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The title essay, a discussion of advertising and an appeal for more
attention to human nature on the part of those engaged in business, is
reprinted from Harper’s Magazine for March, 1917. Some of the other
papers have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. The complete table of
contents reads: At the sign of the dollar; Football at Harvard and at
Yale as seen in 1910; Some have greatness thrust upon them; A plea for
the theatrical manager; The Lawrence strike; a study; Concerning X107.

=A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17

=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17

“Mr Deland’s study of the Harvard-Yale football situation is one of
the most interesting things he has to offer, but it must have been
written before Harvard’s string of successes in the last five years.
Mr Deland makes it plain that he considers Walter Camp the genius of
American football.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 25 ‘17 420w

=DELANO, MRS EDITH (BARNARD).= Tomorrow morning. il *$1.35 (2½c) Houghton 17-25434

This, “a chronicle of the new Eve and the same old Adam,” is the story
of the married life of a young couple in the thirties, which, in spite
of complications that threaten to make trouble between them, ends
happily. Martha, the “new Eve,” devoted both to her children and to
social work, discovers that although it is already in the affairs of
men and women “tomorrow morning,” “the millennium is a long way off,”
and so to keep the love of the “same old Adam,” she models her conduct
for a time upon that of the “old Eve.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18

“Martha is an attractive heroine, and little Cecily, whose passion for
telling the truth made her a most disconcerting person to have about,
a real and amusing child. The life of the little western city in which
the action takes place is well portrayed, and the busy life of the
modern woman neatly and sanely sketched.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 370w

“A domestic comedy written with charm and humor.”

+ =Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 8w

“Quite aside from the message that it carries, Mrs Delano’s book is
interesting for the skill with which she has managed her characters.
The study of Bob Ramsey with his blundering, masculine ways, is
particularly well done, Martha Ramsey, with her brilliant intellect,
her self-control and her uncanny shrewdness, is a little overdrawn.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 340w

=DELL, ETHEL MAY.= Hundredth chance. il *$1.50 (1c) Putnam 17-10669

The hero of Miss Dell’s latest story is a horse trainer and accustomed
to work to win even if he sees only the “hundredth chance” of success.
This is all that is his when he loves Maud Brian, the beautiful but
penniless daughter of Sir Bernard Brian. But the marriage of her
mother to a scoundrel and the dependence of her lame brother cause the
girl to accept marriage with him on terms of her own choosing. An
added obstacle to the trainer’s hopes is the appearance of Lord
Saltash, his employer and the former fiancé of his wife. In spite of
the heavy odds against him, his patience and devotion at last break
down social differences and win him the deep affection of his wife.

“Readers of popular fiction will no doubt revel in the rough-diamond
hero and the plausible villain, the atmosphere of the racing stable,
etc.; but the whole has been much better done many times already, and
if this sort of book did not continue to appear, classics might
receive more attention.”

— =Ath= p311 Je ‘17 100w

“Once the major premise of her story is accepted there is nothing
forced or unnatural in the situations themselves.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 330w

“Her method proves that Victorianism is by no means played out, may
indeed be rendered freshly effective by a slight tincture of modern
‘frankness’ in the treatment of sex. Her present heroine is the chill,
snobbish little prude whom our fathers admired—at least in fiction.”

— =Nation= 105:16 Jl 5 ‘17 250w

“The chief criticism of the book lies, not in its conventional
situation and artificial character treatment—for neither of these
detract seriously from the simple enjoyment of it as an entertaining
story—but in the undeniable and glaring fact that none of its people
seem to know the most fundamental standards of behavior or of speech.
They irritate and alienate where they should hold the novel reader’s
sympathy.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:202 My 20 ‘17 280w

“A strong and interesting story, developed with skill and good taste,
and is by all odds the best the author has ever written.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 400w

“It is all a wonderfully exciting length of distressing
misunderstandings, but we are up-borne throughout by the confident
anticipation that Miss Dell will never balk us of a happy ending. ...
There is equal certainty, too, that though often dealing with the most
delicate and difficult situations Miss Dell will skim over the thin
places without ever offending our taste.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p236 My 17 ‘17 400w

=DELL, ETHEL MAY.= Safety curtain, and other stories. il *$1.50 (1½c) Putnam 17-29862

The title story of the five in this volume introduces as the
principals a man and woman quite out of the ordinary. He is a major in
the Indian army—home on leave. She is an elf-like dancer. The
safety-curtain that dropped behind her at a moment when the stage is
aflame is symbolized by the act of the man whose rescuing of her marks
the beginning of a new sensation—that of protection. How, in India
whither she goes as a bride, her odd little nature expands in the
warmth of the new influence; how ghosts of the past try to rob her of
her happiness; and how the strength of the man overcame them is all
told in spirited fashion. The other stories are: The experiment; Those
who wait; The eleventh hour; The place of honour.

+ =Ath= p679 D ‘17 80w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p542 N 8 ‘17 150w

=DELLENBAUGH, FREDERICK SAMUEL.= George Armstrong Custer. (True stories of great Americans) il *50c (1c) Macmillan 17-1602

Elizabeth B. Custer, herself the author of one of the best known
accounts of her husband’s campaigns, has written a preface to this
book, commending it for its accuracy and fairness. The story of
General Custer’s boyhood is told briefly and this is followed by a
very full account of his services in the Civil war and on the plains.

“Written chiefly for young people by a man who knew the West of
Custer’s day and was an early explorer of the Grand Canyon.”

+ =Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 40w

+ =Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 30w

+ =N Y Times= 22:181 My 6 ‘17 60w

+ =R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 140w

“Gen. Custer’s biographer is a man who knew the West in Custer’s day
and who had even less sympathy than honest Custer for the abuses of
the Indian agencies where Indians and government were alike robbed by
the most flagrant of grafters. ... It is a chapter of national
dishonor that Mr Dellenbaugh relates. But the picture of Custer is
always that of a hero.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 6 ‘17 300w

=DEL MAR, ALGERNON.= Tube milling; a treatise on the practical application of the tube mill to metallurgical problems. il *$2 McGraw 622.7 17-13102

“The author states that in the preparation of ores for concentration,
cyanidation, and flotation, intermediate grinding by conical and
cylindrical tube mills will eventually supersede the work now largely
done by stamps, rolls, and chilian mills. General principles are
discussed and the construction and operation of the different types
explained. Chapter 5 deals with the adaptability of wrought iron and
alloy steels as materials of construction.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 20w

“Mr Del Mar’s book is worth placing in every mill-man’s library, where
it will serve as a ready reference for the tube-mill operator.”

+ =Engineering and Mining Journal= 103:1083 Je 16 ‘17 100w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p18 Jl ‘17 70w

=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w

=DENCH, ERNEST ALFRED.= Advertising by motion pictures. *$1.50 Standard pub. co. 659 16-25184

“The use of motion pictures as an advertising medium is not confined
to any one business or profession. It is adapted to wholesale as
well as to retail business. Moreover, it possesses unique
‘business-pulling’ properties. It has, however, like all methods,
limitations. These as well as its far greater number of advantages,
Mr Dench sets forth with admirable brevity and candor.”—Boston
Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 13:295 Ap ‘17

“Extremely up-to-date book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 250w

“Despite a curious belief in the value of slang as a medium for
imparting information and ideas, the subject is comprehensively and
authoritatively treated.”

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

Deportation of women and girls from Lille. *50c Doran 940.91 A17-371

A volume containing a translation of “the note addressed by the French
government to the governments of neutral powers on the conduct of the
German authorities toward the population of the French departments in
the occupation of the enemy,” together with “extracts from other
documents, annexed to the note, relating to German breaches of
international law during 1914, 1915, 1916.” (Title-page) Both French
and German documents are presented; also private letters. The title is
inexact since the deportations included men and boys as well as women
and girls.

=A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17

“The chief value of this collection lies in the fact that it presents
original data with little or no comment. Unlike the many books which
have been published on this phase of the war, it is not sensational
but aims to be a plain statement of fact.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:363 My ‘17 150w

=Cleveland= p58 Ap ‘17 40w

“In the letters it is more than once stated that German officers and
soldiers refused to carry out the deportation order and were confined
for disobedience within the fortress of Lille.”

=Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 50w

“The entire compilation comprises one of the most striking
illustrations of the horrors of war that has yet been published.” J.
W.

=N Y Call= p14 Mr 11 ‘17 330w

=DE SÉLINCOURT, HUGH.= Soldier of life. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-2025

Outwardly this is a pathological study of a crippled soldier’s mental
state, but, more deeply, it cuts down into human nature to reveal the
eternal conflict between the great constructive force, love, and the
destructive forces that find their final and supreme expression in
war. This revelation comes to James Wood thru Corinna Combe, and it
comes only after he has struggled against the menace of depression and
threatened insanity, after he has failed to find consolation in a
common-sense view of life, which urged marriage with a cheerful,
trivial, common-sense sort of girl, or comfort in religion. War has
been to him a horror and a desecration, and his sanity is saved only
when, thru Corinna, he comes to understand its basic origin.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:402 Je ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 45:96 Mr ‘17 400w

“It can scarcely hope to find a universal appeal, but will undoubtedly
be of interest to those who enjoy the abnormal.” R. W.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 300w

+ =Ind= 90:257 My 5 ‘17 70w

“Whatever weakness the book may have as a story, however, it throws
raw light, in its picture of the moral and spiritual disintegration
which war may bring to the unhappy warrior, upon a common horror which
the belligerent world, waving its flags and chorusing its mottoes,
chooses to leave in darkness.”

+ — =Nation= 104:369 Mr 29 ‘17 350w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 140w

“It will not be strange if Mr de Sélincourt’s book turns out to have
been one of the most significant of all that come out of the war. ...
It is the quintessence of war literature. ... It traces the delicate
spiritual effects as no other book has yet succeeded in doing. ... You
have only to compare it with Mr Britling to get the contrast of its
fineness with Wells’s blowsiness of spirit, that utterly pedestrian
and easy way in which the re-discoverer of God dresses up again the
rumpled soul of middle-class Britain and sets her decently on parade
again. ... Mr de Sélincourt, perhaps unconsciously, has done in the
novel what Bertrand Russell is saying impersonally.” Randolph Bourne

+ =New Repub= 11:85 My 19 ‘17 1200w

“One cannot read it without being stirred to deeper thought and higher
feeling.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:33 F 4 ‘17 500w

“From the very first, its dramatic and analytical power hold the
reader’s attention and carry him thru the hero’s struggles with an
interest seldom roused by such a subject. It is more plain human than
abnormal. ... This is as deeply thoughtful a book as any the war has
inspired, and one, besides, of beautiful texture and style.” E. P.
Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 91:587 F 17 ‘17 350w

“‘A soldier of life’ is a thoughtful—almost spiritual—study of the
effect of war, and affords food for thought.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 460w

“Perhaps its differentia and its most notable merit are its success in
expressing high and difficult matters in terms of a mere man and his
human affairs, linked by a carefully forged chain of thought and
incident to the complete ‘normality’ of the opening chapters.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 560w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:127 Ap ‘17 90w

=DESSON, GEORGES.=[2] Hostage in Germany; auth. tr. by Lee Holt. il *$1.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-84)

“A graphic account, by a distinguished French engineer, of his
detention as a hostage in Germany for eleven months, with a number of
his compatriots. The hardships and sufferings endured by the party
were exceedingly severe. The pretext for the imprisonment was that
some German subjects were alleged to have been ill-treated in Morocco.
The illustrations show some of the places of confinement.”—Ath

“He records the suffering and misery of his experiences with the
relieving brightness and humor that characterized him and his nine
companions in their otherwise unendurable imprisonment.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17

+ =Ath= p258 My ‘17 80w

=Outlook= 117:144 S 26 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:761 N ‘17 60w

=DESTRÉE, JULES.= Britain in arms (French title, L’effort britannique). *$1.50 (3c) Lane 940.91 17-25445

“M. Destrée—a Belgian writer who, during a stay of some months in
Italy, came to the conclusion that England’s efforts in the war were
not sufficiently realized by our Italian allies, and was thus led to
lay the facts before them—has written a French version of ‘Cio che
hanno fatto gli Inglesi.’ The translation, by Mr J. Lewis May, is now
before us. How England, though anxious for peace, found herself
involved in the war; her naval, military, financial, and industrial
efforts; the union of kingdom and empire; and the reasons why our
Allies should have confidence in England, are some of the topics to
which M. Destrée addresses himself.” (Ath) The preface is by Georges
Clemenceau.

=A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17

+ =Ath= p475 S ‘17 100w

“If an Englishman had written this book we would regard it as a piece
of self-satisfied laudation. Coming from a Frenchman, who has given
the widespread patrol work of the British fleet and the astonishing
development of the British army careful investigation, the book falls
short of overpraise, but is singularly just.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 280w

“The book, by the author’s confession, was hurriedly written; it is
propagandist; but its laudable object is to fortify international
confidence as ‘a preparation for the better days to come’; and it
makes inspiring reading.”

+ =Dial= 63:594 D 6 ‘17 420w

=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 30w

“M. Jules Destrée discovered a suspicion in Italy that England was not
‘pulling her weight’ in the war. It is a suspicion at which we have no
right to be angry, for very similar suspicions of Italian slackness
have sometimes been entertained in ill-informed circles in England;
and this suspicion, in both cases, has been due to misapprehensions
arising out of an excusable ignorance. ... He could have got a preface
from no more appropriate author than M. Clemenceau, who has frequently
insisted, in L’Homme Enchainé, that an estimate of our contribution to
the war must take cognizance of work done in the factories as well as
in the field.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p302 Je 28 ‘17 750w

=DEWEY, JOHN, and others.= Creative intelligence. *$2 (1½c) Holt 104 17-6640

Eight modern thinkers contribute papers to this volume. The subtitle
“Essays in the pragmatic attitude,” indicates that the unity of the
work is one of attitude rather than of conclusions. The first essay,
by John Dewey, on The need for a recovery of philosophy, serves to
introduce those that follow. It is a statement of the pragmatic
purpose, to emancipate philosophy from its attachment to traditional
problems. “What serious-minded men not engaged in the professional
business of philosophy most want to know,” Professor Dewey says, “is
what modifications and abandonments of intellectual inheritance are
required by the newer industrial, political, and scientific
movements.” The remaining essays are concerned with some of the
specific applications of philosophy to present-day problems. They are:
Reformation of logic, by Addison W. Moore; Intelligence and
mathematics, by Harold Chapman Brown; Scientific method and individual
thinker, by George H. Mead; Consciousness and psychology, by Boyd H.
Bode; The phases of the economic interest, by Henry Waldgrave Stuart;
The moral life and the construction of values and standards, by James
Hayden Tufts; Value and existence in philosophy, art, and religion, by
Horace M. Kallen.

“Some of the essays have appeared in the various philosophical
journals.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17

“To the general reader, perhaps the papers on ethics, by Professor
Tufts, and economics, by Professor Stuart, will make the widest
appeal, though all will enjoy the concluding paper by Dr Kallen.” R.
C. Lodge

+ — =Bellman= 22:300 Mr 17 ‘17 470w

“The book is specially noteworthy for its importance as a contribution
to American philosophic thought.” F. F. Kelly

+ — =Bookm= 45:181 Ap ‘17 580w

— =Cath World= 105:393 Je ‘17 480w

=Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 40w

Reviewed by M. C. Otto

* =Dial= 62:348 Ap 19 ‘17 2450w

Reviewed by R. B. Perry

* =Int J Ethics= 28:115 O ‘17 3400w

=N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 450w

=Pittsburgh= 22:328 Ap ‘17

=Pratt= p6 O ‘17 20w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 3 ‘17 30w

“There is not an abundance of good philosophy or good writing in this
volume. The contributions of Profs. Dewey and Moore are not without
interest as statements of method.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 200w

“‘Creative intelligence,’ in spite of its attractive title, is not a
treatise for beginners in humanistic philosophy. Yet there are some
who like to begin, as it were, at the top of the pyramid and work
down—who like the intellectual tussle of difficult beginnings. To
these, and to anyone familiar with the concepts of humanism, ‘Creative
intelligence’ is to be recommended. ... In spite of these appreciative
remarks, one cannot help sighing for that exposition at once vivid as
lightning and picturesque as romance, which William James was always
able to provide for anything he had to say.” J: Collier

+ — =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 600w

=DE WINDT, HARRY.= Russia as I know it. il *$3 Lippincott 914.7 18-1412

“The author was previously employed by the Russian government to
investigate (for the benefit of English-speaking people) the Siberian
exile system and reported not unfavorably on it. His findings caused
controversy in the London press. His book deals mainly with European
Russia, although there are separate and interesting chapters on
Siberia, Darker Siberia, Frozen Asia, the Crimea, Finland, and last
but not least, the Russian army. Mr De Windt also describes the
characteristics and life of the Russian people.”—Springf’d Republican

“If Mr De Windt had made the most of his opportunities what splendid
material he had ready to his hand! Instead, we are given a superficial
account of men and manners, well flavoured with anecdotes of social
life and morals, and strongly redolent of the countless excellent
restaurants and menus the author was lucky enough to meet with.”

– + =Ath= p342 Jl ‘17 800w

+ =Ath= p364 Jl ‘17 50w

“Interesting as it is, the material shows every evidence of having
been collated with less thought of homogeneity than of producing a
book that would sell.”

– + =Dial= 63:526 N 22 ‘17 500w

+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 150w

“In telling what he has learned of the Russian character by
long-continued observation Mr De Windt helps his readers to a clearer
understanding of the problems and perplexities which the new Russia is
facing at this moment.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 80w

“His book is no globe-trotter’s journal, but a considered view of the
various facets of Russian life.”

+ =Sat R= 124:250 S 29 ‘17 320w

“We could wish that there had been less about Russia as a playground
and more about her political, artistic, and intellectual qualities,
but only one who knows Russia as a man of the world could have written
this book, and it can therefore be safely recommended as valuable of
its kind.”

+ — =Spec= 119:12 Jl 7 ‘17 1500w

“Although the author may be congratulated on having produced a
readable work, one questions whether it has its permanent historical
value.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 230w

“He can tell as readable a story as anybody could wish to read.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p266 Je 7 ‘17 400w

=DIBBLEE, GEORGE BINNEY.= Germany’s economic position and England’s commercial and industrial policy after the war. *1s Heinemann, London

“This is one of the publications of the Central committee for national
patriotic organizations. ... His analysis (to which the first four
chapters are devoted) in headed paragraphs, of German industrial
expansion, of the influence of the German government and character on
industry, and the dangers of German aggression, is impartial and
instructive. Mr Dibblee deals with our economic policy after the war
in a cautious spirit. He foresees a tariff, but a strictly moderate
one, and a moderate duty on corn. ... Among ‘internal measures of
defence’ he urges the establishment of a foreign trade office and a
system of licenses for employment, transfer of land, company
promotion, export of raw material, &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“This very shrewd and able little book deserves attention.”

+ =Spec= 118:209 F 17 ‘17 380w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 28 ‘16 160w

=DICK, JOHN HARRISON=, ed. Garden guide; the amateur gardener’s handbook. il 75c; pa 50c De La Mare 710 17-11482

The publishers claim for this book a larger aim than that indicated by
the title. They hope “through its medium to win thousands from crowded
city homes to the free air of the open country.” Among the
contributors are F. F. Rockwell, A. J. Loveless, and Charles
Livingston Bull. The subjects taken up include: Planning the home
grounds; Lawns and grass plots; Hedges and fences; Trees and shrubs;
The rose garden; Among the hardy flowers; Annuals and biennials;
Garden furniture; Fruit for the small garden; Vegetable garden;
Pruning, etc. There are numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables.

“Its twenty-four chapters deal in a way easily understood with the
many perplexing problems which confront the beginner and often the
professional as well. A calendar of operations contains much useful
information, while the chapters on garden furniture and accessories
will be eagerly absorbed by the reader who is mechanically inclined.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 140w

=DICKINSON, ASA DON, and DICKINSON, HELEN WINSLOW=, eds. Children’s book of patriotic stories; the spirit of ‘76. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 17-25380

Among the stories selected for this volume are: Jabez Rockwell’s
powderhorn, by Ralph D. Paine; Old Esther Dudley, by Nathaniel
Hawthorne; The battle of Bunker’s Hill, by Washington Irving; The
little fifer, by Helen M. Winslow; Paul Revere’s ride, by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow; A venture in 1777, by S. Weir Mitchell; The
little minute-man, by H. G. Paine; Washington and the spy, by James
Fenimore Cooper. For each story there is a brief introductory note and
the table of contents indicates the stories suitable for older and for
younger children.

“Good reference material for any children’s library.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:172 F ‘18

“A book confessedly more patriotic than historical, since the seeker
of sober truth does not interpret the year ‘76 quite in the spirit of
‘76.” J: Walcott

— =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 60w

“These are good stories for the children of 1917 to read, both because
they are good stories and because, later, the spirit of ‘76 and the
spirit of ‘17 will have much in common.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w

“The work of selection has been well done, and the book may be
recommended for juvenile libraries, public or private.”

+ =Cath World= 106:551 Ja ‘18 100w

=DICKINSON, GOLDSWORTHY LOWES.= Choice before us. *$2 Dodd (*6s Allen & Unwin, London) 172.4 17-29207

“The author’s purpose is to describe briefly the prospect before the
world if the armed international anarchy is to continue, and to be
extended and exasperated, after the war. The origin of the war, and
our participation in it, are not discussed; though the author is of
opinion that we could do ‘no other.’ He seeks to analyse and discuss
the presuppositions which underlie militarism, and arguing both that
international war as it will be conducted in the future implies the
ruin of civilisation, and that it is not ‘inevitable,’ he sketches the
kind of reorganization that is both possible and essential if war is
not to destroy mankind.” (Ath) “Mr Dickinson nurses the belief, not
very strongly it seems to us, that wars may be prevented by a system
of international leagues and international councils of
conciliation. ... He is quite clear that internationalism can effect
nothing unless all the great powers are members of the league. He says
plainly that if Germany and Austria are to be left out of this league
the thing is hopeless, and there is a vista of wars before us. He also
argues with much force that if the Entente powers persist in waging an
economic war against the Central European powers, then the economic
must be followed by a military war.” (Sat R)

=A L A Bkl= 14:111 Ja ‘18

=Ath= p355 Jl ‘17 110w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 150w

+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 60w

“With regard to militarism in England, Mr Lowes Dickinson lays undue
stress on an entirely uninfluential and forgotten book by Captain Ross
in his attempt to find evidences of militarism in countries other than
Germany. The value of the book lies in its appeal to realities; its
criticism of unreal standards and ideals.” M. J.

+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:287 Ja ‘18 330w

“On the whole, Mr Dickinson presents a strong case against the
militarists. A valuable service performed by the author is his
collection of scattered statements made by prominent representatives
of the allied nations into a formidable body of militaristic doctrine.
It is a dangerous plant in whatever soil it may be rooted.”

+ =Nation= 106:19 Ja 3 ‘18 520w

“All who respect clear thinking, large-hearted zeal, and generous
common sense must respect his expression of his views.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 1200w

“Every thinking man and woman should read Mr Dickinson’s book, which
is a series of powerful arguments, written by a most accomplished
disputant, in favour of a combined endeavour by the civilised world to
put an end to war. There is, however, one indispensable condition to
the success of Mr Dickinson’s ideas—international leagues must be in
the hands of responsible statesmen, and not under the control of the
secret societies or led by cosmopolitan anarchists.”

=Sat R= 124:129 Ag 18 ‘17 1050w

“We find these books exceedingly exasperating. ... Their theory of
joint responsibility, with Germany as the worst sinner because the
most completely militarized, ignores the whole history of Prussia as a
predatory Power. ... Books like these should be read—for even in the
worst of them there is much good sense—though their tone and the
attitude of the writers towards the mass of their countrymen make the
reading rather repulsive.”

=Spec= 119:189 Ag 25 ‘17 1200w

“The case against militarism—obvious militarism, and the militarism
which stalks under the guise of imperialistic policy—has seldom been
thought out with keener analysis and closer logic.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 25 ‘17 1150w

“His purpose is so manifestly good, his temper is so reasonable, he is
so desirous to see things as they are that even those who differ from
some of his conclusions, and the many others who miss in his volume a
sense of true proportion, will listen attentively to his argument and
agree with much of it. There are many pages in this volume which
express admirably the opinions of calm, clear-thinking men as to the
outlook and our duties as a nation. ... But the reader who lays down
the volume with the sense that he has learned much from it, and who
agrees that ‘there are in all countries traditions, interests,
prejudices, and illusions making for war,’ may very likely think that
there is a want of perspective in the treatment of the subject, and
that certain facts, fit to be noted in season, are pushed into undue
prominence.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p303 Je 28 ‘17 1800w

=DICKINSON, THOMAS HERBERT.= Contemporary drama of England. (Contemporary drama ser.) *$1.25 (2c) Little 822 17-7563

Beginning with a chapter on The early Victorian theatre, the author
covers the whole field from the beginning of the second quarter of the
nineteenth century to the present. The chapters following the first
are: The decline of the romantic tradition; Adaptation and experiment;
Toward a new English theatre; Dramatists of transition; Henry Arthur
Jones; Arthur Wing Pinero; The busy nineties; New organization; George
Bernard Shaw; Dramatists of the free theatre; The challenge of the
future. There is a bibliographical appendix. The author is professor
of English in the University of Wisconsin and author of “The case of
American drama.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17

“A book of quite extraordinary merit.” Clayton Hamilton

* + =Bookm= 45:538 Jl ‘17 470w

“In a comprehensive bibliographical appendix is given an index of
English plays of the past eighty years, arranged alphabetically by
authors, and a list of books and magazine articles on the drama.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 F 17 ‘17 750w

=Pittsburgh= 22:312 Ap ‘17

“The eleventh chapter, on the ‘Free theater,’ and the twelfth, which
estimates the dramatic labors of Galsworthy, Hankin, Barrie, Craig,
and Barker, will assist both the average theater-patron and the
dramatic student in discerning the trend of modern plays and give them
a better idea of the aims of modern stage producers.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:662 Je ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:182 Je ‘17

“Its historical information is interestingly presented, and it is much
more meaty and detailed than many works of the kind. There are a few
surprising mistakes. ... In interpretation and criticism Mr Dickinson,
while sometimes shrewd and apt, is less satisfactory. He is frequently
too abstract, and finespun in his characterizations. ... This is Mr
Dickinson at his vaguest, and it would be unfair to judge the book by
such instances of strained and pointless criticism. Yet one fears that
these sentences are typical of the instruction which Drama league
audiences and literary clubs are getting in this country.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 26 ‘17 400w

=DICKINSON, THOMAS HERBERT.= Insurgent theatre. *$1.25 (2½c) Huebsch 792 17-30696

A concise, comprehensive discussion of the artistic and practical
sides of the non-commercial theatre. At the outset the point of
agreement taken for granted is the conviction on the part of workers
that the things of the old theatre must be destroyed and a new theatre
be built up in its stead. Without censure against the older order, the
writer confines himself to the struggle for the new theatre,—the
purposes of those who have started out in revolt; its problems of
financial support including experiments in subsidy; the responsibility
of audiences to support a theatre intelligently; early experiments
showing that the machinery was not ready to carry out the new
enterprises; the little theatre; laws that affect management of
theatres, for instance, laws against Sunday performances and
child-labor; dramatic laboratories; the children’s theatre; some of
the pioneers of the insurgent theatre, and a closing chapter on the
“Art and outlook of the insurgent theatre.”

Reviewed by Algernon Tassin

=Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 250w

“It is interesting to compare the attitudes of Professor Dickinson and
Cheney. The two volumes make an admirable combination for the
theaterlover. ... The question of subsidy, direct and through
subscription audiences, is ably handled by Professor Dickinson, as is
the relationship of the college to dramatics in the matter of
experimentation.” L: Gardy

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ja 12 ‘18 250w

“The book is, perhaps, the most comprehensive exposition that has yet
been made of what is generally known as the ‘modern movement.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 160w

+ =R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 110w

“Mr Dickinson is so familiar not only with the subject of the
community theater, but also with the ordinary commercial enterprise
and the lore and philosophy of the drama, that he has a background for
understanding what he is talking about. No wild beliefs in the
efficacy of new amateur theaters to build up a new social stratum in
America tinge his views.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 6 ‘17 950w

“But this is more than a chronicle of the pioneers and their ventures;
it is a clear, balanced and broadminded critique, helpful alike to the
play-lover, the actor, the playwright and the producer. The
responsibility of the audience is well-defined, the artistic devotion
of those who are working out little theaters in town and country is
keenly appreciated, and an encouraging outlook for the future is
entertained.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ =Survey= 39:447 Ja 19 ‘18 310w

=DICKSON, HARRIS.= Unpopular history of the United States by Uncle Sam himself; as recorded in Uncle Sam’s own words. il *75c (3c) Stokes 355 17-25097

The manuscript of Upton’s “Military policy of the United States,”
based on Civil war experience, lay filed and forgotten amongst
millions of documents in the archives of the War department for
twenty-five years. Then it saw the light. It was published by Mr
Dickson. He says, “Every word that I have spoken here you will find in
there; it has my official endorsement, printed on my presses, franked
thru my mails, and sent free to my people. It’s true gospel, but folks
say it doesn’t taste good.” Uncle Sam does the talking and he spares
no forcible language to take the brag and bluster out of Americans who
complaisantly think our war system is equal to the emergency of today.
It is an arraignment of the volunteer service idea underlying military
policy and a plea for universal, compulsory military service for both
war and peace.

=A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w

“It is poorly written; the writer, making Uncle Sam the speaker, rips
out regular gosh-ding stuff. But the facts are interesting. For one
who thrills at military victories, and is ashamed of military defeats,
this book is a bit of a tonic. But for one whose interest is in the
welfare of the people of the nation, rather than their Prussian
prowess, this work is but an interesting sidelight into national
psychology.” W: M. Feigenbaum

+ — =N Y Call= p14 O 14 ‘17 500w

“The general effect of having these facts known to the people should
be wholesome and in every way stimulating to patriotism and
efficiency.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:104 Ja ‘18 70w

=DIDEROT, DENIS.= Early philosophical works; tr. and ed. by Margaret Jourdain. (Open court ser. of classics of science and philosophy) il *$1.25 (2½c) Open ct. 194

This little volume includes the “Philosophic thoughts,” the “Letter on
the blind,” together with its “Addition,” and the “Letter on the deaf
and dumb,” published with notes and an appendix. In the “Philosophic
thoughts” Diderot “still figures as a deist.” The “Letter on the
blind” treats both of the theory of vision and of the argument from
design, while the “Letter on the deaf and dumb” deals largely with
esthetics. The introduction of twenty-five pages is by the translator
and editor.

“Diderot’s range is extraordinary, as within this small volume he
breaks ground in ethics and aesthetics, in the criticism of religion
and of art. ... The ‘Letter on the deaf and dumb’ is full of
interesting speculations upon aesthetics, which Lessing afterwards
turned to account, and the ‘Philosophic thoughts,’ burnt by the
Parliament of Paris in 1746, has still its interest as a breviary of
philosophic scepticism.”

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:538 Jl ‘17 220w

“The main philosophical point treated in the volume is the relation
between mental development and sensuous endowment, a point on which
some diversity of opinion is still maintained. His conclusion is that
‘the state of our organs and our senses has a great influence upon our
metaphysics and our morality.’ ... To most modern psychologists
Diderot’s principle will seem so manifestly true as scarcely to admit
of discussion. Nevertheless, the principle has been called into
question recently by the new realists, who argue that the human mind
is in immediate contact with objective truth. For the confutation of
such views Diderot’s acute observations upon a blind man and a
deaf-mute of his acquaintance are not without value at the present
time.”

=Nature= 99:343 Je 28 ‘17 230w

“This collection of Diderot’s ‘Early works’ is worthy to be studied in
connection with Morley’s book on ‘Diderot and the Encyclopedists,’ but
it will be found interesting for its religious and esthetic
speculations by all readers of intellectual tastes.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 23 ‘17 170w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p136 Mr 22 ‘17 1250w

=DILNOT, FRANK.= Lloyd George: the man and his story. il *$1 (2c) Harper 17-10671

The author has written of the career of the man who now rules England
“with an absoluteness granted to no man, king or statesman, since the
British became a nation,” as he himself has watched it. Among the
chapters are: The village cobbler who helped the British empire; How
Lloyd George became famous at twenty-five; Fighting the lone hand; The
daredevil statesman; The first great task; How Lloyd George broke the
House of lords; At home and in Downing Street; A champion of war; The
alliance with Northcliffe; At high pressure; His inconsistencies; How
he became prime minister; The future of Lloyd George. Lloyd George’s
Lincoln day message is reprinted in an appendix.

=A L A Bkl= 14:23 O ‘17

“The book will well repay perusal.”

+ =Ath= p473 S ‘17 50w

“Mr Dilnot has given us, not a critical estimate of the great English
leader, for that is, at a time when men feel rather than think,
impossible, but a clear, journalistic, if you will, and sympathetic
account of the man as he appears to a newspaper writer who has had an
unusual opportunity for following his career and a capacity for its
interpretation. He is frankly an enthusiastic believer in the man and
his policies.” J. T. Gerould

=Bellman= 22:438 Ap 21 ‘17 700w

“Our thanks are due to Mr Dilnot for the most plausible picture yet
given us of the most extraordinary man of the epoch.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Bookm= 45:415 Je ‘17 1900w

“Mr Dilnot has had first-hand acquaintance with British politics and
political leaders for two or three decades, and he has written a
substantial book on the dramatic contest over the Lloyd George budget
of 1909. The present biography is a simple chronicle, highly
laudatory, yet hardly more than the subject seems to demand.”

+ =Dial= 62:529 Je 14 ‘17 300w

“The Prime minister of the British empire has had a career so meteoric
and possesses a personality so unusual that biographers are likely to
swarm about his story for many a day. Mr Dilnot’s, which is one of the
best thus far, is brief, less than 200 pages, but graphic, and aims
less to give a conventional account of his life than to present a
picture of him that will make understandable his character and
career.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:140 Ap 15 ‘17 1100w

“Lloyd George will be chiefly known, we believe, as the friend of the
poor, and this is the thread which runs through the volume, especially
accentuated as to labor influence.”

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 220w

=Pittsburgh= 22:526 Je ‘17 50w

+ =R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17

“He writes as a candid friend, and devotes a whole chapter to Mr Lloyd
George’s ‘inconsistencies,’ but for all that he contrives to suggest
that the history of England for the last ten years has centred in his
hero. The future historian will, we think, take a different view.”

– + =Spec= 119:192 Ag 25 ‘17 120w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 550w

=DITCHFIELD, PETER HAMPSON.= England of Shakespeare. il *$2 Dutton (*6s Methuen & co., London) 822.3 (Eng ed 17-17653)

“Mr Ditchfield has provided here a series of pen-sketches depicting in
a popular and readable way the England that was Shakespeare’s, its
religion, the court, the capital, the poet’s home, travelling, the
great country-houses, the navy and army, agriculture and trade, dress,
literature, and the drama, the people’s games and sports, the
prevalent roguery, vagabondage, and punishments, and the current
superstitions, such as beliefs in necromancy, astrology, and
witchcraft. The book includes twelve illustrations.”—Ath

=Ath= p201 Ap ‘17 80w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 7 ‘17 550w

“Every student of Shakespeare, and, indeed, every student of
Elizabethan literature, should read this book. It contains much rare
and curious information helpful for the interpretation of the
literature of the time. We hope that the author, in a second edition,
will expurge the offensive expression ‘papists’ which constantly
disfigures the pages of his book, and substitute the true appellation
‘Catholic’ instead.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:396 D ‘17 410w

“The kindly country clergyman shows his real quality when he describes
what he calls the country of ‘leafy Warwickshire,’ as typical of the
rest of rural England in Shakespeare’s time. ‘The England of
Shakespeare’ is a book that no lover of Shakespeare can afford not to
read.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 550w

“Making all due allowances for the exigencies of war time, we must
still consider Mr Ditchfield curiously careless in small details. Any
Latin scholar could make obvious emendations in the lines on p. 200,
and there are several misquotations of passages and names that should
be familiar as household words. His selections from representative
views of the period are the strong point of his book.”

+ — =Sat R= 123:257 Mr 17 ‘17 1250w

“All the main facts are well known already. But Mr Ditchfield retells
them with such enthusiasm and in a setting of such pleasant anecdote
and quotation that they must make an appeal of freshness even to the
mind saturated in seventeenth-century history.”

+ =Spec= 118:415 Ap 7 ‘17 1900w

“Especially graphic are the pen pictures which the author gives of the
famous queen herself.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p83 F 15 ‘17 100w

=DIVER, MRS KATHERINE HELEN MAUD (MARSHALL).= Unconquered; a romance. il *$1.50 (1½c) Putnam 17-23756

Mrs Diver has written in “Unconquered” a war novel of conventional
type. It tells the story of Sir Mark Forsyth’s infatuation for Bel
Alison, a selfish young beauty, his return from the war with an
injured spine, the exit of the beauty from the scene and the entrance
of Sheila Melrose, the sweet young girl who has always loved Sir Mark
and who is his mother’s choice for him.

=A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18

“As a love-story the book, despite its wordiness, should prove of
interest to those who like their war literature flavoured with
romance. As an indictment of democratic government it has too much the
air of being wise after the event.”

– + =Ath= p596 N ‘17 90w

“Mrs Diver has done this part of her story especially well, for it
requires skill to make so vivid and yet so restrained a drawing of
those early war days.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 16 ‘18 1450w

=Nation= 106:95 Ja 24 ‘18 170w

“The novel is too long, and the latter part of its drags more than a
little, but it is written with sincerity.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 500w

“In spite of the thin motif, the book has merits. ... Moreover, in an
age overgiven to revolt against anything which makes for a standard or
for discipline, it is refreshing to find an advocate of ‘the brave old
wisdom of acceptance’ as a philosophy of life.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:311 O 20 ‘17 280w

“As we read the book we live through once again those summer and
autumn months of 1914. It is a true picture of the early phases of
public opinion in regard to the war, as well as a good love-story.”

+ =Spec= 119:451 O 27 ‘17 750w

“The only touch of individuality anywhere is Bel’s pacifism. The other
characters are just puppets trained to make a continual call upon the
admiration of the reader. What is still more unfortunate is that Mrs
Diver has bespattered her pages with serious discussion in the manner
of the most commonplace leading articles of three years ago. ... We
are treated by these solemn talkers to all the old truths which have
now become truisms, and the old clichés which have become banalities.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p494 O 11 ‘17 250w

=DIXON, ROYAL.= Human side of birds. il *$1.60 (3½c) Stokes 598.2 17-29555

An original study of birds which characterizes them according to their
activities. Some are artists, cliff-dwellers and mound-builders,
policemen, dancers, athletes and musicians; while others are
scavengers and street cleaners, aviators, fishermen, mimics,
ventriloquists and actors. The bird court of justice and the bird
beauty parlor also come in for a share of novel treatment. Mr Dixon
says, “It should be remembered that birds have a life, a point of
view, and a destiny of their own, and that our failure to comprehend
them in no way justifies us in concluding that they are in every sense
below us in the scale of existence. ... There are birds of as many
shades of character and disposition as there are types of people.
There are the gay, the sad; the sociable, the reserved; the trustful,
the shy; the frank, the deceitful; the honest, the dishonest; the
gentle, the violent; the peaceful, the quarrelsome; and so on.
However, it should be emphasized that the prevailing note of birddom
is one of happiness and good cheer.”

“Mr Dixon has a fertile imagination, but he also has a wide knowledge
of nature and he is very enthusiastic.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p3 D 15 ‘17 950w

“It contains much curious information, scientific and historic, and
some that is neither, in a strict sense, but is none the less
readable.”

+ =Dial= 63:537 N 22 ‘17 180w

“Colored plates and many photographs add to the attractiveness of the
pleasantly chatty and at times quaintly imaginative papers.”

+ =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 30w

“It is a very interesting book and one which ought to open the eyes
and sharpen the perceptions of most people to whom a tree is just a
tree. The last chapter, on ‘Trees and civilization,’ is full of facts,
eloquently presented, to show how great is the necessity that the
human world and the tree world should co-operate for the good of
civilization.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:289 Ag 5 ‘17 450w

“The book has a unique interest. The pictures are excellent.”

+ =Outlook= 117:577 D 5 ‘17 50w

+ =Pratt= p19 O ‘17 20w

=DIXON, ROYAL, and FITCH, FRANKLYN EVERETT.= Human side of trees; wonders of the tree world. il *$1.60 (4c) Stokes 582 17-10453

“Man is the highest form of animal life and the trees are the highest
form of vegetable life. They have much in common,” say the authors of
this book. It is a companion volume to “The human side of plants” and
its purpose is “to present the trees as living, lovable
personalities—working and playing in a world quite as real and vital
as our own; and possessing many habits and attributes which we often
imagine are exclusively human.” Among the chapters are: Trees that
build cities; Trees with a personality; Tree physiology; Trees that
are fashionable; Trees with a college education; Trees and their
business methods. There are over thirty illustrations, some of them in
color.

“The illustrations are good and facts are authentic, but scientists
may take exception to the method of presentation.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:381 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 380w

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:76 My ‘17

+ =Outlook= 115:761 Ap 25 ‘17 30w

+ =R of Rs= 55:665 Je ‘17 230w

“The book is, of course, rather entertaining than scientific, but the
devices which it employs are legitimate apart from their object in
interesting the student in a further pursuit of the science of
dendrology.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 4 ‘17 130w

=DIXON, WILLIAM MACNEILE.= British navy at war. il *75c (3c) Houghton 940.91 18-1524

The professor of English language and literature in the University of
Glasgow has given a graphic account of the work of the British navy
during the war. He considers The war at sea—New problems—German
tactics; tells of The ocean battles—Coronel and the Falkland Isles; of
the North sea battles—the Dogger Bank and Jutland; of the work of the
Submarines; of Blockade and bombardment; pays a tribute to the Grand
fleet and ends with a summary of What the British navy has done for
the world. The author acknowledges his indebtedness to the
correspondence columns of the Times and to the Cornhill and other
magazines for a number of descriptive quotations.

“Before the United States entered the great war we heard now and then
that question of unpardonable ignorance: ‘What is the British fleet
doing?’ ... The author has with remarkable brevity and brilliancy told
the real story of the British navy in the recent war. It thrills the
reader, and it is as authentic as it is inspiring.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 700w

“Every word of it makes interesting reading; and not a small part of
the pleasure the book imparts, is due to the author’s clear and
flowing style.”

+ =Cath World= 106:265 N ‘17 250w

+ =Ind= 92:301 N 10 ‘17 70w

“As a chronology of events it is of considerable value.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 170w

=N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 300w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 20w

=R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 40w

“This is a handy little book for the general reader who finds it hard
to keep in mind a connected account of British naval operations simply
from reading the papers. But if one is looking for a critical analysis
of these operations, one must turn elsewhere. As history it is simply
a hymn of praise.” W: O. Stevens

– + =Yale R= n s 7:418 Ja ‘18 950w

=DOBBS, ELLA VICTORIA.= Illustrative handwork for elementary school subjects. il *$1.10 Macmillan 371.3 17-13974

This desk manual discusses “the use of sand tables, pictures, and
construction work in developing a clear understanding of history,
geography and literature.” (Ind) “There are about twenty selected
projects in detail besides lists of projects carried out by fifth,
sixth and seventh grades.” (School Arts Magazine)

+ =Ind= 91:294 Ag 25 ‘17 70w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:103 Jl ‘17

“Every classroom teacher should have this manual on her desk.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:44 S ‘17 120w

=DODGE, HENRY IRVING.= Skinner’s baby. *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 17-25433

The Skinners had distinctly “arrived” since the first dress-suit was
bought but husband and wife are still dividing “fifty-fifty.” How
would it be over the baby? Would he be Skinner’s or Honey’s? He was to
be a “regular boy.” So much was agreed. And a “regular boy” must have
“a clean mind, a stout heart, and a strong body.” Could they make him
one by working together or must each do a separate part? It took some
adjusting but in the end it was “fifty-fifty” still. For his mother
taught him to pray while his father showed him the way to the old
swimming-pool and to the use of the boxing-gloves. And together
husband and wife solved the puzzles that will fall to the share of, if
not every reader, at least to every reader’s neighbor.

=A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18