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“It is admirably translated. ... Written as it is by one who, with the
single exception of the German emperor, is more responsible than any
other man for the present catastrophe, it is little less than a public
duty for everyone who wishes adequately to understand the present
situation to read it. ... Prince Bülow’s whole conception of
international relations is based upon the terrible chimera of the
balance of power, and he obviously considers concerted European action
of any kind a fantastic dream. ... Such was the attitude of Prince
Bülow in 1913. The tragedy of this new edition is the fact that not
even the terrible experience of the last three years has led him to
modify a single conclusion.” H. J. Laski

+ =Dial= 63:16 Je 28 ‘17 1050w

=New Repub= 12:83 Ag 18 ‘17 160w

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Yale R= n s 6:892 Jl ‘17 200w

=BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER.= Poems of H. C. Bunner. new ed il *$2 Scribner 811 17-24881

H. C. Bunner, former editor of Puck, died in 1896. Lately there has
arisen a steady demand for his writings, which resulted in the
publication, about a year ago, of a new edition of his stories, now
followed by his collected poems. “In the present volume are included
the contents of the two books of verse he published during his
lifetime, ‘Airs from Arcady’ in 1884, and ‘Rowen’ in 1892, and also a
selection from the ‘Ballads of the town’ (which he had been
contributing to Puck for half-a-dozen years), together with a few of
his later lyrics and the ... lines read before the Army of the Potomac
at New London in 1895.” (Introd.)

“‘It is perhaps as a poet,’ writes Brander Matthews in his
introduction to this edition, ‘that the author of “Airs from Arcady”
is likely longest to be remembered; it is as a poet that he would have
chosen to be cherished in men’s memories.’ And his verse met with the
same good fortune that befell his fiction; it pleased both the
critical and the uncritical. ... Bunner’s name stands for the light,
delicate and whimsical. His work in prose and verse is alike beloved
for its charm. ... Among the more serious poems is one, ‘Bismarck
soliloquizes,’ which is a most fitting expression of men’s thoughts
today; indeed, nothing more vigorous and condemning has been written
by any contemporary poet on the iniquitous system of German autocracy
than this poem of Bunner’s—written a quarter of a century ago.” W. S.
B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 13 ‘17 1450w

“Great metrical accomplishment is in these poems. There is such
variety in the themes as would be expected of the poet who is also a
journalist. Invention often flies on humor’s wing. ... It is a happy
sign that the present hour is willing to turn back for inspiration and
fine and perfect examples of the lighter lyrical art to the day before
yesterday.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 18 ‘17 650w

=BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER.= Stories. 2v il ea *$1.35 (2c) Scribner

v 1 17-13500
v 2 A17-392

Two volumes of the stories of H. C. Bunner were published last year.
The addition of two more volumes makes complete a collection of his
stories in four books of uniform make-up. The first of the new volumes
contains “Short sixes” and The suburban sage; the second, More “Short
sixes” and The runaway Browns.

“Good paper and binding, and wide margins.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:361 My ‘17

+ =Nation= 104:346 Mr 22 ‘17 330w

“All these gently satirical tales and the purely humorous ones are
more worth while, incidentally, as mirrors of the past, but first and
foremost as good short stories.” Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 91:584 F 17 ‘17 500w

=BURBANK, EMILY.= Woman as decoration. il *$2.50 (6½c) Dodd 391 17-29164

A book on costume, illustrated with thirty-three plates. The foreword
says that the book is intended as a sequel to “The art of interior
decoration,” by Grace Wood and Emily Burbank. “Having assisted in
setting the stage for woman, the next logical step is the
consideration of woman herself, as an important factor in the
decorative scheme of any setting,—the vital spark to animate all
interior decoration, private or public. ... Contemporary woman’s
costume is considered, not as fashion, but as decorative line and
colour.” (Foreword) The book has been planned also to meet the demand
for a handbook on costuming for fancy dress balls, etc. The scope of
the illustrations ranges from studies of Greek vases to portraits of
Mrs Vernon Castle.

“It expounds no philosophy of clothes—it is technical rather than
philosophic—and it has no claim to being regarded as ‘literature’; and
yet one feels that it should be recommended. It teaches the art of
using an old weapon in a new cause.”

+ — =Dial= 63:530 N 22 ‘17 190w

=Nation= 105:612 N 29 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:182 D ‘17 90w

=BURGESS, GELETT.= Mrs Hope’s husband. il *$1 (4c) Century 17-23049

When Mrs Hope became a well-known novelist and was sought out by many
clever people, her husband, an able lawyer, ceased to interest her. He
regained her love and his own self-respect by courting her a second
time, through letters, under an assumed name. The story is being
dramatized by a well-known playwright.

=A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

“A delightfully humorous comedy of manners and character.”

+ =Dial= 63:282 S 27 ‘17 100w

“High-class comedy, graceful, skillful, entertaining, and always
clever. Its skillfulness is especially manifest in the artful
legerdemain with which the author probes into the deeps of the human
soul without seeming to be doing more than skimming over its surface.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 550w

“Mr Burgess’s humor and satire are delightfully keen; but apart from
this he tells a dramatic little tale that provokes a lively sympathy
and interest throughout.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 250w

=BURKE, EDWARD.= My wife. *$1.50 Dutton 17-23980

This book is the “autobiography of a middle-aged man. Although
outsiders show a full appreciation of his wife’s looks and good
qualities, he imagines that he cherishes a romantic passion for a
flame of his boyhood, till the lady in question reappears on the scene
after twenty years, and he finds himself disillusioned concerning
her.”—Ath

“Clever and amusing.”

+ =Ath= p479 O ‘16 80w

“Mr Burke’s feeling for character is almost, if not wholly, as
noteworthy as is his quality of humor in the handling of it.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1200w

=Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 60w

“Mr Burke has turned out a humorous little story that makes excellent
reading. Despite its war atmosphere, it is done in the spirit that
‘while the big things crash around us, the lives of those of us who
are out of it go on much the same.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:372 S 30 ‘17 250w

=BURKE, THOMAS.= Limehouse nights. *$1.50 (3c) McBride 17-22292

“Limehouse, that district down by the West and East India docks, is
not a pleasant part of London, and there is nothing pleasant about any
one of the fourteen stories in this volume, each of which has its
scene laid in that region. Most of them are grim tales, tales of
cruelty, bestiality, horror, and fear.” (N Y Times) Contents: The
Chink and the child; The father of Yoto; Gracie Goodnight; The paw;
The cue; Beryl, the Croucher and the rest of England; The sign of the
lamp; Tai Fu and Pansy Greers; The bird; Gina of the Chinatown; The
knight-errant; The gorilla and the girl; Ding-Dong-Dell; Old Joe.

“One of the most frankly and brutally realistic books that has
appeared in our tongue in a long time. ... But such a description does
not convey the whole truth. The fact is that Burke has cast a glamour
over his pages that prevents his stories from being merely studies in
the sordid and the morbid. He has seen things with sharp vision and he
has etched them just as clearly. But somehow also he makes you feel
that he has viewed life with pity and tenderness and loving
comprehension.” Milton Bronner

+ =Bookm= 46:15 S ‘17 1750w

“Not pour les jeunes, these heart-rending stories of London’s
Chinatown; but for the stalwart reader they are full of cleansing and
noble pity and terror. ... Amid erotomaniacs, satyrs and sadists—and
if the full meaning of those ghastly terms escapes you, be thankful—he
seizes scraps of splendid courage, beauty and pathos. The poor little
gifts of those eastern pavements are the undying memory of his
book. ... If you dare to face the human heart as it really is, do not
miss ‘Limehouse nights.’” C. D. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 1150w

“Mr Burke’s passing repute comes from the tales of terror which the
libraries were compelled to bar from their shelves; but to those who
have some respect for the English tongue and for whom Walter Pater has
not lived in vain, Mr Burke will always possess an attraction because
he has written well his slight sketches of London life. ... These
‘Limehouse nights’ appeared in three of the most interesting
periodicals of England: the English Review, Colour, and the New
Witness.” G. V. Seldes

* + =Dial= 63:65 Jl 19 ‘17 2500w

“He has made a new sensation in war-time England, avid of spicy
diversions. Mr Bennett has praised his book, Mr Wells has lauded its
‘romantic force and beauty.’ ... There is no fresh note of inspiration
here; at best, there is a fresh trick.”

– + =Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 280w

“The stories are well told, and have their full share of that curious
fascination which so often goes hand in hand with horror. And here and
there comes a touch of beauty, a glimpse of real love, like a flower
growing from a cranny in the rocks. ... ‘The paw’ [is] an intensely
painful tale of a tortured child—almost too painful to read. ...
Perhaps the best of all the tales in the volume, however, is ‘The
bird,’ a powerful imaginative story, as grim and as brutal and as
hideous as its fellows, but with a certain artistic quality which
lifts it above them.”

=N Y Times= 22:303 Ag 19 ‘17 500w

“Taken as a whole, it is one of the books that would better not have
been written.”

– + =Outlook= 117:64 S 12 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:748 N ‘17 60w

“The material was so unique that we quarrel with Mr Burke’s misuse of
it. In place of the steady, equalized light which he should have
thrown on that pestiferous spot off the West India Dock-road, he has
been content for the most part with flashes of limelight and
fireworks. ... ‘The paw’ is not a story, but a piece of brutal,
horrifying, useless writing.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p464 S 28 ‘16 750w

=BURLEIGH, LOUISE.= Community theatre in theory and practice. il *$1.50 (4½c) Little 792 17-25292

A valuable book for students of modern drama which breathes the spirit
of the new democracy. The writer in her first chapter quotes a
statement of J. R. Seeley’s, “Three ties by which states are held
together are community of race, community of religion, and community
of interest.” In the course of a thoughtful examination she shows that
in America today we have no community of either race or religion. She
concludes that “for a unifying force we must find a living expression
of a great common ideal: we must depend upon a community of interest:
we must find an institution in which great and small can find
expression.” The eleven chapters that follow enlarge upon the fitness
of the community theatre to perform the desired service and the
practical success so far achieved. Mr Percy MacKaye contributes a
prefatory letter.

=A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17

“‘The community theatre’ treats the drama earnestly and endearingly,
though somewhat scrappily, from the point of view of its social
qualities and the emotional needs of the community.” Algernon Tassin

+ — =Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 130w

=Pittsburgh= 22:806 D ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 130w

“Miss Burleigh has produced a rather dull work about an intrinsically
keen subject. She fails to recognize the necessary spontaneity of the
movement. But her earnestness and enthusiasm cannot fail to win the
reader’s own sympathy.”

+ – =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 25 ‘17 1100w

=BURNET, JOHN.= Higher education and the war. *$1.50 Macmillan 378 (Eng ed 17-18365)

“In his ‘Higher education and the war’ Prof. John Burnet, now dean of
the faculty of arts in the University of St Andrews, deals primarily
with the conditions of education in Scotland, but his observations
bear none the less on his own university, Oxford, and indeed on our
American institutions, to which he makes frequent reference.” (Nation)
“He states that most of his criticisms were published in 1913 and ‘are
not, therefore, unduly influenced by the war.’ That they have been
somewhat influenced thereby is thus admitted; this is the chief way
the war comes in, for the work is mainly an appreciative account of
the German system of higher education. As such it will be useful if
only to show those people who are ignorant of the fact ... that this
system is more completely based on the ‘humanities’ than that of any
other country.” (Nature)

“The work of a master in small compass. Written with a delightful
limpidity, in a spirit at once shrewd and idealistic, it is full of
real knowledge and wise comment as to the working of higher education,
not only in England and Scotland, but in Germany, in France, and in
the United States.”

+ =Ath= p296 Je ‘17 1000w

“An important work for educators. ... The first chapter, on German
kultur, should be interesting to many who are not concerned with
higher education.”

+ =Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 40w

“This is a most thorough, sane, and scientific piece of work. ... This
is the best work on education we have seen for a long time.” P. J.

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:289 Ja ‘18 100w

“Not the least valuable part of the treatise is the lucid description
of the actual scheme of studies in the German higher schools and
universities, and the impartial analysis of the advantages and
disadvantages of the system, with reference to the systems prevailing
in Scotland and England. ... His arguments for the humanities, while
neither narrow nor exaggerated, are extremely cogent.”

+ =Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 240w

“Like most other humanists, Prof. Burnet holds that an education based
upon the acquisition of knowledge which is of no value in after life
is more useful than one based on knowledge which is of permanent
value. ... Prof. Burnet’s contentions are not without such
discrepancies as are inseparable from the pursuit of a weak line of
argument.” E. A. Schäfer

– + =Nature= 99:361 Jl 5 ‘17 1500w

+ =Spec= 118:677 Je 16 ‘17 230w

“He shows a much more intimate knowledge of the details of the German
system than do most writers. ... Perhaps the most valuable part of the
book is to be found in the pages in which Professor Burnet shows that,
however in appearance the Prussian gymnasium and other schools still
continue on the old lines, the action of the Prussian state has really
completely changed and warped the whole spirit.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p207 My 3 ‘17 2050w

=BURNETT, FRANCES (HODGSON) (MRS STEPHEN TOWNESEND).= White people. il *$1.20 (6c) Harper 17-5128

A little story that touches delicately on the supernatural and
evidence of life after death. The heroine, who spends a lonely but
happy childhood, in an old feudal castle in Scotland, has a gift of
seeing things denied to others. She is grown up when she first learns
that her “white people” are not visible to other eyes. To her, thru
this power or gift, the dead are not dead, and because of this she is
able to bring comfort to others. The story was published in Harper’s
Magazine, December, 1916—January, 1917.

“Appeared in Harper’s Magazine.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17

“Mrs Burnett has not hitherto done anything with so sustained a note
of simplicity and sincerity; moreover, she has here employed the
brevity that is the test as well as the achievement of art. By this
means she has accomplished that rare result, genuine pathos. The
delicate, touching beauty of the one love scene, and of the closing
chapter, is not paralleled in any of her former writings and is not
surpassed by anything in recent fiction.”

+ =Cath World= 105:405 Je ‘17 250w

“Mrs Burnett’s transcendentalism will probably appeal more to ‘new
thinkers’ and the like than to those whose fancies range less freely.
In any case one may enjoy its consistent setting, in the purple Scotch
Highlands, and the manner of the author’s narration.”

+ =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 140w

+ =Ind= 90:299 My 12 ‘17 40w

+ =Lit D= 54:1087 Ap 14 ‘17 170w

“Mrs Burnett is always a sentimentalist, but in this instance develops
a difficult theme with a fair measure of restraint.”

+ =Nation= 104:369 Mr 29 ‘17 200w

“A story, so simple, so natural, so humanly normal and sweet, that it
must hold the reader by its sheer lovely closeness to the realities of
ordinary life. Its background is exquisitely beautiful. Its theme is
mystical. ... This challenge to the fear of death is a simple story of
life.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:53 F 18 ‘17 500w

+ =R of Rs= 55:554 My ‘17 140w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 220w

=BURNS, CECIL DELISLE.= Greek ideals; a study of social life. *$2 Macmillan (*5s G. Bell & sons, London) 938

“This book is mainly an attempt at an analysis of some Athenian ideals
in the fifth century B. C. It is a brief, but lucid survey of Greek
social life; of the Athenian religion; of the great festivals, such as
the Anthesteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia, and Eleusinia; of the
political ideals of Athens; of Greek moral standards; and of the
ideals of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.”—Ath

=Ath= p313 Je ‘17 80w

“The chapter on Athenian religion is an illuminating piece of
analysis. ... Mr Burns succeeds in making Greece live again, and this
because he is alive himself. ... He is at his best in his criticism of
Greek political thought.”

+ + — =Ath= p397 Ag ‘17 2000w

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:293 Ja ‘18 130w

“To one who is fairly familiar with Greek literature, and has read
Mahaffy on Greek life and Frazer on ancient religions, the first part
of the book offers nothing new. It has, indeed, the defect of being
rather too diffuse for scholars while demanding a little too much from
the reader unversed in Greek. ... With the eighth chapter the
discussion acquires a keener interest and a surer appeal; for here a
certain psychological acumen with which the author is rather unusually
gifted comes strongly into play. The analysis of the Athenian thinker
of ‘the old school’ is both just and humorously acute. ... In the main
an excellent description and a somewhat penetrating analysis of Greek
moral ideas, the book is occasionally marred by a certain looseness of
statement.”

+ — =No Am= 206:311 Ag ‘17 1250w

“A discussion of Greek ideals, designed primarily for ordinary
readers. It presupposes some acquaintance with Greek history and
literature, but not necessarily a knowledge of the language. ... Mr
Burns gives a lame excuse for his silence about the supreme artistic
instinct of the Greeks. ... It is also a pity that he had not more
space to deal with their religious contribution to the world’s
inheritance. ... Further, he shows little sympathy with or
understanding of Christian ideals, and is ready calmly to beg the most
colossal questions. ... Then there are definite errors. ... Passages
suggest that Mr Burns is not primarily a scholar, but a student of
politics and morals in other fields who has interested himself in
Greece. But they should not blind us to the merits of his book. He has
covered much ground in a small compass. He is thoroughly alive
himself, and treats Greece like the living force which it is. Most of
what he says is indisputably true.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p292 Je 21 ‘17 1600w

=BURNS, ROBERT.= Sylvander and Clarinda; the love letters of Robert Burns and Agnes M’Lehose; ed. by Amelia J. Burr. il *$1.50 Doran 17-29797

A woman, shorn of illusions by a worthless husband, her brilliancy
grown hard in the process, looks around for a lover “who will offer
his passionate devotions at her shrine in the decent name of
friendship which shall offend none of her benevolent friends. ... She
wants a guest who will accommodate himself to the cramped quarters of
her heart and warm them with Promethean fire.” Burns is the man she
chooses and this volume brings together their letters extending over
many years. The curious satisfaction which many readers find in the
bared intimacies of literary folk shrivels before the larger privilege
offered here of getting at Burns’s daily life, of seeing at work the
quality of genius that gave the world some of its most human poetry.

“To read these letters is to be in the midst of a highly entertaining
literary achievement as well as to be witness to a lively exhibition
of the greatest of human passions. It is a deep and moving affair
while it lasts, but little insight is necessary to discern its
transitoriness. ... It must not be imagined that Cupid is their sole
hero. In fact, they plunge more than once deeply into the labyrinths
of philosophy and religion.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ‘17 1700w

=Nation= 105:642 D 6 ‘17 40w

“The publishers deserve hearty thanks. The book is edited with care,
knowledge, and sympathy, and furnished with an introduction that is an
admirable biographical essay in itself.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:448 N 4 ‘17 800w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 500w

=BURR, AGNES RUSH.= Russell H. Conwell and his work; one man’s interpretation of life. auth ed il *$1.35 (1½c) Winston 17-5422

The subject of this biography is widely known as preacher, lecturer
and teacher. His is one of those romantic, and essentially American
stories of success won against odds. He began life on a rocky New
England farm, worked his way thru college, served in the Civil war,
prepared himself for the ministry and entered on a life of service
that has brought a large measure of success. Dr Conwell’s famous
lecture, “Acres of diamonds” is reprinted in an appendix.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:351 My ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 650w

“No other man in America, perhaps, has touched individually and
helpfully so many lives as has Russell H. Conwell.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1710 Je 2 ‘17 170w

“The story will inspire many a seeker after education and opportunity,
inspire many a servant of humanity and stir the flagging spirits of
those who faint by the way. It is a mine of material for illustration,
anecdote and quotation.” L. A. Walker

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 270w

+ =N Y Times= 22:533 D 2 ‘17 90w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17 10w

“As he is a sort of national institution, by virtue of his ubiquity on
the lecture platform, the general public will be glad to know that an
authorized biography has appeared.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 13 ‘17 520w

=BURROUGHS, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Fight for the future; with a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury. *1s Nisbet, London

“This is a collection of seven papers of diverse origin and for the
most part spoken to audiences of various character. They do not,
therefore, present a logical sequence of thought, and there are
repetitions of ideas or phrases. But they have a unity of purpose, and
it is rather helped than hindered by the emphasis of repetition. The
purpose is partly to give some help towards understanding the
religious significance of the war, and partly to urge the practical
claims of a movement, influentially supported by the leaders of
different religious bodies, called ‘The league of spiritual
warfare.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

Reviewed by Bishop Frodsham

+ =Sat R= 122:sup3 O 14 ‘16 600w

“An Oxford churchman and scholar has in such a crisis as the present a
very definite task before him; and Mr Burroughs is one of those who
have done most to show the world what that task is.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 23 ‘16 1000w

=BURROUGHS, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Valley of decision. *$1.60 Longmans 940.91 17-15980

“The Rev. E. A. Burroughs, a thoroughgoing British patriot, presents
what he calls ‘a plea for wholeness in thought and life.’ The author
says the British people have been convicted through the lessons of the
war of fragmentary and haphazard living, and stand in need of a
philosophy of life. This philosophy he sees in the religion the
British ‘have long professed and never yet practiced.’ His view is
that the war has not disturbed the claims of Christ on the world, but
has illustrated and reinforced them; all that remains to be done, he
argues, is to acknowledge these claims and act accordingly.” N Y Times

=N Y Times= 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 100w

+ =Spec= 118:46 Ja 13 ‘17 1250w

“This is a man who has devoted the enthusiasm of a well-stored mind
and an evangelistic spirit to the task of helping and keeping in touch
with men and officers—especially undergraduate officers—during their
great ordeal at the front. ... Mr Burroughs has a message based on
independent observation, and this gives him an ample right to be
heard.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p572 N 30 ‘16 470w

=BURTON, RICHARD EUGENE.= Poems of earth’s meaning. *$1.25 Holt 811 17-18038

“A midsummer memory,” the elegy in memory of Arthur Upson, published
by Edmund D. Brooks in 1910, is reprinted as the first number in this
volume. It is perhaps Dr Burton’s most distinguished piece of work.
Other poems, many reprinted from Harper’s Magazine, the Atlantic
Monthly, Bellman, and other magazines complete the book. Among them
are a number that justify the title given to the volume. Such are: The
earth mother, Song of the open land, Spring fantasies, Aspects of
autumn, etc.

“There is none of the pulsing unrest of the present in these poems,
nor the disquieting struggle toward complete revelation which is found
so often in the poetry of today. It brings us back quietly but
unerringly to a realization of the strength and beauty of that which
underlies the present and is the enduring link between the present and
past and future. ... This collection of verse contains the best of Mr
Burton’s poetic work during the last few years.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 1250w

=Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 140w

“Professor Burton holds his old course thru his latest volume. He is
untouched by recent fantasies of verse form, neither is there here any
poem born of the war. Sincere work there is with no straining for
emotional or linguistic effect.”

+ =Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 60w

“There is no appeal for popularity in ‘Poems of earth’s meaning,’ and
no high poetic gifts, but a richness of thought foreign to most modern
verse.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 20 ‘17 250w

=BURY, HERBERT.= Here and there in the war area. il *$1.40 (2c) Young ch. 940.91 17-18817

A collection of papers by the Bishop for North and Central Europe. The
title is well chosen, as his duties have taken the author to many
parts of the war zone. Contents: Our naval division in Holland; With
the wounded; “Somewhere in France”; In the trenches and firing line;
Has there been a spiritual revival? Prisoners of war; “Manfully”; How
the permanent chaplains “carry on”; The way to Russia through Norway
and Sweden; Russia’s two capitals; With the bishops, clergy, and
people of Russia; “Our gallant Russian ally.”

“During his experiences as chaplain on and near the fighting lines in
Holland and in France Bishop Bury found the good for which he
sought. ... Without asserting it directly, the good bishop impresses
the reader as believing that there has really been a great spiritual
revival on the war front. ... On the German side, also, the spirit has
been working, fostered by the German Student Christian federation.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 220w

=Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 60w

“He writes very pleasantly, and, if we may judge from this book, has
carried everywhere a saving common-sense, unbounded energy, and a
cheerful disposition.”

+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 110w

“His general report on the treatment of prisoners on either side,
which partakes of the spirit of optimism to which we have alluded,
will repay study.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 N 9 ‘16 200w

=BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.= Dominie Dean. il *$1.35 (2c) Revell 17-18164

“Ellis Parker Butler sympathetically recounts the large difficulties
and small triumphs of Rev. David Dean in his lifelong service to a
Presbyterian parish in a small Mississippi river town. It is the young
minister’s first and only charge. ... Occasional dissensions within
the church threaten his dismissal or enforced resignation, but he
invariably triumphs in these contests. On one occasion he foregoes a
call to a wider and more lucrative field in order to complete the
self-imposed task of saving a young man addicted to drink. The story
begins before the Civil war days, extends over several decades, and
leaves the minister an old man, poor and neglected, but still
possessing his childlike optimism and faith.”—Springf’d Republican

“Appeared in the Ladies Home Journal.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:25 O ‘17

“There is more than a touch of Mark Twain in its composition, without
the spark that vitalizes Twain’s narrative.”

+ — =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 70w

+ =Ind= 91:108 Jl 21 ‘17 500w

“We feel the power of ‘Our Davy’ at home and in the church, and we
resent the neglect and the lack of appreciation which he received, but
the characters and events which go to make up the story have no
vividness; they are neither real nor logically convincing.”

+ — =Lit D= 55:42 O 27 ‘17 200w

“Though Mr Butler’s people are by no means badly drawn, they are not
sufficiently well drawn to carry a book of this type, a book which
depends altogether upon characterization. Even David Dean himself,
carefully as he has been studied, does not win as much as he should of
the reader’s affection and sympathy.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 300w

“The author makes Dean a lovable, appealing personality, and
effectively brings out the injustice of leaving pastors to want in
their old age after a lifetime of unselfish service to their
congregations. It is a well-told and very interesting story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 350w

=BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY.= World in ferment. *$1.25 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-21930

These seventeen “interpretations of the war for a new world” were
delivered by the president of Columbia university between September
23, 1914 and June 6, 1917. They, therefore, follow the development of
his thought during the years of the great war. In his introduction Dr
Butler states: that this “is a war for a new international world and a
war for a new intranational world. It is to be hoped that the new
world will come to an understanding with itself about peace. ... Peace
is not an ideal at all; it is a state attendant upon the achievement
of an ideal. The ideal itself is human liberty, justice, and the
honorable conduct of an orderly and humane society. Given this, a
durable peace follows naturally as a matter of course.” Among the
addresses are: Higher preparedness; Nationality and beyond; Is America
drifting? The Russian revolution; The call to service; The
international mind: how to develop it; A world in ferment. The book is
indexed.

=A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 30w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 430w

“He takes refuge in general statements, for the more general your
statements the more noble they may be made to seem. His volume,
therefore, is interesting not for any interpretation of our time so
much as for its revelation of an anachronism—the florid oratorical
mind still at work in the years 1914-17.”

— =Dial= 64:30 Ja 3 ‘18 210w

=Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 100w

“It is a tribute to President Butler’s essential statesmanship that
these papers, delivered under such varying conditions, sustain as well
as they do the test of reprinting. Few collections covering a like
period contain so much that has proved true and wise, or, being still
in the future, is still likely to justify the author.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 O 13 ‘17 220w

“The president of Columbia has much skill in phrasing sententious
platitudes, especially regarding the moral aspects of business or
politics. We commend this volume of addresses to all who feel that
they ought to take the world seriously, but who at the same time
cannot bring themselves to think very deeply about it.”

— =Nation= 106:69 Ja 17 ‘18 570w

“President Butler seems enamored of this utopianism of language, by
means of which the specific difficulties of a problem are resolved in
an elaborate statement of the good effects which will inevitably flow
from its perfect solution. In reading President Butler one aches for a
specific, quantitative recommendation as one aches at a Debussy opera
for a whole tone.”

— =New Repub= 12:251 S 29 ‘17 500w

“We have gone over these essays carefully, and, though we regret to
return empty handed, we must sorrowfully admit that there does not
seem to be anything very original or striking in any of them, though
perhaps they may be regarded as good, sound, practical common sense,
as that rather indefinable quantity is regarded today.” Joshua Wanhope

— =NY Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 460w

“His presentation and argument are very interesting. And his repeated
warning to the American people that as they move forward in this new
direction they must keep in mind their old ideals, is of the highest
consequence. There are many suggestions and brief discussions of the
means by which the movement of the nations toward closer and more
harmonious co-operation can be encouraged and facilitated, so many,
indeed, that this idea becomes, especially with reference to America’s
part in that movement, the dominating note of the book.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:301 Ag 19 ‘17 800w

“Without any shrinking from grim facts and without any flamboyance of
emotional or self-laudatory patriotism, the author makes one see a
better future for the world as something real and tangible and within
reasonable expectation, and he sets forth the part that this country
is to play in helping on the coming of a new and better order, with a
clearness and sanity that makes national duty seem near and feasible
and attractive.”

+ =No Am= 206:799 N ‘17 320w

+ =Spec= 119:329 S 29 ‘17 760w

“In these days when history is being made and remade in so short
spaces of time, a book such as this soon loses whatever initial
starting-point it may have adopted, simply for the reason that the
events with which it deals are soon left in the background, displaced
by newer developments.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 190w

=BUTLER, SAMUEL.= Notebooks, new ed *$2 Dutton 824

The book “gives the tang of Butler’s personality, and presents in
fairly compact form his comment upon man, morality, memory and design,
mind and matter, pictures, books, music, cash, religion, travel,
truth, translation, etc. ... He recorded his observations; he tried
their effect in conversation; he rewrote them; he drew upon his store
for his published books; he collected and indexed them. After his
death, his friend Henry Festing Jones sorted and rearranged and
expurgated them, and brought them out in 1912. Dutton republishes the
volume with a brief appreciative introduction by Francis
Hackett.”—Nation

=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18

“It used to be a boyhood stunt to stand on your hands and see the
world upside down. Butler knew the trick well and did a deal of
walking on his hands through our world of conventions. His books are
integrated visions of the world thus viewed—‘The way of all flesh,’ of
marriage and the family; ‘Erewhon,’ of the daily life of the
English-speaking world; ‘Life and habit’ and ‘Evolution, old and new,’
of Darwinism; ‘The fair haven,’ of Christianity. ... The ‘Note-books,’
is a museum of thoughts caught on the wing. ... To thinking men and
women, providing they are not too old in spirit, Butler speaks with
vital directness. Not that he formulates a philosophy or solves
problems or teems with information. Exactly not that. One does not
accumulate: one expands. One does not become a little Butler but a
larger self.” M. C. Otto

+ =Dial= 63:106 Ag 16 ‘17 3100w

+ + — =Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 400w

=Pittsburgh= 22:746 N ‘17 70w

=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 230w

“Butler was the precursor of the critical and ironical reasoning to
which religious and moral conceptions are subjected nowadays by
writers of the type of Messrs Shaw and Wells. ... As an expression of
personality, and pungent, individual thinking the ‘Notebooks’ continue
to be worth reading, though the criticism of society, and in
particular of the church, is much less effective than in ‘The way of
all flesh.’”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 330w

=BYNE, ARTHUR, and STAPLEY, MILDRED.= Spanish architecture of the sixteenth century; general view of the Plateresque and Herrera styles. (Hispanic soc. of Am. Pub. no. 109) il *$7.50 (11c) Putnam 724 17-11801

Spanish renaissance or Plateresque architecture which forms the
subject of this book is, the authors say, a distinct product from that
“picturesque, semi-Moorish stucco architecture” of Andalusia which was
introduced into Spanish America and which is now usually accepted as
typically Spanish. The Plateresque style flourished chiefly in Castile
and the purpose of this book is “to increase the appreciation of what
was done in Castile, to point out its charm, and to give the student
some idea of what awaits him in Spain.” The book is illustrated with
eighty plates and one hundred and forty other pictures in the text.

“This book is stated to be the first to appear on renaissance
architecture in Spain. The change from the Plateresque to a more
frigid style under the chilling influence of Philip II is well
described in chaps. 13 and 14, the latter including an interesting
account and an impressive view of the vast and gloomy Escorial.”

+ =Ath= p360 Jl ‘17 150w

“The book is illustrated with eighty full-page plates and 140
text-illustrations and these, without the accompanying inscriptions,
give an intimate notion of the richness of the churches, palaces, and
houses of Spain. ... A good many Spanish terms are used but they are
all explained and the book is filled with thrilling bits of history.
It is a rare addition to the literature of architecture.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 370w

“The book must take an honored place in every architectural library
with any pretense to completeness. Not only does the volume contain
more than two hundred illustrations, but many of these are carefully
measured drawings, the value of which, to an architect, is greater
than any photograph, however good. The text is historical as regards
the style, biographical as regards its most famous practitioners, and
critical in the discussion of the more famous buildings.” Claude
Bragdon

+ =Dial= 63:17 Je 28 ‘17 1200w

“The discussion is not at all popular, indeed it is almost severely
technical. The unprofessional reader requires at hand a dictionary of
architectural terms to gain an adequate comprehension of the
volume. ... The publishers have given us a volume worthy of their
reputation, substantially bound in buckram. To own it is a pleasure;
to comprehend it, a full recompense for the effort expended.”

+ =Lit D= 54:2006 Je 30 ‘17 270w

“Their work is a welcome addition to the literature of architecture in
a sadly neglected field. The architect who has Prentice’s invaluable
folio volume of plates and this excellent history to go with it,
possesses the material for acquiring an intelligent appreciation of a
most interesting phase of the history of the renaissance in western
Europe.”

+ =Nation= 105:70 Jl 19 ‘17 900w

“Its pages are refreshing in their clear revelation of personal
contact with the country and race, and of the intimate connection
between these and the architecture.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:390 O 7 ‘17 500w

“A rich find for students of architecture.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:218 Ag ‘17 130w

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p295 Je 21 ‘17 1400w

=BYNNER, WITTER.= Grenstone poems; a sequence. *$1.35 Stokes 811 17-25234

“Many a glimpse in Mr Bynner’s poems localizes the habitation of
Grenstone up under the shadow of Mt. Monadnock, but the name
symbolizes more than a place in the poet’s singing; it is the
deification of experience finding love, losing its earthly presence,
and gaining above all the indestructible sustenance and faith of
realities beyond the world. This is the golden thread upon which all
these lyrics are hung.”—Boston Transcript

“His love and joy and grief and faith are expressed with much delicacy
and spirituality.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:85 D ‘17

“The mistake has been made that poets almost universally make, of
putting in much that is ephemeral and irrelevant to the real soul
of the book, thus obscuring that precious and intrinsic
quality—personality. It is in an epigrammatic lyric, of a peculiar
pith and pungency, and often informed with a whimsical humour,
that Mr Bynner seems to me to be most wholly himself.” J. B.
Rittenhouse

+ — =Bookm= 46:440 D ‘17 930w

“There is the suggestion here of a new Dante and a new Beatrice, in
the poet’s relation to Celia. ... Nearly two hundred lyrics, touching
upon an infinite variety of moods and subjects, more subtle and simply
wrought, more instinct with genuine flashes of lyric beauty,
subjective in the best traditional manner of English verse, than any
collection produced since the present revival of poetry came into
being.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 6 ‘17 780w

“Charming and delicate as the poems are, full of whim and fancy and
loveliness, they are imbued above all with Bynner’s ordered passion
for simplicity. It seems to me that he is sometimes almost
mathematical in the development of his simplicity. He loves to strike
poetic balances and make poetic classifications—almost to replace
poetry by a lengthened epigram. My only wish is that he would content
himself with being a very good and growing poet, instead of tending to
preoccupy himself with a theory. His gift is sufficient, if he will
permit it, to stand above theories.” Swinburne Hale

+ — =Dial= 64:23 Ja 3 ‘18 1450w

=Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 50w

“A volume overflowing with lyric beauty. Pure and strong passion, a
keen sense of melody, epigrammatic deftness of phrase—these are among
Mr Bynner’s gifts.”

+ =Lit D= 55:32 N 3 ‘17 360w

“One of the most effective things in the arrangement is the way it
builds up to the final ‘Behold the man’:

Behold the man alive in me,
Behold the man in you!
If there is God—am I not he?—
Shall I myself undo?

I have been awaiting long enough
Impossible gods, goodby!
I wait no more ... The way is rough—
But the god who climbs is I.

This last line is humanity’s motto today; and its author is one of the
leading interpreters of the climbing.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 530w

“Though he has failed in his main purpose, however, it is to be
remarked that scattered here and there throughout the book are many
charming lyrics quite in his usual satisfying manner. Of these,
‘Mercy,’ ‘An old elegy,’ and ‘The heart of gold’ are particularly
fine.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:436 O 28 ‘17 550w

“He has not, to be sure, the depth of background of Edwin Arlington
Robinson and some others. But he now proves himself a genuine poet of
beauty”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 400w

=BYRNE, LAWRENCE, pseud.= American ambassador. *$1.35 (1½c) Scribner 17-13818

The publishers say that the author of this novel is an American
diplomatist who prefers to write under a pseudonym. The story is told
in the first person by a young man who has just been engaged as
private secretary to a newly appointed ambassador to one of the
European courts. He begins his duties by falling promptly in love with
the ambassador’s daughter. Kate Colborne, like her father, is
wholesomely frank and American, but Mrs Colborne, her step-mother, is
one of those Americans who crave social prestige and bow down before a
title. An important cablegram from the State department at Washington
is stolen from the ambassador’s desk. To save her father from possible
ruin, Kate engages herself to Comte de Stanlau, the man who seems to
hold his fate in his hands. The mystery of the lost cablegram is
explained; the ambassador wins a triumph for himself and his country,
and Kate’s affairs are settled happily for the young man who is
telling the story. The background of the story is necessarily
indefinite, as the European country concerned is not named.

=A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17

“There is a love story running through the book which increases the
excitement of its episodes and helps round out the plot. It is well
written, and the fine picture it presents of an American diplomat
should come at an opportune moment.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 950w

=Cath World= 105:842 S ‘17 70w

“‘You rarely see an American man who looks as if he had ancestors. We
usually appear to have been made in a hurry.’ Thus Mr Lawrence Byrne
sums up, unconsciously, the fault of his novel.”

— =Dial= 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 80w

“Comes down to a Zenda story with realistic touches. ... The American
ambassador is the plain, blunt hustler from ‘back home,’ who drags at
each remove a lengthening chain of ignorances and complacencies.”

=Nation= 105:16 Jl 5 ‘17 150w

“We venture to assert that the writer who signs himself ‘Lawrence
Byrne’ is personally familiar with the ways of embassies. ‘The
American ambassador’ is written with a seemingly unconsidered mastery
of small detail that gives the book background, charmingly.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:194 My 20 ‘17 480w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 350w

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=CABELL, JAMES BRANCH.= Cream of the jest; a comedy of evasions. *$1.35 (3c) McBride 17-24970

Mr Cabell’s story will provide a new sensation for the satiated novel
reader. The reader, however, must not be the matter-of-fact sort who
has lost faith in human dreams. The pendulum of the story swings
leisurely between the two existences of Felix Kennaston. In one, as
Kennaston, with two motors and money in four banks, he lives a life
that “his body is shuffling thru aimlessly.” While in this atmosphere
of action and the commonplace, he bores himself and others, including
a rather worldly minded, otherwise estimable wife. But as Horvendile,
the hero of his own book, the dreamer, “he lives among such gallant
circumstances as he had always hoped his real life might provide
to-morrow.” As a part of his mental diversions, he abandons himself to
“delicious and perilous frolics” with Etarre, the heroine of his book,
who symbolizes the ageless, deathless ideal of woman. The delicacy of
touch and the classic atmosphere of the dream episodes give charm and
distinction to the tale.

“People who have a great respect for gas and none at all for
moonshine, for whom half-shades are non-existent and dreams mere
nonsense, will do well to pass it by.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 400w

“Both for its originality and literary value the book is notable.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 380w

=CABLE, BOYD, pseud.= Grapes of wrath. il *$1.50 (3c) Dutton 17-13446

Altho Mr Cable’s story is based on the battle of the Somme, he warns
the reader that it is not to be taken as an authentic historical
account. He says, “My ambition was the much lesser one of describing
as well as I could what a Big Push is like from the point of view of
an ordinary average infantry private. ... I have tried to put into
words merely the sort of story that might and could be told by
thousands of our men to-day.” Four men, fellow soldiers and close
friends, are the heroes of the tale. Three of them are Englishmen,
drawn from different social ranks. One is an American.

=A L A Bkl= 13:448 Jl ‘17

+ =Ath= p204 Ap ‘17 80w

“The story is told in a vigorous, straightforward way without false
sentiment or pretentious effort. That no one who starts it will be
likely to set it down unfinished is sufficient comment on its worth.”
R. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 430w

“As big as its theme and as moving.”

+ =Cath World= 105:551 Jl ‘17 250w

=Dial= 63:219 S 13 ‘17 340w

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 80w

“So does the great American hymn give title and summing up to this
picture of the army of one of our allies, a picture etched with steel
in lines of fire and blood and heroism unsurpassed. ‘Grapes of wrath’
is indeed a memorable book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:158 Ap 22 ‘17 700w

=Pittsburgh= 22:528 Je ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 20w

+ =R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 60w

+ =Spec= 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 700w

“One who wishes to learn about war as it is fought will do well to
read it, for no other among the host of war books explains this phase
of it so well or even seeks to.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 5 ‘17 300w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p107 Mr 1 ‘17 120w

=CADE, COULSON T.= Dandelions. *$1.50 (1½c) Knopf 17-19507

“‘Dandelions’ is a first novel. A story of heredity, its thesis seems
to be that education, no matter how excellent or how careful, is of
little influence when opposed to the force of inherited qualities. The
two principal characters in the book are a father and son; the father,
Sir Harold Carne, makes idle love to the pretty daughter of the
village innkeeper. Later he marries and has a legitimate son, whom we
leave as, at about eighteen, he is taking his first step along the
road trodden by his father.”—N Y Times

“It is a very singular story, with no trace of the characteristics of
contemporary fiction. It might have been written in the days of
Fielding, although fortunately it is of a reasonable length. The
average reader of ‘best sellers’ and ‘glad’ books may turn from
‘Dandelions’ with signs of ennui. But its publisher as well as its
author are to be sincerely congratulated. It has distinguished
literary merit.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 400w

“There is charm and to spare in the pictures of English country life
that are presented in dissolving succession. But the machinery of Mr
Cade’s narrative rumbles and groans too audibly at too frequent
intervals; the plot is superficial, even flimsy, and the
characterization shallow.”

– + =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 180w

“A story of odd and vaguely reminiscent flavor—Peacockian, if we were
to give it a name. Its quaint style, its sly humor, recall the author
of ‘Headlong hall’ and ‘Gryll grange.’ It is all mildly amusing, and a
trifle wicked, ending on a note of what on the whole deserves to be
called malice rather than irony.”

=Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 140w

“The descriptions of the English countryside are very much the best
part of the book—far better than the dialogue, which is often
‘bookish’ rather than natural, or the story, which is not particularly
interesting. This new writer is not without gifts, but he should learn
to restrain his tendency to verbiage.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 400w

“The one thing lacking in Mr Cade’s novel is a point of view. ... We
are offered neither a moral idea nor a wholly consistent tale.
Otherwise this is a well-written and amusing book. ... Mr Cade’s work
will be worth watching. He can put colour into it without letting it
get loud; he likes a dash of oddity, but keeps his people human.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 600w

=CADY, MRS BERTHA LOUISE (CHAPMAN), and CADY, VERNON MOSHER.= Way life begins. (Serial pub. no. 85) il $1 Am. social hygiene assn. 570 17-4856