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+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 60w

“The color and romance of the story give us the Castles at their best;
and the character of Louvecelle, the heroine, is touched with spirit
and charm.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 170w

“‘Wolf-lure’ is the work of specialists in their field. ... Having
chosen their atmosphere, they breathe it easily; and they are seldom
to be caught napping (there are a few modernisms in the dialogue of
the present story) in matters of detail.”

+ =Nation= 105:487 N 1 ‘17 270w

“The story is surprisingly void of really ‘palpitating moments.’ This
is due, perhaps, to a certain loquacity on the part of the narrator
that detracts from the point and force of the tale.”

+ – =N Y Times= 22:381 O 7 ‘17 300w

“The story is not always quite probable, but it holds the reader’s
attention closely.”

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“We have no objection to fantastic invention in stories of this kind,
but if they are put in an historic setting the setting should be true
to history.”

— =Sat R= 124:353 N 3 ‘17 90w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 230w

“The tale has many exciting moments; but these come in the latter half
of the book, and it needs some perseverance to win through to them.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 200w

=CASTLE, WILLIAM ERNEST.= Genetics and eugenics; a text-book for students of biology and a reference book for animal and plant breeders. il *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 575.6 16-25200

“The first part of Prof. W. E. Castle’s ‘Genetics and eugenics’ is
devoted to the larger subject of genetics, especially in its relation
to the theory of evolution, and the smaller second part is given over
to the discussion of the ‘agencies under social control that may
improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either
physically or mentally.’ Most emphasis is laid, of course, upon the
fundamental studies of Lamarck, Darwin, Weismann, and Mendel, but the
very latest researches are also considered.”—Nation

“This is a welcome addition to the rapidly growing list of books which
set forth the newer results and problems of biology and show their
application to human life. Moreover, it is well illustrated. ... The
volume will be of great interest and value to laymen as well as
biologists; indeed, we may assume that the latter know the facts now.”
Carl Kelsey

+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:244 S ‘17 310w

“The reader will find here a summary of the subject that will put him
fairly in touch with the best of contemporary thought on such matters
as the inheritance of acquired characters, biometry, the mutation
theory, unit characters, sex-linked and other kinds of linked
inheritance, inbreeding and crossbreeding. ... As regards human
inheritance, Professor Castle agrees neither with Pearson, who denies
Mendelianism, nor with Davenport and Plate, who are enthusiastic for
unit characters, but adopts a more eclectic view.”

+ =Nation= 104:563 My 3 ‘17 300w

“Since the beginning of the present century, when genetic research
passed from the province of the amateur to that of the professional,
Prof. Castle has been recognized as one of the most active workers on
these lines. A book embodying his outlook after years of teaching and
research is sure of a welcome from all who are interested in these
matters. ... The amount of ground covered involves a condensed
treatment of many important questions, and though this need not be a
drawback to the student whose reading is supplemented by lectures, it
makes it rather a difficult book for the average reader. ... The
treatment of eugenics is eminently sane.”

+ =Nature= 99:202 My 10 ‘17 650w

=CASTLE, WILLIAM RICHARDS, Jr.= Hawaii past and present. rev and enl ed il *$1.50 (3c) Dodd 919.69 17-5138

The first edition of this book was published in 1913. The addition of
a chapter on The army and navy in Hawaii is the most noticeable change
in the second edition. Other chapters have revisions, bringing them
down to date.

=A L A Bkl= 13:362 My ‘17

“A descendant of the earliest white families to settle in the Hawaiian
Islands, Mr Castle is well fitted by long acquaintance with the people
and their life and customs to write sympathetically and intelligently
concerning them.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 210w

“A valuable book that purports to do a great deal and accomplishes
it.”

+ =Cath World= 105:266 My ‘17 250w

=N Y Times= 22:396 O 14 ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:185 Je ‘17

=CATT, MRS CARRIE (LANE) CHAPMAN=, comp. Woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment. (National suffrage library) $1.30 (8½c) National woman suffrage pub. co. 324.3 17-4988

This little book does not argue the question of woman suffrage. The
justice, necessity and inevitability of suffrage for women are taken
for granted. “The discussion is strictly confined to the reasons why
an amendment to the federal constitution is the most appropriate
method of dealing with the question.” Contents: Why the federal
amendment? by Carrie Chapman Catt; State constitutional obstructions,
by Mary Sumner Boyd; Election laws and referenda, by Carrie Chapman
Catt; The story of the 1916 referenda, by Carrie Chapman Catt; Federal
action and states rights, by Henry Wade Rogers; Objections to the
federal amendment, by Carrie Chapman Catt.

=A L A Bkl= 13:375 Je ‘17

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:126 Ag ‘17 80w

=CATT, HEINRICH ALEXANDER DE.= Frederick the Great; the memoirs of his reader (1758-1760); tr. by F. S. Flint; with an introd. by Lord Rosebery. 2v il *$7.50 Houghton (Eng ed 17-11818)

“The translation constituting the bulk of these important volumes has
been made from the French text published from the manuscript in the
Prussian state archives. ... As reader and librarian to the king, with
whom he was on terms of intimacy, Catt had ample opportunity of
observing and becoming conversant with the sovereign’s character, and
he recorded Frederick’s sayings as faithfully as Boswell noted down
for posterity those of Johnson. The result is that Henri de Catt’s
memoirs, though almost devoid of literary merit, have preserved for us
a picture which it is scarcely too much to affirm gives a better idea
of the man than does even Carlyle’s monumental work.”—Ath

“During the bitter years 1758-1760 Catt kept a very brief diary of all
the conversations and journeys with the king. Many years later he
artistically amplified the diary into ‘Memoirs.’ ... The former, not
here translated, consists of disconnected jottings and is wholly
without literary form. It is of much value, however, to the meticulous
biographer of Frederick, because of its unvarnished accuracy. The
‘Memoirs,’ on the other hand, put together in pleasing narrative form,
have doubtless much greater interest for the general reader, but are
not quite so trustworthy. Admitting, however, that there is a mixture
of ‘dichtung und wahrheit’ in the ‘Memoirs,’ they nevertheless give a
generally veracious, favorable, and intensely human picture of a
really great man.” S. B. Fay

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:146 O ‘17 700w

“The book is of great interest, and has appeared opportunely.”

+ =Ath= p50 Ja ‘17 230w

“A document of great human interest, a faithful portrait of a monarch
working at concert pitch with an intensity and application truly
marvelous, Catt’s memoir is of even greater value as the chronicle of
the sowing of a seed which only now has reached its sinister
harvest. ... The translator has done a difficult work well. The
original ‘abounds in solecisms and faults of style’; the translation
has both character and lucidity. The work will join that company of
distinguished biographies which is as exclusive as the host of
ordinary biographies is numerous.” R. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 21 ‘17 1050w

=Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 1000w

“Carlyle, in writing his life of Frederick, would have been only too
delighted with these memoirs, had he been acquainted with them. They
would have formed a welcome oasis in the desert of Dryasdusts against
whom he loved to fulminate.”

+ =Nation= 105:295 S 13 ‘17 600w

“Mr Flint has given us a text in good idiomatic English. ... One of
the most interesting features in the ‘Memoirs’ is the light they throw
on the relations of Frederick and Voltaire.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:145 Ap 15 ‘17 1100w

+ =Outlook= 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 200w

=R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 70w

“This is a capital book, and an agreeable surprise. ... Catt is the
soul of sincerity and straightforwardness; but Catt soon perceives
that a little of the truth goes a long way, and it is amusing to see
him reflecting how far he can venture to go in the criticism of bad
verses and other of Frederick’s indiscretions.”

+ =Sat R= 123:16 Ja 5 ‘17 1500w

“As Lord Rosebery says in his introduction, this is a very human book.
Frederick the Great, Prussia’s only really able king, has been
eulogized and criticized in hundreds of volumes, but we have never
read anything giving so simple and homely a picture of him as that
drawn by his admiring Swiss reader.”

+ =Spec= 118:237 F 24 ‘17 2250w

“The ‘Memoirs,’ which are now for the first time translated from the
original French, present a very remarkable picture of one side of the
great king. They extend over two years only, but those two years
include the crisis of the Seven years war. ... The translation, which
is admirably done, is introduced by Lord Rosebery in a preface which
brings out the full difficulty of the enigma which the character of
Frederick presents.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p1 Ja 4 ‘17 180w

“Catt’s memoirs approach Boswell’s ‘Johnson’ and Busch’s ‘Bismarck’ in
their intimate revelations, and, for those who read only English,
furnish an excellent supplement to Carlyle’s fervid and memorable
epic.” A. L. Cross

+ =Yale R= n s 7:221 O ‘17 1450w

=CAULDWELL, SAMUEL MILBANK.= Chocolate cake and black sand, and two other plays. il *$1.50 Putnam 812 17-16753

The three plays in this book were written by the author for the
entertainment of his own children and the amusement of his friends.
The author’s preface says “These plays are distinctly a domestic
product intended for home consumption. The family hearthstone finds
its place in the foreground of the stage setting. The living-room is
transformed into the orchestra and the hall staircase answers all the
purposes of the gallery. Little if any stage scenery is required,
except such as can be found in the cellar or garret of any
well-regulated family.” Mrs Cauldwell, who has edited the plays for
publication after her husband’s death, says that they are offered to
all who are interested in amateur performances in the home. The title
play and the one following, “The undoing of Giant Hotstoff,” are dream
plays. The third, “The invention of the rat trap,” is a “romantic
historical drama.”

“Very whimsical and gay.”

+ =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w

“They are stronger dramatically than most plays for young actors.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 70w

=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Barbarians. il $1.40 Appleton 17-28656

“The story is a group of episodes, each narrating the fate of one of
eight men who sail for Europe together on a mule-laden steamer ‘in
quest of something they could not find in America—something that lay
somewhere amid flaming obscurity in that hell of murder beyond the
Somme—their soul’s salvation, perhaps.’ They are ‘fed up’ with
America’s holding aloof from participation in the struggle. Several of
the men take service in the French army and Mr Chambers follows each
to his dramatic end. ... Mr Chambers displays bitterness and
abhorrence of Germany’s military conduct and employs strong terms in
characterizing it.”—Springf’d Republican

“Tales that, if not inspired, are honestly felt and written, and not
merely manufactured for an audience or an effect.”

+ =Nation= 105:695 D 20 ‘17 270w

“Mr Chambers expresses much contempt and disapproval of the government
of the United States because it did not enter the war at the
beginning. Whatever may have been one’s personal opinion upon this
matter in former months, such piled-up objurgations in the pages of
fiction at this time are in offensively bad taste, to say the least.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:434 O 28 ‘17 600w

=Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 40w

“Too bad that the author could not resist the temptation to play up
the usual suggestive moments! As a matter of fact, however, they do
not particularly detract from a work of great vividness.” E. P.
Wyckoff

+ — =Pub W= 92:2030 D 8 ‘17 370w

“The episodes are adroitly conceived and related with grim vividness
and feeling.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 200w

=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Dark star. il *$1.50 (1c) Appleton 17-13501

A Russian princess, a German prima-donna and the young daughter of an
American missionary are characters in this war-time romance. As a
child in Turkey, Rue Carew had played with the wonder box that had
been the property of Herr Conrad Wilner. It held, along with the
figure of a Chinese god and other treasures, a series of maps and
plans. Years after when she is studying art in Paris, under the
protection of her friend, the Russian princess, Rue learns how
important these old sketches are. A cable despatch to her childhood
friend, Jim Neeland, in America, sends him up to her old home in the
Catskills to find the box, which he is instructed to bring at once to
Paris. But someone is there before him; the German singer also knows
of these plans of the fortifications of the Dardanelles. This is only
the beginning of the series of adventures in which he becomes involved
and from which, being an American with a touch of Irish blood, he
comes out victorious.

“Sensational, but almost without any cloying sentimentality. Appeared
in the Cosmopolitan.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:448 Jl ‘17

“Not since Robert Chambers’s early novels has he given us so absorbing
a story of adventure as that which he has woven about ‘The dark star.’
In it he gains back the power which made him a magician in the realm
of adventure stories, but which has so often been lost sight of in his
later novels.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 1000w

“A lava-spouting, rambunctious, movie-play kind of an
entertainment. ... But Mr Chambers never forgets the marshmallows, and
the dainty makes its appearance, as luscious as ever, at the proper
time.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:194 My 20 ‘17 670w

“This is not only a very stirring tale, but is the best-written novel
Mr Chambers has produced since the outbreak of the war.”

=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 270w

=CHAMPION, JESSIE.= Jimmy’s wife. *$1.25 (2c) Lane 17-2485

When they separated, Jimmy’s wife had exacted from him a promise. He
was never to recognize her should they meet in public. This much of
his story Jimmy tells to Rev. and Mrs Horace Venn when he comes to
live in their parish, and Mrs Venn, who tells the story, begins
immediately to take an interest in Jimmy’s wife. She has reason to
believe that one of two women is the lady in question. But which?
Circumstances point sometimes to one, sometimes to the other. At the
end the war breaks in on the events of the story, as it does in so
many English novels of the day. It helps to solve the problem of Jimmy
and his wife without in any way curbing the sprightliness of the
narrative.

“There are clever touches, evidently from close observation of real
life. The author is smart, but not truthful, in the scenes wherein she
presents the daily conversation in the rector’s family life. ... The
principal blemish of the book is the writer’s evident satisfaction in
her own mental dash and alertness.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 280w

=Dial= 62:148 F 22 ‘17 110w

“The dominant situation resembles that of Mr Hay’s very clever tale of
‘The man who forgot.’ The conversations are the strong point of the
novel.”

=N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 300w

=CHAMPNEY, ELIZABETH (WILLIAMS) (MRS JAMES WELLS CHAMPNEY), and CHAMPNEY, FRÈRE.= Romance of old Japan. il *$3.50 Putnam 398.2 17-30304

Colorful, atmospheric, this volume which is uniform with “Romance of
old Belgium” traces the legends of the flowery isles—“traces the
floating bubbles of romance which reveal the deeper tide of history.”
There are the legends of the age of mythology, of mediæval days and of
later times, legends in prose and verse with illustrations that bear
out the spirit of the tales. The most tangible chapter of the book is
the closing one, “Notable examples of Japanese architecture,”
contributed by Frère Champney who is an acknowledged authority on the
subject.

+ =Lit D= 55:38 D 8 ‘17 90w

“It is not a scholarly work in any sense. The authors are careless of
or indifferent to sources, and they handle their material with a
romantic disregard for anything save its lurking charm. To this
uncritical attitude is attached the further fault of a too unselective
catholicity.”

– + =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 180w

“Both in text and illustration this volume well carries out its
authors’ aim.”

+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 30w

“Lastly come the more modern romances suggestive of ‘Madame
Butterfly.’ These tales lose something of the romantic reality and
flavor of their precursors ... partly because the materialistic
present seems to render ridiculous the sweetly appropriate actions of
a halo-ed past when life was poetry, before a sense of humor had been
born.” Ruth Stanley-Brown

+ — =Pub W= 92:2029 D 8 ‘17 620w

+ =Spec= 119:683 D 8 ‘17 40w

“The volume is a pleasant doorway into the literature of old Japan.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 230w

“It is a pleasantly got up book, well illustrated, and by no means as
lengthy as the number of its pages might imply.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 N 29 ‘17 70w

=CHAN, SHIU WONG.= Chinese cook book. il *$1.50 Stokes 641.5 17-25804

More than one hundred tested recipes of palatable Chinese dishes,
explicit enough for every housewife and practicable for the
restauranteur. Aside from the novelty of the dishes, the recipes are
to be recommended for the success they achieve in furnishing a
desirable mixed diet. One feature that recommends itself to housewives
who are practicing Hoover restraint and economy is the substitution of
peanut oil for butter.

“The directions are so explicit that a woman with little experience
can follow them.”

+ =Ind= 92:343 N 17 ‘17 300w

=CHANNING, EDWARD.= History of the United States. 8v v 4 *$2.75 Macmillan 973 (5-11649)

=v 4= “This history deals with the period from 1789-1815, when
Federalists and Republicans were the dominant political parties.
Earlier volumes deal with the planting of a nation in the new world
(1000-1660), a century of colonial history (1660-1760), and the
American revolution (1761-1789). Eventually there will be eight
volumes. ... The work represents an effort to search out the truth of
statements of earlier writers, to analyze anew original material and
to turn fresh light upon a period that is little understood by the
average American and even among specialists is a subject of dispute
and much disagreement. The notes and bibliography are especially
valuable.”—Springf’d Republican

“The discriminating reader will note the success with which Professor
Channing solves his problem of writing a new book which is not merely
a re-statement of what he wrote in the twelfth volume of the ‘American
nation.’ It does not seem extravagant to say that for the period with
which this volume deals Professor Channing must be regarded as having
set a new light in the historical heavens in the United States which
none of his successors will ignore. The most important general feature
of the volume is that the author irons out the New England crimps that
have long been noted in the history of this period. ... By a fresh
examination of documents, with his mind divested of the ideas that he
got from the older books, he composes his own narrative in which
appears no sectional bias of either conscious or unconscious origin.”
J: S. Bassett

* + =Am Hist R= 23:189 O ‘17 1600w

“Special mention should be made of those chapters which deal with the
organization of the new federal government, the rise of political
parties, and the downfall of federalism.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:793 N ‘17 60w

+ =Ath= p530 O ‘17 60w

“Professor Channing’s work is a little difficult to appraise justly.
It is substantial, informing, and useful; one could not well afford to
leave it off one’s shelves. Yet there is little, if anything, new in
it. Perhaps this is as it should be in such a work. Nor are there new
interpretations or evidences of very keen insight. ... Still if this
work fails to show, as one might wish, the evolution of society in
America, the meaning of events, and the influences of ideas, it is a
useful reference work, an ever-ready friend in time of need, which all
who are interested in American history should hasten to buy.” W: E.
Dodd

* + =Dial= 63:60 Jl 19 ‘17 2100w

“Valuable as Professor Channing’s work is, and indispensable as it is
bound to become to the student of the history of the United States, we
still think that the historian who performs his function rightly must
deal not only with facts, but also with ideas, institutions, and the
operation of historical and social forces, and must include the
interpretation of evidence among his necessary attributes.”

* + – =Nation= 105:692 D 20 ‘17 1850w

“The reader will be mistaken if he comes to the conclusion that he
might as well turn back to his Hildreth and Schouler. Not so.
Professor Channing does not write with the scissors and paste pot. He
turns every topic over and views it in the light of the last results
of historical research. ... There are many such judgments in Mr
Channing’s pages, judgments that betray penetration and that long
thoughtfulness which mark the true scholar off from the cheap critic
and cheaper chauvinist. They betray also a mind of great natural
powers, which, had it been devoted to a different type of historical
construction, could have contributed still more to our understanding
of the early phases of American politics.” C: A. Beard

+ =New Repub= 11:282 Jl 7 ‘17 1250w

+ =R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 110w

“Of all the American historians with whom we are acquainted, he is the
most supremely dispassionate and impartial.”

+ =Spec= 120:16 Ja 5 ‘18 1800w

“The work is not easy reading, but it is not designed for popularity.
Rather does it meet the needs of the student who would go into the
complex currents of that day in search of a better understanding of
the beginnings of this government.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 29 ‘17 450w

=CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE.= Greenwich village. il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 974.71 17-30045

In spite of “our great streets, hemmed by stone and marble and
glittering plate glass, crowded with kaleidoscopic cosmopolitan
traffic, ceaselessly resonant with twentieth century activity,” Father
Knickerbocker still “has a sanctuary, a haven after his own heart,
where he can still draw a breath of relief, among buildings small but
full of age and dignity and with the look of homes about them; on
restful, crooked little streets where there remain trees and
grassplots; in the old-time purlieus of Washington square and
Greenwich village!” Browsing among Manhattan’s oldest records the
writer has gleaned history, tradition and romance from the records
that hold immortal the quaintest section of New York. She has also
caught in her pages the magic of the village that holds Bohemia under
its spell today. It is a very personal and careful handling of the
personal soul of the village that has engaged the author of “Wonder
tales from Wagner.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18

“Miss Chapin has diligently assembled all the points of interest in
this holiday volume, to which Allan Gilbert Cram contributes sixteen
full-page illustrations. They have produced a charming memorial of one
of the most interesting spots in America.”

+ =Lit D= 55:38 D 8 ‘17 120w

=Nation= 105:612 N 29 ‘17 90w

“An interesting and attractive book. The author has studied her
subject with care and in detail, and the artist has made charming
drawings of the Washington arch and Milligan place, of Jefferson
market and old St John’s. The book is pleasing, too, in its binding
and general makeup.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:493 N 25 ‘17 780w

=CHAPIN, CHARLES VALUE.= How to avoid infection. (Harvard health talks) *50c Harvard univ. press 614.4 17-7060

“The present essay is one of a series of lectures sent out from the
Harvard medical school on subjects of general medical interest. In
this booklet [of 88 pages] Dr Charles V. Chapin tells us ‘How to avoid
infection’ in terms that all can understand and in ways that all can
follow. A discussion of bacteria and bacterial diseases is followed by
a clear and concise statement of the more simple means at our disposal
of safeguarding our health from the more prevalent troubles,
especially those connected with the public drinking cup and public
towel.”—Springf’d Republican

=A L A Bkl= 13:381 Je ‘17

=Pratt= p20 O ‘17 10w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 100w

“Not often is the needed authoritative information made available in a
form so compact and so interesting as that of Dr Chapin’s little
pocket volume. It illustrates the changed emphasis from cure to
prevention.” G. S.

+ =Survey= 39:171 N 17 ‘17 150w

“Admirably practical and concise statement of the modes of infection
and how a person or community may avoid them. By the author of
‘Sources and modes of infection.’”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:216 Jl ‘17 30w

=CHAPIN, FRANCIS STUART.= Historical introduction to social economy. il *$2 (3c) Century 330.9 17-25499

A study, in the light of present progress, of contrasting types of
industrial organizations at different historical periods, and of
public and private efforts made to relieve the poverty of each period.
Elementary in treatment, the volume meets the need of a textbook for
an introductory study in the history of social economy. Problems of
early Greek and Roman civilization are reviewed; likewise, the
industrial development at the end of the middle ages and the great
social revolutions of modern times. The transition from remedial to
constructive charity and preventive philanthropy is the theme for the
closing chapters.

Reviewed by S. A. Queen

+ — =Am J Soc= 23:549 Ja ‘18 220w

“As far as it goes Professor Chapin’s ‘Social economy,’ is a
stimulating and valuable book.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 420w

“The work is important in its analysis of the recurrent agrarian
problems, particularly land distribution, of the productive systems of
slavery and free labor, and of the historical changes in industrial
organization.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 24 ‘18 500w

“It is rather a wide subject for 300 pages, and it is necessarily a
little sketchy. As a general introduction to a great subject the book
is sound and valuable.” I. C. Hannah

+ — =Survey= 39:150 N 10 ‘17 140w

=CHAPIN, HENRY DWIGHT.= Health first; the fine art of living. *$1.50 (3½c) Century 614 17-23809

An essentially common-sense book by a New York physician of long
experience and high standing. He says: “In order to understand and
properly manage any period, we must know the conditions that precede
and are liable to follow it, so that we may make the necessary changes
in our conduct of life. ... It is believed that in this way life can
be prolonged and made more efficient.” (Preface) Dr Chapin therefore
discusses, in a series of chapters, rational procedure from infancy to
old age and also considers health from the outlook of nutrition, the
avoidance of infection, climatic, local and moral influences. A
practical book for the use of the individual reader in home or work.
The publishers call it a “first aid to the well.”

=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 20w

“The book is written in an agreeable, terse, and altogether readable
style. It is a volume to be welcomed, to be read and returned to with
lasting profit. The author is a recognized authority, of course, on
his subject, and he presents it in important detail and interesting
form.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 980w

“The few pages devoted to infancy contain more useful information than
many a volume written on the subject. The description of adolescence
is necessarily incomplete. On the other hand, the chapters on
nutrition and infection contain the gist of the subject. ... There
probably is no other book that covers the subject so well in so few
pages.” Medicus

+ =N Y Call= p15 S 30 ‘17 200w

+ =Sat R= 123:412 My 5 ‘17 180w

“A reading of the book should stimulate healthful thinking and should
lead to the exercise of healthful precautions in daily life. For the
application of individual details, however, it were wiser to consult a
well-trained physician.” L. A. Jones

+ — =Survey= 39:472 Ja 26 ‘18 250w

=CHAPLIN, ALETHEA.= Treasury of fairy tales. il *50c (1½c) Crowell

Six old fairy tales retold with sympathy and charm, with the necessary
expurgation and change to warrant their having a safe bed-time effect.
The stories are: Babes in the wood; Puss in boots; Hop o’ my Thumb;
Jack and the bean stalk; Red Riding Hood; Cinderella.

=CHAPMAN, ARTHUR.= Out where the West begins, and other western verses. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-7485

The title poem appeared first in a Denver newspaper and it has been
copied and re-copied many times. The other poems of the book have a
western flavor, too, as some of the titles will show: Cow-puncher
philosophy; The sheriff’s report; The diamond hitch; The white man’s
road; The herder’s reverie; Little papoose; The old-timer; Out among
the big things; The pony express; The homesteader; The mother lode.

=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18

“Mr Chapman phrases the old facile philosophy of ‘God’s out-of-doors’
in a manner not very novel or very attractive in itself. The title
poem is merely an inept and sentimental phrasing of the braggadocio of
the far West.” Odell Shepard

— =Dial= 63:20 Je 28 ‘17 110w

“Mr Arthur Chapman is one of the most popular of American poets, and
he counts among his readers many who are not to be classified as
poetry-lovers. Yet what he writes is poetry, imaginative and
beautiful, but so filled with human sympathy that it appeals even to
those who ordinarily are deaf to rime and rhythm.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1072 Ap 14 ‘17 370w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:61 Ap ‘17

“Some are in cowboy language and nearly all are serious in tone.”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 40w

=CHAPMAN, CHARLES FREDERIC.= Practical motor boat handling, seamanship and piloting, il *$1 Motor boating, 119 W. 40th st., N.Y. 797 17-12272

“Twenty-one timely and concise chapters by the editor of Motor Boating
upon the subjects of navigation, regulations, lights, buoys,
equipment, compasses and charts, piloting, helpful publications,
instruments, flags, signals, yachting etiquette, steering, and meals.”
(N Y P L New Tech Bks) “Especially prepared for the man who takes
pride in handling his own boat and getting the greatest enjoyment out
of cruising; adapted for the yachtsman interested in fitting himself
to be of service to his government in time of war.” (Sub-title)

=A L A Bkl= 13:432 Jl ‘17

=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p10 Ap ‘17 30w

=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p23 O ‘17 30w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 30w

=CHAPMAN, JAMES CROSBY, and RUSH, GRACE PREYER.= Scientific measurement of classroom products. il $1.25 Silver 371.3 17-9714

A book which “describes quite clearly—in fact, often as to a child or
a moron—the several scales that have been devised for the measurement
of ability in arithmetic, handwriting, reading, spelling, English
composition, completion of sentences, and drawing. The authors regard
the application of scientific measurement to school products as ‘the
greatest contribution which has been made to education in the last ten
years’; but they do not minimize the difficulties to be met with in
the application of the various methods devised, and counsel caution to
the over-enthusiastic convert.” (Nation) There is a three-page
bibliography.

+ =Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 80w

“The writer of a text on educational measurement takes upon himself
the responsibility of (1) selecting the best representative scales and
standard tests to put before teachers, (2) evaluating these carefully,
(3) presenting them in non-technical language, (4) showing how they
can be and are being used to set standards of attainment and to
improve teaching in a very definite way, and (5) supplying the teacher
with a completely organized and well-annotated bibliography of tests
and scales that are now available. ‘The scientific measurement of
classroom products’ is deficient on nearly every one of these
counts. ... Because of all these deficiencies, we do not commend this
publication as a representative discussion in the field of educational
measurement.”

* – – =El School J= 17:765 Je ‘17 1150w

=Nation= 105:259 S 6 ‘17 360w

=CHAPMAN, VICTOR EMMANUEL.= Victor Chapman’s letters from France. il *$1.25 Macmillan 940.91 17-14800

Victor Chapman was a young American who was killed at Verdun in June,
1916. He was in Paris studying architecture in the summer of 1914, and
he enlisted at once in the Foreign legion, and became a member of the
Franco-American flying corps. This book consists largely, as its title
states, of his letters written from France, but there is also a
memoir, written by his father John Jay Chapman, together with other
tributes.

“Remarkable letters, spontaneous and without self-consciousness.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17

“His letters, more than all the short sketch which precedes them, show
us the young legionnaire and aviator in his true colors—as one to whom
danger was life itself, to whom pretension and heroics were as foreign
as fear, who took life, so be it a life of action, as a glorious
adventure, and death as the most natural and perhaps the most glorious
adventure of all.” R. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 470w

“The memoir by his father is an emotionally reserved but curiously
vivid sketch of the young Victor.”

+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 130w

“Victor’s letters should endear him to readers principally for the
whole-hearted enthusiasm shown for the cause for which he fought and
for his boyish naïveté and buoyant youthfulness. The letters are
interesting as revelations of character. They shed a strong and
illuminating light on trench conditions and the every-day experiences
of soldiers in France. It is a book of touching and pathetic as well
as inspiring revelations.”

+ =Lit D= 55:34 S 29 ‘17 200w

+ =Nation= 105:462 O 25 ‘17 200w

“His letters express his passion for landscape, for the French
countryside he could look down on, for the clouds near which he was so
much at home. He and his mother come to life again, and will live with
a tragic intensity forever, in this ‘Memoir,’ where Mr Chapman speaks
of them with a passion of candor that is lonelier than any reticence.”
P. L.

+ =New Repub= 12:22 Ag 4 ‘17 1450w

“They are graphic letters that show imaginative feeling and unusual
faculty for literary expression, and they are filled with details of
his daily life and duties and reflect the keen satisfaction he was
taking in his experiences.”

=N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 650w

=Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 100w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 20w

+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 120w

=CHASE, MARY ELLEN.= Virginia of Elk Creek valley. il *$1.35 (3c) Page 17-10859

This book is a sequel to “The girl from the Big Horn country,”
published in 1916, which told how Virginia Hunter left her father’s
cattle ranch in Wyoming and went east to school. In the new volume,
practically all the action takes place on or near the ranch which is
Virginia’s home, and to which she invites her eastern friends in the
summer vacation. The only love affair in the story is that of
Virginia’s Aunt Nan, and that is touched on but lightly.

=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= House with the mezzanine, and other stories; tr. from the Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and Gilbert Cannan. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-22089

“My life,” the longest of the seven stories, takes up about half the
book. The other stories are: The house with the mezzanine; Typhus;
Gooseberries; In exile; The lady with the toy dog; Goussiev. “The lady
with the toy dog” appears in the third volume of Chekhov’s tales
translated by Mrs Garnett and published by Macmillan as “The lady with
the dog.”

Reviewed by L: S. Friedland

* + =Dial= 64:27 Ja 3 ‘18 2350w

Reviewed by Alvin Johnson

+ =New Repub= 13:sup12 N 17 ‘17 320w

“Chekhov, with the subtle skill of the etcher, transforms the ordinary
into the artistic. This is his miracle of creation.” L: S. Friedland

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 12 ‘18 300w

“He is, above all things, a lover of beauty. If he were not, he could
not hate ugliness so much. ... In the present volume his sensitiveness
becomes almost morbid. ... Tchekoff is an artist, not a propagandist,
and he holds out no panacea for the conditions he portrays. But he
places a suggestion in the mouth of Misrail, the ineffectual, wasted
idealist, that is very significant—i.e., that in order that man should
not enslave his fellows, nor build up a prison house of greed and
egotism about himself, ‘it was necessary that all without
exception—the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor—should share
equally in the struggle for existence, every man for himself, and in
that respect there was no better means of leveling than physical labor
and compulsory service for all.’ ... The world is coming to see that
universal service of one sort or another is a national duty. ...
William James has offered it as a substitute for war. Tchekoff offers
it as a necessity of peace.”

=N Y Times= 22:329 S 9 ‘17 1800w

“The popularity of Anton Chekhov, or at any rate, the attempt to
popularize him, is evidenced from the fact that two publishers are
concurrently bringing out what must eventually be his complete
works. ... There is much overlapping, and as even the most
enthusiastic Russophile would not want both sets, the question comes
to one of translation. Cursory comparisons fail to settle the
question. Mrs Garnett has probably rendered more Russian into English
than has Mr Cannan, but Mr Cannan is not unskilled, and imparts a
finish to the work, which does not mean lack of fidelity to the
original, that makes it read as smoothly as does Mrs Garnett’s
version, which is no mean praise.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 6 ‘17 330w

=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Lady with the dog, and other stories; tr. from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-15285

“This is the third volume out of the six in which Mrs Garnett’s
translations of Tchehov’s tales are to be issued.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup) “One or two of the stories have already appeared in different
translations.” (Boston Transcript) The longest of the nine tales, “An
anonymous story,” takes up about a third of the book. The other
stories are: The lady with the dog; A doctor’s visit; An upheaval;
Ionitch; The head of the family; The black monk (a story of madness);
Volodya; The husband.

“Any one with a turn for sampling stories by looking at the last page
might well be put off by the uniform ending of these tales in suicide,
disillusionment, or gross abandonment to the sensual sty, and suspect
a formula of pessimism and tragedy on the author’s part. But they are
various enough in theme, if monotonously grim in colouring; and they
belong to various periods in Chekhov’s life, the most poetical of
them, ‘The black monk,’ having appeared in English as long ago as
1903.”

=Ath= p416 Ag ‘17 280w

“It is said that among the more modern masters of Russian fiction,
Chekhov is accorded the first place by his own people. No doubt it
takes a Russian fully to appreciate the significance of this, for the
writings of Chekhov lack the extraordinary beauty of Sologub’s, the
simple charm of Kuprin’s, the deep tragedy of Andreiev’s and the
tensity of Maxim Gorky’s. But as the characteristics of all these
writers are to be found in Chekhov’s pages, together with a distinct
individuality, perhaps he really does give a saner and more truly
typical picture of his people, thus explaining the veneration in which
his memory and writings are said to be held in Russia. ... ‘A doctor’s
visit’ is the unforgettable story of the book. It seems to us to be
one of the finest stories of capital and labor ever written.” J. F. S.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 650w

+ =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 40w

Reviewed by L: S. Friedland

* + =Dial= 64:27 Ja 3 ‘18 2350w

“Mr Edward Garnett has said that Chekhov is ‘an unflinching realist,
with a poet’s sensitiveness to beauty.’ ‘A true realist’ might better
express it all, if we were to permit the phrase its higher
meaning. ... Hapless mortals, striving vainly for self-fulfilment, for
happiness; frustrate in the end, but not ignoble: such are the figures
with which this little world of Chekhov’s is mainly peopled.”

=Nation= 105:70 Jl 19 ‘17 400w

Reviewed by Alvin Johnson

+ =New Repub= 13:sup12 N 17 ‘17 320w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:131 S ‘17 20w

=N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 830w

“In one way or another, that opposition between the claims of the ego
and the inevitability of ‘what is going on about us’ is almost as
persistent in Tchehov as it is in the novels of Mr Hardy. ... Life
interested him, hurt him, puzzled him; and the more it puzzled him, it
might be thought, the more urgently he felt the need of expressing its
effect upon him, touching with the nicest restraint upon the
significant though homely details which emphasized the puzzling
interest by bringing it to the very doors of his Russian readers. An
English reader who does not know Tchehov’s Russia can never, perhaps,
appreciate the full force of those details; but many, perhaps most of
them, stand good for any civilized country of the modern world.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p306 Je 28 ‘17 1200w

“Chekhov can forgive any sin of the body or the mind except the sin
against the Holy Ghost—the failure to understand the joys and sorrows
of the imagination.” W: L. Phelps

+ =Yale R= n s 7:189 O ‘17 500w

=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Party, and other stories. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-23646

This is the fourth volume in the new series of Chekhov’s tales
translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Contents: The party;
Terror; A woman’s kingdom; A problem; The kiss; “Anna on the neck”;
The teacher of literature; Not wanted; Typhus; A misfortune; A trifle
from life. Another translation of “Typhus” appears in Chekhov’s “House
with the mezzanine, and other stories,” published by Scribner.

“This volume includes eleven tales of a high level of merit. While
there is considerable diversity in the subjects and methods of
treatment, the general sombre atmosphere and feeling of uneasiness and
dissatisfaction make it desirable that the tales should be taken
singly in order to be fully appreciated.”

+ =Ath= p597 N ‘17 140w

“There are eleven tales in this volume, and in none of them is life
found anything better than unintelligible. The sweetness and
spirituality have been carefully extracted from life, and there is
left a sort of carnival of sordidness and inconsequence which is like
a nightmare of the soul. It is nothing to say that these tales are not
Christian. They are not even in the nobler tradition of paganism.”

— =Cath World= 106:689 F ‘18 360w

Reviewed by L: S. Friedland

* + =Dial= 64:27 Ja 3 ‘18 2350w

“Chekhov, in ‘The party and other stories,’ shows himself again a
master of the art of character drawing. With all its power, however,
the book, like so much of Chekhov’s work, is depressing and gloomy.
Its keynote is human feebleness, human futility. There is not one
instance in it of a man or woman fighting against and overcoming
adverse circumstances by force of will.”

+ — =Ind= 93:150 Ja 26 ‘18 150w

“If we really wish to understand Russia, we have much to learn from
Chekov. Read ‘The party’ and you will know at least something of the
life of the intelligent upper classes of the provinces. ... Chekov is
concerned mainly with middle class and aristocratic life,
fundamentally in a false position among the benighted and exploited
millions. Inevitably there is much that is pathological in life thus
artificially limited, much that is corrupt and more that is futile.
The effect is sometimes depressing, but no intelligent reader would
wish it relieved. Chekov gives us nothing that we do not need to know,
if we wish to understand Russia.” Alvin Johnson

+ =New Repub= 13:sup12 N 17 ‘17 320w

“‘The party’ is a terrifying piece of realism, indicting the ordinary
artificialities of life with a power which would seem as excessive as
that used to break the proverbial butterfly on the wheel, if we were
not at the same time made to feel that an existence made up of these
artificialities is spiritually and even physically ruinous—a lingering
death-in-life. Chekhov is the modern Preacher. An evil hath he seen
under the sun.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:570 D 23 ‘17 670w

+ =Outlook= 117:134 O 3 ‘17 20w

“‘The party’ is a powerful, grimly realistic tale.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 70w

=CHENEY, SHELDON.= Art theatre. il *$1.50 (3c) Knopf 792 17-30697

A study of the art theatre, its ideals, its organization and its
promise as a corrective for present playhouse evils. The writer
believes that the art theatre must become the corrective first for the
shortcomings of the little theatre. His point of view differs from
that of some of the writers about little theatres, in that he
considers the little theatre only a step towards something better. “In
all the excitement about little theatres we are in danger of losing
sight of the higher ideal—the art theatre.” Next the art theatre must
correct the evils of the commercialized theatre with its destructive
practice of creating and exploiting “stars.” The real art of the
theatre, he thinks, must be established thru the development of fixed
local playhouses with resident companies dedicated to repertory
production of the best that dramatic art has to offer.

“As a man of experience and vision, he does not fall into the error of
trying to ‘uplift’ the commercial theater. It can’t be done, and he
knows it.” L: Gardy

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ja 12 ‘18 730w

“Deals to a certain extent with the same subject as Mr Dickinson’s
book, but views it from so different an angle and discusses it with so
different an individuality that the two books admirably supplement
each other and should both be read by any one who desires all the
illumination of the question it is possible to have. A chapter of
bibliography, with running comment upon the books mentioned, will add
greatly to the book’s value to the student.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 300w

“What these theaters mean in the process of the democratization in our
national life, and in the development of a fresh and vital art
impulse, Mr Sheldon Cheney tells us in a stirring and captivating
book.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:107 Ja ‘18 350w

=CHÉRADAME, ANDRÉ.= Pangerman plot unmasked; Berlin’s formidable peace-trap of “the drawn war”; with an introd. by Lord Cromer. il *$1.25 (2c) Scribner 327.4 17-1796

“By pan-Germanism Mr Chéradame means ‘the doctrine, of purely Prussian
origin, which aims at annexing all the various regions, irrespective
of race or language, of which the possession is deemed useful to the
power of the Hohenzollerns.’ This doctrine, the author claims, is one
of steady growth and accretion, and a realization of it has already
been on the verge of achievement. He holds even that acceptance of the
German offer of a drawn game would make it real within a decade at the
furthest.”—Lit D

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:305 Ap ‘17

“To review the book adequately would be to quote it in its entirety,
for every page is of significance. It is by all means the most
pregnant volume on the deeper issues of the war that has come under
our eyes.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 31 ‘17 700w

=Cleveland= p45 Mr ‘17 60w

“Useful for its vigorous handling of the geographical issues
involved.” H. J. Laski

+ =Dial= 62:96 F 8 ‘17 30w

=Ind= 89:558 Mr 26 ‘17 110w

“Mr Chéradame has concentrated on this subject for over twenty years,
in studies in the very lands now occupied or directed by the Germans.”

+ =Lit D= 54:413 F 17 ‘17 350w

“The neutral nations are vitally concerned in this. ... His book is
arresting, pertinent, unforgettably challenging to serious thought.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:18 Ja 21 ‘17 750w

“It is not surprising that M. Chéradame, an eager student of
international politics from his youth up, and a pupil of Albert Sorel,
should have derived from these sources a point of view quite different
from that of the ordinary French or English official diplomatist. ...
Entirely apart from any conclusions that may be thought speculative,
there are in this book of M. Chéradame’s certain truths of fundamental
importance which ought to be widely appreciated, especially in the
United States.”

+ =No Am= 206:477 S ‘17 1000w

=Pittsburgh= 22:685 O ‘17 70w

=St Louis= 15:73 Mr ‘17

“We cannot commend to our readers a better collection of facts from
which to derive a wise caution at this critical turn of events than is
contained in this important work. ... Pan-Germanism, which was the
source of the war, aims at creating a great military empire stretching
from the North sea to the Persian gulf. ... Even as the situation is,
Germany has executed nine-tenths of the pan-German plan of 1911. ...
The substance of the whole book is a most impressive political
argument, very cogent and extraordinarily opportune.”

+ =Spec= 117:805 D 23 ‘16 2050w

“No British writer has so firm a grip as M. Chéradame upon the
countless ramifications of the pan-German movement.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p618 D 21 ‘16 850w

=CHESTERTON, CECIL EDWARD.= Perils of peace; with an introd. by Hilaire Belloc. *2s T. W. Laurie, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-20285)

“Mr Chesterton’s book is a warning against any compromise or
patched-up peace with the enemy, of which he considers there is
danger. Three factors in the politics of this country he regards as
mainly concerned in the problem: pacificism, with which he associates
the names of Mr Macdonald, Mr Snowden, and others; financiers with
cosmopolitan concerns; and our system of government by professional
politicians. Mr Chesterton is severe upon the ministers in power.
Alluding to their decision to fight Germany, he remarks that ‘they
achieved the most popular act of their largely misspent lives.’ He
considers that if the war proceeds to exhaustion, the Central powers
will be exhausted first, and will therefore be obliged to accept the
Allies’ terms. A compromise would, for the Allies and especially Great
Britain, be disastrous.”—Ath

“We notice some misprints; everywhere Mr Snowden’s name is spelt
‘Snowdon.’”

=Ath= p438 S ‘16 240w

“I do not in the least disagree with Mr Cecil Chesterton in the
immediate object of his book, which is, to avert a sudden laying down
of our arms. But I see no danger of that: we are far more likely to go
on fighting long after there is nothing more to be gained by it. For
the rest the book is full of the most frightful nonsense.” G. B. S.

=New Repub= 9:270 Ja 6 ‘17 9000w

=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Short history of England. *$1.50 (2½c) Lane 942 17-29757

At the start Mr Chesterton challenges the claim of so called popular
histories to the word popular. “They are all, nearly without
exception, written against the people; and in them the populace is
either ignored or elaborately proved to have been wrong.” It is his
aim to produce, therefore, a history from the standpoint of the
public, one that does not trample upon popular traditions. His book is
a small one on a big subject; but as he strides down the centuries of
England’s progress he pauses at the epoch-making forces long enough to
estimate their power and influence in shaping the nation’s course. He
dismisses the detail of transitional happenings with a sentence. He
places the crisis in English history at the fall of Richard II where
the king and the populace for a moment came together, instead of
placing it about the period of the Stuarts. Turning to the present
world struggle he sees in defeat nothing before England but the
servile state; in success, freedom from a yoke of slavery which is
another word for militarism.

=A L A Bkl= 14:122 Ja ‘18