Chapter XI: Part 2: the author discusses method in teaching, applied specifically (3)

“Fully to appreciate the wisdom, insight, and dignity of Mr
Brailsford’s book one should contrast it with the boiling mess of
polemical literature which is still being brewed on both sides of the
long fighting line. Mr Brailsford insults no one, impugns no one’s
motives, seeks no merely nationalistic interpretation of this war, and
does not attempt to assume the rôle of supreme judge between the
nations.” W. E. Weyl

+ =Dial= 63:198 S 13 ‘17 850w

“His review of world-politics is masterly. ... His book is certainly
an excellent example of sane and persuasive political propaganda. It
is more readable than a treatise and less ephemeral than a ‘war
book.’ ... Mr Brailsford has shown in this book that the best
tradition of English political thinking has not been altogether
forgotten in the fog of emotionalism which the war has produced.” C.
D. Burns

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:525 Jl ‘17 950w

“It is manifestly impossible to summarize his book or to criticise
in detail statements and views beside which stand queries. Time
and again, however, the reviewer has found himself wondering how
the author could refer to Germany with such mildness and
consideration. ... There is a great deal to think of in this
volume—it is by no means negligible—when one has once forced
oneself to ignore the absence of generous and righteous wrath and
of a disposition not to take the hand from the plough till the
furrow is done.”

– + =Nation= 105:407 O 11 ‘17 800w

“Mr Brailsford’s book stresses much more than does Mr Harris’s the
importance to Europe, even Europe’s great need, of America’s help in
the organization of a league of nations. But he does not show a tithe
of Mr Harris’s understanding of the difficulties that lie in the way
of our entering that league, nor does he show understanding of the
procedure by which such a national action would have to be
accomplished. His mistake is the same as that which so many publicists
in Europe make over and over again—the mistake of thinking that, since
the president of the United States has large powers, he must be able
to do as he likes without regard to what may be the opinions and
wishes of the people. ... But that mishap at the beginning of his work
does not in the least lessen the value of his very able discussion of
the general subject.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:269 Jl 22 ‘17 470w

=Pittsburgh= 22:701 O ‘17 40w

+ =St Louis= 15:358 O ‘17 50w

“One who writes in form so reasonably earns consideration. He sees the
weak points of his scheme and discusses them frankly. ... We are not
insensible to the skill and sincerity of Mr Brailsford’s appeal, but
we cannot see that there is any such dilemma as that on which he tries
to impale us.”

=Spec= 118:271 Mr 3 ‘17 1800w

“Futurity is dark for him, as for most candid inquirers. The value of
the book is that it will enlarge the horizon of most readers and will
convince them that the formation of a League of nations is not so
simple a matter, its consequences are not so clear, as its advocates
often assume.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p75 F 15 ‘17 1050w

=BRAINERD, ELEANOR (HOYT) (MRS CHARLES CHISHOLM BRAINERD).= How could you, Jean? il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-28076

Jean Mackaye, when she lost her money, not only could, but did take a
position to do general housework, because cooking was the thing about
which she knew the most. She went to live with the Bonners, two
“elderly infants,” who badly needed a caretaker. Mr Bonner specialized
on moths, while Mrs Bonner was oblivious to most things except the
fauna, flora and folk lore of the Faroe islands. How Jean mothered the
Bonners in the city and went with them to their farm on the
Connecticut river, how well-to-do Teddy Burton fell in love with Jean
at first sight, and in order to make her acquaintance, answered the
Bonner’s advertisement for a man of all work on the farm, and what
came of it all is pleasantly told by Mrs Brainerd.

“Light, will be popular.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w

“The tale moves so slowly that it seems rather the material for a
short story than for a book of 337 pages. It shows, however, Mrs
Brainerd’s known knack for light fiction.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 220w

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 92:1373 O 20 ‘17 550w

=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT=, comp. Anthology of magazine verse for 1916, and year book of American poetry. $1.50 Gomme 811.08

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“A valuable year book for the small library.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:256 Mr ‘17

=Cath World= 104:831 Mr ‘17 550w

“Whether through inability or unwillingness, Mr Braithwaite seems no
nearer learning that there can be little excuse for an anthology which
does not select. ... This year’s volume, like last year’s, is for the
most part filled with the jog-trot of mediocrity. One must wade
through pages and pages of mawkishness, dulness, artificiality, and
utter emptiness to come upon the simple dignity of Mr Fletcher’s
‘Lincoln’ (marred by a faintly perfumed close), or the subdued,
colloquial tenderness of Mr Frost’s ‘Homestretch,’ or the sinister
pattern of ‘The hill-wife,’ or Miss Lowell’s delicately imagined ‘City
of falling leaves.’ ... There can be no question that had Mr
Braithwaite composed his anthology from books, instead of from
magazines, it could have been one thousand per cent better. ... It
very seriously misrepresents—or, rather, hardly represents at all—the
true state of poetry in America to-day.” Conrad Aiken

– + =Dial= 62:179 Mr 8 ‘17 3700w

+ =Ind= 89:362 F 26 ‘17 130w

“For a book of avowedly temporary interest, for which the literary
horizon is quite as significant as the zenith, I think of no one who
could hold the balance between age and novelty, between tradition and
adventure, more impartially than Mr Braithwaite.” O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:596 N 29 ‘17 450w

“This is the fourth collection of American poetry which Mr Braithwaite
has given us. In 1913 he found the current of what he calls
‘distinctive’ poetry running most strongly in the Smart Set. In 1914
the Smart Set, Bellman, and Forum marked an equal wave, while in 1915
the tide left all these high and dry and buried Poetry fathoms deep.
This year we learn that ‘the radical influence of Poetry ... has
waned,’ and it is the Poetry Review of America to which the capricious
current turns.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:117 Ap 1 ‘17 550w

“Decidedly the best of the series of his anthologies, or year-books,
of American poetry so far published.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:437 Ap ‘17 300w

“The tireless optimism of William Stanley Braithwaite persists as one
of the disquieting literary phenomena of the times. It was the
dominating note in his ‘Anthology of magazine verse and year-book of
American poetry’ last year and the year before; it is even more
rampantly dominant in the anthology for 1916. ... Mr Braithwaite is
not responsible for the material he has to work with; undoubtedly he
is responsible for what he thinks of it. It is therefore not Mr
Braithwaite’s fault that his anthology can scarcely compare with such
a work as the garnerings of ‘Georgian poetry,’ of which two volumes
have appeared in England within the last five years.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 600w

=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT.= Poetic year for 1916; a critical anthology. *$2 Small 821 17-26654

“The substance of the chapters in this book appeared in the columns of
the Boston Evening Transcript, in a series of articles called ‘The
lutanists of midsummer,’ and in the poetry reviews, which Mr
Braithwaite contributed during 1916, to that paper.” (Acknowledgments)
The book lacks an index, but the poets considered in each chapter are
named in the table of contents.

“It makes a helpful supplement to the year’s ‘Anthology of magazine
verse.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17

“For the last five years the largest part of Mr Braithwaite’s work has
been criticism. ... A too excessive appreciation has been the charge
oftenest brought against his estimate of poets. ... In this book, Mr
Braithwaite comes nearer than he ever has before to explaining to the
public his ideals for American poetry and his personal attitude toward
his work.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ‘17 1200w

“Though we must give credit to Mr Braithwaite for his labors, and even
wonder at his industry, it is in the character of a collector and not
that of a critic that his real value consists. A man may have
sufficient taste—though Mr Braithwaite’s is by no means impeccable—to
make a creditable collection of poems, and yet be incompetent to talk
well about them; and hence a bare presentation of his favorites is
much to be preferred to this latest method, where the poems are
drowned in a sea of talk. For it is talk of the most insufferable
sort, namely, that of a literary tea-party—emotional, vague, diffuse,
grandiloquent, pompously platitudinous.”

— =Cath World= 106:125 O ‘17 880w

“At the very centre of his attitude toward poetry is the express
belief that poetry is a sort of supernaturalism. ... In his present
book, therefore, Mr Braithwaite puts a clear emotional emphasis on
work which is characteristically sentimental. ... Consequently, such
poets as are in the main realists, implicitly critical or analytical
of life, or at the most neutrally receptive, are somewhat coolly
entertained. ... Clearly, such an attitude reveals in Mr Braithwaite a
very decided intellectual limitation. Must poetry be all marshmallows
and tears?... The trouble with this book is at bottom, that while it
has a rather intriguing appearance of being judicial, it is really,
under the mask, highly idiosyncratic.” Conrad Aiken

— =Dial= 63:202 S 13 ‘17 1300w

“Mr Braithwaite, through himself or his proxies, says all manner of
things, including some very good things. ... We all know that Mr
Braithwaite keeps his praise in a ‘tank,’ and his drafts on that
reservoir in the present volume are of characteristic liberality. As
for standard English, he seems definitely to have severed his
relationship with that archaism.” O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:596 N 29 ‘17 400w

“If he had called it an appreciative, not a critical, anthology no one
could have quarreled with him. But the idea of separation, of a
division between black and white, at least, is implicit in the word
‘criticism,’ and of such separation there is little trace in Mr
Braithwaite’s purling periods.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:477 N 18 ‘17 900w

“Among the especially pleasing chapters are ‘The idol-breakers,’ a
discussion of free verse; ‘Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos & Co.,’ an
appreciation of Edwin Arlington Robinson, and ‘Magic casements,’ which
comments upon the poetry of Walter de la Mare, Lizette Woodworth Reese
and Bliss Carman.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:217 Ag ‘17 230w

=BRANDES, GEORG MORRIS COHEN.= World at war; tr. by Catherine D. Groth. *$2 (2½c) Macmillan 940.91 17-13334

A collection of essays written before and during the war. The first is
Foreboding, written in 1881, just as Bismarck’s state-socialistic
ideas were being put into practice. “State-socialism, deprived of the
fundamental principles of fraternity and self-government, is by the
very nature of things a liberty-sapping doctrine,” wrote Brandes.
Other papers written before the war are: The death of Kaiser
Friedrich—1888—the death of the real German spirit; England and
Germany—1905—the probability of war between them; German
patriotism—1913—the glorification of war. Among those written after
the outbreak of war are: The fundamental causes of the world war—1914;
Different points of view on the war—1914; The great era—1915; Will
this be the last war?—1915; The praise of war—1915; Protectors of
small nations—1915; Ideals or politics—1916. Mr Brandes writes thruout
as a neutral, and his open letter to M. Georges Clemenceau, reprinted
in the volume, is a defense of Denmark’s neutrality.

=A L A Bkl= 13:442 Jl ‘17

“This book fails to get anywhere. It reflects the despondency of a
brilliant man of the republic of letters who cannot comprehend the
meaning of grave questions of the empire of the sword.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ‘17 270w

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 60w

“The book is evidence that the expert had better stick to his
province. In the interpretation of literature many of us are anxious
to hear what Dr Brandes has to say. As a publicist, he is quite
frankly third-rate. His book is a rehash of old material and new
comment which has no permanent value of any kind.” H. J. Laski

— =Dial= 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 100w

=Ind= 90:438 Je 2 ‘17 260w

“A more disappointing book on the war has scarcely been written. It
preaches a doctrinaire pacifism.”

— =Lit D= 55:39 S 15 ‘17 270w

“In spite of these cosmopolitan ties, or rather because of them, he
does not hesitate to deal praise or blame to all of the belligerents
with equal vigor, according to his idea of the dictates of justice. He
lays down the law like an Old Testament prophet to German militarists
as well as to M. Clemenceau and Mr William Archer.”

+ =Nation= 105:374 O 4 ‘17 240w

“The book was completed before the United States had entered upon the
contest, but we can infer what judgment would have been passed upon us
by the unqualified statement that in 1898 we made war on Spain in
order to secure the markets of Cuba. Of the combatant nations in this
war, he credits none with any higher motive.”

=N Y Times= 22:207 My 27 ‘17 780w

=R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 80w

“Dr Brandes touches with fearlessness and a burning sense of justice
upon the various aspects of the war without allowing himself to be
biased by any one side.” B. D.

+ =St Louis= 15:313 S ‘17 30w

“Not all that he says will be acceptable to American readers, but in
these days when it is essential for us to understand the war aims of
all the belligerents, his book is at least of value in presenting
opinion from a fresh point of view. ... Much of Dr Brandes’s reasoning
is reversed by the revolution in Russia and the entrance of the United
States into the war.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 21 ‘17 800w

“He is not a builder. He analyzes—brilliantly, keenly, cuttingly, yet
not unkindly; he does not construct. But it is a relief to read one
book on the war which does not propose a final solution of the problem
of war. Brandes comes nearest to it when he preaches the gospel of
free trade. He persists in looking at the war as a Dane and a Jew
naturally looks at the war—detachedly, with a bit of a sob and a bit
of a sneer for both sides.” L: S. Gannett

+ =Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 650w

=BRANFORD, BENCHARA.= Janus and Vesta; a study of the world crisis and after. *$2 Stokes 901 (Eng ed 17-17103)

“Mr Branford is well known in the educational world as a divisional
inspector of the London county council. ... His zeal for universal
vocational training is the expression of no narrow ideal of ‘national
efficiency,’ but springs from a profound study of the conditions of
development of the human spirit. It is, therefore, in complete harmony
with his passionate conviction that a revival of university life
(including a renaissance of the ‘wandering scholar’) is one of the
most urgent needs of the time. ... In this connection Mr Branford
argues with much force that universities have, during the modern
epoch, largely forgotten their catholic mission, and have become, in
many insidious ways, organs for the cultivation of national separatism
and egotism. As a remedy for this state of things he presses the
suggestion of a ‘world university,’ neutral, as the papacy is neutral,
to be the guardian of the common spiritual interests of mankind, both
western and eastern.”—Nature

Reviewed by F. H. Giddings

=Educ R= 56:167 F ‘18 550w

“To one at least it seems a noble book, full of a wise and strong
humanity, worthy to be classed with writings to which all men pay
homage. Any scientific reader who will start with the chapter on
‘Science and occupation’ and follow whither the clue leads will
probably reach much the same opinion. ... Though his ideas are often
at first provocative, they are generally seen, on candid
consideration, to be widely and solidly based. No one concerned with
the problems of our State internal or external, can afford to neglect
them.”

+ =Nature= 99:142 Ap 19 ‘17 570w

“An impartial thinker, passionately eager to find a common
understanding in every sphere of human life, not by ignoring
difficulties, but by honestly attempting to reconcile them and
transcend them.”

+ =Sat R= 123:85 Ja 27 ‘17 1300w

“The arrangement of the book baffles patience and even curiosity.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 170w

“It is only fair to the prospective reader to warn him that there are
some passages in the book that seem reverberantly empty, and others
whose content appears to be of the cloudiest; it will be for the
reader himself to decide how far any apparent hiatus of meaning is due
to failure of expression on the author’s part, how far to his own lack
of intuition. This warning uttered, we commend the book
whole-heartedly to the consideration of thoughtful people. Besides
frequent nobility of thought, it shows much of the keen practicality
that always characterizes the work of the true mystic.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p631 D 28 ‘16 1850w

=BRASSEY, THOMAS BRASSEY, 1st earl.= Work and wages; the reward of labour and the cost of work. *$1.25 Longmans 331 16-9980

“Lord Brassey describes this book on the title-page as ‘a volume of
extracts, revised and partly re-written.’ They are taken partly from
the original ‘Work and wages,’ which was published in 1872, and partly
from other contributions of his to the subject, none of them later
than 1879. They belong, therefore, to the past, and do not directly
touch the most acute and recent labour questions of the moment.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

=Pratt= p11 Ja ‘17

“This little book should be put in our bookcases side by side with
Thorold Rogers, for it adds a great many facts to the ‘Six centuries
of work and wages.’”

+ =Sat R= 122:43 Jl 8 ‘16 450w

“The facts recorded and opinions expressed have a historical value,
and some of them throw light on problems of perennial interest.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Ap 20 ‘16 450w

=BRERETON, FREDERICK SADLIER.= On the road to Bagdad. il 6s Blackie, London

“The hero of this book has accomplishments beyond those of an ordinary
subaltern. During his boyhood his guardian had taken him on many
adventurous journeys in Mesopotamia, the pair frequently passing as
natives, so perfect was their knowledge of the language and customs of
the country. When the theatre of the great war was extended to
Mesopotamia, the hero, as a member of the Expeditionary force, found
himself detailed for all kinds of adventurous missions.”—Ath

“The story gives a graphic picture of the perils and dangers of the
Expeditionary force in this land (Mesopotamia) of desert and marsh.”

+ =Ath= p54 Ja ‘17 90w

“Captain Brereton is an old hand at boys’ books, and he has mingled
instruction and adventure well in this narrative.”

+ =Sat R= 122:sup6 D 9 ‘16 120w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p606 D 14 ‘16 260w

=BRESHKOVSKY, MME CATHERINE.= Little grandmother of the Russian revolution; reminiscences and letters; ed. by Alice Stone Blackwell. il *$2 (2c) Little 17-31436

One of the first acts of Russia’s provisional government, after the
revolution, was to liberate Madame Catherine Breshkovsky who for fifty
years was not free from police surveillance and for thirty years was
an exile in Siberia. Miss Blackwell has had access to three sources of
information: the account of Madame Breshkovsky’s childhood and youth
given to Doctor Abraham Cahan while she was in America in 1904; a
description of her early prison experiences with an outline of her
later life, published in the Outlook; and letters, many of them
written to Miss Blackwell during the years since 1904. Miss Blackwell
has put this material together chronologically, unfolding one of the
most dramatic careers of all time. The work is valuable first as a
human document; second, as a survey of the social problems that have
sent so many missionaries of revolution among the peasants of Russia.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ‘17 1600w

+ =Lit D= 55:38 D 8 ‘17 150w

“Her viewpoint on the war is especially fine and valuable reading in
this day; she is so deeply the lover of peace and of humanity, and so
vigorous and clear-thinking an advocate of the carrying on of the war
to a successful end for Russia and the Allies.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:584 D 30 ‘17 380w

“The letters deserve to live, not only because of their individual
charm and interest, but because taken together they give a beautiful
reflection from one of the noblest souls who has lived in our time.
They are cheerful, often playful, and they are full of human sympathy
and human interest. There is in them not a single note of despair, of
personal resentment, and rarely is there any evidence of indignation
because of her own hateful and wicked treatment.”

+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 230w

“The skilful editing has plainly been a labor of love. Mme Breshkovsky
appears in these intimate communications as a woman of unconquerable
spirit, acutely sensitive to the sufferings and wrongs of the people,
individually or in the mass, appreciative of the wrongs done to
herself but much more concerned in acknowledging the kindnesses
bestowed upon her by hosts of friends.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 1650w

=BRIDGES, ROBERT SEYMOUR.= Ibant obscuri; an experiment in the classical hexameter. *$5 Oxford 873 17-14043

“In this beautiful volume, one of the fairest products of the
Clarendon press, Mr Bridges reprints his paraphrase in quantitative
hexameters of part of Virgil’s sixth book and gives to the world for
the first time a similar paraphrase of the scene between Priam and
Achilles in the last book of the Iliad. His hexameters occupy the
right-hand page, and in smaller type under each line is Virgil’s and
Homer’s original, the Greek words being printed from an elegant fount
in common use two centuries ago. On the left-hand page appear
selections, each under its author’s name and date, framed in a
cartouche, from the versions of previous translators, both in prose
and verse, fifty-two Virgilian and twenty-eight Homeric, distinguished
and undistinguished, curiosities like Gawin Douglas and Chapman, poets
like Dryden, Pope, Cowper, and Morris, public men like Derby and
Bowen, professional scholars in abundance, Conington, Mackail, Leaf,
Simcox. Most important of all is Mr Bridges’s introduction, in which
he explains clearly enough to all who can follow it the system upon
which he has written these English hexameters.”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup

“An experiment of tranquil days, growing up around a friend’s paper on
Virgil’s hexameter, lovingly and rather quaintly printed, has
‘loitered on,’ to appear in these tragic times. One may question
whether the thing was worth doing, or worth printing when done; but
hostile criticism is disarmed by the author’s frank abandonment of any
claim.”

=Nation= 105:147 Ag 9 ‘17 1600w

“For our part, we see no special reason why any more hexameter verse,
whether accentual or quantitive, should be written in the English
tongue. The measure is, and remains, an exotic. In the accentual kind
the most successful are the ‘Evangeline’ of Longfellow and the
‘Bothie’ of Clough; the former an exercise in romance, and the latter
an experiment in fiction. One reads and enjoys them, but hardly
desires successors.”

=Sat R= 123:sup4 Mr 31 ‘17 1300w

* =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p114 Mr 8 ‘17 2350w

=BRIGHAM, GERTRUDE RICHARDSON.= Study and enjoyment of pictures. il *$1.25 (3c) Sully & Kleinteich 750 17-12954

This work on pictures is divided into four parts: Principles of art
criticism; Schools of painting; Pictures to see in America; Pictures
to see in Europe. The author says, “About fifty of the most famous
names in painting have been chosen for discussion, ranging from the
renaissance down to the present day, unfolding the gradual progress of
art, and indicating the motives which have influenced artists as great
schools have arisen in one country after another. ... The
illustrations have been selected from great artists, but of subjects
not yet too well known, and hence they offer material for study.”
There are sixteen illustrations. A short bibliography is provided at
the end and there is an index.

“The ‘Pictures to see in America’ will help as a quick survey of the
chief works of art in the leading cities of the country.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:436 Jl ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 60w

+ =Dial= 64:81 Ja 17 ‘18 280w

“Gertrude Richardson Brigham is instructor in the history of art at
George Washington university. Her text is sensible but not always free
from commonplaces.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 140w

=BRITTAIN, HARRY ERNEST.= To Verdun from the Somme; an Anglo American glimpse of the great advance. *$1 (4c) Lane 940.91 17-12615

The author visited France in company with James M. Beck, who
contributes a foreword to the book. They spent some time with the
British forces in the valley of the Somme, visited Verdun and were
taken along the battle line of the French front, spending some time
with the Russian soldiers who are fighting in France. There is no
table of contents, but some of the chapter titles picked out at random
are: The Somme; Behind the firing line; On the Peronne road; Tommy
Atkins; French airmen; Through the Argonne; To the Russian lines;
Rheims.

+ =Ath= p106 F ‘17 120w

“Descriptive writers are divided into two classes, those who can paint
a picture and those who can take you there. The book under discussion
belongs in the first group. ... Mr Brittain leaves out most of the
petty happenings. Genial, though his style is, one cannot help the
feeling that he has written with his gloves on. The two accounts of
his visits to Verdun and to Rheims are exceptions to this lack of
generosity on the author’s part.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 420w

+ =Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17

=Pratt= p38 O ‘17 10w

“Mr Brittain treats his subject with a freshness and simplicity which
will make a sure appeal to his readers. Possibly one of the most
interesting divisions of the book is that which deals with a visit to
the Russian lines, and gives a short account of a Russian ‘church
parade,’ at which the congregation was representative of anywhere
‘from Korea to the Caucasus.’”

+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 250w

“Mr Brittain adds little to our knowledge of the war save his own
sketchy views of the front as he found it, which are perhaps as
valuable as those of other casual observers.”

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 23 ‘17 80w

=BRONNER, AUGUSTA FOX.= Psychology of special abilities and disabilities. *$1.75 (2c) Little 371.9 17-11120

The author has made a special study of two classes: (1) those of
normal general ability who possess some special disability; (2) those
below normal in general capacities who possess some special ability.
At present, she says, all persons are divided into two classes: normal
and defective. Children are so divided and are taught accordingly. No
provision is made for those on the border line who might be better
adjusted to society if account were taken of their particular
abilities and defects. Contents: The problem; Methods of diagnosis;
Differential diagnosis; Some present educational tendencies; Special
defects in number work; Special defects in language ability; Special
defects in separate mental processes; Defects in mental control;
Special abilities with general mental subnormality; General
conclusions. The author is assistant director of the Juvenile
psychopathic institute of Chicago.

Reviewed by L. S. Hollingworth

+ =Am J Soc= 23:128 Jl ‘17 400w

=A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17

“This brief but scientific account of special abilities and
disabilities should be read especially by the practicing teacher and
the school officer.” E. B. Woods

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:788 N ‘17 300w

“Apart from its title, which is altogether too general, this work may
be unreservedly commended.”

+ =Dial= 63:411 O 25 ‘17 190w

Reviewed by A. T. Poffenberger

+ =Educ= 55:71 Ja ‘18 700w

“Public-school teachers will get something of benefit from the
discussions of this book as well as those engaged in the technical
work of mental examination.”

=Pittsburgh= 22:833 D ‘17 70w

+ =El School J= 18:70 S ‘17 750w

=Pratt= p11 Jl ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:139 My ‘17 10w

“The book is very carefully worked out; the conscientious accounts of
the work by others are more than mere references, and the theoretical
discussion and the actual case-records go clearly hand in hand. A
careful study of this book gives one the comfort that instead of the
usual mass of generalities dealt out in books on education we have at
last solid ground for sensible and well directed constructive work.”
Adolph Meyer, M.D.

+ =Survey= 38:372 Jl 28 ‘17 270w

=BROOKE, HENRY BRIAN (KORONGO).= Poems; with a foreword by M. P. Willcocks. il *$1.25 Lane 821 17-24096

“Captain Brian Brooke lost his life at Mametz, leading his men with
unabated courage in spite of wounds. In British East Africa he had a
great name as a hunter ... and readers of the foreword by Miss
Willcocks will easily see what a splendid man he was. His life was a
poem, but he did not write poetry. His verses are like those of Adam
Lindsay Gordon, free-and-easy records of ‘The call of the wild,’ close
communings with nature, tales of fine horses, lonely souls, and
sinners going right at the end, and downright denunciation of some of
the humbugs of civilisation.”—Sat R

“Brian Brooke lived poetry rather than wrote it. ... Judged by the
critic’s standards, the verses are not poetry at all. ... The bulk of
them first appeared in the Leader of South Africa and similar colonial
papers. They are direct, sincere interpretations of pioneer life as he
saw it, and they do for East Africa much what those of Robert Service
have done for Alaska. Like Service’s they are largely narrative.” R.
T. P.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 15 ‘17 760w

+ =Sat R= 123:412 My 5 ‘17 180w

“‘That ride,’ a race for the border between an illicit trader and a
German whom he has taken unawares, is an exciting piece of direct
narrative that may rival ‘How we beat the favourite’—its obvious
source of inspiration. The Masai called Brooke ‘Korongo’ or ‘The Big
Man’; his friends called him ‘The Boy’—a more fitting epithet, for it
is long since we read any verse that was so full of the glorious
vigour and recklessness of youth.”

+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 170w

“In spite of the utter lack of literary craftsmanship—perhaps because
of it to some extent—his rough ballads of African life are at times
curiously impressive. ‘The song of the bamboos,’ for example, will
always be remembered by those who have ever camped by a thicket.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p208 My 3 ‘17 670w

=BROOKS, ALDEN.= Fighting men. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-21875

The author, who has been war correspondent and American ambulance
driver, and is now an officer in the French artillery, uses the
knowledge he has gained of the national characteristics of the
fighting countries as a background for a series of short stories. Full
of the horrors of war, the first interest of these tales is yet
psychological. Contents: The Parisian; The Belgian; The Odyssey of
three Slavs; The man from America; The Prussian; An Englishman. Some
of the series were first published in Collier’s in 1916. “The man from
America,” which appeared in the Century Magazine for July, 1917,
describes that type of American to whom liberty was dearer than
neutrality. He allowed no outsider to criticize his government but
before April, 1917, he had died fighting with the Foreign legion of
France. The intimate touches which the author gives bring these tales
home to the reader as tragedy through which he is personally passing.

=A L A Bkl= 14:94 D ‘17

“They are the work of a writer who has felt (not pursued) the
continental influence, and whose master is de Maupassant rather than
‘O. Henry.’ But they are the work of an American, and they have the
direct and personal effect of honest work done at first hand.” H. W.
Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:337 N ‘17 490w

“The red realism of war enters into the six short stories that make up
this book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 170w

“To those who have found war too gloriously represented in fiction, to
those who would like to know a few of the typical fighting men of the
eastern and western fronts, shorn of their civilized demeanor and
expressing in action the purely elemental impulses, we recommend ‘The
fighting men.’”

+ =Dial= 63:282 S 27 ‘17 140w

+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 140w

“As a piece of writing ‘The fighting men’ is an uneven book. But for
the most part it is graphic. And always it is horrible. The three
stories, which take up the first half of the volume, are the best. ...
‘The Prussian’ is a terrible tale of war, like the others, but it
seems less vivid, less real. As for ‘An Englishman,’ it is a morbid
piece of fiction, false, maudlin, unwholesome.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:325 S 2 ‘17 550w

“The tale called ‘The Odyssey of three Slavs’ is one of the most
powerful war stories we have seen.”

+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 70w

“Gradually, however, the realization sinks in that they are something
more profound and significant than mere printers’-ink pictures of
phases of the great war—they are psychological studies executed with
amazing dexterity, comprehension and simplicity of means, embodying,
for the most part, in a single character the complex personality, the
dominant racial spirit of each of the warring nations.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 92:809 S 15 ‘17 900w

=BROOKS, CHARLES STEPHEN.= There’s pippins and cheese to come. il *$2 (5c) Yale univ. press 814 17-29242

“Journeys to Bagdad,” a book of reprinted papers published last year,
won a place for the author in the regard of those who still cherish
the essay as a form of literary diversion. There are twelve essays in
the new volume, that which gives it the inviting title and the
following: On buying old books; Any stick will do to beat a dog; Roads
of morning; The man of Grub street comes from his garret; Now that
spring is here; The friendly genii; Mr Pepys sits in the pit; To an
unknown reader; A plague of all cowards; The asperities of the early
British reviewers; The pursuit of fire. Some of these have appeared in
the New Republic and the Yale Review.

“Whimsical, clever essays with a leisurely atmosphere, reminiscent of
Lamb.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:119 Ja ‘18

“One of those books which cannot be recommended at all to many
readers, but which can be recommended very highly to some. The worst
that can be said of these twelve essays, from any point of view, is
that they are a waste of time and energy, and fail to stimulate; they
are often as futile as Edward Lear’s nonsense books, but at the same
time almost as refreshing.” J. F. S.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 400w

+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 60w

“Rarely does one find a book so loaded with quiet humor, literary
charm, ease of expression and delicate fancy.”

+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 80w

“He has nothing whatever that is new to communicate but his own
personal gusto; and he even smacks his lips, as he employs the
subjunctive mood, with an antique smack.”

+ =Nation= 106:44 Ja 10 ‘18 200w

“By all the known laws of style and thought Mr Brooks ought to have
lived 100 years ago. The peculiar appeal of what he has to say comes
from the fact that he is essentially archaic. He talks about the most
modern things from an 18th or early 19th century point of view. ...
Not the least entertaining feature of ‘Pippins and cheese’ is the
skill with which Theodore Diedricksen, jr., has illustrated the
pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 1300w

=BROOKS, EUGENE CLYDE.= Story of corn and the westward migration. il 75c (1c) Rand 633 16-23150

The author tells the story of corn from an interesting point of view,
linking it up with the history of the westward movement of population
in our country and the settlement and development of the Mississippi
valley. The first chapters of the book are of a more general nature,
treating of The struggle for food, Mythical stories of our food-giving
plants, Food a factor in civilization, etc. The work is a companion
volume to “The story of cotton,” and the two together, the author
says, “should make a good course in elementary economic history for
the last year of the grammar school or the first year of the high
school.” The author is professor of education in Trinity college,
Durham, N.C.

=BROWER, HARRIETTE MOORE.= Piano mastery; second series. il *$1.75 (3c) Stokes 786 17-25989

A second series of talks with pianists and teachers, including
conferences with Hofmann, Godowsky, Grainger, Powell, Novaes,
Hutcheson and others. In all, there are twenty-four interviews, each
offering from a different angle, colored by a different personality,
some big truth or truths about the development of piano art. The
chapters will prove stimulating, inspiring and instructive to
students.

“Not less interesting and valuable to the student and music lover than
the first series.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:811 D ‘17 50w

=BROWN, ALICE.= Bromley neighborhood. il *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 17-18592

“If a ‘neighborhood’ story can be said to have a heroine the
outstanding, central figure of Miss Brown’s new novel is not either
one of its young women ... but Mary Neale, middle-aged and mother of
the two young men whose loves and ambitions, foibles and missteps
furnish much of the skeleton of the story. ... But the Neales are only
one of several families that inhabit the country neighborhood of
Bromley, in New England, and all the others, the Greenes, the Brocks,
the Gleasons, and their neighbors are pictured in the same detailed
and graphic style, with little threads of quiet humor running through
and the interaction of their individualities upon one another and the
reaction of each to the environment form the story.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:25 O ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:95 S ‘17 700w

“It is a story of the spirit rather than of the flesh. ... In a story
of New England life we expect to find the sort of New Englanders we
meet there. But there are practically none of these in ‘Bromley
neighborhood.’ Its people might have existed and their happenings
might have come to pass anywhere in the wide world, but least of all
in New England.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 1400w

“The book is excellent in character drawing and has the plot material
for several good short stories. As a long story, however, its
construction breaks down.”

+ — =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 80w

“Perhaps the men and women of Bromley neighborhood are a little too
consistent, even for New England, where consistency is said to be so
common a jewel as to pass unnoticed; perhaps Miss Brown is a shade
unsympathetic toward those characters in whom the spirit of New
England has shrunk and crystallized into something different. But on
the whole, the people of Bromley neighborhood are real people with
reactions that are, on the whole, true—deadly true.”

+ — =Dial= 63:280 S 27 ‘17 550w

“Surely one of the best American novels of the year.”

+ =Ind= 92:561 D 22 ‘17 300w

“Miss Brown burns with a clear flame of indignation against the mood
of the American government and the American people during the first
year of the war. She respects only those who refused to be bound by
official neutrality, who saw where our part lay and tried to do it.
And she sees the war as a great purifier and solvent. ... As for the
story proper, the tangled love story of Hugh and Ben Neale and Ellen
Brock and Grissie Gleason, it is, like all of Miss Brown’s longer
narratives, plainly a fiction. The truth is, she cannot paint a
full-length portrait of a man. The women of this story are truly
characterized.”

+ — =Nation= 105:124 Ag 2 ‘17 520w

“Miss Brown’s virulent pro-ally bias can be excused. She is as much
entitled to her opinion as one holding the reverse to his. But the
artificiality of the whole plot, the excessive limitations of her
characters, are not so excusable.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 26 ‘17 400w

“Miss Brown excels in this rich and glowing interpretation of New
England character and temperament. Scarcely does she have her equal
among writers of recent years. ... Once in a while she falls short in
her interpretation into action, or rather, allows a character so to
offend against probability as to rouse the reader to indignant
protest. But when she does this it is because of her need of some
crucial action in her plot and it usually takes the form of allowing
one of her women characters to embark upon some adventure of sex that
outrages all human probability. This new novel has just such a flaw in
the sudden marriage of Ellen Brock.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:255 Jl 8 ‘17 700w

“No novel by Alice Brown, not even ‘The prisoner,’ is more mature or
richer in character depiction than ‘Bromley neighborhood.’ It would
indeed be difficult to name any American novel of the year which is
more thoroughly well worth reading.”

+ =Outlook= 116:626 Ag 22 ‘17 180w

=Pittsburgh= 22:649 O ‘17 20w

“A very fine novel, a better sermon on the recovery of the lost values
of American citizenship.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:333 S ‘17 350w

“The work contains diverse elements—some richly truthful and others
sentimentally romantic.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 550w

=BROWN, ALICE.= Road to Castaly, and later poems. *$1.50 Macmillan 811 17-7033

The earliest copyright date of the poems brought together in this book
is 1893. It is in part a reprint of a small volume with the same title
issued a number of years ago. Later poems have been added. Among these
are a short poetic drama, “The immortal witnesses,” and a sonnet
sequence, “The book of love.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:340 My ‘17

“The volume shows no lack of craftsmanship in the handling of a
variety of poetic forms. ... It is the sincere and sometimes inspired
singing of a poet. ... Her shorter poems are without exception her
best.” R. T. P.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 21 ‘17 1150w

“The distinction of Miss Alice Brown’s poetry is its originality; Miss
Brown is remarkable for her power of finding new themes and of saying
new things about old themes.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1999 Je 30 ‘17 700w

“Without classing Miss Brown among great or incisive poets, I can
warmly commend ‘The road to Castaly.’ First of all, she has utterance,
the plastic mouth. There is a perfect leafage of phrase, a sun-flecked
and wind-tossed abundance, over which her fancy plays with what I can
best describe as a hovering fondness. Again, her work is notable for
the rarity of imperfections—itself a high rarity in current American
verse of any grade.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Nation= 105:400 O 11 ‘17 240w

+ =N Y Times= 22:241 Je 24 ‘17 280w

“Originality, daring, delicacy—these are the qualities that mark this
book of verse from beginning to end. ... Yet the mastery is not
complete; a certain obscurity clouds many of the poems, and the
fascinating series of sonnets called ‘The book of love,’ which one
feels ought to be the author’s best work, is for this reason
unsatisfying.”

+ =No Am= 205:809 My ‘17 320w

“One is accustomed to think of Alice Brown as the author of the prize
play, ‘Children of earth,’ and as a successful short-story writer,
rather than as a poet, but this book will not fail to convince her
readers of her great natural gift for poetic expression. The poems in
this collection are diverse of theme, thoughtful, and reverent of mood
and strong with a certain dramatic propulsion.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:439 Ap ‘17 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 380w

=BROWN, CHARLES REYNOLDS.= Master’s way; a study in the synoptic gospels. *$1.75 (1c) Pilgrim press 232 17-2209

A series of papers reprinted from the Congregationalist. The author
says, “This is not a ‘Life of Christ.’ It contains a series of studies
based upon the more significant actions and utterances of the Master
as we find them reported in the synoptic gospels.” They are designed
especially for those engaged in Sunday school work or leading Bible
study classes. “They were not written for the critical scholar.” The
author is dean of the School of religion at Yale university.

“Dr Brown has sufficient keenness of insight, freshness of statement,
and real power of interpretation to make his collection of ‘lesson
helps’ worth preservation in this permanent form. ... This is the work
of a teacher.”

+ =Bib World= 50:50 Jl ‘17 300w

“Filled with a sympathy which finds in love’s boundlessness a hope for
all mankind, this collection of Doctor Brown’s sermons comforts as
well as inspires.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 210w

“Delightful and full of suggestions.”

+ =Ind= 90:299 My 12 ‘17 60w

“To a remarkable degree it correlates the events and the ministry of
Christ with present-day problems and needs. ... The best modern
scholarship appears throughout the book. The author is very balanced
in his judgments and presents both sides of the disputed questions.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 8 ‘17 150w

=BROWN, DEMETRA (VAKA) (MRS KENNETH BROWN).= Heart of the Balkans. *$1.50 (3½c) Houghton 914.97 17-14034

In these papers, some of them reprinted from the Delineator and the
Century, the author describes a journey taken thru the Balkans in
company with her brother. The date of these travels is not given, but
they were probably taken in one of the interims of the first or second
Balkan wars. The author was most interested, as she states, in the
women of these countries. Contents: Wild Albania; Romantic Albania;
Through the lands of the Black-mountaineers; The eagle and the
sparrow; Servia, the undaunted; The gypsies of the Balkans; The
Prussia of the Balkans; The sons of the Hellenes; Saloniki, the city
of histories.

“She gives much information, shows the contrasts between the various
peoples and has many original points of view.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:22 O ‘17

“The author is remarkably successful in grasping and presenting the
diverse characteristics of these neighbor-peoples.”

+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 50w

“It would make a poor guidebook indeed, but it is something better.
Her word pictures of the physical appearance of each land are
suggestive and touched with beauty.”

+ =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 190w

+ =Ind= 90:561 Je 23 ‘17 30w

+ =Ind= 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 50w

“The author is a Greek, born in Constantinople, a woman who has
studied both the political and racial characteristics of her country
and who has also a style charmingly individual, picturesque, and a
diction worthy of her native land.”

+ =Lit D= 55:42 O 13 ‘17 290w

+ =Outlook= 116:305 Je 20 ‘17 180w

=Pittsburgh= 22:674 O ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p46 O ‘17 20w

“Particularly valuable in this fascinating book is the presentation of
the characteristics of the women of the various countries. If anyone
wishes to get a vivid first-hand account of these countries in brief
compass that is more engaging than most fiction, this little book to
him can be recommended.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 260w

=BROWN, EDNA ADELAIDE.= Spanish chest. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 17-23755

This book for boys and girls, by an author who can always be depended
on for a fresh and absorbing story, describes attractively scenes in
the island of Jersey. Two English girls, thrown on their own
resources, decide to let rooms to tourists and are fortunate in
obtaining as their first lodgers a delightful American family. Edith
the younger of the two English girls, immediately makes friends with
Frances, the American, and Estelle, the older, is at once attracted to
Mrs Thayne. The two American boys, Win and Roger, find interests to
their liking, Win in historical research and Roger in outdoor
adventure and exploration. The party make friends with the residents
of an old manor house, associated with the stay of Charles II on the
island, and are allowed to investigate its secret passage ways. The
finding of the chest, once the possession of Prince Charley, is the
culminating incident.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:100 D ‘17

“It is not a love tale; it is not a story of adventure; it is not a
story of mystery and ghosts, and yet these features are suggested,
giving a distinct charm that makes it readable for older persons, as
well as the younger generation.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ‘17 100w

+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 60w

=N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 50w

=Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 20w

“The Channel islands are unfamiliar ground to most American readers,
and the peculiarities of Jersey in general, and of St Helier’s in
particular, are well brought out by the author, and even the little
colloquialisms that she introduces are worth noting.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 160w

=BROWN, GEORGE ROTHWELL.= My country; a story of today. il *$1.35 (2½c) Small 17-23648

This is said to be the first novel to come out of our war with
Germany. The plot and the way in which the story is developed recall
Phillips Oppenheim. The hero, Wilhelm Hartmann, known as Billy, and
his twin brother, Karl, are Prussians by birth, though their father
has become a loyal American citizen. After the father’s death, Karl
returns to Germany for his education and becomes thoroughly
Prussianized, while Billy, through the influence of Prussians who hope
to use him later, though he is ignorant of this at the time, is
appointed to Annapolis and later promoted to a position of importance
in the United States navy. The crucial point in the story comes when
Billy, already obliged to pay the penalty of a dual nationality in
suffering the distrust of his fellow officers, meets his twin brother,
who has returned secretly by submarine as the official representative
of the Kaiser and tells Billy that he is the Kaiser’s man, that he
owes his appointment as assistant chief-of-staff to the
commander-in-chief to Prussian influence and that it is his duty to
save Germany by betraying the American navy. How Billy deals with his
brother and how he saves and finally wins the girl he loves is
ingeniously told.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 480w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

“The story is a thrilling one and offers a serious idea or two
besides.”

+ — =Dial= 63:220 S 13 ‘17 120w

+ =N Y Times= 22:243 Je 24 ‘17 330w

=BROWN, HAROLD WARNER.= Electrical equipment; its selection and arrangement, with special reference to factories, shops and industrial plants. il *$2 McGraw 621.3 17-5558

“The book supplements, and does not duplicate, existing recognized
texts which describe electrical apparatus or present the principles of
design and application or give various performance data. Its aim, in
contrast, is to show how to apply principles and data elsewhere
accessible.”—Engin News-Rec

=A L A Bkl= 14:44 N ‘17

=Cleveland= p93 Jl ‘17 20w

“Non-electrical men who have problems in the selection and use of
electrical equipment put up to them, will welcome Mr Brown’s
lectures.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:363 My 17 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

“Unique in that it attacks the subject from the standpoint of the
mechanical engineer. To facilitate study, data references are confined
mainly to the ‘Standard’ and the ‘American’ handbooks, while Alexander
Gray’s ‘Principles and practice of electrical engineering’ is depended
upon for theory.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p7 Ap ‘17 120w

“Primarily intended to guide college students in laying out their work
and to assist mechanical and electrical engineers in selecting
electrical equipment, and in this capacity it should find a wide field
of usefulness.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:445 My ‘17 50w

“Helpful book, the first to deal definitely with this subject.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:517 Je ‘17 20w

“The tables given in the chapter on Motor applications are a very
important part of the work.”

+ =Power= 45:400 Mr 20 ‘17 440w

=Pratt= p17 Jl ‘17 20w