Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 43)

+ N Y Times 22:515 D 2 ‘17 340w

“The anthology does not represent one school or one period to the exclusion of any other. One or two of the poems have plots or stories connected with them, but as a rule the verses are independent lyrics—lyrics abounding in images of purity and dependence. Unlike love poems written by men, they are singularly lacking in passion.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 O 12 ‘17 290w

TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER). Love songs. *$1.25 Macmillan 811 17-25236

“Besides new poems, this book contains lyrics taken from ‘Rivers to the sea,’ ‘Helen of Troy and other poems,’ and one or two from an earlier volume.” (Prefatory note) Some of the poems hitherto unpublished in book form appeared in Harper’s, Century, Scribner’s, Poetry, and other periodicals.

+ A L A Bkl 14:121 Ja ‘18

“Here is the impulsive, wholly unconscious charm that belongs to everything Miss Teasdale writes. She is the Elizabethan of to-day; one of the purest and clearest voices in our poetic literature.” J. B. Rittenhouse

+ Bookm 46:442 D ‘17 480w

“A gathering of her very best songs written to date. Love is illuminated in these songs as it has not been illuminated before by a single poet, in American poetry. Every mood is pure, whether it is joy or sorrow, yearning or denial; and the purity of emotion is fully matched by a golden simplicity of expression.” W. S. B.

+ Boston Transcript p7 N 10 ‘17 1150w

+ Cleveland p5 Ja ‘18 60w

“A bookful of loveliness is this new volume of Sara Teasdale’s verse: new not in the sense that all the poems it contains are recent ones, but that it represents a lately gathered treasury of lyrics. They are characterized, as her work has always been, by a musical facility, strong imagery, and that note of mingled joy and pain which haunts the moments of love, whether in its inception, its fulfillment, or its loss.”

+ Dial 63:457 N 8 ‘17 300w

+ Lit D 56:38 Ja 19 ‘18 450w

Reviewed by G: Cronyn

N Y Call p14 N 18 ‘17 710w

“Miss Teasdale writes from a compelling impulse; she does not mask it nor hide it, but utters it, and so it befalls that she speaks the secret word of us all. ... She is first, last, and always a singer. ... In the present volume, ‘Love songs,’ her best and most characteristic work is presented, since it is this theme which has chiefly inspired her.”

+ N Y Times 22:416 O 21 ‘17 1100w

“Miss Teasdale chooses verse forms that express her moods exactly. Generally the lines are short and simple, yet musical in the extreme. Ever in her love verse she is fundamentally a singer of the out of doors.”

+ Springf’d Republican p10 N 15 ‘17 250w

TEMPERLEY, HAROLD WILLIAM VAZEILLE. History of Serbia. il *$4 Macmillan 949.7 (Eng ed 17-16315)

“Mr Temperley’s able conspectus of Serbian history begins with the coming of the Jugo-Slavs from their original home in the region of the Black sea, and around the Dniester and the Bug; includes an account of the Serbian mediæval empire; tells the sombre tale of Kossovo; describes the Turkish occupation; and relates some of the deeds of the Black George (Kara George) and Milosh Obrenovitch, which led to the expulsion of the Turks from Serbia. He concludes with a detailed review of the periods of Austro-Hungarian and Russophile influence, as well as of the thorny problems associated with Macedonia. The book ... contains a good bibliography.” (Ath) “Captain Temperley ends his narrative at the year 1910, thus omitting the Serbian triumphs of 1912 and 1913.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

+ Ath p314 Je ‘17 180w

“The main theme of this well-documented study is the effect of the revival of Serbian independence in the nineteenth century on the Balkan situation, and the attitude of the great powers toward the country.”

+ Cleveland p116 S ‘17 50w

“The book bristles with evidence of painstaking research; it is well documented; and it contains a select bibliography of very satisfactory proportions. Mr Temperley is a master of sound historical criticism.” F: A. Ogg

+ Dial 63:638 D 20 ‘17 460w

“The author has not entered into details, and deals very briefly indeed with the latter years of medieval Danubian Serbia, for which much might have been gleaned from Kritóboulos, the Imbrian biographer of Mohammed II, whom he omits from his excellent bibliography. But we can strongly recommend his book to all who desire to obtain a grasp of the salient facts in the evolution of the Serbian people. He abounds in admirable appreciations of Serbian national problems. ... A few errors of detail may be pointed out. The book contains three maps.” W: Miller

+ + — Eng Hist R 32:589 O ‘17 620w

“A brilliant recapitulation of brilliant deeds by a people who for more than a thousand years fought almost perpetually for [the nation’s] existence against rabid enemies. An interesting chapter is that on the Macedonian question. The book is one that every student of the Balkans, and Serbia in particular, will find invaluable.”

+ N Y Times 22:330 S 9 ‘17 600w

“This history of Serbia is the work not only of a traveller but of a scholar. It is highly judicial in dealing with notoriously controversial subjects, and it embodies a good deal of diplomatic information acquired by careful research 554at the record office. It is an engrossing story of racial tenacity which Mr Temperley relates.”

+ Spec 118:671 Je 16 ‘17 1700w

“Should be read by all who desire to know something of the complexities of the Near Eastern question.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p291 Je 21 ‘17 2100w

TEMPLE, WILLIAM. Mens creatrix. *$2.50 Macmillan 201 17-28086

“The title is chosen in compliment to Bergson’s ‘Creative evolution.’ ... It does not indicate the full purpose of the book.” (Spec) “The plan of the volume may be briefly outlined. Part 1 deals with epistemological and metaphysical questions. Part 2 is a discussion of art, its meaning and value. Part 3 deals with the problem of conduct; while part 4 investigates the general nature of religion in its relation to science, art, and morality. The preceding four divisions constitute book 1. In book 2 the writer takes up the problem of revealed religion and finds in it the ultimate solution of the issues he has raised.” (Hibbert J)

“Covers a wide field, and discusses problems of a very varied kind. Mr Temple’s work is unequal: some of his discussions are suggestive and helpful in a high degree, while others are rapid, meagre, and disappointing. But even at his worst the author is never superficial and commonplace, and when at his best he is very vigorous and stimulating. The style is always clear, and the reader is never in doubt about the author’s meaning. ... Some of the most fresh and suggestive passages in the book will be found in the section on art. He is at his best in his chapter on ‘Tragedy,’ where he works out his principles in detail and enforces them with a wealth of illustrations.” G. Galloway

+ — Hibbert J 15:689 Jl ‘17 1850w

“Mr Temple has not exactly shown us that all roads of human speculation lead to the Anglican communion, but has shown, with great charm of style and lucidity of dialectic, how particular types of metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics may be made to form a symmetrical whole with Christian theology. ... He says many wise things by the way, especially in his chapter on education.” T. S. Eliot

Int J Ethics 27:542 Jl ‘17 400w

“Mr Temple modestly disclaims any pretension ‘to do for our day the work that St Thomas Aquinas did for his,’ but his thoughtful and suggestive study will be as helpful to readers perplexed by modern difficulties as was the ‘Summa’ of the learned Dominican to the mediaeval doubter. ... His discussion of ‘The problem of evil’ must be carefully read. In essence it is an expansion of the Pauline doctrine in the Epistle to the Romans; but Mr Temple brings a fresh mind to bear on the perplexing problem. ... It is difficult even to indicate in a review the merits of a book so closely reasoned, so full of striking ideas and happy phrases, and withal so devout and modest in tone.”

+ Spec 118:413 Ap 7 ‘17 2000w

TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON. Dollars and cents. il *$1.35 (2½c) Shores 17-13188

Dan and Madge Hilyer are living on thirteen dollars a week when the story opens. Poverty had come upon them suddenly, and their prosperity, when it comes, is another of fortune’s quick changes. During the days of pinching economy it had been the wife who bore the brunt, and when sudden wealth comes, she cannot make the transition. At restaurants Madge figured up the cost of every dish. At the opera she could not enjoy the music for thinking of the price of seats. Taxi fares were to her a criminal extravagance. The result of this state of mind on her part, combined with her husband’s jealousy of Arthur Crewe, the old lover from whom she had once borrowed money, is marital unhappiness. A crisis is averted and harmony restored by the intervention of Arthur Crewe, who succeeds in bringing both husband and wife to a saner point of view.

“The situation is an interesting and a natural one; but unfortunately the author has seen fit to lay hold of it and, instead of developing it in a reasonable way, pulls it down to the level of melodrama.”

N Y Times 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 250w

“The action of the story is swift, almost breathless in passages. The novel is filled with ‘scenes’ which one mentally stages. The suspense is sustained until the very last page.” R. D. Moore

Pub W 91:1319 Ap 21 ‘17 430w

“The story is interesting and the action is rapid and emotional.”

Springf’d Republican p17 Jl 8 ‘17 250w

THETA, pseud. War flying. *$1 Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-10196)

Letters written by a young officer, barely nineteen, of the Royal flying corps, to his home people during his period of training and later when in active service. The letters are prefaced by a parody on Kipling entitled “Ordered overseas,” and an introductory chapter entitled “The development of an idea.”

+ Ind 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 150w

“It is not so much a book on flying as it is a revelation of character. The quiet pluck, the unconscious gallantry, the serene acceptance of a world in chaos, the humor with which this young Englishman views the clash of arms from aloft, are qualities which, as displayed in this book, help to explain England’s place in this war more clearly than any mere official documents can.”

+ Outlook 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 140w

+ R of Rs 56:107 Jl ‘17 50w

+ Spec 118:239 F 24 ‘17 150w

THOMAS, CALVIN. Goethe. *$2 (2c) Holt 17-25237

Professor Thomas of Columbia university, whose edition of “Faust” has long been a standard college text, has written a biographical and critical study of Goethe. “Every scholar,” he says “has his own Dante, his own Shakspere, his own Goethe. This book presents my Goethe as I see him after nearly forty years of university teaching during which he has never been long out of my thoughts. ... But this is not the work of a hierophant or a panegyrist. ... What I have tried to do is to portray him faithfully in those larger aspects of his mind and art and life-work that make him so uniquely interesting.” The first chapters, about one half of the volume, sketch Goethe’s life. The remainder of the book is critical, with chapters devoted to: The philosopher; The evolutionist; The believer; The poet; The dramatist; The novelist; The critic; Faust. Bibliography, notes and index follow.

+ A L A Bkl 14:167 F ‘18

“On the whole it is just what any student of Goethe and of German literature would desire: clear, fair and entertaining. The occasional versions of poems or prose passages are excellently done.” N. H. D.

+ Boston Transcript p7 Ja 23 ‘18 750w

+ Cleveland p4 Ja ‘18 110w

“No matter if a new biography of Goethe were published each month, there would still be a place for a book by Professor Thomas. ... But as a matter of fact, there was an urgent need for this particular work; for unless I am mistaken, there has been no important life of Goethe written in English since the year 1855, when the notable biography by G. H. Lewes appeared.” W: L. Phelps

+ Dial 63:451 N 8 ‘17 1600w

“A very thoughtful and sympathetic study.”

+ Ind 92:56 O 6 ‘17 100w

“What is most disappointing in Professor Thomas’s volume is his failure to appreciate Goethe’s importance as critic. ... With all 555its limitations, however, the book is scholarly, interesting, and provocative of thought. We take it that the metrical translations in chapter 9, reprinted from an earlier essay on Goethe, are Professor Thomas’s own. They are admirable.”

+ — Nation 105:721 D 27 ‘17 1750w

“It is possible now for an American scholar to put aside the trivial and ephemeral and concentrate attention on those aspects of Goethe’s life and work that ‘belong to the ages.’ That is what Professor Thomas has done in this volume.”

+ R of Rs 56:550 N ‘17 200w

THOMAS, EDWARD. Literary pilgrim in England. il *$3 Dodd 820.4 17-26883

A volume of literary essays. The studies of English men of letters are grouped geographically, but there has been no effort to link them together as objects of a “pilgrimage.” A few of the modern writers are included, and occasionally there is in the grouping a pleasant juxtaposition of the old and the new, as in the section on the west country, devoted to Herrick; Coleridge; and W. H. Hudson. Pictures in color and in monotone attractively illustrate the book.

+ A L A Bkl 14:159 F ‘18

“As some of the biographies relate to Scotsmen and Scottish places, the title might have been ‘A literary pilgrim in Britain.’”

+ Ath p597 N ‘17 90w

“Well-printed, artistically illustrated, entertainingly written, this book can be recommended for the pleasant employment of an idle hour.”

+ Cath World 106:689 F ‘18 100w

“The whole book, despite Mr Thomas’s pleasant vein of description and criticism, scarcely rises above the commonplace, if not the trite.”

– + Nation 105:517 N 8 ‘17 110w

+ N Y Times 22:579 D 30 ‘17 230w

+ — Sat R 124:510 D 22 ‘17 400w

“In the course of the studies Mr Thomas occasionally becomes the critic, and we can only say that we prefer him as pilgrim. Where, however, his sympathies are apparently unhampered, Mr Thomas pursues his pilgrimage and his criticism in a most attractive manner, of which the essays on John Clare and W. H. Hudson are two conspicuous examples.”

+ — Spec 119:sup548 N 17 ‘17 230w

“Edward Thomas affords another instance of literary talent lost in the great war. This criticism, for all its unpretentiousness, is of the type that initiates new readers into the delights and consolations of books. It is full of meaning, utterly clear and concrete. There is hardly a blurred thought or impression in the whole work and there are no undiscerning judgments.”

+ Springf’d Republican p13 D 30 ‘17 1100w

“Never perfunctory or conventional, but always saying what strikes him as the true or interesting or characteristic thing, Mr Thomas brings the very look of the fields and roads before us; he brings the poets, too; and no one will finish the book without a sense that he knows and respects the author.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p489 O 11 ‘17 1500w

THOMAS, GEORGE CLIFFORD. Practical book of outdoor rose growing for the home garden. il *$2 Lippincott 716 17-13518

“A new, enlarged edition at half price of the best manual on roses for the amateur as well as the rose-grower (Booklist 11:449). Growing directions and labels are excellent, also the lists of varieties. There are twenty halftones of bushes and sixteen beautiful color plates of varieties of roses.” (Wis Lib Bul) The first edition of this book was entered in the Digest in 1914.

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:155 My ‘17 50w

THOMAS, W. BEACH. With the British on the Somme. *6s Methuen, London 940.91

Part of the material in this book has already appeared in print. Mr Thomas emphasizes “to a great extent, the feats of the English soldier, the Cockney especially, as distinct from the Scot, the Irishman, or the Colonial.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

+ Ontario Library Review 1:115 My ‘17 100w

“Mr Beach Thomas is one of the not too many newspaper correspondents who can write acceptably about the war. He does not indulge in gush or clap-trap. His well-knit narrative is profoundly dramatic.”

+ Sat R 123:346 Ap 14 ‘17 800w

“Mr Thomas has written a capital account of the battle of the Somme, sketching it in broad outlines, dwelling on some of the more picturesque episodes, but abstaining from any attempt at a formal history. He illustrates the rapid developments of modern warfare that came about during this battle.”

+ Spec 118:675 Je 16 ‘17 130w

“Mr Thomas has been wonderfully successful in conveying all the horror and the little glory of modern war. His wish was to give an idea of the war rather than to write a continuous narrative of the things which he experienced. ... The book will be a storehouse of information. It is vivid, modest, and judicial.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p146 Mr 29 ‘17 1150w

THOMPSON, CARL DEAN. Municipal ownership. *$1 (5c) Huebsch 352 17-14813

“A brief survey of the extent, rapid growth and the success of municipal ownership throughout the world, presenting the arguments against private ownership, the failure of regulation and the advantages of municipal ownership.” (Subtitle) The author argues that private ownership is wrong in theory, saying, “The private ownership of a public utility is fundamentally hostile to and inconsistent with the public welfare,” and he brings together evidence to show that it is unsatisfactory in practice. “Whatever else may be said against municipal ownership,” he says, “it is pretty hard to meet the argument drawn from practical experience.”

“Gives references to authorities.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:8 O ‘17

“The writer’s method is to jumble together a medley of facts and figures which seem to favor his side of the argument, wholly neglecting all that may be said on the other. Some of the statistics are too antiquated to be of any value whatever, as for example those which have been so freely drawn from Professor Frank Parsons’ ‘City for the people,’ a book published more than sixteen years ago. Errors of statement are not infrequent, moreover, and the style of writing leaves much to be desired.”

— Am Pol Sci R 11:596 Ag ‘17 100w

“The chief contribution in this work is an adequate presentation of proof that regulation of public utilities is a complete failure and that private ownership of public utilities is the most important cause of corrupt government. The most serious omission is the failure to discuss how municipalities are to secure the funds to acquire their public utilities.” B: Marsh

– + Ann Am Acad 74:302 N ‘17 270w

+ Cleveland p92 Jl ‘17 50w

Cleveland p107 S ‘17 30w

“The author has produced a readable brief for municipal ownership—as thoroughly one-sided as a lawyer’s brief but more open to attack. Some, if not most, of the statistical and other data are old and some are taken third hand. An instance, possibly one of the worst, may be given ... to the effect that the rates charged by privately owned waterworks are 43 per cent. higher than those charged by publicly owned works. ... The author is using figures more than a quarter century old.”

— Engin News-Rec 79:130 Jl 19 ‘17 200w

556“Useful to the upholder of either side of the question.”

+ Ind 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 60w

“A distinctive contribution to socialist literature. ... There is too little evidence at times to support the most sweeping assertions of fact. ... Then, too, there are enough inaccuracies to arouse some suspicions. ... This little book is, after all, human and socialist (although the word socialism does not occur from one cover to the other), and it has its failings, both human and socialist. ... It lacks those painstaking, thorough, exhaustive qualities for which the academician has more time and less need than we. But it is invaluable for the facts it does contain and above all for its sturdy effort to speak out of concrete experience in a field where the Socialist needs it most.” Evans Clark

+ — N Y Call p14 My 27 ‘17 770w

R of Rs 56:327 S ‘17 70w

“Mr Thompson gives us a frankly one-sided presentation—the case for municipal ownership.” E: T. Hartman

+ — Survey 39:46 O 13 ‘17 130w

THOMPSON, CLARENCE BERTRAND. Theory and practice of scientific management. *$1.75 (3½c) Houghton 658.7 17-24295

During the past fifteen years the principles and methods of scientific management which were formulated and propagated by Frederick Winslow Taylor have been thoroughly tested. It is now Mr Thompson’s aim to survey the movement and make an appraisal of it. He devotes a chapter to “What scientific management is”; one to the originator of the movement, Frederick Winslow Taylor; while the body of the discussion deals with scientific management in practice, and some economic aspects of the movement. The results which are offered are derived from personal inspection of plants in twelve states where scientific management is in operation and from conferences with owners, managers and experts employed.

“A comprehensive study of history, methods and results.” I. C.

+ St Louis 16:15 Ja ‘18 20w

THOMPSON, D’ARCY WENTWORTH. On growth and form. il *$6.50 Putnam 18-1383

“In the author’s own words the purpose of his book is to show ‘that throughout the whole range of organic morphology there are innumerable phenomena of form which are not peculiar to living things, but which are more or less simple manifestations of ordinary physical laws.’ This thesis Professor Thompson elaborates in a most interesting manner, developing with the aid of our fuller knowledge of physical forces and of the conditions under which they act, the mode of study initiated by Borelli many years ago, and applied, more recently, with striking and suggestive results, to several forms of organic activity by Rhumbler, Leduc, Przibram, Macallum and others.”—Science

“It is clear and lucid, and deals with problems of enormous, often of surprising, interest—problems of science and problems of philosophy. The exposition is so admirable that no one need fear that the mathematics will obscure for him the philosophy, or the philosophy the science, or the science and philosophy the mathematics. The striking success and the amazing simplicity and beauty of the results will silence at once any sceptical doubt as to the utility of the method.” H. W. Carr

+ Hibbert J 15:697 Jl ‘17 2600w

“This book, at once substantial and stately, is to the credit of British science and an achievement for its distinguished author to be proud of. It is like one of Darwin’s books, well-considered, patiently wrought-out, learned, and cautious—a disclosure of the scientific spirit.” J. A. Thomson

+ — Nature 100:21 S 13 ‘17 1500w

“Professor Thompson’s style is marked by a clearness of expression which makes every page of interest and his book is one that may well be recommended as revealing food for thought and fields for investigation which have been too much neglected by students of morphology.” J. P. McM.

+ Science n s 46:513 N 23 ‘17 960w

“Though severely technical in appearance, this book is so well written and so full of interesting matter that it should not be monopolized by the specialists. It throws a new light on evolution.”

+ Spec 118:732 Je 30 ‘17 140w

“An interesting and valuable book on a topic of enduring interest. Professor Thompson himself is careful to reiterate that he is propounding a method, advocating a principle rather than supplying a set of results which he expects the reader to accept. In this sense his book commands admiration and respect, and should stimulate a lively and productive interest in an aspect of zoology that has fallen into neglect.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p245 My 24 ‘17 860w

THOMPSON, VANCE. Woman. *$1.25 (3c) Dutton 396 17-7543

The author comes out fervently as a champion of the new woman in her fight for freedom. This rapidly advancing movement toward emancipation is the most important thing happening in the world today. All other problems “are of relative unimportance beside the overwhelming significance of this new fact: the rise of woman.” Women are freeing themselves from the over-specialization of sex; and this means the freeing of the race. “Woman cannot do her duty to the race unless she fulfills her duty to herself. The welfare of the race and the individual are as indissoluble as a word and its meaning; they are a bi-unity.” The author sketches rapidly the historical position of woman, then discusses the present-day significance of the woman movement.

A L A Bkl 14:114 Ja ‘18

“The frankest, truest, simplest and most compact exposition of the causes and the meaning of the feminist movement that has ever come to my attention. It is also the most entertaining. It is a picturesque and a provocative book—but it is not likely to provoke in any two people just the same feeling about it. Mr Thompson evidently believes in the feminist movement very earnestly and ardently. But his book, deeply searching and keenly discerning though it is in its discussion of most of the phases of the woman problem, grows evasive and even blind when it comes down to what is to-day the biggest and most difficult practical problem of the whole matter. And that is the economic status of married women.” F. F. Kelly

+ — Bookm 45:594 Ag ‘17 3000w

“Singularly clean, wholesome, upstanding, wind-swept, stimulating reading, much of which we cannot agree with, it is true, much of which will shock us, as it was meant to, all of which will quicken us. Superficially humorous, fundamentally serious and sincere, this book is a distinct contribution to the subject.”

+ — Boston Transcript p6 My 9 ‘17 250w

— Cath World 105:397 Je ‘17 630w

“On the text, ‘Life is a conspiracy against woman,’ he has built up a serious, sincere, and stimulating sermon.”

+ Lit D 55:36 S 22 ‘17 300w

“Mr Thompson’s book is not original in the sense of presenting new points in feminist thought. But it is unusual and challenging in its presentation.”

N Y Times 22:117 Ap 1 ‘17 400w

“A book every woman will want to read.”

+ R of Rs 55:557 My ‘17 130w

“Mr Thompson occasionally allows his forcefulness to degenerate into claptrap, and his stock of haphazard information into an obvious and boastful show of knowledge, neither of which can conceivably advance the cause for which he purports to be working.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p17 My 6 ‘17 500w

557THOMSON, EDWARD WILLIAM. Old man Savarin stories. il *$1.35 Doran 17-24211

“Stories of Canada and Canadians are rather rare among us. In these stories Mr Thomson has brought us a new acquaintance, and that a broad one, with the people who are our neighbors to the north. The stories—they are seventeen in number—cover a wide range of time and circumstance; and it is an interesting fact, to be noted at once, that they deal with Canadians as such, of French and Scotch and English descent; these are stories from Canada, not from any one class or of any one ancestry.”—N Y Times

“Not only are the stories interesting, but they embody an immense field of life.” J. E. C.

+ Boston Transcript p9 D 5 ‘17 1250w

“They vivify for us many a different kind of feeling in individual, party, type.”

+ N Y Times 22:366 S 30 ‘17 660w

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Through the year with Thoreau; sketches of nature from the writings of H: D: Thoreau; ed. by Herbert W. Gleason. il *$3 Houghton 818 17-22277

“The present volume is an endeavor ... to reproduce, with the aid of photographs, some of the outdoor scenes and natural phenomena in which he [Thoreau] delighted and which he has so graphically described. The series of views is limited, of necessity, but a sufficient number are given to illustrate Thoreau’s method of nature-study as well as to emphasize anew the accuracy and felicity of his nature-descriptions. It is hoped, also, that this combination of verbal and pictorial representation will stimulate to a wider apprehension and a more vivid realization of the beautiful in nature,—thus continuing in a measure, Thoreau’s self-appointed mission.” (Preface) The quotations from Thoreau, chosen largely, but not wholly, from the “Journals” are arranged, as the title suggests, to follow the changing seasons. The illustrations, selected from a large collection of photographs by Mr Gleason, are related intimately to the text, and include not only scenes associated with Thoreau, but studies of the plant and bird life described by him. Among them are remarkable pictures of the more delicate flowers, leaves and lichens, also of frost crystals.

“A good gift book for readers of Thoreau.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:51 N ‘17

“‘Through the year with Thoreau’ is at once a splendid memorial to that interpreter of nature, a credit to the Riverside Press as an example of beautiful bookmaking, and a satisfying further instance of the literary and artistic taste of the author.”

+ Boston Transcript p8 O 31 ‘17 320w

“The illustrations are worthy of the poet-naturalist in that they include not merely the conventional landscapes and ‘pretty’ flowers, but less usual and less promising subjects, such as the skunk-cabbage, fungi, icicles under a bank, and the ‘sand-foliage’ produced by liquid mud on the snow in the railroad cut. Mr Gleason has put into his photographs as much of an artist’s individuality as the wielder of a camera can well do.”

+ Dial 63:466 N 8 ‘17 260w

“Quite beyond the average volume of gleanings. The extracts are each illustrated by uncommonly fine photographs, and the whole is an attractive bit of bookmaking.”

+ Ind 91:476 S 22 ‘17 100w

“Without illustration, Thoreau’s description of early morning fog from Nawshawtuct hill, is appreciably less clear and interesting. Again, Thoreau’s description of the flower-buds of mountain laurel—‘curiously folded in a ten-angled pyramidal form’—gains vastly through the picture. ... Its only serious defect is its brevity; in 135 pages it is scarcely possible to do more than make a humble beginning in the task of illustrating Thoreau’s descriptions of natural scenes and phenomena. Yet a much larger book would have been forbiddingly expensive.”

+ Nation 105:205 Ag 23 ‘17 180w

“Altogether a beautiful book.”

+ Outlook 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 20w

+ R of Rs 56:333 S ‘17 40w

THORNDIKE, LYNN. History of medieval Europe; under the editorship of James T. Shotwell. maps *$2.75 (1c) Houghton 940.1 17-24527

Professor Thorndike of Western Reserve university has prepared this history of Europe from the decline of the Roman empire to the opening of the sixteenth century for the college student and the general reader. The general plan of the work is “to treat medieval Europe as a whole and to hang the story upon a single thread, rather than to recount as distinct narratives the respective histories of the countries of modern Europe.” Special points to which he calls attention in the preface are these: he has given some attention to the states and racial groups of central and eastern Europe; he has given some prominence to economic and social conditions, omitting many minor details of political and military history; he has described the background of physical geography; he has referred frequently to source material and discussed its relative value; he has avoided fine print and footnotes and has made an unusually full index, designed “to serve somewhat the same purpose that a vocabulary does in the teaching of a language.” There is a brief list of “Guides in historical reading,” with supplementary lists at ends of the chapters.

“A capital textbook, well ordered and well balanced.”

+ Educ R 54:529 D ‘17 30w

+ Ind 92:261 N 3 ‘17 60w

“The style escapes the rigid narrative baldness of the compressed history for the classroom, yet it does not sacrifice accuracy to vivacity. There is a nice balance between economic, social and political factors.”

+ New Repub 13:56 N 10 ‘17 140w

“The excellent feature about this book is that it uses events as a background for the study of institutions, principles and achievements, and thus places the chief emphasis on the intellectual content of history, rather than the framework.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 11 ‘17 320w

THORPE, FRANCIS NEWTON.^[2] Essentials of American constitutional law. *$1.75 Putnam 342.7

A volume intended to serve as a text-book in law schools, colleges and universities. It has been prepared by a member of the Pennsylvania bar who is professor of political science and constitutional law in the University of Pittsburgh. The chapter headings indicate the scope of the work. Contents: The supreme law; The law of legislative powers (2 chapters); The law of taxation; The law of commerce; The law of contracts and property; The law of the executive power; The law of the judicial power; The law of state comity, territories, and possession; The law of limitations; The law of fundamental rights; The law of citizenship; Appendix—Constitution of the United States and Cases cited.

THORPE, SIR THOMAS EDWARD. Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe; a biographical sketch. *$2.50 Longmans 17-298

“The late Sir Henry Roscoe will be remembered not so much for his contributions to the science of chemistry as for what he did to enhance the repute of the chemist in England. ... Roscoe achieved so much worldly success and made himself so prominent a figure in public life that he convinced the ruling class, at any rate, of the importance of the chemist, and the royal commissions on which he served and the societies in which he took an active part, especially the Society of chemical industry, did much to raise the status of chemistry as a subject of study and an aid to the manufacturer. ... This aspect of his long and useful life is well illustrated in the sympathetic memoir which his friend and fellow-worker, Sir Edward Thorpe, has written. Roscoe’s 558own reminiscences, published ten years ago, have of course a more personal interest. Sir Edward Thorpe has aimed rather at recording Roscoe’s official and scientific work, especially in connexion with the Victoria university, of which he became a professor in 1857, and for the sake of which he refused the virtual offer of the Oxford chair.”—Spec

+ Ath p555 N ‘16 500w

+ Nature 98:225 N 23 ‘16 700w

Pittsburgh 22:114 F ‘17 60w

R of Rs 56:440 O ‘17 60w

St Louis 5:60 F ‘17

“Germany was undoubtedly the Mecca of science to Roscoe up to the close of his life. ... In the few years before the war he had written in German papers of the educated classes, and imagined as many did that the difficulties between Germany and England would be met successfully by the abhorrence of war in the best minds. ... Sir Edward Thorpe remarks as to such appeals that there was a section—a not inconsiderable section—of the German public to whom they were not made in vain, as was manifested by the publication in Stuttgart of a remarkable article on ‘World supremacy of war’ written under the nom-de-plume of ‘Nostradamus.’ The part reprint of this article is one of the most interesting things in this memoir.”

+ Sat R 123:164 F 17 ‘17 600w

+ Spec 117:510 O 28 ‘16 550w

“There are several cases in which the chronological indications might have been more precise; and this defect is not compensated by the inadequate index, which might easily have been made more useful.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p533 N 9 ‘16 600w

THURSTAN, VIOLETTA.^[2] Text book of war nursing. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 610.7

The author of “Field hospital and flying column” and “The people who run” has prepared this book as a practical aid for nurses who expect to work near the front, where conditions and methods differ considerably from those prevailing in base hospitals at home. The work is a result of personal experience under Belgian, Russian and British military authorities. Part one consists of three general chapters on some of the features of war nursing. The four parts following are devoted to: The probationer in a military hospital; The sister in a military hospital; Notes on nursing in special cases; Infectious diseases. The appendix gives cooking recipes and table of French and English money.

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p507 O 18 ‘17 90w

THURSTON, ERNEST TEMPLE. Enchantment. *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-13720

At her birth her father had dedicated her to the church. And true Catholic that he was, he felt the oath to be sacred. But as the child grew, the thought of his oath became more and more distasteful. For Patricia was his favorite of the four daughters. Then he made another bargain with the parish priest. He would give up his drink, and fond enough he was of that, if Patricia could be saved from her fate. The bargain was sealed, and for ten years John Desmond kept it. Then under stress he broke it, and saw the convent doors opening for his loved child. But another man steps in and, not without connivance from the father, outwits the authority that all but had its hands on Patricia.

“Well told, but the embroidery is merely wearisome.”

+ — Ath p254 My ‘17 70w

“A little story of original and engaging flavour.” H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 45:649 Ag ‘17 470w

“The solution of each problem is a surprise because it is the justice of Erin. ... There is neither logic nor syntax to the plot, but from first to last, there is not a dull moment.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 18 ‘17 400w

“In view of Mr Thurston’s intimate acquaintance with the heart and mind of the Irish people, this novel, based upon what purports to be a phase of Irish Catholicism, can scarcely be regarded otherwise than deliberate and willful misrepresentation in both theme and treatment. The impious layman whom he presumes to call a ‘good Catholic’ is hardly more objectionable than the priest who is tacitly presented as typical. Such wretched travesties could not be set forth in good faith by any writer save one totally ignorant of the church, especially as she is found in Ireland. It is a disagreeable story, founded on a preposterous premise.”

— Cath World 105:686 Ag ‘17 180w

+ Cleveland p133 D ‘17 70w

“Melodramatic from cover to cover, but has charming style and interesting characterizations. ... It is a tale for all those who ‘would not give a chapter of old Dumas for the whole boiling of the Zolas.’”

+ — Dial 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 100w

“The situation, the events that follow, might have been set forth with all the dry and bitter negativism of a ‘House with the green shutters.’ ... Mr Thurston succeeds in investing it with all the glamour of romantic feeling, that is, with that mood of faith and delight in human nature which may so readily and so indeterminately, be dismissed as sentimentalism.”

+ Nation 105:69 Jl 19 ‘17 330w

“‘Enchantment’ is a readable tale, but it is far from being Mr Thurston’s best work. Both story and style are labored. And the manner that in its spontaneity and fitness helped to make so pretty a tale as ‘The city of beautiful nonsense’ popular is artificial and often clumsy here.”

+ — N Y Times 22:206 My 27 ‘17 380w

“The literary cloak of pseudo-fairy lore is not gracefully worn, and there are incidents too disagreeable to make one care whether they are well or ill told.”

— Outlook 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 30w

“Nothing but romance, told with Irish charm, not to say humor, and the pull of an exciting yarn.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ Pub W 91:1315 Ap 21 ‘17 480w

“There are times when his pen fairly dances across the page, filling the senses with the spirit of youth and spring and joyousness, and swaying the mood of the reader to match his own.”

+ Sat R 123:sup4 My 19 ‘17 250w

“Would have made an excellent short story. ... But Mr Thurston gives us his story beribboned just as the mid-Victorian beribboned his screens and his picture-frames. It is padded out with unnecessary digressions about fairy stories and princes: and one very soon recognizes that these add nothing whatever to the effect and only provide Mr Thurston with an opportunity to display his pretty literary manner.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p155 Mr 29 ‘17 120w

THURSTON, MABEL NELSON. Sarah Ann. il *$1.25 (3c) Dodd 17-23979

“Sarah Ann is a tenement child who has grown up in one of the most crowded sections of New York city, and who has succeeded quite thoroughly in evading education. ... The story pictures the efforts of this little tenement girl to keep house and care for Bobby and her baby sister. The crucial moment of existence comes when she first meets the ‘Lady Cop’ who takes an interest in the child and ... finally brings her to the point of wishing to go to school and of entrusting her adored baby sister to a day nursery.”—Boston Transcript

“Pathos, humor, sentimentality.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:63 N ‘17

“The charm of this little tale lies in its quaintness and its pathos.”

+ Boston Transcript p9 O 6 ‘17 250w

559“A bright little tale in which humor and pathos, smiles and tears mingle in almost every sentence. ... The pathetic little figure of the child herself is drawn with tenderness and knowledge and a sure touch.”

+ N Y Times 22:349 S 16 ‘17 280w

“The best part of the book is the author’s common-sense treatment of the problem of the disposal of Sarah Ann. Contrary to time-honored literary tradition, she is not bodily transported to a higher social sphere, but is left in Cherry alley.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 S 23 ‘17 210w

THWING, CHARLES FRANKLIN. Education according to some modern masters. *$2 Platt & Peck, 354 4th av., N.Y. 370 16-23107

“The spiritual masters whose opinions upon education President Thwing has extracted and clearly interpreted in this book of his are Emerson, Carlyle, Ruskin, Mill, Gladstone, John Henry Newman, and Goethe. ... There are serious problems regarding the adjustment of education to modern life, upon which the thought of the older thinkers sheds little light. To reread the passages of their writings which President Thwing has reproduced makes one feel, however, that they had the root of the matter in them.”—No Am

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Reviewed by W: H. Kilpatrick

+ Educ R 55:166 F ‘18 650w

“The book will be appreciated for its continuity and systematic organization as well as for the excellent selection which has been made of the quoted material.”

+ El School J 18:156 O ‘17 420w

+ Ind 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w

N Y Br Lib News 3:171 N ‘16

N Y Times 22:514 D 2 ‘17 70w

“The work is far more than a collection of pertinent quotations—though the quoted passages are numerous. In selecting the right passages from each writer, in connecting them in such a way as to show their relation to the whole thought of that writer upon education, and in independently summing up conclusions—a matter that requires critical judgment and real skill as a stylist—the author has performed a task as onerous and as profitable as that involved in producing an original treatise.”

+ No Am 205:471 Mr ‘17 600w

Pratt p16 O ‘17 30w

“The book aims to save education from what the author calls the peril of losing its human touch. It is his belief that such a discussion as he presents of the foregoing great humanists will do much to counteract the modern tendency of the overemphasis on technical means, methods, and conditions. The book can be spoken of as a humanistic source-book in modern education. For a reference book in a course in the history of modern education the chief value of the book will be found in the direct quotations and the author’s summary and concluding chapter.”

+ School R 25:613 O ‘17 140w

THWING, CHARLES FRANKLIN. Training of men for the world’s future. *$1.25 Platt & Peck 378 16-23108

“President Thwing of Western Reserve university develops his essay in three parts. Part 1 briefly depicts The destruction of the world, through the present war and lists the constructive forces by which men, after the war, can build the ‘Gentle-state’ out of the wastages of war. ... Part 2, The construction, the main body of the essay, outlines ways in which colleges and universities may affect, permanently and intimately, the family, the church, the government, business and literature, and hence aid in building the new world. ... The remaining twenty pages of this second part present six historical parallels in the development of religion and of education. ... Part 3, The university itself, opens with a three-page criticism of ‘the ecclesiastical and the academic priesthood,’ taken from F. S. Oliver’s ‘Ordeal by battle.’ ... In answer to this criticism, President Thwing states that the university seeks no unworthy influence but seeks to find and to teach the truth, which alone, incarnated, will reconstruct the world.”—Survey

“Functions which President Thwing foresees for the university are the training of men to a broad idealism, to a social and sociological individuality and to richness of personality. But greater than any of these functions he considers the inculcation of knowledge of international relationships.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Je 24 ‘17 570w

“Mainly a summarization, sincere and often well-phrased, but containing little that is new, of the ways in which an institution of higher learning may serve the world.” W. E. Clark

+ — Survey 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 670w

TIETJENS, MRS EUNICE.^[2] Profiles from China. $1 R. F. Seymour, 410 S. Michigan av., Chicago 811 17-30910

“Among prose poems which deserve to be cherished are Mrs Tietjens’ ‘Profiles from China.’ The poems are distinguished first by their almost unfailing subjectivity. The writer nearly always interprets each sight in terms of her own reaction. We do not mean that it is autobiographical, but that Mrs Tietjens quickly establishes a close relation between herself and the reader. She sees dirty, crowded China with a quick eye, and puts it before us with its gods and beggars, walls, women and dandies, rickshas and camels.”—Dial

“All is portrayed with humor, fear, sympathy, pathos, irony, and imagination.”

+ Dial 63:116 Ag 16 ‘17 400w

“It is a book which is slight in bulk but in no other way. The author achieves a sort of bigness that is rare; she has gone to a country she did not understand, and she has come back bringing with her no pretense of omniscience but a still deeper, yet, somehow revealing bewilderment. It is good to know that among the many and various-voiced women poets to-day there is one who can write social criticism without ranting and who can feel pity without sentimentalizing. This blend of toughness and tenderness is revealed a dozen times in the volume.” L: Untermeyer

+ Masses 9:40 Ag ‘17 980w

“There is a staccato jerky quality that is more redolent of prose than of poetry. Yet there is always a clarity of interpretation, and a significant acceptance and rejection of materials that are artistic and noteworthy. The book is a sincere interpretation of the static East in terms of the more dynamic West.” Clement Wood

+ — N Y Call p15 Ja 5 ‘18 200w

TILDEN, FREEMAN. Second wind; the plain truth about going back to the land. *$1 (2½c) Huebsch 630 17-20658

“This is the record of one heroic soul, by name Alexander Hadlock, who in 1906 at the age of sixty-two with no money and no previous experience in farm work, went back to the soil. He had his black years; four winters of working out on others’ farms; five years before he had his own few acres and his ‘shack.’ He gradually and doggedly saved and learned and succeeded.”—New Repub

“A ‘back to the land’ story that is not concerned with friendly chickens or misunderstood pigs.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:47 N ‘17

“The purpose of the book is to show that the conditions of success under such circumstances are indomitable will, hard physical work, and the application of scientific methods, and that the principal and sufficing reward is the consciousness of worthy work well done.”

+ Cleveland p111 S ‘17 80w

“Written by one who evidently knows something about farming and is under no illusions as to the amount of hard work and, above all, intelligent work that successful farming demands. But whether the writer’s ‘Alexander Hadlock,’ who got his second wind at sixty-two 560and exchanged the professor’s chair for the farmer’s hoe is a real person or purely imaginary, it would be hard to say. Perhaps he is a little of both.”

+ — Dial 63:167 Ag 30 ‘17 300w

“There is something of heroism, something of good, hard, common sense, and a leavening of the strangely soothing love of animals and fields in ‘Second wind.’”

+ Ind 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 80w

“Mr Tilden is sympathetic towards the middle-aged city hunger for the soil, although he is merciless in knocking the romanticism from that vision.”

+ New Repub 12:198 S 15 ‘17 350w

“This book will be a gospel of successful farming to many. It is not, however, to be used as a guide in the arts of agriculture. It is too short for that. It is what its secondary title implies, ‘The plain truth about going back to the land.’” G: H. Hamilton

+ N Y Call p14 Ag 12 ‘17 350w

“It is an honest book, and it tells the whole story in terms of dollars and cents, measured rations, stone pulling, hard living, courageous persistence.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ Pub W 92:812 S 15 ‘17 370w

“Mr Tilden tells the story well, so well that his art would command applause were it not that the reader is breathlessly saving his applause for the subject rather than the author of the story.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 23 ‘17 680w

“The gloomy picture is relieved by a pictorial literary style that makes the book readable. ... Hadlock’s philosophy is sound and inspiring.” Bolton Hall

+ Survey 38:533 S 15 ‘17 250w

TILDEN, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. Chemical discovery and invention in the twentieth century. *$3.50 Dutton (*7s 6d Routledge and sons, London) 660 17-21524

“With a large measure of success, the author has essayed the difficult task of compiling a detailed, but as far as possible nontechnical account of the discoveries and inventions in physical, organic, inorganic, and applied chemistry since about the beginning of the present century. Some of the newest and most completely equipped teaching and technological laboratories are described. Modern discoveries receive consideration; and many of the latter-day applications of chemical science are discussed with great fullness. The concluding portion of the book is devoted to recent progress in organic chemistry, some of the most striking results (such as the additions to our knowledge of the proteins and sugars, and the production of synthetic perfumes, colouring agents, and drugs) being recounted at considerable length. The volume is illustrated with 150 figures, diagrams, and views; and there are portraits of eleven distinguished chemists and physicists, of whom biographical notices are supplied in the appendix.”—Ath

+ A L A Bkl 14:47 N ‘17

Ath p197 Ap ‘17 140w

“Sir William Tilden has filled his book with information so conveyed as to be clear to the non-technical reader.”

+ Ath p239 My ‘17 1000w

“Sir William Augustus Tilden, formerly president of the Institute of chemistry and also of the Chemical society, professor and dean in the Royal college of science, and emeritus professor in the Imperial college of science and technology, author of several important works on the philosophy and practice of chemistry, has at the age of seventy-five, produced a book of five hundred pages dealing in a popular style on the marvelous advance which this most practical of sciences has made up to the present time.” N. H. D.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 13 ‘17 1400w

Ind 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w

“We congratulate the author on the production of a work as useful as it is accurate and interesting. The book is admirably got up and excellently illustrated, and constitutes a worthy and timely addition to popular chemical literature.”

+ Nature 99:121 Ap 12 ‘17 1750w

“A companion volume to Edward Cressy’s excellent work ‘Discoveries and inventions of the 20th century.’ Occasional formulae and molecular diagrams should not dissuade the general reader—the book is intended for him. A noteworthy book that should be in every public library.”

+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p5 Ap ‘17 150w

“The economic problems generated by the war lend particular interest to the third section of the book, which deals with the modern applications of specialized portions of chemical knowledge to manufacture.”

+ N Y Times 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 500w

Pratt p18 O ‘17 40w

“Sir William Tilden gives a good summary of modern chemical theories of matter, which is stiff reading, and some lighter chapters on various branches of chemical industry such as petrol dyes, drugs, rubber, cellulose, and explosives, with a brief concluding section on sugar and other organic substances. These chapters are informing, and illustrate the ever-increasing importance of the chemist in modern life.”

Spec 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w

TIPLADY, THOMAS. Cross at the front; fragments from the trenches. *$1 (2½c) Revell 940.91

The author has been serving as a field chaplain with the British forces. Many of the chapters that make up his book are descriptive sketches, others are discussions of ethical and moral questions and considerations of the soldier’s attitude toward the church, the influence of the church after the war, etc.

+ Boston Transcript p9 N 24 ‘17 320w

“The tone of the book is hopeful, patriotic, and sincere.”

+ Outlook 117:654 D 19 ‘17 80w

“Through the entire book radiates wholesome feeling, love and trust and a manly and serviceable but not ecclesiastical faith.”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 23 ‘17 350w

TISDALE, ALICE. Pioneering where the world is old (Leaves from a Manchurian notebook). il *$1.50 (4c) Holt 915.18 17-26970

Sketches of life and travel in Manchuria. The author, who has been her husband’s companion wherever his business has taken him thruout the East, knows the country with the intimacy of one who has made her home there. In one of her chapters, “We become pioneer settlers.” she writes of the difficulties met with in establishing a home in an ancient temple. The book has been written largely for the joy of recounting happy adventures, but it may be worthy of more serious attention as throwing some light on the Far Eastern question, with reference to the relations of Japan and China. Parts of the work have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.

A L A Bkl 14:126 Ja ‘18

“The practically minded reader may find much in it, but the imaginative will get more.”

+ Ind 93:372 Mr 2 ‘18 230w

“Her province is of the spirit, and her quest is as joyous as a child’s. The book was started ‘for the purpose of giving the breath of the open spaces to the stay-at-home vagabonds.’ This it does in a remarkable degree.”

+ Nation 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 290w

Outlook 117:576 D 5 ‘17 50w

R of Rs 57:219 F ‘18 60w

“An interesting volume.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 8 ‘17 90w

TODD, JOHN AITON. Mechanism of exchange. *$2.25 (4c) Oxford 332 17-16572

The author is professor of economics in University college, Nottingham, England. He tells us in his preface to this “handbook of currency, banking and trade in peace and in 561war” that “the war has struck at the very roots of our whole business and financial system, by its devastating effects on our foreign trade, and therefore upon all the complicated financial machinery which has grown up round international trade, ... and that our internal monetary and financial system was involved in the breakdown of the foreign exchanges.” The natural result has been “a striking revival of interest in economic problems,” especially in questions of currency, banking and trade. The teaching of these subjects must therefore be brought up to date, which does not mean, according to our author, “an entire recasting of all previous teaching of economics,” but “a new presentation of the principles in conjunction with the altered conditions.” “Statistical information on the problems dealt with in the book has been collected in a series of appendices, with in every case the source of the information. These figures are at present necessarily very incomplete. ... At the end of each chapter references are given.” (Preface)

“Professor Todd’s well-planned and ably written text-book on money, exchange, and banking deserves attention because he draws freely upon our experiences of finance in war time to illustrate or modify the theories prevailing in peace. His lucid account of the crisis at the outbreak of war is supplemented by many tables showing at a glance the financial history of these troubled years.”

+ Spec 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 140w

“Professor Todd states in his preface that, ‘as a result of the war, economics has come into its own.’ On the particular subject that he is discussing this is certainly true; but unfortunately his exposition of it is such that it leaves the reader with a quite contrary impression. ... Like many other workers in this field, he has entangled himself in his problem by introducing the comparatively unimportant question of the quantity of gold. ... Though he thus tumbles over a factor in his problem which he introduced to his own undoing, he provides his reader with a mass of statistics and information which may help others to draw a sounder conclusion.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p290 Je 21 ‘17 1050w

Told in the huts; the Y. M. C. A. gift book; with introd. by A. K. Yapp. il *$1.50 Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1798)

These stories and sketches of the war, together with a few poems, are contributed by British soldiers and war workers, and published for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. active service campaign among soldiers, sailors and munition workers. A four page reproduction of one of the numerous trench magazines is included. The book is illustrated in black and white, and in color by Cyrus Cuneo.

“The subjects of the stories vary widely. One element, however, they possess in common: a high valor and patriotism no suffering can daunt, no hardship can quench.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 18 ‘17 330w

TOLSTOI, ILYA, count. Visions; tales from the Russian. il *$1.35 (3½c) Pond 17-15284

A volume of short stories and sketches by Count Ilya Tolstoi, who has been lecturing in America during the past winter. Five of them, The little nurse, War visions, An affair of honor, The scarlet bashlyks, and The little green stick, are stories of the war. The remaining four, Too late, One scoundrel less, Without a nose, and Cholera, are stories of Russian life in the days before the war.

“Count Ilya Tolstoi is a genuine poet; he has also his father’s gift for putting before the eyes whatever he wishes his readers to see. Read for instance the sketch entitled, ‘Without a nose’; it is horrible but it is marvellous; it might have been written by Count L. N. Tolstoi. Though the author is not a young man, there seems to be no reason why he should not yet accomplish great things in literature. These powerful stories and sketches have more than promise; they are little masterpieces.” N. H. D.

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 12 ‘17 750w

+ Dial 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 330w

“Several of the tales are strongly suggestive of de Maupassant. ‘Without a nose’ has all of his concise and bitter irony, as ‘The little nurse’ might represent him in his mood of, as it were, reluctant sympathy. Stories like ‘Too late’ and ‘One scoundrel less,’ on the other hand, are full of generous emotion, the emotion of a Russian and a Tolstoy.”

Nation 104:661 My 31 ‘17 420w

“If ‘Visions’ has not genius, the book has a quiet and genuine interest.”

+ New Repub 11:141 Je 2 ‘17 350w

+ N Y Times 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 650w

Pittsburgh 22:650 O ‘17 30w

+ Springf’d Republican p17 My 6 ‘17 200w

TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVICH, count.^[2] Diaries; v. 1, Youth; with a preface by C. Hagberg Wright. il *$2 Dutton (18-2499)

“Those readers who have familiarized themselves with only the later writings of Count Leo Tolstoy, must be prepared for a slight shock upon reading the intimate records of his earlier life in the ‘Diaries.’ The first volume of the series of three is now available in English translation, rendered from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth, and A. Sirnis. It covers the years from 1847 to 1852, and reveals the formative period of Tolstoy’s life. His jottings, like those of Emerson, deal with his thoughts rather than with his actions, and express cryptically many of the ideas which he afterward expanded into the philosophy of his mature years. The dualism of his nature is particularly manifest; flesh and spirit were ever at war.”—R of Rs

+ — Ath p598 N ‘17 400w

“The ‘Diaries’ constitute a human document of great interest and importance, taking their place with the ‘Confessions’ of St Augustine and Rousseau in the light they shed on the soul-struggle of a wealthy and occasionally dissipated young nobleman who early caught the gleam and began to seek for the truth. The translation is admirably performed.” N. H. D.

+ — Boston Transcript p 8 Ja 19 ‘18 1100w

+ N Y Times 22:461 N 11 ‘17 1250w

R of Rs 57:221 F ‘18 240w

“It is no exaggeration to say that many equally interesting diaries could be collected from sixteen-year-old high-school girls. As for the editing, we should be inclined to pass it over in silence if the remainder of the diary could be expected to be as valueless as this.”

— Sat R 124:311 O 20 ‘17 460w

“The comparison that suggests itself unjustly but automatically to the reader of the present volume is with the diary of Samuel Pepys. We have here the same open confessions of weaknesses, vanities, and sins; the same engaging discursiveness; and the same frankness and honesty which, whatever opinion we might hold about the moral worth of the older writer, left us with no doubts about the genuine humanity of his book. The diary has been translated into vigorous and racy English, it has been elaborately indexed and annotated.”

+ Spec 119:sup471 N 3 ‘17 760w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p289 Je 21 ‘17 4700w

“The diaries now before us show that understanding was not wanting in the translator in a literal sense; his success is indeed greater than might have been expected in view of the rules by which he was bound to maintain the strictest accuracy—but possibly a keener sympathy with the ideas of the writer might produce a yet closer and more illuminating version of a ‘human document of exceptional interest and worth.’”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p470 O 4 ‘17 980w

562TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVICH, count. Journal; tr. by Rose Strunsky. *$2 (3c) Knopf (17-21353)

“It was Tolstoy’s wish that his friend and follower, V. G. Chertkov, who was perhaps nearer to him spiritually than any one else, should revise and arrange for publication after his death all his manuscripts and documents, including his journals. But his widow, the Countess Tolstoy, took possession of his journals and notebooks and placed them in the Moscow historical museum. ... Therefore Mr Chertkov can publish only the volumes of which he happened to have copies from the original. He possesses of these copies the volumes that cover, in addition to this section from 1895 to 1899, the succeeding years from 1900 to 1910 and will publish these later.” (N Y Times) The present volume of Tolstoi’s journal covers the period from October 28, 1895, to December, 1899. Omissions, made either by the censor, or on account of their intimate character, have been indicated. There is an introduction by Rose Strunsky. Appended are ninety pages of notes by V. G. Chertkov, and a short sketch of Tolstoi’s life in the nineties by Constantine Shokor-Trotsky, which includes a classified bibliography of Tolstoi’s writings from November, 1895 to 1899. There is a full index.

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Cleveland p120 N ‘17 70w

“A volume that will be valued by the lovers of fragmentary thought as they value the ‘Pensées’ of Pascal, the ‘Journal intime’ of Amiel and the ‘Encheiridion’ of Epictetus. ... The voluminous notes by Chertkov form a veritable cyclopedia of contemporary biography and literature for they explain every proper name mentioned.”

Ind 92:67 O 6 ‘17 1000w

“The processes of his mental debates are exposed, and the key to his philosophy and theology is put into the reader’s hand.”

+ Lit D 55:40 N 17 ‘17 280w

“Here are recorded the incessant struggles of a mind bent on being absolutely honest with itself, longing to find the absolute moral basis for life. ... Miss Strunsky’s introduction sketches the influence of Tolstoy’s ideas upon the youth of Russia for the last generation.”

N Y Times 22:288 Ag 5 ‘17 1600w

“Abounds in expressions of sincere self-criticism. ‘Unclear’; ‘Nonsense’; ‘This seemed much clearer to me when I first thought it out’—comments such as these Tolstoi would not infrequently append to his entries, and all too often the stricture is just. Seldom does Tolstoi in this record lead us up to the heights of ethical vision; more often he conducts us through the dark chambers of his own mind. Yet in this very fact lies the value of the journal. Few of the sayings it contains are valuable as isolated truths, and the whole is scarcely more enlightening than discouraging to those who are in search of light and leading; yet the collection of Tolstoi’s day-to-day thoughts forms a vitally interesting document for the study of religious experience.”

+ — No Am 206:793 N ‘17 950w

Pittsburgh 22:745 N ‘17 40w

R of Rs 56:439 O ‘17 100w

St Louis 15:376 O ‘17 20w

“It is the belief of Miss Rose Strunsky that a reading of the diary will make clear the meaning of the Russian revolution. ... In so far as the revolution had its mainsprings in the intelligentsia, and it did so largely, according to as competent an authority as Tolstoy’s son, Miss Strunsky’s statement cannot be gainsaid. ... The translation is finished and made with great faithfulness to lucid interpretation.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 S 7 ‘17 540w

TOMPKINS, ELLEN WILKINS. Enlightenment of Paulina. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-28187

The scene is laid partly in a town on the outskirts of Rochester, N.Y., and partly in the southern town of Middleborough. Paulina, daughter of a poor minister, after his death marries George Bull, whose secretary she has been, but who is personally distasteful to her, to secure a home and comfort for her mother. Mrs Sprague, however, does not live long to enjoy them. When later George Bull is imprisoned for theft, his wife, posing as a widow, goes to pay a long visit to her mother’s girlhood friend, Mrs Taliaferro, who has a charming daughter, Clyde. Paulina’s association with the kindly Middleborough people, most of all with the Rev. Mr Fellows who “in spite of his ministerial calling, was a creature of flesh and blood,” changes and develops her in many ways. The book also tells the story of Clyde Taliaferro’s love affairs, and of the devotion of Rosie, his brother’s widow, to George Bull.

“A story of original flavour and of sincere and varied characterisation.” H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 46:691 F ‘18 500w

“Beginning with a situation of unpleasant ‘realism,’ the reader is led by way of an atmosphere of southern village comedy and romance to a conclusion charactered with self-sacrifice and spiritual generosity. ... Aside from the main theme, the development of a woman’s character, the story has much individuality; its picture of the Middleborough elect is less concerned with their typical southern quaintnesses than with their essential quality.”

+ — Nation 106:44 Ja 10 ‘18 440w

“One of those books which one reads with a feeling of regret—regret for what they might have been. For there is some good work in ‘The enlightenment of Paulina,’ but it is rendered almost null and futile by the author’s apparent lack of any sense of light and shade, any sense of what to eliminate.”

– + N Y Times 22:475 N 18 ‘17 320w

TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS POTTLE).^[2] At the sign of the oldest house. il *$1.50 (4½c) Bobbs 17-30279

A wholesome, old fashioned story with a restraint in the love making little known to modern romance. The setting is “the oldest house in America,” where are gathered for the browsing appetite of tourists, curios, paintings and valuable antiques. The keeper of the place is a little, bent, old shell of a woman, to whom the personal conduct of groups among her treasures and the droning recital of their ownerships and famous points have become a dun-colored habit. In sharp contrast to her is the grandchild, Pansy, who comes unbidden and self announced, to touch every treasure with the gold of youth. Exuberant spirits, a keen joy of living, tireless love of hard work become valuable assets in this dead-and-buried atmosphere. The hero is half artist, half business man, who also deals in antiques and has built up a good business in reproducing old pieces. Some one has said the story is “as fragrant as a honeysuckle, as homelike as a gingham apron.”

“‘A pretty story,’ very slight.”

+ — A L A Bkl 14:171 F ‘18

“Not only does the book please while reading but it leaves a satisfied feeling after.”

+ Ind 92:604 D 29 ‘17 30w

“Mrs Tompkins has not made a contribution to literature; her characters do not grip your heart; nor do they help you to a better understanding of life—but the simple little story is full of charm and wholesomeness.”

+ N Y Times 22:517 D 2 ‘17 290w

“A bread-and-butter romance, which leaves the reader cold. Throughout the book there is an atmosphere of unreality which the thoughtful reader, in these times of stern realities, resents. However, there is much that is charming.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p15 D 23 ‘17 140w

TORRENCE, RIDGELY. Granny Maumee; The rider of dreams; Simon the Cyrenian. *$1.50 Macmillan 812 17-24093

These three “plays for a negro theatre” were presented in New York city in the season of 1916-17. “‘Granny Maumee’ is a tragedy of race 563hate, witchcraft and family affection of such terrible intensity that few readers will be able to take pleasure in it. ‘The rider of dreams’ is in a softer key and somehow suggests the mingled realism and mysticism of the modern Irish drama. ‘Simon the Cyrenian’ is an allegory of the African race placed in a biblical setting.” (Ind)

A L A Bkl 14:122 Ja ‘18

Cleveland p122 N ‘17 140w

“The three plays are strangely reminiscent of the Irish plays. They have all the faults of the latter,—they are perhaps even a shade more loose and amateurish,—but they have about them the gracious honesty of a primitive people, a refreshing contrast to sophistication’s steelier, more intellectual truth. The negro theatre is a folk theatre and its plays are folk plays. They are chronicles of a simple, child-like people, full of naïve superstitious religion and rude poetry—and still within sound of the savage tom-tom. ... Mr Torrence does not plead for the black man and he does not apologize for him. He simply presents him, one feels truly, as he is.”

+ + — Dial 63:529 N 22 ‘17 840w

+ Ind 92:63 O 6 ‘17 100w

“The two first of these one-act plays begin excellently. Then, to get the theatrical ‘punch,’ the first shrills off into melodrama with voodoo trimmings, and the second flats out into the distribution of rewards and punishments. The third is a nowise successful attempt to realize that ‘atmosphere’ that surrounded the crucifixion of the Christ. If the form of the opening lines of ‘Granny Maumee’ had been held, Mr Torrence would have given us a really worthy, almost great study of negro character.” F. M.

+ — NY Call p14 N 18 ‘17 360w

“The first dramatic valuation of the negro which in theme, character and situation approaches the actual psychology of negro life. ... The plays have the haunting wistfulness of primitive racial characteristics emerging in a foreign civilization and their philosophy is distinctly that of the negro.”

+ R of Rs 56:444 O ‘17 100w

TOWERS, WALTER KELLOGG. Masters of space. (Harper’s master inventors) il *$1.25 (2c) Harper 654 17-7207

This book tells “the story of how the thought of the world has been linked together by those modern wonders of science and of industry—the telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the wireless telegraph, and most recently, the wireless telephone.” The book opens with an account of early methods of communicating thru space by means of signals. Chapters that follow take up: Forerunners of the telegraph; The achievement of Morse: Development of the telegraph system; The pioneer Atlantic cable; The birth of the telephone, etc.

A L A Bkl 13:386 Je ‘17

Boston Transcript p7 Mr 21 ‘17 200w

N Y Br Lib News 4:59 Ap ‘17

“Untechnical, simply written story.”

+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p10 Ap ‘17 130w

“Good book for readers of high school age.”

+ Quar List New Tech Bks O ‘17 40w

“History teachers will find valuable reference material in this volume. It will do good service in the upper elementary grades as well as in the high school. The paucity of such material has been a great handicap to history teachers in the past, for which reason this book will doubtless receive a hearty welcome.”

+ School R 25:612 O ‘17 280w

“A volume of 30 pages of much interest and considerable value, especially for the idea of grouping these kindred tales of long-distance message-sending.”

+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 20 ‘17 300w

TOWNE, CHARLES HANSON. Autumn loiterers. il *$1.25 (9½c) Doran 917.4 17-29815

“You will hardly believe that we were loiterers when I tell you that we were motorists,” writes the author. A leisurely journey thru the Berkshire hills, taken in company with a companionable friend and a six-year old motorcar, known as “Old Reliable,” is the subject of the sketches. They are reprinted from the Delineator, with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. Mr Towne is a poet and an occasional bit of verse is slipped into the prose narrative.

“There is magic in it. The title sounds the right note, interpreting the mood of the pages that follow.”

+ N Y Times 22:466 N 11 ‘17 800w

“A choice little volume. Happily illustrated. The man who drove the car was Porter Emerson Browne, playwright and novelist.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 D 1 ‘17 280w

TOYNBEE, ARNOLD JOSEPH. German terror in Belgium; an historical record. il $1 (3½c) Doran 940.91 17-14685

“The subject of this book is the treatment of the civil population in the countries overrun by the German armies during the first three months of the European war. The form of it is a connected narrative, based on the published documents and reproducing them by direct quotation or (for the sake of brevity) by reference. With the documents now published on both sides it is at last possible to present a clear narrative of what actually happened. ... The narrative has been arranged so as to follow separately the tracks of the different German armies or groups of armies which traversed different sectors of French and Belgian territory.” (Preface) There are three maps and numerous illustrations.

“It is noteworthy that, as the author remarks, the different testimonies fit together into a presentation of fact which is not open to disbelief.”

+ Ath p368 Jl ‘17 120w

“A dispassionate continuous narrative.”

+ Cleveland p102 S ‘17 30w

“No ‘fact’ is reported without abundant reference and counter-reference. The sources include among others the Bryce report, the appendices to the German White book, the reports of the Belgian and French commissions, Massart’s ‘Belgians under the German eagle,’ Paul Hocker’s ‘An der spitze meiner kompagnie,’ etc. Mr Toynbee assesses the conflicting evidence with notable fairness, so that the record is free of any of the hysteria of the ‘eyewitness’ stamp of excited journalist.”

+ New Repub 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 130w

“The impression is inescapable that the relation is in the main true. The damning indictment is strengthened by official German admissions of slaughter and destruction in many of the places through which they passed. And there can be no dismissing this sort of evidence as forgery.” J. W.

+ N Y Call p14 N 4 ‘17 420w

“Its material has all been co-ordinated from published documents and, therefore, its evidence cannot be frowned down or minimized in any way.”

+ N Y Times 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 130w

R of Rs 56:214 Ag ‘17 50w

“It is of real value that the enormous mass of material to be found in the Belgian reports, and also, of course, in the Bryce commission, should have been worked up by a skilled and scholarly writer into the form of a short and simple narrative. ... There is much talk now about war aims and peace conditions. For this country the primary war aim is, and must continue to be, not merely the expulsion of the Germans from Belgium, but the establishment of an authoritative court to inquire into the events which Mr Toynbee records.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p279 Je 14 ‘17 370w

TRAIN, ARTHUR (CHENEY).^[2] World and Thomas Kelly. *$1.50 Scribner 17-29866

“Thomas Kelly is a young Bostonian, a son of ancient Massachusetts stock. But though one of his forebears has been a governor, and he himself is born in Back Bay, he grows up to find himself just without the pale of the 564socially elect. He grows up a snob, in the odor of snobbery. Three years of his life at Harvard are embittered by his quite natural exclusion from the fashionable and expensive clubs of that city of boys. In his fourth year, a fluke of athletic success brings him to the front, and proves him worthy of membership in one of these golden groups. But it all goes to Tom Kelly’s head, he takes to cards and drink, and barely pulls himself together sufficiently to save his diploma. His prowess at tennis gains him a summer in the millionaire household of one of his clubmates at Newport. He is supposed to be there for training before the national tournament; but when the test comes is quite too far out of condition to make more than a tolerable showing. But there are consolations: heiresses are abundant, ready to award themselves to his youth and good looks. How, after all, he escapes making a whole hopeless mess of his life, and sets his foot at least upon the first rung of the ladder of an honorable and useful career, is the substance of the latter part of the story.”—Nation

+ A L A Bkl 14:134 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ — Bookm 46:602 Ja ‘18 550w

+ — Boston Transcript p6 Ja 2 ‘18 540w

“Readers who were familiar with the Boston of thirty years ago may find here an extraordinarily faithful and, with all its humor, sympathetic record of that place and time and atmosphere.”

+ — Nation 106:44 Ja 10 ‘18 480w

“Mr Train, it would seem, intended his hero to have a good deal of charm, but for some reason has omitted to endow him with an atom of that most desirable quality. The first part of the novel is by all odds the best. The interest of the story—like its merit—steadily declines, until it reaches the vanishing point; which place it attains many pages in advance of the last chapter.”

– + N Y Times 22:475 N 18 ‘17 420w

“It is the strength of Mr Train’s story that he has portrayed the hero without sparing him, but it may be questioned whether the character is worth while.”

– + Springf’d Republican p13 F 10 ‘18 420w

TRAIN, ETHEL (KISSAM) (MRS ARTHUR [CHENEY] TRAIN). Bringing out Barbara. *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 17-10198

Seventeen, just thru preparatory school that probably had a finishing touch to it—the author does not say—Barbara West arrives home to enter upon all the bewildering preparations for her “coming out.” She is a natural, democratic girl, with simple tastes. After her four years of school girl life she finds the atmosphere of formal teas and dinners too stifling and the shallowness of social climbers too artificial for her inclinations that run to flowers, birds, sunshine and people who can tell the truth. How she manages to live thru her coming-out season and yet emerge unspoiled is a story that may be read with profit by all debutantes, and some mothers of debutantes as well.

“Exaggerated and rather hectic but written with considerable spirit.”

– + Cleveland p89 Jl ‘17 70w

+ — Ind 91:35 Jl 7 ‘17 40w

N Y Times 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 200w

“The coldness and heartlessness of the family life of fashion and fortune worshipers is well brought out in this novelette.”

+ Outlook 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 20w

“A pretty little romance, written with pleasant sentiment.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 My 6 ‘17 250w

TREAT, PAYSON JACKSON.^[2] Early diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan; 1853-1865. $2.50 Johns Hopkins press 327.73 17-28858

The Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history for 1917. The writer, professor of Far eastern history in Stanford university, offers the lectures as the first part of a study which will cover the whole period of Japanese-American diplomatic relations. The present volume takes up the story of American intercourse, and continues it thru the negotiation of the Perry and Harris treaties, thru the troublesome period of anti-foreign movements, to the Mikado’s sanction of the treaties in 1865 where the narrative ends.

TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM. Nothing matters, and other stories. *$1.60 Houghton 17-13222

“To his achievements as actor and manager Sir Herbert Tree adds, for the third time, that of authorship. ... Ten short stories, of which the first fills nearly a third of the space, comprise the collection. There is added also the presidential address delivered by Sir Herbert before the Birmingham Midland institute in 1915 on ‘The importance of humor in tragedy.’ The book takes its title from the novelette that holds the initial place and tells the tragic tale of two friends and a woman. Some of the other stories are farcical, with a touch of the tragic in theme or dénouement. Ironic laughter runs through them all.”—N Y Times

+ Ath p103 F ‘17 50w

“While we are interested in the stories of this collection, for the majority the greatest attraction will lie in the essay with which the volume ends, ‘The importance of humor in tragedy.’” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 11 ‘17 650w

+ Lit D 55:48 D 29 ‘17 200w

+ — Nation 105:19 Jl 5 ‘17 280w

+ N Y Times 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 240w

+ Outlook 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 30w

“He has a gift for epigram, a wayward sardonic humour, and a strong sense of the macabre. Even where they are derivative his phrases are ingenious, as when he defines the genius of the courtier as ‘an infinite faculty of not being bored,’ or remarks that the Austrian officer ‘waltzes as the nightingale sings, because he has nothing else to do,’ or deprecates the habit observable in some people, ‘who are too apt to treat God as if He were a minor royalty.’”

+ Spec 118:140 F 3 ‘17 850w

“Perhaps only two of these tales appear as they would have appeared had Sir Herbert Tree been a professional and laborious writer instead of a brilliant and gracious amateur. But if the form of the stories speaks of the parergon, there is entertainment and to spare in them. Not the least part of it, by any means, is the constant bubble of smart phrases.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p18 Ja 11 ‘17 850w

TREITSCHKE, HEINRICH GOTTHARD VON. History of Germany in the nineteenth century; tr. by Eden and Cedar Paul. 7v v 2 *$3.25 (1c) McBride 943 (16-759)

v 2 Volume 1 of the English translation of Treitschke’s history was published in 1915. It dealt with the period from the Peace of Westphalia to the close of the War of liberation. Volume 2 is devoted wholly to The beginnings of the German federation, 1814-1819, with chapters on: The congress of Vienna; Belle Alliance (Waterloo); Mental currents of the first years of peace; Opening of the German Bundestag; Reconstruction of the Prussian state; South German constitutional struggles. As in volume 1, there is an introduction by William Harbutt Dawson.

Reviewed by M. S. Handman

* Dial 63:152 Ag 30 ‘17 1600w

“If it lacks the complete ecstasy of the author’s narrative of the War of liberation, it compensates in a measure by the tempered pride with which he discusses the spiritual achievements of Germany during the first years of peace. The translation by Eden and Cedar 565Paul continues to show the defects and qualities of the first volume—competence without elegance.”

+ — Nation 105:518 N 8 ‘17 260w

“It is important to remember that the ill fame Treitschke has acquired comes less from the ‘History’ than from the ‘Politics’; though the ignorant narrowness of the latter deserves whatever condemnation it may obtain. The ‘History’ is on a different plane. It is brilliant, it is eloquent, and even if it is not seldom inaccurate, it represents great erudition. That from which it seems to have inspired distrust is the fact that it was written to prove a theory. ... The ‘History’ is a household word in Germany, as Macaulay in England or Taine in France. And it is that deservedly. With all its faults, it is a fundamental book.” H. J. L.

New Repub 11:115 My 26 ‘17 1600w

“It is not true, but it is convincing. ... It is, in brief, the epic of Prussian absolutism. ... Yet it should none the less be read; for it has played and is playing a great part in the world’s affairs. And if it is not itself sound history it has at least done more than most books of its species to make history. Only, one should read Carl Schurz’s ‘Autobiography’ as well.” W. C. Abbott

Yale R n s 6:891 Jl ‘17 400w

TREMLETT, MRS HORACE. Giddy Mrs Goodyer. *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 17-11794

Over in Europe the war is raging, but the echoes of it that reach South Africa in this story are very faint. Little Mrs Goodyer comes down to the coast to visit friends. Once more accustomed to an easy way of life, she feels that she can never go back to the rough mining town in which her husband has kept her immured, and she decides to divorce him. Her friends refuse to have anything to do with the matter, a reputable lawyer tells her she has no case, but she persists and finds a lawyer who promises her the divorce, case or no case. She has got herself into a pretty tangle by the time the husband comes looking for her. To escape him and her troubles she sails for England. The husband engages passage on the same boat and a reconciliation is easily affected.

“The novel is amusing and smartly written, with a touch of cynicism, like a dash of paprika, to give it flavor. There is a good deal of clever character drawing.”

+ N Y Times 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 300w

Springf’d Republican p19 My 27 ‘17 400w

TROWARD, THOMAS. Law and the word. *$1.50 (3½c) McBride 131 17-16437

The author, who died in 1916, was one of the leading exponents of New thought. This book is made up of a collection of his essays and is prefaced by an appreciative foreword by Paul Derrick. Contents: Some facts in nature; Some psychic experiences; Man’s place in the creative order; The law of wholeness; The soul of the subject; The promises; Death and immortality; Transferring the burden.

Ath p520 O ‘17 80w

Outlook 117:101 S 19 ‘17 110w

Pittsburgh 22:699 O ‘17 30w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p431 S 6 ‘17 220w

TRYON, ROLLA MILTON. Household manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860; a study in industrial history. *$2 Univ. of Chicago press 609 17-13932

“The book has been written by a historian and connects, throughout, the subject of household manufactures with the general economic and political history of the nation. ... The general plan of treatment involves a combination of the chronological and topical methods: For the colonial period ... the field has been covered with a very definite aim in view; the first, to determine and elucidate the various factors affecting household manufactures; the second, to connect these factors with real situations; the third, to consider the multifarious products of the family factory; and the fourth, to find evidences of the transfer from family to shop- and factory-made goods. The period from 1783 to 1810 has been treated chronologically with a view to showing influencing factors and amounts made, and topically for the purposes mentioned in three and four above. After 1810 the discussion has largely to do with the transition from home- to factory-made goods, and adapts itself admirably to a straightforward chronological treatment.” (El School J) This book has nineteen statistical tables and a bibliography of twenty pages. The author is assistant professor of the teaching of history in the University of Chicago.

“The book contains eight chapters of very unequal merit. ... It will be of value to the economic historian as a convenient and serviceable storehouse of data bearing on household manufacture. No other single volume known to the reviewer contains so much source material on the subject for the country as a whole. Unfortunately it is not well organized; it lacks proportion and emphasis, and is conspicuously weak in interpretation.” H. A. Wooster

* + – Am Econ R 7:848 D ‘17 1000w

“The technique of the book is admirable; the classified bibliography is the most complete yet published on the subject; a good index increases the value of the book for reference purposes. But the writer of economic history must do more than this. Only by the constant application of the principles of economic science can he give an adequate, well-reasoned explanation of a past industrial system, the causes of its origin and of its peculiar characteristics, and the reasons for its eventual decay and disappearance.” P. W. Bidwell

+ — Am Hist R 23:177 O ‘17 800w

“Carefully worked out, it connects the subject with the general economics and history work, and is useful as a reference book for history and household art and science teachers in high schools, normal schools and colleges. Good index.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:82 D ‘17

“Throughout the text are minutely worked out tables showing the growth or decline of these industries not only in the different states but in the counties which had the most influence on their status.”

+ Cleveland p123 N ‘17 60w

“The present demand for material in the history courses will be partially satisfied by Mr Tryon’s book. To teachers of household arts, especially of textiles, it should make a very definite and detailed contribution in the account which it supplies of one phase of their work as it was done in the home prior to the time of its taking over by the school.”

+ El School J 17:769 Je ‘17 670w

“Many tables give valuable statistical data.”

+ Pittsburgh 22:690 O ‘17 50w

R of Rs 56:215 Ag ‘17 130w

“Intended for the use of students, but of no little interest to the general reader, who will find here many homely facts about the life of his ancestors.” P. B.

+ St Louis 15:388 N ‘17 30w

“The author has indicated clearly the relation of household manufactures to the social, political, and general industrial life of the people. He has used extensively the census returns, reports of the treasury department, and the records of many state and local historical societies in the choice and selection of his material. The variety of topics that Professor Tryon discusses being considered, it seems extraordinary that he has been able to confine his treatment to one volume. This he has done because of the method of his treatment, which has been both topical and chronological. The book answers a long-felt need in the field of industrial history and merits the thoughtful consideration of all school authorities and teachers of history.” R. E. Jordan

+ School R 25:526 S ‘17 350w

+ Springf’d Republican p13 F 3 ‘18 300w

566“A very interesting study.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p394 Ag 16 ‘17 250w

TUCKER, WILLIAM JEWETT.^[2] New reservation of time, and other articles. *$1.50 (3½c) Houghton 304 16-23788

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

A L A Bkl 13:303 Ap ‘17

“The impression a young man will get from this book is that to be institutionally responsible is to be intellectually suppressed and benumbed. Dr Tucker does not say this, but he gives the effect of a mind that has been a long time in prison, the implications of his philosophy are so radical and yet his thoughts move so stiffly in their harness. Here is a mind that has a driving radical force about it in any direction where it works openly and freely. Once discount the prison chill and you find Dr Tucker anything but a class-bound conservative. His pages, if brooded over by the ruling class with which one should have to identify him, would revolutionize our social order.” R. B.

+ New Repub 12:111 Ag 25 ‘17 840w

“Dr Tucker exhibits the same restraint in the discussion of old-age compensation that he shows in the essays upon ‘Undergraduate scholarship’ and the war. In every case the reader will get a sense of the ‘intellectual austerity,’ as Dr Crothers once phrased it, of a thoughtful man with newly acquired time for thought. With America actively engaged in the war we can find an added interest in the essay on the ‘Ethical challenge of the war.’ Dr Tucker considers the war a contest between liberalism and reaction in which the United States is to play the part of keeping the issue always defined.”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 19 ‘17 540w