articles on immigration. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 2d ed *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 325.73 17-6882
Changes in this second edition of the debaters’ handbook on immigration consist of: a revision of the bibliographies on European and Asiatic immigration, with the addition of references bringing them down to date; a revision of the section on The European war and immigration, with the addition of new reprints, and the addition of a group of references on Americanization.
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Wis Lib Bul 13:154 My ‘17 40w
REELY, MARY KATHARINE, comp. Selected articles on minimum wage. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 331.2 17-6881
This volume is an outgrowth of a pamphlet issued in 1913 in the Abridged debaters’ handbook series. Like other volumes in the series it contains briefs, bibliographies and selected reprints presenting both sides of a debatable question. The explanatory note says, “An attempt has been made to choose wisely such articles as would present the question from many points of view, that of the employer, the trade unionist, the lawyer, the economist, the social worker, etc.” Among those who argue for the minimum wage are Margaret Dreier Robins, Florence Kelley, John A. Ryan, Walter Lippmann, Sidney Webb and Louis D Brandeis. Among those opposed are John Bates Clark, F. W. Taussig, J. Laurence Laughlin, Rome G. Brown and Helen Marot. The volume is indexed.
A L A Bkl 13:334 My ‘17
Cleveland p54 Ap ‘17 40w
“An excellent handbook giving all the latest data and discussion.”
+ Ind 92:193 O 27 ‘17 20w
“The introduction, a brief sketch of the history of the minimum-wage movement, shows the compiler to be strongly in sympathy with it and to be capable of sharp criticism as regards its various phases; but the selection of articles is marked by impartiality as well as by good judgment. ... The 200 pages, including a bibliography and a good index, will be interesting and helpful not only to prospective debaters, but to the general reader desiring to get a fair impression of the considerations that have been brought to bear on this subject by representative thinkers and writers.”
+ Nation 104:556 My 3 ‘17 180w
“In her introduction to the volume the compiler makes a few very interesting observations. ... The literature on the subject is very extensive, and the compiler made use of the best that has been published. General bibliography as well as references to the material used, and a well arranged index, are included in the volume which makes it very convenient for the reader.” A. L. Trachtenberg
+ N Y Call p14 My 20 ‘17 530w
Pratt p12 O ‘17
“In all cases the material is selected with impartiality and with obvious intent to do full justice to both sides of a question.”
Springf’d Republican p17 Mr 18 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by Henrietta Walters
+ Survey 38:371 Jl 28 ‘17 100w
Wis Lib Bul 13:154 My ‘17 30w
REEMAN, EDMUND HENRY. Do we need a new idea of God. *$1 (3c) Jacobs 211 17-18044
The Rev. Edmund H. Reeman is a Unitarian minister and is at present pastor of the First Unitarian church, at Trenton, N. J. He states in his preface that “there is need for a reinterpretation of life and a restatement of religious faith in the light of democratic outreach and impulse.” His book is an attempt to turn our “thoughts away from the old ideas of God as a king upon a monarch’s throne, the remote and transcendent creator and ruler of the world and life, to the thought of God as the God of all the struggle and outreach of life—the real Life-Force of the universe and the eternal toiler in the universe,—a God who needs our strength and grit and will and courage far more than He needs our tears and our penitence.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:74 D ‘17
Cleveland p123 N ‘17 20w
“This book makes good. ... There is a striking difference between this book and the most prominent current pronouncement on the same subject—H. G. Wells’s ‘God, the invisible king.’ Both books are good on the destructive side, with the balance decidedly in favor of Wells. Constructively, however, the British writer seems, in comparison, vague, truistic, naive, and dogmatic. ... Both writers conceive of God as finite, holding up men’s hands and being held up by them, but Mr Wells is vague in differentiating God from the Life Force and maintaining his personality, while Mr Reeman is perfectly clear in identifying the two and in giving the doctrine of divine immanence a modern pragmatic meaning.”
+ Dial 63:215 S 13 ‘17 600w
“Like many other dissatisfied souls, the author finds it much more easy to point out the inadequacy of the old than to lead into positive notions of the new, but his attempt is a worthy one.”
+ — Ind 92:301 N 10 ‘17 330w
“Much that the author says is well said, and has been said as well by leaders in scientific theology. ... Evidently he has not studied the New Testament, or seen its Revised version.”
+ — Outlook 117:143 S 26 ‘17 130w
“This conception of God as the master spirit of struggle, the ‘eternal toiler’ of the universe, is shown to be in line with the facts of modern experience.”
R of Rs 56:330 S ‘17 120w
REEVE, ARTHUR BENJAMIN.[2] Adventuress. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-30121
Marshall Maddox, head of “Maddox munitions, incorporated,” is murdered and the model of the telautomaton, a wonderful war invention is stolen from his safe. Craig Kennedy, “scientific detective,” well known to Mr Reeve’s readers, is put in charge of the case. Several other members of the Maddox family enter into the story. The adventuress is Paquita, a little Mexican dancer in whom Marshall Maddox has been interested.
“From the very first page, where the story opens with the crack of a revolver shot, the reader is taken along through mystery, exciting adventures and deep-laid plots. The story is interesting from its many human aspects.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 2 ‘18 310w
N Y Times 22:538 D 9 ‘17 340w
REEVE, ARTHUR BENJAMIN. Treasure train. il *$1.35 (1½c) Harper 17-15286
A dozen stories, adventures of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, who, by means of chemical analysis or some curiously and delicately devised instrument, gets at the truth of a crime and rounds up the criminal. The crimes uncovered by his laboratory methods of investigation are of the subtlest order. Some involve the use of deadly toxins,—muscarin, digitalis, and abrin from the Hindu prayer-bean which resembles snake-venom. Some cases introduce deadly gas, deadly germs and dum-dummed poisoned bullets. For every mystery there is a quick and sure solution, the way to which comes spontaneously forth from the laboratory-trained mind of this calm, clear-headed detective.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 46:342 N ‘17 30w
“When one considers how closely the author follows the same general formula in constructing each story, the amount of variety in them is rather surprising.”
+ N Y Times 22:238 Je 24 ‘17 180w
REEVES, FRANCIS BREWSTER. Russia then and now, 1892-1917. il *$1.50 Putnam 914.7 17-13230
In 1892 the author was sent to Russia in charge of the cargo sent by the Philadelphia relief committee to the famine sufferers. In this book he gives an account of his mission, illustrating it with photographs taken at the time. To give contrasting descriptions of modern 464Russia, he quotes from the writings of others, including two articles by Margaret Wintringer on the abolition of vodka.
“The book takes on the nature of a pleasing memorial of a worthy charity and is hardly more than that.”
Boston Transcript p6 Jl 11 ‘17 220w
“Mr Reeves has made a pleasant and appropriate memorial of an incident in the friendly relations that have long existed between the United States and Russia, but he leaves unsatisfied those readers who expect any analysis or interpretation of Russia, or the Russians, then or now.”
– + Dial 63:535 N 22 ‘17 180w
“It is in the appendix to the book that we find the most useful information concerning conditions in Russia since the war began and before the Czar’s abdication. This for the most part consists of extracts from newspaper articles by other hands, and gives a fairly complete basis for contemporary judgment. Of these articles the most valuable is the paper on ‘Russia’s future needs for capital,’ by Samuel McRoberts, vice president of the National city bank of New York city.”
+ N Y Times 22:221 Je 10 ‘17 350w
“The book contains nothing of consequence about Russia now, and the author saw, or at least realized very little about the bureaucracy of Russia then.”
Outlook 116:116 My 16 ‘17 80w
REID, FORREST. Spring song. *$1.40 (2c) Houghton 17-8741
Four of the Westons were ordinary children. First there was Edward, something of a fop, then Barbara, a trifle priggish, then Ann, always out of breath, but so warm-hearted and kind, and last, there was Jim, a jolly little boy with a fondness for riddles. It was Grif who was different. Grif sees and hears things of which the others are never aware. He is sensitive to influences that never touch his brothers and sisters. In this story he is brought to the verge of a mental and physical breakdown by contact with a morbid and unbalanced mind. The nature of Grif’s illness puzzles everyone, but his healing is finally brought about most simply and beautifully.
“The children are well drawn, but the book will have only a limited appeal.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:406 Je ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 45:314 My ‘17 350w
+ Boston Transcript p7 Mr 21 ‘17 570w
“A heart-breaking little tale. ... And its poignancy lies in the fineness and restraint of feeling that differentiate it from the coarsely and slushily sentimental child-literature which so often appears to be ‘what the people want.’”
+ Nation 104:760 Je 28 ‘17 450w
“Very moving and imaginative study of the most moving of all living things: childhood laid upon the rude sacrificial stone of adolescence, and quivering to its death.” H. W. Boynton
+ Nation 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w
“The descriptions of the English countryside are very lovely, and the story holds the reader’s interest firmly from beginning to end. There is about it nothing slovenly or unfinished; the author has the artist’s instinct, the artist’s loving care, and the result is a book of distinction and charm.”
+ N Y Times 22:47 F 11 ‘17 400w
“More than half of Mr Forrest Reid’s story is a pure delight: the rest makes for what we are old-fashioned enough to think unnecessary sadness. ... The story of the clouding of an innocent but highly strung mind is not as horrible as that of ‘The two magics’, but it is painful.”
+ — Spec 118:48 Ja 13 ‘17 450w
“There are few contemporary stories of childhood reaching the artistic height of ‘The spring song.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Je 24 ‘17 380w
“There are a number of very amusing scenes in the book, and the children’s characters, especially Jim and Ann are delightfully drawn. ... But the author’s intentness on the pursuing nightmare robs the later part of the book of some balance, until Grif’s delusions appear real against a rather shadowy background.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p536 N 9 ‘16 400w
REID, SIR GEORGE HOUSTON. My reminiscences. il *16s Cassell & co., London
“Scottish by birth and ancestry, an emigrant to Australia in 1852, and later a successful barrister, prime minister of New South Wales, premier of the Commonwealth of Australia, first high commissioner for the commonwealth and now independent imperialist member of Parliament for St George’s, Hanover square, the author of this autobiography has had an active, eventful, and distinguished career, and has rendered many valuable public services. Much of the volume is concerned with Australian politics. ... The author relates several amusing incidents.”—Ath
+ Ath p313 Je ‘17 250w
“As a summary of leading figures and measures in Australia it is of value, but outside of politics it is dull.”
+ — Sat R 123:437 My 12 ‘17 500w
“Of Lord Kitchener he says: ‘When he spoke his words were few and distinct. Some thought him cold-hearted, and so he was when he was dealing with incompetents and offenders. But his was a warm heart, all the same. He was the only man in England who used to greet me with, “Hullo, old man!” I used to feel that such a greeting meant that he thought me fit for my job.’”
+ Spec 118:519 My 5 ‘17 1750w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p202 Ap 26 ‘17 60w
“It contains too many technical and statistical passages to be read eagerly by the untraveled Englishman. It has no pretension to be a history of Australia; but it presupposes in the reader a considerable familiarity with that history, for it is mainly concerned with the mechanical progress of political measures and not with the physical and social conditions that made them opportune or expedient.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p206 My 3 ‘17 1100w
REINHARDT, CHARLES WILLIAM. Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students. 14th ed rev and enl il *$1 Van Nostrand 745 17-8375
“More than twenty years of use under all sorts of conditions have proved the value of Reinhardt’s ‘Lettering.’ ... In the preface to the first edition the author stated that, while there were then many books that dealt with ornamental lettering, there was none which treated the art ‘from a purely practical viewpoint.’ To make good so great a lack, he set forth simply and clearly a very practical method of producing most effective results in freehand lettering of working drawings. ... The present edition has been given ‘a more rounded aspect,’ to quote from the preface, by supplying such apparent omissions as an analysis of the Greek alphabet, methods of laying out and constructing titles and by adding some practice sheets.”—Engin News-Rec
+ Engin News-Rec 78:153 Ap 19 ‘17 150w
+ Pittsburgh 22:463 My ‘17 50w
St Louis 15:176 Je ‘17
+ School Arts Magazine 16:396 My ‘17 120w
REISS, RODOLPHE ARCHIBALD. Report upon the atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian army during the first invasion of Serbia; English tr. by F. S. Copeland. il 5s Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-20123)
“This is a translation of the report submitted to the Serbian government by Dr R. A. Reiss, of the University of Lausanne. This material is 465said to have been gathered on the spot during the months of September, October, and November, 1914.”—R of Rs
Ind 88:284 N 13 ‘16 80w
R of Rs 54:573 N ‘16 40w
“The publication in this country of the work entitled ‘Austro-Hungarian atrocities’ is calculated to give a severe shock to those Englishmen who, whilst condemning and regretting Austrian policy, still preserve feelings of friendship towards the Austrians. It is a chronicle of horrors no less ghastly than that recorded by the responsible authorities of France, Great Britain, and Belgium who have inquired into the conduct pursued elsewhere by the ruthless and treaty-breaking ally of Austria.” [Earl of] Cromer
Spec 117:583 N 11 ‘16 2150w
RELTON, HERBERT M. Study in Christology; the problem of the relation of the two natures in the person of Christ. *$2.50 Macmillan 232
“In ‘A study in Christology’ Dr H. M. Relton sets out the various ways in which men have attempted to describe the person of Christ, giving prominence to a theory propounded by Leontius of Byzantium in the first half of the sixth century. His contribution to the Christological problem is found in the doctrine of the Enhypostasia. ... Leontius offered the theory that the human nature of Christ was not without hypostasis, but became hypostatic in the person of the Logos. ... Dr Relton sets out the implications of this way of accounting for the person of Christ, and pleads that it answers to the demands of modern thought more successfully than various recent theories. ... The second part of the treatise deals with the analysis of human nature in the light of modern psychology and the analysis of the divine nature as manifested in revelation. The author then considers the relationship between the human and the divine as revealed by religious experience, and shows how this helps us to penetrate deeper into the mystery of the person of Christ. The third division of the book considers various modern attempts at Christological reconstruction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Reviewed by James Moffat
+ Hibbert J 15:679 Jl ‘17 140w
N Y Br Lib News 4:95 Je ‘17
“As we should expect in a thesis approved for the D.D. degree in the University of London, the work is a learned and technical study in theology; but the problems discussed are stated with precision and clearness, and no reader interested in the subject with which it deals need fear that he may not be able to follow with advantage the arguments of the author.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p137 Mr 22 ‘17 580w
RENDALL, VERNON HORACE. London nights of Belsize. *$1.40 (2½c) Lane 17-20181
This story deals with “the unraveling of mysteries and the detection of crime by the non-professional expert,” but “Christopher Belsize was much more than a criminal investigator. He was a millionaire, to begin with. He was also a scholar, deeply versed in oriental lore; a collector, bibliophile, and a purchaser of libraries, who kept his purchases dark; and, for the rest, a young man who loved to play the part of Haroun-al-Raschid, and was possessed with a faculty of accurate and precise deduction which was indistinguishable from clairvoyance. He was recklessly generous, magnanimous, and (incidentally) benevolent. ... Being destitute of ordinary ambition, Christopher’s motive was rather the desire to ‘live dangerously.’ He asked for trouble, but he was so magnificently equipped that he seldom came to grief. Besides, on the advice of his eccentric uncle, he had practised revolver-shooting to good purpose, and—also on the advice of that mysterious relative—he had made a devoted slave of his body servant, Smith, an ex-burglar and pugilist.” (Spec)
+ — Ath p363 Jl ‘17 100w
“The good detective story is never out of style, but ‘The London nights of Belsize’ is even better than good, for it is different.”
+ Dial 63:593 D 6 ‘17 80w
+ N Y Times 22:469 N 11 ‘17 410w
“The author has a wit and originality of his own. His book is ingenious, imaginative, whimsical. Conceived on popular lines, it is written with the fastidious taste of a scholar.”
+ Sat R 123:504 Je 2 ‘17 650w
“‘Belsize as a commentator’ is a tour de force of ironic criticism at the expense of Sherlock Holmes. But, on the whole, we like him best when he is most irresponsible, as in the delightful extravaganza of ‘The young man and the “happy” shop’—an admirable satire on the gullibility of the reading public and the methods of reviewers; or ‘The post-prandial peculiars,’ in which Belsize, disguised as a working man, is entertained by a millionaire. ... Mr Rendall has proved that the charm of sensational fiction is greatly enhanced when the author possesses style, scholarship, and wit. The stories in themselves are not above the comprehension of the average reader, but the literary bravura of their presentation will attract an esoteric audience. In fine, Mr Vernon Rendall has killed two birds with one stone.”
+ + Spec 118:645 Je 9 ‘17 900w
“He becomes too much of the detective and too little of the adventurer and taster of life. ... Belsize is too good for the work to which Mr Rendall has put him, difficult and dangerous though that may have been.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p248 My 24 ‘17 460w
RESSÉGUIER, ROGER MARIA HERMANN BERNARD, graf. Francis Joseph and his court. il *$2.50 (2½c) Lane 17-30309
The author of the memoirs from which Mr Herbert Vivian has made selections is the son of Francis Joseph’s court chamberlain. His mother had been a lady in waiting to the Empress Sophia, mother of Francis Joseph, and some of her stories of earlier court life are embodied in these memoirs. The tragedy of Maximilian I and the mysterious death of Archduke Rudolph are among the subjects covered.
“Those who had previously retained any optimistic illusions about the high family of Hapsburgs, of which the Emperor Francis Joseph was the decorative head, are doomed to lose them after reading the data Mr Vivian has selected.” F. B.
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 21 ‘17 770w
+ Outlook 117:574 D 5 ‘17 70w
Retreat from Mons. *50c (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-19810
This brief but detailed and somewhat technical account of the “Retreat from Mons” is apparently the first of a series of little books on the Operations of the British army in the present war. Field-Marshal French, in his preface, points out that the demoralization which usually accompanies a retreat was conspicuous by its non-existence.
A L A Bkl 14:90 D ‘17
“The author has been careful to put down as fact only what has been proved upon reliable authority to be true. In this way he leaves the controversy which rages concerning the early weeks of the war, to the controversial, and his summary of the facts will not be inconsistent with history as it is finally written.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 12 ‘17 260w
Cleveland p1 Ja ‘18 50w
“Beneath the superstructure of official facts one glimpses heroism and sacrifice the details of which will never be known, but which distinguish the retreat above many engagements that history will note more carefully.”
+ Dial 63:410 O 25 ‘17 120w
466“The semi-official little volume admits records are still clouded concerning the actions of Maroilles and Le Cateau.”
+ — Ind 91:352 S 1 ‘17 100w
“It is solely a military history and so makes no account of picturesque incidents or pathetic or tragic happenings.”
+ N Y Times 22:323 S 2 ‘17 440w
St Louis 15:418 D ‘17 10w
REY, JEAN ALEXANDRE. Range of electric searchlight projectors; tr. by J. H. Johnson. il $4.50 Van Nostrand 623.731 ES17-91
The translator in his preface points out that there is no modern and original work in English treating the subject covered by this book. The present importance of the subject has induced him to make a translation of this French work for the benefit of English readers. The author’s introduction says, “I have endeavoured to sum up the methods for range measurement, and, with the assistance of much information not previously published, the solution of the problem if not entirely elucidated, is at least advanced from a practical point of view.” The subject is treated in two parts: Illumination by electric searchlight projectors; Range of electric searchlight projectors. The French bibliography is included and the work is indexed.
“The book will not be found particularly easy for the untechnical reader, but the charts and tables are of exceptional value, although their use is not always quite obvious without pretty careful study of the text. The volume is certainly a most timely one and should prove invaluable to students of artillery practice.”
+ — Elec W 70:1062 D 1 ‘17 570w
“Altogether this is a very valuable and practical book. ... Mr Johnson has done his work of translation well.”
+ — Engineer 124:59 Jl 20 ‘17 1400w
“The work will prove of great value to engineer officers.”
+ — Nature 99:402 Jl 19 ‘17 420w
N Y P L New Tech Bks p17 Jl ‘17 80w
REYNOLDS, GERTRUDE M. (ROBINS) (MRS LOUIS BAILLIE REYNOLDS). Castle to let. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-23550
A wild and romantic spot in Hungary is the scene of this story. Camiola France, a young English girl, has come to the place to visit a school friend. It is far off the beaten track of travel, and its one tourist hotel had been closed some years before after the inexplicable disappearance of a party of guests. There are weird tales afloat of a dragon—and there is an old prophecy concerning a fair-haired dragon slayer that seems about to be fulfilled. These mysteries fascinate Camiola, and as she is mistress of her own fortune, she promptly leases the ancient mountain castle that has stood empty for years, invites to it a party of her friends, and starts to investigate the mystery. The fair-haired young guide who acts as her companion in her search begins shortly to have for Camiola a personal interest. She is amazed at herself, and ashamed—but all this, as it happens, is part of the working out of the prophecy.
“The book is well written, the descriptions of scenery are good, and there is plenty of interest in the characters.”
+ Ath p528 O ‘17 80w
Cleveland p3 Ja ‘18 50w
“It is a book entirely of incident—a thriller for the movie-minded.”
+ — Dial 63:598 D 6 ‘17 80w
“A delightfully romantic story.”
+ Spec 119:331 S 9 ‘17 30w
“Mrs Reynolds very skilfully balances the reader’s interest between the romance, which is of the conventionally unconventional sort, and the other elements of the situation.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 170w
+ – The Times [London] Lit Sup p431 S 6 ‘17 110w
RHODES, JAMES EDWARD. Workmen’s compensation. *$1.50 Macmillan 331.25 17-18174
“This book sets forth in a style which can be easily understood by any intelligent reader the development, in this country, of the movement for compensating workmen who suffer accident in industry. It describes also the basic principles underlying compensation insurance. Inasmuch as the problems resulting from industrial accidents arose in Europe much earlier than in this country, a summary is presented, at first, of the distinctive features of the English and German methods of handling the question. This is followed by a discussion of the development of the agitation in the United States, covering the first decade of the twentieth century. ... In the appendix is found an outline of the history of the movement which resulted in the laws of New York state, the standards for sound workmen’s compensation laws recommended by the American association for labor legislation, and a brief digest of the various laws in force in each state at the end of 1916. At the close of each chapter there is a list of references covering the literature upon the main topics discussed, and at the end of the volume is a general bibliography of ten pages.” (Nation) “The author is a claim examiner in the compensation and liability department of a large insurance company.” (R of Rs)
“The demand for a concise and logical account of the movement for workmen’s compensation, and of the principles involved, is not adequately met by this volume; though its excellent forward-looking spirit, its satisfactory index, and its pretty full bibliography combine with the presentation of much material of interest and value to offset in a large degree the defects noted.” L. D. Clark
* – + Am Econ R 17:908 D ‘17 1150w
“Because of the simple non-technical presentation of the subject the book is well suited both for the student who wants a general survey of the history and principles of workmen’s compensation without too much local and detailed study, and for the special student who needs a guide for further reading and research.” R. W: Foley
+ Am J Soc 23:552 Ja ‘18 250w
“No better or more readable summary of the whole subject can be found anywhere than that which this volume places at the disposal of its readers.”
+ Am Pol Sci R 11:792 N ‘17 110w
“This book presents a careful statement of the background and fundamentals of compensation and of its present status in the United States which should be useful as a basis for more detailed study or for a general survey of the problem. Particularly valuable are the illustrative cases and the brief digest of the essential points of laws now in force.” R. H. B.
+ Ann Am Acad 74:297 N ‘17 110w
“The book will be found extremely useful by the reader who desires to get a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the essentials of workmen’s compensation. Chapter 6 on the constitutionality of compensation legislation is a good example of the author’s ability to present clearly within a brief compass all the important elements of a complex situation.”
+ Cath World 106:256 N ‘17 260w
Cleveland p123 N ‘17 30w
“The book is carefully documented in relation to legal decisions.”
+ Ind 92:109 O 13 ‘17 40w
Reviewed by E. S. Gray
+ J Pol Econ 25:1049 D ‘17 380w
“The book is a most timely contribution to the literature of workmen’s compensation, and will be welcomed by a wide range of readers, including business men, students, and teachers of insurance, and intelligent general readers, as well.”
+ Nation 105:268 S 6 ‘17 420w
“The book can be heartily recommended to any serious minded wage-worker who wants to 467get a clear idea of the possibilities of social legislation as demonstrated in one, perhaps narrow, branch of it.” R.
+ N Y Call p18 D 15 ‘17 700w
“One valuable chapter deals with the social aspects. This will appeal to the non-technical reader by its method of treatment.”
+ Outlook 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 50w
R of Rs 56:441 O ‘17 150w
“Mr Rhodes takes an extremely broad subject and skilfully condenses it into compact form.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 2 ‘18 360w
“Mr Rhodes has filled a timely need. ... However, in valuing his discussion of state and stock company insurance, the author’s insurance connections must be borne in mind.” Irene Sylvester
+ — Survey 39:46 O 13 ‘17 300w
RHODES, JAMES FORD. History of the Civil war, 1861-1865. *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 973.7 17-30046
Not a condensation of the author’s three volumes on the Civil war in his “History of the United States” but a fresh study which makes use of the large amount of material on that period which has come to light in recent years. Good maps and an index are included with the text.
“An excellent and readable history.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:162 F ‘18
“The student of war politics and of mid-century American diplomacy will find much to interest him in several of the chapters, for the volume is not, as its title might imply, a mere narrative of military operations. It is a discussion of national life in all its phases during a great and critical period of American history.”
+ Am Pol Sci R 12:158 F ‘18 100w
“Like its predecessors, it is unusually well provided with a list of the best authorities, an ample table of contents, and a very complete index. In general, Mr Rhodes’s historical work has the distinction of frequent citations from the sources interwoven with his text, and a style uniformly clear, dignified and familiar.” L. E. Robinson
+ Bookm 46:592 Ja ‘18 1750w
“Dr Rhodes here and there writes of certain episodes in greater detail than before; but in other places his lack of such detail is disappointing.”
+ — Boston Transcript p4 D 15 ‘17 570w
“The necessity of compression in putting the history of the Civil war into a single volume has made impossible the extensive use of [the method employed in his larger work]. But the author’s notable faculty of summarizing without leaving out the spirit, the life, and the color of events, and the fact that he wrote out of a reservoir of knowledge of just such intimate revelations of the life of the time infuse his narrative with unusual power to re-create the time of which he writes.”
+ N Y Times 22:494 N 25 ‘17 1350w
“We now have in one volume of moderate compass, handsomely printed, a work on the Civil war which contains precisely what every American should know, presented with scholarship and yet always in readable style and manner.”
+ Outlook 117:653 D 19 ‘17 110w
“The author everywhere shows the most absolute impartiality. ... Mr Rhodes writes in his usual clear and pleasing style.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 D 14 ‘17 500w
RICE, ALICE CALDWELL (HEGAN) (MRS CALE YOUNG RICE). Calvary alley. il *$1.35 (1½c) Century 17-26784
Nance Molloy lived with Mr and Mrs Snawdor, her step-father and step-mother, in Calvary alley, near the cathedral. The book tells how she grew up, how she became successively a “finisher” of pants, a factory hand, a companion to an old lady, a chorus girl, a stenographer, and a trained nurse, and how she fell in love with one of the two men who cared most for her—Dan Lewis, the factory hand, and “Mac” Clarke, whose father owned the bottle factory. Two older men who influence her life are Uncle Jed, her self-appointed guardian, and old Mr Demorest, who played the violin and taught Nance to dance.
“A pleasing story, with nice human touches that will make it popular.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:61 N ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 46:340 N ‘17 40w
“Not since Mrs Wiggs has Mrs Rice given us a book so rich in her warm humanity, her whimsicality and her catholic fondness for varieties of types as we find ‘Calvary alley.’ Yet it hints of bigger things than did Mrs Wiggs.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p8 O 31 ‘17 1250w
“The story is interesting, wholesome, and very likable.”
+ Lit D 55:36 O 27 ‘17 270w
“While ‘Calvary Alley’ has no very serious pretensions and is written in a light and entertaining style, it does sincerely reflect a certain phase of American life.” M. G. S.
+ N Y Call p15 F 9 ‘18 270w
“Mildly humorous, less crude, in its optimism than is most of its author’s work, and has quite a good deal of variety in its scenes and characters. Mrs Snawdor, Nancy’s stepmother, is a real and entertaining person.”
+ N Y Times 22:366 S 30 ‘17 600w
“Once in a great while one runs across a truly vital heroine in fiction—a girl who lives and moves like a real being. Such a heroine is Nance Molloy.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 25 ‘17 360w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p507 O 18 ‘17 130w
RICE, CALE YOUNG. Trails sunward. *$1.25 Century 811 17-10356
This new volume of poems has a brief preface in which Mr Rice discusses recent trends in poetry. “Never has poetry tried so hard to be prose as at the present time in America,” he says, and he adds that the apparent revival of interest in poetry may be of brief duration. “No poetic public will long give attention to a realism which makes the mistake, common to all shallow realism, of neglecting passion, imagination, charm and nearly all the permanent qualities of any true poetry.” Among the poems included in the collection are: The trail from the sea; The chant of the Colorado; Mountains in the Grand Canyon; Hafiz at forty; a group of Songs to A.H.R., and a group of “Metaphysical sonnets.”
A L A Bkl 14:15 O ‘17
Ind 91:108 Jl 21 ‘17 170w
“Even in our day Mr Rice has the eccentricity of writing like a gentleman. ... I rarely use the term ‘sublimity,’ yet in touches of ‘The foreseers,’ particularly in its cavern-set opening, I should say that Mr Rice had scaled that eminence.” O. W. Firkins
+ — Nation 105:401 O 11 ‘17 380w
N Y Br Lib News 4:78 My ‘17
+ N Y Times 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 470w
“The years have increased his power to write exceptionally beautiful lyrics of perfect melody.”
+ R of Rs 55:660 Je ‘17 80w
St Louis 15:183 Je ‘17
“In a day of petty heresies, Mr Rice stands forth as a declared champion of orthodoxy.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 Je 17 ‘17 200w
RICE, GRANTLAND, ed. Boys’ book of sports. il *$2 (1½c) Century 796 17-25763
The selections in this volume have been chosen “from the best sporting stories that St Nicholas has produced in the last twenty years.” They include descriptive articles, among them a series on baseball by Billy Evans, a special article on pitching by Christy Mathewson, articles on football by Parke H. Davis, golf by Francis Ouimet, and tennis by 468J. Parmly Paret. In addition there are short stories by Leslie W. Quirk, Ralph Henry Barbour and others.
A L A Bkl 14:174 F ‘18
“Boys of ten to any age will enjoy this collection.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 10 ‘17 40w
“It is an encyclopedia, a treasury of outdoor tactics and accomplishment. Everything you want to know about things in the open, from fishing to aeroplaning, is here.”
+ Lit D 55:57 D 8 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by H. B. Nagler
+ N Y Call p14 D 8 ‘17 290w
RICE, GRANTLAND.[2] Songs of the stalwart. *$1 Appleton 811 17-29998
The author who is known as a writer on outdoor sports appears in this book of poems in a new guise. Songs of somewhere back; Songs of courage; Songs of the off-trail; Songs of the game; and Songs above the drumfire, compose the contents. There is an appreciative foreword by Irvin S. Cobb.
“One would almost say that his art, simple, glowing and precise as it is, was altogether too fine for some of his themes and subjects; but this is not so, because nothing is too common for the spirit of poetry to light and reveal. This book is literature, an honor to the man who made it, and a delight to the reader who receives it. And Mr Rice stands quite alone in his achievement.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 2 ‘18 430w
+ Lit D 55:30 D 22 ‘17 140w
“Irvin Cobb writes: ‘One of these days they are going to elect a successor to the late James Whitcomb Riley as the most typical writer of homely, gentle American verse. I have my candidate picked out. His name is Grantland Rice.’”
+ R of Rs 57:106 Ja ‘18 130w
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 11 ‘18 350w
RICE, WILLIAM NORTH. Return to faith, and other addresses. *75c Abingdon press 16-23597
“This slim little book, five addresses in all, taking title from the first, [does not present] the return to faith as due to many remarkable verifications in newly found records, of old traditions, nor to geological evidence that the biblical order of creation, interpreting a ‘day’ as this or that number of thousands of years, is now found scientific, nor to any similar finding of pseudo-scientific abracadabra. The return to faith is due to a belief in the man Jesus.”—Dial
“Dr Rice represents the higher religious convictions of most liberal Christians. His book is remarkable for the unconditional and intelligent acceptance of science with all its implications. There is no string either to his science or to his religion.”
+ Dial 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 240w
Springf’d Republican p17 Jl 8 ‘17 130w
RICHARD, PAUL. To the nations. *$1 (8c) Pond 172.4 17-10558
This little book, translated from the French, with an introduction by Rabindranath Tagore, sets forth a view of the war as a conflict which the old social order is waging against itself. “The war has a purpose, even if the belligerents have none. It has a purpose to which none of them would care to attain, but which all will be forced to realize at last. This purpose is very simple: the old evil must be destroyed down to its root, the old foundations of the life of the people must be torn up, and replaced by the foundations of a better and truer civilization.” Revolutions are predicted for every country in Europe, altho the author hesitated to say which would be first. In the second part of the book he discusses the new ideals that must guide the reorganized nations.
RICHARDS, H. GRAHAME. Shadows. *$1.40 (1½c) Dodd
The novel ends under the shadow of the war, and the later chapters are in striking contrast to the peaceful scenes of the beginning. A quiet neighborhood in Wales is the setting. A small group of children, with Hilda and Gwaine Brennan and Ronald Clinton as its center, are the characters. Hilda is the beautiful one of the two, but Ronald never wavers in his devotion to Gwaine, his little comrade. There is a long separation, however, when, after a disagreement with his grandfather, he goes to London to earn his living as a writer. The war comes and he enlists as a private and the reconciliation with his grandfather and his return to Gwaine come only after the fierce and bitter experiences of the first months of the war. These scenes are made very real, and Hilda’s fate, a minor incident in the tragedy, helps bring home the far-reaching consequences of war.
“In later chapters of the book we have some of the most vivid descriptions of battle which have found their way into fiction. It is first hand description, we imagine.”
Boston Transcript p7 Je 16 ‘17 250w
“One of those books which just fail to attain excellence—and only just. A few improvements and it would become a really notable novel. There is in it much of charm, of feeling, of human quality. ... But every now and then comes a false note, a note which jangles, jarring upon the reader’s every nerve.”
N Y Times 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 500w
RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).[2] Abigail Adams and her times. il *$1.35 Appleton 17-30245
“Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, and hence the first mistress of the White House. But even if she had never had a part in official life, she was one of the most interesting women of her time and well deserves a biography. Mrs Richards tells the story of her childhood and later life from the diaries and letters that were written by her, and which deal with much of the real history of the period. Mrs Richards is a daughter of the late Julia Ward Howe.”—R of Rs
Lit D 56:35 Ja 12 ‘18 270w
+ Lit D 56:38 Ja 26 ‘18 80w
“A fascinating story of colonial times; fascinating to those who are interested in the details which make up the major part of all human lives, but are absent from most histories. The author has shown both skill and discretion in keeping herself in the background and composing her story mostly of the diary of the husband and the letters of the wife. The biography is almost an autobiography.”
+ Outlook 117:614 D 12 ‘17 80w
R of Rs 57:100 Ja ‘18 80w
“The book is offered as of special interest to girls; it surely has the qualities of a successful appeal to a far larger constituency.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 1 ‘18 290w
RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE). Elizabeth Fry—the angel of the prisons. il *$1.25 Appleton 16-19822
“How Elizabeth Fry by the simplest beginnings wakened England at the commencement of the last century to the horrors of the prison system is told by Laura A. Richards in a short life written for girls. The ‘angel of the prisons’ was one of a noted family, the Gurneys of Earlham, ‘gay Quakers’ whose household of young folk was a merry one.” (Ind) “The book is largely composed of extracts from the journals of Elizabeth Fry and her sisters, which account for the vividness of the picture it gives.” (Survey)
+ A L A Bkl 13:270 Mr ‘17
“The pleasant style of the connecting narrative and the vitality and humor of the original 469material will establish this biography as a rival of the author’s ‘Florence Nightingale’ in its interest for young people.”
+ Cleveland p160 D ‘16 50w
“An inspiring book.”
+ Ind 88:405 D 4 ‘16 70w
Pittsburgh 22:670 O ‘17 40w
St Louis 14:441 D ‘16
“The utter inability of the reader to tell how much of this book is fact and how much is Mrs Richards’ is its chief defect. My guess is that it will entrance many a child and tell him absorbing things that he will not learn in his school history.” W. D. L.
+ — Survey 38:76 Ap 21 ‘17 230w
“A popular, entertainingly written biography, designed for young girls. It is, however, less suitable for the youthful than for the adult mind because of the introspective nature of Mrs Fry’s journals, and the unfamiliar people and customs to which there is frequent reference.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:125 Ap ‘17 30w
RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE). Pippin, a wandering flame. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-9251
“Pippin is, indeed, a queer name for a boy, but, inasmuch as he has never known any other, that is the only one he is called. His story is the unusual one of an orphan boy, brought up in the underworld, instructed in all its vices by expert teachers, and his ultimate imprisonment for three years. The larger part of the book is concerned mostly with Pippin after his release from prison, where he has gotten religion and ‘found the Lord.’ His genial personality, brought out by the humane and intelligent prison chaplain, and his beautiful singing voice win for him many kind, helpful friends and a lovely bride. The story ends just as it should, with Pippin and his bride sitting down with friends to a merry wedding breakfast.”—N Y Call
“Pleasant and harmless.”
A L A Bkl 13:406 Je ‘17
“Of Mrs Richards’s many charming stories none is more so than this. Its unquenchable optimism and sincerity warms one’s heart.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 20 ‘17 280w
“While this book may be read and appreciated by adults, we feel reasonably sure that it will appeal greatly to thirteen or fourteen year old youngsters, who will follow the experiences and successes of the hero, Pippin, with much interest.” M. G. S.
+ N Y Call p14 My 20 ‘17 190w
“The book is cheery and sweet without being sentimentalized. It is a ‘story,’ of course—not a piece of ‘gripping realism.’ But as a story it is wholesome and often unusual, and it is thoroughly readable.”
+ N Y Times 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 420w
“The spirit of moral uplift runs riot in ‘Pippin.’ The story is told in a partly illiterate jargon that frequently wearies the reader, and with an excess of sentimentality. But Pippin’s adventures have a measure of interest, and his optimism is engaging.”
– + Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 19 ‘17 280w
Wis Lib Bul 13:159 My ‘17 70w
RICHARDSON, DOROTHY M. Pilgrimage: Backwater. *$1.35 Knopf
“In ‘Backwater’ Miss Dorothy Richardson continues the life story of a young English girl which she began in ‘Pointed roofs.’ Miriam Henderson was then—many years before the war—a teacher in a German school in Hanover. She is now home in England. She is just eighteen, ‘has put up her hair to-day’ in preparation for her career as a resident governess in a school for the daughters of gentlemen. ... Miriam’s is not a very large world, with its family of sisters, their chaff and slang and raptures, their music and books and friends and lovers. ... Nor is there much incident in it—the last gay little dance before the crash, the few weeks’ seaside holiday at Brighton, the visit to the Crystal palace on firework night, and the raw, noisy, suburban routine at Wordsworth house. ... Miss Richardson’s tacit but essential assumption is that life is an intensely real and rich, a desperately complex and wonderful, experience, however commonplace its circumstances may be.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Miss Richardson promises to be a writer of unusual power, a little too consciously clever, perhaps, but one to whom we may look for work of real value.”
+ Dial 62:483 My 31 ‘17 200w
“Our interest in the book, which is considerable, would be increased if it were more coherent. The author has a curious gift of vision, and it is this that makes her heroine real and attractive, in spite of whimsies. ... The author’s subtlety is over-strained now and again, but it includes some acute criticism of life.”
+ — Sat R 122:138 Ag 5 ‘16 320w
“This novel is a piece of the purest and, in a sense, barest impressionism. If in its steady obedience to its chosen truth it fails, as we think it will sometimes fail, to convince its readers of its verisimilitude, then so far that impressionism has defeated itself. ... But such systematic sincerity as Miss Richardson’s is a profound and affecting thing to share in.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p358 Jl 27 ‘16 500w
RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL, pseud. (MRS JOHN G. ROBERTSON). Fortunes of Richard Mahony. *$1.50 (1c) Holt 17-23332
“This is a study of a man of reserved, though lovable disposition. We first meet him as a storekeeper in Ballarat [Australia] during the gold craze. Later he makes a success as a doctor; and finally we leave him on his way to England, still in search of an environment suited to his character.” (Ath) “The English edition, issued by William Heinemann, who has evident and steadfast faith in this writer, indicates that Henry Handel Richardson is the author of ‘Maurice Guest’ and ‘The getting of wisdom,’ and that ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ is only the first novel in a series; Book 1 of ‘Australia Felix.’” (Bookm)
“Good descriptions of Australia sixty years ago.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:133 Ja ‘18
Ath p47 Ja ‘18 60w
“‘Maurice Guest’ and ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ are two books that discriminating readers should know, and ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ is a name that, long since known on the continent, through the various translations of ‘Maurice Guest,’ should not any longer be unknown to America.” Edna Kenton
+ Bookm 46:580 Ja ‘18 1850w
“The faults and merits of ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony,’ are so evenly balanced that it is not nearly so distinguished as if it were a little better or a little worse. ... There are few stories beyond those of the ‘Boy bush-ranger’ type which deal with life on the Ballarat goldfields in the ‘50s; so Mr Richardson’s treatment of this subject in the manner of the twentieth century realist is by no means unacceptable on the score of novelty. Richard Mahony is himself a creation to be proud of, a character but never a caricature.” J. F. S.
+ — Boston Transcript p6 O 3 ‘17 700w
“As a satire, in historical perspective, on the pedestrian soul of the mid-Victorian young gentleman, it would be fairly amusing. But its author is not satirical.”
– + Dial 63:596 D 6 ‘17 480w
“It is a strictly realistic piece of work, conscientious, carefully wrought; of plot it has very little, and there is no very especial drama of character. ... They are real people who move through Mr Richardson’s pages, and the events which occur are simple and natural. ... It must be admitted that at the end one has the feeling of having traveled a long way without getting anywhere in particular. But the road has its attractions.”
+ — NY Times 22:360 S 23 ‘17 480w
470“The author reminds us again and again of the late William de Morgan, with his inconsequence, his eye for the apparently trivial that counts for so much in life, his flashes of humour, and his occasional fragments of excellent narrative. ... He shows wonderful insight into character, and he describes the Australian scenery and the rude conditions of those days as vividly as if, like Richard Mahony, he hated them. ... In Mahony’s circle Mr Richardson gives free rein to his comic sense.”
+ Spec 119:221 S 1 ‘17 900w
“Takes one or two daring plunges into the slough of naturalism. These spots remain red on the memory of the reader in rather unpleasant contrast to the sleepy flatness of the rest of the tale. ... As a series of character sketches, ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ is excellent. Indeed, Mr Richardson is often successful in arousing that sense of exasperation which is the test of good character drawing.”
– + Springf’d Republican p13 D 16 ‘17 530w
“Very long, never for a moment exciting, and continuously interesting. ... The novel gives the impression of a large grasp on life and a steady hand.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p416 Ag 30 ‘17 480w
RICHARDSON, ROBERT CHARLWOOD. West Point. il *$2 (3c) Putnam 355.07 17-25795
This “intimate picture of the National military academy and of the life of the cadet” is by the late assistant professor of English at West Point, now a captain in the United States army. The first two chapters give a brief history of the academy. The appendix, which is reprinted from the Official register of the United States military academy, 1916, gives information relative to the appointment and admission of cadets. There is a foreword by Major-General Hugh L. Scott.
ALA Bkl 14:114 Ja ‘18
“Mr Richardson does not give all his pages to war. The peculiar charm of life at West Point is not forgotten, and traditions and customs receive ample space. The beauty of the buildings, the loveliness of the setting, are competently handled. The illustrations are many and well chosen.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 O 20 ‘17 450w
“Exactly the book for the boy seeking an appointment.”
+ Cleveland p2 Ja ‘18 30w
Ind 92:61 O 6 ‘17 100w
Lit D 55:51 D 8 ‘17 130w
“This interpretation, drawn from the author’s own experience and from many conversations with cadets of to-day, is exceedingly well done, and makes the book valuable to all loyal Americans.”
+ Outlook 117:476 N 21 ‘17 130w
“It is regrettable that the author makes no mention of the important contribution of West Point to engineering and scientific education. It is perhaps not generally known that for twenty-two years (1802-24), the Military academy was the only technical school in this country. ... Its graduates, in civil life or in the army, built most of our early railroads, ran our surveys, constructed our canals, lighthouses, and public buildings. ... A more intangible want will be felt in reading the book by those who know the academy well. ... The graduate will not quite feel that it breathes the living, exultant, fighting spirit of his Alma mater.” S. C. Godfrey, Major, Corps of engineers
+ — Pub W 92:813 S 15 ‘17 670w
+ Springf’d Republican p19 D 2 ‘17 380w
RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND). Brown study. il *$1.25 (4c) Doubleday 17-11704
The minister of a rich and aristocratic church, ordered to take a rest, does so in an out of the way corner of the city, where he can live in close neighborliness to the poor and lowly. The story tells of his life among his new friends, of his decision to remain with them, and of the choice a beautiful girl makes between her love for him and a worldly career.
A L A Bkl 14:61 N ‘17
“A pretty and measurably conventional romance.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Je 30 ‘17 110w
“The little story is told in rather a disjointed way, and lacks the charm and the suggestion of homelike, everyday life which made certain of Mrs Richmond’s books such pleasant reading. The whole thing seems forced. ... However, it has some agreeable touches.”
– + N Y Times 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w
+ Springf’d Republican p17 My 6 ‘17 250w
RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND). Red Pepper’s patients; with an account of Anne Linton’s case in particular. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-24403
The masterful, quick-tempered, kindly, red-headed doctor who figured in “Red Pepper Burns” and “Mrs Red Pepper” has become the most popular physician and surgeon in a small suburban town. Some of the patients whose stories are interwoven with his are his old friend, Gardner Coolidge, a starving young Hungarian violinist; Anne Linton, the book-agent with hair to match “Red” Pepper’s own, who has a bad attack of typhoid fever, and about whom clings a mystery; Jordan King, badly hurt in an automobile accident; and “Red’s” old enemy, Dr Van Horn.
A L A Bkl 14:98 D ‘17
Cleveland p3 Ja ‘18 70w
“As usual, Mrs Richmond makes all her people handsome and interesting and angelic, such paragons of beauty and behavior that they seem hardly to belong in the naughty world that most of us know.”
+ — N Y Times 22:361 S 23 ‘17 360w
“Romantic and likely to be popular.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ Pub W 92:802 S 15 ‘17 330w
“This is the third volume Mrs Richmond has devoted to the far-reaching services of the auburn-haired doctor, but as yet the tone of artificiality which so often appears when a single character is made the center of a series of stories is conspicuously absent.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 300w
RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND). Whistling mother. il *50c (11½c) Doubleday 17-22303
“Mrs Richmond puts her little tale into the mouth of a boy who has enlisted in the army. He tells in engaging boyish style just what happened when, having decided he must go, he left college, where he was in his junior year, and went home for twenty-four hours to say good-bye. ... And through all the trial of the visit home and the last good-by his mother was ‘a thorough sport.’ ... He was in the habit of calling her his ‘whistling mother’ because she could whistle ‘like a blackbird,’ and they had a whistling call for each other of which the music and the words form the heading of the little story.”—N Y Times
A L A Bkl 14:28 O ‘17
Cleveland p128 N ‘17 30w
“Exceedingly well written.” J. W.
+ N Y Call p14 S 9 ‘17 250w
“Artistically, it is the best thing Mrs Richmond has ever done.”
+ N Y Times 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 220w
RICHMOND, MARY ELLEN. Social diagnosis. *$2 Russell Sage foundation 361 17-13224
This book for social workers is a study of methods of case work as applied by various charity organization societies. The author’s aim has been to make some advance toward a professional standard. She believes also that 471the methods devised in social work, as here set forth, will be of value in other fields, such as medicine, education and industry. Part 1 deals with Social evidence, with chapters on: Beginnings, The nature and uses of social evidence, Testimonial evidence, etc. Part 2 takes up The processes leading to diagnosis, considering The first interview, The family group, Outside sources, etc. Part 3 is devoted to Variations in the processes, with chapters given to certain special cases, the blind, the feebleminded, etc. Special tables have been prepared for the volume, and there is a bibliography and a good index.
“The questionnaires [part 3] represent the experiences of many experts and will probably set the standard for a great deal of such work in the future.” W. H. Heck
+ + Am Econ R 7:899 D ‘17 970w
“It is the only comprehensive textbook on social work in relation to the individual or family ever written. The book dignifies all social work and marks its first steps on the road to becoming a profession.” Amelia Sears
+ + Am J Soc 23:261 S ‘17 680w
“It should form the basis for intelligent study even in small communities and will be invaluable to the individual engaged in case work.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:430 Jl ‘17
“Some workers would be spurred to greater efforts from reading this book. Others, and particularly beginners, might throw up their hands in despair. There is no case worker who could not be helped from the reading of this book. He will realize how far he still has to travel.” W: B. Bailey
+ Am Pol Sci R 11:771 N ‘17 440w
“A valuable contribution to social literature. It is rich with suggestions but is too long drawn out. It could have been just as ‘meaty’ with fewer pages and certainly it would have been more readable and more read.” G. F.
+ — Boston Transcript p7 Ag 1 ‘17 450w
Cleveland p93 Jl ‘17 90w
“She has produced a book remarkable for the accuracy of the methods outlined for the social worker and for the detail and thoroughness with which she has gone into the subject of measurements in one phase of life,—the pathology of social adjustment.”
+ Dial 63:458 N 8 ‘17 260w
“The author is remarkably successful in holding a proper balance between generalization and example. But it is a thousand pities that the most valuable of these examples are tucked away in pages of type so small that a considerable body of readers will probably skip them altogether. ... Miss Richmond has felt it best to exclude a study of the client’s religious life. She has felt that one could adequately diagnose and serve the needs of a human being without knowing just what his religion or irreligion means to him. In my opinion this is an impossible attempt.” R: C. Cabot
+ — Ind 91:348 S 1 ‘17 1000w
“With this book social welfare work has ceased to be a mere body of traditional practices and is in a way to become a science. Although it was written primarily for a special class of social workers, ‘Social diagnosis’ will interest every student of the social sciences who believes that sociology is ever to be anything more than a philosophy of history or an appanage of social psychology.” R. E. Park
+ J Pol Econ 25:952 N ‘17 960w
“No social worker who hopes to rise in the profession ought to be without this book; and no student of applied sociology should fail to pore over it.”
+ Nation104:717 Je 14 ‘17 330w
“Miss Richmond has given authoritative and exhaustive treatment to a vexed problem in its fundamental aspects.”
+ N Y Times 22:217 Je 3 ‘17 450w
Pittsburgh 22:688 O ‘17 20w
Pratt p12 O ‘17 30w
+ R of Rs 56:440 O ‘17 60w
“The book is nothing if not concrete, and in the preliminary fields to which it has confined itself it is exceedingly comprehensive.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 4 ‘17 280w
“This is an admirable book, which deserves to be read and pondered far outside of the circle for which it was immediately intended.” Roscoe Pound
* + Survey 39:254 D 1 ‘17 1000w
“Every social worker in towns of 10,000 should either own it or be able to consult it in the library.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:215 Jl ‘17 60w
RIDDELL, WALTER ALEXANDER. Rise of ecclesiastical control in Quebec. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$1.75 Longmans 277.1 16-22304
“The book tells how the economic, ethnic, and political conditions which have prevailed in the province of Quebec led up to and made possible the strategic position of the Roman Catholic church in Canada. The aim of the author, to use his own words, is ‘to present sufficient source material to afford the general reader a basis upon which to form an adequate judgment of the sociological and historical origins in Quebec which have been responsible in a large part for the present racial situation in Canada as a whole ... and to show their relation to the growth of the church itself.’”—J Pol Econ
“The author has examined the marriage registers in more than eighteen hundred cases and finds that the colonists, so far as these records give indication, came with a fair degree of evenness from all over France. This is data which the historian of the future cannot afford to overlook. The real service of the book is performed in the last two chapters, where there is more attention to history and less to sociology. The early rise of church influence in the affairs of New France and its later decline during the first half of the eighteenth century are traced out with care and clearness. The position of the church when Quebec passed into British hands ... all these things are explained fully and with judicious temper. While Dr Riddell has used good materials, the tendency to be inaccurate in little things is a serious blemish.” W: B. Munro
+ — Am Hist R 22:720 Ap ‘17 650w
“This book throws much light on the present socio-political situation in Canada. The barrier that has grown up between the English- and French-speaking people, largely through the instrumentality of the church, promises to be one of the most serious control problems which the dominion government has to face.”
+ J Pol Econ 25:636 Je ‘17 500w
“Even in a field adorned by the brilliant pens of Parkman and Fiske the work before us must take a very high place from its sound scholarship, abundant references to authorities, and good writing. ... Dr Riddell’s book can never be ignored by any serious student of the history of this continent.” I. C. Hannah
+ Survey 38:575 S 29 ‘17 280w
RIDDELL, WILLIAM RENWICK. Constitution of Canada in its history and practical working. (Yale lectures on the responsibilities of citizenship) *$1.25 Yale univ. press 342 17-15183
“An interesting study of the constitution of Canada in its historical and practical aspects. ... A full comparison of the Canadian constitution with that of the United States shows very clearly the differences between the two systems. The book is written with as little technical language as the nature of the study permits.” (Ontario Library Review) “Each of the four lectures has a full and valuable appendix, containing much material which the requirements of the lecture platform apparently prevented from being included in the body of the work.” (Springf’d Republican)
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“So far as his own land is concerned the author is on sure ground; but his knowledge of 472constitutional law as administered by the courts in this country is by no means of the same high order.” W: B. Munro
+ — Am Pol Sci R 11:781 N ‘17 480w
“The brevity of the book is such that only an outline of historical development is possible. Furthermore, the subject is treated with a nonlegal audience always in mind. The student of history and government, as well as the student of law, will gain little from the volume. Generalizations are indulged in with much freedom, and some are open to question.”
+ — Dial 63:276 S 27 ‘17 180w
+ Ontario Library Review 1:109 My ‘17 50w
“Justice Riddell is to be thanked for his painstaking and highly simplified summary of Canada’s history and present government. It begins where the majority of educated Americans will find a beginning desirable—at very elementary facts. Students of jurisprudence will be particularly interested in Justice Riddell’s views on the decision of the Supreme court in the Dartmouth college case, which are quoted in full in an appendix.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 2 ‘17 830w
RIDER, BERTHA CARR. Greek house; its history and development from the Neolithic period to the Hellenistic age. il *$3.25 Putnam 722 16-24977
“The excavations of recent years in Crete, Asia Minor, Delos and other islands, and the Greek mainland, have brought to light a wealth of material for the study of house-planning in Greece both prehistoric and historic. Unfortunately, this material is least abundant for the period when we most of all desire it—the classical epoch of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. On the other hand, it is remarkably copious in the period which begins with the dawn of civilization in the Aegean, and ends on the threshold of the Homeric age. ... Miss Rider has endeavoured to embrace within her grasp the whole of this material, and to bridge the central gap by means of literary evidence.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ Dial 61:482 N 30 ‘16 130w
“The chapter on Homeric palaces is of especial value to the student, with its discussion of Homeric terms and phrases.”
Lit D 54:204 Ja 27 ‘17 250w
“The principal value of the book lies not in its advocacy of a theory, but in the excellent summary which it presents of a large special literature, mostly scattered in periodicals. ... Miss Rider shows the specialist’s fondness for technical terms, which may occasionally prove an obstacle to the non-professional reader. On the whole, however, the book is extremely well written. ... We must register one protest—against the price of the book, which seems excessive for a volume of this size, illustrated only with line cuts.”
* + Nation 104:191 F 15 ‘17 600w
N Y Br Lib News 3:169 N ‘16
Pittsburgh 22:316 Ap ‘17
Pratt p32 Jl ‘17 20w
“By no possibility can it ever be a popular book; it is far too specialized and technical in its scope and treatment. ... There can be no question about the research and scholarship that have gone to its making. ... Miss Rider is doubtless writing for fellow archæologists as learned as herself—for the already converted, to whom her unadorned statements of fact will seem more excellent than any charm of style.”
+ Spec 117:sup607 N 18 ‘16 400w
“Her presentation of the facts is clear and accurate, and the plans with which her text is illustrated are well chosen, nothing essential being omitted.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p424 S 7 ‘16 850w
RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT. Madame Prince. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 16-24204
Madame Prince is a dressmaker in a London suburb. She is a capable and level-headed business woman and the mother of four children. We are told something of her early struggles, but these are past when the story opens. The three girls are old enough to act as their mother’s assistants in the shop and Richard, the boy, is finishing school. The cares that meet Madame Prince as the story progresses are those of the mother of grown-up children, and they spring largely from the unconscious selfishness of youth. But there are joys that compensate.
+ A L A Bkl 13:357 My ‘17
“A superfluity of detail is noticeable, and there are some trivial incidents; but a bright tone predominates, and much of the book is true to life. The novel is amusing, and a good example of the author’s style.”
+ Ath p481 O ‘16 70w
“Quiet as the humor of the book is, it is also compelling.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ap 14 ‘17 400w
“Mme Prince wins and holds the reader’s sympathy, holds it from the first page to the last. ... The story is related with a good deal of humor and charm. ... It is life as a very, very great number of people—the majority, perhaps—know it, which is portrayed so deftly and so veraciously in these pages.”
+ N Y Times 22:54 F 18 ‘17 450w
“We see Madame Prince clearly, she is the mother woman existing only for her children. The children exist only for her, but in another sense; we do not see them clearly, because the author confines himself to describing such actions of theirs as throw light on the mother’s character, without confining himself further to such as are mutually consistent. ... Mr Pett Ridge has another bait in addition to his story, and that is his gift for writing crisp dialogue.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p500 O 19 ‘16 400w
RIHBANY, ABRAHAM MITRIE.[2] Militant America and Jesus Christ. *65c (8c) Houghton 172.4 17-31542
The author of “The Syrian Christ” has written this book to show that Jesus Christ would not have been a non-resistant in the present war. He says, “I do not so know Christ. I do not believe the New Testament presents such a hopelessly and helplessly neutral Christ.” Such pacific sentiments as “Blessed are the peacemakers” were the utterances of normal times and are no more to be taken as an expression of an attitude toward war than were the pacific sermons and baccalaureate addresses common in America a decade ago. These later authors have now been put to a test which Jesus was never called on to face, since no such crisis as the present arose in his day. The author feels that after an examination of other New Testament passages, “even a pacifist must see that while our gospel is a message of peace, it is not a message of helpless submission to rapacious aggressors.”
“A vigorous answer to those pacifists who seek to entrench themselves behind the teachings of Jesus.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:162 F ‘18
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 15 ‘17 110w
“It bears eloquent evidence of the value of much in little. Mr Rihbany’s book is eloquent and convincing. If converts are possible, it will make them.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 D 22 ‘17 1600w
“In his eagerness to make our divine Saviour the more human and the more understandable to others, Mr Rihbany appears to have thrown up a lot of Syrian dust through which it is not always easy to see clearly the Christ who is divine. His interpretation of Christ lacks authority; the Christ he pictures for his readers lacks authority. And of what use to soldiers or to anyone else, to men seeking the light, is a Christ who lacks authority, who cannot lead or command.”
— Cath World 106:687 F ‘18 160w
“One of the most convincing answers that has been made to the belief that Jesus was a pacifist.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 Ja 20 ‘18 360w
473RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB. Name of Old Glory. il *$1.25 Bobbs 811 17-17072
A collection of James Whitcomb Riley’s poems of patriotism, with an appreciation of the poet by Booth Tarkington. Only three of the twenty selections are in the familiar Indiana dialect—“The old man and Jim,” “Thoughts on the late war,” and “Decoration day on the place.”
N Y Br Lib News 4:108 Jl ‘17
RILEY, W. Way of the winepress. *$1.50 (2c) Putnam
“This is the story of the firm of Messrs Middleton, weavers, in a Yorkshire town and in a village of the Dales; but, though the vicissitudes of the business are vividly told as from a personal experience, yet the core of the chronicle is in the inner vicissitudes of David Middleton and those who by fate or his own impulse have been gathered round him. Chief amongst these are the story teller, Louis, and the slum girl, Victoria Smith, both of whom are characters well worth studying, and both form contrasts not only to each other but to the stern impetuosity of David. ... David, tender and even quixotic at heart, accepts every reverse as a direct discipline from God. ... ‘The way of the winepress’ must be passed unaided and alone, and no human counsel of affection dare soften it. Contrasted with this disciple of the wrath of God is the unorthodox disciple of the love of God, Truman, who opens the doors of learning to Louis and Victoria, and in the end opens the door of love to David.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The action takes place more than thirty years ago.
“‘The way of the winepress is the way of loving sacrifice,’ and it becomes, if the author is to be believed, a way of joy for all who tread it.”
N Y Times 22:388 O 7 ‘17 270w
+ Ontario Library Review 1:120 My ‘17 70w
“The background of the book, wherein a number of simple and some very delightful characters have their place, is full of reflection. The plot is small and at times almost oddly simple, but there is an unstrained human interest in the characters and their setting which gives to the whole some of that gentle dignity which the writer has found amongst the ample hills and woods and streams where his scenes are laid.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p32 Ja 18 ‘17 500w
RINDER, FRANK, comp. Royal Scottish academy, 1826-1916. il *42s Maclehose & sons, Glasgow 708.2
“The chief part of this massive volume consists of a complete list of works by Raeburn and by members (honorary included) and associates of the Royal Scottish academy exhibited between the years 1808 and 1916 at the exhibitions held by the institutions which preceded the academy and those of the academy itself from 1827 onwards, and in this list a special note is made of any works that have passed into public galleries. The list has been compiled under the direction of Mr Frank Rinder with the sanction of the president and council, and a narrative filling nearly a hundred pages, tracing the origin and development of the academy, is contributed by Mr W. D. McKay, one of its principal officers.” (Int Studio) Mr Rinder also contributes an essay.
“If Mr Rinder’s task does not evoke from the living all the gratitude which its accomplishment deserves, he may be sure that in years to come there will always be some who in profiting by his labours will not fail to acknowledge their indebtedness.”
Int Studio 61:144 My ‘17 300w
“It is a pity that this useful book could not have been produced in a more convenient form. A quarto of nearly 500 pages is difficult to handle.”
* The Times [London] Lit Sup p116 Mr 8 ‘17 600w
RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS). Altar of freedom. *50c (12c) Houghton 355.7 17-14707
An appeal to mothers to sacrifice their sons willingly on “the altar of freedom.” “Personal service,” the author says, “is not rolling bandages for the other woman’s son.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:20 O ‘17
“She has herself been to the war countries and was allowed to see far more than most Americans have seen of what war has meant. ... She writes emphatically of the necessity of proper training for the soldier.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 18 ‘17 250w
“Mary Roberts Rinehart writes whereof she knows when in ‘The altar of freedom’ she tells the mothers of this land why and how their sons must enter this war. One of her sons has gone, the other two will go if, when they are old enough, they are needed. She has seen the war close at hand and her unflinching words are born not of theory and imagination, but of facts.”
+ Ind 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 70w
“The book is very direct, very quiet, very moving. And it is simple and patriotic and brave.”
+ N Y Times 22:197 My 20 ‘17 270w
“Article in the Saturday Evening Post April 21, but more usable in this little book form.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:213 Jl ‘17 50w
RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS). Bab: a sub-deb. il *$1.40 (2c) Doran 17-14952
Bab, the sub-debutante, tells her own story, describing most touchingly the sorrows of a girl whose family still looks on her as a child. Coming home for her Christmas holidays, Bab, who is seventeen, realizes the tragic position of a younger sister. She is snubbed and patronized, until, moved by desperation and a desire to make herself seem of importance, she invents a lover and a love affair, with violets addressed to herself and a photograph of an unknown young man to give a touch of reality to the fiction. The results are all that she desires, and more. This is the first episode of the book. There are five in all, including extracts from Bab’s diary.
“Some have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Read a little at a time.”
A L A Bkl 13:451 Jl ‘17
“An attempt to picture in a humorous manner the young American girl of the same age as Mr Tarkington’s hero. But it is not nearly so simple, so subtle or so true to life as its prototype, and the pleasant domestic charm of ‘Seventeen’ is absent from its pages. ... You feel the lack of a pleasant attitude.” J. F. S.
Boston Transcript p6 Je 9 ‘17 470w
“The stilted English in which she expresses her ‘lofty thoughts’ while amusing lends a touch of artificiality to the stories.”
+ — Cleveland p104 S ‘17 70w
+ Dial 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 70w
“This is a book that mothers and fathers of girls ought to read, for it will help to enlighten them. Also, they, and all others, will find it the most clever and amusing of all Mrs Rinehart’s books.”
+ N Y Times 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 670w
Pittsburgh 22:650 O ‘17 30w
“A lively and often humorous, but artificial picture of the adolescent school girl.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 22 ‘17 250w
RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS). Long live the king! il *$1.50 (1c) Houghton 17-24814
This romantic tale reminds the reader both of Hope’s “Prisoner of Zenda” and of Mrs Burnett’s “Lost prince.” Prince Ferdinand William Otto, the ten year old hero, is a dear little boy, whose three great desires when he becomes king are that he may have a dog, that his cousin Hedwig may marry the man she loves, and that he, Ferdinand William Otto, may be “a good king like Abraham Lincoln.” 474The love interest in the story is supplied by the Princess Hedwig, Lieutenant Nikky Larisch, and Karl, king of Karnia. A mild revolutionary flavor is given by the “Committee of ten.”