Chapter XXI: Part 2: opens with a general diagram that, with proper study, makes (5)

“The indexing of the helpful information is scholarly and invaluable.”

+ =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 130w

“An almost dishonestly misleading title. The impression of
coördination that is conveyed is belied when it turns out that the
birds receive only thirty-two pages in a volume of 359 pages, or one
chapter among twenty-one. This chapter, it should also be said, is of
no value to the field student, concerning, as it does, only such
matters as bird houses and food. The justification of the book (it
does justify itself) is in the highly condensed information on
gardening and full index that renders this information quickly
accessible. The author’s information, though generally correct and
serviceable, is more than once careless.”

+ – — =Nation= 105:610 N 29 ‘17 180w

“An indispensable guide for the amateur gardener and home-builder,
equally suited to the needs of those who have a large acreage at their
disposal and for the person with the modest backyard or the narrow
window-box.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:221 Ag ‘17 70w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 60w

=CROY, MAE SAVELL.= 1000 hints on vegetable gardening. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 635 17-18609

Uniform with “1000 shorter ways around the house,” and “1000 things a
mother should know.” There is a chapter whose tabulation is
alphabetical which groups under each vegetable the hints for the
planting, care, cooking and preservation of that vegetable. There are
chapters on: Soil and fertilization; The hotbed and cold-frame; Seed;
Planting; Thinning and transplanting; Cultivation; Watering; Weeds;
Insects and sprays; Fruit; Small fruits; Nuts; Trees; Miscellaneous
hints; List of agricultural experiment stations; Plan for a family
garden; Table denoting how much space should be devoted to various
vegetables; Convenient lists for gardeners; Index.

=CROY, MAE SAVELL.= 1000 things a mother should know. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 649 17-13344

The suggestions the author has brought together have reference “to
tiny babies and growing children; their clothes, their care, their
food, their training, and their entertainment.” As in her earlier
book, “1000 shorter ways around the house,” she has arranged a large
amount of miscellaneous material under convenient subject headings.
Contents: Pregnancy; Clothing; The nursery; Health rules and medical
care; Hygiene and sick-room suggestions; Food; Habits and training;
Amusements; Miscellaneous.

=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 30w

“A large amount of miscellaneous information conveniently arranged.”

+ =Pratt= p25 O ‘17 20w

=CRUMP, IRVING.= Boys’ book of policemen. il *$1.35 (2½c) Dodd 352 17-13226

A companion volume to “The boys’ book of firemen,” by the same author.
It will give a new idea of the policeman’s duties and of the wide
variety of the opportunities offered by the calling. Contents: The
call of adventure; “Pounding the pavement” with the patrolman; The
six-foot guards of traffic; In action with the mounted men;
Mile-a-minute motor patrol; The four-footed police of the dog patrol;
The pirate fighting marine division; The sleuths of the secret
service; The riot call and other police signals; Police preparedness;
Policemen in the making; Your big brother—the cop.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:453 Jl ‘17

“Besides all the practical information, stories are told of many
adventures and thrilling incidents.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 90w

+ =Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 30w

+ =Pratt= p9 O ‘17 20w

=CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON, and others.= School organization and administration. (Educational survey ser.) il $1.50 World bk. co. 371 16-17381

The report of a school survey conducted by Dr Cubberley in Salt Lake
City in 1915. “The survey concerned itself especially with the form or
organization and administration under which the schools were operated,
the system of supervisory control by means of which the superintendent
of schools worked, the progress in the fundamental subjects being made
by the children in the schools, and the problem of adequate
finance. ... The report contained, in addition, a number of features
which were quite distinctive. ... Among these should be mentioned the
detailed explanation of the tests made and the results obtained, the
study of the instruction of retarded pupils, the work in health
control, the school building and site problem, and the peculiar
financial problem, presented by this city.” (Preface) The first
edition published by the Board of education of Salt Lake City was
early exhausted and this second edition is now printed with some
revisions and additions by the author.

“A great mass of educational literature is accumulating, some of it of
dubious value, which may or may not be useful hereafter as material or
sources for students in educational administration and practise. A
painstaking example of a work of this type is ‘School organization and
administration.’”

=Educ R= 53:199 F ‘17 70w

“Will be useful to any school officer or parent who wishes to work out
an intelligent view of his own school situation.”

+ =Ind= 89:196 Ja 29 ‘17 70w

Reviewed by B: C. Gruenberg

=N Y Call= p12 F 4 ‘17 430w

=CUMBERLAND, WILLIAM WILSON.= Cooperative marketing. *$1.50 Princeton univ. press 334 17-28662

“In ‘Cooperative marketing: its advantages as exemplified in the
California fruit growers exchange’ Prof. W. W. Cumberland has written
the history of the exchange since its beginnings in the early
nineties, outlined its methods of work, summarized its benefits, and
said a few words of its pertinence to cooperative marketing in other
fields. ... It consists, essentially, of 8,000 orchardists united into
117 local packing exchanges, each handling fruit on a cost basis; of
17 district selling exchanges, or clearing-houses; and of the central
exchange, which, under president and directors, provides market
facilities, issues daily bulletins of market information, advertises,
owns the ‘Sunkist’ trade-mark, handles litigation, and maintains an
organized selling force of 75 offices and 200 salesmen in the
principal European, Canadian, and American markets.”—Nation

“Comprehensive, suggestive, candid and rational. This book should give
a great stimulus to the one phase of cooperation.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 8 ‘17 150w

“Professor Cumberland tells his story lucidly and comprehensively.”

+ =Nation= 105:571 N 22 ‘17 470w

=CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM.= Progress of capitalism in England. *90c (3c) Putnam 330.9 (Eng ed 17-15935)

This book contains the substance of lectures delivered in the London
school of economics and political science in 1915, and is “published
in the hope that it may prove a useful appendix to the author’s
‘Growth of English industry and commerce.’” (Preface) The book is
divided into three sections: Economic history and empirical economic
science; The development of the body economic in England: Lessons from
experience. “One-third of it is devoted to the general philosophy of
the subject. ... The development of industrial capitalism in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is touched upon only by a brief
discussion of ‘laisser-faire.’ A contribution to the economic problems
of the future is offered in the final chapter on ‘Lessons from
experience.’” (Eng Hist R)

“Much material of great interest to students of economic history is
presented in brief compass, particularly in the second part of the
book which deals with ‘The progress of capitalism in mediaeval
cities.’”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:597 Ag ‘17 80w

“The many students of Archdeacon Cunningham’s ‘Growth of English
industry and commerce’ will not find anything new in his lectures on
‘The progress of capitalism in England’ but those who desire a very
brief summary of his views on this aspect of economic history will
find this little book helpful.” G. U.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:316 Ag ‘17 170w

“Besides an instructive summary of our economic development, this
little book contains an earnest plea for the study of economic
history.”

+ =Spec= 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 80w

=CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, ROBERT BONTINE.=[2] Brought forward; Charity; Faith; Hope; Progress; Success. ea *$1.35 Stokes (Eng ed 17-11795)

“Of the six volumes which are now being brought out in a uniform
edition in this country, one, ‘Brought forward,’ is published for the
first time. The other books, although they have been appearing one by
one in England since the early years of the century, have never before
been issued here. The present edition amounts, therefore, to an
introduction, for American leaders, to a large part of a well-known
British writer’s work. Of the fifteen stories in the new volume, three
are Scotch, three English, one a story of the Arabs, one a story of
Spain; the others take the reader to scenes past and present in Latin
America. ... The name of the volume ‘Charity’ is taken from the
initial story of the book, but nearly all the tales have charity,
sometimes in an odd form, as motif. ... ‘Faith’ and ‘Hope’ form the
keynotes of the volumes of those titles, though sometimes faith and
hope show themselves, and play their parts in men’s and women’s lives,
in strange and sad ways. ... ‘Progress,’ a long story in the book of
that name, is a horrible record of the putting down of a rebellion in
Mexico. ... His sympathies are always with the simple people, the
oppressed, the misunderstood.”—N Y Times

“Keen as is the sympathy that marks his pictures of simple folk in
England and Scotland, his stories of Latin America are really the most
interesting in the book, with a few brief sketches of Spaniards and
Moors following close behind. Yet the whole book is a series of
delightful portraits, both of men and of horses. The earlier volumes
show the same understanding that marks ‘Brought forward.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:393 O 14 ‘17 1000w

“He has irony, pity, and wit. He is the master of the telling phrase,
and can produce a convincing picture with the utmost economy of words.
Our delight in this book is tempered only by the fear that it is to
be, according to rumour, Mr Cunninghame Graham’s last.”

+ =Sat R= 122:417 O 28 ‘16 470w (Review of “Brought forward”)

“We need only say that they are as attractive as ever—especially ‘El
tango Argentino’—and commend them to his many faithful readers, who
will be grieved to learn from the preface that the author will write
no more.”

+ =Spec= 117:sup609 N 18 ‘16 70w (Review of “Brought forward”)

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 O 26 ‘16 1200w (Review of
“Brought forward”)

=CURLE, RICHARD.= Echo of voices. *$1.50 (2c) Knopf 17-13448

Richard Curle is author of a critical study of Joseph Conrad, and
Conrad has stood sponsor for this book of short stories. “I think your
taking him up is a good move,” he wrote to the publisher. “He has
brains; he has also a writer’s temperament.” The short stories that
compose the book are serious studies of life and character. Most of
them have a commonplace London setting. One, His kingdom, is a story
of South Africa; another, Nineteen, of the South seas. The other
titles are: The two dependants; Midnight: The would-be friends;
General service; Monsieur Clavel; Deep down.

“The book is, it is easily apparent, not strikingly of the ‘wholesome’
breed. It is not likely to please those who lack a relish for the
eccentric and somewhat bitter. But the tales, for all their lack of
the conventionalities of structure and content, have a certain power
and self-sufficiency.” F. I.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 550w

“There is perhaps more than a suggestion of Mr Conrad’s own method,
and more than a trace of the influence of the great Russians,
especially Dostoevsky. But what then? These are no bad models for a
young writer with a temperament, and Mr Curie has had the strength to
put his individual stamp on all but one of these tales.”

+ — =Dial= 63:353 O 11 ‘17 530w

=CURRAN, WILLIAM TEES, and CALKINS, HAROLD A.= In Canada’s wonderful northland. il *$2.50 (2c) Putnam 917.1 17-5856

A book devoted to the northern part of the province of Quebec, a
country now being opened to settlement by the construction of a
railroad to Hudson bay. It is an account of eight months of travel by
canoe, motorboat and dog-team. The authors were continuing studies
made earlier by Mr Curran and summed up in “Glimpses of northern
Canada, a land of hidden treasure,” a work issued by the Canadian
government. The book is well illustrated and supplied with maps.

“An unassuming and interestingly written record of a trip taken by the
authors in 1912.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:349 My ‘17

“The book prefigures, in all likelihood, a remarkable expansion
northward in the near future.”

+ =Dial= 62:531 Je 14 ‘17 270w

+ =Nation= 105:323 S 20 ‘17 350w

“From the intimate manner in which the narrative is set forth, the
reader seems to live in the region through which he passes. The sixty
illustrations and maps are illuminating and well chosen.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 170w

“It is not as well written as it might have been; the illustrations
are exceptionally good and, on the whole, the book is one of the best
volumes of Canadian travel in some time.”

+ — =Ontario Library Review= 1:112 My ‘17 50w

=R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 50w

+ =Spec= 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 80w

“Those who wish a true and vivid picture of the vast region known as
northern Canada cannot do better than read ‘In Canada’s wonderful
northland.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 29 ‘17 270w

“This being a book for the general reader, Mr Curran does not give
details about his technical work. It contains an appendix giving new
and valuable information about the harbours discovered.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p398 Ag 23 ‘17 600w

“Covers some of the ground of Leith’s ‘Summer and winter on Hudson
bay.’”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:183 Je ‘17 80w

=CURRIE, BARTON WOOD.= Tractor and its influence upon the agricultural implement Industry. il *$1 (2c) Curtis pub. co., Independence square, Philadelphia 631 16-15374

A series of papers on the development and use of farm implements, with
particular reference to the tractor, reprinted from the Country
Gentleman. Part 1 consists of a miscellaneous collection in which the
author deplores the “senseless diversification” of farm machinery and
argues for standardization. Part 2 is devoted to the tractor and its
place in agriculture.

=R of Rs= 54:459 O ‘16 50w

=CURRIE, JOHN ALLISTER.= Red watch; with the first Canadian division in Flanders. il *$1.50 Button 940.91 (Eng ed A17-370)

“Colonel Currie’s book deals concretely with but one regiment of the
many that have gone out from Canada. But in its careful and
representative detail it offers us much information about the part
played in the war by Canada as a whole.” (N Y Times) “The ‘Red watch’
is the term applied to the 48th Highlanders. After the battle of
Langemarck only 212 out of the 1034 members of this regiment responded
to the muster call.” (R of Rs)

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:394 Je ‘17

=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 50w

“The men under his command were certainly a band of heroes, and the
story of their heroism stirs the blood. The pictorial feature is
prominent.” P. F. Bicknell

+ =Dial= 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 130w

“Colonel Currie is particularly emphatic in praising the temperance
and careful living of his men, and denying reports that British,
French, or Canadian soldiers are given rum or drugs ‘to keep up their
courage.’ ... There is much that is thrilling in this clean-cut
soldier’s chronicle, much that is inspiriting and fine. It is a
soldier’s record, through and through.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:57 F 18 ‘17 330w

=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 40w

=CURTIN, DANIEL THOMAS.= Land of deepening shadow; Germany-at-war. il *$1.50 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-13672

The author is a young American war correspondent who went to Germany
late in 1915. His purpose in the book is to give a general picture of
conditions in that country under the stress of war. In the early
chapters he aims to show how all Germans were “made to think as one
man,” in other words, “how the German government creates unity.” It is
done by utilizing all the forces that mold public opinion, schools,
pulpit, theatre, and press. In the later chapters he describes “the
forces tending to disintegrate that wonderful unity.” Among the
chapters are: A Land of substitutes; The gagging of Liebknecht; Spies
and semi-spies; The iron hand in Alsace-Lorraine; The war slaves of
Essen; Germany’s human resources; In the deepening shadow.

“Evidently authentic, it gives many informing and probably unique
experiences.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:443 Jl ‘17

“Some books dealing with the internal condition of Germany convey an
impression that the colours are too liberally spread upon the palette.
The supply of horrifying and sensational facts occasionally forces on
the reader the suspicion that the authors have kept the probable
demand rather too prominently in view. Mr Curtin’s book is free from
that sort of thing.”

+ =Ath= p258 My ‘17 280w

=Ath= p346 Jl ‘17 320w

“Mr Curtin is one of Lord Northcliffe’s young men; and he has his
patron’s faculty of making our flesh creep with quite exceptional
hideousness. The book he has written will tell any reader what Mr
Curtin says he saw inside the German empire; but I think that he will
conclude that his author has still to learn the value of historic and
psychological light and shade.” H. J. Laski

=Dial= 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 60w

=Ind= 90:470 Je 9 ‘17 280w

=Lit D= 55:42 O 13 ‘17 300w

“A frank, well-informed, and brightly written, though egotistical,
book by a Germano-phobe Irish newspaper reporter for the Northcliffe
press.”

+ =Nation= 105:204 Ag 23 ‘17 500w

“Under the disguise of a seemingly frank and dispassionate analysis of
conditions, the facts are carefully selected and presented with true
journalistic cunning in contrast and climax. One hesitates to term
this technique dishonest even in a minor sense, for the chances are
that it results more from an unconscious bias than from any deliberate
attempt to deceive. ... The whole force of Mr Curtin’s book comes from
making vivid the truth of the chancellor’s utterance in the Reichstag
when he said, apropos of the complete blockade of Great Britain by
submarines, ‘We are staking all on this throw.’”

+ — =New Repub= 12:54 Ag 11 ‘17 650w

“It is a depressing or inspiring picture, just as the inclinations of
the reader are ‘pro-Ally’ or ‘pro-German.’ But it is well written, and
seems to be the work of a trained observer, even if his impartiality
be questioned.” J. W.

+ — =N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 750w

“Since thorough knowledge of an enemy is the first essential of
efficient warfare, the intimate, first-hand view which he offers ought
to have wide reading.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 800w

“The reader will find the information collected and classified; he
will find the facts reported in an impartial and historical spirit;
and he will find the reports characterized by a degree of reality and
authority not always, perhaps not often, to be found in newspaper
correspondence. The author reports, not what he was given every
facility to see, but what was often carefully hidden from him.”

+ =Outlook= 117:102 S 19 ‘17 340w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w

“Of special interest are his chapters on educational and publicity
methods employed by the government.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 120w

“It gives the most complete account at present procurable of the
internal conditions of [Germany]. ... The fact that the author’s
country was not involved in the conflict enabled him not only to see
more than an Englishman would have been allowed to see, but also to
take a more objective view of the phenomena which he observed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p134 Mr 22 ‘17 900w

=CURTIS, LIONEL=, ed. Commonwealth of nations. pt 1 *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 325.3 (17-1660)

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The lay-reader, despite the clearness of style, the auxiliary plans,
and the handsome appearance of the book will hardly be attracted to
the seven hundred pages of solid matter. Nor will the scholar be apt
to find it of great use. It is essentially an edition of reports,
lengthy but marked by serious omissions, made by industrious and
intelligent laymen, and drawn from familiar secondary material. The
purpose of the work is warmly to be commended but its value to
historical scholars is at least questionable.” C: Seymour

=Am Hist R= 22:644 Ap ‘17 700w

“There is great ability in his statement, and a very wide knowledge is
implied in his treatment of imperial history. Given the limitations he
has himself imposed, the development of the present situation is truly
rendered; and the volume is one which no intelligent British citizen
can afford to neglect. ... The fundamental fault of Mr Curtis is
provincialism. ... His geography would have to be revised for an
American edition of his book; and perhaps even his history is tainted
with the same provincialism of outlook. ... The sum of our criticism
is this: there is ability in the marshalling of facts and the urging
of a political programme, but the moral attitude implied is
ingenuously primitive.” C. D. Burns

+ — =Hibbert J= 15:344 Ja ‘17 1650w

“The real significance of the present study is that it is to be
regarded as a counterblast to such writers as Jebb and others who
believe in Britannic alliance and conceive the future of Britain to be
an alliance between the mother-country and the self-governing
dominions. ... Indeed, the completeness with which it collates such
material and the convenient form in which it presents it make the
volume a handy treatise on the failure of contract or treaty to insure
permanency of political relationships. At this time, too, the subject
is of wider interest than its immediate problem; the volume might be
read as a sufficient antidote to a good bit of the literature put
forth by the League to enforce peace. On the other hand, the study
suffers from a failure to look at the history and evolution of the
self-governing dominions. The American colonies, Ireland, Scotland,
and the United States are treated, but the history of Canada and
Australia is almost completely ignored. ... In the background of these
ideas is Treitschke rather than T. H. Green. They go with a temper
rather out of style at present—too little in sympathy with the common
people.” D. A. MacGibbon

=J Pol Econ= 25:512 My ‘17 1150w

“The chapters on the American revolution (from the British point of
view) and the relations between England and Ireland are specially
interesting. The book is weighty, and may be recommended to students
of history and imperial politics. It is liberally supplied with
elaborate maps and diagrams.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 170w

=CUSHMAN, ROBERT EUGENE.= Excess condemnation. *$2 (2½c) Appleton 336.1 17-21830

Mr Cushman, who is instructor in political science in the University
of Illinois, treats his subject from the standpoint of the American
city, the experience of European cities being introduced merely for
illustrative and comparative purposes. He defines excess condemnation
as, “‘the policy, on the part of the state or city, of taking by right
of eminent domain more property than is actually necessary for the
creation of a public improvement, and of subsequently selling or
leasing this surplus.’” (Engin News-Rec) He discusses the three main
objects of excess condemnation: “(1) to solve the vexing problems of
remnants of land; (2) for the protection of improvements against the
prejudicial use of adjacent land; (3) to take for the benefit of the
city the increase in values of land adjacent to public improvements,
due to the improvements themselves, and thus pay or help pay for the
cost of the improvements. ... He then takes up ‘gains and risks’
administration, and the constitutionality of excess condemnation. A
few bibliographical references and a list of cases cited are given.”
(Engin News-Rec) The editor of the National municipal league series,
in which this is the third volume, states in his introduction that
this is the first work in the English language on the subject.

“It presents ample data on the many perplexing phases of the subject
and discusses in a judicial spirit the evidence on both sides of
controverted questions. ... The book deserves the careful attention of
engineers and other city officials concerned in planning, financing
and protecting municipal improvements, broadminded real estate men and
all who are interested in helping on the orderly and economical growth
of municipal improvements.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:751 O 18 ‘17 500w

+ — =Nation= 106:69 Ja 17 ‘18 210w

“With its historical and illustrative material and general citation of
cases the book will prove helpful to all students of the subject. ...
The slow movement of our cities towards fundamental improvements is
primarily because of the expense involved. The volume will by many be
considered lacking in its handling of this.” E: T. Hartman

+ — =Survey= 39:202 N 24 ‘17 400w

=CUTLER, FREDERICK MORSE.= Old First Massachusetts coast artillery in war and peace. il *$1 (2c) Pilgrim press 353.9 17-12948

Lieutenant Cutler gives the history of the “Old First” from its origin
in 1784 to January, 1917. There are many pictures showing the changes
in uniform and in artillery with the passing generations. The first
appendix gives the Genealogy of the coast artillery; the second a
bibliography.

“No Massachusetts militia unit has enjoyed a more interesting history,
or has been more actively engaged in the country’s defence, than the
Old First.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 250w

“It will be news to many to find that in 1784 the general apathy
toward military affairs in the United States was so marked that the
total regular army was comprized within a single company, now Battery
F of the field artillery.”

=Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 100w

“Lieut. Cutler, who, by the way, is pastor of the Congregational
church of Wenham, has told his story with a wealth of anecdote and in
a style that will commend the volume beyond its particular clientele.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 27 ‘17 200w

=CUTLER, ROBERT.= Louisburg square. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-10857

First of all this novel is a picture of Boston society. Old Boston
names, Cabot, Quincy, and Copley, appear in its pages. Secondarily, it
is a story. Rosalind Copley, the heroine, is a beautiful and popular
young girl who interests herself in charities, acting as a volunteer
worker in a settlement house. She has entered into a tentative
engagement with Ben Cary, a promising young lawyer, when she meets
Eric Rolland. Love between the two springs up quickly, but Rosalind
feels that Ben has claims on her. Circumstances solve her problem.

“Mr Cutler knows whereof he writes. But the value of his novel does
not rest on a knowledge of Beacon street and Commonwealth avenue. ...
‘Louisburg square’ starts where many of its unsuccessful competitors
stop. Its universal elements bring it to the goal they miss.” R. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 770w

“The author makes some attempt at characterization, but the result is
not very convincing. The whole with its irritating self-immolation is
somewhat too suggestive of an ‘Elsie’ book to be pleasant.”

– + =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 120w

+ — =Ind= 81:188 Ag 4 ‘17 70w

“All the old ingredients are here; there is a certain vigor about the
telling, but why waste it on this trivial skeleton of an unreality?”
C. W.

– + =N Y Call= p13 Ap 22 ‘17 120w

“A first novel and the product of an author so young that he was
graduated from Harvard only last year, ‘Louisburg square’ shows a
great deal of promise and a quite commendable present achievement.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:125 Ap 8 ‘17 570w

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w

“There is quite enough in ‘Louisburg square’ of the quiet insight into
and keen appreciation of that Boston culture which Mr Cutler
understands well to make us hope for his early return from soldiering
to writing—for him, evidently a field of promise.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 700w

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=DALE, ROBERT BURDETTE.= Drawing for builders. (Wiley technical ser. for vocational and industrial schools) il *$1.50 Wiley 692 16-20746

“This book is intended to serve as a basis for a problem course in
elementary architectural drawing, and to be especially useful to the
practical builder and to the ambitious young man who wishes to become
an architect’s draftsman. ... Its aim is not only to teach the student
to make drawings, but to instruct him to read and use them. It is
written for use in home-study instruction, either with or without
assistance, and it is hoped that it may find a place in high schools,
vocational schools, night schools and industrial classes.” (Preface)
Contents: Introduction; Drawing instruments and materials; How to make
a drawing; Architectural free-hand lettering; Straight-line
projection; The problems. These problems take up about one-half of the
book. The author is assistant professor in charge of vocational
courses in engineering at Iowa state college.

“The same author’s ‘Arithmetic for carpenters and builders’ is an
excellent book for the same type of reader.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 50w

=DALRYMPLE, LEONA.= Kenny. il *$1.35 (2c) Reilly & B. 17-21645

This story is by the author of the $10,000 prize novel, “Diane of the
green van.” “Kennicott O’Neill is [the hero’s] full name, and he is a
famous painter and as richly endowed with temperament as he is
entitled to be by his double birthright of Celt and artist.
Nevertheless, every one calls him ‘Kenny,’ even to his 23-year-old
son, Brian. ... It all begins because Kenny, being more impecunious
than usual, has taken Brian’s shotgun out and sold it, and Brian,
being much annoyed, has thrown his paint brush across the studio and
smashed a statuette.” (N Y Times) The two quarrel and Brian leaves his
father “to tramp off into God’s green world of spring.” Kenny,
homesick for the boy, follows him later, and they both find Joan, the
girl in gold brocade, and her young brother, Don. Many things happen,
and “finally Kenny realizes that the time has come for him to be 44
years old and for Brian, at last, to be 23 years young.” (N Y Times)

“Entertaining, sentimental, and in parts delightfully humorous.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17

“If, not being too particular about facts, one likes occasionally a
bit of Irish blarney and a bit of a romance with fairies lurking
around the corner, then one should most certainly read about Kenny,
artist, lover, and father to his son.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 200w

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 100w

“Leona Dalrymple has written an American E. Temple Thurston novel; and
although the comparison between the two may not be wholly in her
favor, it is not meant to be derogatory. For nothing is so
difficult—for an American writer, so relentlessly difficult—as the
expression of charm in personality. Mr Merwin has given us his
interpretation of New York’s bohemia; Miss Dalrymple now gives us
hers, and, to tell the truth, it pleases us more.”

+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 140w

“A slight, wind-woven, gay story, with a touch of pathos toward the
end.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 600w

“Miss Dalrymple tells her very light story with zest, and there are
pleasant bits of outdoor description. As a picture of Irish character
it is highly conventional.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 250w

=D’ALTON, J. F.= Horace and his age. *$2 (3c) Longmans 874

A study in historical background intended to encourage consideration
of the character of the age in which Horace lived and wrote. The
writer says, “I have tried to view him in the light of the various
movements of his time, to recapture, as it were, the atmosphere in
which he moved, to estimate a portion at least of the influences under
which many of his thoughts were bodied forth.” Contents: Horace and
Roman politics; The Augustan revival; Horace in religion and
philosophy; The period of the Epistles; Horace and social problems;
Horace and popular beliefs; Literary criticism.

“Prof. D’Alton, with a careful endeavour to steer clear of
Procrustean-ism, and from evidence mainly derived from the poet’s
writings, has in considerable measure succeeded in placing before us,
not indeed a new Horace, but one whose mentality is perhaps a little
easier to understand than was previously the case.”

+ =Ath= p594 N ‘17 130w

“It is a particular pleasure to call attention to a genuinely
distinguished contribution to the understanding of Horace.”

+ =Educ R= 55:77 Ja ‘18 140w

“To a certain extent he is successful, for he has great knowledge and
great love of his subject, he writes admirably, and throws light on
many particular points; but the total effect is that he presents the
reader rather with an excellent book of reference than with an
effective portrait.”

+ — =Spec= 119:647 D 1 ‘17 1650w

“It displays industry, accuracy, and temperate judgment. It does not
go wandering after paradoxes like that which ensnared so brilliant a
scholar and so keen a critic as Verrall. And by its seriousness it is
a good corrective to the superficial view of Horace as an elegant
trifler, a preacher of pleasure, one whose ideals of life were low.
The defect of these qualities ... is that the book is rather useful
than stimulating, and leaves no clear total impression.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p484 O 11 ‘17 2000w

=DALY, JOSEPH FRANCIS.= Life of Augustin Daly. il *$4 (2½c) Macmillan 17-25827

The brother of Augustin Daly has written this intimate biography which
is not only a full record of the life and work of America’s greatest
theatrical manager but is an important contribution to the history of
the American stage. During his early years, Mr Daly was dramatic
critic for several of the New York papers. In this field he developed
taste and genius not only for theater management but for play writing.
In 1869 he entered the theatrical business when he leased the Fifth
avenue theater for a term of two years and advertised to produce
“whatever is novel, original, entertaining and unobjectionable,” and
to revive “whatever is rare and worthy in the legitimate drama.” Mr
Daly’s sincere, unflagging devotion to the cause of establishing the
theater on a successful basis of high excellence furnishes the theme
of the larger part of the work which cannot fail to find a large
audience among producers, managers, playwrights, actors and, as well,
the general public.

“Augustin Daly did a great service for the American stage, a service
made all the more important by the influence of his own sterling
character and single-eyed purpose, and this account of it deserves to
have a place among the interesting records of American achievements.”
F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:328 N ‘17 270w

“A sympathetic appreciation by a brother. The reader is therefore
offered a mass of interesting personalia, in lieu of any profound
critical estimate of Augustin Daly’s influence on the American
theater.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 N 17 ‘17 350w

“The author has succeeded in rearing a notable monument of fraternal
affection. But, though a respected and capable judge, he had little
skill in bookmaking. The legal habit of his mind is betrayed in the
accumulation of the smallest details, rather than in orderly and
discriminating use of them. His relation, especially in some of the
earlier chapters, is often exceedingly confused and rambling.” J. R.
Towse

+ — =Nation= 106:71 Ja 17 ‘18 1300w

“So broad, indeed, is the book’s scope that it becomes almost a
history of the New York stage through the middle and later decades of
the nineteenth century. And there are numbers of photographs of the
stars of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, pictures which will
arouse a flood of recollections in the breasts of middle-aged
theatregoers.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:13 Ja 13 ‘18 1150w

“An admirable biography. The author has used his ample material with
tact and taste.”

+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:803 D ‘17 90w

“The book singularly and regrettably fails to give the intimate view
we expect in biography. ... He has made a ship-shape lucid biography
with the personal equation of both brothers left out. To this end he
seems to have deliberately foregone the abundant anecdotal charm of
theatrical books. But he has made a valuable statistical contribution
to the history of the American stage.” Algernon Tassin

+ — =Pub W= 92:1383 O 20 ‘17 720w

=DAMPIERRE, LÉON MICHEL MARIE JACQUES DE, marquis.= German imperialism and international law; based upon German authorities and the archives of the French government. il *$3.50 Scribner 940.91 (Eng ed 17-15316)

“In the first chapters M. de Dampierre devotes himself to an
investigation of the theories which have gone to build up the
principles of German imperialism, contrasting them with the opposed
doctrines which have found their expression in the attempts to build
up a system of international law.’ ... He then proceeds to show how
all that has happened in this war. ... is the logical and inevitable
consequence of the teaching of German writers before the war. ... He
has read widely and ... his illustrations from the works of German
writers are always supported by full references. ... The two last
chapters, ‘The German war and spoliation’ and ‘German terrorism,’ are
almost entirely occupied with a discussion of the diaries of German
soldiers, which afford irrefutable evidence regarding what took place
during the months of August and September, 1914.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup

=A L A Bkl= 14:52 N ‘17

=Dial= 63:214 S 13 ‘17 330w

+ — =Educ R= 54:422 N ‘17 40w

=Pratt= p13 O ‘17 20w

=R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 100w

“M. de Dampierre proves quite conclusively that the annexation of
Belgium was the direct objective of the war.”

+ =Sat R= 123:601 Je 30 ‘17 1000w

“Ably and temperately written book, fortified throughout by the
evidence of enemy literature and documents.”

+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 130w

“He writes as one who brings to the study of contemporary history the
habits formed in the great school which has grown up round the study
of the French archives, and his work is as scientific, as documenté,
as that of any German. ... It is much to be regretted that there is no
index to the book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p99 Mr 1 ‘17 1250w

=DANA, MARVIN.= Perfect memory. *$1 (7c) Clode. E: J. 154 17-24845

How to have and keep a perfect memory is the thesis of Dr Dana’s
hundred forty pages of practical instruction. He believes that whether
a memory is good or bad anyone can improve it one thousand per cent,
or more, by following the methods set forth in these pages. The scheme
of mental control upon which he bases his instruction stresses
concentration, visualization, necessity for the concrete, association
of ideas and avoidance of the abstract. He points out the best
results, and way to secure them, from memorizing lists, dates, names
and faces. He says that the right kind of memory “means a mind in the
plenitude of its vigor, growing, serene, energized, competent to every
task; a mind that compels the respect of others, and, what is of
deeper worth, maintains to the full one’s own self-respect, which is
the foundation-stone whereon content is builded.”

=DANE, CLEMENCE.= Regiment of women. *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 17-3574

This book by a new writer recalls Hugh Walpole’s early novel “The gods
and Mr. Perrin.” It is a study of the unwholesome conditions that may
exist in a large school where pupils and teachers are so isolated from
the active life of the world that emotional reactions are intensified
to a dangerous degree. In this case it is a girls’ school and the
teachers are women. Clare Hartill, a brilliant, selfish woman, who
attracts girls to her, accepts their devotion for a time and then
casts them off, is the central figure. One of the younger teachers,
Alwynne Durand, becomes attached to her in much the same way that the
sentimental schoolgirls do. The unnatural friendship is fortunately
brought to an end by the intrusion of a more healthful outside
influence. In an unobtrusive way the story offers an argument for
co-education.

“A detailed, well written study. ... Interesting, shows a real danger
and suggests a remedy.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:266 Mr ‘17

“The unsound morale of girls’ schools is caught powerfully. The
morbid, unhealthy association of women among themselves, the strong
affections, the intrigue, the jealousies, and the influence of the
mistresses on the immature pupils, are admirably suggested. The
atmosphere is heady. The reader longs for a man.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 350w

“The book’s striking merit lies in the extraordinary fidelity of its
picture. It does for the English girls’ school much what Mr Walpole’s
‘The gods and Mr Perrin’ did for the English boys’ school. The theme
in both instances is the life of the teachers, rather than of the
pupils.”

+ =Nation= 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 650w

“In a larger way, the book interprets the ingrowing emotionalism and
moral sterility to which any community lacking the leaven of the
opposite sex is prone.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w

“Miss Dane does not make manifest to the American reader sufficient
reason for the fascination which her Miss Hartill is able to exercise
over her associates in the school. Otherwise, it is a noteworthy
picture of a scheming, clever, selfish, vain woman who has become,
temperately, more or less abnormal. ... The book takes its title, in
which ‘regiment’ is used in its old English sense of ‘rule,’ from John
Knox’s ‘First blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of
women.’”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:33 F 4 ‘17 400w

+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w

“It is hard to believe that ‘Regiment of women’ is the first novel
that its author, Clemence Dane, has written. ... This power of
‘creating’ and expressing character is usually the reward of nothing
but long labour. ... The chief impression is one of wisdom: a shrewd
penetration into human minds and the circumstances that mould or fix
them, combined with an admirable ‘all-roundness’ of outlook upon human
life.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p44 Ja 25 ‘17 550W

=DANILEVSKII, GRIGORII PETROVICH.=[2] Moscow in flames; tr. from the Russian by Dr A. S. Rappoport. *$1.40 Brentano’s 17-31035

“This is not, as the translator states, the first novel by this author
to appear in English. Danilevskii (1829-90), already known in English
by a novel dealing with Pougachev’s rebellion, called ‘The Princess
Tarakanova,’ here presents the French invasion from the Russian point
of view. The story covers the period 1812-53, and follows the fortunes
of a young nobleman and his betrothed, a society beauty.”—Ath

“It is vivid, full of historical detail, and a good specimen of its
class, and is, of course, crammed with historic names.”

+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 90w

“The characters in ‘Moscow in flames’ are drawn with the flatness and
remoteness of fresco; its incidents are strikingly unoriginal. But his
comments on Russian life and character are not without shrewdness and
piquancy.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:570 D 23 ‘17 450w

“Allowing for the difficulties of translation, the author’s style is a
little crude, judging by severe standards, and his character sketches
weak. On the whole, however, the book is interesting, typifying, as it
does, a popular Russian novel.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 160w

=DARBISHIRE, ARTHUR DUKINFIELD.= Introduction to a biology, and other papers. il *$2.50 Funk 17-15695

“The late Mr Darbishire, an accomplished young Oxford biologist, died
of illness contracted in camp before he could complete his book. He
had written a lively criticism of the materialistic theory of life,
and just as he came to face the constructive side of his essay—‘Is the
soul a mere aggregate symptom of a mechanism—the body? Or is the body
not rather the instrument of the soul?’—he had to lay his pen aside.
The scattered papers which have been collected by his sister, with a
brief memoir, hint at the answer which he would have given. He was
strongly influenced by Samuel Butler and by M. Bergson, but he was an
original and fearless thinker and inquirer whom English science could
ill spare.”—Spec

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 11 ‘17 550w

“Unhappily the work is but a fragment. ... The essay, however
unconvincing, is brightly written, for the author had a style of
candid freshness and a gift of investing even trivial things with
humorous interest. The charm of his personality is well brought out in
the brief biographical sketch by his sister.”

+ — =Nature= 99:304 Je 14 ‘17 320w

+ =Spec= 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 120w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p65 F 8 ‘17 1600w

=DARÍO, RUBÉN.= Eleven poems; tr. by T: Walsh and Salomón de la Selva; introd. by Pedro Henríquez Ureña. (Pub. of Hispanic soc. of Am.) pa *75c Putnam 861 16-22622

Rubén Darío was born near León in the republic of Nicaragua in 1867,
and died in that city in 1916. The introduction to this small book of
poems says, “With the death of Rubén Darío, the Spanish language loses
its greatest poet of to-day,—the greatest because of the æsthetic
value and the historical significance of his work.” He visited the
United States twice, and in 1915 was awarded the honorary medal of the
Hispanic society of America. In this volume of poems the original
Spanish text and the English translation are given on alternate pages.

“They have that downpour of imagery, that cascade of beauties, of
which the northern temper is slightly distrustful. Eleven poems,
however, cannot embrace or test a man, particularly when the reader
hesitates between the rush-light of his own imperfect Spanish and the
charity of English renderings which are sometimes of real worth,
sometimes bad beyond credence or pardon.” O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:176 Ag 16 ‘17 170w

Reviewed by Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 4 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:408 My ‘17

=DARK, SIDNEY.= Afraid. *$1.35 (1½c) Lane 17-2344

“Courage is so common a quality,” says the author in one of the early
chapters of this story, “that experience justifies us in believing
that every one possesses it.” The story is a study of a boy who seemed
born without it. From childhood Jasper Sedley had been afraid. Moral
courage and intellectual honesty were his to a high degree, but the
thought of physical suffering made him weak and helpless. His life at
home and at school was made miserable. He made no friends and at a
critical moment lost the woman he loved because he failed to go to her
aid. One is made to feel that sympathetic treatment in childhood might
have overcome the obsession, but it is left for the war to call out
the latent courage in the boy’s soul.

=A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17

“Real as may be his idea, I feel a lack of reality in the way he
presents it. His people are too much the characters needed to enforce
his idea, too little actual personalities with whom Jasper Sedley
chanced to come in contact. ... More important than all this, the
final event seems suggested by sentiment rather than a knowledge of
what life actually is.” E: E. Hale

=Dial= 62:145 F 22 ‘17 550w

+ =N Y Times= 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 350w

“We doubt if Mr Dark has solved his own problem, for his coward turns
out to be no coward. The question really is whether it is a right
instinct which leads society to ostracize the coward without
considering his character as a whole.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 350w

=DASENT, SIR GEORGE WEBBE.= East o’ the sun and west o’ the moon, and other Norse fairy tales. il *$1.25 (1½c) Putnam 17-11576

Thirty and more Norse fairy tales are brought together in this book.
Gnomes and trolls and other figures of northern fancy appear in the
tales. Some of them are new, others are variations of the familiar
themes, among them the story of Snow-white and Rose-red.

“These quaint tales will prove of interest to older readers as well as
to the children for whom they were written. For some of them are
reminiscent of ‘fairy stories’ of other lands, and prove again the
common origin of the folk-lore of the European nations.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 420w

“Altogether charming.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:233 Je 17 ‘17 220w

“Short, easily memorized fairy tales that will prove treasures to
persons who have a knack of telling stories to children.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 180w

“The tales themselves are delightfully old world in flavor and of
appealing quaintness. This characteristic is occasionally marred by
colloquialisms in which the translator indulges in order to make his
meaning clear to young readers. The striking feature of the book
consists of the bizarre illustrations by Kay Nielsen, a Danish artist,
who, by going back to the original source of the stories, the Norske
Folkeeventyr of Asbjornsen and Moe, has been able to get the utmost
significance of the original rendering.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ‘17 350w

=DAVIES, GEORGE REGINALD.= Social environment. (National social science ser.) *50c (2c) McClurg 301 17-10388

“How far does the accumulated knowledge and experience of the world
modify the individual and give him control over biological factors?”
is the question considered by the author of this book. He feels that
the biological factor, with its emphasis on struggle and the survival
of the fittest, has been too strongly stressed in reading the story of
human development. His purpose is to set forth the importance of the
spiritual factors, using the term spiritual to cover “the
intellectual, artistic, and moral achievements of civilization.”
Contents: The biological point of view; The evolution of the theory of
evolution; The nature of society; Social environment and eugenics; The
outlook for social organization. The author is assistant professor of
history and sociology in the University of North Dakota and the book
is published in a series of which Frank L. McVey, president of the
University, is general editor.

Reviewed by U. G. Weatherly

=Am J Soc= 23:558 Ja ‘18 280w

=A L A Bkl= 14:5 O ‘17

“Professor Davies has hardly been fair to biology, while his emphasis
on the ‘spiritual’ forces of society contributes nothing essentially
new.” R. T. B.

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:245 S ‘17 130w

“Hitherto there has been a dearth of literature emphasizing
environmental forces in society. This little book should be welcome
for its contribution to that neglected field.”

+ =Dial= 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 180w

=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 70w

=St Louis= 15:169 Je ‘17

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 20 ‘17 90w

=DAVIES, GERALD STANLEY.=[2] Renascence tombs of Rome. il *$6 Dutton 718

“An unusual field, indeed one never before explored, is covered by
this sumptuous volume, written by the master of Charterhouse school
and published originally in England [in 1910].” (Boston Transcript)
“The volume is divided into two parts, of which the first is given to
discussion and criticism of the tombs and the artists who worked on
them, with vivid biographical and historical comment, and the second
to alphabetical and chronological lists of the churches and tombs;
brief histories of the men in whose honor the monuments were designed,
and the special and general indexes. The illustrations are half-tone
reproductions from photographs, sufficient in number and, of course,
indispensable as reference.” (N Y Times)

“The beautiful illustrations add much to the descriptive nature of the
text. Mr Davies writes with enthusiasm and with rare critical
perception of values in this decidedly unusual field of examination.”
E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 880w

“Mr Davies has broken what is practically new ground with his valuable
book, which, in addition to cautiously authenticated information,
contains art criticism of the most brilliant and original character.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:357 S 23 ‘17 420w

=R of Rs= 56:219 Ag ‘17 110w

=DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY.= Autobiography of a super-tramp; with a pref. by Bernard Shaw. *$2.50 Knopf 17-13447

“The simple and quiet chronicle of a young man who tramped and
begged—and now and then worked for a few weeks at a time—in America
and England for many years. ... He tells us how tramps live, how they
talk, what their ideals and their habits are. He has pictures of
American ‘living conditions’—as the somewhat sententious phrase
goes—that are nothing short of astonishing. He has had adventures, to
boot. He has much to tell of cattlemen, of berry-pickers, of longshore
labor camps on the Mississippi, of tramping and working and begging in
city and country and summer resort through most of the eastern half of
the United States and on into Canada, of remarkable beggars and expert
thieves. Strange characters live in his pages. And his own life story
is itself most strange.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 13:399 Je ‘17

“A human document in the best sense of that much abused phrase. Not a
phrase of it is overdone, not a word in it is egotistical, not a
letter in it but spells the truthful story of a life that the world
wants to know about.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 1100w