Chapter XIV: Part 2: the author discusses method in teaching, applied specifically (6)

This introduction to sex education, intended for parents and teachers,
regards nature study as the logical means of approach to the subject.
Dr William Freeman Snow in his foreword, says that the book has been
prepared to meet the demand for “a simple, scientifically accurate
book on the subject of the way plant, animal, and human life begins,
written in an interesting, non-technical way, and with adequate
illustration.” The arrangement of material is shown by the table of
contents: The deeper meaning of nature study; The lily; The moth; The
fish; The frog; The chick; The rabbit; The child; Nature study and the
personal problems of life. The book is illustrated with nine plates
and other figures in the text.

“The last chapter on ‘Nature study and the personal problems of life’
is a sane summing up of the attitude the parent or teacher ought to
take toward this important subject.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:335 My ‘17

+ =Ind= 89:559 Mr 26 ‘17 50w

=Pratt= p19 O ‘17 30w

“The tone is sweet and constructive—spiritual, in the finest sense of
the word. One is pretty well justified in saying that while it is not
the only useful and commendable book in its field, it is beyond any
question the best.” J: P. Gavit

+ =Survey= 38:423 Ag 11 ‘17 500w

=CAFFIN, CHARLES HENRY.= How to study architecture. il *$3.50 (2½c) Dodd 720.9 17-24868

This book is an attempt, by an art critic, “to trace the evolution of
architecture as the product and expression of successive phases of
civilisation.” (Sub-title) Each chapter, or group of chapters, on the
architecture of a period, is preceded by a chapter on the civilization
of which it was a product. Book 1 is introductory; the remaining six
books deal respectively with the pre-classic, classic, post-classic,
Gothic, renaissance, and post-renaissance periods of architecture.
There is a two-page bibliography, which follows the glossary and
index. The book is illustrated with numerous plates.

“Each type is well illustrated.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17

“A good handbook is a valuable and welcome addition to the
understanding of a given art, and Mr Caffin’s work in this case is
well done and has the virtue of being readable and not a bore. He is,
from long practice, an essayist on this and similar themes who knows
how to write and so spares us the ennui which is immemorially
associated with works of reference. In his statement as to what has
been done and is doing of late years in the United States, it would
seem as if the treatment were a little sketchy, because it is centered
in New York city.” R: Burton

+ — =Bookm= 46:479 D ‘17 450w

=Dial= 63:527 N 22 ‘17 500w

“The field covered is so wide ... that a certain congestion of
statement was, perhaps, inevitable. ... By its inclusiveness and the
abundance of its modern material it fills an empty place in the
literature of its subject.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:368 S 30 ‘17 190w

“To teachers and students the cohesion shown between art principles
and their historical manifestations has particular value, and to
readers generally the subject and its treatment provides the appeal of
romance as well as instruction and an opportunity to develop critical
appreciation.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:274 F ‘18 310w

=CAHAN, ABRAHAM.= Rise of David Levinsky. *$1.60 (1c) Harper 17-23760

In this novel, a Russian Jew who came to America in 1885, at the age
of twenty, tells his own story. About eighty pages deal with ghetto
life in Russia, the rest of the action passes in America. Though he
has been educated in a Talmudic seminary, David tries first to earn a
living in New York as a peddler. Failing in this, he becomes an
operator in a clothing factory, with the idea of earning enough money
to put himself through the City college. An accident changes his dream
and he starts out as a manufacturer in the business he has now
learned. He steals designs, cheats the union and indulges in other
dishonest business practices; but he makes his pile. The story of his
relations with various women is given, and especially with the three
he loved: Matilda, his first love; Dora, the wife of his friend, Max
Margolis, and Anna Tevkin, socialist daughter of a Hebrew poet. David
does not marry, and we leave him at the end of the story sensitive,
sensual, desperately lonely, finding business “good sport,” but
confessing that there is one thing which he craves and “which money
cannot buy—happiness.” The story is marred by occasional vulgarities.
The author is the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Daily Forward and is
the author of “Yekl, a tale of the New York ghetto” and other works.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 100w

“As he approaches sixty, Mr Cahan gives us this solid, mature novel,
into which are compacted the reflections of a lifetime. The vanity of
great riches was never set forth with more searching sincerity. ... As
a matter of biography, he is a child of Russian literature. And that
is why his novel, written in faultless English, is a singular and
solitary performance in American fiction.” J: Macy

+ =Dial= 63:521 N 22 ‘17 1750w

=Nation= 105:432 O 18 ‘17 500w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 150w

“One of the most impressive novels produced in America in many a day.”
R. B.

+ =New Repub= 14:31 F 2 ‘18 650w

“The tale of Levinsky is, incidentally, the tale of the cloak industry
in this country; of the methods by which a dominating personality
achieves his financial success. But its revelations in this regard are
as far from mere muckraking as are Cahan’s pictures of the cloak
makers from mere propaganda. ... It is written with a clarity that is
French, a chaste realism that is Russo-Yiddish, and a deep human
insight that render it universal.” Isaac Goldberg

+ =N Y Call= p15 S 23 ‘17 700w

“No phase of modern life betrays the cheapness and shams of
capitalistic culture more strikingly than does the literature of
today. Happily, however, there are some few exceptions, and Cahan is
one of these. His ‘Rise of David Levinsky’ is not a commodity, but a
piece of art, full of life’s unvarnished truths.”

+ =N Y Call= p15 O 7 ‘17 1500w

“‘The rise of David Levinsky’ is not a pleasant book, nor is David
himself an especially likeable or appealing individual. His very soul
is stripped bare before us; we know him intimately, but it cannot be
said that to know him is to love him. Yet he often excites our
pity. ... The dominant quality in this novel is the effect it gives of
being altogether real. Whether the scene be laid in the Russian ghetto
or the big expensive hotel in the Catskills where rich Jews
congregated, whether it is in the Division street factory or David’s
fine place on Fifth avenue, this sense of reality is always
present. ... In this story of ‘The rise’ of one individual is pictured
the development of an entire class, as well as of what has become one
of the great industries of the country.”

=N Y Times= 22:341 S 16 ‘17 1200w

“As a story for the story’s sake the novel is much less important than
as a study of a people whose qualities and experiences are to be
increasingly important in American life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 550w

“Had the book been published anonymously, we might have taken it for a
cruel caricature of a hated race by some anti-Semite. It will be taken
by an already critical outer world as a picture of Jewish life in
general. It really is not.” K. H. Claghorn

– + =Survey= 39:260 D 1 ‘17 350w

=CALHOUN, ARTHUR WALLACE.= Social history of the American family from colonial times to the present. 3v v 1 $5 Clark, A. H. 392.3 17-23329

“The first volume of ‘A social history of the American family’ devotes
a chapter to sexual codes and customs in the European countries which
furnished colonists to the new world and then traces their
modification and development in the thirteen English colonies down to
revolutionary times.” (Ind) “Three volumes are contemplated, the
second bringing the history through the Civil war period; the third
focussing its attention on the present generation.” (Cath World)

“In addition to the value of this material as social history, all of
it makes the most interesting reading, and some of it is unsurpassed
as the richest kind of humor.” F. W. C.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p11 N 28 ‘17 750w

“Dr Calhoun, despite his avowed intention not to exaggerate in this
direction, does, we think, lay too much stress at times on the
‘economic interpretation’ of life. ... But on the whole, Dr Calhoun is
clear-sighted and open-minded. He has, for instance, the courage to
show what dire fruits the reformation and the loose moral teaching of
Luther have borne to the world.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:263 N ‘17 350w

“The volume shows evidence of great research and contains a full
bibliography.”

+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 60w

“The publishers have given an excellent page on attractive and
substantial paper in a serviceable cover.”

+ =Lit D= 55:43 N 17 ‘17 500w

“American history is being rewritten by the scientific historians, and
this volume is a valuable addition to the rich contributions that have
been made in recent years.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 11 ‘17 1100w

=CALHOUN, DOROTHY DONNELL.= Princess of Let’s Pretend. il *$1.50 Dutton 16-25148

“The first story is called ‘The story of the enchanted leg’; it tells
how a fairy came to Gert van Vent and took charge of his wooden leg,
thus bringing happiness to his daughter. ‘Damon and Pythias’ relates
the old legend in terms of childhood. ‘The merry monarch’ makes a
cobbler king for the day to the great amusement of the court. ... ‘The
princess of Let’s Pretend’ contains several other stories, touching on
a variety of subjects. Even a baseball story adorns the volume.”—N Y
Times

“The illustrations are novel, being photographs chosen from moving
picture films; but their realism will disappoint the childish
imagination, which can far more aptly picture its own fairy world.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:556 Jl ‘17 60w

“A delightful collection of stories. They are simply told and sure of
entertaining the little folk.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:224 Je 10 ‘17 170w

“Obviously intended for children from eight to ten or twelve.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 150w

=CALKINS, GARY NATHAN.= Biology. 2d ed rev and enl il $1.80 Holt 570 17-25304

“In the present edition, although there is no change in the method by
which the subject of biology is developed, there are many changes in
the text, some parts being condensed, others elaborated, in the
interest of clearness. Apart from verbal improvements throughout the
book, the most important alterations and additions have been made in
connection with the subjects of fermentation and enzyme activities;
the significance of conjugation; plants, the food of animals;
photosynthesis; circulation in the earthworm; and immunity. Three
figures in the first edition (numbers 6, 21, and 39) have been
replaced by more instructive illustrations, and in all cases where
necessary, the legends have been amplified. The glossary, which was
introduced with the second printing of the first edition, is
considerably enlarged, and a bibliography added.” (Preface to the
second edition)

+ =Educ R= 55:79 Ja ‘18 30w

=CALVERT, MRS AMELIA CATHERINE (SMITH), and CALVERT, PHILIP POWELL.= Year of Costa Rican natural history. il *$3 Macmillan 508.728 17-6345

“The primary concern of the authors in visiting Costa Rica was a study
of dragon flies with reference to their seasonal distribution. The
book has little to say on that subject, however, because their
investigations along that line are not completed. It is devoted mainly
to the little republic itself. Describing the daily life in town and
country, the authors always have a quick eye for its trees, plants,
and animal and insect life.”—N Y Times

“It is abundantly illustrated and will interest tourists and students
of general and commercial conditions. Bibliography (30p.).”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:381 Je ‘17

“Here lies the drawback of the book; although so full of information,
there are but few chapters to be enjoyed by the general reader, who,
taking the detail, much of which is unavoidably technical, for
granted, would relish some more comprehensive generalised descriptions
as characteristic of the country.”

+ — =Nature= 100:323 D 27 ‘17 650w

=N Y Br Lib= News 4:59 Ap ‘17

“The result of their observations is set forth with a skill and
all-embracing perception only possible to writers who are able to
catalogue definitely in their minds what has come under their notice.
It is all told in an impressive volume of 577 pages.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 190w

=Pittsburgh= 22:655 O ‘17 30w

“The style in which this almost inexhaustible store of material has
been presented renders the book readable throughout.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:216 Ag ‘17 330w

=St Louis= 15:140 My ‘17

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 2 ‘17 250w

Cambridge history of American literature. 3v v 1 *$3.50 (3c) Putnam 810.9 (17-30257)

=v 1= Colonial and revolutionary literature; Early national
literature: Part 1.

The Cambridge history of American literature, edited by William
Peterfield Trent, of Columbia, John Erskine, of Columbia, Stuart P.
Sherman, of the University of Illinois, and Carl Van Doren, headmaster
of the Brearley school, will be complete in three volumes. Volume 1
covers Colonial and revolutionary literature and Early national
literature, part 1, ending with a study of Emerson. The distinctive
features of the work as a whole are enumerated by the editors: “(1) It
is on a larger scale than any of its predecessors ...; (2) It is the
first history of American literature composed with the collaboration
of a numerous body of scholars from every section of the United States
and from Canada; (3) It will provide for the first time an extensive
bibliography for all periods and subjects treated; (4) It will be a
survey of the life of the American people as expressed in their
writings rather than a history of belles-lettres alone.” (Preface) As
in the “Cambridge history of English literature,” the bibliographies,
arranged at the close, are extensive.

=Boston Transcript= p8 N 17 ‘17 1200w

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 8 ‘17 730w

“A chapter on transcendentalism by Professor Goddard, of Swarthmore
college, is one of the best pieces of work in the volume. ... Now that
the foundations of the history are laid, perhaps the superstructure
will exhibit a lighter and more attractive aspect. One would welcome a
smaller measure of compilation and a larger manifestation of the
critical and the appreciatory.”

+ — =Dial= 63:646 D 20 ‘17 340w

“Tho the chapters on Franklin and Emerson are very well done, perhaps
the most delightful chapter in the whole volume is that on Washington
Irving, by Major George Haven Putnam.”

+ =Lit D= 56:34 Ja 12 ‘18 380w

“A valuable, comprehensive, and from beginning to end a most
interesting book. Emphasis must be laid upon the care and detail which
the authors and editors have devoted to the early literature of our
land. ‘The Cambridge History of American literature’ is a book of the
utmost importance.”

+ + — =N Y Times= 22:497 N 25 ‘17 1500w

+ =Outlook= 117:653 D 19 ‘17 90w

+ =R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 170w

“The editors have plainly worked in harmony, and, what is more, they
have plainly tried to harmonize the work of their contributors. In one
or two of the chapters there is excessive individualism in the
interpretation; and even a few foolish statements can be found. But,
in the main, the contributors have worked upon a basis of facts and
have sought to study the relations between facts. It is to be
regretted where so much space is devoted to bibliographies, that they
are less exhaustive than cooperative scholarship might make them.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 1600w

Cambridge history of English literature; ed. by A. W: Ward and A. R. Waller. 14v v 13-14 ea *$2.75 (1½c) Putnam 820.9 (7-40854)

=v 13-14= Nineteenth century.

The thirteenth volume continues the history of the nineteenth century,
begun in volume 12. Among the studies contributed to the volume are:
Carlyle, by J. G. Robertson; The Tennysons, by Herbert J. C. Grierson;
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by Sir Henry Jones;
The prosody of the nineteenth century, by George Saintsbury;
Nineteenth-century drama, by Harold Child; Thackeray, by A. Hamilton
Thompson; Dickens, by George Saintsbury; The Brontës, by A. A. Jack.
Volume 14 completes the trilogy of the nineteenth century and brings
the work as a whole to a close. It has chapters on: Philosophers;
Historians, biographers and political orators; The growth of
journalism; The literature of science; Anglo-Irish literature, etc.
There is also a chapter by W. Murison on Changes in the language since
Shakespeare’s time.

“Volume 14 has especially noteworthy articles on the growth of
journalism and on literature in the English colonies.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:340 My ‘17 (Review of v 13 and 14)

“A grim and militant provincialism is the presiding spirit of the
volumes. Only so can one explain the fact that Newman is mentioned
only in scattered references and nowhere treated as the great master
of prose that he was, that Meredith’s ‘Modern love’ is slurred over as
unimportant, and that the treatment of Patmore’s later verse (’The
toys,’ ‘Magna est veritas,’ etc.), of Henley, and of Pater is brief
and grudging.” Ludwig Lewisohn

— =Dial= 62:473 My 31 ‘17 1700w (Review of v 13 and 14)

“Mr Robertson treats in too cursory and perfunctory a fashion the
question of the historical value of Carlyle’s historical works, nor
does the bibliography supply this lacuna. ... In any general survey of
the progress of historical studies in England during the nineteenth
century there are two facts which ought to be clearly stated and
adequately emphasized, viz. the opening of the national archives to
historians and the revival of the study of history in the
universities. They are suggested and referred to, but not given
sufficient importance. ... Instances might be noted in which the
selection of one writer rather than another seems difficult to
explain, but carping criticism of details is an ungrateful task, where
in the main there is agreement.” L.

+ — =Eng Hist R= 32:447 Jl ‘17 850w (Review of v 13 and 14)

“The bibliographies in themselves form probably the most valuable
book-record of the subject in print.”

+ =Ind= 90:215 Ap 28 ‘17 500w (Review of v 1-14)

“With such names as Robertson, Grierson, Saintsbury, and Jack, it can
be assumed that the present volume reaches the high level normal to
this authoritative series.”

+ =Lit D= 54:768 Mr 17 ‘17 250w (Review of v 13)

+ =Lit D= 54:1429 My 12 ‘17 280w (Review of v 14)

“But there is much more in the volume that will interest men of
science than the single chapter which is specifically devoted to the
literature of science. The whole volume is full of interest. A chapter
on the changes in the language since the time of Shakespeare, by Mr W.
Murison, may be commended to all those who are interested, as all of
us ought to be, in the literary exposition of scientific work.”

+ — =Nature= 100:141 O 25 ‘17 1100w (Review of v 14)

+ =N Y Times= 22:97 Mr 18 ‘17 950w (Review of v 13 and 14)

“The editors have chosen for their collaborators writers who know how
to be scholarly without being pedantic; and they have allowed a fair
modicum of personal equation to pass the editorial pencil
unchallenged. Nevertheless, one feels, more in some chapters than in
others, a sense of restraint, as tho the critic had checked himself on
the verge of giving expression to his full thought.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 91:591 F 17 ‘17 750w (Review of v 13)

“It is a miscellany of both brilliant and careless workmanship, and
its value will depend largely upon the individual reader’s
interpretation of what is meant by history.”

+ — =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 180w (Review of v 14)

=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17 (Review of v 14)

“The chapters devoted to the literature of the Dominions from the
freshness of their matter and their treatment, are among the most
enthralling in the book.”

+ =Sat R= 123:438 My 12 ‘17 1650w (Review of v 13 and 14)

“Most of the contributors have taken pains to be accurate in their
statements of fact even if their criticisms often provoke dissent. The
very lengthy bibliographies add much to the value of the work for
purposes of reference.”

+ =Spec= 118:210 F 17 ‘17 180w (Review of v 13 and 14)

“If the volume fails to make a unified impression, one is glad to take
it for what it is—a collection of interesting and sometimes important
papers by men well qualified to speak of their respective subjects.
But the drawback of the method is not to be overlooked.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 28 ‘17 1100w (Review of v 13)

“A newspaper man will relish the chapter on ‘The growth of
journalism,’ by J. S. R. Phillips, editor of the Yorkshire Post, a
model of condensation and good judgment. But the public as a whole may
be more interested in the well-written and well-reasoned chapter on
English-Canadian literature by Pelham Edgar, professor of English
literature in Victoria college, University of Toronto.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 19 ‘17 1350w (Review of v 13)

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p10 Ja 4 ‘17 120w (Review of v 13
and 14)

“In conclusion we must regretfully congratulate Professor Robertson,
Mr Hamilton Thompson, and Sir Adolphus Ward on being the only authors
in this volume with a right sense of the historian’s responsibility;
they alone have completed their own bibliographies. ‘G. A. B.,’ who is
wholly or partly responsible for the rest, cannot be said to have
attained a satisfactory level in the more difficult subjects.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p54 F 1 ‘17 1600w (Review of v 13)

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p78 F 15 ‘17 1650w (Review of v
14)

=CAMMAERTS, ÉMILE.= Through the iron bars (Two years of German occupation in Belgium). il *75c (3½c) Lane (Eng ed 6d) 940.91 17-22575

“It is the plain matter-of-fact story of Belgian life under German
rule. ... The German occupation of Belgium may be roughly divided into
two periods: Before the fall of Antwerp, when the German policy, in
spite of its frightfulness, had not yet assumed its most ruthless and
systematic character; and, after the fall of the great fortress, when
the yoke of the conqueror weighed more heavily on the vanquished
shoulders, and when the Belgian population, grim and resolute, began
to struggle to preserve its honour and loyalty and to resist the ever
increasing pressure of the enemy to bring it into complete submission
and to use it as a tool against its own army and its own king. I am
only concerned here with the second period. ... My heroes risk their
lives, but they are not soldiers, merely prosaic ‘bourgeois’ and
workmen. They have no weapon, they cannot fight. ... They can only
oppose a stout heart, a loyal spirit, and an ironic smile to the
persecutions to which they are subjected.” (Chapter 1) Seven cartoons
by Louis Raemaekers are reproduced.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:122 Ja ‘18

“In these pages we have vivid, searching descriptions of and protests
against the unwarrantable vandalism of the Teuton soldiery. It is a
sad document, illumined by fires of devoted heroism.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ‘17 160w

“The evident restraint of passion is not its least virtue.”

+ =Nation= 105:672 D 13 ‘17 170w

=Pittsburgh= 22:826 D ‘17 20w

+ =R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 110w

“M. Cammaerts describes very clearly the successive phases of
Belgium’s martyrdom under the rule of an enemy who has by turns
attempted to cajole and to intimidate her. He says that the German
pro-Flemish agitation has been a complete failure, as the
Flemish-speaking Belgians saw through the enemy’s intrigue.”

+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 70w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p203 Ap 26 ‘17 70w

=CAMP, CHARLES WADSWORTH.= Abandoned room. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-29177

This story of two mysterious murders is by the author of the “House of
fear.” These murders take place at “The Cedars” in a bedroom where
many Blackburns have died reluctantly and which has been unused for a
number of years. Who murdered Silas Blackburn and the detective,
Howells? Was it Katherine Perrine, who lived with her uncle? Or Bobby
Blackburn, that “damned waster,” his grandson? Or Carlos Paredes,
Bobby’s Panamanian friend, who was always harping on the supernatural?
The secret is well kept, and the solution of the mystery a most
unexpected one.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 20w

“The author succeeds to an unusual degree in inducing in the reader
that peculiar creepy feeling associated with deeds of darkness and the
supernatural. Nevertheless, the characters are very human, present-day
people and the romance of Bobby and Katherine lends a welcome touch of
tenderness.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 320w

“Mr Camp’s new mystery story is one of those tales which keep the
reader on the alert, leading him on from one apparently inexplicable
occurrence to another, and leave him in the end with a feeling of
mingled disappointment and annoyance.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:491 N 25 ‘17 220w

“Mr Camp makes such effective use of the supernatural manifestations
that the reader has frequent attacks of goose flesh. The story is
rather superior to the general run of its type, but the type is not
distinguished.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 250w

=CAMP, CHARLES WADSWORTH.= War’s dark frame. il *$1.35 (2½c) Dodd 940.91 17-15964

These impressions of life in France, Flanders, and England in wartime
picture the home conditions of the man at the front as well as his
life in the trenches. The author is a war correspondent whose tour
apparently took place during the winter of 1916-17, and who was many
times under shell fire.

=A L A Bkl= 14:52 N ‘17

“One notices the changed attitude in this book from the journalistic
flippancy that used to be encountered in the earlier war-books. The
continued strain is beginning to tell not only upon officers and men,
but in the literature of the war. It is a serious business, which
nevertheless has its virtues and its lighter sides. All are reflected
with great fairness and sincerity by this thoroughly competent
correspondent and author.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 320w

“An account of the darker side of the war told with an economy of
words which makes it singularly moving.”

+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 60w

“His conversational way of mingling fact and fancy makes a decidedly
readable, though light, book.”

+ =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 130w

“It is intimate touches that make the book unique, and which will
probably cause it to become more popular than many another much more
pretentious volume. The fourteen illustrations, all from photographs,
have the added value of showing people as well as places.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 500w

=CAMPBELL, FRANCES (WEED) (MRS GEORGE CAMPBELL).= Book of home nursing. il *$1.25 Dutton 610.7 17-21895

“A practical guide for the treatment of sickness in the home. ...
While the subject matter is in the main such as would be found in any
practical book dealing with the problems of sickness and nursing,
there are included many original ideas in the care of patients that
have been used with great success by Mrs Campbell.” (N Y Call) “The
author is a trained nurse who writes out of the knowledge gained in
actual experiences. One very useful chapter is called: How to keep
well.” (R of Rs)

+ — =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 270w

“If you are intending to work in the war hospitals, this book will
prove invaluable and serve as a solid foundation for specialized
training.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 50w

“Writing in an easily readable style with now and then a little flash
of humor, Mrs Campbell has brought together simple every day facts
that should be of great value to one who, unused to the profession of
nursing, is suddenly forced to think and plan for the comfort of an
invalid.” J. E. Hitchcock

+ =Survey= 39:170 N 17 ‘17 230w

=CAMPBELL, JAMES MANN.= New thought Christianized. *$1 (3½c) Crowell 131 17-13828

This book discusses “the law of suggestion, fear and its antidotes,
the folly of worry, repose and how to get it, health and religion,
true optimism, the power of initiative, self-control versus divine
control, the higher environment, etc.”—R of Rs

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:111 Jl ‘17

“These cults lack an essential element of Christianity. They affirm
man’s self-sufficiency apart from God, of whom, man’s indispensable
source of sufficiency, they affirm little or nothing.”

=Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 70w

“Dr Campbell is in agreement with Dr Dresser in fundamentals. ... This
is an excellent book for the orthodox Christian who wants to come over
into the New thought camp without the loss of one jot of his
Christianity.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 140w

=CAMPBELL, MAURICE VIELE.= Rapid training of recruits. *$1 Stokes 355 17-29354

“A practical scheme for quick results in training the national army,
based on the definite record of what has been actually accomplished in
England. The aim is to give the recruit instructor in America
cantonments a thoroughly tested plan for whipping his men into shape
speedily. A typical day’s work is minutely outlined, lectures are
suggested, in fact every detail necessary to an intensive program is
fully treated. The book is as useful to the recruit himself as to his
instructor.”—Publishers’ note

+ =R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w

=CANBY, HENRY SEIDEL; PIERCE, FREDERICK ERASTUS, and DURHAM, WILLARD HIGLEY.= Facts, thought, and imagination. *$1.30 (1c) Macmillan 808 17-19155

A book on writing, prepared for the use of second year college
students. It is assumed that the students have been taught “all they
can absorb of unity, coherence and emphasis” and are now ready to
write. Part one of the book consists of theoretical discussion and is
made up of three chapters on writing: Facts, by Frederick Erastus
Pierce; Thought, by Henry Seidel Canby; and Imagination in the service
of thought, by Willard Higley Durham. “These essays,” the authors say,
“not only give instructions for writing, but also, directly or by
implication, suggest an abundance of subjects.” The remainder of the
book is given up to selections, arranged in three groups to accompany
the three chapters, and chosen from the work of modern writers. The
authors are members of the department of English, of Sheffield
scientific school, Yale university.

=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Mendel; a story of youth. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 16-23586

Mendel Kühler is a young Austrian Jew who grows up in the East End of
London. He is the youngest child of his parents and the best loved,
and his early leanings toward art are fostered, altho humble Jacob and
Golda, intent only on getting on in the world, cannot understand them.
The story is concerned with Mendel’s progress in art, his life in
London’s Bohemia, his association with his artist friends and his love
for Greta Morrison. He is a child of the city and he loves it, its
squalor and filth and noise. As an artist he paints it, coming in time
to adopt the new modern methods of treatment. Greta Morrison belongs
to the country. Her delights are in deep woods and wet meadows. Their
love is a conflict, but while the book leaves their story unfinished,
it gives the impression that their need for one another must conquer
all differences.

“Gilbert Cannan, in his new book, has hardly maintained the high
standard that he has set for himself in some of his earlier work.
There is too much of the flavor of George Moore, particularly of
‘Lewis Seymour,’ in it, and a good deal of Jean Christophe, and
dish-water. ... It must be said, however, that the character drawing
is fearless and generally consistent.”

– + =Bellman= 22:278 Mr 10 ‘17 250w

“There is a good deal of dinginess in the chronicle, the dinginess of
egotism, of drink, and of sex.” H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:204 Ap ‘17 650w

“Mr Cannan’s is so expert a hand at hard realism that we again and
again regret his frequent excursions into the field of grotesque
fantasy and violent eroticism. ... It must be obvious by this time to
anyone who has followed Mr Cannan’s work as a novelist that he is
obsessed by the idea that sex and nothing but sex should form the
background of a novel. ... His entire atmosphere reeks with
eroticism. ... And intermingled is a persistent jargon about art which
gives us little knowledge of the subject and that fails to convince us
of Mendel’s genius.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 F 17 ‘17 1400w

“The book is unreserved, but the naturalism is subordinated to the
fine characterization of a Jew and an artist, and therein Cannan does
for his genius what Theodore Dreiser fails to do for his; that is, he
gets above the merely material plane and shows how lower values are
transmuted into higher.”

+ =Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 120w

Reviewed by John Macy

=Dial= 62:357 Ap 19 ‘17 350w

“In long dissertations on art between Mendel, and Logan, and other
art-students, we cannot forget that they were only callow youths with
more enthusiasm than brains. In his ups and downs we get quite an
insight into the ‘new art’ of Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. ... The
author is overstocked with material. ... He is too diffuse.”

– + =Lit D= 54:1088 Ap 14 ‘17 270w

“It is an exceedingly candid picture of life, and a remarkable
portrayal of an interesting and significant character—the realest
person that I have met in fiction for years. ... There is something
new happening in fiction; and this is it.” F. D.

+ =Masses= 9:28 My ‘17 700w

“As usual, Mr Cannan has found plenty of spades here to be called by
name, but we never suspect him of pursuing grossness for its own sake.
The narrative is hardly a ‘story,’ it has no plot, and is most liberal
of detail. It is, nevertheless, very artfully put together to an end
far beyond that of naturalism in its raw phase—to the end of
interpreting a human character in action upon a higher than animal
plane.” H. W. Boynton

=Nation= 104:403 Ap 5 ‘17 150w

“One likes Mendel chiefly because it expresses valorously a sense of
the primitive value of the fight that there is when one’s work and
one’s love are made to use all the forces of one’s life. The book is
not comfortable and acquiescent. It demands thoroughgoing and
pugnacious protest. ... But one wishes Mr Cannan would write a little
better. ... It tests one’s disposition toward Mendel to have its
author give so little gratification to a taste for letters as a fine
art.” Edith Borie

+ — =New Repub= 10:sup11 Ap 21 ‘17 950w

“A long step forward in fictional art has been taken by Gilbert Cannan
in this new novel. He is best known to American readers as the
translator of ‘Jean Christophe’ and as the author of ‘Old Mole,’
‘Young Earnest,’ and ‘Three sons and a mother,’ as most of his long
list of novels and plays have not been brought out in the United
States.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:54 F 18 ‘17 600w

“The acrid savor of the Jewish race, their mounting egotism, their
strange humility and ever-mastering desire for God, Cannan has
pictured with sympathy and deep insight.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:556 N ‘17 200w

“‘Mendel’ is a fearless piece of work. It has grip and power, shrewd
observation, and clear-cut thought. Sloppiness, sentiment and gush—the
three distinguishing traits of so many modern novels—are absent. The
writer knows what he wants to say and knows how to say it. Mr Cannan
works close to life. His book is realism, but realism of the right
kind.”

+ =Sat R= 122:628 D 30 ‘16 500w

“Besides theories on art, another preoccupation of Mr Cannan’s
personages is sex. There is far too much talk about it; an exasperated
consciousness of it pervades the book. ... So far we have said nothing
of the honesty, the intelligence, the frequent and delightful pungency
of the book. Mr Cannan has moments in which he lazily subsides into
ineffective emphasis, or caricature, or cut-and-dried appreciations,
and these moments are frequent enough to make ‘Mendel’ seem too long.
But it almost continuously entertains, and we are not using the term
in a trivial sense; it entertains because it provokes.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p499 O 19 ‘16 600w

=CAPPEAU, MRS IDA MAY (JACK).= Voyage to South America and Buenos Aires, the city beautiful. il $1.20 (4c) Sherman, French & co. 918 16-24332

A woman’s diary of a voyage to South America. On the voyage stops were
made at Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and Santos, and brief glimpses of these
cities are given. Most of the author’s time was spent in Buenos Aires
and she writes with enthusiasm of the city and of the courtesy and
kindness of its people.

“Only the fact that so few people find anything at all to say about
South America makes Mrs Cappeau’s account appear of relative
interest. ... A few of the photographs are excellent.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 10 ‘17 70w

=CARBAUGH, HARVEY CLARENCE=, ed. Human welfare work in Chicago. il *$1.50 (4c) McClurg 917.731 17-9261

The purpose of this book is to bring together information pertaining
to the various activities in Chicago that come under the heading human
welfare. These include music, art, education, philanthropy, etc. The
editor is a member of the civil service board of South park
commissioners; there is an introduction by John Barton Payne,
president of the South park commissioners, and chapters are
contributed to the book by other men directly engaged in special lines
of work, among them Henry E. Legler, librarian of the public library.
Contents: Art in Chicago; Chicago as a music center; The city’s public
schools; The public library; Parks and boulevards; Public recreation;
A summary of philanthropic work; Philanthropic work of religious
organizations; Neighborhood work. There are a number of interesting
illustrations.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:427 Jl ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 100w

=Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 40w

“It is not until one comes upon the full list of municipal activities,
as in such a volume as the present, that the scope and significance of
that future are possible of realization. ... The volume contains much
statistical information and is amply illustrated.”

+ =Dial= 62:406 My 3 ‘17 190w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:109 Jl ‘17 80w

=Pittsburgh= 22:675 O ‘17 60w

“A valuable handbook for those interested in gaining an idea of the
varied activities which a modern city carries on for the benefits of
its citizens.”

+ =Pratt= p10 O ‘17 40w

=CARMICHAEL, MARY H.=, comp. Pioneer days. il *$1.25 (3c) Duffield 973 17-13393

The author has collected these stories of pioneer days in the
Mississippi valley from early histories and from lives of frontiersmen
and pioneers written by contemporaries. Contents: Josiah Hunt—the
Indian fighter; Maniac defender—a story of the border; Providential
interference; Tom Higgins rescuing his comrade; A romance of pioneer
life; Ham Cass and his vow; Capture and escape of Alexander McConnell;
Charles Hess; Captain Hubbell defending his boat; Pioneer boys; James
Moore’s captivity; Lewis Wetzel’s scout. The illustrations are from
old prints.

“A good library book for sixth grade.”

+ =Ind= 91:228 Ag 11 ‘17 40w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:109 Jl ‘17 50w

“There might have been a more careful editing of the contents; one is
led to infer that scissors and paste-brush were the only utensils in
use.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 31 ‘17 200w

=CARNOVALE, LUIGI.= Why Italy entered into the great war. il $2.50 Italian-American pub. co., 903 Michigan boulevard bldg., Chicago 940.91 17-21996

“The author, an Italian living in Chicago, writes this book to defend
his country from the charges ... that Italy had been guilty of
treachery in declaring void the treaty of the Triple alliance and that
she entered the war first because she had been bought by English and
French gold, and secondly because she was eager to acquire territory
(Trieste and Trent) ‘which by hereditary divine right was the
possession of the Hapsburgs.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The first
part deals with recent history—with the relations between Italy and
Austria for the past century. ... The second part comprises a longer
historical retrospect—one of two thousand years—and is designed to
prove the essentially Italian character of the borderlands in dispute
between the two countries. The third part gives an account of the
diplomatic doings which immediately preceded the declaration of war—a
complete and compact presentation of the actual documents. The fourth
part gives the reasons which justified Italy in breaking with the
Central powers and in joining France and England.” (Dial) The book is
printed in two languages. “The English text fills the first three
hundred pages, and the whole is then presented in Italian in the
second half of the book.” (N Y Times)

=A L A Bkl= 14:52 N ‘17

“One feature of the book is a plate giving in facsimile the famous
‘Tavola Clesiana,’ a bronze tablet which was discovered at Cles, in
mid-Tyrol, in 1869. This tablet contains a decree of the Emperor
Claudius, A.D. 49, determining the essentially Italian character of
the inhabitants of that region. ... Mr Carnovale, who has a reputation
as a journalist both in Italy and America, is one of the younger
school of radical reformers. He is against not only the papacy but
also the house of Savoy; and against not only the house of Savoy but
also the capitalistic forces which ... often take an undue part in
originating and in furthering wars.”

+ =Dial= 63:212 S 13 ‘17 430w

“Readers who wish to preserve a judicial attitude will need to be on
their guard against the author’s point of view. And one cannot refrain
from marveling that so ardent a patriot should choose to live in a
country of which he has such a low opinion as he expresses of
America.”

— =NY Times= 22:382 O 17 ‘17 350w

=St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 10w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 150w

=CARPENTER, FORD ASHMAN.= Aviator and the Weather bureau. 2d ed il 25c; free to libraries San Diego chamber of commerce, San Diego, Cal. 629.1 17-25375

“This little booklet consists of a brief but comprehensive account of
the history of aviation as it is associated with southern California
and of a syllabus of lectures delivered at the War department school
of aviation at San Diego on practical meteorology as applied to
aviation. There is also an interesting narration of weather study from
an aeroplane, including the details of the author’s first ascent, and,
finally, an account of the present active coöperation between aviators
and the United States Weather bureau.”—Nation

+ =Nation= 105:19 Jl 5 ‘17 170w

“Contains a considerable number of interesting illustrations.”

+ =Nature= 99:263 My 31 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:753 N ‘17 20w

=CARPENTER, WILLIAM BOYD.= Further pages of my life. il *$3.50 Scribner (*10s 6d Williams & Norgate, London) 17-14124

“The ways of man and the shortcomings of clergymen, the life of the
rural vicarage and the personalities of several English leaders in
letters, religion and affairs, are revealed by Dr W. Boyd Carpenter in
a second volume of reminiscences. It is a companion to his ‘Some pages
of my life,’ and it is written in the same informal, companionable and
entertaining manner. Neither is it in any sense a biography, for Dr
Carpenter is content merely to set down a few glimpses of life and
people as he has encountered them during a long career of clerical
activity. After having served as bishop of Ripon from 1884 to 1911, he
is now sub-dean and canon of Westminster.”—Boston Transcript

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 25 ‘17 750w

“There are many good stories of all sorts—humorous, strange, and
grim—in this variegated chronicle.”

+ =Spec= 117:704 D 2 ‘16 1850w

“Few people write a sequel to an autobiography which is more
interesting and important than the first book. But this is the case
with ‘Further pages of my life.’ ... Every clergyman should read the
chapter on the bishop’s experiences with the clergy of his
diocese. ... The book, as a whole, is delightful reading. ... Bishop
Boyd Carpenter is able to tell things which have never before been
revealed. This is especially true in his chapter on King Edward VII.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 570w

“A fascinating volume.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p558 N 23 ‘16 1000w

=CARR, JOSEPH WILLIAM COMYNS.= Ideals of painting. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 759 17-8604

The purpose of this book is “to assist those students who desire to
obtain a general view of the movement of painting from the time of
Giotto to the present day; and to compare and contrast the spiritual
ideals that have been pursued and perfected in the work of separate
schools labouring under the dominating impulse supplied by individual
genius.” The first two sections of the book deal with The ideals of
Italy and Venice and the north. The remainder consists of chapters
devoted respectively to the ideals of Flanders, Germany, Holland,
Spain, France and England. There are a number of illustrations, and an
index that seems to be complete.

“The illustrations are numerous and well chosen.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 230w

“Well arranged material.”

+ =Cleveland= p97 Jl ‘17 40w

“There is any amount of interesting detail, comparison, analysis, and
assertion; but no pattern of a theory of life, related in specific
ways to the theories of life of the others, emerges for any one of
these lands.”

– + =Dial= 63:115 Ag 16 ‘17 250w

=Lit D= 55:40 N 3 ‘17 100w

“Nearly everything he says is interesting, and his characterization of
particular painters is often admirable. Of course, there are what must
appear to another critic faults of proportion and of accent. His
greatest critical weakness seems to us to be a lack of complete
understanding of the possibilities of light and shade. The greatest
drawback of Mr Carr’s book is his style. He is not master of the vivid
phrase or the illuminating word. His wordiness and repetitiousness
make hard reading, and it is to be feared that few readers will be
sufficiently persevering to discover how much better his thought is
than it sounds.”

* – + =Nation= 105:126 Ag 2 ‘17 800w

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:75 My ‘17 40w

“The present book reflects to a degree the crowding of thoughts and
impressions arising in the presence of so multitudinous a subject, and
it lacks distinction of proportion.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:334 S 9 ‘17 180w

“The text is set forth with the same charm as characterized the
author’s previously most lately issued volume, ‘Coasting Bohemia.’”

+ =Outlook= 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 110w

“Will give the veriest tyro in art the ability to appreciate and to
criticise intelligently the paintings of the various schools.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:219 Ag ‘17 170w

“The history of art is now so specialized that to be adequately
furnished at every point is scarcely possible to a single man. How can
any one student know as much as Morelli or Mr Berenson about the
Italians, as much as Dr Bredius or Dr de Groot about the Dutch, and as
much as a dozen other experts about the French, German, Spanish, and
English painters? Mr Carr would have replied that he made no such
pretension. ... To sum up, we have found this book interesting and
suggestive and based on a sound foundation of knowledge. It is a pity,
however, that the proofs were not more carefully read.”

* + – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p235 My 17 ‘17 1150w

=CARRINGTON, FITZROY.= Engravers and etchers. il $3 Art institute of Chicago 760

“This volume, with its 133 illustrations, embodies six lectures
delivered under the auspices of the Scammon foundation at the Art
institute of Chicago by the curator of prints at our own [Boston] art
museum. The chapter titles will give an adequate idea of the ground
covered: German engraving: from the beginning to Martin Schongauer;
Italian engraving: the Florentines; German engraving: the master of
the Amsterdam cabinet and Albrecht Dürer; Italian engraving: Mantegna
to Marcantonio Raimondi; Some masters of portraiture; Landscape
etching.”—Boston Transcript

“He scarcely touches on contemporary artists of the needle and burin,
and he dwells lovingly on Dürer and Rembrandt. ... This necessarily
limits the interest of the book principally to those that know little
or nothing of these arts. Neither does he go into the technicalities
of the processes engaged in them. His book is to be especially
recommended to young amateurs. ... Most of the reproductions of the
works of Schongauer, Mantegna, Raimondi, Nanteuil, Daubigny, Corot,
Haden and other masters represented, are admirably clear and
satisfactory.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 25 ‘17 520w

“The last lecture, dealing with landscape, is perhaps the best in its
directness and unity, and the tribute to Dürer’s little-realized
importance in this field is noted with pleasure by the reviewer. As to
the illustrations, regrets concerning the havoc with lines played by
the half-tone screen are of course unavoidable. And one may at least
question whether the irritatingly glazed and malodorous paper used
throughout the book is necessary. Mr Paff’s bibliographical lists,
obviously not intended to be complete, are helpful.”

+ — =Nation= 105:299 S 13 ‘17 430w

“In its agreeable blending of technical discussion with discriminating
feeling the book is an excellent aid to appreciation.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:811 D ‘17 50w

“For the needs of persons to whom engravings and etchings are an
unexplored region of art there is no better book. It is beautifully
printed and contains 133 well-executed illustrations.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 130w

=CARROLL, ROBERT SPROUL.= Mastery of nervousness based upon self reeducation. *$2 (3c) Macmillan 616 17-18704

Dr Carroll tells us that “nervous health is a mental state, not a
physical condition,” although “physical disturbances play a large part
in the production of nervousness.” For instance, food intemperance,
which in America is “almost universal,” is “a larger factor in
producing the damage which results in defective nervous offspring,
than any other single cause.” The earlier chapters of the book take up
various types of nervousness, discuss “eating errors” and “eating for
efficiency,” and point out the benefits of work and play. Later
chapters deal with mental and moral self-reeducation under such
headings as: Tangled thoughts; Emotional tyranny; Clear thinking;
Moulding the emotions; The fulfilment of self, etc. Dr Carroll
believes that nervousness is to be mastered by diet, exercise and
training of the will, rather than by drugs.

“A most helpful popular treatise.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 O 13 ‘17 400w

“An abundance of useful information and wholesome advice is presented
by Dr Carroll.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:521 D 2 ‘17 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 170w

=CASALIS, ALFRED EUGÈNE.= For France and the faith. il *60c (3c) Assn. press 940.91 17-24722

This book is made up of fragments of letters written to relatives and
intimate friends by Alfred Eugène Casalis who was born of missionary
parents in South Africa, was a student in the theological seminary of
Montauban, France, when the war broke out, volunteered and fell in
battle at the age of nineteen. The letters are translated by W. E.
Bristol. In an introductory page John R. Mott says: “The English
edition has helped many a soldier of Britain to live his life and to
fight his battles on the higher levels.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17

=CASTLE, AGNES (SWEETMAN) (MRS EGERTON CASTLE), and CASTLE, EGERTON.= Wolf-lure. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-24204

“The strange, barbaric title of this latest adventure story by these
popular authors amply suggests the wild, exotic scenes enacted about
Castle Rozac of Guyenne, not long after the old French régime came to
an abrupt downfall under the ‘Corsician upstart.’ The tale consists of
the reminiscences of an elderly Englishman, who in youth wandered into
this out-of-the-way part of France for the sake of historical study
and research. The action, which is extravagant, though doubtless
appropriate to the times and the setting, takes one into the midst of
a passion-haunted castle, into the territory of a race of ruffians and
counterfeiters, and even down to the subterranean caves in the back
waters of the Tarne.”—N Y Times

“Romantic and rather long.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18

+ =Ath= p595 N ‘17 90w

“Needless to say of a work from these experienced hands, it is a
vigorous and finished story of its kind.” H. W. Boynton