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“The little tale is amusing, and the account of Skinner’s dreams
before the baby came at once funny and pathetic. Baby Skinner himself
is no supernaturally virtuous cherub, but a sturdy youngster,
energetic, inquisitive, and possessed of that appalling logic which
some children wield, to the utter dismay of those who endeavor to cope
with them.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 210w

=DODGE, LOUIS.= Children of the desert. *$1.35 (2½c) Scribner 17-7927

This is the story of Harboro and Sylvia. Harboro was forty when he met
Sylvia. He had led the adventurous life of a railroad man in the
Southwest and in Mexico. He was solid and substantial, a very rock of
firmness and integrity. Sylvia was—there is no other word for her—a
light woman. Harboro married her, knowing nothing of her past, and the
men who did know and the woman who suspected kept silent out of
respect for Harboro. Out of such a situation tragedy must inevitably
come. The amazing thing about the story is the appealing sweetness of
Sylvia. As the author draws her character, it is impossible wholly to
condemn her. The action is played out in two towns that face one
another across the Rio Grande.

“Mr Dodge makes both the woman and the man wholly plausible, and it is
obvious that he seeks to present them as the victims of an inexorable
fate.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 21 ‘17 350w

“A work of intense concentration and elimination. ... The author has
shown in this latest novel an underlying strength and determination
that ought to carry him a long way, and that should also lead him to
overcome the looseness of writing that is such a blot upon his careful
structure.”

+ — =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 330w

“The author of ‘Bonnie May’ has written another book. And a greater
difference can scarcely be imagined than that which exists between
Louis Dodge’s first published novel and this second book which has
just appeared. ‘Children of the desert’ is a study of character and of
a problem which has been studied before and which will probably be
studied for many a long year to come; it is set in the crudity and the
wildness of Mexican border life; it is profoundly simple; and it is
sheer tragedy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:83 Mr 11 ‘17 700w

“While it is remarkably restrained in tone, free from gunfire and all
traces of flashiness, some of its vital features belong to melodrama,
and its dénouement, tho tragic in Hardy’s second best manner, is
brought about by a potently melodramatic device. On the one hand the
book inspires serious comparisons; and on the other it makes one
wonder whether it is justified beyond the furnishing of an evening’s
excitement.” Joseph Mosher

=Pub W= 91:972 Mr 17 ‘17 500w

“Louis Dodge’s purpose in portraying the type of woman whose behavior
is the central thread of ‘Children of the desert’ is not clear. Her
portrayal proves nothing more valuable than it is possible for a human
being to be without moral sense. Mr Dodge handles his theme with
considerable skill, but his instinct to drown the novelist in the
essayist will not down.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 220w

Domestic service, by an old servant; with a preface by Mrs George Wemyss. il *$1 (4½c) Houghton 647 17-24417

“This is not a manual of domestic service, but recollections,
reflections, and advice to young servants by an old servant who has
been in nineteen situations—nine in Scotland, and ten in
England—covering a period of fifty-two years.” (Ath) “It gives a
realistic picture of life as it is lived and thought about by the
typical well-behaved, well-treated servant of the old school, rather
prosily contented in the lot whereto God has called her, happy to be
remembered in the blessings of a considerate master or mistress.”
(Springf’d Republican)

“The ‘old servant’s’ account, which is carefully edited, is a pleasing
record of good feeling on the side both of employers and employed.”

=Ath= p411 Ag ‘17 60w

“It is a delight to read this simple, moving record. There is emphasis
in each chapter on the enduring value of loyalty in every walk of
life.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 40w

“With all proper respect for the virtue of contentment there is
genuine pathos in the sheeplike quality of the nameless author’s
devotion to duty. The editor of the book has shown doubtful wisdom or
kindness in leaving the author’s English at its original loose ends.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 160w

=DOMINIAN, LEON.= Frontiers of language and nationality in Europe. il *$3 Holt 940 17-15963

“This book is submitted as a study in applied geography. Its
preparation grew out of a desire to trace the connection existing
between linguistic areas in Europe and the subdivision of the
continent into nations. The endeavor has been made to show that
language exerts a strong formative influence on nationality because
words express thoughts and ideals. But underlying the currents of
national feeling, or of speech, is found the persistent action of the
land, or geography. ... Upon these foundations, linguistic frontiers
deserve recognition as the symbol of the divide between distinct sets
of economic and social conditions.” (Preface) The author is a graduate
of Robert college, Constantinople, and he has given particular
attention to the Turkish situation because of its importance in the
whole European entanglement. The book is an outgrowth of a series of
articles written for the Bulletin of the American Geographical
Society. The several colored maps of the book have been prepared under
the direction of the American geographical society, and Dr Madison
Grant, its president, has written the introduction.

“Seems qualified to become a standard source of information on the
topics in the field it covers.” C. D.

+ =Am Econ R= 7:841 D ‘17 60w

“A full linguistic atlas of Europe is a desideratum, and the author
has come so near to supplying it that one regrets he did not go
further and include many more of the available but scattered
linguistic maps of different sections. In matters touching the
character, history, and relationship of languages, there are not a few
remarks which savor of uncritical popular philology, some merely naïve
in expression, some positively erroneous. But these do not seriously
affect the main purpose and value of the book.” C. D. Buck

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:171 O ‘17 900w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17

“When the author leaves the task of analysis to outline the
application of what racial and linguistic conditions he considers the
proper bases for boundary-making and their application to present-day
political problems, his discussion becomes less convincing.” C. L.
Jones

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:238 S ‘17 450w

Reviewed by Albert Schinz

+ =Bookm= 46:293 N ‘17 550w

“Excellent maps, showing in colors the distribution of peoples, and
also showing-languages having political significance, greatly aid in
presenting the results of the author’s study. ... In size, type,
illustrations and mechanical work the book is excellent.” H. S. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 450w

+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 30w

“The author is decidedly at his best in treating of the racial
situation in Turkey.”

+ =Ind= 91:265 Ag 18 ‘17 120w

“The material here gathered is of great value to the student of
history, diplomacy, and language, and this service does not depend
upon the author’s theories and solutions.”

+ =Lit D= 55:43 O 13 ‘17 370w

“Mr Dominian is well-fitted to perform his task because of his
familiarity with European languages, geography, and politics; and his
work is a valuable contribution to that large mass of data, literary
and otherwise, which undoubtedly will play an important part in the
readjustment of national boundaries in Europe at the termination of
the war.”

+ =Nation= 105:637 D 6 ‘17 850w

“Supplies a pressing need. In any circumstances the appearance of this
book would have been an event of importance to scholars since it is by
far the most competent work on the subject available in English. Just
now its practical value is so great that it ought not to become a
scholar’s monopoly.” A. J.

+ =New Repub= 11:337 Jl 21 ‘17 1050w

“The author deserves a special word of commendation for the impartial
attitude of mind with which he has faced his facts and endeavored to
give to each one its full significance.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:256 Jl 8 ‘17 430w

+ =Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:760 N ‘17 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 700w

“Anyone who thinks it will be quite easy to adjust boundaries after
this war so as to insure stable equilibrium through any simple formula
like ‘respect for the rights of small nationalities’ should read this
careful and scholarly study.” K. H. Claghorn

+ =Survey= 38:553 S 22 ‘17 500w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p599 D 6 ‘17 130w

“The book is full of learning interestingly expressed, cleverly
arranged, and adequately illustrated with typical photographs and
careful maps, in one of which he is at pains to leave uncoloured the
uninhabited areas, a lesson in accuracy to be learned by many
ethnographical cartographers. East of the Aegean, however, Mr
Dominian’s work is more open to criticism than when he deals with
Europe.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p611 D 13 ‘17 2000w

=DONHAM, S. AGNES.= Marketing and housework manual. il *$1.50 Little 640 17-31012

Here is offered the benefit of twenty years of study and experiment in
scientific household management. The instruction covers the following
phases of home activity: General rules for marketing; Marketing
charts; Menu making; Menu and order sheets; How to select foods—what
the body needs; Food inventory; The cellar and laundry; The kitchen
and kitchen pantry; The dining room, pantry and dish washing; The
dining room and table service; The living room; The chambers and bed
making; The bathroom and storage closets; General cleaning—sweeping,
dusting; To open and close a house; House inspections; Small repairs,
plumbing troubles; The reading of gas and electric meters; Program of
work; Household pests.

=DORLAND, WILLIAM ALEXANDER NEWMAN.=[2] Sum of feminine achievement. *$1.50 Stratford co. 396 17-24822

A critical and analytical study of woman’s contribution to the
intellectual progress of the world. This is “the century of the
women,” the writer avers, “The course of development of the education
of women has been by cycles, and at the present time there appears to
have been reached an unusual wave, sweeping on the movement with
unusual force and energy.” The chapter headings suggest the scope of
the volume: Genius and femininity; A galaxy of talent; The mentality
of famous men and women compared; The achievements of women in youth
and old age; The sum of feminine achievement; Woman’s contribution to
science; The feminine side of art; Woman in literature; The
intellectual correlation of the sexes. An alphabetical table is
appended of the famous women of modern times.

=Pittsburgh= 22:765 N ‘17 80w

=DORR, MRS RHETA (CHILDE).=[2] Inside the Russian revolution. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 947 17-31172

A clearly written, popular, first hand account of the dramatic
happenings in Russia, during the past few months of revolution and
upheaval. Liberal, democratic inclinations furnish the writer
standards of measurement and criticism. She points out the underlying
aims of the Bolsheviki or Maximalists and comments upon their
unfitness for leadership. Among the events which she reviews are the
July revolution, the striking activities of Mareea Botchkareva, the
modern Joan d’Arc who commanded the Battalion of death, the treachery
of Rasputin and his tragic death, the part that Anna Virubova played
in the revolutionary drama, the passing of the Romanoffs and the
leadership of Kerensky. The closing chapters consider Russia’s
greatest needs—leadership, education, wholesome popular amusements,
soda fountains—and venture a conjecture or two concerning what could
happen in Russia next. At the moment when the Bolsheviki are
attracting favorable notice many of Mrs Dorr’s statements and
prophecies seem obsolete.

“Does not reflect the changed conditions.”

– + =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 240w

“An important book of the Russian situation and events leading to it.”

+ =Ind= 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 30w

“It furnishes most excellent reading for the host of half-baked
reformers who imagine that the world can be created anew overnight,
and deserves a wide circulation both among these and among readers who
take a saner point of view.”

+ =Outlook= 118:68 Ja 9 ‘18 100w

=R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 100w

“Vivid and most instructive narrative. Mrs Dorr’s book is an excellent
piece of reporting.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 4 ‘18 730w

=DORSEY, GEORGE AMOS.= Young Low. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-18356

It is for the most part the life of an average young American under
average conditions that the author describes. Young Low spends his
boyhood and youth in a small town in Ohio. His home is the
commonplace, middle-class home, his parents are not without
understanding of boy nature, and his childhood is on the whole happy.
Yet in two matters, religion and sex, the handicap of his early
training remains with him for many years, if not for life. Much of the
latter half of the story has to do with the agencies that were helpful
in overcoming the effects of his narrow training in religion and his
utter lack of training in regard to sex. The person who helped clarify
his ideas on this question was Alexandra Lanflere. This woman, who
stood in a relation to him that his early standards would have
condemned, is represented as the best and finest influence that had
come into his life.

“The publishers announce that ‘you have never read a book like this.
You have never read so frank a revelation of a young man’s life—a
boyhood and youth intensely American, both in ancestry and
surroundings.’ This exaggerates matters a little, since we may recall
a number of stories of recent years which approach this one in realism
of setting and ‘frankness,’ not to say grossness, of detail. Part 1 of
this book gives an uncommonly vivid picture of certain aspects of
childhood and boyhood in a small Ohio community. We have already had
such a picture, frank without grossness, in Mr Howells’s ‘A boy’s
town,’ and the two pictures might well be compared as illustrating the
difference between protestant and catholic methods of literary art.”
H. W. Boynton

— =Bookm= 45:646 Ag ‘17 450w

“There is nothing more remarkable in the story than the way in which
the author gets under the mental attitude of Young Low and makes us
see its naturalness and its inevitability.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 22 ‘17 850w

“It is unfortunate that the really excellent presentation of matter
should be marred by a vast amount of modern Freudian dogma, which has
not yet worked down to reasonable proportions.”

+ — =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 200w

“Here, for a recent American example, is the ‘Young Low’ of a ‘new’
writer who essays to be extremely American in the continental
manner—or, it is more just to say, in the continental mood. It
refreshingly lacks the Russo-Gallic accent which our bold young
‘realists’ so frequently affect. It has an excellent autobiographical
style, free from bookishness on the one hand and from the
conventionalized vernacular of the magazines on the other.”

– + =Nation= 105:177 Ag 16 ‘17 600w

“The story has the faults that are inherent in its method. ...
Nevertheless, it is an interesting tale, written with vigor and
sincerity and a wide and varied knowledge of American life. ... The
author’s sense of character is stronger than his ability in its
portrayal. ... He writes with plainness of language upon the sexual
impulses, inhibitions, experiences, and knowledge of the boy, the
adolescent, and the young man, but there is in all his pages no taint
of the lascivious. ... Artistically the finest feature of the book is
the sense of the urge of dynamic forces in American life, in both
society in general and in the individual.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 750w

=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Eternal husband, and other stories. (Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, v. 8) *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 17-17080

Three stories newly translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett
are included in this volume: The eternal husband; The double; A gentle
spirit. In the first story a woman is characterized as “one of those
women who are born to be unfaithful wives.” The woman herself is dead
at the opening of the story, which thereafter has to do chiefly with a
man who had once been her lover and his relations with her husband.
The husband is he who is characterized in the title, a man who all his
life is a husband and nothing more. He is the complementary type to
the woman referred to.

“Confused, occasionally incoherent in style.”

— =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 30w

“All of Dostoevsky’s qualities are in this latest volume, ‘The eternal
husband.’ But so concentrated are they that the Dostoevsky novice
would better begin with that poignant, but less extravagant, story,
‘The insulted and injured,’ or that epic of frustrated aspiration,
‘The brothers Karamazov.’ ... Such stories as in ‘The eternal
husband’, however fantastic the problems of the soul, get deeply into
us. We cannot ignore them, we cannot take them irresponsibly. We
cannot read them for amusement, or even in detachment, as we can our
classics. We forget our categories, our standards, our notions of
human nature. All we feel is that we are tracing the current of life
itself. ... If we are strong enough to hear him, this is the decisive
force we need on our American creative outlook.” Randolph Bourne

+ =Dial= 63:24 Je 28 ‘17 1500w

“‘The eternal husband’ and ‘The double’ are over long, and loosely
constructed. They are both excellent studies of the abnormal, as is
usual Dostoevsky; but they possess one quality which is not at all
usual with him, or indeed with any other Russian novelist—the quality
of humor. An ironic and rather sneering humor, to be sure, but still
undoubtedly humor.”

+ — =Ind= 93:150 Ja 26 ‘18 150w

+ =R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 150w

“The three long short-stories that make up this volume hardly rank
with the best of Dostoevsky’s work—although they belong to the
greatest period of his genius—but they are interesting as illustrating
his methods. ... ‘The eternal husband’ is a powerful psychological
study of a man of unpleasant type. ... The second story in the volume.
‘The double,’ is the least successful, but the last, ‘The gentle
spirit,’ which deals with a man’s sensations after his wife’s death,
is unforgettable.”

+ =Sat R= 123:343 Ap 14 ‘17 600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 22 ‘17 1750w

“‘The double,’ was published the same year as ‘Poor folk,’ but not
even Mrs Garnett and Dostoievski together can make it worth reading.
‘The eternal husband’ is a later work, and the exceedingly powerful
close atones for much indifferent matter in the course of the story.”
W: L. Phelps

– + =Yale R= n s 7:188 O ‘17 190w

=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Gambler, and other stories; from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$1.50 (lc) Macmillan

The ninth volume of Mrs Garnett’s translation of the works of
Dostoevsky. It contains three stories, “The gambler,” “Poor people,”
and “The landlady.” The title story follows the fortunes of a poor
Russian tutor at a German resort where the roulette table furnished
the main diversion—nay more, obsession. The best of him is his love of
Polina. Under his eye she debases herself. Disillusionment leaves him
easy prey for the fitful caprice of the roulette board. He is drawn
into the vortex when the reader leaves him. “Poor people” portrays the
struggles of folk of humble life. The story is told in a series of
letters between an elderly clerk and a young girl who turns from him
to marry a prosperous tradesman. The third tale, “The landlady,” tells
the symbolic story of a luckless student who was baffled in liberating
the girl he loved from the prison house that bound her.

+ =Ind= 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 220w

“Had Dostoevsky never written anything else these stories would
suffice to give him rank among the great writers. They are not
‘pleasant’ tales, they are tales of the kind described by the
quotation which heads ‘Poor people,’ tales that ‘unearth all sorts of
unpleasant things,’ and therefore the lovers of sugary fiction will do
well to avoid them. But those who care for human nature and for the
art of writing will find them distinctly fascinating.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:516 D 2 ‘17 1300w

“The first story in particular seems to us to have a sharpness and
clearness of outline which is sometimes lacking in the author’s more
elaborate works.”

+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 80w

“Mrs Garnett is one of the two best translators from the Russian that
live to-day, but even she cannot make ‘The gambler, and other stories’
anything but dull. It is at least pleasant to have in our hands a
trustworthy and complete translation of the tales.”

– + =Sat R= 124:311 O 20 ‘17 70w

“‘The gambler’ is evidently based on a French model, and the humor is
forced and metallic, as if the author were not really interested in
his theme. The best story in the book is Dostoevsky’s first work,
‘Poor people.’”

– + =Spec= 119:359 O 6 ‘17 920w

“‘The gambler’ will throw a good deal of light upon the processes of
the mind whose powers seem almost beyond analysis in such works as
‘The idiot’ and ‘The brothers Karamazov.’ If we call it second rate
compared with these, we mean chiefly that it impresses us as a sketch
flung off at tremendous and almost inarticulate speed by a writer of
such abundant power that even into this trifle, this scribbled and
dashed-off fragment, the fire of genius has been breathed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p489 O 11 ‘17 1100w

=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Pages from the journal of an author; tr. by S. Koteliansky and J. Middleton Murry. (Modern Russian library) *$1.25 (5c) Luce, J: W. 891.7 (Eng ed 17-20968)

This book contains two selections. Of the first, “The dream of a queer
fellow,” Mr Murry in his introduction says, “It is an epitome of the
problems which tormented him.” With this dream allegory is included
the speech on Pushkin, delivered on June 8, 1880 at the meeting of the
Society of lovers of Russian literature, with additional notes.

=Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 70w

“The little story or essay of sombre intensity is a key to
Dostoevsky’s works.” Nellie Poorman

=Dial= 62:481 My 31 ‘17 800w

“In the beatific vision described with such felicitous simplicity in
‘The dream of a queer fellow,’ the quintessence of Dostoevsky’s
questionings, desolation, strivings and mental sufferings is revealed.
One gets the strange feeling that he is telling truths beyond which
there are no others.” D: Rosenstein

+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 29 ‘17 2300w

=DOTY, ALVAH HUNT.= Good health; how to get it and how to keep it. il *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 613 17-19827

This book by the former health officer of the port of New York tells
the layman, in simple terms, how to get well and how to keep well. “It
has been the aim of the author to include in this book the essential
and salient points in the construction of the body and function of its
various parts; also to discuss public health problems, the maintenance
of individual physical well-being, the means by which infectious
diseases are transmitted and how they may be prevented, the importance
of pure air, good water and nourishing food, as well as other matters
connected with the subject of hygiene.” (Preface) The last chapter
deals with “Prompt aid to the injured.”

“No better or more authoritative book of this sort has appeared. It is
thorough in its treatment of the subject, accurate in its statements
and considers with much detail every phase of the question. Dr Doty
takes nothing for granted as to how much his readers may know
already.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:541 D 9 ‘17 470w

=R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 50w

=DOTY, MADELEINE ZABRISKIE.= Short rations: an American woman in Germany, 1915-1916. il *$1.50 (3c) Century 940.91 17-8352

An account of two visits to the warring countries. “It is the story of
what happens at home when men go to war,” says the author. She adds a
significant paragraph in explanation of her title: “While the men at
the front slaughter one another, at home the mothers and children, the
sick, the aged, the prisoners, are starved spiritually,
intellectually, and physically. Life becomes a fight for existence, a
struggle for one’s self and not for humanity.” The first visit was
made at the time of the Woman’s peace conference at The Hague. The
second was made in 1916. Of particular interest is the account of the
second visit to Germany.

“A popular and moving appeal for a speedy cessation of war.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:345 My ‘17

=Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 200w

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 4 ‘17 550w

“An emotional book, obviously overdrawn, but moving in the extreme.”

=Cleveland= p82 Je ‘17 70w

“By means of a very feminine degree of intuition, a journalistic sense
of observation, a telegraphic style, and a purely American sense of
humor, Miss Doty has achieved one of the most suggestive reports of
conditions inside the German empire that it has been our fortune to
see.”

+ =Dial= 62:484 My 31 ‘17 370w

“If Miss Doty had entered Germany less prejudiced against the
government and the people and with some knowledge of the German
language—she was entirely dependent upon interpreters—her book would
have gained much in authority. At the same time her experiences are
interesting, often exciting, and they are told with eagerness and
zest.”

+ — =Nation= 105:129 Ag 2 ‘17 200w

“In spite of the false vividness and fore-shortening of reality that
is at a premium in American newspaper offices, in spite of occasional
‘worked up’ sentimentalism and a rather cheap-jewelry style, in spite
of trivialities fused with basic interpretations in a common amalgam,
‘Short rations’ is a moving book. Miss Doty has a real passion for
life, the woman’s horror at wasted flesh and broken bodies.”

+ – — =New Repub= 10:sup3 Ap 21 ‘17 400w

“It is, so far as we know, the best account yet written by any woman
on the subjects dealt with.” Joshua Wanhope

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 350w

+ =N Y Times= 22:98 Mr 18 ‘17 380w

– + =Spec= 119:390 O 13 ‘17 80w

“Her views are not official. Therein lies their value. But the danger
is that, moving largely among the people who have suffered most
acutely from the war, she has given a one-sided picture. ... Miss
Doty’s treatment of details is so incisive and vivid that the reader
seems to share her experiences. Possibly in the long run her tone may
strike one as slightly high-pitched.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 27 ‘17 1000w

“The present volume belongs to that category of books whose chief
raison d’etre is the reluctance of many educated persons to throw away
notes made during travel and copies of letters written home. ... Not
knowing the German language well, Miss Doty got a good many false
impressions, and hands on some hearsay of doubtful authenticity.” B.
L.

— =Survey= 38:174 My 19 ‘17 280w

“She writes vivaciously, and observes shrewdly where minor matters are
concerned; but her vision of the larger issues is sadly blurred by
sentimental tears.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p308 Je 28 ‘17 670w

=DOUBLEDAY, NELTJE BLANCHAN (DE GRAFF) (MRS FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY) (NELTJE BLANCHAN, pseud.).= Birds worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2½c) Doubleday 598.2 17-13205

The author has made selections from four of her previous books, “Bird
neighbors,” “Birds that hunt and are hunted,” “How to attract the
birds,” and “Birds every child should know.” Her aim has been to
include in this single volume the “birds most worth knowing.” There
are forty-eight illustrations in color, provided by the National
association of Audubon societies.

“The descriptive tables make the book more useful for bird study than
‘Birds every child should know,’ although, because the birds are
grouped under families rather than colors, it has more worth as
general interesting information than as an aid to identification.
Illustrations are colored but are not as good as those of the other
books. Color key and index.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:457 Jl ‘17

+ =Ind= 91:109 Jl 21 ‘17 60w

“There is a very interesting and informing introductory chapter on
‘What birds do for us,’ that tells concisely their many activities in
insect destruction and their consequent commercial value to man.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 140w

“Compact, but not skeletonized, condensation of a book that has
already won its place.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 8 ‘17 110w

=DOUBLEDAY, NELTJE BLANCHAN (DE GRAFF) (MRS FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY) (NELTJE BLANCHAN, pseud.).= Wild flowers worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2½c) Doubleday 580 17-13204

This volume of the Little nature library has been adapted from the
author’s “Nature’s garden” by Asa Don Dickinson. The flowers are
arranged in families, the nomenclature and classification of Gray’s
“New manual of botany” as revised by Professors Robinson and Fernald,
being used. There are over forty illustrations in color.

=A L A Bkl= 13:457 Jl ‘17

“Well printed, well illustrated, and admirably adapted for home and
school use.”

+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 30w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 8 ‘17 110w

=DOUBLEDAY, ROMAN.= Green Tree mystery, il *$1.40 Appleton 17-24164

“Upon the body of a man found dead by the roadside is a notebook in
which is written a confession that he has killed the deservedly
unpopular rich man of the village. The search for an adequate motive
opens up so many possibilities that the daughter of the murdered man
employs a detective to discover the truth. The solution will come as a
surprise to most readers.”—Cleveland

“The interest is well sustained.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:94 D ‘17

“A conventional detective story, following its tangled clues with
indifference to anything but the pursuit in hand, and making a very
pretty chase of it.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 30w

+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

“Its interest is largely due to the skill with which the author keeps
the reader guessing as to the outcome.”

+ =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 30w

“The little tale is entertaining and sufficiently baffling.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 250w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 160w

=DOVER, ALFRED T.= Electric traction; a treatise on the application of electric power to tramways and railways. il *$5.50 Macmillan 621.3 17-19497

“The author of this book is a lecturer on electric traction at the
Battersea Polytechnic, London, and the text is about what one would
expect to find in a comprehensive course of lectures on electric
traction. The style is appropriate to such a lecture course. In
preparing the material for a wider audience Mr Dover had in mind that
the book would be useful to engineers as well as to advanced students.
A considerable number of illustrations of present practice are
naturally drawn from that of Great Britain and the Continent, but
American railways have by no means been neglected. The fundamental
principles are, of course, applicable everywhere. The author has
treated the main subject with the following topics as subdivisions:
Mechanics of train movement; motors; control; auxiliary apparatus;
rolling stock; detailed study of train movement; track and overhead
construction, and distributing systems and substations. He has not
tried to cover generating stations and transmission lines. ... The
book is profusely illustrated with pictures and diagrams, covers
direct-current and alternating-current railways, contains a great deal
of comment as well as descriptive matter, and should prove a valuable
reference work.”—Elec World

“Noteworthy are the line drawings especially those showing the details
of electric locomotives.”

=Bul N Y Pub Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p93 Jl ‘17 60w

+ =Elec World= 70:216 Ag 4 ‘17 480w

“We congratulate the author on having succeeded in writing a treatise
which engineers and advanced students will find most useful. He is
evidently well read in the literature of the subject, most of which is
published in the Proceedings of various engineering societies and
technical journals, both in this country and abroad, and is therefore
inaccessible to many. ... We have satisfactorily checked some of the
calculations, and the book is laudably free from misprints. ... The
numerous references form a useful feature of the book.” A. Russell

+ =Nature= 99:341 Je 28 ‘17 1200w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:105 Jl ‘17

“Noteworthy are the line drawings, especially those showing the
details of electric locomotives.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 Ap ‘17 100w

=Pittsburgh= 22:658 O ‘17 20w

=DOWD, EMMA C.= Polly and the princess. il [2] *$1.35 (1½c) Houghton 17-29865

The June Holiday home is a sort of glorified old ladies’ home. Little
Polly is a young philanthropist who, because she is Dr Dudley’s
daughter, is a privileged visitor at the home. She interests herself
in the group of women, singling out for special attention, Juanita
Sterling, a sweet, neurotic woman of forty-one, whose youth and charm
were still with her in spite of the loveless loneliness that had tried
to rob her of both. Polly must have been born with the reformer’s
spirit and more than average tact. She was too young to have developed
them. She puts to shame many an institution manager and makes a
substantial contribution to desirable constructive methods on the
human side of institution management. And what of her Miss Nita? Polly
caps the program of happiness which she puts into action in the home
by a real romance. She sees a prince overcome the dragon
superintendent of the home and carry off the princess. What better
ending could her lively imagination picture?

=DOWDEN, EDWARD; GARNETT, RICHARD, and ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL.= Letters about Shelley; interchanged by three friends; ed., with an introd., by R. S. Garnett. *$2 (3c) Doran (Eng ed 17-30909)

“The three friends were brought together by their common interest in
Shelley, an interest not merely in his poetry, but in every detail of
his life. Mr Rossetti and Professor Dowden both wrote lives of
Shelley. Dr Garnett meant to write one, and was always collecting
materials for it; but he was too busy in the British museum ever to do
so. Still, to the other two he was the great authority on Shelley,
always ready to help them with his knowledge.” (The Times [London] Lit
Sup) The letters, the first of which is dated 1869 and the last 1906,
have been brought together by the cooperation of Mr W. M. Rossetti,
Mrs Dowden, and the editor, the eldest son of third correspondent. The
introduction, by R. S. and M. Garnett, gives brief biographies of the
three letter-writers.

“Although in recent years we have had many books about Shelley, it is
doubtful if we have had any at all comparable to the compilation of
letters made from the correspondence of these three Shelley workers
and enthusiasts. ... In its way, their book is a revelation of the art
of biography making.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 1500w

=Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 70w

“It comprises the greater part of the correspondence of three notable
authorities on the poet, and reflects the broad-minded interest of
each in literature and life in general. The most important general
fact to be elicited from them is that of Dowden’s independence of the
poet’s family. These letters show clearly that he followed his own
opinion in essentials.”

+ =Dial= 63:645 D 20 ‘17 400w

“The letters interchanged by Dowden, Garnett and Rossetti communicate
something that a biography can hardly communicate; they tell something
of the spirit in which such work ought to be done; they make the
reader collaborate in imagination with the biographer—make him an
apprentice to a master.”

+ =No Am= 206:956 D ‘17 670w

“They contain some interesting matter in regard to Shelley, as well as
speculations on the meaning of Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnets’ and other
literary problems.”

+ =Spec= 119:145 Ag 11 ‘17 90w

“An interest which produces relations so charming must be good in
itself; and the record of it puts one in love with human nature, even
though it may sometimes set one smiling at the minute labours of the
scholar and his mysterious, incorporeal passions.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p331 Jl 12 ‘17 980w

=DOWNER, EARL BISHOP.= Highway of death. il *$1.50 Davis 940.91 16-21959

“When the last battle of the war is fought and the casualties are
figured up it is not likely that the doctors, nurses and hospital
assistants who have sacrificed their lives will be forgotten. ... Dr
Downer gives many enlightening facts about them. Among other things he
describes the makeshift accommodations where, with inadequate help,
the doctors have been forced to undertake almost impossible tasks. ...
Dr Downer had unusual facilities of studying this momentous conflict.
During a nine-months’ stay in Belgrade he saw the varied changes of
occupation of that embattled city.”—Springf’d Republican

=Cleveland= p159 D ‘16 40w

=St Louis= 15:3 Ja ‘17

“The book, which is unusually interesting as a record of real
experiences, is illustrated with many photographs taken by the author
himself.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 25 ‘17 200w

=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= His last bow; a reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes. *$1.35 (2c) Doran 17-28603

The inventor of Mr Sherlock Holmes and of Dr Watson has again given us
a series of sketches relating their detective experiences. Seven of
the eight sketches have, however, as Dr Watson states in his preface,
lain long in his portfolio. The incidents narrated date back to 1892.
The last adventure, from which the book takes its title, occurred on
August 2, 1914. In it Sherlock Holmes has placed his genius at the
service of his country for the undoing of the agents of the Kaiser.
Contents: The adventure of Wisteria Lodge; The adventure of the
cardboard box; The adventure of the red circle; The adventure of the
Bruce-Partington plans; The adventure of the dying detective; The
disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; The adventure of the devil’s
foot; His last bow.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17

“Every story is told with the author’s admirable mastery of the
narrative art; but it cannot be said that all the riddles worked out
by the great detective are, intellectually, worthy of his immense
reputation.”

+ — =Ath= p680 D ‘17 180w

“‘The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax’ and ‘The adventure of the
devil’s foot’ reveal Sir Arthur at his best, although this cannot be
said of the opening stories in the collection. But the detective story
writer must have his ups and downs, and the creator of Sherlock Holmes
can easily stand ahead of any of his rivals or imitators.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 1550w

=Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 30w

+ =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 70w

+ =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 100w

“It is a good curtain for our hero, and we are not sure that Sir Conan
would not be wise to leave him ‘at that.’”

+ =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 200w

“These new stories are written with as much vigor and spontaneity as
if they had been composed in the first flush of the author’s delight
in his creation of that notable character. The formula in accordance
with which the tales are written, of course, varies little, but the
tales themselves are as interesting, as full of ingenuity and
unexpected developments, as were the earliest of the adventures in
which Dr Watson assisted Mr Sherlock Holmes.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:433 O 28 ‘17 1050w

“The story of the European war that gives the volume its title is
quite the weakest and most obviously forced of the whole lot. ... The
sheer horror and yet convincing explanation of the apparently
inexplicable in ‘The adventure of the devil’s foot’ has not been
matched by Doyle since ‘The adventure of the speckled band.’” Fremont
Rider

+ =Pub W= 92:2026 D 8 ‘17 270w

“As for the stories, their impressiveness is somewhat impaired by the
frequency with which they end in a confession. The best of them, to
our way of thinking, is the tale of the abstraction and recovery of
some important documents from the admiralty.”

+ — =Spec= 119:718 D 15 ‘17 600w

“Notwithstanding that the episodes comprising the volume have
something of a common atmosphere and a predetermined course of
development, the situations are sufficiently diverse to give a keen
edge to the reader’s anticipation. The author shows wisdom in not
placing the action in the present and giving Holmes a hand in
ferreting out war plots.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 260w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p516 O 25 ‘17 500w

=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= History of the great war. v 2 *$2 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-21928

=v 2= The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1915.

“This second volume of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s history of the war
relates exclusively to the campaign of 1915. The author roughly
divides the three years of war into ‘the year of defence, the year of
equilibrium, and the year of attack’; and the events of the second
were naturally less dramatic than those which more nearly followed the
outbreak of war. Nevertheless the present volume comprises narratives
of the engagements at Neuve Chapelle and Hill 60; the second battle of
Ypres; the conflicts at Richebourg, Festubert, and in the trenches of
Hooge; and the long-drawn-out fighting at Loos. The occasions are
described when the Germans first used poison gas and the flame of
burning petrol, and there is incidental reference to the torpedoing of
the Lusitania. From beginning to end the volume is an unadorned but
impressive record of gallantry and ‘grit’ on the part of the troops
engaged.”—Ath

=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p420 Ag ‘17 150w

“This is an important book. It bears evidence of much research and has
an authoritative tone. So far as is possible at this stage, it is real
history. Such a work will be read with more interest in England than
in America. The evolutions of the Durham light infantry and the First
royal Irish will naturally appeal more to those who know them than to
us who do not. But the book as a whole leaves a powerful impression
hardly to be obtained from any other work thus far published.”

+ =Dial= 63:592 D 6 ‘17 300w

=Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 150w

“While the events of the year 1915, in view of all that has happened
since, seem nowadays rather like ancient history, it is only by the
careful reading in cold blood of such painstakingly written accounts
of what actually took place that we can arrive at a correct estimate
of the great struggle in its earlier stages.”

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 370w

“It is somewhat of a pity that more illuminating maps have not been
provided for an otherwise important and notable historical volume.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 180w

+ =R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 50w

“In his first volume the author described the doings of the British
Army in France and Flanders during 1914, and he is able to say in the
preface to his second volume which is before us that no serious
correction has been made of any of the facts in the first volume. That
is a proud statement for any writer to be able to make in the
circumstances. We can premise that Sir A. Conan Doyle will be able to
say the same thing of his second volume, and be able to say it in an
even higher degree, because when an author has established his
reputation for correctness, and for a safe and just handling of his
material, information flows into him. That is his proper reward. We
imagine that Sir A. Conan Doyle has been freely given official
information, and certainly we have read nothing about the second
battle of Ypres and Loos which can compare for completeness with the
narratives in the second volume.”

+ =Spec= 118:88 Jl 28 ‘17 1350w

“The narrative reduces itself to a catalogue of the doings of
battalions, of the names of the individuals who principally
distinguished themselves, and of the casualties of different units.
Probably Sir Arthur, knowing the limitations of his material,
attempted no more than this; and we may say at once that he has been
successful in weaving his scanty matter into a lively and spirited
story.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p338 Jl 19 ‘17 1600w

=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.= Handbook of the new thought. *$1.25 (3c) Putnam 131 17-13214

In his exposition of new thought, which forms the first chapter, the
author differentiates it from Christian science, the Emmanuel
movement, etc. The author says, “The ‘old’ thought against which the
‘new’ reacts is any form of authority, whether medical or
ecclesiastical, in so far as physicians and churches keep people in
subjection to creeds.” The second chapter gives a historical sketch of
the movement. This is followed by chapters on: The silent method;
Estimate; The mental theory of disease; Reconstruction; Practical
suggestions.

=A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17

“Will, no doubt, be helpful to many readers but it is a baffling
attempt to show that theories do not matter, so long as one has the
right ‘point of view.’ Its logic is distressingly confusing to one who
has been contaminated by materialist science; but there must be
something in it, since Mr Dresser’s books—more than a dozen of
them—are widely read by all sorts and conditions of men and women.”

– + =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 80w

“Is to be especially commended to those who desire a brief but
comprehensive view of the nature, history, and aims of the movement.
No one is better qualified than Dr Dresser to present an authoritative
account of the new thought, both because of his long association with
it and also because of his very reasonable and even empirical way of
looking at the whole subject.”

+ =Nation= 105:698 D 20 ‘17 400w

“Does away with misunderstanding.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p432 S 6 ‘17 80w

=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS=, ed. Spirit of the new thought. *$1.25 (2½c) Crowell 131 17-14165

Twenty-two messages from original leaders of new thought. The editor
contributes an introduction which traces the movement from its
beginning, showing that the term was first used in 1895 as the name of
a little periodical issued in Melrose, Mass., and later by the
adherents who practiced mental healing. The influence of Quinby upon
the movement is traced and the essential difference between new
thought and Christian science is pointed out. Some of the essays are:
The gospel of healing; Can disease be entirely destroyed? The disease
of apprehensiveness; Concentration; Is mental science enough?
Criticisms of the new thought; The metaphysical movement; The new
thought today; The laws of divine healing.

=Nation= 105:698 D 20 ‘17 230w

“This greatly needed volume should dispel a widely prevalent
misunderstanding and neglect of the revival of primitive Christianity
now advancing under the banner of new thought.”

+ =Outlook= 117:144 S 26 ‘17 150w

“Nearly all of the essays have a bearing on the life of everyday and
are vivified by a spirit of helpfulness and optimism.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 60w

=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.= Victorious faith; moral ideals in war time. *$1 (2c) Harper 172.4 17-24116

A helpful analysis of the modification of duties which the changing
order of the things in the world today makes imperative. Some old
philosophies must be scrapped according to the Shavian method and
created new; while others must be readjusted to meet new conditions.
We need a new method of thought to face new conditions with efficient
hope. The mind must be alert to seek amidst present confusion new
signs of the eternal values. The discussion offers constructive
suggestions for meeting the new problems of the day which demand poise
as a basis for service and an inner life that will be efficient.
Contents: The sources of faith; Tendencies of the age; The psychology
of war; The higher resistance; The moral values; The new idea of God;
Christianity in war-time; The pathway of faith; Spiritual democracy.

“The author offers a constructive faith which may help the world work
its way to a final spiritual democracy.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:73 D ‘17

=Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 20w

“The viewpoints of the essays are finely optimistic. Strength-giving
to those whose faith in Christianity needs strengthening. Splendidly
vivifying to those Americans who ‘creditably or discreditably’ felt
they had no share in the world war, before April, 1917.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 340w

+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 150w

=DROWN, EDWARD STAPLES.= Apostles’ creed to-day. (Church principles for lay people) *$1 (4c) Macmillan 238 17-3743

In his first chapter the author asks the question: Is a creed a
restraint on religious liberty? His consideration of the nature of
freedom leads him to the conclusion that “Freedom exists in proportion
as the community has come to a true realisation of itself, and has
expressed itself in true laws. Freedom consists in fight relation to
law.” He finds the Apostles’ creed a true expression of man’s relation
to God and therefore a guarantee to religious freedom. The five
chapters of the book are: Creeds and liberty; The origin and character
of the Apostles’ creed; The creed and the Bible; The interpretation of
the Apostles’ creed to-day; The value and use of the creed to-day.

“The author summarizes Dr McGiffert’s theory of the origin of the
creed; and then seeks to reinterpret its clauses in terms of modern
thought.”

=Ind= 90:474 Je 9 ‘17 50w

“The book is an earnest contribution from the Episcopal church to
conservative theological thought.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 16 ‘17 520w

=DRUMMOND, HAMILTON.= Greater than the greatest. *$1.50 Dutton A17-1641

“A tale of the thirteenth century struggle between emperor and pope.
It is not a story of men and women whose lives merely touched the
great events of the time, but of those great events themselves and of
the people who actually played the leading parts therein. Across the
stage of Mr Drummond’s book go pope and emperor, cardinal and warrior
of mediaeval Rome. ... The heroine of the novel is Bianca Pandone, a
beautiful girl of the Marches, whose uncle, risen to eminence as a
cardinal, forgets her and her poverty until he needs a tool for his
ambitious schemes.”—N Y Times

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 Ap 7 ‘17 200w

“A harmless romance. ... It lacks imaginative power, and so makes no
deep impression.”

=Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 50w

+ =Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 200w

“The story has the prime characteristic of a good historical novel; it
presents an atmosphere. And it has a quality, besides, that is not
always found in stories of adventures—its characters are exceedingly
well-drawn.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:178 My 6 ‘17 350w

“A workmanlike historical tale.”

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 10w

=DRYDEN, JAMES.= Poultry breeding and management, il *$1.60 (1½c) Judd 636.5 16-23156

The author teaches poultry husbandry in the Oregon agricultural
college. The book is planned for the student and for the practical
poultry farmer. Contents: Historical aspect; Evolution of modern fowl;
Modern development of industry; Classification of breeds; Origin and
description of breeds; Principles of poultry breeding; Problem of
higher fecundity; Systems of poultry farming; Housing of poultry; Kind
of house to build; Fundamentals of feeding; Common poultry foods;
Methods of feeding; Methods of hatching chickens; Artificial brooding;
Marketing eggs and poultry; Diseases and parasites of fowls. The book
is fully illustrated.

“A reliable, popular yet scientific treatment.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:295 Ap ‘17

=DUBNOV, SEMEN MARKOVICH.= History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the earliest times until the present day; tr. from the Russian by I. Friedlaender. 2v v 1 $1.50 (1c) Jewish pub. 296 (16-16352)

=v 1= This is the first of two volumes covering the history of the
Jews in Russia and Poland. The Russian work of which it is a
translation was prepared, Mr Friedlaender says, especially for the
Jewish publication society of America. The author had treated the
subject earlier in a general history of the Jewish people in three
volumes, and that work has been drawn on in preparing the present
work. Volume one carries the history down to the death of Alexander I
in 1825 with chapters on: The Jewish Diaspora in eastern Europe; The
Jewish colonies in Poland and Lithuania; The autonomous center in
Poland at its zenith (1501-1648); The inner life of Polish Jewry at
its zenith; The autonomous center in Poland during its decline
(1648-1772); The inner life of Polish Jewry during the period of
decline; The Russian quarantine against the Jews (till 1772); Polish
Jewry during the period of the partitions; The beginnings of the
Russian regime; The “enlightened absolutism” of Alexander I; The inner
life of Russian Jewry during the period of ‘enlightened absolutism’;
The last years of Alexander I.