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“A rather colorless narrative of unimpeachable verbal propriety
relating the day-by-day experiences of the Welshman, who seems to have
been an ordinary tramp until he began at thirty-four to write in
really exquisite verse. The preface by Bernard Shaw, while it reveals
still further the genial tolerance of that author, is not a
particularly illuminating commentary on Mr Davies’ work or
psychology.”

=Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 70w

“Mr Davies is now an established poet, who no longer has to hawk his
verses from door to door. His reputation, indeed, is considerable, and
it may seem unfair to consider his first book of prose quite apart
from his poetry. But if ‘The autobiography of a super-tramp’ has
special interest, it is precisely because it shows how completely an
unfamiliar medium may refract and distort the image of himself which a
writer would convey. It is another lesson in sticking to one’s last.”
G: B. Donlin

— =Dial= 62:398 My 3 ‘17 1200w

“His account is so casual that you would think he was living a
regular, conventional life instead of that of a hobo. The book is
unique.”

+ =Lit D= 56:42 Ja 12 ‘18 240w

“He never grew into much of a Socialist; he has too much of the pure
poet, yet reading his strong and simple picture of the incredible life
of the poor, we become reconfirmed in our faith that the world must be
set free, and society made friendly to the life or the tenderest and
most innocent temperaments.” Irwin Granich

+ =Masses= 9:29 O ‘17 1650w

“Mr Davies’s simplicity stands out delightfully with Bernard Shaw as
sponsor. ... He will be read, and reread, for the sheer charm of his
style. Yet, withal, he has so much to say that is of absorbing
interest.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:159 Ap 22 ‘17 650w

“His experiences are told realistically, but would be better for
judicious condensation.”

+ — =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:670 O ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:153 My ‘17 20w

“‘All I have to say by way of recommendation of this book,’ says Mr
Shaw (and his conclusion shall be mine), ‘is that I have read it from
beginning to end, and would have read more of it had there been more
to read.’” L: Untermeyer

+ =Yale R= n s 7:199 O ‘17 750w

=DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY.= Collected poems. il *$1.25 Knopf 811 16-23556

“This is not a complete edition of the poems of Mr Davies, as many
people would gather from its title. It is what is probably a better
thing: a book of poems selected by the poet from all the volumes he
has published. He tells us in the prefatory note that it contains
‘what I believe to be my best pieces.’ A poet is not always the best
judge of what is finest in his own work. But no one can know so well
as he what best represents his own mind and mood, what gave him at the
time of writing, and gives him still, the greatest pleasure, what is,
if not his best, at least his most characteristic, poetry. That is
what we get here from Mr Davies.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:256 Mr ‘17

“Mr Davies has learnt much from Herrick, and uses his learning
well—not in the least In the sense of plagiarizing, but by his clever
choice and treatment of his subjects. The book is well worthy of a
place in the library of any lover of poetry.”

+ =Ath= p592 D ‘16 50w

“Mr Davies’s ‘Collected poems’ has the same magical expression as Mr
de la Mare’s art, but with a firmer background in experience. ... The
best critical opinion admits that the poems of William H. Davies are
as likely to live as those of any English poet of his day.” W: S.
Braithwaite

+ =Bookm= 45:436 Je ‘17 190w

“The ‘Collected poems’ of William H. Davies will give pleasure to
lovers of the lyric. Mr Davies, who tramped over most of this country
and Canada as hungry and thriftless as other tramps, established
confidential relations with birds and beasts, with flowers and trees
on ‘the open road.’ Perhaps this is why his lyrics celebrate the
minute, beautiful things of the ancient out of doors with effervescent
joy.”

+ =Ind= 89:556 Mr 26 ‘17 150w

+ =Lit D= 54:134 Ja 20 ‘17 400w

“Some of his little songs catch the charm of Herrick and Lovelace. ...
His ‘The sleepers,’ ‘The little ones,’ ‘Whom I know,’ and other poems,
show a deep sympathy with suffering humanity; but the intellectual
understanding is not here. Davies is a delight; but the stuff is
slight and echoey.” Clement Wood

+ — =N Y Call= p12 F 4 ‘17 400w

+ =R of Rs= 55:438 Ap ‘17 250w

“This truly lyrical poet has everywhere a definite utterance. It is
rarely complex, but it is always beautiful. ... Mr Davies, by the way,
who is not so well known in this country as he deserves to be, will
soon have an opportunity to broaden his acquaintance when a
contemplated trip to America becomes a reality.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ‘17 300w

“A book of the most companionable poetry that any living man has given
us. Mr Davies has not the energy, the eloquence, or the passion of Mr
Masefield; he has not the scholarly workmanship which half adorns and
half conceals the true imagination of Mr Binyon; he has not that
magical charm, as of some singularly gifted and beautiful child, which
is the special secret of Mr de la Mare. But none of these, nor anyone
else, perhaps, manages to convert so much of ordinary life into poetry
as Mr Davies. And that is the essence of poetic companionship.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 4 ‘17 1500W

“Here is one of the most truly lyric voices in the world to-day.
Lacking the sudden magic or the individuality of either Walter de la
Mare or Ralph Hodgson, he shares with them an unstudied and always
singing beauty.” L: Untermeyer

+ =Yale R= n s 7:201 O ‘17 480w

=DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON.= Heart’s kingdom. il *$1.35 (1½c) Reilly & B. 17-25432

Charlotte Powers, a beautiful agnostic with a gift for leadership,
returned from a winter in New York to her home in Harpeth Valley to
find that a Methodist minister, Rev. Gregory Goodloe, who “resembled
one of the big gold-colored lions that lived in the wilds of the
Harpeth mountains,” had brought her circle of friends under his spell,
so that they had taken to attending prayer meetings instead of dances,
and had started to reform her father, for twenty years a drunkard. The
book gives the story of her attempted marriage to Nickols Powers, his
death, her conversion, and her conquest by the “Harpeth Jaguar” (as
she called the Rev. Gregory) with the “jeweled eyes” to whom she “gave
back a betrothal kiss that was as complete as a great red flower.”

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 30w

“A doubtful mixture of poor theology and insipid romance.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 190w

“The best thing in the book is the sketch of the youthful Charlotte,
the heroine’s ‘name-daughter,’ and her child companions.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:373 S 30 ‘17 260w

Reviewed by Doris Webb

=Pub W= 92:806 S 15 ‘17 250w

=DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON.= Out of a clear sky. il *$1 (3c) Harper 17-13185

With a beautiful Belgian countess lost in the Tennessee forests, a
very good looking young Tennessee farmer ready at hand to act as
rescuer, and a search party, with authority from the Kaiser, in
pursuit, you have the material for a modern romance. Céleste, countess
of Berseck and Krymn, had fled to America after the fall of Louvain.
The young prince, Louis Augustus, whom she had seemed fated to marry,
was not at all a bad sort, but he was a German, and the marriage had
been arranged by the hated Kaiser who had robbed her of all she loved.
So the Countess fled—with a wicked uncle and other enemies following
after. To evade them she drops off the train into an unknown world,
which happens to be Tennessee, and there she finds Mr Bob Lawrence,
his horse and his dog, all equally willing to serve her.

“A charming little tale, bearing little apparent relation to the
everyday affairs of reality, but full of tenderness and romance, and
told with a very pretty naïve quality in its careful foreign English.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 230w

“A romantic, improbable, modern fairy tale.”

+ =Pratt= p50 O ‘17 6w

=DAVIS, ARTHUR POWELL.= Irrigation works constructed by the United States government. il *$4.50 Wiley 626.8 17-14071

“Within less than fifteen years after the date of the first enabling
legislation, the U.S. reclamation service expended about $100,000,000
on the construction of numerous irrigation systems scattered over our
vast western domain. ... Arthur P. Davis, chief engineer of the U.S.
reclamation service, has described twenty-one of the twenty-five
projects in the volume under consideration. ... Except for a brief
introduction and a short final chapter summing up the achievements of
the Reclamation service in terms of ultimate aim—‘Settlement and
cultivation’—the entire book is devoted to descriptions of the various
projects. The plan followed is to give the history and a general
description of each project in a few sentences, and then to describe
the works in their natural order, from dam and storage reservoir to
water delivery to each farm unit. Besides the descriptions of
structural works, the volume contains information on a variety of
special topics.”—Engin News-Rec

“Besides its value as an account of governmental enterprise in the
reclamation of land, the book is a welcome addition to the literature
of irrigation, and of dams, canals, pipe lines, and other structures
common to hydraulic works.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:939 N 15 ‘17 500w

=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 20w

=DAVIS, CALVIN OLIN.= Public secondary education. $1 Rand 379.774 17-11119

“The correct title of this book is ‘Public secondary education in
Michigan.’ After devoting three chapters to the colonial Latin school,
the middle period, and the early Northwest, the author begins his
discussion with a chapter on early Michigan. Five chapters follow this
one, the three most significant being one each on the academy
movement, the union schools, and the high schools. It is in these
chapters that one finds the explanation of current practices in
secondary education in Michigan and to a certain extent in the nation
at large.” (School R) “There is no attempt to bring the story down to
date, contemporary tendencies being left to another book to be
published later.” (El School J)

“The first two chapters contain a short statement largely abstracted
from Brown’s ‘The making of our middle schools.’ One is impressed with
the fact that, in order to get a background for the detailed story of
secondary education in Michigan, Professor Davis has felt obliged to
condense an already available and almost classic discussion of the
development of our secondary schools. The hurried reader, however,
will find in these preliminary chapters a clear, fairly concise, and
interestingly written background story which will orient him in his
consideration of the problem of secondary education in Michigan.”

+ =El School J= 17:690 My ‘17 400w

+ =School R= 25:462 Je ‘17 200w

=DAVIS, CHARLES BELMONT.= Her own sort, and others. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-7925

Ten stories reprinted from Scribner’s, Collier’s and other magazines.
The first is the story of a society girl who, deciding to earn her own
living, becomes a moving picture actress. She is quite happy in her
work till chance throws her in with her old associates. The old lure
of the idle life calls her and she goes back to her own sort. Many of
the others are stories of society, or at least of city life. Contents:
Her own sort; The octopus; God’s material; The joy of dying; When
Johnny came marching home; The professor; The twenty-first reason;
Side-tracked; The men who would “die” for her; Her man.

“Mr Davis has the gift of seeing the humorous situations in every day
life.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 400w

“The make-up is always there; the puppets never become quite human. In
the light of the author’s imagination ‘The octopus’ and ‘The
professor’ may seem real, but to the rest of us they are stagy and do
not arrive; they merely grimace and gesticulate.’ Exception may be
made to ‘The joy of dying.’ It is a pathetic and gruesome little
tragedy.”

— =Dial= 62:484 My 31 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:73 My ‘17 30w

“They are human and interesting stories, for all the cynicism in their
picture of ‘the pleasure world.’”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 320w

“Short stories worth reading.”

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 4w

=DAVIS, GEORGE BRECKENRIDGE.= Elements of international law with an account of its origin, sources, and historical development. 4th ed *$3 Harper 341 16-16751

The fourth edition of this work has been prepared for publication by
Gordon E. Sherman, formerly assistant professor of comparative and
international law at Yale. Changes in the text have been slight. New
matter added to the book is contained in appendixes. The extradition
treaty between the United States and the Dominican republic, and the
text of the Declaration of London are among the documents included. A
supplementary bibliography is also added.

“Professor Sherman found it necessary to rewrite important parts of
the first two chapters. This he has done with discrimination and good
judgment. In printing the Declaration of London he has added notes,
referring to the bearing of its dispositions on the present war, as
wrought out in practice. One could wish that his annotations of this
nature had been more numerous, if not more extended.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:128 O ‘17 650w

=A L A Bkl= 13:188 Ja ‘17

“The most valuable additions are those in the appendix.” D. G. M.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:236 My ‘17 200w

+ =Educ R= 52:529 D ‘16 30w

“The treatise of the late judge advocate general of the United States,
and its representative abroad upon several occasions, is an
authoritative and systematic statement of the best international
practice of nations during both war and peace.”

+ =N Y Times= 21:406 O 8 ‘16 300w

=DAVIS, J. MERLE.= Davis, soldier missionary. il *$1.50 (1½c) Pilgrim press 16-24706

Jerome D. Davis, the subject of this biography was a
lieutenant-colonel of volunteers in the Civil war and for thirty-nine
years a missionary in Japan. This story of his life is written by his
son, who is secretary of the International committee of Young men’s
Christian associations in Tokio. In Japan Dr Davis was one of the
founders of Doshisha university and the book gives a full account of
the development and achievements of this institution.

+ =Bib World= 49:187 Mr ‘17 300w

“Mr Davis has succeeded admirably. His father becomes to the reader a
living person, the soldier who had the missionary spirit, the
missionary who never lacked a soldier’s valor, a true man, of heroic
temper shown in great deeds.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 Ap 7 ‘17 480w

“A substantial volume of 350 pages, well illustrated and of compelling
interest. ... Incidentally one gets in these chapters a history of the
famous Doshisha controversy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 4 ‘17 400w

=DAVIS, JOSEPH STANCLIFFE.= Essays in the earlier history of American corporations. 2v ea *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 338.8 17-12885

“This group of studies is presented as a modest contribution to the
economic and social history of the United States before 1800,
especially for the last decade or two of the eighteenth century.”
(Preface) Volume 1 contains three studies: Corporations in the
American colonies; William Duer, entrepreneur, 1747-99; The “S. U.
M.”: the first New Jersey business corporation. Volume 2 is devoted to
Eighteenth century business corporations in the United States. The
author is instructor in economics in Harvard university and the work
is published as volume 16 of the Harvard economic studies.

“The work bears evidence of large and minute investigations of
original sources. It is not taken for granted that standard authors
are always accurate in their statements or conclusions. Errors in the
dates assigned in complications of high authority to some important
papers are fearlessly corrected.” S. E. Baldwin

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:185 O ‘17 1150w

“In each volume there are appendices of useful illustrative material,
and the second volume has an extensive bibliography. The work as a
whole represents a comprehensive, if not an exhaustive, treatment of
the topics considered; and should form an authoritative source of
information.” J. A. F.

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:589 Ag ‘17 420w

“The author has done his work well. These volumes make a distinct and
welcome contribution to American economic history.” F. R. J.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:299 N ‘17 150w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 700w

=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 30w

“Mr Davis’s treatment of these subjects is such as to merit the
gratitude of students both of economics and of history. Of the four
essays of which the work is composed, the second and third, though not
the most valuable, are certainly the most interesting. In these two
essays we are brought face to face with many of the leading characters
of the period. They are as valuable for the sidelights which they cast
upon the politics of the day as for the economic information which
they impart.”

+ =Nation= 105:511 N 8 ‘17 1550w

“Two very interesting volumes which are based on statute books,
letters, financial records, newspapers, reports, etc. The work is,
indeed, an important contribution to the industrial and social history
of the United States before 1800, and it should have a lasting and
well-deserved reputation. ... There is a complete bibliography at the
end of the second volume.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 11 ‘17 220w

=DAVIS, KARY CADMUS.= Productive plant husbandry. (Farm life text ser.) il *$1.75 Lippincott 630 17-19170

A text-book for high schools into more than 4,600 of whose curricula
have been introduced courses in agriculture. The first six chapters
are devoted to plant life and growth, and methods of improving plants;
the next four, to soils and their improvement and maintenance; the
body of the text deals with the various farm crops including fruits,
vegetables, field crops and forestry; then follow three chapters on
the enemies of crops—weeds, insects and diseases. In conclusion the
writer discusses the business of farming and the rural community.

=Pittsburgh= 22:664 O ‘17 30w

“From the standpoint of its pedagogical merits the book is rather
superior. ... The illustrations are numerous and clear and really
illustrate the text. Teachers interested in texts in agriculture
providing material for a one-year course will do well to examine
Professor Davis’ book with some care before they select a text for
their course.”

+ =School R= 25:612 O ‘17 220w

=DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING.= Adventures and letters of Richard Harding Davis; ed. by C: B. Davis. il *$2.50 Scribner 17-30256

“Richard Harding Davis was almost a legendary figure from his boyhood,
and certainly no American has ever known how to extract so much
adventure from life. As newspaper man, war-correspondent, soldier of
fortune, and storyteller he had an unfailing knack of being on the
spot where the greatest possible interest and excitement were going
forward. But few of his readers, perhaps, knew that he was also an
inveterate and a capital letter-writer. His brother, Charles Belmont
Davis, has now collected his correspondence and woven it about the
personal narrative of the author’s life. The book is copiously
illustrated with portraits and photographs, many of them taken in
various parts of the world by Davis himself.”—Lit D

“They form a very interesting biography.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18

=Boston Transcript= p10 N 28 ‘17 1700w

=Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 130w

“His letters present an array of delightful, amusing, exciting
adventures. The book is excellently edited, with a running narrative
that is altogether readable and informative, and the photographs are
really vivid illustrations of the matter of the book. We know few
books more interesting.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:495 N 25 ‘17 1100w

“Unconventional, lively letters.”

+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 110w

“Readers will lay down the book with the feeling that they have become
personally acquainted with an interesting man. The explanation of this
feeling of intimacy with the subject of the book is that his letters,
a large portion of them written to his mother, reveal him as a likable
man who loved human companionship, who made friends easily and who
possessed many of the attractive and worth-while qualities which have
made the heroes of fiction so deservedly popular.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 17 ‘17 1000w

=DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING.= Boy scout, and other stories for boys. il *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 17-24696

Five stories that “go with especial directness to a boy’s heart and
sympathies” have been chosen for inclusion in this book. They are: The
boy scout; The boy who cried wolf; Gallegher; Blood will tell; and The
bar sinister. “Gallegher” is an old favorite. “The bar sinister” has
also had a number of years of popularity. The other stories are of
later date.

=A L A Bkl= 14:135 Ja ‘18

“They are for readers of any age, boys included.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 140w

“One cannot be too enthusiastic in recommending the story-telling
power of Mr Davis. His dog story, ‘The bar sinister,’ is an ideal tale
for boys who love a good and spirited account of animal nature.”

+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w

=Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 20w

=DAVISON, THOMAS RAFFLES.= Port Sunlight. il *$2 Scribner 710 17-14401

“Port Sunlight is a model village established in England in 1888. As
students of sociology are already familiar with its great practical
and economic success, it is the purpose of this book ‘to emphasize the
artistic and picturesque qualities of the village.’ To this end the
book includes a little descriptive matter and a great many
illustrations, photographs, sketches and plans. These show most
conclusively the charming old English type of village which has been
attained, a pleasure to the eye, an uplift to the spirit, without
decreasing, but rather enhancing the practical value of the
town.”—Boston Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17

“We are extremely sorry that the author limited himself to a record of
the artistic and pictorial aspect of Port Sunlight, a subject so
closely associated with the economic aspect of the place as to leave
the reader unsatisfied if this also is not described.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 180w

+ =Int Studio= 61:145 My ‘17 200w

=DAVRAY, HENRY D.= Lord Kitchener: his work and his prestige; with a prefatory letter by Paul Cambon. 2s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London (Eng ed 17-20979)

“The well-known French littérateur gives us a graphic and effective
portrayal of Kitchener’s work—a hastening, in some half dozen pages,
over his earlier military career, and getting on page 29 to the
outbreak of the European war and appointment of Kitchener to the war
office. ... Appendices reproduce speeches by Lord Kitchener, memorial
speeches in the House of commons, etc.”—Ontario Library Review

“H. G. Croser’s ‘Lord Kitchener’ contains more biographical facts of
his earlier career; Harold Begbie’s ‘Kitchener, organizer of victory,’
is more popular, but, like this, only a sketch.”

+ =Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 60w

+ =Ind= 91:293 Ag 25 ‘17 110w

“M. Davray followed events in England closely and on the spot; he has
a keen eye and a gift of making the most of what he sees, and he
applies these gifts successfully to Kitchener’s achievement in
organizing the British military force.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:115 My ‘17 100w

+ =R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 30w

“It is probable that one object of this life of Kitchener was to
reassure the people of France in regard to Britain’s part in the war
and Lord Kitchener’s ability and devotion at a time when the war
minister was being violently assailed by Lord Northcliffe’s press.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 400w

=DAWSON, ALEC JOHN.=[2] For France (“C’est pour la France”); some English impressions of the French front. il *$2 (6c) Doran 940.91

“No other claim is made for the pictures, drawn and written, which are
presented than that they record a few of the entirely independent and
unbiased impressions formed by two English officers who were very
kindly permitted by the French authorities to see something of the
French army in the field.” (Preface) Captain Bairnsfather’s sketches
of the “poilu” deal with him “often with a slight touch of caricature
and always with humor and tenderness.” (N Y Times) The spirit of the
French army is well brought out as is also the spirit of what Capt.
Dawson calls “the reserved fighting line that is so finely held by the
women of France.” One chapter, “The joyous ones” describes a battalion
“recruited entirely as regards its rank and file, from the ranks of
convicted criminals.” Some other chapters are: Paul Dupont, grocer;
Paris; Dogs of war; One trench and another, and Verdun.

+ =Ind= 91:474 S 22 ‘17 150w

+ =Lit D= 55:48 O 13 ‘17 260w

+ =N Y Times= 22:261 Jl 15 ‘17 170w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:385 N ‘17 30w

“The chapter on the war dogs is capital, as might be expected, since
the author is an expert in that line. ... Captain Bairnsfather has
made an effort to restrain his gift for comic types of a special
English kind, and his best pictures are better, we think, than his
English caricatures.”

+ =Sat R= 123:504 Je 2 ‘17 330w

“While in the preface both disclaim any pretension at more than a
cursory glimpse of a ‘few aspects of France in war time, as seen
through uninformed English eyes,’ yet the reader will feel that much
of the real spirit of the land and her people has been caught by these
sympathetic visitors.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 26 ‘17 600w

=DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM).= Carry on; letters in war-time; with an introd. and notes by his father, W. J. Dawson. il *$1 (4c) Lane 940.91 17-15170

The author is a graduate of Oxford university who, after one year at
Union theological seminary, New York, decided to be novelist rather
than a preacher, a decision which resulted in the publication in 1913
of his “Garden without walls.” But in 1916 after the publication of
“Slaves of freedom,” he left his home in Taunton, Mass., for the
trenches, accepting a commission in the Canadian field artillery. The
letters, which are most intimate and personal, were written to his
family from dugouts on the Somme battlefront in the intervals of
artillery fire. Their general point of view is well expressed by the
Canadian slogan “Carry on” which the novelist’s father, W. J. Dawson,
has used as the title of the book. “We’ve got to win,” writes
Lieutenant Dawson, “so that men may never again be tortured by the
ingenious inquisition of modern warfare.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17

+ — =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 140w

“He is particularly effectual in putting himself on paper, and his
book affords a clear view into the theological soul. The best part of
it is that his letters are so full of incident that unless you are
particularly interested, you need not bother with the theological
interpretation at all.”

+ — =Dial= 64:31 Ja 3 ‘18 650w

— =New Repub= 11:340 Jl 21 ‘17 600w

“From a literary point of view these intimate letters, written in
dugouts by the light of a single candle and without thought of
publication, are far and away the best work that Mr Dawson has ever
done.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:257 Jl 8 ‘17 500w

“They are characterized by vividness of impression, reality,
sympathetic insight, and literary grace, and breathe the spirit of
heroism, and are a challenge to heroism in others.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:114 My ‘17 40w

+ =Outlook= 116:376 Jl 4 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w

+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 40w

+ =St Louis= 15:314 S ‘17 30w

“His letters are those of a serious, full-hearted young man, devoted
to his own family, and endowed with a natural gift for writing.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p479 O 4 ‘17 90w

=DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM).= Pincher Martin, O. D.; a story of the inner life of the Royal navy. il *$1.50 Houghton (Eng ed 17-22561)

“The cryptic—at least, to an American—letters after Pincher Martin’s
name are English navy slang for ordinary seamen, and this book, by the
author who prefers to be known as ‘Taffrail,’ is an entertaining
account of navy life in peace and war, as experienced by an ordinary
bluejacket. The story opens about a year or two before the outbreak of
the war, and we meet Martin at the moment when he joins his first
ship, the predreadnought battleship Belligerent. He remains on her
until she is torpedoed and sunk, then serves on board a torpedo boat
destroyer, the Mariner. As one of the Mariner’s crew he takes part in
the Jutland fight, but before that occurs he has quite a number of
adventures.”—N Y Times

“There is, however, more comedy than tragedy in this tale of Pincher
Martin, and some of it is very amusing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 330w

“The book is a welcome tribute to our navy, and bears everywhere the
signs of intimate knowledge.”

+ =Sat R= 122:sup6 D 9 ‘16 350w

+ =Spec= 117:809 D 23 ‘16 850w

“Makes good its claim to be ‘a story of the inner life of the Royal
navy.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p572 N 30 ‘16 450w

=DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM).= Seventh Christmas. il *50c (8c) Holt 17-29180

This is the story of the seventh birthday of Jesus. His mother Mary
tells him the story of his birth, and the golden caskets given him by
the Three wise men of the East are opened.

— =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 180w

“Coningsby Dawson’s ‘The seventh Christmas’ is so sweet a little
legend that it has a value beyond the celebration of any particular
feast.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:563 D 16 ‘17 410w

“The delicate style of Coningsby Dawson, compact of feeling and fancy,
would seem to have a congenial field in a legend about the boyhood of
Jesus, but ‘The seventh Christmas,’ while it presents a pathetic
picture of Joseph’s poverty-stricken home, does not rise to that
imaginative ‘saturation’ essential to the undertaking.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 140w

=DAWSON, WILLIAM HARBUTT=, ed. After-war problems. *$2.50 Macmillan 304 17-24513

“The four main sections of this important volume—‘Empire and
citizenship,’ ‘National efficiency,’ ‘Social reform,’ and ‘National
finance and taxation’—are headed, respectively, by chapters on
‘Imperial federation,’ by the late Lord Cromer; ‘National education,’
by Lord Haldane; ‘The rehabilitation of rural life,’ by the Bishop of
Exeter; and ‘National taxation after the war,’ by Prof. Alfred
Marshall. The remaining fifteen chapters, which deal with a variety of
topics, are by recognized authorities on the several subjects. Thus
the two chapters treating of the relations between capital and labour
are contributed by Mr G. H. Roberts, who writes from the standpoint of
labour, and by Sir Benjamin C. Browne, who states the capitalist’s
view; Mrs Fawcett writes on the position of women in economic life,
Miss Margaret McMillan on the care of child life, Lord Meath on the
cultivation of patriotism, Mr W. Joynson-Hicks on the land question;
and so on. The introduction is contributed by the editor.”—Ath

“The general impression left on the mind is that the essayists are
satisfied with the ‘status quo ante’ in its main outlines, but seek
for improvements in it. There is no deep analysis of the social and
industrial system, and no questioning of its fundamentals. The book
is, however, much more comprehensive in its scope than any that has
previously appeared, and many of its chapters are worth careful
reading.”

– + =Ath= p341 Jl ‘17 1400w

“These essays are weighty pronouncements, and the volume in its
entirety demands careful study.”

+ =Ath= p355 Jl ‘17 180w

“One receives from the reading of these candid, revelatory documents a
feeling of pride in England’s willingness to learn, to adopt new
methods, to look to the future with undaunted courage.” S. A.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 500w

“While the book presents a constructive national policy for England,
it seems addressed to Englishmen not vitally interested in securing a
vision of the needs of the British empire as a whole, or really
concerned with international welfare. The spirit is, a world safe for
England. But one raises the question, if each nation at the conclusion
of war deliberately embarks upon a policy of national efficiency
prompted solely by the desire to acquire foreign markets and to attain
self-sufficiency at home, what will become of the fruits of the war to
end wars, and will such a world be safe for anybody?” V. T. Thayer

– + =Dial= 63:391 O 25 ‘17 1800w

“Of particular interest is the study of imperial federation by the
late Earl of Cromer, altho it comes to no particular conclusion.”

+ — =Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 130w

“We can do no more than commend the book to all who would understand
the momentous social changes with which England is confronted, and
what is being thought and planned regarding them. A survey on similar
lines of our own after-the-war problems would be a task well worth
undertaking.”

+ =Nation= 106:67 Ja 17 ‘18 750w

“A certain lack of definiteness can be charged against some of the
contributors; indeed, the book as a whole does not attain high
importance. But changes are coming, and those who will be responsible
for these changes will profit by the spirit of some chapters of the
book, even if they are not always illuminated by the proposals. ...
Among the most valuable chapters in the book because the most concrete
is that of Viscount Haldane, whose subject is ‘National education.’”

* + – =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 1550w

“All of them are full of suggestions, most of them directed towards
immediate practical ends. Perhaps that is regrettable; for it gives to
the program as a whole too conservative a tone. National progress may
be sustained for a time by various elements in the nation uniting upon
the eradication of old and obvious evils; but a more sweeping flight
of the imagination is required, a more prophetic vision of the future,
if the magnificent mutual loyalty of the people shown during the war
is to be translated into deeds for lasting human betterment. Margaret
McMillan, for so many years ridiculed as a dreamer, until she proved
by her work that vision and practical achievement go together, alone
‘unveils new horizons.’” Bruno Lasker

+ — =Survey= 39:255 D 1 ‘17 720w

“Of the many publications dealing with after-war problems this volume
is the fullest and most comprehensive that has yet appeared. Its scope
is, of course, limited. ... The most serious omission is the absence
of any reference to the development and utilization of the resources
of the Empire. ... In the first group Lord Cromer’s examination of the
relations between the United Kingdom and the other component parts of
the Empire has the most actual value and interest. No man was better
qualified to form a sound judgment on the subject.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p266 Je 7 ‘17 1850w

=DAWSON, WILLIAM JAMES.= Robert Shenstone. *$1.50 (1c) Lane 17-24210

“In the midst of horrors, I have written this tale of joyous and
adventurous youth.” The author is the father of Coningsby Dawson, now
at the front, who wrote “Carry on.” Robert Shenstone, son of a country
school-master, destined by his father for a clergyman, but preferring
to be a poet, tells his own story. At sixteen, he is master in a boy’s
school on the outskirts of London; later, he becomes secretary to a Mr
Heron, an eccentric and a recluse, with a fine taste in literature and
art. Shenstone perseveres with his own writing and finally has a play
accepted by Henry Irving. Other characters are Robert’s father, who
never realizes his own ambitions; his mother, who believes that “the
life that gives is so much more than the life that gets”; his widowed
aunt, Mrs Tabitha Shanley, to whom “the great thing in life is never
to lose the spirit of adventure”; the other masters in the school;
Edith Hopper, “lineal descendant of Lilith and Cleopatra,” who tries
her wiles on them all; and Lucille Overberg, the beautiful girl, who
tempted to renounce life thru fear, because of her mother’s expiation
of a crime, finally decides “to accept thankfully the joy of the
common day.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:94 D ‘17

“‘Robert Shenstone’ is good. It is good—item one—as the pleasant and
leisurely tale of a man’s young life. And it is good—item two—because,
in addition to that, it is a mystery story of unusual plot.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:412 O 21 ‘17 1250w

=DAY, HOLMAN FRANCIS.= Where your treasure is; being the personal narrative of Ross Sidney, diver. il *$1.50 (2c) Harper 17-17284

A story of adventure by land and sea. It opens in the small eastern
village where Ross Sidney spends his boyhood. He is a poor boy with
little prospect in life, and he gives all his youthful adoration to
Celene Kingsley, the daughter of the one wealthy man of the community.
Circumstances drive him from home and he joins a wrecking crew along
the Atlantic coast. When he returns to his home town it is to find
Judge Kingsley in a difficulty from which he helps to extricate him. A
misunderstanding with Celene, which her father might have explained
away, again sends him on his wanderings. This time he goes to the
Pacific coast where he ships as a deep sea diver. Here he meets
another girl, who proves to be his real treasure, and he sees that his
feeling for Celene was only a boyish fancy.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 11 ‘17 380w

+ =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 50w

“The masculine sort of nonsense, the ‘rattling’ sort. As usual, Mr Day
makes spirited work with his men, and tame and perfunctory work with
his women. It is a long yarn, somewhat too long to rattle freely from
start to finish. ... What one has to complain of is that so much of
the fantastic tale is set ashore; for Mr Day’s illusion, his glamour
at least, is soaked in salt water.”

+ =Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 200w

“It is a full-blooded, hot-headed story, told with all the naïve zest
of youth, filled with the slang and the expletives and the picturesque
similes of many kinds of hustling life, both honest and dishonest.
There are graphic accounts of the diver’s work.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:245 Jl 1 ‘17 570w

“The vigorous language of his sea faring folk is always amusing and in
depicting their pursuits, whether ashore or afloat, he is faithfully
realistic.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 420w

=DEAN, RUTH.= Livable house—its garden. (Livable house ser.) il *$2.50 Moffat 716 17-16081

“A companion work to Aymar Embury’s ‘Livable house’ is provided by
Ruth Dean in ‘The livable house, its garden.’ In sympathy with the
spirit of efficiency, the author aims to combat indifference or
ignorance in the development of grounds about the home. A secondary
purpose is to aid the amateur landscape architect in avoiding the
mistakes into which his ignorance of plant life and values are
likely to lead him. ... One hundred photogravures effectively
illustrate the results for which the author gives the fullest
directions. The book is divided into five sections: The garden as a
whole; General planting; The flower garden; Times and seasons, and
Garden architecture.”—Springf’d Republican

+ =Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 20w

“Miss Dean is a landscape architect of experience, and her suggestions
are invariably practical.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:331 S 9 ‘17 270w

=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 500w

=DEANE, RICHARD BURTON.= Mounted police life in Canada. il *$1.50 Funk 971.2 17-1608

“From an experience of thirty-one years in the mounted police service,
the author gives an account of pioneer days in the great Canadian
Northwest and of the feats of daring which invested the force with the
glamor of romance.” (A L A Bkl) “A long account is given of the trial
of Louis Riel for treason.” (Ath)

“A vigorous, manly style makes the book very readable.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:394 Je ‘17

+ =Ath= p483 O ‘16 20w

=Pratt= p44 O ‘17 30w

+ =Spec= 117:480 O 21 ‘16 160w

“A document which will be invaluable to the historian that is to come
of the Last West. It is full of episodes and thronged with
personalities, introduced in a soldier style with an occasional touch
of the parade rasp, which would help a modern variant of Francis
Parkman to many a stirring, significant passage.”

+ =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p463 S 28 ‘16 600w

=DEEPING, WARWICK.= Martin Valliant. *$1.40 (1½c) McBride 17-10202

A historical romance of the time of Richard III. Martin Valliant is a
monk. The son of a notorious old fighter, young and full of life and
strong of arm, Martin spends his days in a priory, telling his beads
and mortifying the flesh to save the soul. His monkish companions,
holy men in name only, have laid a plot to try Martin’s virtue. He
puts temptation away from him. Then Mellis Dale comes his way. She is
a girl, tho a brave one, and alone and beset by enemies, and in taking
her part, Martin comes out of his cell and throws off his monk’s robe
to become a man.

“Lovers of realism and of nothing but realism will not be pleased with
this story. It is not for them. But to those who have the zest of
adventure in their souls, to those who believe in the brave old school
of fiction that leads man and woman onward through the old world of
imminent dangers, it will make an intimate appeal. It is a story
without a problem and with no mission but to entertain. And what
better mission could it have?” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 1100w

“With ‘Unrest’ labelled for America ‘Bridge of desire,’ Mr Warwick
Deeping recently made a not very happy attempt to pin us down to our
own world. There he deliberately threw over the romantic code to
which, in his tales of old time, he had dutifully clung. ... He has
returned to his machine. ... But the whole thing is a contrivance,
rather cynically rigged up by an expert.”

— =Nation= 104:459 Ap 19 ‘17 400w

“Never, unless memory be at fault, has he given us a romance in which,
with no abating of swift movement or of the number of thrilling
episodes, the characters were at once so human and so likable as are
the hero and heroine in this tale.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:94 Mr 18 ‘17 500w

Defenders of democracy; ed. by the Gift book committee of the Militia of mercy.[2] President’s ed il *$2.50 Lane 940.91 17-27863

This anthology of miscellaneous contributions has commendatory
forewords by Woodrow Wilson, Lord Northcliffe, Theodore Roosevelt and
others. Many countries besides our own are represented in the table of
contents, among them Belgium, China, France, Great Britain, Greece,
Italy, Japan, and Latin America. Among the American contributors are
Charles W. Eliot, Mary Austin, Robert W. Chambers, Louis Untermeyer,
Fannie Hurst, Amy Lowell, Myron T. Herrick and Amélie Rives. A
frontispiece in color by Childe Hassam is one of the pictorial
features. The proceeds from the sale of the book go to the aid of
needy families of the men of the naval militia.

“Contains much of valuable information, many a stirring paragraph of
description, appreciation, or narrative, and, not least surely, more
than one challenge to thought.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:540 D 9 ‘17 950w

“There is something here to entertain every one, even if he opens the
book with a prejudice against such collections.”

+ =Outlook= 118:32 Ja 2 ‘18 60w

=DE GROOT, CORNELIA.= When I was a girl in Holland. (Children of other lands books) il *75c (2½c) Lothrop 914.92 17-24724

The author of this book for American boys and girls was born in
Deersum, a village in the province of Friesland, and there are a
number of photographic illustrations showing scenes from this
childhood home. She writes of; Our house; How we dressed; Our village
school; Some of our games; Our holidays; Farm life; The kermis; Our
canal-boats; On skates, etc. When she was twenty-one the author came
to America and she now makes her home in California.

“A matter-of-fact account. It is none the less interesting and will
give children about eleven or twelve some idea of actualities beyond
picturesque wooden shoes and windmills.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:136 Ja ‘18

“The book bears the mark of genuine experience and faithful
observation.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w

“Altogether delightful. The illustrations from photographs are well
chosen.”

+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 40w

“Her chapters descriptive of Holland are full of color and
information, and her literary style is simple and direct.”

+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 90w

=N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 50w

“What a child saw and heard in Holland makes a particularly
interesting narrative, and the book will be read by children and older
people alike with pleasure.”

+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 110w

=DEJEANS, ELIZABETH (JANES) (MRS SIDNEY BUDGETT).= Tiger’s coat. il *$1.50 (1½c) Bobbs 17-7810

A Nebraska city gives this story its setting but the woman of mystery
who is its central character has a background that includes Mexico,
Paris and Belgium in the early days of the war. Driven out of the
war-ridden countries she comes to Laclasse, presenting herself to
Alexander MacAllister as his kinswoman and showing letters that
support her story. But one doesn’t know how much of the story is to be
believed, and one doesn’t know whether to like or dislike Marie. This
is the interest that holds the story together, but it has other points
deserving of notice, one of them its excellent character portrayal,
another the author’s fairness in her attitude toward the
German-Americans of the Middle West.

“A rather lifeless affair of good promise and of weak fulfilment. ...
The story may be described as a series of anticlimaxes.”

— =Dial= 62:403 My 3 ‘17 110w

=N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 180w

“The romance is well built up, and, on the whole, well written, though
a trifle feverish in parts.”

+ — =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 50w

“While the plot is of the stuff from which melodramas are made, the
generally good character drawing gives the book substantiality.” R. D.
Moore

=Pub W= 91:584 F 17 ‘17 400w

“The story, though not without vigor, is more romantic and less
restrained than this author’s previous novel.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 400w

=DE KOVEN, ANNA (FARWELL) (MRS REGINALD DE KOVEN).= Counts of Gruyère. il *$2 (6c) Duffield 949.4 17-93

The author has written the history of Gruyère, a town in the canton of
Fribourg, Switzerland. In a prologue the “little castled city” is
described. Then come the following chapters: Origin of the people;
Influence of the church; Sovereignty of the House of Savoy; Foreign
wars; The Burgundian wars (Count François I); The Burgundian wars
(Count Louis); Struggle for succession; Religious reform; The fall of
the House of Gruyère; Gruyère without its counts. There is a
bibliography of three pages. The book is beautifully illustrated, with
a frontispiece in color.

“Mrs de Koven has the instinct for historical narrative, together with
a comprehension of the human side of the matter. She shows us how
character and historical fact inter-act; she helps us to live in the
times of which she writes.” R. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 F 10 ‘17 450w

+ =Ind= 89:273 F 12 ‘17 60w

+ =Lit D= 54:770 Mr 17 ‘17 140w

“Mrs de Koven, who, in addition to her other literary work,
established herself a few years ago as a biographical authority upon
the life of John Paul Jones, gives fresh proof in this charming volume
of her marked gifts as a historian.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:6 Ja 7 ‘17 450w

“The story of the long reign of the Counts of Gruyère is most
picturesque. In no other way do we get so clear a picture of feudalism
in Switzerland or so graphic an interpretation of its spirit.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:217 F ‘17 110w

=DELAFIELD, E. M.= Zella sees herself. *$1.50 (2c) Knopf (Eng ed 17-24709)

Zella de Kervoyou, child of a French father and English mother,
educated in a convent school, “from the time she is seven years
old ... is constantly shifting her standards to conform to those of
the particular environment in which she happens to find herself. The
book is practically the story of the lies, the evasions, the
hypocrisies, the heartaches which spring from Zella’s desire to be
always charming, agreeable, superior.” (N Y Times)

“It has none of that shallow brilliancy, that self-conscious
cleverness, that clap-trap humour, which marks in every age the work
of the tribe of gentlemen (and ladies) who write with ease. It turns a
clear, warm, smiling gaze on life and interprets it to us in the very
act of making us, too, smile at it. That was Jane Austen’s white
magic.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:489 D ‘17 550w

“It is a comedy of youth, in the sense in which Jane Austen’s stories
may be so called. It has a certain analogy to what was probably also
Miss Austen’s first effort, ‘Northanger abbey,’ and in its quiet
precision of characterization and dialogue as well as in its well-nigh
unerring satirical touch, it measurably suggests the great mistress of
British fiction.”

+ =Nation= 105:515 N 8 ‘17 360w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w

“This unusual and complex study of character is told with a lightness
and mastery of touch and a delightful, pervasive humor not often met
in the ordinary run of novels.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 550w

“Miss Delafield has drawn her heroine with sympathetic understanding.”

+ =Sat R= 123:sup4 My 19 ‘17 230w

=DE LA MARE, WALTER JOHN.= Peacock pie. il *$2 Holt 821 (Eng ed 16-21123)

A book of rhymes for children, with illustrations by W. Heath
Robinson. There are nonsense verses, romantic tales, and lovely
lyrics. Up and down, Boys and girls, Three queer tales, Places and
people, Beasts, Witches and fairies, Earth and air, and Songs, are the
divisions of the book.

=A L A Bkl= 13:439 Jl ‘17

+ =Ath= p54 Ja ‘17 40w

“Yet even in his poems for children he is more than a poet for
children. Each year-laden reader who can look through the magic
casement of Mr de la Mare’s verses will see among the shadowy figures
that flit about the moon-silvered lanes a tiny ghost that was once
himself.” M. M. Frank

+ =Bookm= 46:89 S ‘17 950w

“Mr de la Mare is not an innovator, and his scope is not great; but
within his scope he has no superior.” Conrad Aiken

+ =Dial= 63:150 Ag 30 ‘17 160w

“Mostly they are nothing more than the pleasing little fancies which
Mr de la Mare can so well conjure out of faery, fashioned with that
lyric felicity which is not the least notable attribute of all the
Georgians whose names are worth recounting and of Mr de la Mare in
special.” J. T. W.

+ =New Repub= 12:279 O 6 ‘17 450w

“Peacock pie was once a royal dish; this book is a royal dish.”
Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 24 ‘17 200w

“One might exhaust lists of adjectives and yet fail to bring the
reader the flavor, the awe, the delight, the haunting terror of this
collection of verse, ‘Peacock pie.’”

+ =R of Rs= 56:217 Ag ‘17 220w

“From cover to cover, the most captious critic may hardly find a poem
that is not a joy to meet and to keep.”

+ =Sat R= 123:232 Mr 10 ‘17 950w

“In the years that have passed since Stevenson brought out his
‘Child’s garden of verses’ we have not seen a prettier book of rhymes
for children than this. ... The poet, in this new edition, is
fortunate in his sympathetic illustrator, Mr W. Heath Robinson, whose
charming designs reflect by turns the gaiety and sentiment of the
verses.”

+ =Spec= 118:21 Ja 6 ‘17 200w

“The poetry in these two little volumes is, perhaps, the purest poetry
for children that has ever been made; Blake and Stevenson not
forgotten.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p604 D 14 ‘16 850w

=DELAND, LORIN FULLER.= At the sign of the dollar, and other essays. *$1.25 (3c) Harper 304 17-8762