Chapter II: Front Matter (2)

“A Russian gentleman,” “Years of childhood,” and “A Russian schoolboy”
are the three volumes of Aksakov’s recollections, named in
chronological order. The second however, which appeared in English
translation in 1916, was written later than the other two, having been
published within a short time of the author’s death. The book, which
begins with a touching account of a little boy’s homesick longings for
his mother, covers the years from 1799 to 1807, and consists of four
long chapters: My first term at school; A year in the country; My
return to school; Life at college. An appendix contains a sketch,
“Butterfly-collecting, an episode of college life,” which was the
author’s last piece of writing.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 450w

“This completes Mr Duff’s translation of the memoirs of one of the
most striking and individual among Russian writers.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p530 N 1 ‘17 40w

“When we consider the rare merit of these books we can scarcely thank
the translator sufficiently. Ignorant as we are of the works of
Aksakov, it would be rash to say that this autobiography is the most
characteristic of them; and yet one feels certain that there was
something especially congenial to him in the recollection of
childhood. He is not, we think, quite so happy in the present volume
because he passes a little beyond the scope of childhood. ...
Aksakov’s peculiar gift lay in his power of living back into the
childish soul.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 N 8 ‘17 1950w

=ALDEN, RAYMOND MACDONALD.= Alfred Tennyson: how to know him. il *$1.50 Bobbs 821 17-25767

The author is professor of English in Leland Stanford Jr. university.
“Professor Alden adopts the method of copious quotation intermingled
with commentary and exposition. He gives us the meagrest details of
Tennyson’s life and then only as his doings and his writings are
interwoven.” (Boston Transcript) He takes up “all the important
briefer poems of Tennyson” with the text; gives “some account of the
general character and structure of the great works which are too
extensive to be represented by giving their full text”; but does not
include the dramas. One chapter is given to “the relations of our age
to the Victorians, as illustrated by the poetry of Tennyson.”

“A sound interpretation.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17

“Like its predecessors in the same series, Professor Alden’s
‘Tennyson: how to know him,’ is better than its title. And like its
predecessors, it is all the better because it does not fulfill the
implications of its title. ... Professor Alden interprets the poet and
his work with a sound judgment. ... But his style is, we regret to
say, frequently far from impeccable.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 29 ‘17 1400w

+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 100w

+ =Ind= 92:64 O 6 ‘17 100w

“As an American interpreter of Tennyson, Professor Alden labors under
the disadvantage of remoteness from the poet’s environment and also
from his modes of thought. This remoteness from Tennyson’s world leads
his interpreter into misconception. He misses the point of ‘The
northern farmer.’ ... On the whole, Professor Alden is on the side of
the angels, and defends this Victorian archangel against the attacks
of the little cliques, the faddists and the Philistines. He might,
however, make fewer concessions to the enemy.”

+ — =Nation= 105:603 N 29 ‘17 1000w

“A teacher who renounces much of Tennyson, and whose admiration of
what is left is strong and contagious—such is Mr Alden.” P. L.

+ — =New Repub= 13:24 N 3 ‘17 1250w

=ALDIS, HARRY GIDNEY.= Printed book. (Cambridge manuals of science and literature) il *45c (1c) Putnam 655 17-8491

“The scope of the present volume is limited to a brief outline of the
origin and development of the printed book of the western world,
printed for the most part on paper, occasionally on vellum, and more
rarely on other material. In point of time the subject falls within
the last five hundred years.” (Introd.) Contents: The advent of
printing; The spread of the art; The fifteenth-century book; The
scholar-printers of the sixteenth century; English books, 1500-1800;
The modern book; The construction of a book; Illustrations;
Bookbinding and bookbindings; The handling and mishandling of books.
The volume has several interesting illustrations, a bibliography and
an index.

=A L A Bkl= 14:44 N ‘17

“There is an excellent chapter on modern presses.”

+ =Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 20w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

“Interesting little book.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:667 O ‘17 20w

=Pratt= p22 Jl ‘17 10w

=ALDON, ADAIR.= Island of Appledore. il *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 17-28795

Appledore island lies off the New England coast, and it is here that
Billy Wentworth, who had never seen salt water before, comes to spend
a summer with an aunt. He had not wanted to come at all and he has
made up his mind not to like the Atlantic ocean. But that mood cannot
last, and he is shortly asking old Captain Saulsby to teach him all
about boats. Billy has use for his new knowledge, and some very real
adventures lie before him, for this is the time of the European war
and German spies are at work along the Atlantic coast. In the end
Billy enlists in the navy.

=A L A Bkl= 14:100 D ‘17

+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 20w

“A capital story for boys.”

+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 10w

“Any one who knows Appledore as one of the Isles of Shoals will
recognize in a moment that Adair Aldon has taken liberties with the
scenery. The author admits it, claiming a novelist’s license, and then
proceeds to write a stirring tale.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 190w

=ALDRICH, DARRAGH.= Enchanted hearts. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-25127

A story which is as wholesome for grown-ups as it is enchanting to
younger readers. Little Comfort, the heroine, sleeping or waking,
inhabits her castle of dreams where she is Fairy-godmother. “That,”
she says, “is what I truly am; but of course my business is peeling
potatoes and things and washing dishes. I wait on tables, too,
mostly—when I am not making beds.” In the boarding house where she
wields alternately her fairy wand and the paring knife is her Princess
who writes stories. Fairy-godmother observes that when the fat
envelope comes back, gloom prevails. Her work is to hunt up a Prince
who can save the Princess. Success seems to come readily after a visit
to the rooms of a rich, bored young man whom the wand transforms. But
the uncertain days that follow, days during which Fairy-godmother
tests and even doubts the magic of her wand, ripen her childish
wisdom. She never gives up, and the end makes her dreams all come
true.

“A good story of its kind.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:94 D ‘17

“The Pollyannas and Little Sir Galahads have made so vivid an
impression on our present day fiction that we probably shall not lose
their influence for some time to come. We can forgive that influence,
however, when it gives us a character as lovable as Fairy godmother in
‘Enchanted hearts.’”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 24 ‘17 300w

“There is a spirit of reality, spontaneous joy, and spiritual faith in
the book which excites and maintains interest. It even disarms
criticism when sane reason disapproves of excessive flights of fancy.”

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 250w

=ALDRICH, MILDRED.= On the edge of the war zone. il *$1.25 Small 940.91 17-24668

Miss Aldrich’s letters published under the title of “A hilltop on the
Marne” covered the period between June 3 and September 8, 1914. The
first letter in the present volume, also written from the little house
near Huiry on the Marne, is dated September 16, 1914, and the last
April 8, 1917. The book pictures for us both the spirit of the French
nation and the happenings in one little corner of France, “from the
battle of the Marne to the entrance of the Stars and Stripes.”
(Sub-title)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:51 N ‘17

“Miss Aldrich has seen little more than the smoke of distant conflict,
but she has lived in the very heart of France during all its struggle.
These quiet letters, quite devoid of thrilling incident, are the
essence of the home life of these memorable three years and to the
reader who knows nothing of the technical art of war they are far more
interesting than detailed accounts of battles.” F. A. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 8 ‘17 1650w

“The reader will appreciate and share the writer’s evident affection
for the French peasant and find especially interesting her account of
supplying books to the poilus and of work with the American base
hospital in the neighborhood.”

+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 70w

“Has nothing quite so thrilling to relate as the earlier book, but it
lacks neither interesting incidents nor charm of style.”

+ =Ind= 92:61 O 6 ‘17 30w

“Every one knows that Miss Aldrich can write and that she has a very
human, observant eye, and a unique understanding of the French mind
under the stress of the war. Her new book is packed with incidents and
observations of the pathos and beauty of the French spirit.”

+ =Lit D= 55:38 D 8 ‘17 150w

“A quiet record of one woman’s experiences and reactions more
illuminating than many volumes of vague generalizations.” E. P.
Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 92:1387 O 20 ‘17 350w

“Full of vital, soul-stirring experience.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 70w

=ALEXANDER, PHILIP FREDERICK.=[2] Earliest voyages round the world, 1519-1617. (Cambridge travel books) il *75c Putnam 910.4

“In the century, 1519-1617, covered by this travel-book there were six
voyages round the world—one Spanish, led by a Portuguese, Magellan;
two English, led by Drake and Cavendish; and three Dutch, led by Van
Noort, Speilbergen, and Le Maire and Schouten. Mr Alexander includes
in this volume Pigafetta’s account of the Magellan expedition; Francis
Pretty’s narratives of Drake’s piratical voyage, and of Cavendish’s
first voyage; and an account of Le Maire and Schouten’s discovery of
the route round Cape Horn. There are numerous illustrations, including
a sixteenth-century map of Drake’s voyage corrected by the great
navigator; a dozen pages of useful notes; a brief introduction to the
narratives; and a table of important dates in the history of
discovery.”—Nature

“As a contemporary source book, which maintains the atmosphere of the
great days of the early voyages, this compilation will prove extremely
useful and stimulating.”

+ =Nature= 98:388 Ja 18 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:134 S ‘17 30w

“As an introduction to Hakluyt and the publications of the Hakluyt
society, nothing could be better. As a school text-book, nothing could
be more attractive.”

+ =Spec= 118:110 Ja 27 ‘17 110w

=ALEXINSKY, GREGOR.= Russia and Europe; tr. from the manuscript by Bernard Miall. *$3 Scribner 947 17-5551

“A previous work of the author’s on modern Russia was devoted to the
distinguishing facts of Russian life as contrasted with the life of
western Europe. And now he discloses how Russia has ‘Europeanized
herself’ and sums up the effects of European influences on the great
Slav empire, past and present. ... We read that it is through the
foreigner’s money and his novel forms of exploitation that the old
state of things in Russia has been subject to a profound upheaval.
Coming to the present war, the author says that all the democrats in
Russia recognize in it the cause of liberty, external and internal.
They see in the fraternity of Russia and the western nations a force
tending to democratize and Europeanize their country. And they believe
their country will achieve its own liberty when it reaches the end of
the road leading to victory over the external oppressor.”—Boston
Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 13:344 My ‘17

“This writer, who has been a member of the Duma, knows his Russian
intimately. ... Interesting chapters are devoted to ‘The
Europeanization of the state’ and ‘Ideals.’ The influence of western
ideas upon philosophy and social movements is set forth in an
attractive way. ... Mr Alexinsky’s book should help to calm the fears
of those who have been led to believe that great Russia will, sooner
or later, decide to throw in her lot with Germany and Austria.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ‘17 400w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:84 Mr 11 ‘17 750w

+ =Outlook= 116:74 My 9 ‘17 80w

=Pittsburgh= 22:677 O ‘17 20w

=Spec= 118:342 Mr 17 ‘17 140w

“Mr Bernard Miall has done well in the essential matter of making the
book read almost as though it were written in English; but he is open
to reproach for certain defects apparently due to carelessness. The
book badly needs an index, and no indication is given of what system
of transliteration has been followed. He is curiously reckless with
the centuries.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p50 F 1 ‘17 850w

=ALEXINSKY, TATIANA.= With the Russian wounded; tr. by Gilbert Cannan; with an introd. by Gregor Alexinsky. *2s 6d Unwin, T. Fisher, London 940.91

“The author is the wife of Gregor Alexinsky, who played so
revolutionary a rôle in the second Duma that he was exiled to Paris.
On the outbreak of the war, Mrs Alexinsky, who shares her husband’s
internationalist hopes, went to Russia primarily to discover if it
really was a people’s war. Several months as a nurse in a hospital
train finally destroyed her early scepticism. ‘All wars are not the
same,’ her patients would say to her, ‘but ours is a just war.’ Other
ideas, however, received confirmation. There was a touching, dull
wonder at the stupidity of a world which made wars necessary—even the
most ignorant peasants expressed that. ... If there was likewise a
determination to fight this war ‘to a finish,’ it was only because the
men believed it was the one sure way to end future conflicts.”—New
Repub

+ =New Repub= 9:307 Ja 13 ‘17 400w

+ =N Y Times= 22:140 Ap 15 ‘17 400w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 N 9 ‘16 70w

=ALFORD, LEON PRATT=, ed. Manufacture of artillery ammunition. il *$6 McGraw 623.45 17-5988

Papers reprinted from the American Machinist. “The material splits up
into sections on shrapnel, high-explosive shells, cartridge cases and
fuses. In each field the manufacturing methods are disclosed for a
variety of sizes; production data are given for each kind and size of
ammunition shown.”—Engin News-Rec

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:431 Jl ‘17

“The appendix includes some timely suggestions, based on twenty-six
months’ experience of the allied nations, for the standardization and
procurement of machine tools by the United States government.”

+ =Bul N Y Public Library= 21:482 Jl ‘17 100w

“An up-to-date text on munitions manufacture has been earnestly
desired by the Council of national defense and by every manufacturer
who may have to turn his plant into an arsenal. The most obvious way
to secure such a book was to reprint the papers that have appeared in
the American Machinist since the onset of the European war. The
contact with munitions manufacture is coming at so many points that
this work will be needed by great numbers of industrial engineers who
will not themselves bear the direct responsibility of manufacture.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:360 My 17 ‘17 130w

“Admirable work—complete, practical, and carefully illustrated.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p11 Ap ‘17 100w

“A very interesting and valuable book.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:443 My ‘17 6w (Reprinted from Iron Trade Review
p732 Mr 29 ‘17)

=Pittsburgh= 22:521 Je ‘17

“Contains 699 illustrations.”

+ =Pratt= p18 Jl ‘17 30w

=ALINGTON, CYRIL ARGENTINE.= Shrewsbury fables. *75c Longmans 170

“‘Shrewsbury fables’ are addresses given in the chapel of Shrewsbury
school by the former headmaster, Cyril Alington, who last year
succeeded Dr Lyttelton as headmaster of Eton. ... Dr Alington’s early
addresses are on simple and practical questions of religion and
ethics, and since the war have mainly to do with service of the
country in the army. The last address, however, is a pleasant homily
on the quest of glory and its transitoriness.”—Springf’d Republican

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:93 Je ‘17 20w

“We confess to a certain degree of dismay that an eminent head master,
among whose functions is, presumably, that of educating the taste of
his pupils, should hold up so bizarre a style of composition for their
imitation, for boys are essentially imitative. ... Of the moral and
religious lessons which Dr Alington desires to enforce in the garb of
fable we would speak with all respect and appreciation. ... Apart from
this one lapse [concerning Milton] from good taste and wisdom, it is
the form, and not the matter, of these discourses that we do not
like.”

+ — =Sat R= 123:390 Ap 28 ‘17 820w

“There are not a few passages which in their delivery must have
provoked smiles, for Mr Alington is not afraid of humour, even of a
freakish kind; but, as a set-off, there is a great deal that is
profoundly serious and touching. We are reminded at times of Bunyan
and again of Plato, but the touch and the illustrations are
essentially modern and admirably suited to the boy audience.”

+ =Spec= 118:236 F 24 ‘17 1900w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 20 ‘17 220w

“If anyone strange to the public school system of England and its
ideals were to need a short cut to the understanding of them, he might
do worse than begin with Mr Alington’s ‘Fables.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p103 Mr 1 ‘17 620w

=ALLEN, GEORGE HENRY; WHITEHEAD, HENRY C., and CHADWICK, FRENCH ENSOR.= Great war. 5v v 2-3 il ea $5 Barrie 940.91 (Eng ed 15-19225)

“A comprehensive popular history ... to be sold by subscription.”
(Springfield Republican) “Volume 1 treats of: Causes of and motives
for the war; Volume 2, The mobilization of the moral and physical
forces; Volume 3, The original German plan and its culmination. There
is a ‘Chronological table’ at the end of each volume.” (Pittsburgh)
Volume 1 was run in the Digest in 1915.

“The preceding volume dealt with the causes of the war. This one
concerns the manner in which the conflict was begun, the last
conversations of diplomats and statesmen, etc. ... There is something
finely dramatic in his account of the memorable sessions of the
Reichstag and the House of commons. ... The second part of the volume
most readers will find of less interest. There is lengthy statement of
the military organization of the warring powers and also of their
naval strength. ... It cannot be said that the author displays
improper prejudice for the Teutonic allies, but prolonged acquaintance
with the German people has brought him thoroughly under the glamour of
their achievements and their greatness. The German army is the
exemplar and the pattern. ... There is lack of clear, trenchant, lucid
generalization, and especially of interpretation, while the
statistical comparisons might be better made in tables than by the
narrative form in which they are expounded. In the third part there is
a chapter on the mobilization of financial resources, interesting and
especially good as regards Great Britain and Germany.” E: R. Turner

+ — =Am Hist R= 22:864 Jl ‘17 1400w (Review of v 2)

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:594 Ag ‘17 50w (Review of v 2)

“The book is written in a terse and lucid style, and its logical plan,
combined with its clear and judicial manner of treatment, makes it a
work of much popular appeal, although the painstaking care of the
authors to make it comprehensive and accurate in its use of facts
gives it scholarly authoritativeness.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 220w (Review of v 2)

=Pittsburgh= 22:49 Ja ‘17 30w (Review of v 1-3)

“The publishers have done their part well by providing a volume which,
if somewhat too large for comfortable reading, is handsomely printed
and generously illustrated. ... ‘The great war,’ so far as issued,
provides a full, clear, authentic view of the beginning of the
conflict, and, while the work is intended for the general reader,
historical students will find it useful for reference.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 27 ‘17 220w (Review of v 2)

=ALLEN, H. WARNER.= Unbroken line. il *$2 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1330)

“An illustrated survey of the French trenches from Switzerland to the
North sea, by one of the British newspaper correspondents with the
French armies in the field during the years 1915-16.” (R of Rs) “Under
Mr Allen’s guidance, we are able to take a personally conducted tour
along the line and remark the idiosyncrasies of its several sections.
Except in the case of the defence of Nancy and the Somme offensive, he
attempts no consecutive narrative of the fighting, but contents
himself with illustrating military geography with graphic anecdotes of
heroism and ingenuity. ... The book is brought up to date by a chapter
describing the first ten weeks or so of the battle of the Somme—or
rather of that part of the battle assigned to the French troops.” (The
Times [London] Lit Sup)

“Mr Allen had opportunities for observation accorded to perhaps no
other press correspondent save Frederick Palmer. And the story he
tells of his journey from Switzerland to the Channel along the ‘Wall
of civilization’ is one of high inspiration and encouragement.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ‘17 700w

“Among the illustrations are many official photographs reproduced by
permission of the French government.”

=R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 40w

“The reader derives a clear impression of the daily life and the
temper of the French soldiers.”

+ =Spec= 118:105 Ja 27 ‘17 350w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p530 N 9 ‘16 650w

=ALLEN, WILLIAM HARVEY.= Self-surveys by colleges and universities; with a referendum to college and university presidents. (Educational survey ser.) il $3 World bk. co. 378 17-29342

“To make it easier for American democracy to understand, and to shape
for democracy’s ends, the higher education upon which it spends a
half-billion dollars yearly, is one purpose of this book,” says the
foreword. The work consists of “first-aid tests that will help a
trustee, president, professor, parent, or student act as business
doctor or efficiency engineer to his own college.” The author is an
ardent advocate of the self-survey in preference to the survey by
outside experts. He says, “The study of higher education which is most
needed today is study by colleges themselves of themselves, and by
each college of itself.” Contents: The survey movement in higher
education; Procedure for a coöperative college survey; Relation of
trustees to president and faculty; Executive and business efficiency;
Faculty government; Extracurricular activities of students; Course of
study; Instructional efficiency; Relation with college communities.
Various “exhibits,” including the faculty questionnaire of the
University of Wisconsin, are given in the appendix.

+ =El School J= 18:393 Ja ‘18 600w

+ =School R= 26:64 Ja ‘18 420w

=ALLEN, WILLIAM HARVEY, and PEARSE, CARROLL GARDNER.= Self-surveys by teacher-training schools. (Educational survey ser.) il $2.25 World bk. co. 370.73 17-29341

In this work the authors advocate the plan of educational survey that
was employed in a study of the eight normal schools of Wisconsin. This
survey was carried out by the State board of public affairs, and in
his introduction President Carroll G. Pearse, of the Milwaukee normal
school, points out some of its advantages: “The study was neither
framed nor carried on by any foundation or other private agency, nor
was it conducted by a distant bureau, whose knowledge of the study and
findings and whose influence on the methods of work and conclusions
drawn could not be only nominal. The survey was coöperative. ... The
survey was not hurried. ... The study was made by men who were
familiar with the problems to be studied. ... The study was not only
coöperative but also immediately and continuingly constructive.”
Contents: Reasons for self-surveys; Pathfinding by Wisconsin’s normal
schools; Steps in making a self-survey; Making self-surveys build as
they go; Administration problems; Course-of-study problems;
Supervision problems; Classroom instruction; Training department’s
training; Extra-curricular activities of students; Technique of
reporting surveys; General needs of teacher-training schools;
Exhibits.

+ =El School J= 18:393 Ja ‘18 600w

“It cannot be doubted that this book in the hands of normal schools
and college administrators will provide a powerful impetus for
improvement of present methods of administering higher official work
in this country.”

+ =School R= 26:64 Ja ‘18 830w

=ALLEN, WILLIAM HARVEY.=[2] Universal training for citizenship and public service. il *$1.50 (3c) Macmillan 323 17-27906

Dr Allen who is director of the Institute for public service in New
York believes that one of the great problems for all countries after
the war will be how, while removing war’s wreckage, to guarantee the
permanence of its benefits and to direct its momentum towards
rebuilding what war has torn down. The purpose of his book is to
formulate for lay students of public affairs certain minimum aims and
steps which are within the reach of the general public. “In addition
to listing minimum essentials that are necessary in training privates
for citizenship, it discusses briefly other minimum essentials of
training which citizens should require for drillmasters, for entering
and remaining in public and semi-public service, and for the
professions. Three other chapters indicate the country’s need for
specialized training for parenthood, for public spirited use of
special gifts and for creative imagination and devoted attention to
the country’s upbuilding after the war.” (Publishers’ note)

“The somewhat arid title of this book scarcely suggests to the reader
its really inspiring appeal. Replete with the latest ideas as to civic
work, its discussion of the problems of citizenship that confronts us
now, and will confront us after the war, is terse, vigorous, and
helpful to a high degree.”

+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 60w

=ALTSCHUL, CHARLES.= American revolution in our school text-books; with an introd. by James T. Shotwell. *$1 Doran 973.07 17-25472

“The object of this informal study is ... to determine whether we are
justified in thinking that the history text-books in use more than
twenty years ago may have had a definite prejudicial influence on the
minds of a considerable part of our population; and if so, to what
extent the text-books in use at present promise a different result.”
(Preface) “Applying a rather rigid formula, Mr Altschul praises (by
implication) the school books that show the political conditions in
England prior to the Revolution and indicate that the action of the
British government was not supported by the people at large. He
condemns (by implication) those that do not dwell on British political
conditions prior to the Revolution and that do not enumerate and honor
the eminent Englishmen who espoused the American cause.” (Springf’d
Republican)

“Drawing his data from some ninety-three text-books, he establishes
some significant results. The book is a compilation with a moral which
Professor Shotwell draws in his excellent introduction.” C. H. Van
Tyne

+ =Am Hist R= 23:403 Ja ‘18 600w

=A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17

“Should be purchased by school superintendents from Portland, Me., to
Portland, Ore., and used as a guide for the elimination of antiquated
rubbish and the acquisition of such rare but procurable text-books as
tell the story of our struggle with England in a presentation that is
fair to both countries.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 10 ‘17 330w

“We heartily recommend this whole book to the American public for
perusal and thoughtful consideration. But in pointing out the
significance of such a study as this, we must by no means lose sight
of Mr Altschul’s fair-mindedness, his modesty, the complete absence
from his book of anything that approaches the dogmatic. Nor should any
mistake be permitted as to the object of his criticism; as we have
said, he is not criticising American research, but American elementary
school textbooks and it is not their accuracy with which he finds
fault. He does not quarrel with the truth of their facts, but with
their incompleteness—an incompleteness that makes for superficiality
and prejudice, and that is responsible for an impression that is
inaccurate, however correct the statement of narrow fact may be.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:399 O 14 ‘17 1850w

=R of Rs= 57:104 Ja ‘18 90w

=Spec= 119:772 D 29 ‘17 550w

“Mr Altschul seems to favor a method of teaching history which should
be deliberately friendly to the English, as the teaching of the past
has been, it seems, deliberately unfriendly. But what is wanted is the
truth—a critical, rather than sentimental view—and it is just a matter
of common-sense pedagogy to determine at what age a child can adopt a
critical view.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ‘17 600w

=ALTSHELER, JOSEPH ALEXANDER.= Rulers of the lakes. (French and Indian war ser.) il *$1.35 Appleton 17-24207

“This is a book for boys, full of Indian warfare, treachery, intrigue,
skirmishes, narrow escapes, and portraying American history from the
time of Braddock’s defeat at Fort Duquesne to the Colonists’ success
at Lake George. The principal characters are young Robert Lennox and
his Indian friend Tayoga, who make the journey through the wilderness,
in the face of terrible danger, to warn Fort Refuge, and afterward do
scout duty and hard fighting at Lake George and Lake Champlain.” (Lit
D) “While it is linked up with the two preceding volumes, ‘The hunters
of the hills’ and ‘The shadow of the north,’ by means of a common set
of characters, the story is complete in itself, and may be enjoyed and
understood independently of its companion tales.” (Springf’d
Republican)

“Not important but readable.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:172 F ‘18

“Gives a picture of Iroquois life and warfare that is historically
true.”

+ =Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 40w

“The description of life in the wilderness, of the intrigue and
cunning necessary in dealing with the French and Indians, of repeated
encounters where ultimate success depends on quick wit and wily
cleverness, makes fascinating reading for youth.”

+ =Lit D= 55:38 O 27 ‘17 160w

“Mr Altsheler draws some very vivid pictures of the struggle between
the forces contending for the North American dominion; but the
individual efforts of the daring trio will occasion the reader the
livelier interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 260w

=ALVORD, CLARENCE WALWORTH.= Mississippi valley in British politics. 2v *$10 Clark, A. H. 973.2 16-23066

“In an exhaustive two volume study of ‘The Mississippi valley in
British politics,’ Clarence Walworth Alvord recounts the various
attempts made by the British government to settle and develop the vast
territory between the Appalachian barrier and the Mississippi which
came into its hands as a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1769. In the
opinion of the author the failure of the British to solve the problem
of governing and settling this region was one of the leading causes of
the American Revolution, and a far more important one than the riots
and patriotic demonstrations in Boston and other cities on the
Atlantic coast which bulk so large in our histories.”—Ind

“Able as is the political narrative yet the most interesting,
illuminating chapters are those which discuss the rival capitalistic
enterprises of land speculation and the fur trade (the only two lines
open in the West to moneyed men), and the political manoeuvring of
each for the right to exploit the great interior in its own
interests.” A. C. Ford

+ =Am Econ R= 7:382 Je ‘17 800w

“Professor Alvord has himself published a study of the proclamation of
1763. ... And twenty years ago Professor Coffin gave us an excellent
history of the Quebec act of 1774. But hitherto no one has attempted a
comprehensive study of the many problems involved in the possession of
the western territory, or of the British policy of dealing with these
problems during the whole period from the Peace of Paris to the
opening of the Revolution. ... The results of Professor Alvord’s labor
constitute an important contribution to the literature of the American
Revolution.” Carl Becker

* + =Am Hist R= 22:671 Ap ‘17 1600w

“Professor Alvord’s volumes will prove of interest to at least four
groups of persons: students of the history and problems of colonial
administration; ... persons interested in British political
history; ... persons who seek a corrective on that treatment of
pre-revolutionary American history which fixes the attention upon the
performances of the ‘madding crowd’ of New York and Boston, to the
exclusion of things transmontane. ... Finally, for students of western
history the work has much illuminating interpretation.” F: A. Ogg

* + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:349 My ‘17 650w

“These volumes contain a detailed, but rather dull and dryasdust
narrative of the story of British misgovernment of North America in
the eighteenth century. Ample bibliographies are included, as well as
a good index.”

+ =Ath= p51 Ja ‘17 30w

“Professor Alvord makes out an excellent case, and in the two large
volumes which contain the elaboration of his theory, he has brought to
light a mass of historical material of surpassing interest and value,
if not absolutely convincing. ... But apart from this question, these
two volumes have a value of their own as a study of the development of
the Mississippi valley which we have not found matched in any other
similar compass. The historian, the economist, the student of affairs,
will alike find in them material of incalculable value. The style is
one to attract the reader, and the copious footnotes and citations
afford opportunity to pursue the study of the subject still further.”
G. H. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 27 ‘16 1850w

“A splendid bibliography and a good index complete this scholarly
inquiry.”

+ =Cath World= 106:119 O ‘17 1900w

“There are few readers on this side of the Atlantic who will not have
much to learn from Mr Alvord’s learned and thoughtful volumes. They
are accompanied by some useful maps.” H. E. Egerton

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:299 Ap ‘17 950w

=Ind= 89:232 F 5 ‘17 250w

“All that Professor Alvord has here written of the actual attempts to
settle the western territory, of land-schemes and land-grants, of the
activities of promoters, and of the migrations of restless wanderers
and pioneers is of the greatest interest and value. ... If the fact be
recognized that in this work we are dealing with only one aspect of a
great and difficult problem, and are not to look on what it contains
as a study of causes culminating in the American revolution, then we
can freely accord to it the praise that it justly deserves.”

+ =Nation= 104:579 My 10 ‘17 1850w

=Pittsburgh= 22:323 Ap ‘17

“To most readers these volumes will give a wholly new conception of
the attitude of Great Britain towards its American possessions during
the decade preceding the Revolution. From public and private documents
never before published, Professor Alvord shows that the ministry at
London was far more deeply concerned than has generally been supposed
with the fate of its western possessions in America.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:107 Ja ‘17 140w

=AMERICAN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION.= Good roads year-book, 1917. 6th annual ed $2 Am. highway assn. 625.7 (12-14988)

“The ‘Good roads year book’ for 1917 of the American highway
association carefully summarizes, as usual, the progress of the last
year in the improvement of roads in the commonwealths, our insular
possessions, and Alaska. A new departure is to be found in two hundred
pages devoted to papers upon those simple and non-technical features
of highway construction and maintenance which a commissioner entrusted
with the expenditure of road funds should know. There has been a
demand for this from local road officials who have found that most of
the treatises on roads are more useful to engineers than to the
uninitiated. The American highway association has entered upon this
work with enthusiasm, enlisting some fifty experts in it. The result
is a veritable brief reference-book upon rural road building,
applicable to the whole country.”—Nation

+ =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 170w

=AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS.= City planning progress in the United States, 1917. il $2 Am. inst. of architects 710 17-15450

“Valuable service has been rendered by the production of this survey
of city-planning effort—and lack of effort—in 233 cities and towns of
the United States. Information obtained from authentic published
reports or from signed reports by responsible authorities is presented
for every city and town of 25,000 or less (1916 census estimates) and
for some smaller places. The review for each city and town is a
readable account of local city-planning activities, whether private,
semi-public or public. Maps and halftones are freely used. A ‘Summary’
of four pages is devoted chiefly to progress at home and abroad in
various lines during 1917. This is followed by four pages of
city-planning references, by Theodora Kimball, Harvard university.”
(Engin News-Rec) The compilation has been made by the Committee on
town planning of the American institute of architects under the
editorship of George B. Ford, city planner, to Newark and Jersey City,
author of “Comprehensive city planning,” etc., assisted by Ralph F.
Warner.

“In the revised and extended edition promised early in 1919 it is to
be hoped that an attempt will be made to bring out clearly for each
city just what has been accomplished in the realization of the reports
and plans reviewed. Where nothing has been done, it would perhaps help
the cause, both locally and generally, to say so instead of leaving
the reader to draw his own conclusions. The need for more definiteness
may well be illustrated by the case of Hartford, Conn.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:603 Je 21 ‘17 380w

=AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.= Teaching of government; report by the Committee on instruction, C: Groves Haines, chairman. *$1.10 Macmillan 353 16-23033

The report of a committee appointed in 1911 to investigate this
subject. “Besides a very suggestive section on ‘Recent progress in the
teaching of government,’ there are parts devoted to a report on the
teaching of civics in secondary schools, the course of study, report
on the teaching of political science in colleges and universities, and
an appendix containing the report of state committees on the teaching
of civics in elementary and secondary schools. ... The section on the
course of study contains suggestions as to the subject-matter and
methods of approach to the study of government in both the elementary
and the secondary schools, and rather complete bibliographies on
methods of teaching and books for both texts and references.” (School
R)

=A L A Bkl= 13:287 Ap ‘17

“Teachers of government have waited long and patiently for this book.
In some respects the book is likely to prove of service. On the other
hand, its value is greatly impaired by the lack of orderliness in
arrangement, by the inclusion of much that is of neither present-day
interest nor usefulness, and by the complacent contempt for accuracy
in matters of detail which the volume shows all too plainly. Within
the twenty-odd pages of the bibliography, in fact, one may find
excellent examples of nearly everything that a good bibliographer
ought not to do.”

* – + =Nation= 104:314 Mr 15 ‘17 750w

“The report is of considerable value and is well worth a careful
perusal by civics teachers in both junior and senior high schools.”

+ =School R= 25:293 Ap ‘17 450w

=AMES, JOSEPH BUSHNELL.= Under boy scout colors. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-25246

Dale Tompkins, a newsboy out of school hours, has faithfully studied
the boy scout handbook in the hope of some day becoming a real scout.
A sudden emergency, in which a little boy’s life is at stake, finds
Dale with the necessary knowledge and skill at his command. At many
other times in the course of the story, the value of boy scout
training is put to the test and in the final chapter the team work of
the entire troop is called for in a crisis. The story has appeared
serially in St Nicholas, and has been “approved by the Boy scouts of
America.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:135 Ja ‘18

“A good and wholesome tale of its kind.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 190w

=Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 50w

=ANDERSON, BENJAMIN MCALESTER.= Value of money. *$2.25 Macmillan 332 17-14066

“Those economists who are thinking vitally are using money as their
approach to economic theorizing. Professor Anderson is among these.
This book aims to show money as a function rather than an instrument
of modern business life. Because it is functional, it is dynamic,
changing under the influence of complex social forces and in turn
being a factor in the change of these social forces. In a word, the
author applies the concept of social value which he has outlined in a
former treatise to the problem of money value. This necessitates the
refutation of the quantity theory of money, marginal utility and other
fundamental principles of orthodox analysis.” (Survey) The author is
assistant professor of economics at Harvard university.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:112 Ja ‘18

“An important and rather technical discussion.”

+ =Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 20w

“Seldom does a book developing such novelties show such signs of
patient study. Almost too much attention has been given to details and
to defense of his differences with the defenders of the orthodox ideas
on these subjects.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:298 Ag 12 ‘17 1100w

“The book shows patient study and very thorough acquaintance with the
literature of the subject. It will surely stimulate interest and
discussion. It is a contribution to a slowly forming body of opinion
which would rewrite economic theory in terms of a sounder social
psychology.” H. F. Grady

+ =Survey= 39:74 O 20 ‘17 250w

=ANDERSON, ISABEL (PERKINS) (MRS LARZ ANDERSON).= Odd corners. il *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 910 17-28483

Traveling in the unusual way means necessarily getting a view of
things from an unaccustomed angle. House-boating, for instance, on
inland waters from New York to Key West promises something new in the
way of travel sensations. The writer’s zig zag journeyings take her
across the southern states to California, down into Mexico, across to
the gulf, thence to Spain and Morocco, on to India, back to England,
over the fiords of Norway into Russia, across Siberia to Japan and
thence to China. The chapters on China give glimpses of court life,
tell of visits to famous temples in Peking, to mounds and tombs of the
ancestors, and intimately describe sensations that natives, streets,
and buildings produce upon the tourist in Hankow, Nankin and Shanghai.

=A L A Bkl= 14:125 Ja ‘18

“This last journey [to Mexico] was undertaken while Diaz still ruled
and her observations are superficial and wholly from the point of view
of the private car in which she traveled.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 130w

=St Louis= 15:430 D ‘17 10w

“When the wife of a member of the American diplomatic corps undertakes
to tell the reading public of some of the corners of the world she has
seen, there is always a promise of something out of the ordinary. And
when such a writer brings to the task the enthusiasm and freshness
that belong to the writings of Mrs Larz Anderson, the promise is
usually more than fulfilled.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 16 ‘17 400w

=ANDERSON, ISABEL (PERKINS) (MRS LARZ ANDERSON).= Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines. (Spell ser.) il *$2.50 Page 919.69 16-23396

“Out of her personal observations and many historic sources Mrs
Anderson has gathered the material for the writing of her third book
of travel. ... She has gathered into her latest volume a vast fund of
information about our Pacific possessions. She writes about the land
and its people, about the historic and political conditions, and she
introduces her readers to the great scenic beauty of these islands,
and to the quaint customs of their inhabitants. ... No less
entertaining than her sketches of Hawaiian life are her descriptions
of the Philippines, and they are all visualized by a series of
excellently reproduced photographic illustrations.”—Boston Transcript

“It has two good maps, one of the Hawaiian Islands, and one of the
Philippines.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:263 Mr ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 25 ‘16 250w

+ =Dial= 62:150 F 22 ‘17 230w

=ANDERSON, PAUL LEWIS.= Pictorial photography; its principles and practice. il *$2.50 Lippincott 770 17-21825

“That there is a school of real photography in this country is
evidenced in Mr Anderson’s ‘Pictorial photography,’ a handbook devoted
almost wholly to the obtaining of beautiful, artistic effects in
pictures made through the purely mechanical means of a camera and its
accessories. ... ‘Pictorial photography’ is divided into five parts,
Apparatus, Negative modification, Printing methods, Color and
Miscellaneous. Its closing chapter on motion picture photography is a
sane criticism of the admirable features and the faults of that
important department of modern work with the camera.”—Boston
Transcript

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17

“The illustrations in this book are revelations. They are free from
the sharp decisiveness of the photograph we have known as a type, are
rich in shadow and an occasional blur of mystery that lifts the
product to a plane that is in essentials artistic.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 180w

=Cleveland= p136 D ‘17 10w

“A helpful manual, broad in scope but not too technical for the
comprehension of the amateur.”

+ =Ind= 92:345 N 17 ‘17 120w

=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17 30w

“This volume comes with a distinct field of usefulness, and will find
the welcome it deserves from all who realize the finer possibilities
of lens work. ... But with all his intimate and extraordinarily
well-digested knowledge of technical possibilities, Mr Anderson
persistently keeps before the mind of the reader, who is also a
photographer, that there is something more needed to produce the
perfect picture than merely perfection of technique and taste in
composition.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Pub W= 92:815 S 15 ‘17 500w

=ANDERSON, SHERWOOD.= Marching men. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 17-24209

This is not a novel of war, but of labor. “Beaut” McGregor, son of a
miner, “huge, graceless of body, indolent of mind, untrained,
uneducated, hating the world,” saw his fellow-countrymen as “a vast,
disorganized, undisciplined army, leaderless, uninspired, going in
route-step along the road to they know not what end,” and the idea
came to him to teach these men to march rhythmically, shoulder to
shoulder, until they should become “one giant body,” and a brain
should grow in the giant they had made. As a boy McGregor worked in
his mother’s bakery and afterwards in a stable in the mining town
where he was brought up. Then he went to Chicago where he worked his
way up in an apple warehouse, studied law, and won a reputation by
defending a man wrongly accused of murder. This success gave him a
chance to leave his class, but his sense of solidarity with the
working-class prevailed, and he continued to struggle to “make an army
out of labor by progress from the mere rhythm of marching to a rhythm
of like-mindedness in society.” (New Repub) Three women influenced his
life—the undertaker’s daughter in the mining town; Edith, the milliner
who gave him her savings that he might study, and Margaret, daughter
of a rich man and worker in a settlement.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 140w

“Naturally all brief characterizations are unfair, but I suppose
‘Marching men’ might be described as a pæan to order and (quite
incidentally, I hope) a naked and somewhat febrile celebration of
force. It is, in fact, too insistently, too stridently and
remorselessly dedicated to the main theme to make a wholly
satisfactory novel. ... Mr Anderson’s is surely the last word of
anti-intellectualism; for the men who follow McGregor do not know why
they are marching or whither. ... Marching satisfies a deep
disposition. Very well, let them march, and trust to luck that the
collectivist mind will emerge. To present a programme would be only to
repeat the old intellectualist fallacy of the socialists and the
organizers. ... Mr Anderson has the skill to make you feel the thick
press of life in great cities.” G: B. Donlin

– + =Dial= 63:274 S 27 ‘17 1650w

=Nation= 105:403 O 11 ‘17 600w

“The sensational and spectacular scheme by which this Pennsylvania
miner aspires to evoke the solidarity of labor hardly succeeds in
escaping the ludicrous. But ‘Marching men’ is not a literal novel. It
has, indeed, its large element of the caveman piffle that played such
a part in the romanticizations of Jack London, but outside this
puerility, this day-dream of the male egoist, there is a great deal of
inspiring symbolism in ‘Marching men.’ ... The chief fact about
‘Marching men’ is not its rhetoric, its grandiloquence. It is its
apprehension of the great fictional theme of our generation,
industrial America.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 12:249 S 29 ‘17 1500w

“Back of the new volume is a big idea, a strong purpose, a white
light. It is obviously propaganda, interesting because it makes you
thoughtful about the struggle that is going on here in Chicago and in
all the labor centers of the land. ... Mr Anderson’s novel, while it
compels one to read it to the end, is weak in many places. It savors
too much of a preachment, and in the handling of the final chapters
falls a bit flat.” J: N: Beffel

+ — =N Y Call= p14 N 11 ‘17 950w

“A disappointing book. For in the very beginning of it the
descriptions of Coal Creek, the miners, and Norman McGregor’s hatred
alike of the place and of the people, are sufficiently well done to
lead the reader to expect a novel of possibly a trifle more than
average interest and average merit.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:442 O 28 ‘17 260w

=Pittsburgh= 22:748 N ‘17 50w

“Mr Anderson writes with an earnestness that cannot fail to awaken
respect. Tho his characters occasionally—by no means always—sound a
little more than human, his appreciation of the perversities of the
social order—or disorder—and his sincere seeking for ‘the wherefore of
the why,’ gain for this comparatively new author a sympathetic
response.” Doris Webb

+ — =Pub W= 92:1372 O 20 ‘17 350w

=ANDREÄ, JOHANN VALENTIN.= Christianopolis; tr., with an historical introd., by Felix Emil Held. (Germanic literature and culture) il *$1.25 Oxford 321.07 16-14590

“Christianopolis, a translation from the Latin of Johann Valentin
Andreae, portraying ‘an ideal state of the seventeenth century,’ is an
important addition to utopian literature in the English language.
Professor Held’s valuable introduction connects Christianopolis with
the other utopias—Plato’s, More’s, Campanella’s City of the sun,
Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, Samuel Gott’s Solyma—and with
seventeenth century educational reforms. The text ranges quaintly over
many of the rough realities and the fine ideals with which every
people is still struggling.”—Survey

“The Latin original of this utopian sketch is very rare. It is just
270 years since Robert Boyle, in a letter to Samuel Hartlib, exprest
the wish that an English version of it might be made. Such a version
has now been made, and well made, by Assistant Professor Held of Miami
university.”

+ =Educ R= 53:428 Ap ‘17 100w

“The introduction gives a conspectus of the literature on the whole
subject, and will be useful for reference. It summarizes opinions,
corrects errors, and rectifies ill-founded judgments. Dr Held
doubtless overestimates his author, but the things for which Andreae
may be regarded as noteworthy are properly specified, and a fair
degree of probability is made out for the theses here propounded.”

+ =Nation= 104:375 Mr 29 ‘17 230w

“Dr Held’s translation of ‘Christianopolis’ is not only accurate, but
it reads easily.” C. A. Williams

+ =School R= 24:710 N ‘16 180w

+ =Survey= 37:586 F 17 ‘17 180w

“The matter of his pages is admirable, but the manner it deserves is
lacking. It is as the socialist who so long ago saw that the social
question is a moral and religious one, as the promoter of educational
and scientific reform, that he is important.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p341 Jl 19 ‘17 1350w

=ANDREYEV, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH.= Confessions of a little man during great days; tr. from the Russian by R. S. Townsend. *$1.35 Knopf 17-26393

“The book is just the quite shameless confession of a little clerk who
gets no nearer the war than Petrograd, a futile, stupid, fussy,
egoistic, but affectionate, sensitive, and somehow lovable little man
of forty-five, with but one heroic quality, his honesty—at least to
himself; he does not spare himself when he writes the diary that no
one is to see. ... He wins your sympathy, from a fellow-feeling, and
he keeps it, even when he is worrying about himself and his miserable
digestion and his neglected state while his fine wife goes nursing,
even when the smallness of his life makes him most ridiculous. ...
Again when he decides to go to the front and serve with the ambulance
you believe that he will go and somehow play his little part.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

“Registers his revolt against war, his gradual patriotic awakening and
finally his desire to help. Will appeal to many Americans now entering
upon similar experiences.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:448 Jl ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 26 ‘17 220w