Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 42)
Reading edition
“The best book on the subject in English. This translation is better than the French original for American readers because of the careful editing and notes.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:114 Ja ‘18
+ Am Pol Sci R 12:146 F ‘18 300w
Cleveland p107 S ‘17 50w
“No book has been more influential in bringing to their present high efficiency the financial systems of the western European nations. ... It will undoubtedly become a force in the gradual reshaping of public opinion on more wholesome lines.”
+ Dial 63:459 N 8 ‘17 400w
“The translator has performed his difficult task fairly well, while the editor has corrected a few mistakes made by the author in his description of American budgetary procedure.”
+ J Pol Econ 25:856 O ‘17 60w
+ Outlook 117:143 S 26 ‘17 20w
“The editor of the series says in a frank and highly commendable foreword that he is not satisfied with the translation, and his judgment is borne out by an examination of the work. ... The very mass of details all but obscures the underlying principles, but the abstract and awkward translation may be partly responsible for this impression. ... In its present form, the work will be of little assistance to American political scholarship or to practical politics.”
– + Springf’d Republican p17 O 21 ‘17 150w
“For many years Stourm’s ‘Le Budget’ has been the standard work in this field. Those who teach public finance in our colleges will welcome it in English. ... Outside of academic circles it should be widely read because it contains the best account of the evolution of budgetary systems and sets forth in detail the problems encountered in France, many of which have been not unlike our own. The difficult tasks of translator and editor have been fairly well done.” H. A. Millis
+ Survey 38:574 S 29 ‘17 100w
STRAHAN, SPEER, and O’DONNELL, CHARLES LEE, comps. Notre Dame verse. *$1 Notre Dame book store, Notre Dame, Ind. 811.08
“Some of the best of the poetry that has been written in past years by the students of Notre Dame university has been gathered into a small volume by Speer Strahan and Charles L. O’Donnell, C. S. C., and published with the modest title ‘Notre Dame verse.’” (Lit D) “Some famous names are included in the list of contributors. Charles Warren Stoddard is here, with his inimitable ‘Lahaina,’ and his ‘Indiana’; Maurice Francis Egan with an exquisite sonnet, ‘An eventide’; Father Charles L. O’Donnell offers four beautiful selections, one a quatrain of the sort that the lamented Father Tabb was wont to write; Speer Strahan is also represented, whose verse is well known, ... and two or three others, perhaps not quite so familiar.” (Cath World)
“It is the spirit of the writings herein gathered that appeals; the uniform sense of high ideals, of nobility in aspiration that is refreshing.”
+ Cath World 106:262 N ‘17 270w
“It is an admirable collection.”
+ Lit D 54:1176 Ap 21 ‘17 360w
Straight road. il *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-13077
The familiar story of the woman alone is retold in this novel. Callie Baird leaves her husband and goes out into the world to make a living for her child. Her marriage had been doomed to failure from the first, for it had been arranged by her mother after the ruthless breaking off of a boy and girl love affair. She meets both harshness and kindness at the hands of men and women. She comes into contact with more than one man who looks on her as legitimate prey, but she finds the other kind too, and finally there is a meeting with the old girlhood lover. This happens under dramatic circumstances, while Callie is working as a hop picker on a ranch owned by his father. The scene of the story is California and the events related in the closing chapters bear a close resemblance to occurrences at Wheatland a year or so ago.
“The anonymous novel which has been published serially in McClure’s Magazine has aroused considerable comment already. ... There is no doubt whatever that the magazine desires it to be understood that it is the record of actual experience. It is just as absolutely true that it is constructed with very apparent knowledge of novel construction. ... It is by no means a great story, but it is very strong in human interest. Its force comes from the frankness of the personal confession in it.” D. L. M.
+ — Boston Transcript p8 My 19 ‘17 660w
“The story of the strike itself is told with conviction. And the woman’s experiences before she becomes a hop-picker, her struggles to earn a living and keep straight in a world dominated by the predatory male, seem to be real adventures and not special pleading. It is a book which any good craftsman would be willing to sign, and I cannot see the reason for anonymity.” J: Macy
+ — Dial 63:112 Ag 16 ‘17 310w
“When the end of the book is nearly reached, there comes an interesting episode. This is Callie’s short experience as a hop-picker on the Las Palmas ranch.”
— N Y Times 22:163 Ap 22 ‘17 350w
“The principal characters are skilfully sketched and the heroine’s little boy is delightful. If the story is impressionistic and discursive, and the sex theme unpleasantly insistent, the incidents are well conceived, and the writing brisk and interesting.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p19 My 20 ‘17 350w
STRAUS, NATHAN. Disease in milk; the remedy: pasteurization; the life work of Nathan Straus, by Lina Gutherz Straus. 2d ed, rev and enl il *$2.50 Dutton 614.3 17-13812
This book, first published privately some years ago, is now presented in a revised and enlarged edition to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Nathan Straus’s establishment of pasteurized milk stations for the poor children of New York city. It tells what pasteurization is and does, gives the history of the struggle for pure milk in New York city and state and in Chicago, of milk work in Europe and America, of Mr Straus’s work in Palestine, of his tuberculosis preventorium for children, etc. Reprints of addresses, articles and letters by Mr Straus in furtherance of pasteurization take up 196 pages. There are also formulas, tables of statistics, a discussion of how far contaminated milk is to blame for infantile paralysis, and a detailed description of how milk may be pasteurized at home. There are many illustrations.
+ Ind 92:109 O 13 ‘17 70w
541“It offers a compilation of facts and observations upon the subject of diseases and milk and how to combat them which all who are interested privately or publicly in the milk supply will be glad to have.”
+ N Y Times 22:257 Jl 8 ‘17 500w
“Altogether the book is an inspiring record of the courageous, persistent and successful fight waged by Mr Straus.” Franz Schneider, jr.
+ Survey 39:72 O 20 ‘17 130w
STRAYER, GEORGE DRAYTON, and NORSWORTHY, NAOMI. How to teach. *$1.30 Macmillan 371 17-4794
“This book includes a comprehensive summary of the psychological facts and principles which underlie effective method, as well as a series of specific suggestions to be observed in teaching. The scope of the book is well represented by the following topics: ‘The work of the teacher,’ ‘Original nature,’ ‘Attention and interest in teaching,’ ‘The formation of habits,’ ‘How to memorize,’ ‘The teacher’s use of imagination,’ ‘How thinking may be stimulated,’ ‘Appreciation,’ ‘The meaning of play in education,’ ‘The significance of individual differences,’ ‘The development of moral social conduct,’ ‘Transfer of training types of classroom exercises,’ ‘How to study,’ and ‘Measuring the achievement of children.’ ... Practically every chapter contains illustrations based on actual classroom practices.”—El School J
A L A Bkl 14:8 O ‘17
“This book is thoroughly colored by the experimental work and educational philosophy of Dewey and Thorndike. The point of view of the former is elaborated in the chapter on ‘Thinking,’ and of the latter in the chapters on ‘Original nature,’ ‘Habit formation,’ ‘Transfer of training,’ and school tests. The chapter on ‘Measuring the achievements of children’ can hardly be said to be a representative statement of the testing movement.”
+ El School J 17:530 Mr ‘17 450w
“The most thorough and systematic treatment of the problems of general methods which has appeared during the past year. On account of the psychological background, which many of its discussions presuppose, this book is much better adapted to the mature or experienced teacher than to the beginner. It merits, however, a prominent place in the working library of each teacher.”
+ El School J 17:756 Je ‘17 220w
N Y Call p15 S 16 ‘17 170w
STREET, GEORGE EDMUND. Unpublished notes and reprinted papers. il *$2.25 (3½c) Hispanic soc. of Am.; for sale by Putnam 726 17-8606
George Edmund Street was an English architect, associated with Burne-Jones and William Morris. In her biographical introduction, Georgiana Goddard King speaks of him as “a man who died more than thirty years ago, who lived a Tory and a high churchman, who worked to revive Gothic architecture in England.” He traveled extensively, studying the architecture of France and Italy. It is with these travels that the papers and notes in the present volume deal. An appendix gives notes on churches of northern Germany.
“The whole volume will be a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in the subject of Gothic architecture in Europe or in the work of Street himself.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 Ja 6 ‘17 750w
“This volume is virtually the only printed memorial of the man, who at the time of his death, thirty-five years ago, was hailed as the greatest of British architects, the designer of the great Courts of justice in London, and the foremost exponent of the movement for the revival of the Gothic architecture in England.”
R of Rs 55:215 F ‘17 100w
“The travel notes are of general interest though shot through with architectural comment that makes chief appeal to the profession and the ecclesiologist. It is a valuable book, but not a particularly popular one.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 15 ‘17 250w
STREET, JULIAN LEONARD. American adventures. il *$3 (2c) Century 917.5 17-30047
In quite the same vein as “Abroad at home.” There is let loose in these pages something of the hero-worshipper, a good deal of the sage and poet and a preponderance of the traveler who has a keen scent for historical and literary associations. Those who go a-journeying with Mr Street will cover the principal cities from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Traditions, great men, great deeds, memorials, scenery, atmosphere—these are the matters that concern the writer as he hunts out the strong, deep-rooted city entity. A suggestive foreword which likens the relationship of the South and the North to that of a pretty, sensitive wife to a big strong, amiable if somewhat thick-skinned husband furnishes a novel thought.
“They are sympathetic, delightful descriptions, with much information entertainingly treated.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:126 Ja ‘18
“The book suffers a little from an excess of reportorial matter. As in his first book, Mr Street reveals a lively humour and a faculty for looking at old things from new angles. In one respect, however, ‘American adventures’ is not up to the standard of ‘Abroad at home.’ In the earlier book the author wrote as if he were thoroughly at home in the middle west, and enjoyed his visit there. The later volume gives one an impression that Mr Street was not so much at home in the South, that it was very new to him, and that he did not altogether understand it.” A. M. Chase
+ — Bookm 46:335 N ‘17 250w
“As guests of the southern states the collaborators in pen and pencil courteously draw a fair portrait, and, in consequence, ignore some very fundamental facts not to the credit of southern civilization. How much the ‘expense account’ of which Collier’s Weekly, with its known southern attitude, assumed a part, had to do in influencing this easy reportorial indifference, one can only guess.”
– + Boston Transcript p6 Ja 9 ‘18 240w
+ Cleveland p138 D ‘17 40w
“In a little foreword written with exquisitely fine feeling he speaks of the North’s lack of understanding of the South and urges more consideration for the feelings of that region. Mr Morgan’s illustrations catch the spirit and charm of the scenes he portrays.”
+ N Y Times 22:482 N 18 ‘17 250w
“The work of a trained observer and a clever artist who set out to ‘make a book.’ The result is lively, interesting, but somewhat ‘newspaperish.’ It is a good book for stay-at-home travelers who would like to go South for the winter but can’t.”
+ Outlook 117:433 N 14 ‘17 50w
“Written in the same mood of pleasant intimacy and irresponsible self-enjoyment as ‘Abroad at home.’ ... The serious minded tourist, who purposes to cover conscientiously the orthodox ‘sights’ of each city he proposes visiting would do better to trust to the meagre help of the inadequate American Baedeker. Mr Street would inevitably leave this type of person so sadly full of disillusions. The reason is quite simple: what he describes is less what exists in any given place than what he happens to think he finds there—a large part of which he brings with him.” Philip Tillinghast
+ — Pub W 92:1388 O 20 ‘17 400w
“Many of the papers have appeared serially in Collier’s, but they have been amplified considerably for the present publication. Chief in interest, perhaps, among the additions are the letters which were called out from the South, either in contradiction or commendation, after the first appearance of the work.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 24 ‘17 760w
542STREETER, BURNETT HILLMAN,[2] and others. Immortality. *$2.25 (2c) Macmillan 218 17-31042
A companion volume to “Concerning prayer.” The title-page describes it as “an essay in discovery, co-ordinating scientific, psychical, and biblical research.” In the first two essays and the first section of the third the attempt is made to set out in logical sequence the main arguments for the belief in personal immortality. The rest of the third essay, and essays four to six deal with the nature of the after life, and discuss the meaning and value for modern thought, of conceptions like resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell. Essays seven and eight estimate judicially the elements of truth and error in spiritualism and in the doctrine of reincarnation, more especially in relation to the claims made on its behalf by modern theosophy. The ninth essay is an epilogue to the whole collection.
Ath p42 Ja ‘18 90w
“The essays are unequal in value but, in the main, are fresh and stimulating. The best, as also the most philosophic, thing in the book is A. Clutton-Brock’s essay.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 28 ‘18 340w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p586 N 29 ‘17 200w
STRONG, THERON GEORGE. Joseph H. Choate. il *$3 (3½c) Dodd 17-28096
Mr Strong, who is the author of “Landmarks of a lawyer’s lifetime,” divides his volume of nearly 400 pages into four sections: The New Englander; The New Yorker; The lawyer; The ambassador. The book does not pretend to be “a complete biography of Mr Choate, much less an authorized biography, which would naturally refer to subjects, domestic and social, to which the author does not allude.” (Introductory note) Mr Strong has had access to very full scrapbooks containing clippings from English and American newspapers kept by Mr Choate when he was ambassador. Mr Choate also placed the beginning of his reminiscences, consisting of family history carried only to the date of his birth, in Mr Strong’s hands, and “in several conversations gave him valuable information.” The book contains a number of illustrations and is indexed.
“The author’s division of Mr Choate’s long and brilliant career into four phases, each of which he treats separately, helps the reader to appreciate the many-sided variety of his character and achievement.” F. F. Kelly
+ Bookm 46:328 N ‘17 330w
Boston Transcript p6 D 8 ‘17 1300w
+ Cleveland p12 Ja ‘18 40w
“Mr Choate preserved ‘scrap-books’ which he turned over to Mr Strong. The result is necessarily a somewhat scrappy work. Meanwhile, Mr Strong must be thanked for bringing out of his storehouse of personal recollections and of available records, things new and old to quicken remembrance of the man whose personality was too vivid ever to be brought to print.”
+ — Nation 105:489 N 1 ‘17 330w
“While Mr Strong disclaims the purpose of writing a biography of Mr Choate that would be either authoritative or complete, he has made a study that is full of interest, that covers fairly well the several phases of his many-sided life, and that had, in some of its features, the assistance and authority of Mr Choate himself.”
+ N Y Times 22:435 O 28 ‘17 970w
“Mr Strong’s book will prove to be a valuable contribution to Americans for one thing alone if for no other. It collects Mr Choate’s ambassadorial addresses. Nothing of the kind we know of in English literature is more charming. The volume is a credit to its subject and to its author.”
+ Outlook 117:574 D 5 ‘17 170w
“His life, though not an ‘official’ biography, and though containing numerous errors of facts, gives one a good idea of the man and the lawyer.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p17 N 25 ‘17 320w
STROUSE, SOLOMON, and PERRY, MAUDE ALICE. Food for the sick. *$1.50 Saunders 613.2 17-28335
This manual for physician and patient has been compiled by an associate attending physician and a dietitian at the Michael Reese hospital in Chicago. The authors state that their own experience has been supplemented by free use of current literature in textbooks and magazines. They attribute the planning of the chapter on Diseases of the heart to Dr Sidney Strauss and the outlining of that on Diseases of the skin to Dr Phillip F. Shaffner. The need for the book would seem to them to rest in the fact that “many diseases in which food plays an important role in treatment do not progress favorably because of the inability of the patient to grasp in terms of the kitchen what the physician says in terms of the laboratory.” (Introd.) The plan of the book therefore is to enable the patient and the physician to work together by making clear to the patient the “why” and the “how” of the diet needed. Each chapter is devoted to a single subject and the disease or condition is discussed in such a way as to make plain the reasons for the dietary rules which follow. Complete details for the diet are then given, with instructions in preparing foods and many menus. The first chapter is devoted to a description of the normal use of food and to lessons in practical application of food tables in building any kind of special menus. About one-fifth of the text is given to the dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus.
STRUTHERS, MRS LINA (ROGERS). School nurse. il *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam 371.7 17-24218
This book has been written for school nurses. It is not designed as a complete text book, but is full of helpful suggestions and directions. A reading of the first chapters suggests that it might fill a need in a wider field. Particularly, it seems that it might be of value to women’s clubs that promote civic movements in their communities. Contents: Introduction; History; Organization; Staff rules; Administration; State regulations; School clinic; Out-door classes; Diseases; Tuberculosis; Debilitated children; Common physical defects; Carious teeth; The school nurse; Card system of reports. The book is provided with various maps and charts but lacks an index. The author has served as superintendent of school nurses in New York city and in Toronto.
+ Ath p44 Ja ‘18 40w
+ Cleveland p10 Ja ‘18 40w
El School J 18:234 N ‘17 520w
+ R of Rs 56:555 N ‘17 70w
Reviewed by S. L. Jean
+ Survey 39:370 D 29 ‘17 420w
STUART, FLORENCE PARTELLO. Adventures of Piang, the Moro jungle boy. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-25285
It has been the author’s purpose to do justice to the Moro, the highest type native to the Philippines. The volume is called “a book for old and young” and it is evidently her hope that in addition to the children who will enjoy the stories, many older people will read it for the information it contains. It is based on her own experience as a resident of the lower Philippines, supplemented with information from authoritative sources. The book is made up of ten short stories, some of which are reprinted from St Nicholas, What To Do, and Boys’ World. There are striking black and white illustrations by Ellsworth Young.
A L A Bkl 14:174 F ‘18
+ Cleveland p133 D ‘17 50w
“These tales are packed full of information about the customs, beliefs and way of living of 543the Moros. ... And the adventures are quite exciting enough to rejoice the heart of any normal boy.”
+ N Y Times 22:380 O 7 ‘17 450w
“A book that will be valuable to readers of all ages. Boys, however, will especially appreciate the adventures of the lively young Moro. The illustrations are so telling and effective that they greatly add to the charm of this book.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 1 ‘17 150w
STUCK, HUDSON.[2] Voyages on the Yukon and its tributaries; a narrative of summer travel in the interior of Alaska. il *$4.50 Scribner 917.98 17-30733
“This book of Archdeacon Stuck’s is quite complete in itself. But it is written as a supplement and complement, the author points out, to ‘Ten thousand miles with a dog sled,’ and the two volumes form a full survey of Alaskan travel through the year. The present volume is devoted to the Yukon voyages, and the second to the tributaries—‘side-streams,’ as the river men call them, though they are anything but mere ‘streams’ as we use the word. He writes of the Klondike rush for gold. He has a full account of the work of the Canadian northwest mounted police in the Yukon territory. He writes of the cities that grew up overnight in the ‘boom’ times, and of their fate. He tells us of the rivers themselves, their history. He has much to say of the Indians. He writes of the schools of Alaska, and of the teachers, and of ‘compulsory English’ for the Indians. His book has in it sociology and economics, history, description, personal experience, and narrative.”—N Y Times
A L A Bkl 14:165 F ‘18
“When a vigorous, widely traveled and broadly read man like Archdeacon Stuck writes about a subject with which he is thoroughly familiar by years of contact, the result reasonably may be a diverting book; but Bishop Stuck adds to these qualities the gift for picturesque phrase and original thought.” W. A. M.
+ Boston Transcript p6 D 26 ‘17 1150w
“‘Voyages on the Yukon and its tributaries’ is a notably interesting presentation, informative, never pedantic; rich in description, history, legend, yet never altogether objective, for it is tinged warmly throughout with the author’s personal experience, opinion, thought. It is in its personal quality that much of the absorbing charm of the book, as a piece of writing, lies.”
+ N Y Times 22:581 D 30 ‘17 670w
“A thoroughly well made and extremely readable book.”
+ Outlook 117:615 D 12 ‘17 60w
STUNTZ, HOMER CLYDE. South American neighbors. 60c Missionary educ. movement 16-14106
“This book, although confessedly written ‘in the crowded hours of a busy year,’ accomplishes very well the purpose of the author, namely, to present for the use of mission-study classes the great problems lying before our missionaries in the South American field. ... Although necessarily brief and incomplete, the author very interestingly reviews the resources of South America, its fascinating history, the reasons for its slowness of development, some of the great missionary pioneers, and the outstanding problems of religion, education, and morals which are confronting statesmen and missionaries alike. He shows the inadequacy of the prevailing religion, and brings out clearly the paralyzing effects of the system of vast landed estates and the low position assigned to woman in society. He presents also some very interesting comparisons between North America and Latin America in history, purposes and life.”—Am J Theol
“He raises many questions, political, educational, industrial, religious—questions which many people have not realized, and which are yet deserving of careful study.” L. T. H.
+ Am J Theol 21:158 Ja ‘17 260w
“To those whose knowledge of South America is meager this little volume will serve as an excellent introduction. A good map and a select bibliography are given at the end of the volume.”
+ Bib World 49:185 Mr ‘17 80w
Survey 37:587 F 17 ‘17 40w
STURGIS, ESTHER MARY (OGDEN) (MRS RICHARD CLIPSTON STURGIS). Random reflections of a grandmother. *$1 (5½c) Houghton 814 17-28913
A book of reflections and reminiscences from the pen of a woman who has just discovered that grandmothering is a distinct occupation. She is one of the modern up-to-date grandmothers, very different from the person who used to sit in the chimney corner with her knitting, with a soft white fichu over her shoulders and a priceless lace cap on her silvery hair. It worries the writer somewhat that she cannot live up to this picture, until it occurs to her that after all the modern grandchild wouldn’t care for that kind of a grandparent. The reflections touch on many subjects.
“She writes with the true valiant heartiness of the woman to whom the world is a place for courage and laughter.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p10 O 6 ‘17 1450w
“A book of whimsical humor, of gay comment, and bright and lovable criticism, a little book full of chuckles and common sense.”
+ N Y Times 22:462 N 11 ‘17 1000w
“There is a light touch for every chapter, and once or twice a paragraph that brings a catch to the voice if one is reading aloud. The book is well adapted for such reading and seems likely to receive it.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 8 ‘17 220w
STURTEVANT, EDGAR HOWARD. Linguistic change. *$1 (2c) Univ. of Chicago press 409
This book, which has grown out of lectures to the author’s students in Columbia university, is intended to serve as an introduction to the historical study of language. It consists of the following chapters: Introduction on the nature of language; Primary change of form; Secondary change of form; Change of meaning; Change in vocabulary; Change in syntax; Language and dialect; The trend of linguistic development.
“It is a pleasure to call attention to a thoroly sound book for use by university students who are taking seriously the study of philology and linguistics. ... We know of no better way for the student of linguistics to begin his acquaintance with that interesting subject than by mastering Professor Sturtevant’s book.”
+ Educ R 54:529 D ‘17 80w
SULLIVAN, ALAN. Inner door. il *$1.35 Century 17-20669
“Sylvia Percival, twenty-two years old, is left sole owner of the Consumer’s rubber company. Charming, delicately bred, shrinking from all unpleasantness, Sylvia is quite content to leave affairs in the willing hands of Pethick, the capable but unscrupulous manager of ‘the works,’ and goes to France, to visit her cousins. On her return, she is to marry Kenneth Landon, whom she loves, and who loves her. Soon after Sylvia goes, Kenneth’s father loses everything, and young Landon suddenly finds himself penniless. His great idea then comes to him. He will go to work incognito in Sylvia’s factory. He will learn the secrets of ‘the works,’ and emerge at the end of the year, a friend of the operatives, and thus be able to help Sylvia more practically than he else could have done in that work of uplift he has no doubt she will be as anxious as he to carry on. He learns more quickly than he could otherwise have done, because of his friendship with Sohmer, the socialist leader and philosopher. He goes to board at the Sohmers. And here Greta comes into his life: Greta, whose vivid personality is the epitome of love’s need of ‘giving.’”—Adapted from Boston Transcript
544
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“It is seldom that a novel presenting so keen a study of the eternal warfare between labor and capital has so poignant a romantic interest. Usually one or the other is sacrificed. ... The skill with which the story is wrought is admirable. ... Among the most effective bits of an always artistic method, are the contrasting descriptions and their subtle influence upon Sylvia, of the grim Canadian town, where her betrothed is waiting for her and the picturesque districts of the Riviera, into whose delights she and her Parisian cousins are initiated by the cosmopolitan of parts, Philippe Amaro.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ag 18 ‘17 620w
“The weak point in execution is the character drawing. Sylvia is perhaps the most lifelike. Certainly, in spite of her open-eyed selfishness, she is a much less unpleasant character than Greta. Sohmer is simply unreal, either as a symbol or as a man. It is a pity such defects detract from what might have been a novel of considerable power.”
– + Cath World 106:410 D ‘17 400w
“The author has presented only the more obvious questions in the conflict between labor and capital, the more obvious conflict between real and fancied romance in the heart of his hero, and he has thrown about them a sentimental glamour that no amount of forceful writing can conceal. The book is a good example of the so-called better type of American novel with which the general reading public is wont to satisfy itself.”
+ — Dial 63:647 D 20 ‘17 140w
“The romance, which is depicted on a background of factory life, labor grievances, and strikes, seems artificial and unnatural.”
– + Lit D 55:39 O 27 ‘17 240w
“‘The inner door’ is a door of revelation through which the youth of the story passes from good-humored acceptance of the world as a pleasant place to knowledge of it as a world of fellow-men. ... The story has no striking novelty of material.”
Nation 105:248 S 6 ‘17 210w
“Those writers about labor who have not themselves been laborers or in constant close touch with the labor movement invest their subject with a glamour quite absent to the accustomed eye. ‘The inner door’ offends deeply in this particular. ... The leader of the striking laborers is a type of man that never could be anything in a modern labor union but an eccentric ‘character,’ loved, perhaps, by his fellows, but never followed where serious issues are at stake. The hero ... is another impossible creation ... and his fiancée, the owner of the factory in which he works, is in every way his complement. ... The capitalists in the book are much better drawn than are their employés. Perhaps Mr Sullivan knows them better. ... His plot and incident are fairly well worked out.” D: P. Berenberg
– + N Y Call p14 Ag 12 ‘17 560w
“Although it is with Sohmer and his daughter that Mr Sullivan’s sympathies evidently lie, he has done much better work in his sketches of pretty, pleasure-hungry Sylvia, her relations, the Percivals, and the delightful old Comtesse.”
+ — NY Times 22:279 Jl 29 ‘17 510w
SUPPLE, EDWARD WATSON, ed. Spanish reader of South American history; ed. with notes, exercises, and vocabulary. (Macmillan Spanish ser.) il *$1 Macmillan 468 17-2333
“The editor is instructor in Spanish in the Sheffield scientific school at Yale.” (St Louis) “This book contains selections from Latin-American authors dealing with episodes in their history, such as the death of Atahuallpa the Inca; the campaigns of Bolivar and San Martin, who drove out the Spaniard; and the sea fight off Iquique between the Peruvians and Chileans in 1879. The text is carefully annotated, with a vocabulary and maps.” (Spec)
Ind 91:234 Ag 11 ‘17 40w
Pittsburgh 22:694 O ‘17 10w
St Louis 15:325 S ‘17 10w
“Has clear maps and interesting illustrations.”
+ School R 25:303 Ap ‘17 20w
+ Spec 118:593 My 26 ‘17 90w
SURETTE, THOMAS WHITNEY. Music and life; a study of the relations between ourselves and music. *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 780.4 17-11124
A collection of essays on music, reprinted in part from the Atlantic Monthly. The book as a whole makes a fine and vigorous plea that music be accepted as a part of life rather than one of its ornaments or decorations. In his conclusion the author sums up the matter: “The relation between music and life is an intimate and vital relation. Any person, young or old who does not sing and to whom music has no meaning, is by just so much a poorer person in all that goes to make life happy, joyous and significant. Any community which employs no form of musical expression is by just so much inarticulate and disorganized as a community. Any church that buys its music and never produces any of its own loses just so much in spiritual power.” Contents: What is music; Music for children; Public school music; Community music; The opera; The symphony (two chapters).
“The chapters on ‘Public school music’ and ‘Community music’ are noteworthy, and there is some helpful discussion of the possible influence of music upon American life.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:388 Je ‘17
Cleveland p115 S ‘17 20w
Cleveland p125 N ‘17 60w
“Professor Surette is one of the most enthusiastic and successful leaders in the community music movement.”
Ind 90:595 Je 30 ‘17 40w
“He fails dismally in his attempt to prove that the German classical symphony is a coherent work of art instead of a mere suite of four incoherent pieces. There is a sensible chapter on opera, but by far the most valuable pages in this volume are concerned with Music for children, Public-school music, and Community singing. On these things Mr Surette speaks as an expert and an authority.” H: T. Finck
+ — Nation 105:546 N 15 ‘17 170w
Ontario Library Review 1:111 My ‘17 40w
“The chapter on music for children should interest all parents.”
+ R of Rs 56:445 O ‘17 100w
St Louis 15:177 Je ‘17
“He does not tear down without building up. Everywhere he offers remedial measures.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 My 4 ‘17 500w
SUTHERLAND, SAMUEL JAMES. Reserve officers’ handbook. il *$1.25 Houghton 355 17-18055
The author is a captain in the Twenty-third infantry, U.S.A., who has served as company commander at Plattsburg, as a member of the examining board for reserve officers, and as lecturer to applicants for commissions. He covers clearly and concisely administration and organization, small arms firing, field service regulations, topography, military law and miscellaneous topics, and reprints from the “Infantry drill regulations” of the United States army such extracts as are essential to the reserve officer, with corrections to January 9, 1917.
+ N Y Times 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 100w
Pittsburgh 22:695 O ‘17 10w
Pratt p15 O ‘17 40w
“Clear and concise.”
+ R of Rs 56:325 S ‘17 50w
St Louis 15:359 O ‘17 20w
545SWANSON, MARGARET. Needlecraft in the school. il *$1.50 Longmans 646 E17-742
This manual on needlecraft is divided into three sections. The first deals with sewing for children under 12 years and provides a section on boys’ sewing. Section 2 outlines work for those over 12 and includes millinery. Section 3 covers a course for the training college student. The work is very fully illustrated, with several full page pictures in color. Professor John Adams of the University of London writes an introduction in which he says, “A striking characteristic of the book is the appreciation of the child’s point of view. ... Students of Mr Macdougall’s ‘Social psychology’ will find in these pages many illustrations of the manipulation of instincts in the interests of education.”
“Stimulating in spite of possible criticism.”
+ — A L A Bkl 14:156 F ‘18
“Miss Swanson hails from the Glasgow school of art, where needlecraft flourishes as a vital force, and her name with that of Miss Macbeth of the same institution has already appeared on another of Messrs Longmans’ books on the subject, ‘Educational needlecraft,’ the scope of which is different from that of the present volume.”
+ Int Studio 61:144 My ‘17 400w
“It has 130 pages with large clearly rendered illustrations, six of which are in color. ... While some of the designs will not meet the approval of American taste, others will, and all are suggestive.”
+ School Arts Magazine 16:356 Ap ‘17 60w
“The wide range of subjects which may be grouped under the name ‘needlecraft,’ and their educational use, are here put before the reader in an interesting, we might well say an arresting, manner. ... This book will be of use to amateur teachers as well as to professional teachers and students.”
+ Spec 118:241 F 24 ‘17 150w
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Algernon Charles Swinburne. il *$2 (4c) Putnam 17-13753
This volume is made up largely of extracts from the letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Mrs Disney Leith’s recollections of her cousin, amplified from an article that appeared in the Contemporary Review in 1910, serve as an introduction. The letters date from 1855 on, but are not arranged in strict chronological order, as the editor has endeavored to arrange them somewhat by subject, grouping together those relating to distinguished persons, foreign travel, his work, etc. Many of them are family letters addressed to his mother and sisters.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ‘17 1400w
“A first feeling of disappointment comes when one discovers, at page 38, that the recollections are finished. The disappointment is a compound of surprise at their short length and mild anger at their lack of interest. ... The remaining 218 pages are given to letters of little or no interest, which contain no particularly valuable references to people or events. The whole volume contains practically nothing that Mr Gosse has not presented in his recent biography.”
— Dial 63:275 S 27 ‘17 240w
Ind 92:64 O 6 ‘17 850w
+ Nation 105:206 Ag 23 ‘17 200w
“It is his devotion to his mother that seems to have been the sustained absorbing passion of his life. ... The Swinburne that Mrs Leith’s volume reveals is an altogether lovable sort of being, as different as possible from the traditional caricature that passes for a genuine portrait of the poet.”
+ N Y Times 22:240 Je 24 ‘17 1100w
“It seems as if the letters, in particular, had been selected partly with a view to counteracting any conception that the general public may still retain of Swinburne as a morbid, hyperaesthetic or extravagantly eccentric man. ... But if one is unaffected by the mythical and anecdotal view of Swinburne—if what one chiefly wants is greater insight into the poet’s art and his ways of thinking and feeling, the present volume may prove unsatisfying.”
+ — No Am 206:314 Ag ‘17 800w
“Where may one begin or stop in the attempt to convey some idea of the contents, the interest, and the charm of so wholly delightful a book?”
+ Sat R 123:392 Ap 28 ‘17 800w
“Mrs Disney Leith’s reminiscences of Swinburne in boyhood, and the letters to his mother and sisters extending over a period of nearly fifty years, form a most valuable supplement, and to a certain extent a corrective, to Mr Gosse’s memoir.”
+ Spec 118:491 Ap 28 ‘17 550w
“A very delightful volume and a necessary supplement to Edmund Gosse’s recent biography.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 5 ‘17 1100w
“The letters, just because they are so unexpected, help us to understand him. He was a boy to the last.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p139 Mr 22 ‘17 830w
“It is hardly fair to compare the personal recollections of Mrs Disney Leith with the work of an experienced biographer like Mr Gosse; but, if the blunt truth must be told, her account of the poet in his family relations is both thin and dull, and adds nothing to our knowledge. ... Under her cautious shears everything that might make the poet a vital figure is shorn away.” C. B. Tinker
— Yale R n s 7:195 O ‘17 850w
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Posthumous poems; ed. by Edmund Gosse and T: James Wise. $2.50 P. R. Reynolds, 70 5th av., N.Y. 821 17-22667
“In his preface Mr Gosse tells us that the earliest of these poems was written in 1857, the latest in 1907. Among them are eleven Border ballads, written probably in the early ‘sixties,’ and these are the most interesting part of the book. Mr Gosse explains why they have not been published before. ... Mr Gosse prints the poem on The discovery of the North-west passage, with which Swinburne competed for the Newdigate in 1858, but did not win it. ... There is also a long ode to Mazzini which Mr Gosse proves to have been written early in 1857.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The remaining poems included in the collection reflect various aspects of Swinburne’s genius and character. None is devoid of interest, some are curious, and several are beautiful.” (Spec)
“There is much in this volume which lovers of English verse would not willingly have let die.”
+ Ath p362 Jl ‘17 150w
“The ballads, take them all in all, are interesting bits of work, and they alone would have made the volume worth publishing. Of the miscellaneous poems which occupy the rest of the volume, two or three are parodies, and one—‘Pope Celestin and Count Giordano’—is an extremely clever imitation of Robert Browning, not a parody, for there is no exaggeration in it, but a piece of good Browingesque work. ... Among the shorter pieces there are several of considerable charm, such as ‘Echo,’ ‘Evening by the sea,’ and ‘Æolus.’”
* + – Nation 105:345 S 27 ‘17 2350w
+ Sat R 124:sup4 Jl 7 ‘17 570w
+ Spec 118:701 Je 23 ‘17 1350w
“There is no poem in the book as good as his best; but the ballads reveal a power in him which was not fully revealed even in ‘A Jacobite’s exile.’”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p295 Je 21 ‘17 1100w
SWINNERTON, FRANK ARTHUR. Chaste wife. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-3573
There are some very pleasant and amusing people in this novel of English life. Its underlying theme is serious, concerning as it does the problem of adjustment between married lovers. Stephen Moore had known hardships and privation. 546His home life had been unhappy and he had carried the burden of support for his brother and sister and a good-for-nothing father. He had struggled upward to a position of prominence as a journalist and critic when he married Priscilla. Priscilla’s life had been one of sunshine and ease. In Stephen’s love for her there was an element of worship and in his mood of grave wonder and exaltation, it does not occur to him to tell her of the one dark incident in his past. It is not such a very dark incident either, but to Priscilla, with her simple and austere code of morals, it seems so. Sympathy and affection, and a sincere willingness to understand, help to solve her problem.
+ Bellman 22:442 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
“Mr Swinnerton writes so close to life itself that in our memory of his book it is not the story as a whole that stands out, but rather scenes, details and characters that beckon us irresistibly. It is the people rather than what they do that absorbingly interest us.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p9 Mr 24 ‘17 1150w
“Since the publication, a couple of years ago, of ‘The happy family,’ Frank Swinnerton has had a place on that comparatively brief list made up of the novelists who really count. This new story, however, is better than the earlier one, clever as that was.”
+ N Y Times 22:89 Mr 11 ‘17 850w
SWOPE, HERBERT BAYARD. Inside the German empire, in the third year of the war. il *$2 (3c) Century 940.91 17-3466
A book based on a series of articles written for the New York World in 1916 during a three months’ stay in Germany. The author had visited Germany soon after the beginning of the war and he gives interesting contrasts between the two periods. At the time of the first visit the German motto was “Siegen” (conquer); now it is “Durchhalten” (stick it out). He does not predict an early peace. Germany may be able to “stick it out” for an indefinite time to come. He writes of: The four ways toward peace; The war’s objectives as Germany sees them; Liberalizing Germany; The spirit of the beleaguered empire; German hatred of America: its causes; The menace of the U-boat; Germany and the American president; Business behind the battle line; Captive Belgium and northern France, etc. In few books written on the war has neutrality been so admirably preserved.
+ A L A Bkl 13:309 Ap ‘17
“Though many of his opinions must be discounted by the Russian revolution and America’s entry into the war, his book deserves thoughtful scrutiny.”
+ Ath p260 My ‘17 150w
“In reading both Mr Swope and Mr Curtin one feels that they tell the public what in their opinion the public wants to know. The result is a somewhat onesided picture, though it is a fascinating one.”
+ — Ath p346 Jl ‘17 330w
“His conclusions about Belgium we must regard, at best, as hasty. But of Germany herself, Mr Swope is in a position to be well informed. ... Mr Swope has much to tell that is interesting and new to us—about public opinion, internal organization, the trends of political thought, and the probable leaders of the future. His point of view may not always be accurate in detail, but it is evident that he is a shrewd observer, and a fair judge of the signs of the times.” R. M.
+ — Boston Transcript p8 Ja 24 ‘17 650w
“The tone of his writing is dispassionate and without bias.”
+ Cleveland p45 Mr ‘17 80w
“It gives Americans a view of the German people, which in vision, lack of bias, and kindly feeling could hardly be surpassed.”
+ Dial 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 450w
“Questions, of immense interest to the rest of the world, are answered in this highly interesting, well-written volume by a trained American journalist.”
+ Lit D 54:418 F 17 ‘17 500w
“It has been many a day since the appearance of so vital an account of contemporary German life and thinking as Herbert Bayard Swope offers in his book. ... Most promising for the future is his conviction that the war will permanently liberalize German social and political conventions.”
+ Nation 104:244 Mr 1 ‘17 250w
N Y Br Lib News 4:30 F ‘17
“Always bearing in mind the presence of the censor—for the author made his notes during a residence in Germany undertaken for that very purpose—we have here the sanest and most reasonable appearing digest of conditions in the German empire that has yet been made public.” J. W.
+ N Y Call p15 F 18 ‘17 400w
+ N Y Times 22:18 Ja 21 ‘17 400w
Pittsburgh 22:210 Mr ‘17 60w
“Some useful information, mingled with much that is doubtful, about the state of Germany during last autumn may be found in Mr Swope’s new book. ... Yet the book is of interest, especially as a warning that Germany is by no means exhausted or penitent and that the Allies have a very great deal more to do before they conquer.”
+ — Spec 118:676 Je 16 ‘17 130w
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ja 28 ‘17 650w
“Conceiving that the office of a reporter is to report and not to judge, he diligently repeats what he has been told by Herr Zimmermann and others and gives us the official German picture of contemporary German conditions. There is no evidence that he has observed anything for himself, or even that he has read the German papers. From a file of Vorwärts, or even the Berliner Tageblatt, one could easily refute his propositions in detail. ... ‘Rich and poor,’ writes Mr Swope, ‘fare alike.’ That also is untrue. The Socialists arise and say so, giving chapter and verse for their statements, as often as the Reichstag and the Landtag meet.”
— The Times [London] Lit Sup p170 Ap 12 ‘17 580w
“Rather expensive for the small library considering that the conditions described are transitory.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:124 Ap ‘17 70w
SYMONS, ARTHUR. Figures of several centuries. *$3 Dutton 804 17-13498
“The ‘figures’ in this collection of thoughtful and discriminative studies range from St Augustine to Baudelaire, from Villon and Donne to George Meredith and Sarojini Naidu, and from Flaubert and Ibsen to Charles Lamb and Emily Brontë.”—Ath
A L A Bkl 13:441 Jl ‘17
“Mr Symons writes, as ever, with a deep sense of the seriousness of art as an expression of personality and the meaning of life, and with as deep a sense and appreciation of beauty. His devotion to beauty of style leads him astray sometimes in his relative appreciation of prose works and poetical works. Thus Ibsen and Whitman, in our opinion, scarce get their due in comparison with poets who were not their peers.”
+ Ath p43 Ja ‘17 110w
“Few things more acutely critical than the nine pages that he modestly calls ‘A note on the genius of Thomas Hardy’ are to be found in modern criticism. ... He gives us no less emphatic a view of the other writers. It is, however, no injustice to him to rest his case as a critic upon this brief glimpse of his insight into Hardy.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 25 ‘17 1500w
+ Cleveland p105 S ‘17 40w
“Though Mr Symons is constantly bringing out books, none of the reviews and literary essays in the present one date within the past ten years; many of them are older than fifteen; one or two date back a quarter of a century; and some of them are early things recently—or less recently—retouched.”
Dial 62:445 My 17 ‘17 250w
547“His most unsympathetic essay treats of Ibsen. ... His most elaborate study is of the metrical accomplishments of Swinburne. The most subtle, penetrating, and intimate deals with John Donne.”
Nation 104:764 Je 28 ‘17 370w
“The reason why Mr Symons, one of the most sensitive among living critics, does not rank with the great critics, is easily found. His impressions are always recorded with exactness, and often with sober beauty. But they are the impressions of a critic who undervalues mere mind, who is not enough disturbed by its absence—see his essay on Swinburne—and who is deficient in moral insight—see the essay on Ibsen.” P. L.
+ — New Repub 10:379 Ap 28 ‘17 1300w
“It is eight years since the last publication in this country of a book by Arthur Symons. These random essays are not all of equal interest or value. But the book has in it much of loveliness, much of analysis, much of fine appreciation. It is to be welcomed heartily.”
+ N Y Times 22:233 Je 17 ‘17 500w
“In the study of Thomas Hardy, in a brief half-dozen pages, Symons has dissected and analyzed the novelist as story-teller, philosopher and psychologist in a piece of memorable and distinguished criticism.”
+ R of Rs 56:103 Jl ‘17 160w
+ Sat R 123:161 F 17 ‘17 1950w
“Sensitive Symons is, but not always sensible. At his best, when he is compact and restrained, he attains a combination of fresh insight and feeling expression that makes criticism a delight. In this collection he is often at his best. ... But Mr Symons in some of the later essays becomes the mere ‘enthusiast.’ And when he does he simply slops over.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p19 Je 10 ‘17 1200w
“These papers are for the most part short; but they are aimed so directly at the heart of the subject that in each case they seem to show us something we had missed before. And it is always done as the poet knows how to do it. ... Naturally we do not accept all that Mr Symons says; but we must consistently pay homage to the spirit in which he approaches these different writers.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p623 D 21 ‘16 1800w
SYMONS, ARTHUR.[2] Tristan and Iseult. new ed *$1.25 Brentano’s 822 17-13960
“One of the oldest themes in literature engages the pen of Arthur Symons in his poetic drama, ‘Tristan and Iseult.’ The subject has been popular in all countries in all ages. It has appeared in Irish folk legends, in the English Arthurian cycle, and in the minnelieder of Gottfried von Strassburg.” (Springf’d Republican) The story is here presented as “a blank verse tragedy [in four acts] of the love triangle of Iseult of Brittany, Iseult of Ireland and Tristan the harper.” (Cleveland)
“The lines make an emotional appeal but are not equal in beauty to the prose of Symons’ essays.”
+ — Cleveland p135 D ‘17 50w
“The finest piece of imaginative work that we have ever had from Arthur Symons. It has an enchantment that is hard to analyze. ‘Tristan and Iseult’ is ingenious and subtle; it is imaginative, too, and above all it has a personal soul.”
+ N Y Times 22:559 D 16 ‘17 930w
“Pleasant and skilful as is Mr Symons’s sensuous verse-making, neither emotionally nor in beauty of diction does the play attain the hights of which the theme is capable.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 29 ‘17 220w
“In his effort to keep his characters ‘natural’ Mr Symons has robbed them of some Attic grandeur; in his respect for their grandeur he has robbed them of some Elizabethan humanity. For all that, he is too fine a critic and too subtle a craftsman in poetry not to have made a thing of beauty.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p635 D 20 ‘17 890w
SYPHERD, WILBUR OWEN. Bibliography on “English for engineers.” *25c Scott 620.7 16-15643
“[This is] a useful list of articles on technical writing arranged under such headings as the importance of good English, the teaching of English to engineering students, and the composition of various kinds of technical papers, reports, and contracts, with an appendix containing suggestions for the formation of a technical library. The bibliography does not pretend to be exhaustive; ... it does index a mass of material that the ordinary English teacher would have difficulty in finding.”—Nation
“The list of recommended engineering books includes no titles later than January, 1916. The compiler’s ‘Handbook of English for engineers’ (Scott, Foresman, 1913) is one of the best of its type.”
A L A Bkl 13:329 My ‘17
“In scope it is limited strictly to technical composition in the narrower sense, in which sense the word ‘English’ in the title is to be understood. Perhaps the most valuable sections are those referring to material on the use of technical terms and on the writing of specifications. ... If a second edition is called for, the compiler could add immensely to the value of the bibliography by including, with the same admirable organization, some scientific material such as that in the tentative, wholly unorganized, and yet valuable ‘Bibliography of scientific and technical writing,’ published February 1 by Professors Raymond, Atkinson, and Starbuck of the Iowa State college of agriculture.”
+ Nation 105:261 S 6 ‘17 320w
St Louis 15:355 O ‘17 40w
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TABER, SUSAN.[2] Optimist. *$1.30 (2c) Duffield 17-22703
Twelve short stories on modern themes. Contents: The optimist; Two feminists; The spoiled child; The sword; His brother’s story; The winter of her discontent; The patriot; Alethia; The wedding veil; A legacy; Easter morning; Alice in wonderland.
“The author has remarkable ability in setting forth the meaningful episodes in her characters’ lives. In her economical use of material, too, she is skilful, giving in considerably less than the usual space illuminating glimpses into the past and clever characterizations besides.”
+ Dial 63:597 D 6 ‘17 100w
“Stories neither especially good especially poor in quality, make up this new volume by Susan Taber. Several of the tales are based upon rather clever ideas, but they are not very well developed.”
+ — N Y Times 22:414 O 21 ‘17 180w
TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA). Cycle of spring. *$1.25 Macmillan 891.4 17-6670
This play, which in its original Bengali was presented by the boys of the poet’s school at Bolpur, makes use of the device of a play within a play. A king who has just discovered his first gray hairs is overcome with the melancholy of old age. He neglects his affairs of state and chooses as his only companion a pundit who preaches the doctrine of resignation. Then a poet who sings the joy of life persuades him to witness a play he has written. This play is a merry allegory in which fleet-footed Youth pursues Old Age, unmasks him and finds him a sham. Age is only Youth disguised.
A L A Bkl 14:15 O ‘17
“This reads throughout so obviously as a translation—we would almost say of the untranslatable—that it fails to give pleasure, and leaves but a vague impression. The translation 548of a mystical work calls specially for lucidity and exactness of phrase, and the translation of a poetical work also calls for dignity of style: this gives neither.”
— Ath p200 Ap ‘17 80w
“Like Tagore’s other plays, the volume contains many charming lyrics. It is pungent, too, with a growing spirit of irony; and one notes the passionate praise of activity, which is as essentially the Bengali poet’s message to the East, as contemplation and repose may be said to sum up his message to the West.”
+ Cath World 106:247 N ‘17 160w
“Charm and buoyancy the play undoubtedly had in the original, the reader feels, but also that the qualities were too elusive to catch and fix in an English translation.”
+ — Cleveland p75 Je ‘17 90w
“Tagore’s greatly overestimated wit, wisdom, mysticism, pleasantness, cast again their glamor. Considered as a play ‘The cycle’ lacks, however, complicating forces, and, therefore, development, characterization, interest, climax. It is chaotic art. Considered as poetry its lyrical interludes are mostly imperfect, meaningless, or prosy.”
— Ind 91:512 S 29 ‘17 160w
“I am not imperceptive of its cunning and winning ways; I am alive to something half-celestial in the daintiness, the sleekness, and the pliancy of its wavy and murmurous English. But my heart remains hard; I do not like books that put up their mouths to be kissed.” O. W. Firkins
— Nation 105:176 Ag 16 ‘17 290w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
— N Y Call p14 Ap 29 ‘17 150w
“Not only do brightness and gayety inform the spirit of the book, but humor bubbles through it, and every now and then it sparkles with wit, wit that sometimes is sharply barbed for a thrust at some meanness in human nature.”
+ N Y Times 22:87 Mr 11 ‘17 500w
Pittsburgh 22:409 My ‘17
+ R of Rs 55:663 Je ‘17 60w
“The Indian poet dramatist at his happiest.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Je 3 ‘17 500w
TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA). My reminiscences. il *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 17-12485
This book does not pretend to be a complete biography. The author says, “It is as literary material that I offer my memory pictures. To take them as an attempt at autobiography would be a mistake. In such a view these reminiscences would appear useless as well as incomplete.” Most of the reminiscences are drawn from boyhood and early youth. The translator says that they were written and published in the author’s fiftieth year, shortly before he started on a trip to Europe and America in 1912.
A L A Bkl 14:58 N ‘17
“Intrinsically interesting as a record of a life mostly passed amid surroundings unfamiliar to most European readers, and of the mental, moral, and literary development of a distinguished man, these reminiscences have an intrinsic charm, due to the felicitous lightness of the style—for which a share of the laurels must in fairness be awarded to the translator—and to the shrewd aphorisms and touches of gentle irony scattered over Sir Rabindranath’s pages.”
+ Ath p418 Ag ‘17 550w
+ Ind 92:56 O 6 ‘17 150w
+ Lit D 54:2008 Je 30 ‘17 250w
“The book, though somewhat elusive in manner, presents an interesting picture of a boy’s life in a large household before European customs had encroached on the native manner. It permits one to understand also the sort of intellectual and moral atmosphere that enveloped the budding poet.”
+ Nation 104:662 My 31 ‘17 470w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p15 Jl 22 ‘17 130w
“If the book is not very illuminating to a critic, it is perhaps for the majority of persons the most surely rewarding of Tagore’s books, and it is capable of casting a spell upon the imagination even of those who care little for the author’s poetry. ... The whole narrative is marked not only by poetic qualities but by a spirit of kindness, gayety, and humor, the adequate expression of which in literature is as rare as are successful flights of fancy.”
+ No Am 206:135 Jl ‘17 600w
“Interesting, mystical, dreamy; but as a biography not satisfactory. One wants to know about Sir Rabindranath’s school and its methods, about his principles of education, his view of English civilization and the English people, his judgment on the relation of the English government to India; but on these subjects, the author is absolutely silent. The chief value of the book is as a self-revelation of an oriental mind.”
+ — Outlook 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 80w
+ R of Rs 56:329 S ‘17 50w
St Louis 15:376 O ‘17 20w
“The volume is the history of a mind which seems to us excessively self-centred in introspection. We think the translator might have added to the explanatory notes. Only towards the end of the book, does he come to that mystical revelation which lifts the cover of triviality from the everyday world and suppresses the ever imminent sense of self. To some the pages describing this experience will seem idle, mere dreams from the ivory gate; to others they will be the most significant in the book.”
+ — Sat R 124:67 Jl 28 ‘17 800w
“Well worth a place in literature. ... In the frankness of its self-revelation and the naïveté combined with the latent vigour of the style, it reminds us of Yoshio Markino’s ‘When I was a child’; but there the resemblance ends. ... It contains much to attract even those who are not interested in the psychological aspects of literature: quaint character sketches of teachers, friends, and fellow-students, vivid pictures of Indian habits and scenery, analyses of child mentality done with extraordinary insight and sympathy.”
+ Spec 119:191 Ag 25 ‘17 850w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p379 Ag 9 ‘17 2500w
TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA). Nationalism. *$1.25 (5½c) Macmillan 327 17-22891
“A nation, in the sense of the political and economic union of a people, is that aspect which a whole population assumes when organized for a mechanical purpose.” It is in this sense that Rabindranath Tagore finds the nation inimical to the good of humanity. India offers a concrete example of humanity suffering under the mechanical efficiency of the nation. His criticism is not directed against the British nation as such but against the ideal of the “western nation.” He distinguishes between the spirit of the West and the nation of the West. The spirit of the West has much to give to the East that would be willingly received. The “western nation” is held responsible for the world war. The first essay, Nationalism in the West was prepared for delivery as a lecture in the United States. Essays on Nationalism in Japan; Nationalism in India, and a poem: The sunset of the century, complete the contents.
“He has produced a thoughtful book, and one that western people will be the better for reading.”
+ Ath p522 O ‘17 220w
Bookm 46:286 N ‘17 70w
Cleveland p8 Ja ‘18 40w
“His lectures are well worth reading, but they do not furnish leadership.”
+ — Outlook 118:222 F 6 ‘18 140w
Pittsburgh 22:830 D ‘17 90w
549“We need not perhaps take too serious a view of a poet’s whimsical and partly humorous incursion into a field with which he is not familiar.”
— Spec 119:386 O 13 ‘17 1400w
“If we do not think the poet’s view fair, we may allow that, from his standpoint it is explicable. ... As to immediate practical problems, the book does not give much guidance. ... It is enough that he indicates evils and dangers in the present system. It is for us to recognize those evils and dangers, and consider the way of salvation.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p435 S 13 ‘17 2200w
TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA). Personality. il *$1.35 (3c) Macmillan 891.4 17-13755
“The text is composed of half-a-dozen lectures in which is developed the idea of art as a spontaneous expression of personality, and of meditation as a passive surrender of the soul to the influx of the world.” (Nation) Sir Rabindranath also gives an account of his school for boys, and sets forth his views on woman, who will, he thinks, find her true place when we get a civilization based “upon spiritual ideals of reciprocity, and not upon economic ideals of efficiency.” Contents: What is art; The world of personality; The second birth; My school; Meditation; Woman. There are six full-page pictures of the author.
A L A Bkl 14:51 N ‘17
“In a somewhat lighter vein than Sãdhanã and permeated with the same ideas of individualism, mysticism and optimism.”
+ Cleveland p105 S ‘17 30w
“Tagore is true to the mystical type. ... As an example of how differently the thing may be done, one turns to Samuel Butler’s argument in his ‘God the known and God the unknown.’ ... Butler’s little volume should be read with Tagore’s ‘The world of personality.’ ... The chapter entitled ‘The second birth’ is not only clear and coherent where the preceding chapter is muddled and topsy-turvy, but is a well-sustained study in place of a hodgepodge of dubious, more or less related observations.” M. C. Otto
+ — Dial 63:269 S 27 ‘17 1250w
“The reader who succeeds in entering at all into the spirit of these discussions will not fail to see that in all of them the author is saying something about where the true life of personality lies. His ruling conception is clearly not the familiar one. He is as far as possible from identifying personality with that in a man which is peculiar and exclusive. Personality is not that which breaks out in the foibles and eccentricities of an individual. ‘Living one’s own life in truth,’ Tagore says, ‘is living the life of all the world.’ And in that phrase we have pretty much the focus of his vision. The lectures are greatly taken up with the task of showing what is personal in man and in the universe. The universe is a person. It has a soul.” J. W. Scott
+ Hibbert J 16:160 O ‘17 2650w
Ind 92:56 O 6 ‘17 50w
+ Lit D 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 250w
Nation 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 300w
R of Rs 56:329 S ‘17 150w
St Louis 15:373 O ‘17 30w
“The whole tenor of Tagore’s book is deeply religious, but everywhere he protests against formalism in religion, as against formalism in thought.”
Springf’d Republican p6 S 25 ‘17 450w
“Personality, if we can imagine it made the subject of an actual painting, as, let us say, motherhood has been, is here handled in Botticelli’s manner rather than in Murillo’s—as, primarily, an act of faith rather than as a piece of truth.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p259 My 31 ‘17 1450w
TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).[2] Sacrifice, and other plays. *$1.50 Macmillan 891.4 17-28833
Includes the four new plays. Sanyasi or The ascetic, Malini, Sacrifice and The king and queen. The title play’s underlying theme is the wrong to life in slaying animals for sacrifice. When King Govinda beholds the grief of a beggar girl whose goat has been slain for sacrifice, he orders that no more blood be shed in the temple “from to-day forever.” Then priests rise up with the time worn sentiments on their lips, “That which has the sanction of ages, do you have the right to remove it?” and “He has defied you and me, all scriptures, all countries, all times.” The king typifies the spirit of knowledge and understanding fighting its way to freedom against superstition and blind faith.
“While the technic of these plays closely resembles that of the previous collection, the teachings are more forceful, and emerge from the philosophy of the East in sharp, definite outlines which are satisfying to the western mind.”
+ R of Rs 57:109 Ja ‘18 160w
TAKEDA IZUMO. Pine-tree (Matsu). il *$1.25 Duffield 895 16-25134
“The pine-tree,” the Japanese drama presented here, is a version of the play produced by the Washington Square players of New York city during the season of 1916-17 under the title “Bushido.” It is a play based on the Japanese ideal of loyalty. The play itself is preceded by a discussion of the Japanese theater by M. C. Marcus, with chapters on Some glimpses of old Japanese literature; The elements of Japanese drama; Early tragedy and comedy; Development of the drama; The classical period—Takeda Izumo and his “Pine-tree”; and Theatrical customs. The version of the play presented is an adaptation, not a translation.
“The genius of the Japanese dramatist triumphs. He has conceived the central situation with such vividness and power, he has shown us the passion of loyalty with such reality, that we accept for the moment the Japanese ethical doctrine alien as it is to our own.” H. E. Woodbridge
+ — Dial 62:67 Ja 25 ‘17 650w
N Y Br Lib News 3:151 O ‘16
“It can safely be said that one of the greatest achievements in dramatic art for many years was the presentation by the Washington Square players of ‘Bushido,’ one act taken from a Japanese play by Takeda Izumo, a famous dramatist who lived during the first half of the eighteenth century. ... ‘The pine tree’ (Matzu), is another name for ‘Bushido.’ ... This little volume, with its artistic make up, consisting of a liberal sprinkling of Japanese drawings copied from the British museum, its illuminating and very readable essay on the Japanese drama and then the play itself makes a book really worth owning and reading many times.” M. G. S.
+ N Y Call p14 F 18 ‘17 400w
“The most interesting part of this little volume is the dissertation on Japanese literature and drama which it includes.”
+ Outlook 115:114 Ja 17 ‘17 40w
Pratt p31 Jl ‘17 10w
TALBOT, NEVILLE STUART. Thoughts on religion at the front. *80c Macmillan 17-18383
“Mr Talbot arrives at the conclusion that ‘on the whole there is not a great articulate revival of the Christian religion at the front.’ As one of the causes, he admits, as an Anglican, that ‘religion as taught by the Church of England has a feeble grip on the masses,’ and, taking a wider view, he does not think that ‘Christianity as at present expressed and presented to men in the church (in the wider sense of the word) is prima facie that which can win and possess them.’ Too much emphasis is 550laid on things not characteristically Christian; while the ecclesiasticism of ‘Catholic Christianity’ and the subjectivism of ‘Protestantism’ both interfere with the appeal of Christianity through the church.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Ath p95 F ‘17 130w
“It contains barely a hundred pages of large type, but every page is full of matter. ... For Mr Talbot has a rare gift of insight and an unusual candour; and his study of the religion of the British soldier, officer and private, has given him an idea of the strength and weakness of British religion generally,”
+ Spec 118:543 My 12 ‘17 340w
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 16 ‘17 370w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“A sincere and candid little book.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p59 F 1 ‘17 230w
TALBOT, WINTHROP,[2] comp. and ed. Americanization. (Handbook ser.) *$1.50 Wilson, H. W. 325.7 18-1496
“This volume on Americanism and Americanization is offered as a means for further clarifying our national thought in regard to present vital problems.” (Explanatory note) The book consists of selected reprints, including both prose and poetry, arranged to form three parts: Principles of Americanism; Essentials of Americanization; Technic of race assimilation. In part 3 attention is given to the part played by school, home, library, labor union, etc, in the Americanization of the immigrant. A classified bibliography of forty pages is a feature of the volume.
“A useful book for any one interested in the problem of making a good, clean amalgam out of the heterogeneous contents of our racial melting-pot.”
+ Outlook 118:194 Ja 30 ‘18 50w
“The editor has succeeded in elucidating by a sufficient number of quotations and extracts those phases of that process which just now hold public attention and permit of rapid progress in spite of war conditions.” B. L.
+ Survey 39:526 F 9 ‘18 150w
TARBELL, IDA MINERVA. Life of Abraham Lincoln. new ed 2v il *$5 (2½c) Macmillan 17-25788
The scheme of things that made Lincoln a leader of democracy more than fifty years ago takes on new meaning and interest as we try to throw light on the scheme of things that has forced another great president into similar leadership. Especially timely, therefore, is the reappearance of this Lincoln biography, published first in 1900. A twenty-page preface points out the notable new material that has bean added to the collections of Lincolniana in the past seventeen years; and shows both that these recent contributions enlarge Lincoln and clear up our view of him and that, in putting down the strength and the weakness of him over and over again, we know him better and can judge him more fairly both as man and leader.
“In the present crisis of the nation I do not know any better biography, any better book, indeed, any more encouraging, more illuminating, than the story of the life of the greatest of all Americans. And no one has told that story in a better, more informing way than has Miss Tarbell.” F. F. Kelly
+ Bookm 46:325 N ‘17 1100w
“The seventeen years since the first publication of this book have strengthened the verdict then given that it is one of the most vivid and authentic biographies ever written of ‘the first American.’”
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 14 ‘17 250w
Reviewed by L. E. Robinson
Dial 64:148 F 14 ‘18 1750w
“One of the most authoritative and reliable biographies of the martyred president. ... There is a report of what is known as the ‘Last speech,’ a most important contribution in itself.”
+ Lit D 55:52 D 8 ‘17 150w
“The twenty-page new preface which she writes for this edition is notable for its very able summing up of the influence which recent publications exert upon our conception of Lincoln and for its firm envisaging of Lincoln in the light of this new knowledge.”
+ N Y Times 22:445 N 4 ‘17 500w
TARLEAU, LISA YSAYE. Inn of disenchantment. *$1.25 (8c) Houghton 814 17-24509
Contents: The princess and the dragon; The true story of Bluebeard; Facts; The eidolon; The new leaf; Cheering a lady; Sousa; Questions; Spring; Grand’ma Ninon; Psychical research; The irrational lady; These degenerate days; Magic advertisements; Arcadia.
+ A L A Bkl 14:159 F ‘18
“Anyone cherishing the belief that a charming and perfect style should be the characteristic of the essay and taking up ‘The inn of disenchantment’ would find in the very first sentence some color for thinking that instead of being an inn of disenchantment it was a book of disenchantment. Yet that is the end of our censure. The fifteen essays are quite delightful. The humor is subtle.” N. H. D.
+ — Boston Transcript p8 N 21 ‘17 550w
+ Cleveland p134 D ‘17 50w
+ Nation 105:724 D 27 ‘17 150w
“Fifteen little essays, ... written, nearly all of them, in a minor key. ... Disenchantment, the charm of the unattainable, life’s compromises—these form the bases of the themes. A delicate touch, a feeling for the values of words, makes them unusually attractive, though at times they become a little too precise.”
+ — N Y Times 22:388 O 7 ‘17 100w
+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 27 ‘17 200w
TASHIRO, SHIRO. Chemical sign of life. (Science ser.) il *$1 Univ. of Chicago press 577 17-8224
The author is instructor in physiological chemistry in the University of Chicago. “This little book by the inventor of the biometer tells of the discovery of a chemical method of distinguishing living from dead tissue and of measuring the quantity of life, and explains the modus operandi.” (Boston Transcript)
“Of great value to the student; the public in general will care only for results.”
Boston Transcript p7 S 12 ‘17 120w
+ Nation 104:561 My 3 ‘17 450w
+ Nature 100:186 N 8 ‘17 90w
N Y Br Lib News 4:76 My ‘17
St Louis 15:141 My ‘17 10w
TATLOCK, JESSIE MAY. Greek and Roman mythology. il *$1.50 Century 292 17-3155
“Miss Tatlock, the author of the present volume of mythology, is a teacher at Miss Spence’s school in New York City. Both for brevity and simplicity she has tried only to include the best-known and most attractive of the classical myths. In her index she makes mention of many which space has forbidden to her to include. In order that the student may be able to retain as much as possible of the subject, Miss Tatlock has tried to mention only the important names in telling the stories. Moreover by cross reference and reiteration she has striven to impress these names on the minds of readers, so that they will remain fixed.”—Boston Transcript
“In no way supplants Gayley as a comprehensive reference manual; but its simplicity of language, clearness of arrangement and distinctness of print make it especially attractive as a text book for the younger student and for the general public seeking a pleasant acquaintance with the subject. Both illustrations and quotations are taken entirely from Greek and 551Roman sources, and Greek names are used in preference to Roman. Thus it has more unity and is more Greek in feeling than Guerber, although gives more details.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:4 O ‘17
“In every way an admirable textbook for the use of students.”
+ Boston Transcript p9 Mr 24 ‘17 190w
+ Ind 91:231 Ag 11 ‘17 60w
“Appendices give the pronunciation of names and a list of poems and dramas based on the myths. Ninety-nine illustrations add to the value. ... The publishers have used calendered paper throughout and provided a neat and substantial binding. The volume is valuable alike for classes and as a reference-book in the home for those who have no dictionary of mythology.”
+ Lit D 54:269 Ap 28 ‘17 280w
“There are many people who do not believe that children should be allowed to read these myths, because they are not considered as conducive to a high standard of morals. This book easily dispels such fears, for any boy or girl of high school age can read and enjoy all of the stories without any danger to his or her morals.” J. G. Glassberg
+ N Y Call p15 Ap 29 ‘17 600w
N Y Times 22:530 D 2 ‘17 50w
“These versions of the most famous and interesting of the stories of Greek mythology are brief, simple and readable.”
+ R of Rs 56:553 N ‘17 40w
“The chief merit of this book, which places it above the Guerber and Gayley textbooks on mythology, is its unity. ... The appendixes are extremely valuable for general reference. The pictures of standard works of art are worthy of favorable comment.” Adaline Lincoln
+ School R 25:301 Ap ‘17 270w
TAUBENHAUS, JACOB JOSEPH. Culture and diseases of the sweet pea; with an introd. by Melville T. Cook. il *$1.75 Dutton 716 17-16080
“In the preface the announcement is made that this book is primarily intended to be a practical treatise for use by both growers of sweet peas and investigators. ... The first eighty-nine pages are devoted to explicit cultural directions which have been prepared for the author by specialists. The following ninety-five pages are given to a consideration of greenhouse and field troubles, including nine diseases of fungous origin, one of bacterial origin and a brief summary of the several insect pests. Due space is given in the closing chapters, in a clear, concise manner, to methods of prevention and control of these maladies.” (Science) “The author is a plant pathologist and physiologist in charge at the Experiment station of the Agricultural and mechanical college of Texas.” (R of Rs)
A L A Bkl 14:84 D ‘17
Reviewed by M. T. Cook
+ Bot Gaz 65:194 F ‘18 160w
Ind 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 40w
“Prof. Melville T. Cook, of Rutgers college, commends the book as both practical and scientific, equally useful to the layman, the commercial grower and the scientist.”
+ R of Rs 56:220 Ag ‘17 100w
“The person of less than collegiate training would find himself hopelessly lost if he attempted to wade through certain paragraphs in this book. ... The book is well and amply illustrated, is unusually free from typographical errors and gives the impression of being condensed yet complete.” F. A. Wolf
+ + — Science n s 46:316 S 28 ‘17 350w
“The only book of its kind to which the amateur sweet-pea grower may turn for complete instructions on the growing and care of sweet peas.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 2 ‘17 220w
TAYLOR, A. H. E. Future of the southern Slavs. *$3 (3c) Dodd 949.7 (Eng ed 17-29200)
“My object,” says the author, “has been to attempt to set forth the main features of the southern Slav problem as they exist to-day, and the solution at which we should aim. Of necessity, in discussing territorial questions I have assumed such a complete victory for the Allies as will result in the dismemberment of Austria.” (Preface) The book is made up of the following chapters: A plea for Serbia; A sketch of Serb history; The renascence of Serbia; The problem of the Adriatic; Proposed frontiers; Macedonia: the Serbo-Bulgarian treaty of 1912; The settlement with Bulgaria; The future southern Slav state; Some problems of the new state; The European importance of the southern Slavs. There is one large folding map.
Ath p531 O ‘17 120w
“This book is, in fact, a conclusive demonstration of the wisdom of the buffer state theory, an unanswerable argument for the fusion of the southern Slavs, whether in a federal, dual, or unitary state. It should be widely read. Mention must be made of the ethnographic map included in the volume by permission of the Jugoslav committee.”
+ N Y Times 22:508 D 2 ‘17 550w
“Mr Taylor discusses fully and frankly the problem of the eastern Adriatic, but, like a good many ardent friends of Serbia, he is far less sympathetic to Italy than he ought to be.”
+ — Spec 119:356 O 6 ‘17 1350w
“His chapter on this topic [Italy and Dalmatia] is interesting, well argued, and adequately fortified with historical analogies. ... One of the most valuable sections of Mr Taylor’s book is his sympathetic account of the death, dormancy, and resurrection of the Serbian people.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p485 O 11 ‘17 1650w
TAYLOR, CHARLES FREMONT. Conclusive peace; presenting the historically logical, and a feasible, plan of action for the coming peace conference, which will coordinate and harmonize Europe, and the world. 50c (1½c) Winston 341 17-4982
The author says, “In the past, treaties of peace have contained the seeds of future war because they have not provided means by which peace may lead to continued peace. Peace having been used in the preparation for war and in sowing the seeds of war, the natural and inevitable result was war. Such a peace has never been and cannot be conclusive. ... As long as the minds of Europe dwell on competitive national military power instead of on peaceful international cooperation for mutual benefit, there can be no conclusive peace.” His purpose in this book is to outline a plan for cooperation. Some of his practical suggestions are free access to the seas for all nations, a European commerce commission, a permanent international congress.
“Mr Taylor’s little book, however frankly amateurish in approach, does suggest that the average American can think about the war without overmuch affection or hostility for either side. It is neutral in the best sense. Yet it necessarily has the defects of such a virtue—while not doctrinaire, ‘A conclusive peace’ is a bit too impatient with the muddle of actual passions and hopes, too confident that the essential reasonableness of a harmonized Europe will of itself create harmony. But one genuinely constructive suggestion does emerge.”
+ — New Repub 50:55 F 10 ‘17 350w
N Y Br Lib News 4:9 Ja ‘17
“In the simple form in which Mr Taylor first presents the idea it is well worth considering, but he finally rides it rather fast and far and even overworks his imagination in providing it with detailed developments.”
+ — N Y Times 22:35 F 4 ‘17 110w
+ — Springf’d Republican p17 Mr 11 ‘17 250w
TAYLOR, CHARLES KEEN.[2] Boys’ camp manual. il *$1.25 Century 355.7 17-22879
“A handbook of military and all-round training.” (Sub-title) Contents: Organization of camps and weekly-schedule; Establishing the camp; Physical training; Formal military drill; 552Signaling; Field and other exercises; Camp interests and special observations. The author is director of Camp Penn, under military-age camp near Plattsburgh.
A L A Bkl 14:78 D ‘17
TAYLOR, HANNIS. Cicero, a sketch of his life and works. il *$3.50 McClurg 16-20121
“This new survey of the great Roman statesman’s career, written from the viewpoint of an American student of constitutions, ancient and modern, presents Cicero as the ideal defender of the Roman constitution, and the ‘embodiment of the departing spirit of Roman republicanism.’ Some of the chapter headings may serve to indicate the way in which Dr Taylor has grouped and marshalled his materials: Stoic philosophy and Roman law; Cicero’s Greek culture; The Roman bar in Cicero’s time; The Roman constitution; Cicero as leader of the Roman bar; Cicero as a statesman; Cicero and Pompey; Cicero and Cæsar; The duel to the death of Antony.”—R of Rs
“The most interesting chapters deal with the Roman constitution and the Roman bar in the height of its power. On the whole the life is written in too laudatory a strain, and Cicero’s influence on early Christian thought exaggerated. An excellent and complete anthology of Cicero’s most striking utterances concludes the volume.”
+ — Cath World 105:400 Je ‘17 110w
“In dealing with Cicero as a man, Mr Taylor writes from an entirely sympathetic point of view, yielding in no particular to the Drumann-Mommsen assault, which is now very generally regarded as having injured the fame of two eminent German historians far more than that of Cicero. ... As ‘a commentary on the Roman constitution,’ the book is not adequate. ... The Ciceronian ‘anthology’ with which the book closes was a project so well worth while that it should have been based upon a very thorough and independent rereading of Cicero’s entire works. As it stands, much of the material has been picked up from secondary sources, with a certain amount of annoying and unnecessary repetition, and displaying various grades of skill, or want of skill, in translation.”
+ — Dial 62:403 My 3 ‘17 950w
+ Lit D 54:267 F 3 ‘17 700w
N Y Br Lib News 3:182 D ‘16
R of Rs 54:681 D ‘16 100w
TAYLOR, JAY LAIRD BURGESS. Handbook for rangers and woodsmen. il *$2.50 Wiley 634.9 17-1185
This work, by a forest ranger in the United States forest service, is not to be considered an official publication, says the author. It has been prepared however with the permission of the Secretary of agriculture, who has given criticism and advice. Its object is “to serve as a guide for inexperienced men in woods work.” The author has had in mind the problems that confront the ranger in government, state or private employ, but he expresses the belief that the book may be of value to others whose work or recreation takes them into the woods. Contents: Equipment; Construction work; General field work; Live stock; Miscellaneous. Tables and other items of information are given in an appendix. There are numerous illustrations and diagrams, a glossary and an index. The book is of convenient pocket size.
N Y Br Lib News 4:44 Mr ‘17
“‘This handbook is welcome as a most valuable addition to our forest literature, since it is believed that it will be of inestimable value to both those who are just starting in the profession and to the older men who want a reference work on the various practical subjects covered.’” R. C. B.
+ Pittsburgh 22:348 Ap ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of Forestry p124 Ja ‘17)
“‘Mr Taylor has prepared a useful handbook for those who are inexperienced in woodcraft, which was compiled after eight years of field work with the United States forest service. ... Numerous illustrations aid in giving an understanding of the text.’”
+ Pittsburgh 22:467 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Forest Leaves p31 Ap ‘17)
St Louis 15:174 Je ‘17
TAYLOR, KATHARINE HAVILAND. Cecilia of the pink roses. il *$1.25 (2½c) Doran 17-13951
Cecilia was born in a tenement and this is a story of her gradual ascent in social life and her natural sweet-heartedness through all the trials that the process involved. Her mother died of hardship and when, after her death, through his knowledge of bricks and a kindly priest’s knowledge of the world, her father made money, everything that would have been lavished upon the wife was showered upon the daughter. It was the priest who guided Cecilia through her difficulties from childhood to marriage, and in spite of the charm of the heroine, Father McGowan remains the outstanding character of the book.
“Not since the advent of Pollyanna have we found in fiction a little girl who seemed to promise so much in the way of popularity as does this little Cecilia. ... The story is essentially a love story. Everyone, including the hero, is in love with Cecilia from the first. ... Sympathy and humor run through the story.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ‘17 460w
“Frankly sentimental books often disarm the worldly-wise by simple charm. Katharine Haviland Taylor has done this in her first book. Apart from minor faults—such as dragging the unwarned reader too suddenly from one scene to another, and frequent repetition of the same word in a paragraph—‘Cecilia of the pink roses’ is as sweet and fresh as the flowers themselves.”
+ Dial 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 60w
N Y Times 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 200w
“This is the author’s first book, and while it is perhaps a bit overenthusiastic and somewhat loosely put together, it is pretty and entertaining in its picture of charming young girlhood.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 5 ‘17 320w
TAYLOR, WILLIAM THOMAS, and BRAYMER, DANIEL HARVEY. American hydroelectric practice. il *$5 McGraw 621.34 17-15204
“More than one-half of the volume is taken up with electrical subjects. The hydraulic material is given in the first two chapters and in a few tables and diagrams. This hydraulic material, as stated in the preface, has been largely supplied by Mr Taylor. ... The work carries the subtitle, ‘A compilation of useful data and information on the design, construction and operation of hydro-electric systems from the penstocks to distribution lines,’ which well describes its scope. A considerable portion of the contents consists of articles which have appeared in technical journals, particularly descriptions of hydro-electric plants.”—Engin News-Rec
“A useful work of reference. ... A notable and commendable feature of the book is the entire absence of half-tone illustrations. Line drawings are used throughout, thus obviating the necessity of using paper with a highly glazed surface and showing clearly, in diagrams and cross-sections, what could not be presented so exactly and with sufficient detail in any other way.” Alfred Still
+ — Electrical Review 71:243 Ag 11 ‘17 500w
“The book suffers from the limitations of the second-hand nature of its contents and from its general plan. ... Difficulties arising from the use of borrowed material are noticeable. ... Much reliance should not be placed on the material in the book without independently checking its accuracy.” L: F. Moody
– + Engin News-Rec 79:323 Ag 16 ‘17 1450w
“Excellent bibliography.”
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p8 Jl ‘17 70w
Pittsburgh 22:659 O ‘17 100w
553TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER), comp. Answering voice; one hundred love lyrics by women. *$1.25 Houghton 811.08 17-25293
The author has collected here “the most beautiful love-lyrics written in English by women since the middle of the last century.” (Preface) Only two of the hundred lyrics included are of an earlier date—Lady Barnard’s “Auld Robin Gray” and Susanna Blamire’s “Siller crown.” No long poems are included, and no translations, and the compiler has avoided “poems in which the poet dramatized a man’s feelings rather than her own.” Some of the authors included are: Amy Lowell, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Moira O’Neill, Edith M. Thomas, Sarojini Naidu, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Harriet Monroe, Alice Meynell and Grace Fallow Norton. There is an index of first lines and an index of authors.
A L A Bkl 14:87 D ‘17
“Miss Teasdale has not taken away the joy of discovery by giving us only poems already belonging to us. We are the richer by many lovely things unknown before, and while all anthologies have their heights and their levels, one wanders through this one with few disappointments and with an almost constant sense of charm and beauty.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ Bookm 46:441 D ‘17 870w
“No one has written better love songs than [the compiler] has in the past ten years, and so she brings to her task of selection a perfect understanding of the mood in all its various keys. Her very greatest service by virtue of her original ability is in purging the emotions of sentimentality, presenting only the pure gold of sentiment. ... Practically all the most important women writers of today are represented.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 26 ‘17 550w
+ Cleveland p134 D ‘17 110w
“The bulk of the selections is from the work of American women. Of these Edith Wharton’s sonnet beginning ‘Yet for one rounded moment I will be’ for intensity of feeling, intellectual strength, passionate color and poetic grace and beauty does not suffer when compared with the sonnets of Mrs Browning.”